What if....

[disappoint]

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So what if the multiverse theory is right? You know, the theory goes every decision you make branches off a new universe where you made that decision. In the other universes you picked a different choice.

Time travel to the past paradoxes are solved with multiverse theory. The paradox goes like this: If you travel back in time and kill your grandfather how could you have ever been born in the first place?

So in multiverse theory this is explained by a new universe exists where you did kill your gradfather and a separate one where you didn't.

This means you cannot travel back in time in your own universe, but rather a different one where different events took place that you changed. Explained by someone else it goes like this:

The Multiverse Thesis allegedly solves the Grandfather Paradox. When the time traveller goes back in time and kills his grandfather, he arrives in a separate universe. Whilst it is the case that in that universe his grandfather is killed, there is no paradox for it is still the case that in the original universe his grandfather lives to father his father, who in turn fathers him. -someone else

Anywho, now we get to the what if... as per the title of this post.

Now what if, what if after you die, there is your deity, or aliens, or FSM, or whatever you believe in going over your life and this deity starts comparing your decisions to the decisions made by your counterparts in the other universes in the multiverse?

Let's say you've made some bad decisions in your life. We all have right? You can't use the excuse that the other yous in the other universes had some advantage over you. They are exactly the same as you except they made different decisions than you did, which you had the choice of making yourself.

So what this boils down to is did you make the best decisions you could have today? Are you going to be the one all the other yous will be compared to or will you be the one saying dammit, I wish I'd have done it that way?

So get out there and make the best decisions you can today folks....

just in case...

 

[SandEagle]

tldr

 

[Scarpozzi]

I'll bet this guy doesn't want to do that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk

 

[z1ggy]

Disappointed in disappoint.

 

[NuclearNed]

So in your theoretical situation, in exactly one universe I have made the absolute best decision in every situation, and in one universe I have made the absolute worst decision in every situation, and there are a near infinite number of universes composed of different mixtures of good & bad decisions.

And everyone else has the same "collection" of universes - one absolutely perfect, one absolutely flawed, and a bunch of in-betweens.

So from the viewpoint of a deity who knows all universes, everyone would be equal.

 

[disappoint]

So in your theoretical situation, in exactly one universe I have made the absolute best decision in every situation, and in one universe I have made the absolute worst decision in every situation, and there are a near infinite number of universes composed of different mixtures of good & bad decisions.

And everyone else has the same "collection" of universes - one absolutely perfect, one absolutely flawed, and a bunch of in-betweens.

There are no absolutely perfect nor flawed universes nor individuals. Some are just better than others.

So from the viewpoint of a deity who knows all universes, everyone would be equal.

That isn't the viewpoint of a deity. That is your viewpoint. As postulated earlier, some are better than others, so they then cannot be equal.

 

[Arcadio]

So... Should I buy Cutco knives or not?

 

[SS Trooper]

What if there are multiple dieties for the multiple universes? What could be called god for one of you might be the devil for another. Just saying...

 

[z1ggy]

so in your theoretical situation, in exactly one universe i have made the absolute best decision in every situation, and in one universe i have made the absolute worst decision in every situation, and there are a near infinite number of universes composed of different mixtures of good & bad decisions.

And everyone else has the same "collection" of universes - one absolutely perfect, one absolutely flawed, and a bunch of in-betweens.

So from the viewpoint of a deity who knows all universes, everyone would be equal.

god is a communist?!?!?!

 

[disappoint]

So... Should I buy Cutco knives or not?

I wouldn't if I were Euler.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

My microwave says that it's 2:00PM. My phone says that it's 1:59. WHERE THE FUCK AM I!?!?!

 

[pelov]

There's a giant flaw here:

You're assuming there's such a thing as a deity. In a multiverse, would there be an infinite number of deities? A single governing deity? A super deity that's the deity of all other deities?

The OP is a polytheist, burn him!

 

[SphinxnihpS]

There's a giant flaw here:

You're assuming there's such a thing as a deity. In a multiverse, would there be an infinite number of deities? A single governing deity? A super deity that's the deity of all other deities?

The OP is a polytheist, burn him!

Shouldn't we try and build a bridge out of him, first?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Shouldn't we try and build a bridge out of him, first?

Let's see if he floats.

 

[pelov]

Shouldn't we try and build a bridge out of him, first?

Bifrost?

I like where this is going...

No, I won't have sex with you, Loki. I don't care how sexy you look as a horse.

 

[dighn]

may i buy those knives now sir

 

[CountZero]

So in your theoretical situation, in exactly one universe I have made the absolute best decision in every situation, and in one universe I have made the absolute worst decision in every situation, and there are a near infinite number of universes composed of different mixtures of good & bad decisions.

And everyone else has the same "collection" of universes - one absolutely perfect, one absolutely flawed, and a bunch of in-betweens.

So from the viewpoint of a deity who knows all universes, everyone would be equal.

No, your life and all the multiverses that exist are like quantum states of paths that could have been but when you are judged (aka observed) by the deity it all coalesces into exactly one set of choices that was made.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

You are all of yourselves, and only you judge yourselves.

 

[disappoint]

There's a giant flaw here:

You're assuming there's such a thing as a deity. In a multiverse, would there be an infinite number of deities? A single governing deity? A super deity that's the deity of all other deities?

The OP is a polytheist, burn him!

I only mentioned 1 deity. The polytheism idea was yours. Dude...

RUN.

Those cartoon characters look mighty angry. Look what they did to Kenny!