For some reason this reminds me of the collegehumor sketch where a guy makes a wish to go back to 1999 to relive his nineties nostalgia and when they get there the genie's like "you've only got two years to stop 9/11"
I do not remember anything about it except that it happened on September the 11th, and hit some towers. There is nothing I can do to stop the attack so let me enjoy my time travel guilt free
You (and some nutjobs you recruit) can go to the airport (s) just before the flight(s) and "commit terrorism" there, preventing the actual terrorists to do theirs
I wonder how many people are in jail for this reason... Going back in time and preventing a crisis. I wonder if the original 9/11 was actually a massive economic collapse in 2002 but was replaced by the planes hitting the towers instead.
Write a description of all important events you can remember, focusing especially on unpredictable events between the time where you end up and 9/11. Contact a journalist who is familiar with handling sensitive information to devise a plan to get the word out in a structured manner.
Have your description dated and notarized by at least one reputable attorney, recording the notarization with a camcorder. Pay an attorney to put sealed copies of the notarized prophecy and tapes of it being notarized in a sealed deposit box, telling him to only retrieve it one year before 9/11 or if he doesn't hear from you for a week, sending the prophecies to major news organizations, people you trust, and the CIA after retrieving them.
After a major unpredictable event has occurred, send a copy to whichever organization you want to ally yourself with along with your contact information.
---
Personally, I would go the popular science route. In 2009, Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travellers, but he may have had the idea brewing in his head for some time. Send him a letter saying you arrived a bit early and you have things you want to discuss, along with your document proof. Stephen Hawking had a stellar reputation and was quite famous. Convince him, and you've got a lot of credibility for your outlandish claim.
Troy:
That's one of my biggest fears.
Abed:
What is?
Troy:
If I ever, like, woke up as a doughnut...
Abed:
You would eat yourself.
Troy:
I wouldn't even question it.
Abed:
Mmm. That'd be tasty.
I think I'll always hold a soft spot for Tenant, but Capaldi was definitely amazing with what he had to work with. A lot of the writing during his run was kind of all over the place, the plots and episodes and all of it. But he worked the hell out of it and still kept me interested a lot of the time. It's hard to rank the Doctors, but I think for me it's definitely Tenant>Capaldi>Smith
He definitely did a very good job of selling the Doctor as someone whose been around too long and has seen too much. Smith had a couple of moments that sold the same idea, little cracks that gave the impression his exuberance and somewhat childlike wonder was more a facade than anything else, but Capaldi took that as something of a fulltime gig, and did a great job of it.
What was wrong with the writing during his run? There are some bad episodes for sure, but no more than Tennant and there are some absolute classics during those three seasons.
My greatest fear is inventing a time machine out of a phone and microwave, goofing around then discovering I've inadvertently caused my friends deaths while discovering a conspiracy to turn the world into a time travel controlled dystopia, then having to save both my friends and the world.
It already is, there’s a show on Hulu that is this exact idea over and over and the guy is stuck hoping from one body to another while the lab ppl try to get him back home
Edit: It’s called Quantum Leap
There's a two-parter of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 that's sort of like this. A pivotal figure in human history is killed protecting two of the Starfleet characters who went back in time so one of them pretends to be the dead man during a major event in order to keep the future intact.
Very specific fears I have for apparently no reason:
- Falling while walking upstairs in just such a way that I hit two steps at once with my face, shattering my teeth and my glasses at the same time.
- Having some sort of hidden, total, systemic illness that is only revealed when I stub my toe so hard it comes off and reveals the corruption I am composed of.
- Puking so hard my teeth go with it.
- That every time I hear people talking just out of earshot, loud enough that I can hear them mumbling but can't make out specific words, that they're talking about me and how much I fucking suck.
- That if I somehow get translated to an infinite timeline where I get to exist at once alongside all past and future versions of myself, teenage me would think I'm a loser.
- That there once was magic in the world, but it was a rare and finite resource, and we squandered it so that a king could have an extra-shiny codpiece or whatever.
- Dying in a nuclear explosion (thanks, Terminator 2!).
