-----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton >> JB: Hmmm ... this sounds like a case of attempted record skipping... <g> Like Bill-Phil sez: "Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today" ...
> Just don't hook the output to the input.... Phil! Phil Conners! Is that you!? Maybe Phil-ing a bit grounded, since there really is a skipping-record somewhere close by. Speaking of Phil - Conner, Connors, Conners and assorted Con-men, not to mention "what is real"? admixed with infinite loops ... I ran across an expanded version of the 'Twins Paradox' the other day. That paradox was a rather boring version of time travel implications, as it is or was commonly misunderstood by the past generations (requiring lightspeed LOL) - 'til Hollywood intervened with the true Gospel. Nowadays, TT gets entwined into the public consciousness and politics in so many subliminal ways that we probably will not fully realize what is transpiring for a few more years (7 to 11), when Ahnold, reborn, returns. But if any of us vorticians do "go back" in time, to try to change things - and many certainly appear to be prime candidates <g> ... then it will undoubtedly be because you were "sent" ... even though you thought you took the red pill. Even if the trip is only a Matrix memory in someone else's timeline, your actions will be poised to cause or change a desired historical event that supposedly later becomes the very reason you were originally sent back (by the master "programmer"). With me so far? This could relate to what is (programmed to be) the "branching-off point (BoP)" for a new parallel universe. There are lots of these points but not an infinite number. 9/11 was probably a BoP as was WWII, the JFK coup d'état, etc. There is usually one or more strong "player" associated with each BoP. A single BoP can spawn dozens of parallel timelines, if the master programmer is not satisfied with what cannot be changed as a work in progress. The BoP is really a place-marker deluxe. TT would not be optional for some participants - it means key players, or close disciples thereof, would be predestined to go back in time more than once, in order to create self-consistent timeline loops, which are then a chain of events known as the 'Predestination Paradox'. A version of this may also explain why many of us feel that predestination is not incompatible with free will.... From a different perspective, it is simply bad code, and "premature branching" of the BoP can be the unplanned result- which is merely a bug in the program, from another PoV. This paradox is used in one of "The Terminator" iterations (the second IIRC), where Ahnold as T2 is sent back from the future to protect Sarah Conner, the mother of his comrade and savior of humanity "John Conner" from a force that is not happy with that particular timeline, nor his previous "crushing experience" in T1. It gets confusing because the actual Terminator-character is in an identity-crisis as both the bad-boy, and/or the hero - depending on which Judgment Day you subscribe to. Not unlike theology. And the master programmer is probably not a single entity either, at least this identity is not as predictable as 'perfection' should be. Or else we humanoids do not understand perfection in any relevant way. Anyway, T2 gets the lovely Sarah pregnant - and thus becomes John's father. Once again. Therefore John is predestined to later send him back in time so that he (John) can be "born again" and thus keep that portion of that timeline self-consistent. You can see how this can be woven into all kinds of mind-games, such as religious dogma. If the Guvernator had fired blanks with Sarah, so to speak, or if that timeline bifurcates unexpectedly, due to someone else's (aka "Satan") intervention, like on 9/11, then the original is not necessarily altered in its own continuity - but its potential to preferentially changed (for the better or by the programmer's whim) becomes contingent on some other player's (or programmers) intervention. John, and billions of others cease to be vital agents of change. That universe (a metaphor for our universe) can never be reinforced in continuity again by them, nor to progress in a way that is desired by the master programmer ... thus explaining why there is really no paradox at all, just lots of unpredictable code and overlapping identities ... and plenty of outcomes that are in search of serendipitous branching. Not unlike evolution itself... This is the real 'human condition' - most of us are resigned to being extras in someone else's play (or program) - and are usually caught sadly unprepared when the rare opportunity arises to alter our timeline in better way ... but that was what the master programmer was trying to discover anyway. Got it? Do not nod off. The timeline that did not branch-off when Cheney failed to take control as his mentor had planned, may now very well depend on a hidden variable - like LENR or f/H - in order to save us from the return of that Dick ... Lucifer or T-1000, so to speak. Excuse me while I take this opportunity to retrocause ....
