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To: fifteendogs
If time exists after you, as in the future, than you would have to do no more than to sit down and wait for all the future has to offer.
If the future did not exist, then we could never get there. Every possibility exists and we use our free will and our initiative to select which possibilities we will experience.
You would have to do nothing. Things would just happen.
That is one of endless options. It's exactly what many people do, unfortunately.
But how could this be. How could you get that perfect job if you never went for an interview. How would you ever meet that perfect mate if you had never gone to that party or that bar or had accidentally run into that someone in an elevator?
By the choices we make in the present.
The tmeline exists only in our past and we can only travel to the past.
I don't think so. There is a future and we have a say so as to which future we will experience. Every decision we make determines which future we will experience. That's part of the reason for living.
269 posted on 05/24/2003 5:52:53 PM PDT by Consort
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To: Consort
If what you say is true, then the definition of the timeline is incorrect. If what you say is true, there is an infinite number of paths already defined for each of us for the future. It is indeed an interesting concept of time but I must admit to not being able to comprehend its meaning. My reality and my science is based on the definition of time which I proffered in an earlier post.

My society has based its whole science and technology on that definition. Our engineering and technology have been implemented on that definition of time. I hope that you will be able to develope your science on your definition. It would be, to say the least, very interesting.

Assuming what you say to be true, how would you select which path to take? What would happen if you chose not to make a decision on which path to take?

I realize that this is simply a computer thread of little consequence, but you have proposed a very interesting hypothosis. It bears further disscussion.

270 posted on 05/24/2003 6:14:21 PM PDT by fifteendogs
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