Everything that happens has to happen , meaning all that you do you are bound to do , i.e.your freedom of will is just apparent and not real. The entire universe progresses on lines already fixed with no chance of uncertainty.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > What is predeterminism? > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:57 PM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nothing is just nothing and thus cannot control anything i.e. no >> predeterminism. >> >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Chuck Bowling >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Scientists say that everything came out of nothing , >> > >> > I'm pretty sure that there are no scientists who claim that everything >> > came >> > from nothing. It's true that they don't understand the exact mechanism >> > that >> > resulted in our reality but only the pseudo-scientists claim that we >> > came >> > from nothing. >> > >> >> but they do not >> >> believe in predeterminism as to them nothing is just that and cannot >> >> control anything. >> > >> > I don't understand this statement. Can you clarify? >> > >> >> >> >> But to me that nothing is God and everything that >> >> comes out of It is predetermined. >> > >> > Ah. So you are saying that god is nothing. On that I would tend to >> > agree. >> > OTOH, this common reality that we all experience is built on a >> > foundation of >> > causality. Everything happens because something before it happened. We >> > may >> > not understand the precursor event but that doesn't mean that it doesn't >> > exist. >> > >> >> >> >> The universe came out of nothing , >> > >> > Disagree - but with the reservation that I don't know everything and >> > don't >> > have a substantive argument beyond my own worldview to refute the claim. >> > >> > > >
