I just read the thread by someone on this board that was talking about the movie white noise, well I was sitting here and I started to remember a movie that made me go HMMMM! that movie is the butterfly effect, those of you who havnt seen it, I definently recommend it. That movie makes your brain twist and turn in like a spiral before dropping you. Then your like WHOA WHAT IF I DIDNT WATCH THIS MOVIE ...HOW WOULD IT HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE!

Example - dude likes girl and starts changing the past all the stuff that happens:
1)girl is a crack hoe
2)girl is preppy and his girlfriend
3)girl ends up dating his best friend who in the alternate timeframes was some maniac fat kid killer.

aint that wierd, like what if you sit in that chair for another 5 minutes might effect your life so much that
1) your mom falls down a flight of stairs
2) you go outside and get shot up by a gang war driveby
3) you meet the love of your life

doesnt it make you think?

Nope. I tend to not thing about things like that, like, "How the universe is going to collapse in on itself in a few billion years." It's depressing.

I really liked The Butterfly Effect.

And I've always been a fan of the idea that for every choice you make, all the un-choices...that is the ones you could have made, but didn't...get made in different, alternate universes. So if you completely screw up something in this reality, you can feel better cause in another one you did it right.

Which isn't really the same thing as the kind of alternate realities the guy in the movie was making, but still.

I think whoever wrote the bit of the histories with Gaudiguch in must've watched this movie too. Huh, neat.

I liked the movie, but it was a one-watcher to me.

I'm a (limited) determinist (believe in fate).

IF I knew the location of all mass in the universe, and every force being enacted on every mass, (and had a REALLY powerful computer) at time x, I could tell you where EVERY mass in the universe and EVERY force being enacted on every mass at time y. Same with brains and neural synapses ('choices').

However, as I don't have that knowledge (or said really powerful computer), I live my life as if I were NOT a determinist .

Fun stuff, no?

And I tend to not agree with some of the assumptions of quantum mechanics, but it's fun stuff anyway.

lol it perplexes the brain

I didn't really bother seeing the movie because that idea has been done time and time again. More often in literature than movies.
Sliding doors was another recent example of this, and much more original I think.

Anyway, I think that it only would boggle the minds of people who sit and don't do anything. What if I was out there actually doing something with my life instead of replying to this forrum thread? Well if I was out there doing stuff, then I would be doing what I think is best to be done with my life and trying my hardest at it, so any "missed" opportunity isn't really missed, because I'd never do anything thats not what I'm doing right now.

Its like saying.. what if I had 1 million bucks, oh how my life would be different. And the Truth is, that it wouldn't be all that different because if you had a million bucks, you'd be the type of person who can handle having lots of money and wouldn't be sitting around thinking about what life would be like if you had lots of money.

I wonder if that made any sense.

I'm gonna have to sit in my chair for an extra 5 minutes every time I sit down...for the last one. Not the other 2. Don't feel like being shot

WHAT?!

Well I do like the possiblity of the 3rd choice, meeting the love of you life is good right?