From: Tony Williams 

Geo wrote:
> The thing that gets me is people understand and accept this, how many times
> have you heard someone say they wished they could go into the future and get
> next weeks lotto numbers then come back and buy the winning ticket? They get
> it, they understand the idea and on some level even agree with it, till you
> try and spell it out for them along with all that it means, then all of a
> sudden nobody wants to hear it and it can't possibly be.

Determinism is the most dismal philosophy I can imagine. I much prefer to
believe in the idea of parallel universes (aka Terry Pratchett's
"trousers of time" hypothesis).

--
Tony

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