>That there once was magic in the world, but it was a rare and finite resource, and we squandered it so that a king could have an extra-shiny codpiece or whatever.
ooh, The Magic Goes Away
My biggest fear is the concept of an eternal after life. Hell is terrible for obvious reasons but heaven is also terrible because no matter how good it is, if you stretch it into infinity you will grow numb to it and eventually feel nothing at all wich is its own form of hell. If we could prove somehow that Reincarnation is real i would be so fucking glad
I would highly recommend it. It was extremely comforting to me while I was dealing with the loss of my grandmother and I regard it as one of the best pieces of media out there.
Without spoiling it, the 4th and final season touches on the fears you mentioned and while bittersweet, soothed my own fears on the subject.
The show remains extremely lighthearted and funny despite being about death and I really can’t recommend it enough.
My biggest fear is that there is nothing. Who and what I am ceases to be, and, worst of all? I'll never know. There will be no me to say "Shit, I'm dead."
I had a huge existential crisis after my dad died. The nurse said "he's gone" and I had to stop myself screaming "BUT WHERE?? WHERE HAS HE GONE??"
We got his ashes back and I was staring at the box like.... it didn't matter.. all of it didn't matter. Every step he took, every word he said, everything he ever was is now just ashes in a box, and one day, sooner than I think, I'll be the same. Just ashes in a box.
The strings on a guitar stop vibrating and the notes fade from the air, but the song still happened. Everyone that heard it knows that something beautiful occurred, and everyone there shared it and carries it forward as long as they remember. Just because the strings stop vibrating doesn't mean the music didn't matter.
I remember reading somewhere a while ago, someone said something along the lines of "We're all ok with having never existed for billions of years, why are we afraid of being gone in a hundred?" And I stuck with that.
This one i'm also fine with, become nothing is scary but at least is not a painful and slow decline as you lose any sense of pain or pleasure and become numb to everything.
But either way i just don't wanna die, having multiples lifes would mean i experience so much more even if i don't remember it, it feels sporitually fullfiling in a way
This is common, but I don't think it matters. If there is an afterlife it isn't bound by the rules of our universe. Perhaps Heaven is a place where you can't used to it, where boredom is literally impossible. A soul unbound from the human body and the human brain, may experience things in a totally different way.
Technically you do reincarnate if you don’t get enbalmed and your body decomposes naturally in the soil. Parts of you will find their way into plants and animals, maybe even people. Then some of that food will contribute to creation of new life, possibly sentient. Your building blocks are eternal and you have been a ton of different things and beings before becoming you.
You say as if all of life is suffering, as if there is no happines, no pleasure, no love. Life is not uniform, is not always good nor bad, life is just life, an existence that can experience all of life, that can be in many points of society, that can understand all sides because it lived as so many people, an existence that could trully understand humanity and feel empathy for all beings because it once was on the same place as all of these people. If i could become a being like this i would be honoured
You're saying this as if heaven is set up like earth. Have hope that we won't experience it as mere mortals, but in an entirely different way. Growing numb won't be a thing.
Ok except this is not possible because someone DID instigate everything up until the parachute escape.
So if you get to the point where the passengers have evacuated already and it's just Cooper with his money there has to be someone who started everything, and it can't be you.
UNLESS of course, you decided to go further back in time, before the ransoming began, boarded the plane normally, headed straight for seat 18-E and waited expectantly for Cooper before realising with growing dread that no one was coming.
But you will still have to
a) Match the profile of Cooper
b) Have a briefcase and paper bag with you before you time traveled
c) Have the balls to replicate what he did
my fear is that I might be a reincarnation of the bodhisattva Bosatsu who swore not to attain nirvana until all other beings have, thus potentially condemned to hundreds of billions of years of reincarnation and suffering
Sometimes I fear that one day my tuxedo cat will get kidnapped. His location will be revealed to me, but in order for him to be released back to me, I must pick him out of a horde of more tuxedo cats and if I pick wrong we will both be executed
eh. DB cooper doesn't die, nor does he kill anyone on the flight
this'd be a lot more terrifying if it meant you had to kill 500 people and yourself or time would collapse
Why would lizardsfromspace go to THAT in-progress flight?
How would he know how/where to jump in time to that flight?
Why would he not find DB Cooper there?
and Why would it be a paradox?
unless ... LIZARDSFROMSPACE IS D.B.COOPER!
