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So last night we watched Next with Nicholas Cage. He can see two minutes into the future. It's based loosely on a cyberpunk short story by Andy K. Dick. The movie has the world's most fucked-up ending, but oh well... and I totally just freaked myself out about it & had to go consume tobacco to stop the anxiety attack.
The thing about it is this - he doesn't just see the future, he's able to traverse the Multiverse and change the future. I don't know if that was the impression the director was trying to give the viewers of his movie, but that's what me & Rob grasped. There was a lot of quantum shit in the movie and it all seemed all-too-familiar. Even that weird sort of heartbeat-skip-sound/wave that happened to Nicholas Cage whenever he had a flash of precognition.
Like Lisa said in her blog, sometimes abilities like that are like a TV that won't turn off. I stay 'off' most of the time anymore, because being 'on' just frustrates me. I'm not going anywhere or doing anything useful with those abilities, they serve no purpose in this lifetime anymore... and when I do use them it's mostly to fold the map & get to work on time for a change. So I started thinking about, well, how many of my alternate-universe selves (because alternate time lines/quantum realities/alternate universes/the Multiverse do/es exist, and yes, I know people think I'm completely nuts sometimes) have I gotten killed? How many of their lives have I inadvertently fucked up? And even worse, how many of my alternate-universe selves have my meager abilities (and worse, which ones have developed those abilities to laser-precision & actually are using their psychic skills to the full potential?) and are proceeding to fuck up my life in this time-line?
That's a lot of karma for one person to carry around in a single lifetime - because it's not a single lifetime - it's all those lifetimes all at once.
I wish I was still living on a linear time-line, with no awareness that there are other possibilities.
It's like the Turtle in Stephen King's It said: "Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you’ve got to throw away the instruction manual."
The thing about it is this - he doesn't just see the future, he's able to traverse the Multiverse and change the future. I don't know if that was the impression the director was trying to give the viewers of his movie, but that's what me & Rob grasped. There was a lot of quantum shit in the movie and it all seemed all-too-familiar. Even that weird sort of heartbeat-skip-sound/wave that happened to Nicholas Cage whenever he had a flash of precognition.
Like Lisa said in her blog, sometimes abilities like that are like a TV that won't turn off. I stay 'off' most of the time anymore, because being 'on' just frustrates me. I'm not going anywhere or doing anything useful with those abilities, they serve no purpose in this lifetime anymore... and when I do use them it's mostly to fold the map & get to work on time for a change. So I started thinking about, well, how many of my alternate-universe selves (because alternate time lines/quantum realities/alternate universes/the Multiverse do/es exist, and yes, I know people think I'm completely nuts sometimes) have I gotten killed? How many of their lives have I inadvertently fucked up? And even worse, how many of my alternate-universe selves have my meager abilities (and worse, which ones have developed those abilities to laser-precision & actually are using their psychic skills to the full potential?) and are proceeding to fuck up my life in this time-line?
That's a lot of karma for one person to carry around in a single lifetime - because it's not a single lifetime - it's all those lifetimes all at once.
I wish I was still living on a linear time-line, with no awareness that there are other possibilities.
It's like the Turtle in Stephen King's It said: "Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you’ve got to throw away the instruction manual."
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Cage
Date: 2009-01-28 10:12 pm (UTC)Re: Cage
Date: 2009-01-29 03:46 am (UTC)The cake is a lie!
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Date: 2010-02-08 03:44 am (UTC)Correction Courtesy of A. Nonymous
Date: 2010-02-08 06:00 am (UTC)