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    Can we change our future?

    I don't know why everybody is going for the quantum red herring, a perfect prophesying machine might be theoretically possible from a technical point of view, if, say, time could be observed like a dimension. But a perfect prophesying machine is impossible for the very reason you say. Since...
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    favorite philosophers

    Plato is good value, but it is really hard to work out which parts, if any, he actually means. I daresay the enjoyment would probably be all his and the hard time yours!
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    favorite philosophers

    Hume, Schlick, Einstein, Quine, Searle.
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    What is supernatural?

    And yet clearly not in a random, disordered or arbitrary environment. So if something did not act according to the underlying order of our universe then clearly it is acting according to some other underlying order. So the question is whether this conjectured other set of laws could be...
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    Can I do something that God doesn't know about?

    A better question, if God timelessly knows all that is past, present and to come and God is immanent, could God therefore present you with a piece of paper in the morning describing in detail what you would do for the coming day? If you got such a piece of paper would you find yourself...
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    Can I do something that God doesn't know about?

    And when you pray to Him He already knew what you were going to say and what His response was going to be. And when He says in the end times "Depart from me" he knew even as the galaxies were formed, that He was saying that to me. It all seems a bit pointless.
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    What is the life span of Christianity?

    I am getting an advertisement in this forum that tells me the 2nd coming could be today, so I guess the life span of Christianity could end today. Actually today is very inconvenient, I wonder if they could make it tomorrow?
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    Philosophy is . . . discuss

    Look, if God wants to contact me and give me some information I would certainly not ignore it. If he wanted even to tell me which one of those contradictory texts that claim to be information given by God are, in fact, information given by God (if any) I will be glad to know it. But until...
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    Philosophy is/isn't a waste of time because...

    There is a little matter of the modern democracy that was founded on the ideas of a bunch of Enlightenment philosophers. That hasn't turned out so badly has it? Formal logic, too, has been pretty useful. Don't forget that it was Kant's masterful refutation of the Ontological argument that...
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    A valid proof of reason vs. faith

    What you seem to be saying is that God is a delusion, no?
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