Welcome to the Ignorant Historian! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I know it’s a classic question, but if you could know the future, would you want to?
I was thinking about this especially last night. I’d love to know who/if I was going to marry, so I could stop messing around with this crush stuff. (Really, it’s rather optimistic to think that it’ll go away if I just knew the outcome.)
So, if I could know this about my future, I think I would want to know. Nothing else, though. But maybe it’s a If You Give a Mouse a Cookie thing, and once I knew that, I’d want to know more.
So, if you could know anything about the future, would you want to? And if you could only ask one question about your future, what would you choose?
I don’t think I’d want to know. Because sometimes the answer is going to be NO x, y, or z will never happen and then I’d just be so sad.
Better to keep hope alive and trust in God because most of our earthly trials and unknowns are to see if we will remain faithful.
I was going to say that I’d want to know when Jesus is returning, but I know that question wouldn’t be answered. If it’s immediacy then I’d want to know where we’re moving next. Long term, I’d want to know where Du’s second career would be located so I could start planning and dreaming.
I do not want to know the future. Too scary!!
I’d want to know how my children turn out.
I’d like to say yes and that I definitely want to know how my children turn out, but what if they turned out badly? took wrong paths? What if one or both of them died early deaths? Do I really want to know that before it happens? No, not at all. I think I’ll just be happy with now.
What’s that scripture…Take no thought for tomorrow for tomorrow will take care of itself..?
Still, theoretically, I don’t think I’d want to know.
Really, only one question? At this point, I’d like to know if Mark will get a job when he graduates, and where. That’s just one question with a part A and part B, by the way :) But, if I knew that I guess I couldn’t as fully enjoy the time we have in this great country.
Nope. Some things are best left in God’s hands. This is one of those questions that deals with faith in a round-about way. If God had wanted us to know He would tell us.
I’m in agreement with the other commenters. I would not want to look into the future for my personal life. I know God has given us details about the future thru His Word, but to know what will happen to me or a loved one would not be an area I would delve into.
♥
Joy
I would want to know WHEN THE CALL IS COMING telling us that we’ve been assigned a child for our adoption. I’ve frequently pondered the “what would I want to know?” question and I’ve decided I don’t really want to know anything – except that. I don’t even wnat to know what they are going to say in terms of “boy” or “girl” or how old, etc. I just want to know when it’s coming. =)
knowing the future would be a bit scary.. but I would like to know how my children make out in their lives as adults.
I would want to know when the Food Network is going to call so I am ready:-) Hee,hee, hee.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving such sweet comments. I hope to see you back there soon:-)
Hmm…I don’t think I’d want to know. I’m just trying to deal with the present. To think of the future is too much to worry about. Good question though. And thanks for stopping by my blog!
knowing is intriguing. but man though sometimes teh journey is tough, it makes it more worth it you know.
If, at 25, I found out that I wasn’t going to meet the man I would marry until I was 30, it would have changed the way I behaved and then I would have missed out on a lot. I dated a couple of really special guys in my late twenties. Although they didn’t wind up being “it”, if I had known that at the time, we would have had a completely different dynamic. Bottom line: I don’t want to know.
As for my future, I wouldn’t really want to know. It would mess up the present for me one way or the other.
I don’t think so. It would cause me to live in fear I think. Because there is no way to live an absolutely perfect life and I would live in fear of the bad times.
What a fabulous question!
NO! No no no no no! I sometimes imagine a fortune teller at my wedding, and she points to the audience and says, “In the next 4 years, one of you will get divorced; one of you will become widowed; one of you will become paralyzed from the neck down; and the bride and groom will hold their dead baby in their arms.” The same fortune teller would also say a lot of wonderful things about people getting married and going on exotic trips and the bride and groom having a healthy boy, but the bad news would just be too overwhelming.