Limited Good Choices

Lee Berman · 13 Aug 2010, 04:41 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:41:51 -0400
Subject: (urth) Limited Good Choices
Message-ID: <SNT123-W245B7B0B1B60AA09F1C2D9CF980 at phx.gbl>

>Nicholas Jost: If you look in the archive there was the assumption in a post that 
>as people moved "up" towards Yesod that choices would be limited.  Nothing in the 
>text or Catholic theology supports such silliness.

I am guessing this was my post you are referring to. It is based on the idea that
we humans feel we have choices because of the limits to our perception of the future.
We can only guess what will happen if we do something, so we feel we have choices.

If we could see into the future we would be limited in our choices. We wouldn't 
wonder what we should do because we'd know what we are about to do. An omniscient
being would have no choices whatsovever. He/She would know how everything in the 
universe(s)  fits precisely with everything else at all time points and in all 
frames of refrence. Total knowledge=no choice. Can't use a branched universe
dodge because God knows exactly where every branch leads to to its end-most twig.

I apologize for going off topic a bit. It is my own general philosophical musings.
And you are correct that my own general philosophies are not particularly guided
by Wolfe text or the Catholic church.

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net