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   From: a202010@mail.com   
      
   the digest abridged version;   
      
   at any rate, you can make certain   
   statements about probable future   
   events and devise schemes to conform   
   to the proposed outcome.   
      
   you can make probable statements about   
   certain future events and decide whether   
   you would like be there to make   
   it true or false.   
      
   if you intend to make certain statements   
   about certain future events, you had   
   better be there to see that the   
   trash is set out on time.   
      
   and that is how God can make   
   certain forward looking statements   
   in regards to an uncertain future.   
      
   by being there to make them happen.   
      
   mortals can only get a brief glimpse at this.   
      
   'God' making 'prophecies' does not necessitate   
      
   a predetermined universe [determinism]   
      
   "we're gunna do such and such in a 1000 years   
   and your childrens' children will see it but   
   -you- won't cuz you'll be dead"   
      
   if 'we' wasn't there to make it happen,   
      
   it wouldn't have happened.   
      
   etc   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)