Mr. Blue
Oh,
I watched “Primer”
It
was good, but pretty hard to follow.
Just
when I thought I was caught up, they start throwing curveballs; like
the investor using the box, and then doubles of doubles, and all the
recordings.
8:23
AM Mr. Silver
Yeah...there
are all kinds of analysis blogs trying to figure out Primer out there.
8:25
AM Mr. Blue
On
one hand, I’m of the opinion that if you have to watch a movie more
than once to understand it, it's not a good movie... on the other I
appreciate them not dumbing it down.
8:26
AM Mr. Silver
Did
you watch it just the one time?
8:26
AM Mr. Blue
Yeah,
so far.
8:26
AM Mr. Silver
Like
it?
8:26
AM Mr. Blue
Yeah,
it was decent.
I
rated it 7/10
8:26
AM Mr. Silver
Pretty
darned good for $7000.
8:27
AM Mr. Blue
I
know.
11:57
AM Mr. Silver
Time
travel is a funny subject with me ever since I learned how to do it.
12:03
PM Mr. Silver
Wish
I remembered how...hehe
12:05
PM Mr. Silver
For
instance, with the level of control implied by the technique, I'd
merely move to another path where I had some money.
Oh
well...next time.
12:07
PM Mr. Blue
But
wouldn't you also be in that other path?
Your
original?
12:07
PM Mr. Silver
Yes,
but it’d still be “me”.
Remember;
I believe, for a variety of reasons, we all have different levels of
existence.
The
"traveler" in that method is certainly my “player”.
He'd
be the same and he’d know the same things. Only this lower
body would change. My same mind would be in a different
physical version of me.
It
would be cheating though, definitely.
12:12
PM Mr. Silver
"Mr.
Silver's next timeframe is 99.99999% likely. Hmmm. I'll
just shift to this timeframe with the .00001% chance. No one
will notice."
One
of the conversations we had one day REALLY helped keep my head from
blowing up trying to grasp all this.
It
just seemed too big: Too much data to support the infinite variations
for the whole multiverse. I mean; a separate frame for every
single point in a universe, in every configuration? Wow.
12:29
PM Mr. Blue
Yes
that'd be a lot of data.
12:30
PM Mr. Silver
But
then I joked that maybe each galaxy is just a LAN, linked by gravity
and electromagnetism to all the others.
Suddenly
there was a lot less data to maintain, and it was spread out.
12:35
PM Mr. Silver
Of
course, I don’t believe any of this physical realm is anything but
virtual anyway, so as long as the algorithms, randomizers and data
sets encompass the infinite procedural variety implied, then it’s
an even smaller burden.
12:43
PM Mr. Blue
I
think that we have existed before and will again.
The
Universe keeps dying/being reborn
The
Big Bang would happen the same way every time.
12:43
PM Mr. Silver
Big
Crunch, Big Bang
You're
a macro-meta-reincarnationist.
12:44
PM Mr. Blue
And
we'd keep coming back doing the same thing we are now.
I
may have typed this 1000000000000000000000000 times before.
12:44
PM Mr. Silver
Yes,
maybe. You're thinking the way I do about this.
12:45
PM Mr. Blue
But
I think you've said that things would be different each time -
there'd be variations.
12:46
PM Mr. Silver
Yes,
in some way.
With
an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of variations must
occur.
Which
results in all the "frames" I refer to in that time-travel
model.
12:54
PM Mr. Blue
But
variations can only happen with like, cognitive beings.
I’m
suggesting the Big Bang can't have variations. Variations would
only happen if, say, you make the decision this morning to put gloves
on or not.
I
think that, at least.
But
then I, of course, think that there wouldn't be any variations in
that either, because I think that our "decisions" and
"choices" are actually just chemical reactions and stuff in
our brain that would just happen exactly the same in every
reincarnation of the universe.
1:04
PM Mr. Silver
Time
is static for you. Me, not so much.
13.5
billion years just in this cycle, and quantum-level interactions
being what they are, I'm not seeing much chance there's no chaos.