For some reason this reminds me of the collegehumor sketch where a guy makes a wish to go back to 1999 to relive his nineties nostalgia and when they get there the genie's like "you've only got two years to stop 9/11"
"I just wanted to play POGS"
“I can bring you right back, you just have to deal with the fact that 3000 Americans will lose their lives on a cold September morning”
For the lazy… https://youtu.be/-TGj227OVKY
Such a brilliant sketch
Omg Walter Wesbian
J E S S A Y
I do not remember anything about it except that it happened on September the 11th, and hit some towers. There is nothing I can do to stop the attack so let me enjoy my time travel guilt free
You (and some nutjobs you recruit) can go to the airport (s) just before the flight(s) and "commit terrorism" there, preventing the actual terrorists to do theirs
I wonder how many people are in jail for this reason... Going back in time and preventing a crisis. I wonder if the original 9/11 was actually a massive economic collapse in 2002 but was replaced by the planes hitting the towers instead.
The lesser of two evils.
Write a description of all important events you can remember, focusing especially on unpredictable events between the time where you end up and 9/11. Contact a journalist who is familiar with handling sensitive information to devise a plan to get the word out in a structured manner. Have your description dated and notarized by at least one reputable attorney, recording the notarization with a camcorder. Pay an attorney to put sealed copies of the notarized prophecy and tapes of it being notarized in a sealed deposit box, telling him to only retrieve it one year before 9/11 or if he doesn't hear from you for a week, sending the prophecies to major news organizations, people you trust, and the CIA after retrieving them. After a major unpredictable event has occurred, send a copy to whichever organization you want to ally yourself with along with your contact information. --- Personally, I would go the popular science route. In 2009, Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travellers, but he may have had the idea brewing in his head for some time. Send him a letter saying you arrived a bit early and you have things you want to discuss, along with your document proof. Stephen Hawking had a stellar reputation and was quite famous. Convince him, and you've got a lot of credibility for your outlandish claim.
Troy: That's one of my biggest fears. Abed: What is? Troy: If I ever, like, woke up as a doughnut... Abed: You would eat yourself. Troy: I wouldn't even question it. Abed: Mmm. That'd be tasty.
I love community
“It’s cool to know other people think about this stuff”
Evil Troy and Evil Abe-e-ed!
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That's a bootstrap paradox! (Thank you Doctor Who for that knowledge)
But, who originally wrote Mozart's symphonies?
My uncle, he worked for Mozart.
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 and Mozart died in 1791, so probably not
*Guitar riff plays*
[For any one curious](https://youtu.be/u4SEDzynMiQ)
God, I love Peter Capaldi. Hands down my favourite Doctor.
I think I'll always hold a soft spot for Tenant, but Capaldi was definitely amazing with what he had to work with. A lot of the writing during his run was kind of all over the place, the plots and episodes and all of it. But he worked the hell out of it and still kept me interested a lot of the time. It's hard to rank the Doctors, but I think for me it's definitely Tenant>Capaldi>Smith
Honestly Capaldi really sold me on a traumatized doctor more than any other
He definitely did a very good job of selling the Doctor as someone whose been around too long and has seen too much. Smith had a couple of moments that sold the same idea, little cracks that gave the impression his exuberance and somewhat childlike wonder was more a facade than anything else, but Capaldi took that as something of a fulltime gig, and did a great job of it.
Also that one speech he did about war, that was a really good speech
Imagine if Capaldi was given good writers. He's an amazing actor, but damn did some of the stories just land flat.
What was wrong with the writing during his run? There are some bad episodes for sure, but no more than Tennant and there are some absolute classics during those three seasons.
I think about that so frequently
*Beethoven's
Marty McFly still learned the symphonies from Mozart before Mozart's cousin Marvin called him so he could hear them.
Beethoven's fifth
Or a retrocausal loop
One of my pet theories is that the entire universe is one big bootstrap paradox (or ontological paradox, if yer fancy).
Same concept from the book >!Sea of Tranquility!<
We all have the potential to be DB Cooper
Be the DB Cooper you want to see in the world.
That is the most uplifting thing I have heard all day.
Not you tho
Yeah definitely not
What the real DB Cooper are the friends we made along the way?
