TTTP7 Revisit ones own timeline

This theory is very much like the last theory in that the events of the future are not set and can be changed.

This theory assumes one will be able to gain an ability to re enter past events and change their own actions. This theory is used in the movie series The Butterfly Effect. This theory in my opinion is the most damaging one and could cause the most stress and depression to the traveller. The traveller would most likely have a gift to re-enter past memories or a device of some sort to travel back in time in which the traveller would take over control of their past self. This does mean no one will be able to time travel to before they are born, or maybe they can but only just before as seen at the end of the director’s cut of The Butterfly Effect (2004). The traveller would most likely make a mistake the first time travelling and would not know about it till their return. Any changes to the ones past such as delaying an event little longer, such as the event that is most likely to happen when the future self takes a hold of the past self.

An example, a time traveller wants to relive his 18th birthday party. He goes back to when he was 18, the first moment when he takes control over his past self is likely to cause a delay or disturbance to his past self’s current actions. The past self is currently running a bath in the next room. The future self unaware (unless memory of current events is known) and takes control over his earlier self. Amazed by his actions the future self looks out the window thinks about the car his family used to have, the people who lived down his road, etc. All this time the bath is running and it overflows. Now that bath never overflowed and the damage was never done in the time line the future self was from. The events after the bath will also be delayed or will no longer happen. Maybe he was going to get a bus after his bath that does not happen anymore. All these problems cause more problems and those problems cause problems and so on. The point is, once a traveller travels back using this theory it is unlikely he will get back to the time he knew.

There are other possibilities though; the traveller may gain full memory of current actions when they time travel back, the traveller’s changes may not take effect or what is meant to happen is meant to happen and the changes the traveller makes only causes events to happen differently. If the traveller gains full memory of the actions he was currently doing at the time he takes control, he may just act out those events as they happened in the same way, with or without having the knowledge of the future. If the traveller can not make any changes or damage to the future then the traveller can have as much fun as they would like. Think about chances one would have, maybe they turned down a date with someone in school or maybe they missed the last words of their loved ones. They could just go back and relive it. More so would be the ability to relive ones own best moments of life.


On the other hand the changes one makes in the past might just cause events to change but most major effects stay. For example, a time traveller prevented his earlier self from meeting his future boss somewhere but this does not cause any major problems as he may just meet him somewhere else.

But there is one other possibility that we have not talked about, what if a time traveller goes back in time and causes changes that cause his life to end? This would in my opinion not cause a paradox as using this logic the time line is flexible. The traveller would just die having caused his death in an unknown time line. As the time traveller would be creating changes that effect everything the actions would be unknown. It would be the same as someone bumping someone in the street if that person had not bumped into that person the actions would be different. We do not know what would happen if those two people did not bump into each other only that they would not have bumped into each other. The actions that are played out that are caused by the traveller’s actions are just changes that could have happened. The actions may be very unlikely but still actions that could have happened.

A summary as this seems to be long. A time traveller can time travel to any point in his or her life, they are able to change the events of that time which may or may not cause ripple effects through time. The traveller is directly changing the time line and as such does not affect paradoxes. The example of going back in time and killing ones father before one is born is not valid because travellers can only re-enter their own time line. If a traveller causes their own death before they travelled, the traveller could just kill himself.

The next theory will use a similar logic as this one but is very much based around one’s family tree and how they could be connected. The next theory is called TTTP8 Revisit ones own ancestry.

The problem I feel with Philosophy

I feel that philosophy is less about theories and more about people and what they have wrote. I like philosophy because I like the idea of creating ideas that could work even if they are very unlikely. Science Fiction I don’t really feel like calling my theories. If I cannot call my theories science fiction then what do I call them? I thought just theories, till someone told me it was philosophy. Now when ever I talk to people about philosophy they bore me with loads of peoples names and then ask me if I read something by someone. At that point I am so bored by the amount of people and books I heard, I forget to ask them about any THEORIES FROM THESE PEOPLE!

So I thought I would look up philosophy courses. I found a few and one had listed that there was an exam. This is where my idea of philosophy changed. There are exams and most of the questions are religion based. Not just religion but religions that are far unheard of by me. Some examples, “Explain nature and types of Hetvabhas according to Nyaya” or “What is the Integral Yoga? Explain.” As seen these questions are boring and even Google struggles to answer the first one then tells me it is part of the Hindu philosophy. The second is a religion I had never heard of.

