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[–] 34 points 7 months ago (19 children)

Because things aren't repeating?

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    I think this obviously implies that your brain is getting reset each loop, in which case you wouldn't be aware of anything repeating.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Are you implying I'm not the hero that realizes it and breaks us all out? How dare you!

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Being "The One" is like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it, balls to bones.

    This is where I say "Hmmm that's interesting.

    That's when you say...

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    but what if you're actually a slave? forced to work each day anew, with no memory of the previous day. i wouldn't call that "your infinite new realities" because those realities aren't really yours, as they don't provide you a place for you at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I don't understand this part:

    those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.

    My point is, if I go to sleep tonight and time loops back around to this morning, and I don't remember any of today, then did today really happen? It didn't "happen" in any meaningful way.

    It doesn't matter whether I entertained a dozen nubile virgins or toiled as a slave.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Unless you’re in a very long loop. You just haven’t gotten to the loop point yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but that basically means your entire life is the loop, making this just another silly idea about the afterlife. Though, not as silly as some of religious ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Unless it’s not your entire life and you’re in your first forty-year loop. You hit 60, wake up and you’re 20 again

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    When I'm high i think my life is fake and I'll wake up to find that I'm 12. I make my husband promise to do everything exactly the same, even the stupid stuff, so we end up together. Ridiculous, but makes total sense to weed brain.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Because it's always a fresh hell I deal with, none of that stale hell you get from time loops

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    How do you know we're not in a time loop so long you can live entire lifetimes inside of it?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    After careful consideration I have come to the following conclusion on this issue:

    🤷🏻

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Eh, not worried about it. It is what it is.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    This logical disconnect is even worse than the time loop concept. There’s no logic for someone remembering from a previous loop and even less logic for some people remembering and some not

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I have a twist for you -- how do you know that time isn't running backwards?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Well, if I am than there isn't anything I can do about it, is there?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You don't know.

    This is a thought-terminating exercise, so there's nothing else to say.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The last 25000 times nothing happened, so I’m pretty sure nothing will happen tonight.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I'm sure that you would pick up small almost invisible clues that you should please wake up, we miss you.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Don't know what you could bee referring to, honey.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Well, every days ground hog day.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    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)

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Because the same exact shit doesn't keep happening every single day.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I'm actually pretty confident I'm in a time loop at this point

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don't.
    Until I start remembering previous loops I won't care.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don't and it doesn't matter. Now is all there is anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I don't need a time loop to suck

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    As long as I don't know, I don't care.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    The government sure has been quiet since this dropped

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  • What do you mean "time loop"? i know i was born around 2000, now it's 2026 => at least 26 years have passed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    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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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The second law of thermodynamics.

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