The quickest things that come to mind are movies where character/plot enhancing scenes no longer exist. Titanic, my first viewing, had a very different raft scene between Jack and Rose than the more recent viewing. That has happened to many movies, even recently when viewing a movie with Joker and even he was perplexed that his favorite horror movie had changed, deletion of a scene from the full length DVD movie. Weird as fuck. There have been other events, but they are not surfacing now. I need to be triggered for more recall.
Hmm… interesting.
So tell me something, Mongoose: are familiar with the physics concept of “worldlines”?
They’re like models of physical existence in which time is pictures as a spatial dimension, and the way things change and move through space is pictured as a “worldline”–a line streaming forward in time and moving about in space–thereby looking like a strand of spaghetti. The implicit assumption in this is that the girth, or width, of the strand of spaghetti is a constant–it doesn’t change–but what you seem to be suggesting is that as we go forward in time, the “girth” of these strands of spaghetti are getting “thinner”.
I kind of picture it like a punk rocker’s hair style: each spike is like a strand of spaghetti–but it doesn’t stay as thick all the way up, but rather tapers of to a point. (I guess that would make the punk rocker’s brain the center of the universe).
The point–your point–is (I’m guessing) that as we move forward in time, we come closer to the “thinner” end of the strands of spaghetti–the “worldlines” representing particles, objects, and all matter in the physical universe–and the danger, the threat, is that once we reach that point (literally), we will cease to exist.
As far as people are concerned, their striving for perfection is experiencing its death rattle. Mediocre produces quantities over quality of goods deemed cheap and meets the bare minimum requirements for usefulness rather than the longevity of bygone days in the modern market places. Technology dumbs everybody down and the tech upgrades follow all the industrial plummets that cars, appliances, tools, foods, workmanship overall/overall high quality conscienciousness is no longer invested in today’s products.
Oh great, another abrupt end of our existence scenario.
Gib wrote
No, not at all.
In the Simulation thread, I brought up the idea of past present and the future present colliding or crossing paths irreconcilably. Could that be two spaghetti strings entwined?
It would definitely be two (or more) geodesics entwined, and if there are any strands of spaghetti following their paths, then yes the spaghettis would be entwined too.
This reminds me of deja-vu. The surreal perception that this exact moment has already occurred once, maybe many times, before. It is strange, disturbing even, but so far as I’m concerned it is just the brain failing to distinguish between this moment and some faded memory or association. I always stopped way short of thinking there was something truly metaphysically fishy going on.
Sensation
so little you humans know about the brain and Time
Fuse wrote
Nothing like a deja vu. There is nothing surreal about what was complete becoming incomplete. Changes are occurring and they are not enhancements to the nature of reality in this dimension.
Reflecting on your words … taking them at face value … perhaps you are experiencing a shifting/changing individual level of consciousness.
IMO an individual/personal experience that’s occured since time immemorial yet seems to be happening with increasing frequency around the world … manifesting itself in many different ways.
The ‘transition’ … crossing the bridge from the ‘former consciousness’ to the ‘next level of consciousness’ can be long, confusing and difficult. Empirical evidence suggests that individuals/tribes who for whatever reason failed to keep pace with the expanding/evolving collective human consciousness simply perished … some ethnic groups/tribes took the extinction route.
PTom,
Most folks are clueless about what consciousness is and isn’t. Their memories are scant and their dreams are forgotten. Unknowns elude their perceptions and when something unusual occurs, it’s shrugged off and forgotten.
But you don’t think the nature of reality itself is changed, do you? Many aging movies have been tinkered with. George Lucas drastically changed the Star Wars trilogy from its original theatrical run. I’m trying to distinguish whether you’re saying everything is going to shit or if you’re saying reality/time has actually been warped or something.
I believe their may dimension rifts. Events where, past events may have happened, but are different from what we remember. For instance, multiplayer maps on some video games.
Fuse wrote
Or something. And it is going to shit in that originality has left the decaying building.
Maps that use to reveal more as in area or detail?
No I mean the maps looked completely different. For instance, I go to my friends house, we play Perfect Dark in the Grid level. Looks more like morpheus in the matrix, has 3 levels to the building. Then 5 years later I get home and play it. Map looks different, only has 2 levels to the building. And the map looks totally different besides the fact it only has 2 levels instead of 3.
You wrote no when you meant yes. 3 level became 2 levels. Elements/details are disappearing. A whole level gone.
Well yes but it was more than just the map being siphoned off, like they do in many modern games, just close sectors when player count is lower. I thought thats what you meant.
The map was totally different.
Describe how it was different. Did the changes make it better? More detailed? More difficult? Give me something to go on here.
First time the map resembled more like Carrington Institute.
Second time playing it it was like a Victoria’s Secret marble palace.