Also, if i can't trust my senses, i can't trust anything and might as well just shoot myself. Except if i can't trust my senses i can't be sure that i actually just shot myself.
You can't trust your senses, just look at optical illusions. After that, can you trust your interpretations of your senses? That's no reason to shoot yourself, beliefs like that aren't worth dieing for.
@Areyar: Bring on those pitchforks!
Here comes the rant!
Omnipotence and randomness are not mutually exclusive. An omnipotent being could in one moment imagine an entire universe, or even multiverse, with everything in it, with a lifespan of many bilions of years, and every single particle in it. In that one single moment, the entire lifespan of that multiverse is determined and has come and gone. We are that imagination. The experience comes from the actual imagining. To everything in the multiverse (eg, Science), some events are random. But random, and even the notion of "event" only makes sense if you have a timeline. The Omnipotent cares about neither, being outside of time, and outside of that multiverse. He sees a painting where past and future are in one image.
Imagine we are on a progressing line, and at any moment that line can go up or down, randomly. For us it's random. The Omnipotent sees no progress, he sees the entire graph at once, but can
imagine being on that line and going up or down and not knowing which way it will go at the same time. And we are that imagination.
Is everything predestined then? In a way, yes, but only if you have the "outside view". Which we don't, so for all practical purposes, the universe is not predestined and you do have free will.
Wow, thinking too much about the ramifications of omnipotence and being outside of time is mind-bending. Sorry if this was a bit incomprehensible.
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