Time Loops

Tonight was spent at two of my old friends engagement parties. In the old days of high school I was very good friends with both of these guys however over the years and distance we have drifted apart. Now, to my great surprise they are to be wed. The one I had kept in somewhat contact with over the years but the other was now a complete stranger at first. It was fairly awkward in the beginning but I was determined to hangout with him and a few others some more because we used to be such close friends. Now he is a philosophy major he got me thinking of philosophical crap. On the drive home a thought hit me. What if time can be altered or expected. That is what if someone can actually tell the future with exact precision and then alter it. Being a historian I had to link the two fields for this subject to make sense.

History repeats itself. This is true and evident if one studies enough history. However, what if history repeats itself exactly. What if there is a set timeline that simply plays over and over again. Obviously, it cannot happen in the same place or on the same magnitude, but everything I did today has been done by someone else before. What if my life has already been completed by someone else? What if someone is living my exact life in another part of the world only they are at a different point in it? What if someone can find the pattern or timeline? If someone can find the timeline of set events in history, could they control the future? They would have the knowledge of exactly what someone is doing throughout their entire life. They would know exactly how people have, are, and will behave. This is a long shot but history does, in fact, repeat itself and my theory is that in many cases it repeats itself exactly. Someone has thought of this before and has written about it. Someone has done exactly what you did today. What does that do to uniqueness? What does that do to free will? However, if someone knew the pattern they could simply break it. But would they want to break it? Or have people broken it in the past and created new timelines? Fuck my mind. Too much thinking for this early in the morning.