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April 26, 2009
3:25 PM (217 days, 5h, 42min ago)
0413 - What if...
I've played this game before, so it's not surprising that I bring it forward once again.
What if...
I was checking through the TV listings for this evening, and I saw a show entitled "OSWALD'S GHOST" on the History Channel. It's about Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy. I could ask, "What if it never occurred? What would life be like now?" But I'm not going to. Here's why. I just caught a few minutes of the movie "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" and I'm guessing you already know where this is going. Maybe the question we should be asking is, "Was Oswald sent back in time to make sure Kennedy died because things were a whole lot worse in the universe where Kennedy lived?" Weird, huh?
I guess it assumes that reverse time travel is possible. I don't think it is, but then I don't know for sure. The "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" is a powerful indictment against reverse time travel should it somehow be possible. One seemily insignificant change here or there and the world becomes a completely different place in the future. It could be a real ripple effect. Here's an example... Someone goes back and kills Adolf Hitler. There's no WWII. My father doesn't go to war. Instead he stays in his hometown and his younger brother isn't killed in Italy in 1944. Instead of going to university, my father and his brother do what they had planned on doing while growing up. They buy land and become farmers. My father never meets my mother. I'm never born. This blog is never written. You are not sitting where you are right now reading this blog. Instead, you've gone for a walk or a drive on this particular Sunday afternoon. And, there's an accident and you, and maybe someone you're with, are badly hurt or killed. What if?
Well, I don't lose sleep over it and neither should you. It's just a game. Anyway, I like to believe that once time is used up, it's done for good. There's only the now and the future. The past only exists as a memory. Maybe that's the best way for things to be. What do you think?
What if...
I was checking through the TV listings for this evening, and I saw a show entitled "OSWALD'S GHOST" on the History Channel. It's about Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy. I could ask, "What if it never occurred? What would life be like now?" But I'm not going to. Here's why. I just caught a few minutes of the movie "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" and I'm guessing you already know where this is going. Maybe the question we should be asking is, "Was Oswald sent back in time to make sure Kennedy died because things were a whole lot worse in the universe where Kennedy lived?" Weird, huh?
I guess it assumes that reverse time travel is possible. I don't think it is, but then I don't know for sure. The "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" is a powerful indictment against reverse time travel should it somehow be possible. One seemily insignificant change here or there and the world becomes a completely different place in the future. It could be a real ripple effect. Here's an example... Someone goes back and kills Adolf Hitler. There's no WWII. My father doesn't go to war. Instead he stays in his hometown and his younger brother isn't killed in Italy in 1944. Instead of going to university, my father and his brother do what they had planned on doing while growing up. They buy land and become farmers. My father never meets my mother. I'm never born. This blog is never written. You are not sitting where you are right now reading this blog. Instead, you've gone for a walk or a drive on this particular Sunday afternoon. And, there's an accident and you, and maybe someone you're with, are badly hurt or killed. What if?
Well, I don't lose sleep over it and neither should you. It's just a game. Anyway, I like to believe that once time is used up, it's done for good. There's only the now and the future. The past only exists as a memory. Maybe that's the best way for things to be. What do you think?
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