Quote Originally Posted by StonedFetus
have you ever experienced/felt as if one does not have a choice, even though one was expressing free will? personally i have always objected the idea of fate/destiny etc..... but than how did I so frequently dream my future? is it just a logical conclusion projected into my subconscious? or could it be some other form of higher thinking......?

far out! :hippy:

peace

Yes, I have had that same feeling, and I have experienced similar deja vu feelings as you. There are so many differing theories on the whole space-time continuum that cannot be proved or disproved that whatever answers you choose to accept as true can only be based on personal opinion.

Now, I don't know much about physics or anything so keep in mind I may make some mistakes in my explanation. Picture space-time as a moebius strip (I attached a picture for you). There is no beginning and no end it keeps going on forever and ever, it is infinite, like space. Time is only a point on that strip, think each car on the strip as a point in time, the right edge of the strip is the future and the left edge is the past. Follow the direction of the past and future as you go around the moebius strip. The future and the past switch spots! This could suggest something that is referred to as Eternal Recurrence, the idea that events in the world happen over and over again for eternity. In other words, you have already read this post an infinite amount of times before, in subsequent trips around the space-time continuum.

Regarding what you said about fate and free will, I am with you there as well. I used to think the idea of fate or anything happening for a meaningful reason was senseless, but latley I have been contemplating the possibilities that everything happens for a reason, directing you through your life and all of existance the only way things could possibly happen. This would mean there is no such thing as free will as we know it, and it is a legitimate philosophical idea.

I believe the way the philosophy works is that since anything that happens in the material world is the effect of some other cause, people are not really making choices but only behaving a certain way because something caused them to be effected like that. This probably sounds confusing, somebody else may be able to explain it better, but the idea is basically you didn't choose to be reading this post right now, even though you may think you did. Something caused you to be reading this post right now.
40oz Reviewed by 40oz on . DejaVu - Prophecies come true I would like to ask opinion on he matter of human cognitive ability, perhaps even further..... I remember in my youth being startled about a particular moment in life when I was contemplating the matter of choice. I distinctly recall the feeling of already having 'lived' that moment in my life. (I was walking and about to turn around a building) Upon further thinking I remembered a dream, exactly like the moment, which had occurred some weeks prior...naturally i was skeptical of such a Rating: 5