• @samus12345
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    654 months ago

    Unless we have a way to find out what that predetermined future is, it’s irrelevant and you should proceed as if it isn’t a thing.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      524 months ago

      So you’re saying turn to page 72.

      • @samus12345
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        284 months ago

        If you like. You can also be a rebel and turn to a different page or stop reading the book altogether.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          174 months ago

          But then I’ll never know how it ends!

          • @samus12345
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            344 months ago

            Then you can follow the path created by the author! This kind of reminds me of The Stanley Parable.

            “When Stanley came to a set of two open doors, he entered the door on his left.”

        • @VoilaChihuahua
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          23 months ago

          But all the pages are 72. And your whole experience is also being described in real time on another page 72 elsewhere. 72s all the way down friend.

    • @Gigasser
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      13 months ago

      I mean technically, since we don’t exist in a deterministic universe, we don’t have a predetermined fate either, the concept of destiny or fate is a cope by itself. It’s debatable that free will exists either. Perhaps neither fate nor free will exists, and everything is just a roll of the quantum die… Hopefully it’s a D20.

      Also maybe there’s some concept currently beyond human comprehension that makes it so that a probabilistic universe, deterministic universe and free will can paradoxically work all together.