free will
will you marry me? no. heh. those lines were from a movie with time travel. she didn't mean it. she just wanted to assert she had free will. which is kind of an interesting question. when i was a kid i decided it didn't matter if i actually had free will or was just following a script as long as no one knew in advance what i was going to do. the two positions are effectively the same. which kinda puts a big fat kibosh on time travel. in this particular movie you couldn't change events. in the star trek universe you can. which leads to alternate realities. yada yada. boring. anywho, the situation with an omniscient being is similar but different. free will and god are compatible as long as god doesn't ever reveal the future. so now i've logic'd myself into a corner where my choices are: i don't have free will. god isn't omniscient. or god is indistinguishable from an obnoxious child who says i knew you were going to do that.