05-05-05
As agreed I have arrived here at the date of 05/05/05.
Concerning our lengthy discussions of free will, I feel compelled to make the post as planned. Yes, the temptation to not post it is very strong, but I feel I must lest our incredible discovery never be made. Also, I believe that I do have freewill in this matter. However, I see from my print out of the original that the post has not changed at all. I have tried to exercise my free will and introduce a change, but some how I fail to do so. What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning? I thought for sure that would do it, but alas, it was always there, I can remember reading it! (And thinking it was moronic) Did I write it from memory? It seems like I just came up with it. Am I destined to repeat this post in a closed loop, or does my past change as I type? I cannot say. Everything that I write seems new, yet I have complete memory of it, and I have the print out that proves that I have written it all before.
I have had ample time to prepare for this moment, but still I find that I cannot think rationally. If only I could calm myself and concentrate. This is advice wisely given to my less experienced self, yet clearly not taken.
The irony of posting it here in the ?Can you prove that I am not one?? is not lost on me. I remember well the first time I read this post and thought to myself ?what a ridiculous hoax.? How dismissive I was! I also remember well how stunned I was when I realized that I am the only who could have posted it. I felt ashamed and embarrassed by my own foolishness.
Now, I fall victim to my own arrogance. I have often bragged on this forum that I would soon be able to change the past, right the wrongs of history, win the lottery, blah, blah, blah?. ? I can change the past, it?s just a matter of will,? I said. Fool! You insignificant little insect; who are you to bend the laws of the universe to suit your own whims?
So here I am powerless to change even my own words as I type them. I should have paid more attention to the words that I now write. I feel that I have leaned something here. Become a better person perhaps, but I know now that my limitations are far too great to justify such an indulgence. To those who said that this would happen, you were right. I apologize.
The perfect place for this post would be in the ?Proved Hoaxes? as it has demonstrated itself to be the cruelest hoax of all. A hoax perpetrated by the universe itself on a vain and boastful child. The universe has opened all the doors to get me here, and I have blindly stumbled through each of them. I am but a mouse in a maze, dutifully pursuing the cheese of knowledge.
[font="]But, I want to end this post on a more positive note and offer my less experienced self some advice that I know I will take and have taken to heart. Do not be discouraged; you are much closer than you think. You and a few other members here will soon put all the pieces together and have a great epiphany. [/font]
As agreed I have arrived here at the date of 05/05/05.
Concerning our lengthy discussions of free will, I feel compelled to make the post as planned. Yes, the temptation to not post it is very strong, but I feel I must lest our incredible discovery never be made. Also, I believe that I do have freewill in this matter. However, I see from my print out of the original that the post has not changed at all. I have tried to exercise my free will and introduce a change, but some how I fail to do so. What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning? I thought for sure that would do it, but alas, it was always there, I can remember reading it! (And thinking it was moronic) Did I write it from memory? It seems like I just came up with it. Am I destined to repeat this post in a closed loop, or does my past change as I type? I cannot say. Everything that I write seems new, yet I have complete memory of it, and I have the print out that proves that I have written it all before.
I have had ample time to prepare for this moment, but still I find that I cannot think rationally. If only I could calm myself and concentrate. This is advice wisely given to my less experienced self, yet clearly not taken.
The irony of posting it here in the ?Can you prove that I am not one?? is not lost on me. I remember well the first time I read this post and thought to myself ?what a ridiculous hoax.? How dismissive I was! I also remember well how stunned I was when I realized that I am the only who could have posted it. I felt ashamed and embarrassed by my own foolishness.
Now, I fall victim to my own arrogance. I have often bragged on this forum that I would soon be able to change the past, right the wrongs of history, win the lottery, blah, blah, blah?. ? I can change the past, it?s just a matter of will,? I said. Fool! You insignificant little insect; who are you to bend the laws of the universe to suit your own whims?
So here I am powerless to change even my own words as I type them. I should have paid more attention to the words that I now write. I feel that I have leaned something here. Become a better person perhaps, but I know now that my limitations are far too great to justify such an indulgence. To those who said that this would happen, you were right. I apologize.
The perfect place for this post would be in the ?Proved Hoaxes? as it has demonstrated itself to be the cruelest hoax of all. A hoax perpetrated by the universe itself on a vain and boastful child. The universe has opened all the doors to get me here, and I have blindly stumbled through each of them. I am but a mouse in a maze, dutifully pursuing the cheese of knowledge.
[font="]But, I want to end this post on a more positive note and offer my less experienced self some advice that I know I will take and have taken to heart. Do not be discouraged; you are much closer than you think. You and a few other members here will soon put all the pieces together and have a great epiphany. [/font]
