Mojotronica
Expect Irony.
The nature of time is "stackable..." that is, every event that precedes another event by its nature supports the subsequent event, but not the reverse. In other words change the past and the future is also completely changed.
Each child born is a miracle of coincidence. A missed glance here, a missed bus there, an ill-timed headache -- any one of a billion -- no -- a trillion factors might have resulted in a child not being born. It was important that every event happened exactly the way it did in order for all of us to be sharing in this post today.
Most events of the past are pretty much neutral. Who cares if X met Y? But often people wax nostalgic about how much better things would be if some or all of histories great horrors had not occurred.
BUT any attrocities that happened before we are conceived might have led to events that were essential to our individual existence. We may not have ever been born if a certain negative event were averted. In fact, it's LIKELY we would not have been conceived, because what are the odds that our parents would have been in the exact same situation to spawn us given any notable change in the time-space continuum?
This means that (unwittingly) I had a vested interest in every sad story or atrocity of human history up until sometime in July of 1970, when I was conceived. The slaughter of the Native Americans and colonization of the New World, slavery, the Irish potato famine, the Civil War, the sinking of the Titanic, Nazi Germany's rise, the Holocaust, the use of the A-Bomb against Japan, segregation, JFK's assassination, the Vietnam war...
All of these events were almost certainly NECESSARY if I were to exist on this Earth. So in a sense I share in the sad event.
In fact, the younger one is the more really horrible events had to happen to bring about their existence, since w/ each passing year the number of negative events grows larger.
Each child born is a miracle of coincidence. A missed glance here, a missed bus there, an ill-timed headache -- any one of a billion -- no -- a trillion factors might have resulted in a child not being born. It was important that every event happened exactly the way it did in order for all of us to be sharing in this post today.
Most events of the past are pretty much neutral. Who cares if X met Y? But often people wax nostalgic about how much better things would be if some or all of histories great horrors had not occurred.
BUT any attrocities that happened before we are conceived might have led to events that were essential to our individual existence. We may not have ever been born if a certain negative event were averted. In fact, it's LIKELY we would not have been conceived, because what are the odds that our parents would have been in the exact same situation to spawn us given any notable change in the time-space continuum?
This means that (unwittingly) I had a vested interest in every sad story or atrocity of human history up until sometime in July of 1970, when I was conceived. The slaughter of the Native Americans and colonization of the New World, slavery, the Irish potato famine, the Civil War, the sinking of the Titanic, Nazi Germany's rise, the Holocaust, the use of the A-Bomb against Japan, segregation, JFK's assassination, the Vietnam war...
All of these events were almost certainly NECESSARY if I were to exist on this Earth. So in a sense I share in the sad event.
In fact, the younger one is the more really horrible events had to happen to bring about their existence, since w/ each passing year the number of negative events grows larger.
