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Ani_Ibi
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How can the future influence the present?
How does the influence of the future measure up to that of the past?
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Philosophy: The future influences the present just as much as the past does
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How does the influence of the future measure up to that of the past?
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freesoulhope
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I not sure that even Niet trully knew what he was his talking about there; i guess he said it because, “atheism is boring”, and that particulor concept spiced it up for him.:coffeeread:How can the future influence the present?
How does the influence of the future measure up to that of the past?
One intresting thought does ocurr however from his parogon of meaningless . If the future doesn’t yet exist, then how is it that we can move in to it with out falling into oblivion? Does God continuous create it according to are choices? Or is it something else?
In otherwords, How does time work and is there anything in the future before we get there? and is there ever trully a present? i find that there is only past and future.
Im talking purley philosophical here.
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I_Leatherman
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I’ve already told you how in post no.53.How can the future influence the present?
How does the influence of the future measure up to that of the past?
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freesoulhope
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Now i know what he was talking about. It works like this: We contemplate on the future, and what we would like to do, therefore the future can affect what we do now in leading up to the future that we had planed.How can the future influence the present?
How does the influence of the future measure up to that of the past?
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Ani_Ibi
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OK. Let’s see if these questions help. Up for it? Here goes!
Obviously we can’t ‘know’ the future in the same way that we think we ‘know’ the past.
But can we agree that we have a notion about how we can predict our futures given our experience of our pasts?
Thing is that our pasts differ. Some pasts differ radically from other pasts.
Take an AIDS orphan in South Africa for example. Compare his/her notion of what his/her future might hold with the notion of of what the future might hold for students at Notre Dame University.
So the thought project is: to what extent does the past influence our notion of the future? And to what extent does our notion of the future influence what we choose in the present?
What does Catholicism have to say about changing our notions of past, present, and future?
Thoughts?
Obviously we can’t ‘know’ the future in the same way that we think we ‘know’ the past.
But can we agree that we have a notion about how we can predict our futures given our experience of our pasts?
Thing is that our pasts differ. Some pasts differ radically from other pasts.
Take an AIDS orphan in South Africa for example. Compare his/her notion of what his/her future might hold with the notion of of what the future might hold for students at Notre Dame University.
So the thought project is: to what extent does the past influence our notion of the future? And to what extent does our notion of the future influence what we choose in the present?
What does Catholicism have to say about changing our notions of past, present, and future?
Thoughts?
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Ani_Ibi
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A man thinks differently in a palace and in a hut. – Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Religion
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