If you have two hands, chances are one is smarter than anything alive, one dumber than a pile of bricks. Your off-hand, you see, belongs to Dark Matter You, whose life is entangled and coterminous with your own, save that all is reversed: time and place, causation and effect.
The difference is your tomorrow is their yesterday, your next breath their last. You both have free will, but since you’re the same person in two worlds, each choice you make is inevitably the same. It’s a paradox that is its own answer: Like competing ideas in a well-trained civilized mind, you and other-you are mutually exclusive opposites that exist together simultaneously.
So wave to your reflection, in a mirror or still water, with your off-hand or theirs. Look into their eyes and wonder what they’ve seen. They’ll be doing the same, thinking the same, fearing your past as you fear their future.
Be kind. Smile and reassure them.
The past and future aren’t so bad. Either going or coming, you’ve made it this far haven’t you?
Be kind. Smile and reassure them.
The past and future aren’t so bad. Either going or coming, you’ve made it this far haven’t you?
"THE CONCEPT YOU PUT BEFORE ME PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF TWO HITHERTO MYTHICAL PLACES. SOMEWHERE, THERE IS A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE, THE MORAL CHOICE, THE CHOICE THAT MAXIMISED THE HAPPINESS OF THEIR FELLOW CREATURES, OF COURSE, THAT ALSO MEANS THAT SOMEWHERE ELSE IS THE SMOKING REMNANT OF THE WORLD WHERE THEY DID NOT..."
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