1:19
PM Mr. Blue
I
guess I’m not saying there isn't chaos… I’m just saying that
it'd be repeating chaos.
1:28
PM Mr. Silver
That’s
“order”.
1:29
PM Mr. Blue
Yes,
I guess it is.
1:30
PM Mr. Silver
Heh
Mr.
Brown
Ok,
so Brown Jr. said “Damn it” yesterday.
So
Mrs. Brown asked him, “Did you say dang it?” to ask, but not
repeat it to him.
He
looked her straight in the eyes and said, “No, I said damn it,”
then started yelling it and running around.
11:00
AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
11:00
AM Mr. Brown
Let’s
just say he did not get in trouble because we could not stop
laughing.
I
noticed something cool with him - he says “yesternight”.
12:21
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
Miss
Amethyst says worm and mama.
Still
not sure where worm came from.
12:30
PM Mr. Silver
Mrs.
Amethyst "Listen, she's saying more new words today!"
Miss
(basso profundo) "Vermis mysterious,
ave diaboli! Sangue corpus sacrificio!"
12:30
PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
12:31
PM Mr. Silver
Mr.
Amethyst “Well...her Latin sucks, but that's really cute!"
12:31
PM Mr. Amethyst
lol
12:33
PM Mr. Silver
Mr.
Amethyst "So what have you two been up to while I've been at
work?"
12:33
PM Mr. Silver
Mrs.
Amethyst "Ohhh...nothing…"
12:33
PM Mr. Amethyst
What’s
it mean?
“Mysterious
worm, hello fiends! Body blood sacrifice!”
12:33
PM Mr. Silver
I
get that last bit backwards? The only time I get to use that kind of
language is at work these days.
12:34
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
12:38
PM Mr. Silver
You
should teach her that phrase for parties and missionaries at the
door.
12:38
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
I definitely should!
Mr. Brown
Howdy
I
learned this morning that we are born with all the muscle fibers we
will ever have in our life. So all we are doing when exercising
is making the ones we’ve got bigger or stronger.
Well,
using more of the strength in them. Everybody actually has more
strength than they ever will use in their life.
8:41
AM Mr. Blue
I
believe we're born with more bones than we die with, because some
fuse together.
8:41
AM Mr. Brown
Yes
8:41
AM Mr. Silver
Yes,
we are born with extra bones that fuse together later.
However,
I don't believe the muscle thing anymore than I believed the 'no new
brain cells' thing...which also turned out to be hooey.
8:54
AM Mr. Silver
I
don't believe the muscle thing because it is nonsense.
I have to assume (I hope) that you misheard.
A
body is a constantly-in-flux organic being, growing, repairing and
replacing tissues.
If
factors as complex as muscle fibers were static, you could use such
biochemical information to achieve immortality
On
the reverse, you'd also irreversibly degrade every time you put
stress on the bonds, yet that doesn't happen.
9:02
AM Mr. Brown
You’re
right, it doesn't make sense.
9:04
AM Mr. Brown
Because
I know that if you tear your muscle, its going to grow new fibers to
repair itself.
9:12
AM Mr. Silver
As
far as poorly considered theories go, I think my favorite from
anthropology for the disappearance of megafauna from North America
was the one where the guy suggested humans ate them all.
9:13
AM Mr. Gray
"Look
at the size of that carrot!!" *nom nom nom*
Sorry,
not awake yet....thought it said flora. LOL
I
think humans would have been more of a food source than the
megafauna.
9:13
AM Mr. Silver
It
was overturned when someone pointed out that humans would have to
have spread out in an unbroken fan of migration, steadily down from
Alaska, eating 15 pounds of meat per day...each...man woman and
child...to do it.
9:13
AM Mr. Blue
We
certainly *contributed*
Either
killing for food or for defense, or by crowding them out of their own
food supplies.
9:16
AM Mr. Silver
Really,
it was more an environmental thing.
Weather
changed...habitats too specialized.
The big boys started getting limited to more marginal
areas.
