someone asked about free will and pre-destination. hah. i really should have coffee before attempting replying to such things. regardless, this was the quick post en route to the kitchen and having stopped to check a favorite forum…
my ‘take’ is that all paths and all choices and all outcomes exist, but we only know which we know because we’re constrained by subjective senses… and even then, we know only in hindsight and memory, since moments are transitory… and likely we don’t really know then, because memory is faulty.
regardless all that… the outcome of the above (even with the disclaimers) is that pre-destination is enlightenment and free will is ignorance.
which seems apt. heh.
it would also mean that though a supreme being *could* know, because it is supreme, it could also choose to forget (which would be an option if indeed, it were supreme)… if it chooses to know, it still does not impact or impede our choice, and if it chooses not to know, humans may finally be at peace that someone ‘knowing what they will choose’ somehow is the same as choosing for them. either way, a neat reconciliation of free will and pre-destination.
i suppose, despite all the above, i still shrug at the end and mutter something along the lines that there’s enough to strive not to worry about without adding this to the mix.