Double Pendulum Theologies
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Most people know a pendulum, the consistently occilating arm that regulates a clock really well.
Therefore, those not acquainted with a double pendulum would likely be surprised by the chaotic motion. The tiniest of variance in initial position creates strikingly different paths. Therefore, two identical double pendula started at seemingly identical places would find themselves after only a moment to be in very different locations.
This made me think of divergent theologies/worldviews. Each of us has a different set of initial conditions (not to mention a different set of conditions along the way). I am by no means a determinist, but I think it would be naïve to think we should all come to the same conclusions, when our premises cannot be the same. Even those of us who started under very similar conditions may diverge greatly, for an infinity of infinitesimal decisions influence us.
This chaos makes simulated prediction very difficult.
