Posted by Evergreen on March 19, 19102 at 16:54:06:

In Reply to: Essay on Free Will (I would love to hear all of your opinions) posted by quasar on July 26, 19101 at 20:40:01:

I like the bit about the clock. A good ogy.
I tend to favour the concept of pre-destination because I had a dream once which became reality a few weeks later. So to me precognition is real and if you can see the future (even in a dream) then it must already have happened.
So, I believe life is like a book. The author has created the story, but we don't know the outcome because we only see part of the book as as we move from page to page.
The anecdotal evidence, such as it is, seems to point towards the notion that the future (and the past for that matter) co-exist along a line, possibly like a spiral.
Of course, time does not exist of itself, it is simply a measurement of existance....though this measurement appears unique in that it is fluid and relative, which (as far as we know, other measurements are not). So time is peculiar.
The Bible suggests that "God" knows the future and I think of him as like a librarian...a keeper of the "books".
But yet for all that I believe, one can't help feeling that one has a fair amount of free-will to do as one pleases on a daily basis. Is this an illusion one wonders, or is there yet scope to change the book here and there...I have yet to decide on this matter, but naturally I hope that we can and will change the future for the better.

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