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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2017 7:39:01 GMT -5
wouldda, couldda, shouldda.....
Fahgeddaboudit.....
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Post by fred on Apr 1, 2017 7:49:04 GMT -5
thoughts pop into my head - plenty of room there I guess; make sure you have a sexy, loving, horny, beautiful, nymphomaniacal, gourmet chef-like, girl and ..................................NEVER allow any of them to meet !
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Post by nancyb on Apr 1, 2017 8:13:58 GMT -5
thoughts pop into my head - plenty of room there I guess; make sure you have a sexy, loving, horny, beautiful, nymphomaniacal, gourmet chef-like, girl and ..................................NEVER allow any of them to meet ! What if they are all combined in same package? Would that be like your perfect storm?  |
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Post by novembercomingfire on Apr 1, 2017 10:09:28 GMT -5
thoughts pop into my head - plenty of room there I guess; make sure you have a sexy, loving, horny, beautiful, nymphomaniacal, gourmet chef-like, girl and ..................................NEVER allow any of them to meet ! What if they are all combined in same package? Would that be like your perfect storm? Yes. |
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Post by McRoomMate on Apr 1, 2017 17:17:01 GMT -5
I often wonder how my life would have been different if I had made different decisions at certain points. When I think about it too much I start to feel like I've messed up my own life through sheer stupidity. So, I try not to think about it much. I had the chance to go skiing in the Alps recently and I had this old French ski instructor a real French "Montagnard" (Mountain Man) and he would always say to us "Yesterday is finished and Tomorow is another day" We also went by a wooden sculture of an ugly Witch and he said "Look my wife" Oh Lord did I make some stupid decisions. I could even say my life has been decided on a series of "bad decisions" but you know what? I think I have learned A LOT from all my mistakes especially in relationships and the next one - I am bringing to it over two decades of failed relationships - I know what works and what to do and what does not work and what not to do. Older but all the wiser . . . and I bet you are too (I mean more mature - wiser - not so much the age of course). |
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Post by wewbwb on Apr 2, 2017 8:00:10 GMT -5
rhapsodee I'm all for a good sci fi thought experiment. There is surprisingly good theories supporting a multiverse. (As well as a number of really good theories against) My first exposure to the idea was "The number of the beast" by my all time favorite, Robert Heinlein. His stories influenced my tremendously. May I ask the name of your book?
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Post by shamwow on Apr 2, 2017 9:30:47 GMT -5
rhapsodee I'm all for a good sci fi thought experiment. There is surprisingly good theories supporting a multiverse. (As well as a number of really good theories against) My first exposure to the idea was "The number of the beast" by my all time favorite, Robert Heinlein. His stories influenced my tremendously. May I ask the name of your book? I liked the book by Fredrick Pohl called "The Coming of the Quantum Cats". It was my first exposure to both parallel universe as well as quantum mechanics. |
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Post by eternaloptimism on Apr 2, 2017 11:09:22 GMT -5
rhapsodee I'm all for a good sci fi thought experiment. There is surprisingly good theories supporting a multiverse. (As well as a number of really good theories against) My first exposure to the idea was "The number of the beast" by my all time favorite, Robert Heinlein. His stories influenced my tremendously. May I ask the name of your book? I liked the book by Fredrick Pohl called "The Coming of the Quantum Cats". It was my first exposure to both parallel universe as well as quantum mechanics. I like Rick and Morty. They did a great parallel universe episode! |
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Post by Dan on Apr 4, 2017 9:29:04 GMT -5
I'm reading a novel about parallel universes. It made me think. I like to imagine, in some parallel universe... OK. I've been trying to imagine my alternate universe... curiously: it keeps looking like episodes from Star Trek (The Original Series), with rhapsodee and other ILIASM ladies showing up in the story.... So here are a few pictures from the parallel universe novel in my brain:       |
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Post by shamwow on Apr 4, 2017 15:32:59 GMT -5
thoughts pop into my head - plenty of room there I guess; make sure you have a sexy, loving, horny, beautiful, nymphomaniacal, gourmet chef-like, girl and ..................................NEVER allow any of them to meet ! What if they are all combined in same package? Would that be like your perfect storm? Ideally she also drives a Ferrari. |
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Post by Rhapsodee on Apr 15, 2017 0:02:35 GMT -5
Hi Folks, I hope I didn't come across as strident because that wasn't my intent. In the past I spent too long reflecting and agonising over poor choices in my marriage, especially over those points early on when I knew that things were going wrong but I didn't leave. Personally, thinking about what 'might have been' didn't help and for me helped precipitate a meltdown in 2015. Yes, the parallel lives thing can be fun but the bottom line is that, even if I live to be 80 I will have given away the best third of my life to a joyless, loveless marriage. For that reason alone I choose to live in the present and contemplate the future not the past. Personally, I wouldn't do it all again but I do agree with Shamwow "Each of those moments shaped me to be the man I am today. And as I break through the fog of my SM, for the first time in a long time I like the man who stares back at me in the mirror." I echo every word, as I too see the end in sight, I'm realising that I like the person it's left me. Bye for now The point of this exercise for me is the realization that in any other parallel universe, I would still have ended up here. The past decisions I made were based on my knowledge of the world at that time. I was so young and had so little guidance. I allowed myself to be swept along. The ability to learn from the fallout of these passive decisions is what is important. My second husband is the complete opposite of my first husband. Instead of fistfalls I am neglected. I feel I understand myself better. It allows me to forgive myself. |
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Post by Rhapsodee on Apr 15, 2017 0:11:27 GMT -5
rhapsodee I'm all for a good sci fi thought experiment. There is surprisingly good theories supporting a multiverse. (As well as a number of really good theories against) My first exposure to the idea was "The number of the beast" by my all time favorite, Robert Heinlein. His stories influenced my tremendously. May I ask the name of your book?  |
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Post by dinnaken on Apr 16, 2017 14:31:11 GMT -5
Hi Rhapsodee,
I agree with you; whenever I look back, like you, I see myself making the same choices, with the same person. As you say, the reason is that we make the best choice we can, with the information available to us at that point.
Also like you, I had no guidance; in my case from my parents and my relationship with them was not such that I felt I could go to them for advice.
It's the lessons learnt and the ability to act on them in the future that is so important.
Best wishes
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Post by wewbwb on Apr 17, 2017 17:11:15 GMT -5
I am reminded of a book I read about time travel. The basic premise is that "time/history" has inertia and seeks to "correct" itself.
While details may change the end result is the same.
For example, I lost a friend to a motorcycle accident, if I went back in time and told him to never ever ride a motorcycle, he gets hit by a motorcycle and dies. Details change end result is the same.
I'm trying to remember the name of the book.
On the other hand, every single decision creates a new "time line" splitting the universe into a "did or didn't " yet we are only aware of one of them. (Except for those who monitor the time lines and make sure no one is abusing them.)
(Same author, different book)
As valid a theory as the idea that there is no "time" and it is simply the way we process the universe. That every thing that happened, could happen, and will happen, is NOW.
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Post by baza on Apr 17, 2017 17:58:24 GMT -5
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.
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