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Current mood:  awake
I can never just enjoy something, I have to think about it... a lot. I over-analyze every aspect of everything that pops into my pretty little noggin. I have no idea why this is, my brain just goes and goes and goes and goes and goes and goes, nonstop, all the time, tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick, every minute, every day, forever. I've been this way always and without some sort of traumatic brain injury in the forseable future it will continue. I do other things, of course, but the thinking and analyzing and what-have-you continue unimpeeded regardless of how I occupy my time and mind.
One of the things I thought a lot about when I was younger was time travel. If you think at all about time travel you will undoubtedly stumble upon the so called Grandfather Paradox. In a nutshell it is this; if I were to go back in time and kill my grandfather before my father is ever concieved, my father and thus I will never be born and I will not exist and therefore I will not be able to go back in time to kill my grandfather, so, he wont die, so then I will indeed be born and I will then be able to go back in time and kill my grandfather...(!) you get the idea. Now any logical person will come to the conclusion that if time travel were indeed possible, it is not possible to kill your grandfather before your father is concieved, for if you would attempt this you would undoubtedly fail in some manner as the past has (duh) already happened before you ever began your time traveling adventure so everything you've ever done when in the past has happened already even if you have not experienced it yet. Other theories like alternate "time streams" or explorable parallel universes being opened by the act of killing ones own grandfather are stupid, do not make logical sense, and will not be explored here. So it's not really a paradox as much as a solvable logical riddle, in my opinion, but I digress. All of this is masterfully illustrated in the fantastic Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys which I suggest you see if you're confused about any of this.
Now, imagine that you were to time travel into the future. Upon arriving in the future the present becomes the past and the future becomes the present, right? Now we've already riddled our way through the Grandfather Paradox which essentially explains why history is not changable through time travel (and I don't think anyone has yet come up with another way to theoretically change the past) and arriving in the future we have put the present into the category of history and at that point it is unchangable because it has happened already. Now, if you were to go back to the present (which in the future was the past) would you be able to change the course of events so that the future occours differently? I say; nay you can not, the past and, therefore, the present and the future will at some point all be the past and are entirely unchangable. Regardless of whether or not time travel is actually possible (I say it is not in the conventional sense possible, my feelings on what sort of time travel actually is possible will have to wait as they are very complicated and probably confusing to people that are not me) I (again) conclude that free will is an illusion.
Silly? Perhaps, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me.
2:55 PM
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