Because things aren't repeating?
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I don't, but spending time in my time loop worrying about whether or not I'm in a time loop seems like a waste of time
Was that a !tenforward@lemmy.world, or a !risa@startrek.website trend?
Edit: It was on tenforward, and about a year ago. Nearly time to do it again!
Maybe I am and it's what religions call rebirth or life after death and in that case I couldn't care less, but I do have memories of yesterday and the days before that, so I'm kinda pretty sure there's nothing loopy going on here.
Because it's always a fresh hell I deal with, none of that stale hell you get from time loops
You literally just asked me this yesterday. And the day before. And the day before. And you never seem to remember it. And the day before... Oh no!
How do you know we're not in a time loop so long you can live entire lifetimes inside of it?
After careful consideration I have come to the following conclusion on this issue:
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I mean in scifi someone in a time loop remembers the period and thus knows they are in one. If you don't know you are not in one or at least not in one of your own.
Philosophers have reasoned that if the universe is infinite, as it appears to some that it might be, then every permutation of all possible configurations of matter and energy will occur infinitely many times. Therefore, everything that happens now will have happened before, and will happen again.
I don't see how any utopia could make up for the universes where people are literally tortured their entire lives. Such a multiverse must not be allowed to exist.
I have a twist for you -- how do you know that time isn't running backwards?
That's the thing. Your memory only works one way. You're incapable of perceiving time running in the opposite direction.
Every time you've pooped both in the past and the future*, it's both going in and coming out, entirely dependent on the frame of reference.
*Yes, I did just refer to the future in the past tense. Because if time's running backwards to how we perceive it, that's actually the past.
The only way to win this game is not to poop. And good luck with that.
You don't know.
This is a thought-terminating exercise, so there's nothing else to say.
To be perfectly fair, saying "there's nothing else to say" is a way stronger example of a thought terminating exercise. Yet here we both are.
The last 25000 times nothing happened, so I’m pretty sure nothing will happen tonight.
I'm sure that you would pick up small almost invisible clues that you should please wake up, we miss you.
I was thinking of posting a picture of a hidden heart but the only ones I have are of my family being cute. So instead I offer you a small clue that you should please wake up. ;)
If this is what I think it is, that episode still makes me think about the nature of reality whenever I think about it, which is a lot more often than it should for a show that old.
Don't know what you could bee referring to, honey.
Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where she's in and out of a coma between the normal world and the world with vampires.
I mean how do you know if your memories are even real and you didn't just get Men-In-Black flashed with the Neurolyzer thingy and that's why you are a paycheck-to-paycheck wage slave instead of being a multibillionaire CEO like you used to be until you got couped?
Or how do you know your parents are your real parents and you didn't just get lost/kidnapped as a child? (especially before dna tests)
That's me some mornings. I wake up, do my morning routine - SYKE! It was a dream and I'm still asleep. Repeat like 5 infuriating times.
If that was my whole life right now, I'm at least glad I'm not aware of it. That would be hell.
What do you mean "time loop"? i know i was born around 2000, now it's 2026 => at least 26 years have passed.
u don't! i just saw this video the other day, time itself might not be real anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbZsE7qFgw
all u know is u experience stuff and then u think they are in a continuum when u could be in an infinite loop of no time
Because if I was then it wouldn't really make a difference what I'm supposed to do about it. Really says more about whatever entity decided to spend its time torturing THIS cringefest

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