Do you beleive that time is pre-determained?

Question:Do you believe that everything that you have or will ever do you have already done? Because they say that linear time is an illusion of the mind that if we could see ourselves in the fourth dimension we would be a long worm like creature. On one end your birth the other your death and in between is every moment that you ever lived. So how would it be possible for time to not be pre determained?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Do you believe that everything that you have or will ever do you have already done? Because they say that linear time is an illusion of the mind that if we could see ourselves in the fourth dimension we would be a long worm like creature. On one end your birth the other your death and in between is every moment that you ever lived. So how would it be possible for time to not be pre determained?

You, sir, are stuck on the concept that time is linear- ok, that's the prevalent view in Western culture. Works for records, chronology and schedules, all vital to business and commerce. Short-term.
Now try the Eastern view that time is cyclic; "what goes 'round comes 'round"- this concept encompasses a vastly larger time frame of centuries, eras and eons, in which there is little that is truly new, it's all happened before, somewhere, and will happen again in some unguessed-at future. As long-term as you make it. In THAT sense, time is truly predetermined, with no start and no end: when you experience it is immaterial, but repeatable..hm?

Time is the belief that "NOW" is sequential......

Check out that movie waking life, the final scene is pretty freaky and about time. The video linked contains spoilers, is the end of the movie.

Time is essentially active, and differs from space fundamentally. You also don't know what track you're on, and there may be others, so it isn't fixed even if time is like space in this way.

No. I think it is all on which path you take. Every decision you make changes the future.

No, I do not. That would require an omnipotent power, whether of a 'creator' or of some unknown force of nature. There is no indication of science or theology (to paraphrase the Franciscan Wm. of Occam) to think that either controls the universe to that extent.

God has not revealed that He does it.
And if you don't believe in a god, science has not shown any plausible theory that we are all in a "loop" or in an unchageable "filmstrip."

And if this pre-determination is something that we can "never" know, like Kant's noumena, then it doesn't matter anyway what you think because you will refuse to accept that "Reality is comprised, not of Platonic abstractions, but of concrete, individual entities, each with a definite nature, each obeying the laws inherent in its nature. " http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ar...