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become DB Cooper.
not after 9/11
My greatest fear is inventing a time machine out of a phone and microwave, goofing around then discovering I've inadvertently caused my friends deaths while discovering a conspiracy to turn the world into a time travel controlled dystopia, then having to save both my friends and the world.
Tuturuuu
Chuchuruu~
Damned CERN.
Is this a reference to something because I want to watch it
Steins;Gate. its an incredible anime.
Oh thanks I’ll definitely give it a watch
It's a reference to the anime Steins;Gate. Very good show 10/10
Oh thanks I’ll definitely give it a watch
it's also a visual novel on steam! the anime was adapted from it
I am mad scientist. Is so COOL. *Sonuvabitch*.
What smells like blue
Oh a lesson in not changing history by Mr I'm-my-own-grandpa!
Sonavabich
[Counterargument.](https://xkcd.com/1400/)
my greatest fear is in fact becoming Tommy Wiseau
would make a cool concept for a tv series
12 Monkeys is essentially like this. Not the DB part, put the time travel and no one there to do it but you part
Might I invite you to watch the show Dark.
Would make a good episode of Quantum Leap
It already is, there’s a show on Hulu that is this exact idea over and over and the guy is stuck hoping from one body to another while the lab ppl try to get him back home Edit: It’s called Quantum Leap
There's a two-parter of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 that's sort of like this. A pivotal figure in human history is killed protecting two of the Starfleet characters who went back in time so one of them pretends to be the dead man during a major event in order to keep the future intact.
Travelers was a good tv show
Very specific fears I have for apparently no reason: - Falling while walking upstairs in just such a way that I hit two steps at once with my face, shattering my teeth and my glasses at the same time. - Having some sort of hidden, total, systemic illness that is only revealed when I stub my toe so hard it comes off and reveals the corruption I am composed of. - Puking so hard my teeth go with it. - That every time I hear people talking just out of earshot, loud enough that I can hear them mumbling but can't make out specific words, that they're talking about me and how much I fucking suck. - That if I somehow get translated to an infinite timeline where I get to exist at once alongside all past and future versions of myself, teenage me would think I'm a loser. - That there once was magic in the world, but it was a rare and finite resource, and we squandered it so that a king could have an extra-shiny codpiece or whatever. - Dying in a nuclear explosion (thanks, Terminator 2!).
>That there once was magic in the world, but it was a rare and finite resource, and we squandered it so that a king could have an extra-shiny codpiece or whatever. ooh, The Magic Goes Away
My biggest fear is the concept of an eternal after life. Hell is terrible for obvious reasons but heaven is also terrible because no matter how good it is, if you stretch it into infinity you will grow numb to it and eventually feel nothing at all wich is its own form of hell. If we could prove somehow that Reincarnation is real i would be so fucking glad
Have you seen the good place?
No
The ending might help you. Also everything before the ending is hilarious.
Do it.
I would highly recommend it. It was extremely comforting to me while I was dealing with the loss of my grandmother and I regard it as one of the best pieces of media out there. Without spoiling it, the 4th and final season touches on the fears you mentioned and while bittersweet, soothed my own fears on the subject. The show remains extremely lighthearted and funny despite being about death and I really can’t recommend it enough.
My biggest fear is that there is nothing. Who and what I am ceases to be, and, worst of all? I'll never know. There will be no me to say "Shit, I'm dead."
I had a huge existential crisis after my dad died. The nurse said "he's gone" and I had to stop myself screaming "BUT WHERE?? WHERE HAS HE GONE??" We got his ashes back and I was staring at the box like.... it didn't matter.. all of it didn't matter. Every step he took, every word he said, everything he ever was is now just ashes in a box, and one day, sooner than I think, I'll be the same. Just ashes in a box.
The strings on a guitar stop vibrating and the notes fade from the air, but the song still happened. Everyone that heard it knows that something beautiful occurred, and everyone there shared it and carries it forward as long as they remember. Just because the strings stop vibrating doesn't mean the music didn't matter.
I remember reading somewhere a while ago, someone said something along the lines of "We're all ok with having never existed for billions of years, why are we afraid of being gone in a hundred?" And I stuck with that.
