[Avodah] "God who knows the future"

[David Riceman]

RMB:

<< The common people do. Open an organizer, or Outlook. Time is arranged 
in a line down the page.>>

Me: << I don't know how to determine the "common" view of time, but I 
suspect it's viewed as a cycle, not a progression.>>

In some contexts.  Cycles help explain "l'ma'alah min hazman", but 
people also think of time as a tree.  Imagine any strategy meeting at a 
business: "If they offer X we'll counter with Y, but if they offer X 
prime, we'll counter with Y prime".  That is free will in a nutshell.

But of course people think of time in all sorts of ways depending on 
context (so my "not" above is clearly wrong).  IIRC Clifford Geertz, the 
noted anthropologist, has an essay about someone who told him that 
Tuesday is a green lizard.

David Riceman