Is life mapped out for us

[Chippy_boy]

So what's your answer to people that dream snippets of their future in terms of years ahead of those 'dreams'?

Most call those people 'liars'.

But it's like saying you don't believe that a person has thought cos you don't see it, but that person can only verify it for themselves as 'fact'.

Only the individual will know how truthful they are being.

I don't believe anyone can see the future, but I think many people genuinely believe they can. And since the future does exist already, it's not entirely impossible that through some physics as yet undiscovered, that actually they can. I'd say it was monumentally improbable, but you cannot entirely rule it out.

 

[idahoblues]

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Are we implying that our future is rubber stamped.
Or is that just a tired old argument that philosphers roll out to to keep us all in good tread.

I would personaly say that guy was a jinks and best to stay the fook away from him.

 

[BimboBob]

This.

That.

 

[idahoblues]

Just sayin...ya never know

 

[Saddleworth2]

Not a chance.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

That.

And t'other.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Do you think it is, my dad died in a accident many years ago and at that time my eldest sister was going out with a lad who she broke up with, she then went out with a guy at her works who she later married and had 4 kids. At her wedding I met my first wife and had 2 sons, if my dad had not died would my life and my sisters been different and our children never been born, has anybody else given thought to this or is it really coincidence.

You might want to have a look at my post above, but in reality, your dad was always going to die in the accident and everything else was always going to happen. The idea that what if it didn't is a flawed one, because everything that's happened in the past and everything that will happen in the future is all mapped out already, down to every roll of every dice.

EDIT: I should the above is only true in the Universe we inhabit. It is possible (but not proven) that there are in fact an infinite number of universes where in each one slightly different events happen, and in an infinite number of those universes, your dad doesn't die etc. This latter "Many-worlds interpretation" of quantum mechanics seems pretty bonkers to me, but I should mention it as a possibility. What I say in the paragraph above, is true though.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Yes in the sense that everything is interconnected. Every decision we take is caused by the last and causes the next.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

You're incredibly tedious Chippy_boy