This makes philosophy very much like the history of philosophy, and LESS ABOUT philosophy. I was once told that theology is more about creating theories about what happened. This well is a little wrong theology is about creating theories on God, and religion. Theology is more religious studies as it is not solely about creating theories but researching other people’s theories.

So why is philosophy research and not thinking? There are three problems with thinking up random theories. If you get a theory that has already been thought up then people will say you are copying them. There are also other problems such as, how to you teach someone to tell you about a theory they have? Or how do you prevent copying. The answer really is you teach them something. If you teach something then you need something to teach. Therefore it is easier to teach philosophy then to just get everyone to think up random theories. There is also the need for history and research of philosophy. If people did not read about them the great philosophers would not be remembered. I do not think that is wrong but do feel people should be less tested on other peoples theories. I feel if someone wants to know about a theory then they will read about it. Telling people loads and loads about a theory that does not interest them is not helping. In other words, people should learn about similar theories.

http://visionias.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ias-philosophy-mock-test-3-vision-ias.pdf

A link on Nyaya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaya
A link on Integral Yoga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_yoga

Sorry for late post

Just to tell you I am working on a post. I had 2 ideas for this weeks post one was about invisible worlds and the other was what if nothing was out there and there is no such thing as god and everything is the Atheist world. But they seemed boring (the atheist one was depressing). Anyway I will post tomorrow early morning (before 6 am) a post on what I do not like about philosophy.

In case your wondering where the science fiction time travellers story is then Well I have given up. If anyone wants it just leave a comment.

The present is an illusion!

I was on the 281 bus to Kingston the other day. I didn’t have my headphones in which was unusual for me. I over heard a conversation with this girl talking to I think her boyfriend. She started off saying stuff like is there anything you have never told anyone before. The boy replied with something like “like what I have done or what?” or something. Well the girl started to say something she had never told anyone before (wrong place on a bus full of people…). She said “It is as if my life is nothing but an illusion created in the last few seconds before I am about to die and that all my memory is from my life”. What she said was very powerful! This theory is not new, I have heard and a friend of my mine has heard something comparable to it. The idea is in my opinion the memory we have in the present is an illusion. The memory we have in the past is real. There for the current events are not really happening only being created to change the reality of where we are. The fact that tomorrow I will remember writing this does not mean this theory is not true only that this is a larger present, or the memory of me writing this really happened.

To understand this theory we should brake up what memory is. Memory has short term and long term memory. Short term is reading this, and long term is what you did last night or weeks ago. For this theory what is in short term is an illusion and what is in long term memory is of real life. This means the current actions such as reading this and writing this for me, is an illusion and somewhere I and you are dying. This does also open up another theory such as this is the real life leading up to when we will die and when we die the moments before we will create an illusion. There is a theory that the whole of your life flashes before your eyes before you die. Both theories could be the same. The theory of your whole life flashing before your eyes means you would see everything as it was happening. There is nothing to say you couldn’t see this moment and think it is the present and the illusion is the thinking it is the present. This would mean that the memory of dying and the memory of future events are withheld. This would also explain how time flows so fast some times and slow other times. We are not living we are only remembering. This now has left the idea of the present being an illusion and a new idea that the present is the past. I said both these theories can be compactable and they can. The theory that both are the same is simple. The illusion is of the free will we feel we have. The ability that you feel you can stop reading any moment. This freewill feeling is the illusion. You can stop reading but tomorrow you will remember reading it and forget stopping of reading it. This is because the actions you do outside of the actions that have been set are forgotten and are just part of the illusion. It would be like having a memory deleted from your mind and a false one implemented into your mind. You wouldn’t know the difference.

These are only some of the problems to this/these theory/theories and tomorrow you will know the biggest problem. By that I mean you will remember reading this won’t you? That is of course unless you were meant to read it?

Meeting yourself

What if you met yourself? This theory is very much like the cloning problem I have talked about before. Let us say an example, you are sitting at home alone, you live on your own. You then hear there is someone coming through your front door. You rush to the door only to find yourself looking at yourself. The other version of you is as surprised as you are. What would happen next? Would you kick your copy out? What if your copy thinks you’re the copy? How would you convince that person that you’re the real you? More importantly, How would the other person convince you that your not the real you?

Would you cry and weep and say “I am me, you can’t be me”, or maybe fight and then chuck out the other person? Maybe you can sort this out like civilised people. In case your wounding this is not your twin in front of you, this is a complete copy. What would you do?

