by girlfreddy » December 20th, 2008, 1:39 pm
Hi people. Just a short thought on this. What if someone already went back and changed history? eg: Lincoln lived through the Booth attempt, but in the "alternate" reality, Lincoln ended up creating a US that was not condusive to a true "free" nation? What if Hitler did win the war and the resulting genocidal dictatorship created a world in which no human was free at all (Big Brother at its worst)? In essence, someone already went back and changed these two events so that Lincoln did die and Hitler lost the war.
It seems that we consider the changing of the past in direct relation to how we perceive "evil", and that to change the past we always want to change what we think were "evil" acts, rather than accepting that we many not really know what is evil and what isn't. We ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil rather than the tree of life, and therefore we get all caught up in the defining of evil and good. This basic presumption precipitates all manner of strange thinking processes that preclude a delving into the possibility that someone may have already changed the past, and that the events we think happened (defined as "evil" by this aforementioned presumption) were, in actuality, the lesser of two evils so-to-speak.
Not sure if I explained this idea right. Is it clear what I'm trying to say?
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girlfreddy on December 21st, 2008, 9:20 am, edited 1 time in total.
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