Posted by Pooya on November 30, 19100 at 14:40:38:

In Reply to: free will and determinism posted by matt on October 12, 1999 at 18:54:27:

Ok...now there is a weak link in that arguement:

How does knowing something = controling something? For example: I know that if you shoot your self in the head, u will die. now.. am i responsible for your death? God knows the future...BECAUSE he knows the choices that our free will will choose. He doesn't make us choose these choices. Yet, he knows what we will choose.

Example: the common phrase "I knew you were going to say that." Given the information we have about our friends and family (like there likes and dislikes etc...) we know certain actions that they are likely to take in the future. Sometimes they (friends and family) will say something that you (through reasoning) had predicted they will say. You reply something like: "i knew you weere going to say that." Now, if we knew that they were going to say it...does that mean that we made them say it? Obviously not.

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