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imaginary beings, places, or events. The movie presents imagery beings in some scenes, like aliens and UFO. The beings usually just said in fictional books and
films. The aliens and UFO are not ordinary beings who are seen every day in daily life. They just appear on the story and theory.
It also presents a big event, it is apocalypse or the end of the world. We know that the end of the world cannot imagined by someone. It is just a
fictional thinking by the writer. The writer makes apocalypse event is caused by the sun’s storm. Then, the fictional place also reveals in the movie. The New
World In the end of story is like Heaven. It does not completely unrelated to actuality. For one thing, not
everything shown or implied in Knowing needs to be imaginary. But, the it stages as its events are designed, planned, and filmed.
2.2 Predestination
2.2.1 The Definition
What does the word Predestination mean when you look at the etymology of the word itself? Predestination is made up of two words. The first
part is pre, which means before, or beforehand. The last part of the word is destination which means the climax, end or farthest extent. The little word pre
has to do with something beforehand. The word destination has to do with the farthest extent, based on Subjects of Sovereignty by Andrew Telford 1978:56.
We understand by this then, what Predestination, according to the precise meaning of the word has to do with something beforehand and something at the farthest
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end or termination. Predestination has nothing to do with anything in between. The time is designated by the word pre and the farthest extent is designated by
the word destination. Predestination was a religious concept, which involves the relationship
between God and His creation. The religious character of predestination distinguishes it from other ideas about determinism and free will. Predestination
was come from God and such beliefs or philosophical systems may hold that any outcome is finally determined by the complex interaction of multiple, possibly
impersonal, possibly equal forces, rather than the issue of a Creators conscious choice.
2.2.2 Contrasted with determinism
According to John Cowburn in Free Wiil, Predestination and Determinism, predestination adopts uncomplicated views of God’s supreme
dominion, predestination, divine choice and foreknowledge Cowburn, 2008:115. In other words, predestination is the God foreordaining or foreknowledge of all
that will happen; with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo 354 - 430
and of John Calvin 1509-1564. It may sometimes be used to refer to other, materialistic, spiritualist, non-theistic or polytheistic ideas of determinism, destiny
and fate. Such beliefs or philosophical systems may hold that any outcome is finally determined by the complex interaction of multiple, possibly immanent,
possibly impersonal, possibly equal forces, rather than the issue of a Creators conscious choice.
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For example, some people may speak of predestination from a purely physical perspective, such as in a discussion of time travel. In a predestined
universe the future is immutable and only one set of events can possibly occur; in a non-predestined universe, the future is mutable. In Chinese Buddhism,
predestination is a translation of yuanfen, which does not necessarily imply the existence or involvement of a deity. Predestination in this sense takes on a very
literal meaning: pre- before and destiny, in a straightforward way indicating that some events seem bound to happen.
Finally, antithetical to determinism of any kind are theories of the cosmos which assert that any outcome is ultimately unpredictable, the luckiness,
chance, or chaos theory have determinist implications, as a logical consequence of the idea of predictability. But predestination usually refers to a specifically
religious type of determinism, especially as found in various monotheistic systems where omniscience is attributed to God, including Christianity and Islam.
2.2.3 Predestination in Some Religions
