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But can anyone truly be content for the rest of their lives? I doubt it. My friend always says "The day that you are truly at peace, is when you are dead". In other words, you should never settle, always reach for what's just out of reach. Of course, not all the time...There may be times...

I just watched the Simpsons episode (Lisa's Wedding) where the fortune teller tells Lisa her future. I thought this line was appropriate for this thread: Lisa: "Wow. Now that I know all this, isn't there any way to change the future?" Fortune Teller: "No...but try to look surprised." :D

I don't think it can. Brain, I kind of understood what you meant about the whole 'monitor' issue, but I'm not 100% familiar with all of this, so forgive me if I get lost. Let's say you had a time portal that would transfer anything 30 minutes into the future, and now let's say you had a...

Brain, I see what you're saying. If you could see yourself 5 minutes into the future, then (in 5 minutes) do something that contradicts what you did on this "monitor". Now the question I have is, if what you are seeing on the monitor is considered the "future", how is it possible that you are...

But what about the fact that we all know we are going to die? This is a perfect example of knowing the future (be it a vague one). Does that mean we no longer have free will? Or does it mean that our free will is being altered by this fact? In other words, if you had no idea that (eventually)...

That depends on wether it's true that the future has already been mapped out. If you didn't know you were going to die in ten years, you obviously wouldn't go jumping in front of a train, but if you accidentally fell onto the train tracks as a train was coming, something remarkable would...

But if the device KNEW you would live through the next 10 years, it would already know that every attempt you make to kill yourself, would end up in failure... The gun you point to your head would fail, the train you jump in front of would run out of gas before hitting you, just as you are...

I never thought of it that way. It is true that the device itself is what is altering the past. It already knows what you're going to ask it and how you are going to react. On a lighter note, speaking of time travel, I love the episode on tiny toons where tiny Daffy Duck starts to build a...

But what about the theory (that SO many tv shows portray) where the 8 ball tells you that hundreds of people are going to die in a disaster, you do something to try and save them, but the "safe" place you end up moving them, ends up catching fire and they all die? I kind of believe in the...