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Not really a guarantee. You have to think of a multi-dimensional universe a little more broadly. If someone travels back in time, they're in a different universe, one in which they exist at that time.
Unless if we live in a Time so bad, that no one wants to visit. Or if it'll exist but you can only travel forward.
Forward time-travel definitely exists. Right now you're traveling forward through time at 1 hour per hour (get in a spacecraft and it'll be different).
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I'm starting to have thoughts about what I am meant to be. I seem to do things not like anyone else and have opinions completely different to everyone else has. I even hold my Pens and Pencils differently to nearly every person (using all four of my fingers on the top with my thumb near the centre of the bottom). Most of my drawings are done differently to most drawers as I don't use strokes and instead use Shapes and Lines. I can't fully understand what things mean even though I have an interest in Writing.
Makes me curious about my future but also a bit terrified that maybe I don't belong.
Makes me curious about my future but also a bit terrified that maybe I don't belong.
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Kinda nervous about telling anyone in person about it. I haven't even told my Mum about me probably being an Asexual and an Aromantic.
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I sometimes think to myself "Why am I human? Why do I have a life?" among others. Like:
"Why am I the person I am?"
"Why do I have to live with a life-threatening muscle condition?"
"Why me?"
"Was I always going to live this life?"
"Was my condition preventable before birth?"
I don't think I will ever know the answers to these questions sadly, but they keep going around in my head. I can't help it when all my friends have a normal life and I don't.
"Why am I the person I am?"
"Why do I have to live with a life-threatening muscle condition?"
"Why me?"
"Was I always going to live this life?"
"Was my condition preventable before birth?"
I don't think I will ever know the answers to these questions sadly, but they keep going around in my head. I can't help it when all my friends have a normal life and I don't.
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I guess I am just over thinking then. but it is hard to have at least that thought come through for second when you do quite a number of things differently.
I knew a guy who was a great artist who would start his drawings in the weirdest places. I watched him drawn an entire scene by starting with the tip of the nose of someone in the middle of the scene and eventually expanded outward from there. He never made strokes (which is what I do), he would just make an unbroken line and it would look perfect every time. It was unbelievable.
I've known plenty of asexual people too, that's not all that uncommon.
It sounds to me like you're a little unusual, but certainly nothing to be ashamed or afraid about.
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There is nothing wrong with being different. Think about how everybody is different. Also think about how the world does not have an exact replica of any living organism.
For me, I look at people of another race (that I am not around as often) and may think a lot of them look very similar, or even the same somtimes. I often think that my race looks nothing alike generally. However, I would be willing to bet that maybe they think the same about my race.
I have a lot of deep thoughts but often forget them as I don't scratch them down or type them into the computer.
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While I stopped and calmed down about the different. Everybody is different yes but a lot of people near me had a lot of similarities in tastes, styles and even morals. I tend to just move on and forget about death now, even if it is tragic event like 9/11 but everyone still mourns about death every single time it occurs while I am very open about it which people can see me as a bit of a cold and heartless person
If you want to see my drawings (unless you already have), I have an album on all of my custom Pokemon that are hand drawn and you can see my style. (I traced over the Red because it was easier to see in Black)
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/media/albums/reshiram5-pokedex.194/
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On the death subject - everybody has a grieving process. And some people tend to get out of the grieving state quicker than others. At some point, you have to let go.
Specifically on the 9/11 subject.
A LOT of people were hurt and deeply saddened. You and I cannot control that. This next thing I am going to say is entirely my opinion, so please take no offense. I believe that there is a certain point to where a lot people "pretend" to be sad once a year in September. I believe that people now use that as excuse to make there day be 🤬. I feel similar to you on the death idea. I don't show a lot emotion on things like that. It is not related to me and I just cannot give myself a reason to let it ruin 1 day of my life every year. I do however tend to have big emotions on people really close to me.
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I have similar feelings on the topic actually. I'll be more upset when someone close to me dies but after my Pas death (my first time experiencing a loved one deaths) which I couldn't stop crying about for awhile I feel like now, death is just something I can accept and move on. The thing is though, I think others think it is a cold and heartless personality trait.
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Time Travel
No, I cannot wrap my head around theoretical multi-dimensional travel. But in our dimension and/or universe it is surely an impossibility?
