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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months agoJake:
Unfortunately, last I heard last night, Trump is backing down on his “help is on the way” for Iran’s protesters, no doubt on the prompting of his Saudi and Qatari donors.
Also, the number of dead, whether formally executed or not, is as high as 20,000, and the numbers came out even before Trump announced he would help. Also, Supreme…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
Simon Paynton wrote:
I think it makes more sense if we consider a structure of the universe as being one of deterministic cause and effect. The proposal is that the universe, from start to finish, was formed in one go. All events and timelines of objects’ spatial movements were put in place by this process that formed the block det… -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months ago
Unseen wrote:
The notion that the big bang, the trillions of galaxies and septillions of planets, the inception and explosion of life forms on Earth or anywhere, the construction of the Pyramids and The Sphynx, the sinking of The Bismarck, and that time my cat destroyed my tablet by knocking a coffee mug onto it, as well as everything included in… -
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months agoi may have penned the following.
“The impact of the fall of the Iranian regime will be far bigger than most people realise. It will be a genuine “cut the head off the snake” moment.
Because once the Ayatollahs fall, the entire political ecosystem they’ve been propping up starts to collapse with them. It will instantly strip away, and I cannot…[Read more] -
Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
It seems to me as an atheist that the presentist universe makes more sense because the block universe is far more compatible with the intelligent design view.
The notion that the big bang, the trillions of galaxies and septillions of planets, the inception and explosion of life forms on Earth or anywhere, the construction of the Pyramids and…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
Block universe on the one hand or a universe governed by the inescapable necessity of physical laws, it makes no difference. It makes no matter how you respond to either situation. In the one case, your response has already happened in a sense while in the other, however you respond, your response is what had to happen.
Some will say, “But that’s…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
I agree almost entirely with this idea. I am a big fan of Carlo Rovelli and “Relational States”. There is no “Now”. All events exist “tenselessly”, i.e. without the concept of past, present or future. “Earlier than” and “later than” are structural facts, not things waiting to happen. We don’t experience the “whole loaf”. We are just a local pr…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
You may be wondering what evidence exists for the block universe theory. As the Gemini AI explains it:
The evidence for the Block Universe theory isn’t based on a single “discovery,” but rather on the logical conclusions we are forced to draw from Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.
If the math of relativity is a correct description of t…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
…for there to be no free will.
Under the current ‘standard model” of physics, accepted by the majority of physicists, we exist in a so-called “block universe.”
I asked Gemini AI to define block universe in layman terms and I got this:
In simple terms, the Block Universe theory is the idea that the past, the present, and the future all exist…[Read more]
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