Déjà vu and my agnostic thoughts on destiny (TL;DR not included)

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I just had déjà vu. How does it start? When and where did I experience that exact moment the first time, totally out of context? I don't know if I was sleeping, or zoned out, or if it wormed its way into my memory. I had a memory of something that hadn't happened. As it passed, like the first time I thought it happened, I wanted to stop, to break it, but I had to finish my thought. If my thought was to break it, I would have experienced that thought and changed my actions before, and thought I had succeeded both times, until I realized this.

Thus begins a hypothetical rant, best read by the open minded.

To simplify it massively, your mind is the result of your brain, influenced by the chemicals and energy in your body, which is influenced by the universe of physics, as it has happened.

I was destined to complete the action exactly that way. With everything in the universe as it was at that moment, with the thoughts and plans, actions and reactions of myself and everyone else in the form of our brains' electrical signals en route, and every object, cell, atom and bit of energy imaginable in the place they were at that time, there was simply no other way it could have happened.

There is only one way I will finally choose to post this, and when you read it, based on the state of everything at the moment you read it, there is only one way you can respond. You appear to have unlimited choices, but there is only one set of choices you will ultimately make, and it will only appear to you that you follow it of your own accord. You may wrongly take this to mean I think one should do anything they please. You may think I'm only rambling and ignore it. You may even get angry at me for trying to say it. Regardless, you were always going to respond that way, and remain deeply under the impression that you chose to do so in that way.

Every detail of everything that will ever happen is already underway. The future is precisely destined, and yet completely unknowable, for we could never hope to simulate it.

Environment is everything. Choice is an immensely complicated delusion.

...but, for our purposes, it's probably better to maintain it.


i was being driven to a dentist by my mother one day after school; when suddenly, although i had only been to this particular dentist once before, i wanted to tell my mom that we weren't going in the right direction to get there.
i disregarded it, knowing that it would end up being a deja vu and that we would actually have been going in the right direction.
then a few minutes passed, we got on the highway, and nothing was said.
just when i stopped listening for anything my mom was going to say she said, "oh, oops, i'm driving towards the wrong dentist."
weirdest feeling ever.

i imagine destiny with multiple directions reality can head in, but as time moves forward, a specific destiny becomes recognizable.
« Last Edit: November 23, 2012, 03:25:08 PM by .:FancyPants:. »


What if the matrix was tampered with by time hoppers or some stuff and you had De Ja Vu?

I'm watching the Matrix and they said something about changing stuff causing De Ja Vu.

You know scientist don't really understand what our "mind" really is. They don't understand how we can think, have inner monologues and such. They do understand some memories, connections, and senses but they don't know what makes us...us.

You know scientist don't really understand what our "mind" really is. They don't understand how we can think, have inner monologues and such. They do understand some memories, connections, and senses but they don't know what makes us...us.
chemicals and synapses

chemicals and synapses
That's the second part of what I said. They understand how we think but they don't understand our inner voice and stuff like that.


That's the second part of what I said. They understand how we think but they don't understand our inner voice and stuff like that.
what is an inner voice.

what is an inner voice.
When you see a pretty girl walk by and "Damn she's cute" goes through your head but you don't voice it out loud. When you're in a conversation with someone and you start to say something but you stop because it flashes accros your mind "Hmm that's not the smartest thing to say right now". Bad examples but I'm in the middle of skyrim.

When you see a pretty girl walk by and "Damn she's cute" goes through your head but you don't voice it out loud. When you're in a conversation with someone and you start to say something but you stop because it flashes accros your mind "Hmm that's not the smartest thing to say right now". Bad examples but I'm in the middle of skyrim.
You mean thought? Yeah, it's chemicals and synapses.

That's like answering how an airplane can fly upside down with "aerodynamics." It's not a very useful answer.

i get this deja vu feeling pretty often, it's just plain annoying. i could be walking through a hallway and as I'm reaching the deepest crescendo of my inner thoughts, i get this kinda:

"woah look at that girl, like..how does she exist..

ive been here before i remember this
no wait no i dont
yeh i do
look at my loving hands tho"

sorta irrelevant, but i could be walking past a person i've seen 1000 times but suddenly their physical presence just spooks me and im just tranced out. my mind is an enigma
« Last Edit: November 23, 2012, 04:42:33 PM by Big Brother »