On 15 June, 10:46, RP <[email protected]> wrote: > Pat says that we are bound by the future and our choices are therefore > those which result in a particular future event. I beg to differ and > believe that our present actions are the result of our effort and > endeavour, but our effort is bound by our physical and psychological > motives in reaction to the present nature of the environment. That > what we do becomes definite doesn't change the nature of actions. We > try to change ourselves and act with a resolve to create a certain > future , and that future is an effect of our actions and not > viceversa.
I think you may have misunderstood my concept. The future is fixed. It is already a part of 'that which is'. From our viewpoint, though, we can't see it, so we 'think' we can mould it, actually, though, what we do is to make it what it was already deemed to be. Our 'present' actions DO impact our future via cause and effect, but that doesn't mean that those effects weren't all created a long time ago by the ultimate cause: The Big Bang. All the rest of the universe is a consequence/effect of THAT cause. Nevertheless, in a space-time continuum, there are NO missing spatio-temporal points, that is, all events (every past, present and future event from any reference point within space-time) are extant. Of course the future if affected by our present actions, but that doesn't 'prevent' the whole chain of events from being 'fixed'. And THAT'S the key point to remember.
