The future cannot be foreseen

The future cannot be foreseen - that is, we cannot know the future in the sense of perceiving the future as if it has already-happened, and cannot be changed. I am solidly convinced of this now. 

Firstly on metaphysical grounds; in the sense of the nature of reality is such that the future is not predetermined. 

For many reasons. 

If reality consists in Beings, then beings are free by their nature (not as a gift of God). And in an ultimate sense, reality is indivisible, bits of foresight are not really viable - not least be the context of the bits of foresight is not knowable, so the future is not knowable. 

I have explored in some detail accounts of several people who claimed, and had some evidential grounds for, to foresee the future - and none of them could do so - in the sense that they were often wrong about matters about which they were confident. 

And I have myself experienced exactly this: I have been convinced about what would happen in the future, in a specific and timed way (although I didn't regard my sense of conviction as necessarily true - nonetheless I "felt sure"). And it did not happen. 

I take this to have been a learning experience. 

I conclude that the future just is not the kind of thing that can be foreseen, foreknown. 

We only know the future in the usual way of "probabilistic" prediction, informed guessing etc.; based on the nature and motivations of things (i.e. the nature of Beings), extrapolation, understanding of causality and the like.