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If you can know your future, would you want to know it?

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    If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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      If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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      DRHuff
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      Of course I would. Then I would know to wear a bulletproof vest to the twin pines mall the night I test my time machine!

      If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.

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        If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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        I'd like to know a future where this wasn't a setup for some pseudoscientific claptrap like "astrology" or "black magic" designed to part the gullible from their money and give it to parasitic morons.

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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          Sure, there are some interesting experiments with that. To start with, I'd plan to either go drink a coffee or a tea right after getting that info dump, whichever is the opposite of what the information said I would do. What does the information say? Will I be able to do the opposite thing? Will I somehow be forced to cancel the whole plan?

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            If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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            Anyway, I will come to know the future in course of time. So, no need of knowing it now.

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              If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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              Maximilien
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              No. My life is normally boring, I will continue my normal boring life until I die in a normal boring way in a retirement home 30 something years from now. :rose:

              I'd rather be phishing!

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                If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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                honey the codewitch
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                Implying it would have to be supernatural. I tend to believe that the universe is ultimately deterministic, so at least theoretically how much of the future we can know is based on how much we know about how what we consider to be reality operates. I believe free will is a compelling illusion, and if we understood the 11th dimensional synaptic interconnects[^] and all of the related sorcery in the human brain well enough we could predict human behavior to the Nth decimal place. I was always going to write this comment. I couldn't escape it if I wanted to. But I digress. To answer your question, I think if we knew all of this it would take the wonder out of life. I think without mystery we'd be miserable creatures. I think the lesson of Pandora's box applies as well - if we knew the future where does that leave hope?

                Real programmers use butterflies

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                  Sure, there are some interesting experiments with that. To start with, I'd plan to either go drink a coffee or a tea right after getting that info dump, whichever is the opposite of what the information said I would do. What does the information say? Will I be able to do the opposite thing? Will I somehow be forced to cancel the whole plan?

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                  If you were to do the opposite thing then you were always going to do the opposite thing and so the first thing never could have happened. :confused: :-\

                  Real programmers use butterflies

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                    I'd like to know a future where this wasn't a setup for some pseudoscientific claptrap like "astrology" or "black magic" designed to part the gullible from their money and give it to parasitic morons.

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                    honey the codewitch
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                    I peddle in magic of all hues, even black. If anything, it has made me money, but the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.

                    Real programmers use butterflies

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                      If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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                      theoldfool
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                      No. What if there were no hypothetical questions?

                      If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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                        I peddle in magic of all hues, even black. If anything, it has made me money, but the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.

                        Real programmers use butterflies

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                        Yeah, but you don't generally tell desperate people you can make everything in their lives better if they give you all their money (and possibly sacrifice a crocodile).

                        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                          Yeah, but you don't generally tell desperate people you can make everything in their lives better if they give you all their money (and possibly sacrifice a crocodile).

                          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                          honey the codewitch
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                          Yeah, I don't even want their money. I'll stick with my own money. :)

                          Real programmers use butterflies

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                            I peddle in magic of all hues, even black. If anything, it has made me money, but the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.

                            Real programmers use butterflies

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                            honey the codewitch wrote:

                            the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.

                            I know for a fact that some of your demons, including Abaddon, Leviathan and Kimaris, would disapprove of your methods! Me, being your friend, am less judgmental :-\

                            Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

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                              honey the codewitch wrote:

                              the braceless if statements involved make @SanderRossel very upset.

                              I know for a fact that some of your demons, including Abaddon, Leviathan and Kimaris, would disapprove of your methods! Me, being your friend, am less judgmental :-\

                              Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript

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                              Nelek
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                              Sander Rossel wrote:

                              Me, being your friend, am less judgmental

                              Unless for the place of the brackets ;) :laugh:

                              M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                Sander Rossel wrote:

                                Me, being your friend, am less judgmental

                                Unless for the place of the brackets ;) :laugh:

                                M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                Nelek wrote:

                                Unless for the place of the bracketsbraces

                                FTFY. ;P

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                                  If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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                                  The boredom would probably become intolerable. Watching yourself in a movie you've already seen.

                                  It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                                    Nelek wrote:

                                    Unless for the place of the bracketsbraces

                                    FTFY. ;P

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                                    honey the codewitch
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                                    haha perfect!

                                    Real programmers use butterflies

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                                      If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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                                      PIEBALDconsult
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                                      Well, then it wouldn't be "supernatural" then would it?

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                                        If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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                                        jeron1
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                                        No, hell no.

                                        "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                                          If there is a supernatural way that can gives the information exactly what will happen in your future of your life time, all the major and minor events and the details of each incidents and exact timeline. Will you choose to know it? Do you want to know it?

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                                          RedDk
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                                          What does he mean "will"? Hey you, I DO know ...

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