Free Will
by Kimo Therapy
My older brother called me up yesterday. He told me
an alien had abducted him last weekend. He said that they looked like the
typical aliens in the movies: big heads, big eyes, and skinny, pale bodies.
But he conjectured that they weren’t alien at all, he said. He somehow
felt that these aliens were in fact humans from millions of years in the
future, and they were time traveling to update the historical records of
their galactic library. He said they asked him a bunch of questions about
20th Century law and ethics and kept touching his head with their hands.
Then he told me that when the aliens weren’t looking, he snatched up
a small item that was sitting on a table in the room where he was being held
and at that instant all the aliens appeared to freeze motionless and he made
a break for the door. Apparently he was being held in an ordinary office
room in an ordinary office building in an ordinary downtown city. As you
can expect I was totally sympathetic to the whole affair and suggested to
my brother that he ought to take a vacation for I felt that his work might
be wearing on him. Yet he wanted to show it to me to prove his story. I told
him to get on a plane, come visit me in Hawaii, and bring the stolen item
with him.
A few days later he arrived and immediately showed
me what he had stolen. It looked like a small billiard ball whose surface
reflected with a brilliant iridescence, splattering a rainbow pattern across
the wall when you brought it up to the sunlight. It was made of a very dense
and hard material but seemed to weigh virtually nothing when resting in the
palm of your hand. Beautiful yet horrifying at the same time, this future
relic was definitely a mechanism more powerful than even the fictitious Ring
of Middle Earth for when I held it in my hands, I could feel the ever familiar
temporal shift in perception that only represented one thing: time travel.
Using what I learned from Carlos Castaneda (Tensgrity), Lao Tzu (Taoism),
and Stephen Hawking (Quantum Physics), I suddenly realized that this device
verified the truth about our free will.
It is time I reveal this information for mankind is
nearly approaching a crescendo event in his young history. It is immanent,
and it is my natural fate that I dedicate the rest of my life to informing
the world to be ready: to unite together and change the current living
perceptions in order to step forward and walk into the next level of evolution.
The prevailing chaos that threatens the very fabric of time blanketing the
universe’s naked body will be upon us all, and we--the most capable
yet the most infantile life form in the universe--must be ready.
First let’s consider this thought experiment.
Suppose you are able to build a time machine by making a wormhole in space
where you put the entrance, say, in the goal box at one end of a soccer field.
At the other end of the field in the other goal box, you put the exit of
the wormhole. Now you set the two wormhole openings apart in time about 5
seconds so that if you kicked a soccer ball into the first goal the ball
should immerge out of the other goal 5 seconds earlier in time. Of course
this means that approximately 5 seconds before you plan to kick the soccer
ball, you look over your shoulder behind you to see that same soccer ball
roll out of the exit wormhole. When you turn your head back around and prepare
to kick the original soccer ball into the wormhole entrance you will notice
that your feet are already moving in the right direction to kick the ball.
No matter what you think or how you feel about it, you’re going to kick
that ball because the fundamental laws of physics governing the entire universe
say you will.
That’s a load of crap you say, right? Why? Because
as Stephen W. Hawking demonstrates with his Chronology Protection Theory:
with the existence of a time machine, particles would be allowed to loop
into their own past and mathematical calculations suggest that the ensuing
disturbance would become self-reinforcing, thus creating a chain reaction
energy release that would destroy the worm hole (both ends) and leave space
time with the same amount of matter, i.e. only one soccer ball. So what does
this mean? You kick the soccer ball towards the entrance of the wormhole
and as soon as the ball’s physical surface contacts the energy field
of the wormhole, the wormhole is destroyed? No, not true. There’s no
reason for a particle not to loop around time frames in the universe as long
as the particles stay within the guided limitations of universal law.
Time and space
It’s like saying there’s no reason you
can’t fly across the Pacific Ocean as long as you keep enough lift on
the plane’s wings to keep it from falling into the water. Of course,
Dr. Hawking isn’t privy to this small, iridescent ball yet, but I’ve
already discovered that my brother will show it to him in a few years from
now at which time he will edit his Chronology Protection Theory to take into
account the absence of free will. You can either trust me or wait it out
for the next 867 days.
Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices
you make. You’re individuality is represented by how you act in this
universe and how it is different than another person’s actions, but
the real truth is that you don’t have free will. If you build the
above-mentioned wormhole, you have to kick the soccer ball, especially if
you see it when you look over your shoulder. Fate and destiny are more than
just philosophical excuses for our actions. They are a reflection of the
laws of physics. The calamity in contemporary politics and societal law is
that you can only be held responsible for things you did of your own free
will, and since freedom is just a matter of probabilities you’re being
held responsible for the result of throwing dice.
Ok, so let’s say you choose not to look over your
shoulder to check to see that the soccer balls rolls out of the goal. Now
it seems you have a choice because in your perceived reference frame, the
ball has not yet exited the wormhole. But let’s say your buddy is watching
from the sideline and he sees the soccer ball roll out of the wormhole exit.
For 5 brief seconds, he sees two soccer balls and then sadly watches you
kick the soccer ball into the wormhole entrance. But we just stated that
you didn’t look over your shoulder so that according to your perception
of things, you should have the free will option of walking away, right? Wrong.
You never had the choice. The ball must be kicked. At what point then did
the universe determine that this theoretical soccer ball was going to get
kicked into the goal? Let’s just say a long, long time ago. Same thing
applies to our little iridescent ball stolen by my big brother. He was a
thief long before he was even born. History is simply the playing out of
subatomic particles governed by a universal fundamental law. The Big bang
set up the initial conditions for this universe and we are merely sparks
of a beautiful firework display that’s lasting a heck of a long time.
So why do I tell you this information. You probably
think I’m making it all up. Well, in a way I am but in a way I’m
not. It’s just the Way of things. You, the reader of this e-zine, are
a lucky few for you are one of the first to be privy to such hallowed knowledge.
Even Dr. Hawking doesn’t know the shear magnitude that you know now
about our fates. Yes, my friends, time is not linear as you may have once
thought. You don’t start the clock when you’re born and progress
linearly until death and end there. That’s merely an illusion. An illusion
representing a physical law designed to direct the path of the fireworks.
But why? Why waste time even reading this? Don’t
ask that silly question. Time cannot be wasted any more than space can be
wasted, and really there is no such thing as a waste of space. Ask any Taoist.
Don’t fret about not having free will. Just bask in the illusion of
it. Don’t be afraid when you go to the mental hospital, you were meant
to go there. The real truth is that struggling against this universal current
is like not looking over your shoulder to see the soccer ball. Blinding forging
ahead without looking back prevents you from seeing the future. Look around
you. Take your time. Follow the Way. Don’t be afraid to kick the ball
because in the end, or I should say, in the beginning, it was always the
right thing to do.
Meanwhile, I’ve got to take care of this little
time machine my big brother stole from himself. Be seeing you.
Vixen Queens sitting Indian style
Mama Moon hums a comfort tune
Opossums watch on the sidelines waiting
When a Leonid tears the sky open
Vixen Queens sitting Indian style
Are one in the same,
And energy and matter
Long to foxtrot again.
In wigwams lined with lava lamps
Swim contentedly through waves of meditation
And cycles of rise and fall
That rides a cool breeze down the pungent sound
Feeding fresh air to kill deer upon the hill
Which blows away the will to hear the punch line
For their Piglet to get up and lead the masses
But only comfort silence comes to them
In between the passages of time
Revealing a secret sliver about what
Lies beyond the black shroud of American life
We see the answer to the question posed
In wigwams lined with velvet ropes
Dream of tomorrow through the eyes
Of a barking dog in a quite urban hood