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"Democritus, believed the entire state of the universe could be explained through cause and effect. In other words, he was only interested in how the past dictated the present and future."

I have been thinking about randomness. Just started the idea while mixing up some dominoes. Anyway, the above came from the following article. What do you guys think about randomness? I like the cause and effect idea myself, and it comes from the Atomists.

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Beowulfsfriend 9 Dec 2
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Another way to address the problem, is to think of random as, that which is too complex to understand. That is the basis of Chaos theory, which is well worth study if you are interested in this field.

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I think it's so cool that you all are even thinking as bout that !

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I have a whole essay on it that I might post sometime. It's a really big subject, and I didn't come to any conclusions.

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Brings us into the country of pre-destination and Luther’s ‘grace not works’.

Which means that everyone is innocent because they were pre-destined to do what ever they have done.

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