Section 1: The Origination of Everything and It's Role in terms of Past, Present, and Future.
I forgot what type of philosophical reasoning this is, as I definitely heard it some time before. However, I never heard it be applied in terms of what is commonly called fate or destiny. Let me expand on the question slightly by starting off with an over-simplified analogy.
Say you are playing billiards (or pool some may call) and let say you are about to begin a game. Most of you are probably familiar with this, but a typical game starts by "breaking" the balls with the cue ball. For this analogy, the cue ball will be the initiator (God, big bang, whatever...its irrelevant) and the balls them self is everything that exists today. So you start the game by hitting the cue ball at the other balls and the balls go off in all different and distinct* directions. Eventually, they all go on their own path and stop, however, that path was "predetermined" by the way the cue ball hit the other balls. Therefore, it is possible to determine the path of each individual ball from just the initial moment the cue ball hit the other balls.
Now, applying that to real life. If everything that exists today went off on distinct paths and we are technically still in the process of the path, then the path of everything was predetermined at the origin. That means the future of how things developed, how the universe was made, the decisions people make, were already "known" from what happened at the origin. In other words, we are on a linear path through time, the future is already known, just time hasn't got there yet. Just like when the balls are still rolling, it is still possible to figure out where they will eventually end up.
If this logic is correct (and I have yet someone give me an explanation otherwise), the choices that we make are not actually our own choices, we have no control over our future. We are just "the universe experiencing itself".
Any thoughts?
EDIT: From the responses, I want to make something pretty clear. Yes, it is true that our understanding of the natural workings of the universe is limited to human knowledge. However, I think all of us could agree that there is a single truth to everything in the universe and how it functions. As long as that single truth exists, then this idea will always hold to be true since the point of origin created created that truth. Even if there were things going on in the universe (like fundamental forces still behaving)
... keep reading on reddit ➡"If you knew how you were going to die, how would you live your life differently?"
Atriox: "I would change nothing."
Cortana: "Perfect. Thank you."
Zeta Halo has exhibited properties implying time travel, transporting Chief and the Weapon 3 days into the future in the final cutscene.
Every time Chief has died, whether it has been to a stray Skewer, falling off the cliff exiting the escape pod off the Pillar of Autumn and his first steps on the first Halo, every time he was eaten alive by Flood. That was not just a fluke. That happened for real, except the second time round Chief didn't make the same mistake and avoided the hazards. This is a meta, in-universe explanation for the checkpoint system...
#In another timeline, Chief died but the world restarted. Its why its called Halo Infinite.
Because the world is looping an infinite number of times until the desired outcome for Master Chief is reached. It fits the symbolic shape of the Halo, a never ending strand of life.
Atriox answering that he would change nothing is essential to Cortana's decision, because it means he would be predictable in the next time loop where Chief would inevitably defeat him (or perhaps her plan hinges on him maintaining course regardless of what Covenant and Banished troops Chief kills; that Atriox is the only Brute guaranteed to outlive John).
Cortana saw through algorithms that John appeared to be incredibly lucky, that he narrowly avoided death through impossible circumstances. But that isn't rational, luck alone can't lead a supposedly standard, run-of-the-mill Spartan to victory against deity-like beings such as Gravemind and the Didact...because it was never luck, it was Cortana having triggered an infinite loop that would lead Chief to victory.
This could also have been extended to the Arbiter through the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3, but it is unknown if he still lives or where he is right now. Maybe he serves an essential purpose to help Chief. This could be an allusion to the true Great Journey that the Covenant once followed that the Arbiter has travelled upon along with Chief since the beginning of the Rings' discovery.
Cortana in the visions in the final level talks about having seen Chief's future. An end to envy, to pain. A good future, but one that also aligns with the euphoria the Covenant's prophets once described; maybe they were actually on to something, but didn't grasp 5% of what the true nature of the Great Journey was.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I know exactly what time the meeting is and when I'll be speaking. I know I'll have a panic attack, it's either skip the meeting or pop a Xanax.I know a xanax takes about 30 minutes to kick in but when does it peak, how long before should I take it?
Also, has anyone else ever mixed Clonazepam and Xanax? If so tell me your story with it.
That leaves me to believe, is the next Golden Cookie's Outcome decided upon the previous cookie being clicked?
