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<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(June 05, 2019 09:48 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Say you are out walking in winter and you see someone fall through thin ice. You can try to help or you can simply stand there. Either way your actions are based on what came before just as the person being on the ice is based on what came cefore and the ice cracking is based on what came before.<br />
Just like your birth is based on your parents meeting and their births are based on their parents meeting all the way back through the ages to prehistoric organisms meeting which is based on the planet forming just so which is based on the galaxy forming just so which is based on the universe forming just so.<br />
So let's say the universe was formed just slightly differently so, instead of our exact history, the U.S. and Russia launched nukes in the 1950s resulting in global nuclear winter, would that just be another universe "going through the motions" just like ours? Or is that an impossibility, meaning that the only possible universe is the one where you are reading this message written by me since the universe formed with the exact temperatures, pressures etc. that it did i.e. that there was a zero chance that I not be born and write this message and you not be born and you read it?<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/topic/24385/is-the-universe-simply-going-through-the-motions</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 02:16:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://filmglance.com/discuss/topic/24385.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:49 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:55 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 18, 2019 10:32 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">That they are but my questions remain the same. It's my nature.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256279</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256279</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:55 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>peach</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 18, 2019 08:20 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Perhaps the motions are a beautiful cosmic dance?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256278</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256278</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:55 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 19, 2019 08:49 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">That's not an answer.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">I had to get mad, but other people had to premeditate their fault against me.<br />
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish? <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f1ee-1f1f9.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--flag-it" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":flag-it:" alt="🇮🇹" />..?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256276</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256276</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:54 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 18, 2019 01:02 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Give me an example of something that "had to" happen.<br />
Then give me an example of something that "didn't have to" happen.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">Okay, like things can happen for odd reasons. It might be a sign of something new happening.<br />
Yes, though, reality is reality. We see and hear things sometimes that aren't there, some of us. We dream at night.<br />
I saw 3 UFO's, 1 big ghost sighting, and lots of little sitings of shadows some more or less like real people and the others more vague interpretations.<br />
Well, here's one oft the UFO ghosts. It was on a ghost tour in the oldest continuing city int the US, where lots of people catch things. You might have to enlarge it to see it.<br />
I saw this the next day or so at home at a college I was attending an event at.<br />
Other people had one like I saw, too:<br />
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish? <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f1ee-1f1f9.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--flag-it" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":flag-it:" alt="🇮🇹" />..?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256274</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256274</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:54 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 17, 2019 10:01 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">That's not an answer. In one part of the universe something happens while in another part of the universe something else happens. If your "has to" to exists then that means one of the things "had to happen" while the other "did not have to happen".<br />
I propose that this is impossible. In other words, I propose that "has to" is entirely imaginary.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">Things that can cause it to happen, happen.<br />
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish? <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f1ee-1f1f9.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--flag-it" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":flag-it:" alt="🇮🇹" />..?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256272</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256272</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 16, 2019 03:55 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Define "has to".<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">No, reality is much more complicated. It just has to happen!<br />
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish? <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f1ee-1f1f9.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--flag-it" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":flag-it:" alt="🇮🇹" />..?</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256270</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256270</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 17, 2019 10:03 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">No, I suspect you have no counterargument and choose to lie and insult instead.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">Then I'm afraid you're stupid.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256268</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256268</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 16, 2019 01:10 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">As far as I can tell there's no such thing as "chaos". That you can't predict what the dice will show doesn't mean it can hit the table and split every atom in a ten foot radius or make the table pregnant because random.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yeah, it's ****ing chaos.<br />
A butterfly flaps it's wings in China and it America it causes a bear to maul Erica's face while her non existent husband boyfriend ****s an underrage girl on her baseball team.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I bet you’re a great ****.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256265</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256265</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>MovieManCin2</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 15, 2019 11:14 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">The answer to Life, the Universe, and everything!<br />
MAGA! FAFO! <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60e.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sunglasses" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":sunglasses:" alt="😎" /> Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60e.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sunglasses" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":sunglasses:" alt="😎" />  Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f620.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--angry" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":angry:" alt="😠" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256264</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256264</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>MovieManCin2</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 15, 2019 10:41 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Actually whether you save that person or not, has absolutely<br />
nothing<br />
to do with the universe or anything which came before, or any such cosmic bullshit.<br />
It depends SOLELY on whether you're an arsehole or not. If you're an arsehole,<br />
you watch him/her drown. If you're not, you try to save him/her.<br />
MAGA! FAFO! <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60e.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sunglasses" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":sunglasses:" alt="😎" /> Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60e.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sunglasses" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":sunglasses:" alt="😎" />  Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f620.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--angry" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":angry:" alt="😠" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256263</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256263</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>StoneColdZombles</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 16, 2019 12:58 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">I guess I'm just an indifferent type of guy.<br />
They say that fatalism keeps anxiety at bay.<br />
Besides, too much thinking makes my brain hurt.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256262</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256262</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 15, 2019 11:34 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">I reckon that the idea is that in fatalism the person who gets the promotion could never not get the promotion and the coin toss couldn't alter the outcome (like Romeo and Juliet couldn't not have the balcony scene and couldn't have their death scenes, the book's written) while luck is that the coin toss is "random" therefore can positively alter the outcome (if the two are just a little luckier then Juliet wakes up just before Romeo downs the poison, happy ending!)<br />
In other words: Saying fate favored someone is saying that fate puppeteers everything, not just the coin toss, fate puppeteered Romeo to drink the poison at the exact moment he does and puppeteered Juliet to wake up at the exact moment she does just like it puppeteered which side of the coin it lands on while saying Romeo and Juliet were unlucky is saying that the coin toss is a tipping point.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256261</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256261</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>StoneColdZombles</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 15, 2019 07:35 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">It seems to me like luck and fate are the same thing.<br />
Half the time, the lesser person gets the promotion, for fate favored the less talented &amp; lazier person on that particular coin toss.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256260</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256260</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 15, 2019 06:15 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">So if tomorrow I slip on something and break my neck and die, that's Luck and Fate shaking hands on a job well done afterwards? Because Fate has a detailed plan of how the universe ends and Luck is flipping a coin on every detail in that plan?<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256259</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256259</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:50 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>StoneColdZombles</strong> — <em>6 years ago(July 15, 2019 03:48 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Luck and fate control everything, not God or Father Time.<br />
Talent and choices are irrelevant.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256258</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/256258</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Is the universe simply going through the motions? on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:10:50 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>matt_shade</strong> — <em>6 years ago(June 05, 2019 05:10 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">"Are you saying it's all random"<br />
No, I'm saying one moment is based on the preceding moment. If you drop a handful of dice they land the way they land as that is the way they land under those exact conditions.<br />
"or that the conditions were right at the moment it happened?"<br />
I guess I'm asking if there could be different conditions because if not then everything we do is what we always were to do since there's only those exact conditions.<br />
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'</p>
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<p dir="auto">Look at you all edumuhcated and stuff!  Woohee!<br />
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith</p>
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