Thanks for your thoughts, Alexia.
I should add that I believe that our life roles and paths are both divinely designated and that we have free will only within certain bounds, as though we were traveling through a river-- the river is pre-plotted for us either by God or a higher force with which we collaborate and plan our lives before being born-- so the river is already there, and our free will while in phyiscal form can only extend to the banks of the river. That way we still have a bit of flexibility in our will and lives, but our general path and purpose are still fulfilled, AND we stay safe and on the general path all the way through.
While it is true that it appears there can be many versions of the future, there are still many things that are steadily predictable, that occur in solid paths or cycles- for instance, that in March spring will come and the snow will disappear and the weather will start to turn warmer here. Tomorrow may be 34 degrees or 40 degrees it doesn't matter, some variation will be there, but on the whole the temperature will get warmer and spring will certainly come. Seasonal cycles and destinational paths still have predictable elements.
Is it also true that some people often can predict elements of the future, for example visionaries and sages, right?
So, by extension, I think that our lives also have predictable elements.. maybe my question presupposes belief in divinely ordained paths, but it seems like we should be able to access the future much like we can the past.
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