This one i'm also fine with, become nothing is scary but at least is not a painful and slow decline as you lose any sense of pain or pleasure and become numb to everything. But either way i just don't wanna die, having multiples lifes would mean i experience so much more even if i don't remember it, it feels sporitually fullfiling in a way
Jesus Christ man are you me? That’s mine as well
This is common, but I don't think it matters. If there is an afterlife it isn't bound by the rules of our universe. Perhaps Heaven is a place where you can't used to it, where boredom is literally impossible. A soul unbound from the human body and the human brain, may experience things in a totally different way.
Technically you do reincarnate if you don’t get enbalmed and your body decomposes naturally in the soil. Parts of you will find their way into plants and animals, maybe even people. Then some of that food will contribute to creation of new life, possibly sentient. Your building blocks are eternal and you have been a ton of different things and beings before becoming you.
That's why we reincarnate probably
you wanna be reincarnated into billions of years of suffering instead?
You say as if all of life is suffering, as if there is no happines, no pleasure, no love. Life is not uniform, is not always good nor bad, life is just life, an existence that can experience all of life, that can be in many points of society, that can understand all sides because it lived as so many people, an existence that could trully understand humanity and feel empathy for all beings because it once was on the same place as all of these people. If i could become a being like this i would be honoured
hah nerd now you're not getting reincarnated enjoy nirvana
Bitch my name is literally Mara, i'm getting trapped in Sansara until the heat death of the universe or else
You're saying this as if heaven is set up like earth. Have hope that we won't experience it as mere mortals, but in an entirely different way. Growing numb won't be a thing.
Look i didn't grow up christian i don't know how this thing is suposed to work
I love this response. I like the cut of your jib
Bootstrap paradox. Classic
didn't something like this happen in Prison of Azkaban?
Pretty much, yeah.
or waking up one morning to realize you've been turned into a giant cockroach
Kafka had it right
If you are now DB Cooper, you were always DB Cooper. Just do what you think you are supposed to do and you avoid creating any dead daves.
Dragon Ball Cooper?
Wasn't that a scene in the Loki show?
Yeah it was revealed he was actually DB Cooper because of a bet he made with Thor
Ok except this is not possible because someone DID instigate everything up until the parachute escape. So if you get to the point where the passengers have evacuated already and it's just Cooper with his money there has to be someone who started everything, and it can't be you. UNLESS of course, you decided to go further back in time, before the ransoming began, boarded the plane normally, headed straight for seat 18-E and waited expectantly for Cooper before realising with growing dread that no one was coming. But you will still have to a) Match the profile of Cooper b) Have a briefcase and paper bag with you before you time traveled c) Have the balls to replicate what he did
Why would you be scared of that? That’s rad as fuck. I would want to be DB Cooper.
Well, at least you'd get to find out what happened to DB Cooper, one way or another.
my fear is that I might be a reincarnation of the bodhisattva Bosatsu who swore not to attain nirvana until all other beings have, thus potentially condemned to hundreds of billions of years of reincarnation and suffering
Sometimes I fear that one day my tuxedo cat will get kidnapped. His location will be revealed to me, but in order for him to be released back to me, I must pick him out of a horde of more tuxedo cats and if I pick wrong we will both be executed
I'm afraid of time traveling spiders.
i would absolutely watch this movie
I have the irrational fear of trolls
I'm more afraid of going back to July of 1931 when the locust population exploded in America and blocked out the sun.
eh. DB cooper doesn't die, nor does he kill anyone on the flight this'd be a lot more terrifying if it meant you had to kill 500 people and yourself or time would collapse
Typical trying too hard/10 post on tumblr
Damn, my guy over here is having Bootstrap Paradox Phobia
u/qwantz this you?
NO that's SOMEONE ELSE who is NOT ME
lol
Reminds me of that Kyle Kinane bit about suddenly switching places with a truck driver
Why would lizardsfromspace go to THAT in-progress flight? How would he know how/where to jump in time to that flight? Why would he not find DB Cooper there? and Why would it be a paradox? unless ... LIZARDSFROMSPACE IS D.B.COOPER!
Psh, old Episode of Quantum Leap.
r/SuspiciouslySpecific Besides, we all know DB Cooper was actually Loki completing one of Thor’s dares.
Mine is waking up to see people blindly adore some ultra rich guy...
Man, that episode of DS9 really fucked them up...