tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6104126331034758326.post110364440100014874..comments2023-11-02T05:12:33.112-04:00Comments on Things I finished: Trout Fishing in AmericaJessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12923931997733201691noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6104126331034758326.post-13321312231938916612009-04-26T23:16:00.000-04:002009-04-26T23:16:00.000-04:00Hard to know, Spencer! I guess we'll have to use t...Hard to know, Spencer! I guess we'll have to use the force, and see where the divergences take us! :)Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12923931997733201691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6104126331034758326.post-43688203855435434602009-04-26T21:10:00.000-04:002009-04-26T21:10:00.000-04:00The strangest thing about my reading this blog ent...The strangest thing about my reading this blog entry - long past the time when I should have been asleep, having eaten an odd meal on what is ostensibly the most significant day of my life - is that I know that you exist for a number of extremely strange and apparently unrelated reasons, which all seem to have converged on this one day.<br /><br />I would love to dismiss the enormity of the series of coincidences and paradoces which led to my perusing this entry in my Google Reader (having only added your blog to my feeds this evening, despite having had your webpage open in an unexamined tab for some months now) by claiming that the human mind is "adept at finding patterns in everything [it encounters], even when patterns might not exist," but my faculty for Reason is spent.<br /><br />The least plausible (and thus, if you have followed my train of thought thus far, the only) explanation for my typing this comment at this time is that I am destined to interact with you at some as-yet unknown date, time and place, wherein we shall (persumably) effect a philosophical movement of some magnitude.<br /><br />Having had time to ponder on this, I have become quite comfortable with the concept. Indeed, I look forward to sharing a Zero bar with you. My only question for you, Jesse, is this:<br /><br />Knowing of this eventuality, as we do, prior to its actual happening, do we alter what might otherwise be the inexorable result of our final, climactic meeting? Does some Heisenberg-esque paradox occur? Be being aware of the event, do we thus become an intrinsic part of it? Is there any hope at this point that we will not become our own sons?<br /><br />I leave this matter in your hands. As you noted, you are existentially obliged to watch all time-travel trash movies. Who could be more qualified than yourself to deal with the sublime, reality-altering truths I have relayed tonight?Spencer Greenwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13301448668194775788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6104126331034758326.post-55146780796741101372009-04-26T03:21:00.000-04:002009-04-26T03:21:00.000-04:00Jesse, you should definitely read Quarantine, by G...Jesse, you should definitely read Quarantine, by Greg Egan, if you haven't already. It gives a somewhat plausible explanation supporting your idea.<br /><br />Of course, it's also true that human minds are very adept at finding patterns in everything they encounter, even when patterns might not exist.Jason Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628093549745138791noreply@blogger.com