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Originally Posted by rachMiel
> Personally, I don't believe there is an unchangeable future... neither in the capital 'D' Determinism sense, nor the 'has already happened' sense, nor the 'can travel to a real existing future or past' sense. I believe there is only now. (Although I've had some experiences that could be construed to contradict that.)
So no block universe guy you, eh? If there were a block universe, some people might have the ability to move their consciousness to different times, like moving a play cursor through an audio file.
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Nope, not a Block Universe guy (Block Universe/Eternalism = all points in time are equally 'real', as opposed to the Presentist idea that only the present is real). Some people might have the ability to move their consciousness through different times even if there wasn't a Block Universe -- because there's history books, pictures, home videos, and maybe lots of other types of records we don't realize exist (like the proposed Akashic Records). People who practice Remote Viewing (pick your term) purport their consciousness perusing over the past.
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Originally Posted by rachMiel
> Relating to current, or non-God-prophets, such as a psychic/fortuneteller making event predictions... a number of beings can find out about events that have been scheduled by powerful forces, and then tell others about it, these revelations can seem Deterministic when they are simply controlled in the present.
In other words, some people are just good predictors, extrapolators. Futurists make careers on this.
I don't have a theory for how it works – beyond some kind of wave transmission – but I have this gut feeling that it is possible to sense a future event.
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Sure, like when someone's hair stands-on-end just before a lighting strike. Like foreseeing a birth when you see a woman looking pregnant. We sense processes. I bet there's a lot of processes going on that our conscious minds don't recognize; things are extremely interrelated. Doesn't mean time 'exists'.
I think time is an abstract way to describe motion, particularly (apparent) constant motion. It's an abstract 'dimension', necessary for making dates, plans & predictions.