Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1307756)

Seriously darling? This seems more like this is the sound track to your life... if it really is an alternate universe you wouldn't like the same things you like in this life because you would be a different you... not that I wouldn't love for this song to play everywhere I went but in all honesty I feel like this is more you then,, the alternate you.... but what do I know on a side thought if I could have a song follow me around it would be this and smoke everytime I entered a room..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCwFSEC1xc

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1307758)

No actually, you're right. But am I not me in an alternate universe as well?:confused:

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1307759)

You would be you I think but just a different kind of you... like if you didn't like peas you might like them in the alternate universe... totally off topic but have you seen the film another earth?

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1307053)

I know: given the threads I've been starting recently you all probably think I'm on something, but you know, I think about weird stuff, see? And I've had more than one occasion to wonder how something I did would have turned out in another universe, if the theory that there are an infinite set of universes where every possible eventuality of our lives plays out, holds true.

Two examples spring to mind: the first has a handy diagram! Stop laughing at my pathetic drawing skills! Stop it!

One day I was on my way to work. My office was in an industrial estate, and to get to it I had to cross a few roads and pass other buildings. One of these, DHL, is just down from my road and as I came to the crossing there was a big truck waiting to go. So I thought, will I just leg it over before he moves or will I wait? I decided to wait. Whereupon a ****ing bat out of hell driver came screaming down the road, did a totally seamless S-turn without looking and screeched into his parking space. Had I started to walk I was dead. He could neither have seen me nor stopped in time. I would have been all over the road. It shook me up, I can tell you, that one decision like that probably saved my life. But in some alternate dimension, did I make the other decision and die?

http://www.trollheart.com/medie2.png

The other thing that comes back to haunt me was a few years ago when I was in my sister's bedroom upstairs and she was screaming about a bluebottle in the room. Doing what I always did, I opened the window and tried to flick it out the window with a shirt or something. The sleeve caught a snowglobe that was on the windowsill and it tumbled to the ground, smashing, just as two kids walked by outside under the window. Jesus! Had that fallen OUT instead of IN those kids were probably dead, or very seriously hurt at least. I often wake up sweating about that one, and how, in another universe, that precise thing did happen.

On such tiny decisions, and the vagaries of fate and chance, can your life change forever.

Anyone else have "near-misses" or wonder what would have happened if...?

Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR. (Post 1307768)

You people are really losing your marbles around this place. :)

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1307771)

it's pretty groovy right?

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1307083)

Because, unlike some people on here, I believe in fate. I believe that whatever is going to happen, has already been decided, it is just as set and certain as the past. I believe this because I don't really see time as one directional linear. But that is a different ball game altogether.

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1308056)

Pretty sure I had a vision of myself wearing a top hat and a SICK mustache in an alternate universe last time I was at mass. That was a few years ago though.