This is my response on Blogcatalog to a question on the possibility of time travel, brief and to the point.
Well, to believe in this stuff one would have to conceive of time as a stream linking the present with the past and the future. All of our actions are therefore foreordained and there is no freedom at all. A time machine has already been invented and the future comes back to the past; we are the past; we are already dead. :-)
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Good morning, Ana.
ReplyDeleteI like the clock. But what was the 'stuff' you were being invited to believe in?
It wasn't MyblogLog :)) it was BlogCatalog.
ReplyDeleteWell, you have a different kind of thinking which i admire but this may give you a pessimistic point of view and cause you to commit suicide one day. :))
It was just a theory about time travel, Jamie, which I see as logically and practically impossible - hence my response.
ReplyDeleteKunday, you are right! I've made the adjustment. Yes, intellectually I am a pessimist. In every day terms you could not imagine a brighter soul. :-)
This reminds me of some philosopher who suggested that life is like a film.
ReplyDeleteThis blog sums it up nicely; Twenty Major.
And yes, that is fatalistic and borderline nihilist, but logical! I like my rationalism :(.
I am indeed a nihilist!
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