Food for thought.
Was that a !tenforward@lemmy.world, or a !risa@startrek.website trend?
Edit: It was on tenforward, and about a year ago. Nearly time to do it again!
No idea! Maybe both.
16·21 days agoIf I’m in a time loop, I’m not aware of it so it doesn’t matter and I’m fine with it.
Maybe I am and it’s what religions call rebirth or life after death and in that case I couldn’t care less, but I do have memories of yesterday and the days before that, so I’m kinda pretty sure there’s nothing loopy going on here.
Because it’s always a fresh hell I deal with, none of that stale hell you get from time loops
You literally just asked me this yesterday. And the day before. And the day before. And you never seem to remember it. And the day before… Oh no!
How do you know we’re not in a time loop so long you can live entire lifetimes inside of it?
After careful consideration I have come to the following conclusion on this issue:
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Philosophers have reasoned that if the universe is infinite, as it appears to some that it might be, then every permutation of all possible configurations of matter and energy will occur infinitely many times. Therefore, everything that happens now will have happened before, and will happen again.
I don’t see how any utopia could make up for the universes where people are literally tortured their entire lives. Such a multiverse must not be allowed to exist.
In the good old days of Usenet you could’ve found like-minded people on alt.destroy.the.multiverse.
Eh, not worried about it. It is what it is.
I mean in scifi someone in a time loop remembers the period and thus knows they are in one. If you don’t know you are not in one or at least not in one of your own.
This logical disconnect is even worse than the time loop concept. There’s no logic for someone remembering from a previous loop and even less logic for some people remembering and some not
Well, if I am than there isn’t anything I can do about it, is there?
The last 25000 times nothing happened, so I’m pretty sure nothing will happen tonight.
I have a twist for you – how do you know that time isn’t running backwards?
Because shit comes out of my ass and there’s no way in hell I’d let it go inside of me
That’s the thing. Your memory only works one way. You’re incapable of perceiving time running in the opposite direction.
Every time you’ve pooped both in the past and the future*, it’s both going in and coming out, entirely dependent on the frame of reference.
*Yes, I did just refer to the future in the past tense. Because if time’s running backwards to how we perceive it, that’s actually the past.
The only way to win this game is not to poop. And good luck with that.
The only way to win this game is not to poop. And good luck with that.
I’ve come further than most men in this regard. And the fact that I’m around to tell the tale also means I’m capable of incredible feats of poop. That duality which defines the universe is visible in all things
I can’t imagine I’m the first to ever say this: Those who say they do not poop are full of it.
I mean how do you know if your memories are even real and you didn’t just get Men-In-Black flashed with the Neurolyzer thingy and that’s why you are a paycheck-to-paycheck wage slave instead of being a multibillionaire CEO like you used to be until you got couped?
Or how do you know your parents are your real parents and you didn’t just get lost/kidnapped as a child? (especially before dna tests)
So the loop would “start” and “end” with my birth and death, right?
Wouldn’t be so bad.
