"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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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.
Tomfoolery33
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Dec 2, 2019
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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.
Geoffrey51
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