[from Marsha\u2026..I can remember as a teenager interested in going to Cassada, the spiritualst camp in Lake Helen, Florida and visiting the medium about the future.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a lark, but there certainly was some curiosity thinking it might be adviseable and worthwhile to know the future. Below are some thoughts that you might find interesting.] Dr. Bob responds to an participant in audience who wants to have the power to foretell the future.<\/p>\n
He says:If the future is already known, then we were predetermined by some unknown power to be here this morning. Everbody that held up their hand to contribute to the conversation was already predetermined to do so; and so we\u2019re all puppets on a string. So it\u2019s a big play and we\u2019re not alive anyway, so let\u2019s forget it. Okay? Everything that\u2019s ever happened to us was preordained \u2013 it\u2019s already shot in the movie film; and we just happen to be watching a certain place in it this morning, is that right? There isn\u2019t anything you can do any different other than what you\u2019re doing this morning.\u00a0\u00a0 But do you see that if the future is able to be foretold then it must be all cut and dried.<\/p>\n
(unintelligible statement.)<\/p>\n
Well it\u2019s not foretold then. You only said it\u2019s a possibility that a certain thing\u2019ll happen if you think you can change it. Now obviously if it\u2019s foretold, it\u2019ll have to work out just like it was. You only told me a probability, and I can give you any probability you want for the future \u2013 it\u2019ll work out anyway \u2013 maybe not the way you want, but it\u2019ll work out.<\/p>\n
(I was told ___ )<\/p>\n
\u2026then he only told you probability, is that right? Okay now we\u2019re into the probability. Anybody can give you a probability \u2013 some are a little more intelligent and can give you a better probability — and then there\u2019s some tell you another probability based on a bunch of conditioning of what they\u2019ve been told and believe rather than looking at the facts.\u00a0\u00a0 So you can\u2019t tell the future, you can only tell probability. \u00a0Maybe you could send it to the \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d department in your mind?<\/p>\n
(Uh huh.)<\/p>\n
So you can begin to look at things objectively instead of makin\u2019 all these pictures in the mind and scarin\u2019 yourself. You can, then, kind of see the real probability, because you see how things are headed.<\/p>\n
If I see a boat comin\u2019 down the river at 60 mniles an hour; and the driver is sittin\u2019 there flirtin\u2019 with a girl instead of lookin\u2019 where the boat is headed, I got a good degree of probability he\u2019s goin\u2019 to the point of no return real quick.\u00a0\u00a0 I cannot fortell the future because the boat might explode before he gets there, okay?<\/p>\n
When I observe a conditioned person. I can predict what he\u2019s gonna do with a reasonable degree of accuracy.\u00a0\u00a0 Every prediction has an \u201cif\u201d in it. If you \u201cdon\u2019t do so and so\u201d then \u201cso and so\u201d is gonna come about, is that right? So nobody can predict the future. You can only predict with a reasonable degree of probability.<\/p>\n
The weather bureau is a task master at it; they have finally fixed it so they\u2019re 100% correct. They put everything in percentages \u2013 there\u2019s a 30% chance of rain and 70% of sun. If it rains, the 30% was there — if it doesn\u2019t, the 70% was right, and the forecaster is always 100% right and that\u2019s the way it goes.<\/p>\n
So if one is more aware, one sees more facts; and, therefore, sees the relationship of those facts; and thereby the direction of which things are traveling; and then one has a high degree of probability.<\/p>\n
Now this is what science is about \u2013 they study the degrees of probability of a given thing occurring, and they run experiments — not in trying to figure out \u201chows and whys\u201d: however science is somewhat deteriorating \u2013 it has deteriorated during the last few years and gone into the \u201chows and whys\u201d a lot instead of \u201cwhat\u2019s going on\u201d.<\/p>\n
Now you can run an experiment many times that when you put water in a pan on the stove with the heat up, that it boils in a given length of time. If you tried that experiment at 700 ft. altitude, you\u2019re gonna come up with a conclusion. But if you, then, tried the same experiment at sea level, you\u2019d find your conclusion is all haywire because it don\u2019t boil in the same length of time at the lower altitude. So you couldn\u2019t come to that particular conclusion. But if you kept accumulating data through experimentation, pretty soon you begin to have a considerable amount of data to work with.<\/p>\n
[From Marsha\u2026..My voice teacher once gave an exercise to the drummer of his former band who was afraid of the possibility of everything terrible happening in the future. He believed the scary pictures he had created in his mind. My teacher told this drummer to write down every prediction of fear he heard in his head for a month and see how many came true.\u00a0\u00a0 At the end of the month, the drummer came back and slammed his journal on the table.\u00a0\u00a0 The voice teacher said, \u201cWell, what happened?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The drummer shouted, \u201cNone of them happened!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[from Marsha\u2026..I can remember as a teenager interested in going to Cassada, the spiritualst camp in Lake Helen, Florida and visiting the medium about the future.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a lark, but there certainly was some curiosity thinking it might be … Continue reading