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It's also possible God will do this but hasn't yet. When God finally decides to do it is when all the computation will occur, including the computation that com

It's also possible God will do this but hasn't yet. When God finally decides to do it is when all the computation will occur, including the computation that comprises our consciousness on April 20, 2022.

giraffe_lady 5y ago
There's a name for this in theology but I forget it now. It's the reasoning behind praying for people in the past. Not their souls now, but their actual living selves in the past. I think the idea is that timeless god will hear your prayers from the future and may be influenced by them backwards in time. idk I'm not a theologian.
- tshaddox 5y ago
  I'm not familiar with the theological concept you're referring to, but it does reminds me of something that bothered me as a young child. I remember thinking it was very odd that people would pray for an outcome they knew had already occurred, but they simply didn't know what the outcome was yet.
  - dane-pgp 5y ago
    > people would pray for an outcome they knew had already occurred From God's perspective, though, it doesn't matter if the prayer occurs before or after the event, (assuming God exists outside of time and knows everything that has happened and will ever happen). That might seem to open the possibility that believers could pray for events to be retroactively changed from a known (to them) outcome to a different outcome (rewriting their memories in the process), but presumably the claim is that God's will is revealed through the outcomes themselves, and the believer should update their desires based on that revealed will.
tempodox 5y ago
When I meet her, I'll have to ask her if she used async/await or had to struggle with the borrow checker when programming this. Also, is this kind of time manipulation memory-safe? I shudder to think of the race conditions that might occur.

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It's also possible God will do this but hasn't yet. When God finally decides to do it is when all the computation will occur, including the computation that com

by tshaddox 5y ago

giraffe_lady 5y ago
There's a name for this in theology but I forget it now. It's the reasoning behind praying for people in the past. Not their souls now, but their actual living selves in the past. I think the idea is that timeless god will hear your prayers from the future and may be influenced by them backwards in time. idk I'm not a theologian.
- tshaddox 5y ago
  I'm not familiar with the theological concept you're referring to, but it does reminds me of something that bothered me as a young child. I remember thinking it was very odd that people would pray for an outcome they knew had already occurred, but they simply didn't know what the outcome was yet.
  - dane-pgp 5y ago
    > people would pray for an outcome they knew had already occurred From God's perspective, though, it doesn't matter if the prayer occurs before or after the event, (assuming God exists outside of time and knows everything that has happened and will ever happen). That might seem to open the possibility that believers could pray for events to be retroactively changed from a known (to them) outcome to a different outcome (rewriting their memories in the process), but presumably the claim is that God's will is revealed through the outcomes themselves, and the believer should update their desires based on that revealed will.
tempodox 5y ago
When I meet her, I'll have to ask her if she used async/await or had to struggle with the borrow checker when programming this. Also, is this kind of time manipulation memory-safe? I shudder to think of the race conditions that might occur.