Does choice imply more than one actual possibility?

[makesends]

God does not actualize any possibilities—because for him there are no unrealized possibilities.

THIS!!!! It is endemic to every one of his attributes in their entirety and purity. But most obviously, it is visible to us in his Aseity.

 

[makesends]

That's because the asserts are sometimes self-contradictory and often nonsensical in other ways.

X is a letter. Y is a letter. Both are true. In mathematical equations X and Y can also represent numbers. That is also true. The onus on you is not to prove or disprove others' positions. As the author of the o the onus is on you to prove your own position. As I stated b4, you might prove my pov incorrect but that would not, in and of itself, prove your position correct unless X and Y are the only two possibilities.... er, I mean, options .

Or repetitive.

X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y,X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y,X&Y, X&Y, X&Y,X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y, X&Y.................

Yeah, yeah, I get it. X&Y. Next!

Ok. I get it. Let's move on.

 

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[makesends]

Just wait until you guys hear Richard Feynman on the nature of time.

You are completely wrong about time. You probably think you know what it is because you look at a watch or you feel yourself getting older. But that isn't time. That's just a sensation, a biological trick.

Most people walk around with this poetic idea in their heads that time is a river. You imagine it flows, sweeping you along from the past through the present and into the future. You think it moved. But here is the problem with that beautiful image. If time is a river, how fast does the river flow? One second per second? That is meaningless. That's like saying a table is one table long. It tells you absolutely nothing about the nature of reality.

The truth is much stranger, much more mechanical and, honestly, a lot less romantic than a flowing stream. Time doesn't flow. Time doesn't push you anywhere. And if you think you have a good grip on how time works just because you can count seconds in your head, you are in for a very rude awakening.

“If time is a dimension,” he said, “then the past, the present, and the future all exist simultaneously. Think of a movie reel. You watch the movie frame by frame, so it feels like a story unfolding. But if you hold the reel in your hand, the end of the movie exists at the same time as the beginning.”

Watch the rest of the video here (00:23:11).

When I found time, I tried to watch the video, but YouTube says, "this video is private". Is there a title I can look up on YouTube? I have watched several of Feynman's videos and they are fascinating, and one of them in particular helped me at least begin to understand how time relates to the universe, and the relativity of the speed of light as a different way to consider the structure of the universe.

 

[John Bauer]

Jesus said, “With God all things are possible” (Matt 19:26).

Indeed. But how does that relate to our dispute? I said that for God there are no unrealized possibilities awaiting to be actualized. Is this passage supposed to prove there are? Jesus is contrasting human inability with divine power, not asserting the existence of possibilities that God actualizes.

In everyday speech: "I like you" versus "I am not like my cat."

A curious thing about English, right? A single word (like) can mean two different things, and two different words (choose, select) can mean the same thing. As I said, in everyday speech there is no meaningful difference between choose and select.

I am specifically defining "choose" and "select" and using them correctly.

Well, I don’t think you are using them correctly. You persist in equivocating in a way not beholden to linguistics or grammar. In this recent response from you, for example, you said choose relates to “any number of possibilities” and select relates to “a list of specific available options”—failing to acknowledge that these are interchangeable (precisely because these words are largely synonymous). One can choose from “a list of specific available options,” and one can select from “any number of possibilities.”

In the vegetable analogy, the cook chose them and you have a selection, not a choice.

Again, these are largely interchangeable—even here. Observe: The cook selected certain vegetables as sides in the menu, giving the patron a choice in which vegetable to eat.

 

[John Bauer]

When I found time, I tried to watch the video, but YouTube says, "this video is private". Is there a title I can look up on YouTube? I have watched several of Feynman's videos and they are fascinating, and one of them in particular helped me at least begin to understand how time relates to the universe, and the relativity of the speed of light as a different way to consider the structure of the universe.

Here is the same talk, but in this video it is someone reading it. So, it's not Feynman talking but it's the same talk.