http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514&cpage=1#comment-295233 Peter Rogan Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:42:19 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514#comment-295233 It DOES smack of the Arisians, doesn't it? The ability to predict what you'll do even after you've been informed that it's going to happen. Except this form of determinism is distinctly ex post facto -- what you did was foreseen, even if you didn't know about it, ditto what would happen even if you DID expect it.I'm not sure how I would live knowing I was always being second-guessed. What's the fun in that? It DOES smack of the Arisians, doesn’t it? The ability to predict what you’ll do even after you’ve been informed that it’s going to happen. Except this form of determinism is distinctly ex post facto — what you did was foreseen, even if you didn’t know about it, ditto what would happen even if you DID expect it.I’m not sure how I would live knowing I was always being second-guessed. What’s the fun in that?

]]> http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514&cpage=1#comment-295232 M.A. Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:48:04 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514#comment-295232 Well, any deity with enough bandwidth would see everything happening simultaneously, so is that really determinism, or do I just read too much science fiction? Well, any deity with enough bandwidth would see everything happening simultaneously, so is that really determinism, or do I just read too much science fiction?

]]> http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514&cpage=1#comment-295231 Chris Phoenix Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:17:16 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6514#comment-295231 Slut shaming? Dije, I thought better of you, I really did. Slut shaming? Dije, I thought better of you, I really did.

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