Didn't See That Coming
Watched a movie last night. The twin towers tall in New York City stood strong and shiny. People were walking around not paying attention to them with and had no idea what would happen to them in a few years. Nobody saw it coming.
I didn't know at 50 that I would fall and break my hip, roll over in my SUV, lose my houses and my companies, be betrayed by my best friend and live in a garage for three years pretty much homeless. I didn't see those things coming.
I did see bitcoin at $1 and etherium before it even traded as a coin for 7 cents, but I let them go.
My grandfather lived through many wars and always talked about it. I never thought a war would happen in my lifetime. Nobody in Ukraine thought they would be attacked and suffer unspeakable horrors. Everyday normal people watching tv, surfing the internet and all of a sudden thrown into a 1940's war with bombs and no heat or electricity or water. Some people like Gasparov saw it coming an wrote a book about it but nobody listened because nobody saw it coming.
Young Israelis partying, smiling and having fun together had no idea that they would be butchered in a few minutes, thousands of young people.
Time changes things. Often in ways that we could never imagine. Some for good and some for very bad.
The question is right now, what do I not see coming? What is coming next?
If time is not linear but actually happens all at once then we should be able to know what is coming. But how?
Interesting because when we recall memories we can feel that they are now. People from our past are with us now. Now is now, the past is now and so the future is now too.
There is a reason why time is linear, a straight line into the future. Strange but this straight line of time does not really have a now. Now passes instantly from the past to the future, it doesn[t stop at now. You can't stop time. You can take a snapshot of an instance but it passes.
So the real question is, is time moving forward in a straight line as we experience it or does time exist altogether in another dimension or world. If people who die go to another dimension where time all exists at the same time, then can they see what is coming in our world? Can they warn us? Or give us thoughts or feelings about our future?