Articulate a shocking truth.

[TheYellowCellPhone]

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Time travel hasn't been proven... yet. If it ever is, it would mean you can't time travel back before the first time machine (because there has to be a recieving end for time travel).

 

[Sewblon]

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We experience decision making every day of our lives, if that isn't evidence for freewill, what is?

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Your brain lies to you every second you open your eyes. It falsely creates the impression that you don't have a blind spot in each eye, but in fact, you do. Similarly, your brain fools you into thinking that you have free will. Studies have shown that people often do something, and then later decide that they consciously wanted to do something. In fact, they performed the action before they actually decided to do it. Free will is an illusion, although as a corollary, it should be pointed out that you'd behave the same way if you somehow managed to violate the laws of physics and have free will

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I read of the same study. Except when I read it they said that the findings could also be interpreted as evidence for the existence of souls, as in, your soul makes a decision before it lets your brain know. Granted the existence of souls are not scientifically testable, but neither is determinism, which I think is what you are arguing for.

 

[voetballeeuw]

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I don't know any shocking truths

 

[warprincenataku]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

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If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power. Also, time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

I tend to take the Doctor Who approach to time travel and say that certain events in history are time locked and cannot be changed, even by a time traveler, thus making Hitler's rise to power inevitable.

 

[laststandman]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

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If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

Or everyone in the future likes Hitler. That is a terrible argument against time-travel.

I think I would make sure autotuning never existed before I even thought about offing Hitler.

 

[Sewblon]

OT:

Spoiler: SUPER AMAZING TRUTH

English is a stupid language. No second person plurals? What were they thinking?

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I am trying to learn ancient Greek right now, so tell me about it!( I don't mean "tell me about it" literally, I mean it as in "I wholeheartedly agree and sympathize.") I mean they had them back when Socrates was around, how did western civilization just plain forget something so important?

 

[Naheal]

Spoiler: the truth. maybe.

I have a 92 foot long shlong

Oh this is not about you? "whoops"

... Yet another reason to keep you away from that girl!

OT:

Spoiler: SUPER AMAZING TRUTH

English is a stupid language. No second person plurals? What were they thinking?

Spoiler: Along those lines

English is more tonal than Japanese. In English, a tone can completely change the meaning of a single sentence. In Japanese, it's all buried in the language itself.

 

[Sewblon]

To those who have discussed the assassination of Hitler (thereby validating Godwin's law):

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Your views on time travel are not the only ones out there. If you examine your own views on time travel, you'll find they're intrinsically linked to your views on fate.

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I am biased in favor of linear time because my upbringing stressed personal responsibility, and I love Terminator 2 and Back To The Future. But the closed loop theory is a good way of resolving the causality paradox. Know of any fiction that explores the closed loop theory?

 

[Legendsmith]

Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.

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If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power.

Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.

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Hitler's rise to power may have been ensured by a time-travelling Nazi.

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A time traveling Nazi would have installed a leader who would have lead Germany to victory in World War 2. Besides time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.

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Another one:

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There's no evidence that free will exists. It's an illusion, because everything in the Universe is bound by the laws of physics - even chemistry in your own brain.

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Spoiler: This will really rustle your jimmies

If the thoughts in my head are the result of the random motions of the atoms that make up my brain, why should I believe them? Indeed, why should I believe that my brain is made of atoms?

 

[seekeroftruth86]

Spoiler: get ready for this...

You park on a driveway and drive on a parkway.

But then what about highways?

I think I better let you answer that one.

 

[Phlakes]

Spoiler: Are you sure you want to face the truth?

Everyone you know is a Freemason.

Spoiler: But..

The Freemasons are controlled by the Illuminati.

Spoiler: BUT...

You just lost the game.

 

[Anarchemitis]

[HEADING=2]"9/11 was an Inside Job" is a very successful franchise.[/HEADING]

 

[lacktheknack]

Spoiler: Are you sure you want to face the truth?

Everyone you know is a Freemason.

Spoiler: But..

The Freemasons are controlled by the Illuminati.

Spoiler: BUT...

You just lost the game.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

[Diablo2000]

Shocking Truth... Let's see.

Life is the meaniest ***** you ever encounter, she will stomp in your face several times before what you called a life is over... and you are also fat.

 

[AvsJoe]

Spoiler: Painful Realization Within

You will never beat Simon.

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There's no evidence that free will exists. It's an illusion, because everything in the Universe is bound by the laws of physics - even chemistry in your own brain.

This realization changed my life for the worst. Logically, we do not have free will. A twist worthy of Shyamalan!

 

[newuseforvintage]

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Meg from Family Guy is voiced by Mila Kunis. So not only is she not unattractive in real life, she's actually really really good looking

 

[TilMorrow]

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We live in the nth universe that was created.