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The problems started with my resolution next year to reject temporal causality.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In my D&D campaign, I play a time wizard. It's fun to drop lines like this. I think my DM sometimes runs with it, making my statements self-fulfilling prophecy so that I appear to be able to foresee the future.

"The reality principle does like to disabuse us of our whims." (No one at my table has seen Steins;Gate and it is a fantastic source of content for a time wizard haha)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

But you gain so much more by rejecting temporal causality than by rejecting empiricism.