Well this is what I would do. I do not accept there is two of me. I am me and only me. Two there to be two of me there are now entities of me. Let me example. What I believe is that it is more likely that there cannot be two of the same person. As for them to be both the same person they would need to share a conscious mind. The fact they both look the same and share memories does not mean they are the same. But this is not the say they wasn’t the same. I.e. if it was one person that is now two people, then the person was not always two people. The person shares the same past, identity and memories but from when the copying happened would be a new person. There for all of the memories would be the same up to a certain point. After that point the mind would react to the current events and grow to form a different person. So to answer this problem of meeting yourself, you would not meet yourself just a version of you that had done something different. As to know who the rightful person is, well the answer is very hard. Both of you should just sit down and talk about it. Maybe it is possible to rejoin the two of you together and then the problem would be solved.

We briefly covered this but how would you react? Would you help yourself or fight yourself? Maybe just ignore them and hope they go away? What about if you went into a world where everyone was you? Everyone thought they had just arrived in the world. How would you know you were you and not one of the other million others!!! Would you be happy in a world of you? Are you a good person that it could work? This goes back to treating others how you would like to be treated yourself! Only in this theory you would be treating yourself how you treated others!! If the world was full of the person you are would the world work? If not maybe you can better yourself for the good.

The lost girl dream

This story came to me in a dream I had. None of these events happened and are all fictional. I have typed it in Dairy format as it felt as though it was in my dream.

11th of October, Today was upsetting. I was walking around in Twickenham near St Mary’s Church down Church Street, where I saw a young lady must have been around 18 maybe a little older. I saw her standing looking confused with dirt on her jeans and scratches on her arms. Holding tight her mobile phone turning around trying to work out where she is. There was people walking past and giving her unpleasant looks which make her even more confused and upset. I walked up to her and ask if she is alright. She turned to me and with a scared look on her face said “Yes, Yes I am alright thank you!” I walked away and sat down on a bench watching her. It was as if I felt I could help her. She started to walk towards the river so I followed her. She was standing near the water trying to wash her self off. I thought she might be okay now so I started to walk away. About an hour later after walking around for a bit, I saw her again. Still as confused as she was before but now a little cleaner. I walked up to her and asked her where she was going. She told me that she didn’t know where she was or where she was gong. She told me she was from Chertsey quite a distance from Twickenham.

We set off to Chertsey and on the way she told me how no one likes her. She felt not even her parents liked her and they would go away for weeks at a time leaving her home alone. She told me when she turned 18 her parents wanted her to leave. She gets kicked out of home for months and has to stay in squats. We talked all the way to Chertsey.

I asked her where in Chertsey she lived and she said she would show me. Then she stopped and wanted my number, so we swapped numbers. She then said she was home and wanted me to go home. I said I am more than happy to take her to her door. She then had some kind of panic attack and said no one likes her and everyone wants her to just die. I went to try and hold her to comfort her, when out of no where she pulled a gun and held it to my head. I quickly moved the gun away from my head and towards the floor and went to hold her. In the process the gun went of twice and I was shot twice in the stomach. Holding on to her still I could hear people running away and people calling the police. She was really upset and crying and saying everyone hates her. I tried to even still tell her no one hates her and it was an accident. She said the police would put her away for years. I now leaning on a lamppost went to try and hold her. She let me and I whispered into her ear “run, I won’t tell the police anything”. She looked as if she understood me but just pushed me to the floor, pulled the gun back out, put the gun in her mouth and before I could even say stop she had pulled the trigger and killed herself. A few moments later the police came and I noticed someone I knew in the crowd. Another young woman called Jo Jo. The ambulance came and started to see my wounds and I was taken to hospital.

After this I did have a little more such as talking to the police but I feel this is enough, hope you enjoyed my little story. I am still working on the time travel class room, but at the moment am very boring to read and nothing happens. But anyway hope you enjoyed this story. For a dream it was very vivid.

Another view on evolution

How I see it animals and live forms have changed over time adapted to their surroundings. Before evolution was thought up the world was said to be only 6000 years old. Every life form was said to be created by God and different to the rest. Till this guy called Charles Darwin found some fossils and noticed pigeons have changed over time. This does mean that things are changing, and I am not going to say otherwise. But the world could be 6000 years old. Just because mankind has found a way to put a age to something that cannot be proven to be that old purely because nothing has and no one has lived that long does not mean that it is that old. Science is only best guess and is proven wrong from time to time. We cannot for sure know how old something is the same way we do not know for sure a plastic bag takes 3000 years or what ever number of years to degrade, until 3000 years has happened. So how is this going to explain how the world could be 6000 years old? Read on and I hope it will come to you.

