According to a documentary I watched the other day on TV there is a parallel universe somewhere out there where Jeffrey John is the Bishop of Oxford and I've still got a job. According to the talking heads on the programme, because of the behaviour of particles at the sub-atomic level, every time a decision is made in our universe an alternative reality pops into being which follows the path we decided against.
So, my gay friends, remember that next time you are beaten up in the street for being slightly different to other people. There is a universe out there where gay people are having a bloody marvellous time and their good fortune is all down to the sacrifices you have made. And also, do you really want to live with the guilt of knowing that in having won some breakthrough vote on gay rights you have condemned another whole universe to perpetual homophobic bigotry?
My brain hurts.
There's even a parallel universe, MP, where *you* are Bishop of Oxford, and Jeffrey John is ABC!
ReplyDelete[I promise y'all, in the universe where *I* am Pope, I use my infallibility only for Good. ;-p]
Hang in there, Crazy @rse.
No, JCF. There isn't. Please pay attention. There has never been a decision made between offering me a bishop's job or not so no alternative universe has been created. However, somewhere else you do have one of the jobs you have applied for.
ReplyDeleteNo, you need to pay attention. EVERY decision.There will have been umpteen choices you decided against that could have led you on the path to be a bishop. Read The Subtle Knife by Philip Pulman for homework.
ReplyDeleteYou make the common mistake of believing that if something is possible it will happen in an infinite universe. But this is nonsense. You could have an infinity just filled with carrots as easily as you could have an infinity filled with every possible type of vegetable. And , Pulman, isn't he a novelist?
ReplyDeleteIn the infinity that is filled with carrots, are they glazed?
ReplyDeleteKJ!!!
ReplyDeleteI've been missing you.
My brain hurts too.
ReplyDelete(For what it's worth, though, I also thought of The Subtle Knife.)
For what it's worth, I personally think the theory is a load of bollocks. Just because subatomic particles can be undecided doesn't mean that the universe splits in two every time a decision is made. A very few theoretical physicists believe it might but most don't. Also, we have absolutely no idea, even if there is such a thing as infinity, that there is matter or energy throughout infinity. If there isn't then there is no reason to believe that their are copies of ourselves anywhere. It's as I said to anon. above, just because something is possible doesn't make it a reality even in an infinite universe. Mind you, if it did it would mean that God does exist - an infinite number of times.
ReplyDeleteWell, the whole infinite universe thing is exactly what DOES convince Joe that every Divine being out there really DOES exist.
ReplyDeleteBecause if they didn't, one couldn't define our universe as infinite at all, right?
And...what's reality?
ReplyDeleteThat's kinda like asking "what's normal?"
To which my friend Shannon always said, "Honey, normal is just a setting on your dryer."
Because if they didn't, one couldn't define our universe as infinite at all, right?
ReplyDeleteNot right. You could have an infinity full of nothing as easily as you can have an infinity full of something.
Because if they didn't, one couldn't define our universe as infinite at all, right?
ReplyDeleteNot right. You could have an infinity full of nothing as easily as you can have an infinity full of something.
Oh, I think its bollocks too. Just thought you were being unfair on JCF.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm deliberately unfair to JCF on a regular basis. This is because he is a right bruiser and if I don't keep knocking him down to size he gets all cocky - well, he wishes.
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