9:17
AM Mr. Blue
It's
not weird to you that everywhere humans showed up, megafauna died
out?
9:17
AM Mr. Silver
Sure,
we ate some, but not that much...plenty of kill/butcher sites out
there.
9:17
AM Mr. Blue
Look
at the dumbass reasons we kill big animals even today.
To
protect crops, for pseudomedical cures, etc.
We
were even dumber/more violent back then.
9:20
AM Mr. Blue
Chinese
medicine is single-handedly wiping out whole species.
Imagine
the weird beliefs they had 20,000 years ago.
"Runny
nose? Take a bath in the blood of a sabretooth tiger."
11:45
AM Mr. Brown
I
wish there was something I could do to loosen up my shoulders; they
are killing me right now.
11:51
AM Mr. Blue
Do
arm circles.
Hold
your arms out like --|-- and make small circles that get gradually
larger.
11:56
AM Mr. Gray
Then
flap your arms really fast and make airplane sounds.
11:57
AM Mr. Brown
I
like duck sounds better.
11:57
AM Mr. Gray
Even
better!
3:18
PM Mr. Gray
"You
will be sent to Hell, where you will be raped, and sodomized, and
butchered, and tortured...."
"OH....so
it’s like going to Mexico?"
3:19
PM Mr. Blue
LOL
3:19
PM Mr. Silver
Heh
3:19
PM Mr. Gray
The
shock factor is kinda lost on the "Hell" thing when you
watch the news these days.
3:20
PM Mr. Blue
I
think you'd see a boost in religion if our day-to-day living suddenly
degraded.
3:20
PM Mr. Blue
If
your life is crap you need something to get you through it. The
promise of Heaven.
3:21
PM Mr. Blue
But
if your life is pretty sweet then you don't have to lie to yourself
and you can just enjoy yourself.
3:21
PM Mr. Brown
I’m
still not gonna go breaking all the commandments just because I can.
They actually have some good ideas there.
lol
3:21
PM Mr. Blue
And
some stupid ones.
3:21
PM Mr. Gray
That’s
because you are an intelligent and considerate being. Mr. Brown...not
because God will smite you.
3:21
PM Mr. Blue
"Don’t
use the Lord’s name in vain." Meanwhile, no mention of
rape or torture.
Nice
priorities.
3:22
PM Mr. Blue
War
rape is probably one of the few incentives for getting people to
enlist back in the day. That and stealing.
3:22
PM Mr. Silver
"Thou
shalt not covet your neighbor's wife! I mean...yeah she's super
hot...and sure you're just a scrub and could never get her anyway and...Oh
Hell, just go ahead and ogle all you want."
3:23
PM Mr. Silver
Meanwhile,
the full extension of that commandment is that women are temptresses
that lead men to sin and you get:
So
now “everyone” is happy living like that, right?
Oh...and
it leads to nutjobs accusing women of guilt for their rapist’s
actions.
“How
dare she do that to that poor guy!”
3:24
PM Mr. Gray
Yep
LOL
3:28
PM Mr. Brown
There
are people that believe we are in Hell now.
lol
3:32
PM Mr. Silver
Talking
to Mr. Green lately?
3:33
PM Mr. Brown
lol
3:33
PM Mr. Gray
LMAO
Good
example
3:34
PM Mr. Blue
I
believe in nothing. LOL
3:35
PM Mr. Gray
Safe
bet.
1:13
PM Mr. Yellow
I
sent you a picture of the soda I am drinking. (Pic)
It's
not very good.
1:16
PM Mr. Silver
Ugh
1:17
PM Mr. Yellow
Hey
a free soda is a free soda.
1:20
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
want one if its free.
1:17
PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps
they'll put out pony kegs of beer soon.
1:21
PM Mr. Amethyst
I'm
very cheap. So cheap that I would probably take a free enema if it
was offered.
1:24
PM Mr. Brown
Mmm!
This pony pee is good.
1:26
PM Mr. Brown
Tastes
like purple!
1:27
PM Mr. Amethyst
Dude.