Go stand on your street. Look around. Look at the buildings and wonder what stood before them.
Now try to imagine standing on that street in 1994. I mean, really imagine it.
You're there. You're there right now.
Now try to imagine standing on that street in 1966. Really. 49 years ago.
You're there again. In 1966.
Now try to imagine standing on that street in 1739.
You're still there.
You can't 'go back' to where it was then because you are where it 'was'. The square mile where you're standing hasn't been recorded, saved or stored in some kind of meta-dimensional cloud, to be accessed at a future date. If you stay where you are now and wait 50 years, it'll be the exact same location in space-time as it will be in 2065 and someone else wondering "I wonder if I could go back to here in 2015?". You would have still been there. In the precise same place.
Where you are standing is the exact same place as the place where people were standing 10, 50, 100 or ever 1,000 years ago. It is immutable.
The hospital where I was born no longer exists. I can never go back and revisit it. That particular location is as true in 1991 as it is now; the buildings and surroundings might have changed drastically since man is first recorded in North East Wales 29,000 years ago but the area itself hasn't 'moved' anywhere.
Time is something we measure like mass, volume, temperature and height. It is something tangible, not something we can 'access'. The numeric figure for time can be manipulated depending on the scale used just like weight, velocity and density. It is a measurement, a concept, not a 'thing'.
Or is this just me? As I initially outlined, I do not understand quantum physics or dimension theory very well at all. The idea of being able to go back in time seems completely impossible to me. Certainly in our universe. Forwards is different with time dilation, date lines and space travel, but not backwards.
No, I cannot wrap my head around theoretical multi-dimensional travel. But in our dimension and/or universe it is surely an impossibility?
Go stand on your street. Look around. Look at the buildings and wonder what stood before them.
Now try to imagine standing on that street in 1994. I mean, really imagine it.
You're there. You're there right now.
Now try to imagine standing on that street in 1966. Really. 49 years ago.
You're there again. In 1966.
Now try to imagine standing on that street in 1739.
You're still there.
You can't 'go back' to where it was then because you are where it 'was'. The square mile where you're standing hasn't been recorded, saved or stored in some kind of meta-dimensional cloud, to be accessed at a future date. If you stay where you are now and wait 50 years, it'll be the exact same location in space-time as it will be in 2065 and someone else wondering "I wonder if I could go back to here in 2015?". You would have still been there. In the precise same place.
Where you are standing is the exact same place as the place where people were standing 10, 50, 100 or ever 1,000 years ago. It is immutable.
The hospital where I was born no longer exists. I can never go back and revisit it. That particular location is as true in 1991 as it is now; the buildings and surroundings might have changed drastically since man is first recorded in North East Wales 29,000 years ago but the area itself hasn't 'moved' anywhere.
Time is something we measure like mass, volume, temperature and height. It is something tangible, not something we can 'access'. The numeric figure for time can be manipulated depending on the scale used just like weight, velocity and density. It is a measurement, a concept, not a 'thing'.
Or is this just me? As I initially outlined, I do not understand quantum physics or dimension theory very well at all. The idea of being able to go back in time seems completely impossible to me. Certainly in our universe. Forwards is different with time dilation, date lines and space travel, but not backwards.
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No one has a predefined reason to exist; we exist soley to exist. There is no external plan for us. That doesn't mean that we don't have reasons to exist, rather that we have to define our existence for ourselves.
It's fairly self-evident, I know, but that doesn't stop it from resonating with me like nothing else.
It's fairly self-evident, I know, but that doesn't stop it from resonating with me like nothing else.
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www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151018-how-far-do-you-travel-through-space-in-60-seconds
As BobK alluded to, the situation is quite the opposite to what you describe... when you go to your bed tonight, you are in fact nowhere near where you went to (your) bed last night, and you never will be again...
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What if all black holes are connected and are actually the same?
Imagine the universe as the surface of a sphere. When a singularity in gravity occurs on the surface of the sphere, the singularity warps spacetime such that it arrives at some weird location in space and time - and what if all of those are at the same space/time (like, say, the center of the sphere). So each black hole that forms on the surface is a tunnel to every other black hole which exists at the center of the sphere (the same location in space and time).
