maybe that's why I never get anything done.
but the apparent liquidity of the future is only an illusion produced by the fact that we only remember the past and have no knowledge of the future. If there's a reason for everything, then it was all defined from the beginning to the end.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 22:04, archived)

Now you're getting spiritual, and I'm afraid I don't subscribe to that.
:)
( hoifbjifbef, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 22:08, archived)

I never thought of "there's a reason for everything" as being particularly spiritual.
It's largely what drives scientific enquiry. It certainly drives mine.
I don't subscribe to the idea that things happen by chance. I'm not talking about some mystical force of "fate" here, just basic logical necessity. Any wave equation in maths or physics, for instance, has its entire time evolution determined and fixed uniquely from its initial conditions. Quantum mechanics comes in and makes a bit of a mess of that, but even still. I can't think of anything that's ever happened in my life that could logically have happened any differently. People sometimes ask the hypothetical "if you were young again, would you make different choices?" and the answer's no, because I'd still have the same knowledge the second time round as the first.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 22:13, archived)