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[–] 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You know what, you're right. The more I think about it the more I have to admit that we couldn't really have free will and that level of predestination

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I don’t know, I think it depends on if you include the origin of soulmates in the definition you use. If you define soulmates as people that were made for each other, then yeah I suppose that creation is out of their hands while defining who they are (and maybe implying that something/someone did the creating). When I think of soulmates I tend to think of persons that are perfectly suited to be together without necessarily needing a cause for it.

    It would seem unlikely that every person has a soulmate or that every set of soulmates would meet each other, but it seems possible for such people to become perfect for each other through free will.

    Also as a tangent, I misspelled it as ‘soupmate’ in the dictionary at first, and if I had a soulmate we would probably be soupmates too :P

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Or... maybe predestination is true in the sense that the universe is just physics and therefore theoretically calculable. I suppose that's less romantic though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    Quantum physics says that it is entirely calculable, in that every option is happening simultaneously at every instant. It would just take a billion years to calculate a standing glass of water, at our current level of development.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Quantum physics also agrees with chaos theory, to a degree, though, in that matter behaves in very strange ways, and at atomic and sub atomic levels behave in potentially completely random ways. So, fuck it all, love the one you're with.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The “spooky action from a distance” of quantum phenomena like entanglement fully supports this attitude as the default. Every realized/observed/actual reality necessarily coalesces/collapses every superposition into congruency.

    In short, retcon: the universe is retroactively continuitous. So the one you’re with is always who you were “predestined” to be with.

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