Now imagine that the universe continues to pop up numerous black holes and, despite expanding currently, ultimately will collapse onto the one singularity that exists at the center of the sphere, collapsing all of space and time into one point and erupting in a big bang, creating a new spacetime for the universe to propagate in.
Imagine the universe as the surface of a sphere. When a singularity in gravity occurs on the surface of the sphere, the singularity warps spacetime such that it arrives at some weird location in space and time - and what if all of those are at the same space/time (like, say, the center of the sphere). So each black hole that forms on the surface is a tunnel to every other black hole which exists at the center of the sphere (the same location in space and time).
Now imagine that the universe continues to pop up numerous black holes and, despite expanding currently, ultimately will collapse onto the one singularity that exists at the center of the sphere, collapsing all of space and time into one point and erupting in a big bang, creating a new spacetime for the universe to propagate in.
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Does the question 'What's the meaning of life?' make any sense?
Some questions sound simple enough but don't actually make sense, such as 'What happened before time?', and 'What is the universe expanding into?'... because there can be no such thing as 'before time' or some 'space' waiting to be filled by an expanding universe (which by definition is everything that exists). I'd argue that 'What's the meaning of life?' may not have an answer, just like 'What's the meaning of colour?' doesn't - colour is real, we can measure colour, we can ask 'What is colour?' and even ascribe meaning(s) to colour, but colour itself has no meaning, other than what meaning we ourselves confer upon it. Life is the same - we can ask 'What is life?', 'What function(s) does it serve?' and even ask 'What does it mean to me to be alive?', but that doesn't mean that life itself must have a meaning... maybe the true meaning of life is what it means to us, and that our lives are about finding and creating meaning, rather than assuming that some external power or forces dictate the meaning of our lives for us.
Some questions sound simple enough but don't actually make sense, such as 'What happened before time?', and 'What is the universe expanding into?'... because there can be no such thing as 'before time' or some 'space' waiting to be filled by an expanding universe (which by definition is everything that exists). I'd argue that 'What's the meaning of life?' may not have an answer, just like 'What's the meaning of colour?' doesn't - colour is real, we can measure colour, we can ask 'What is colour?' and even ascribe meaning(s) to colour, but colour itself has no meaning, other than what meaning we ourselves confer upon it. Life is the same - we can ask 'What is life?', 'What function(s) does it serve?' and even ask 'What does it mean to me to be alive?', but that doesn't mean that life itself must have a meaning... maybe the true meaning of life is what it means to us, and that our lives are about finding and creating meaning, rather than assuming that some external power or forces dictate the meaning of our lives for us.
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I think we all have been asking ourselves that question and personally all I can come up with is that reproduction seems to be our primary function, although that doesn't answer the question at all.
It's very paradoxical but the way I satisfy myself is by assuming that we can never know and therefore needn't lose sleep over it. I lost a lot of sleep over it until I came to that conclusion.
It's very paradoxical but the way I satisfy myself is by assuming that we can never know and therefore needn't lose sleep over it. I lost a lot of sleep over it until I came to that conclusion.
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I had some thoughts on what makes a TV Show truly dark. Is it the meaning? The Violence? The Rating System? The Sad Moments? The foul language? The amount of Deaths? The fact that there isn't a happy ending?
I had this though for awhile when I found out that what has been considered to be a very light heart anime, Yugioh Zexal has the most deaths out of every Yugioh series and each Important Character died in a very emotional way.
I had this though for awhile when I found out that what has been considered to be a very light heart anime, Yugioh Zexal has the most deaths out of every Yugioh series and each Important Character died in a very emotional way.
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I think so, I would say "what's the meaning of..." in this kind of usage, is generally accepted to mean "what is the reason for", or "what is the purpose of". I think you objection to it is based on the offence you take to the fact it automatically answers the question of "Does life have a purpose, and reason for existing?" with yes, as mostly it would be religious types that think that.
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Amazing how big some football stadiums are, some big enough to seat the population of people in multiple towns and cities. Old Trafford can nearly seat the population of the city Ely four times over!
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I think purpose and meaning are not related in this instance. The only example I can think of right now is a work of art - its purpose is to stimulate the brain or convey a message but to ask "what is the meaning of this work of art" will often draw a blank, even from the artist. Art often has purpose without meaning.
One may ask in response to that question "what is the purpose of death?" and come across the same mystery.
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