If you predicted the future, would you prevent it?
By Filigs
@Filigs (122)
Portugal
July 7, 2009 3:47pm CST
If I could predict the future, I could change stuff by doing it in the present, but I could change some bad stuff to good one, but while doing that change, I could do the inverse, which is change the good stuff to bad stuff.
Imagine that you see a man hitting a kid in a hidden place near the road where you were walking, you predict if you hit that man or kill him, you would get arrested, if you didn't hit him or do anything, the kid would be dieing or maybe just with some body parts broken or something, imagine situations like this and share with us.
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3 responses
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
7 Jul 09
Good discussion topic! We should jump into situations in which our help is needed, but not based upon a prediction. After all, prediction could easily be wrong, even if it were right at first, if that man just changed his mind before hitting the child. If we could predict, thus change the future, it would change, but would that change be positive? Not necessarily. I think God's plan is the one being played out in all its many ways, and that's the one that should be left to go on.
@nightmareland (8)
• United States
7 Jul 09
i agree and disagree. we are all capable of predicting and changing our own futures. gods plan is a cycle of archetypal experiences we all go through, hence us all being able to relate but its your choices in life that create your future regardless of gods greater plan. i have read the bible many times and am not religous but all mankind go through the same cycle of hardships lessons and joys; just on different scales. the more you can handle, the harder the lessons. if he cant teach you one way, he'll teach you another. and some people learn the hard way. a wise man learns from his mistakes but a wiser man learns from others mistakes because the wisest man is the one that lived it and learned it therefore the one that listens is the one that enoys and suffers on a smaller scale. having it all in the end and not too early is the key to a good life eh? i grew up on welfare and was making thousands of dollars every week by the age of 11. now i am dying at 24 and have done more things in life than the average. when i see people that are 24 bent up over things i learned how to get past by the age of 13. they are truly blessed and dont even know it. i have helped thousands of people who admire me learn to admire themselves and not lead any type of life with sin even if the treasures are disireable. its the simple pleasures in life that are the greatest gifts to us and i agree with you. gods plan should be left to go on and also help others where needed.
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
7 Jul 09
We're all going to die. We must all do the best we can before that happens. To me, it is urgent to improve each day, and that is done in service to others.
@Filigs (122)
• Portugal
8 Jul 09
How would you hit someone with caution? Or how would you leave someone get hit with caution? In my exemple, you had to choose between to "doors", one, you would get arrested or, the other, you would let the kid suffer there and you wouldn't help him.
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@marguicha (223133)
• Chile
8 Jul 09
I have imagined many times what if... I could predict the future. The only conclusion I have is that I´m SO glñad I can´t. I would live miserably or not have a life at all and I would propably go crazy in a short time. Each action, even the smallest, changes the entire world. I would have to think on hiding in my room but that wouldn´t work either.
If I had the madness of being able to predict the future, I would probably end up killing myself. No, thanks
@Filigs (122)
• Portugal
8 Jul 09
For exemple, if you choose to have a bad diet and eat alot of fast food and stuff, you get fat, if you choose the good diet, vegetables and the nice food, you stay with a nice body, what I mean is, the actions you do in the present can change the future.
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