Relating to religion God is seen as the creator of this world. I see God as something we cannot really find a way to relate to. For if this world is something small that God can create God must be something special. Well not really. Just because this world and universe could have been created by God does not make God special. If God created the world why did God create it when God did and not before or after the time that God created it? The reason I feel is because, either God just created it at a random time (not very perfect), Gods role was to create this world or God had failed or was unhappy with other worlds God had created before. I prefer the last. God created a world where animals walked the earth and lived happy, but God was not happy with God’s creation. God scraped that idea and started again. God then using his old universe as an example created a new world; this world did not have all the animals as such that God felt God did not need. God was still not happy. It was then and I quote from the Bible “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” If God created man in his own image then God is something like humans. God is then unhappy with what God has created and instead of starting again, again works on what God just changes things again and lets it go on. After lots of changes man is looking almost perfect having spent millions of years correcting it. God then starts the creation one last time and allows man to live. 6000 years later... Charles Darwin discovers Gods failed creations and Gods mistakes, Darwin calls it evolution.

There are three things I am suggesting here, Evolution is Gods changes and not changes by the species, God is not perfect although may be a perfectionist, and is forever changing things, and God has failed before and may be failing right now. Which therefore means God has created an even more alike self image. Man kind is forever making mistakes and trying to make it better. Why does the Bible not tell this story and tell the story it tells? Would you want to know you may be another mistake?

Any link or am I going mad?

Today is Tuesday, Tuesday the 18th I got my eyebrow pierced. Today I was talking about metal detecting and I looked it up and thought I did not need to detect any metal and do not have any time for it. I then was thinking about something I heard on youtube and was thinking how we are ungrateful that this is earth and earth without humans or anything is still earth and is amazing. Then I got a phone call asking me out to a club. I wasn’t going to go but said oh I’ll go anyway and went up to change my shirt. It was then I thought I saw some yellow gunk at the bottom of my piercing so I thought oh crap it’s infected. I then took it out and noticed it was just a bit of skin or the light. As I went to put it back I couldn’t and dropped it in the skink I had already put the plug in as I thought I knew that would happen so tried again and dropped it again and it bounced and I never found it. Spent nearly an hour looking for it and found nothing. Now if the world is just the world and nothing special and all this is nothing then that’s understandable. The problem I have is for some reason I had the feeling the ball was in something whist sitting down. The fact it is metal and less than a hour before I was looking at metal detectors. I think I am finding nothing out of something but there could be a link and to what? Let’s entertain this madness for a moment, looking for something metal, am I meant to be looking out for something metal? Am I meant to get a metal detector? I am tired or going insane as I felt the answer to that question. It was like the thought of No was placed into my brain. I think I am going mad like really.

How would you know you are not a robot from the future?

This is science fiction isn’t it? Not possible? Okay let me explain. In the future there is very much likely to have robots. In the future they may have the ability to move the memory from one person to another person. In the future they may have the ability move the memory of a human into that of a robot. In the future they may have time travel. In the future someone may come back to kill someone important from the past. In the future we may have the ability to prevent such actions by creating a robot that is so alike to a human that even the human’s parents and lovers would not tell them apart.

Now think about this, a man who is going to discover a way to cure cancer and prolong live for a long time. This man is amazing this man dies knowing he has changed the world he has left behind. Years past and the changes he made live on. Human beings don’t die as fast and the world becomes too over populated. A team of time travellers go back in time and kill the man before he cures cancer. They view is that cancer is a good way of keeping the population down. The future knows of these actions and creates a copy of the young man. They fail to prevent the team of killers from killing the man, but do have enough time to copy all of the memories of the younger version of the man into this copy. The man would be unaware he is now a robot and his life would play out the same he would create a cure for cancer. The team of killers would travel back hoping to see a change only to be put into jail for time travel abuse and murder.

This is science fiction but is it? This is impossible but is it? They said walking on the moon was impossible they said building a flying machine was impossible they said the earth was flat but it wasn’t. Just because something seems impossible for us to do does not mean our descendants cannot do it!!