If you can know your future, would 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.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
give it to parasitic morons.
Parasites? Perhaps. Morons? I think not. They are predator, not prey. Sometimes they set up huge megachurches and get rich in the process
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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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?
In the end, I'd only want to know the date on which I die. Even just the year. Not how, or the circumstances or anything else surrounding it. Knowing that, I'd work out when I can retire so I can make it comfortably to that day. OTOH, I've always suspected if I knew, I'd have an incentive to retire *right now*.
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In the end, I'd only want to know the date on which I die. Even just the year. Not how, or the circumstances or anything else surrounding it. Knowing that, I'd work out when I can retire so I can make it comfortably to that day. OTOH, I've always suspected if I knew, I'd have an incentive to retire *right now*.
OOO! Bad news - it should have been yesterday ... :~
"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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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.
The guy at Twin Pines mall got killed. The guy at Lone Pine mall wore the bulletproof vest!
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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!
I'm with you. Take a deep seat, and a faraway look and fly under the radar. For me the nursing home is out of the question, though. I expect to drop dead over my keyboard having just made a syntax error!
"the future's uncertain and the end is almost near" - some song lyric
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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?
Just give me the Powerball numbers for next week.
“Humility is an important quality - especially if you’re wrong a lot.” — Gregory House
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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?
- First I would be frightened to discover that supernatural entities are real. - Then, I would become extremely depressed to realize that knowing my future means the future is fixed, so even if I knew my future, I couldn't change it. - If I can know my future, then the decision to find it out is predetermined, so the question is moot. - If the future is not fixed, then I can predict your future as well as anyone, and if it doesn't come true, I can say that knowing your future changed 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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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!
Tele-evangelists have been doing that (successfully) for decades.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
give it to parasitic morons.
Parasites? Perhaps. Morons? I think not. They are predator, not prey. Sometimes they set up huge megachurches and get rich in the process
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
Beware of the prophet who profits.
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OOO! Bad news - it should have been yesterday ... :~
"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!
