Philosophy Schmelosophy
During my trip back up to Milwaukee, (Mike is the coolest guy ever! p.s. I still owe you some gas money bro...that's more of a reminder for me, not you. : ) ) we were starting to get all "philosophical" and what-not, so I'll kind of explain some of the things we came up with.
Time
I'm not completely sure about Mike on this one, but I think he's with me on it. You see...I have kind of a hard time (irony coming up) grasping the "philosophy" of time. Call me an idiot if you want. (That statement intended mainly for J-balla) But I can't really say what time is/if it exists. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't. I mean, I know that, let's say the setting or rising of the sun for example, signifies time passing. And I know that we can make time/take time/lose time/have time...etc. But it's hard for me to "have" or "make" something that I don't know exists. I mean, every single person could have a different outlook on time, or a different means of telling time, and what would that do? Chaos. Which is why I follow the "time" that everyone else does. But, as far as I'm concerned, I'll be on this earth for one Dave...and Mike, one Mike...which (at this point in "time") is a little longer than one Dave. Call me crazy or a crack addict, but I just don't really believe in the concept. Another example we came up with are those people who live out in the middle of nowhere, and their only way to tell "time" is the sun...their lives aren't run by some fucking little blinking light on a VCR. As Mike put it, we never have enough "time." Which is true no matter what your stance is.
Predestination/Fate
This eventually lead into our next topic. (see title of section if confused) Because Mike made the point that he thought "time" should countdown to the end/0. Which is all well and good and makes sense...but that would mean we would "know" when we were going to die. Which completely throws off everything, because if you know you are going to die on a certain day/certain way, there are steps you can take to prevent that. Which would throw off the whole idea of time counting down. If you already "know" the outcome of what a certain event in your life will be, there must be at least one way that you can change the "predetermined" outcome. For instance, if those crazy Japs would have known what would happen to them after they bombed Pearl Harbor, would they honestly have done it? Or if you know that you will die in exactly one week from today, do you not have a choice that (as bad as it sounds) to kill yourself before a week. Or if time travel was really posible, (which I feel there is no way and I will explain why some other time, even though it's really quite simple why) and someone were to go back in time and inform someone else of the consequences of the action that they were about to take, do you not have the option of taking a different course? Or will the same effect happen no matter what you chose? Obviously the same effect would not happen if you chose a different path. For instance, you could either buy a brand new stereo or not...if you don't buy it, you don't have it and maybe people won't like your party as much as the one down the street, where if you had bought the stereo, maybe you would make too much noise and get the po-pos called on yo brand new stereo blazing drunk ass and you end up in jail as someone's bitch. Hey, I'm just saying you never know...you just never know...
God
Some of you are probably cringing at the sight of the title of this section...but none-the-less it is a very legitimate topic. (we were lead into this due to the fact that if predestination did exist...someone would have to do the predestining) Anyway, the way I've seen things, people have made 3 different arguements as to how the world began. 1) that there is an infinate causal chain of events, in other words, time goes back forever, there is/never was any begining and will never be an end. My main problem with this is my inability to grasp the concept that something "never began" yet still exists. In my experience with everything, repeat, everything in this little world of ours, it (no matter what it is, from a person to a rock, from a tree to the Terminator) was born/made/began somewhere, and sometime. (my conflict with "time" also comes into effect hear as it is fairly hard to have infinate of something that you don't believe "exists") 2) that piece of crap "big bang" theory...honestly what kind of fucking doped ass fucking "scientist" came up with that brilliant idea? (sorry if I'm offending anyone, but I seriously think this is one of the worst ideas ever, in any aguement of anything!) So apparently there was this huge mass of...mass, (that came from?) and just got so much pressure...heat...or whatever that it just exploded? (and everything magically fell into place and orbit?) Somehow I feel that if this happened, the extreme velocity that all these "planets" would have had, would have sent each and everyone of them hurtling uncontrollablly toward what I affectionately refer to as the "sun." Isn't there something called gravity or something that probably would have taken hold of us (earth) if we were sent tumbling through space and pulled us right into the fiery hell of an inferno which gives us our light everyday? 3) that there is some "all-powerful" being that created me, you, the world, everything. To me, this is the only logical explanation. Granted that may be because this is the only reason that doesn't and can never have any "scientific proof" which allows people to make up whatever the fuck they want about the subject. For instance, that pesky "time" arguement again. Someone may argue that everything has to have began at some "time" so when did God "begin?" Conviently I can tell that person that God is not bound by time...which is what I was taught by my religion. (why the fuck am I catholic?...I hate catholics! they ain't nothing but tricks and hoes...wait a minute...I meant pediphiles and hypocrits) So in my eyes, God is the only logical explanation for...well...everything. Whether you choose to believe me or not is completely up to you. (God gave everyone free will...hence no predestination either, because if it is already set what is going to happen...where does the choice/free will come in? and if there wasn't free will...what's the point in trying to convince you in something that you are predestined to believe in or not?)
Time Travel
I really have only one beef with the whole concept of time travel, so I'll keep it short and sweet...just like Liz : P If time travel does exist/will exist...why aren't there crazy people dressed in spandex running around popping up out of nowhere and telling us that eating glue increases your life-span or by the year 2439 those crazy Bulgarians are going to rule the world? That's pretty much it for that. (p.s. be on the lookout for those rapscallion Bulgarians though! they're very, very sneaky.)
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