Saturday Apr 10, 2004

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Holy Chupacabra on a pogo stick! Insomnia sucks. I was awake all night glued to a massive Firefly marathon. I watched every episode back to back...that's over 11 hours of televised obsession.

Three weeks until Mayday. I need to start shopping around for a keg.

The pools getting pretty warm. Tonight I think I'm gonna buy a 12 pack and float until my fingers are so pruned I can't feel them anymore.

Evidentially my previous questions are 'shit' so let's try something a little deeper.

1. If God came to you in a vision and said that you are the son of god returned to the world. What is the first thing you would do (After throwing up)?
2. If you could go back in time and meet Hitler before he rose to power, knowing what you do...would you kill him? Why?
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kamille:
i'm agreeing with you: you're saying the same thing i did!!

in the second post i said:

if he (hitler) had gone on quietly exterminating his people the way Stalin did, he too might have died of natural causes. in effect, the attention drawn to that part of the world helped end decades of oppression and suffering that might have otherwise been ignored were it not for Hitler's regime.
smith:
"Due to the nature of a time paradox, and the total lack of understanding how time really works...it's impossible for us to know the effect we would have after altering time. We might simply dissapear and cease to exist, or more likely a parallel dimention would form...but to the one making the change it wouldn't matter because they would be forced to live out his life in the new, changed world."

Ah, but if you read what I said, my argument was formulated on the precept that a space-time continuum jump into the past would create a separate path of space-time events, which would (insofar as my argument is concerned) inevitably leave one space-time path where Hitler had gone about his merry way, and one where he had not. I'm not arguing rational time travel here (if there even is such a thing).

P.S. World War II would have happened regardless of whether or not Hitler had been snuffed from his existence earlier in life. To argue otherwise is as ludicrous as to claim that because we captured Saddam Hussein, there will be no World War III, etc., etc. Events that alter society to such extreme degrees are not the brain child of one person. The Nazi party may not have risen, granted, but something else would have risen to fill the void.

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