Articulate a shocking truth.
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Not going to use a spoiler, as I don't know how, but if you're on the second page of this topic, you have chosen to read several of them, one more won't kill you.
There is good and evil in all of us, it is how we choose to act on them that defines us. If you don't believe me, think back. I guarentee you that every one of you has had the desire to do something quite detestable, like kicking a purse-dog, and all of you have desired to do something good, like giving a homeless man a twenty. No matter how breif the thought was, it was there.
To anyone who doesn't believe in the power of free will: since no one has any choice in what they do, shouldn't we elliminate laws because people don't have a choice, and so they cannot be guilty. if they don't have a choice, they aren't responsible.
As for the time travel thing, any time traveler has already changed the "past," so the past we know, is the result of any time traveler manipulation that will ever happen. Perhaps a time traveler put Hitler in power because someone who you've never heard of had the same ideals and purposes, but wouldn't have failed, because he was a better strategist, or maybe he would have fooled churchill and had Brittain on the other side of the war. There are more possible outcomes to time-travel scenarios than i can imagine. Every time I think about time travel, I think of a new way it could work. Maybe time will protect itself from change, maybe each manipulation will just create an alternate timeline, maybe time travelers would be in some kind of alternate space and would be unable to effect the timeline. the list goes on.
There is good and evil in all of us, it is how we choose to act on them that defines us. If you don't believe me, think back. I guarentee you that every one of you has had the desire to do something quite detestable, like kicking a purse-dog, and all of you have desired to do something good, like giving a homeless man a twenty. No matter how breif the thought was, it was there.
To anyone who doesn't believe in the power of free will: since no one has any choice in what they do, shouldn't we elliminate laws because people don't have a choice, and so they cannot be guilty. if they don't have a choice, they aren't responsible.
As for the time travel thing, any time traveler has already changed the "past," so the past we know, is the result of any time traveler manipulation that will ever happen. Perhaps a time traveler put Hitler in power because someone who you've never heard of had the same ideals and purposes, but wouldn't have failed, because he was a better strategist, or maybe he would have fooled churchill and had Brittain on the other side of the war. There are more possible outcomes to time-travel scenarios than i can imagine. Every time I think about time travel, I think of a new way it could work. Maybe time will protect itself from change, maybe each manipulation will just create an alternate timeline, maybe time travelers would be in some kind of alternate space and would be unable to effect the timeline. the list goes on.
Under the assumption that every choice in the world opens up parallel realities, it is possible that somewhere...there was an Adolf Hitler who saved the world from Allies of Evil (read as "The United States, the UK, and whatnot") with his nation of freedom-loving Germans, Jews, and Austrians.
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People who hate on anyone to the point of bringing them up in conversation are giving them free publicity.
Example: The Justin Bieber haters on this site. They make threads about him and bring him to the attention of dozens of people who would NEVER otherwise hear about him(or even worse, bring him to the attention of people who would actually be into his music)
It's free advertising, and a lot of artists thank you for that.
Also, spoilers drag peoples attention in more than not having it spoiled.
Example: The Justin Bieber haters on this site. They make threads about him and bring him to the attention of dozens of people who would NEVER otherwise hear about him(or even worse, bring him to the attention of people who would actually be into his music)
It's free advertising, and a lot of artists thank you for that.
Also, spoilers drag peoples attention in more than not having it spoiled.
i never really like the whole travel back in time and stop something bad from happening. what if what you stop is replaced by something worse like hitlers 2nd in command making hitler look like a cuddly little bear in comparasion. better the devil you know.Sewblon said:
time travel is to complicated , risky and full of holes and loops for anyone to do it.
Sewblon said:
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
here's a truth, this is a thread for shocking truths, not "who can be the biggest douchebag".Diablo2000 said:
Aaand for my obligatory saving grace:
I know no radical truths, henceforth I'll be more at peace than those who do.
Believing that man is the only intelligent animal in the world is just plain vain and wrong if your measurement of intelligence is how humanlike you are
also believing that there are no aliens out in space because they havent come to us is also very vain - maybe we are the least advanced creatures in the universe and they take pity on us or treat us like intergalactic pets
What has been seen cannot be unseen..........Swollen Goat said:How about a picture instead?
Thats a cute duck though, I wanna pat it.
Maybe, but the first part is true, even Rocky said once... Not in that words of course. And the second one is true for a release half the forum. Being a douche or not, is still not a lie...megaman24681012 said:
Or perhaps Hitler was an evil that had to happen, for whatever reason.Pirate Kitty said:
Being able to manipulate time does not grant one the power to predict the consequences of such an action.
Or maybe they have a ton of surplus probes and way too much free time.siddif said:
dude, you forget the best-accepted time-travel theory is that of the multiverses.Sewblon said:
some univere(s) created time travel, and some of those chose to kill hitler, and then their return trip set them in a verse where he was killed.
only way to change your verse is go back, change event, go forward, hoping between verses could only occur by random error.
if you go back, and DON'T want to return to different present, then you have to do whatever you did travelling back in your universe.
it's fascinating, and best ties into an afterlife-verse religion/cult I once saw/joined.
That's only because you haven't seen it unmasked.Gordon_4 said:What has been seen cannot be unseen..........Swollen Goat said:How about a picture instead?
Thats a cute duck though, I wanna pat it.
Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
That's not really saying anything, because there is no rule to force that the second sentence is true.
So what you are saying is simply that the first sentence is true, and the second sentence is false.
So what you are saying is simply that the first sentence is true, and the second sentence is false.