Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Friday, May 21, 2010

5.20c

Why don't we pray for things that have passed? Just because we can't change them now doesn't mean you can't change them then.

That sounds like rubbish because it's 2:30 am, but then everything sounds like rubbish at 2:30.

10 comments:

  1. I've often wondered that. Sometimes I do pray about past things.

    If, as so many people believe, there are dimensions higher than time, and if God exists outside time in those higher dimensions, then change in the past is possible.

    We probably just don't think about it because we can't understand higher dimensions any more than 2D creatures can understand a 3D world (or can they?).

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  2. I have nothing to say, but wanted you to know I read your comment.

    Processing.

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  3. Thanks. I was wondering if you'd caught on to the whole "Janelle is programmed to get and give a response" thing. Not everyone does, you know.

    Let me know when you have something to say (I just got a CMWLIIA quote stuck in my head: "Now I have nothing to say. I will say it like THISSS!")

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  4. I don't know, I guess, because it has already happened and it seems stupid to pray for the outcome that YOU ALREADY HAVE (because the past can't change). BUT I am very accepting of Einstein's theory that if you could go to the past and "change" things, you would only be changing them so that they occur like you remember, anyway.

    There aren't any movies that do this, so I can't give examples.

    I'll keep praying.

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  5. Yeah. Exactly.

    Who cares if movies do this? I mean, "Back to the Future" (though awesome fun) got it all wrong.

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  6. Oh, but there was a decent Dr. Who episode that did a great job of it (the first episode with Martha; Caitlin could tell you which one it is).

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  7. It happens pretty rarely, because it's not a good story to say "YOU WENT TO THE PAST AND DID NOTHING, CONGRATS!"

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  8. http://wolfman-k.com/post/473061989/time-travel

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  9. Yeah. Filmmakers aren't that creative.

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  10. Who cares? At least someone is.

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