some slightly cryptic thoughts about time travel i'm not gonna elaborate on for now:
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time travel to the past is about memory and time travel to the future is about imagination. they're parallel because memory and imagination are the same process
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time traveling to the past to change it is about memory reconsolidation
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fixed-timeline time travel where you can't change the past is about acceptance, determinism, free will
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time traveling to the future is about whether your plans are good. do you marry well, are your descendants well provided for, etc.
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from : time loops where you go back repeatedly to try to change the outcome is about the stuckness of emotional memories
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from : time loops where the past and present are entangled (c.f. Holes) are about memory reconsolidation using metaphor (healing either individual or generational trauma)
(i have to admit i don't grok this one yet)
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from : "Many people, deep, deep down (or at multiple "levels") are seeking an elsewhere, an elsewhen. They’re trying to step outside the universe, break the universe, step through a portal, step to another side, into books, movies..."
meditationbook.page/#160
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wow
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SOME day I'm going to read this whole thing, but for now I'm enjoying getting random 'wow' quotes hurled at me by twitter
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Replying to @captain_mrs and @meditationstuff
Ooh, this is good
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i have probably read less than 10% of it but i am content to hurl relevant quotes onto twitter as intriguing morsels for the homies at more or less my current pace