food for thought...
From a book i'm reading...about a society where they are able to tell the future/and or know the answer to any question... but rarely do...
" You don't see yet, why we perfected and practice foretelling?- To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question....The unkown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion... what is known? What is sure, predictable, inevitable- the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?... That we shall die... There's really only one question that can be answered, and we already know the answer... The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."
-LeGuin
I think I agree. If you could, would you actually want to know what would happen?
" You don't see yet, why we perfected and practice foretelling?- To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question....The unkown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion... what is known? What is sure, predictable, inevitable- the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?... That we shall die... There's really only one question that can be answered, and we already know the answer... The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."
-LeGuin
I think I agree. If you could, would you actually want to know what would happen?