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Saturday, August 21

In A World of No Consequences

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, so says Newton's third law. But that's physics. In life, it's slightly modified: To every  action, there is a reaction or consequence. This reaction may be like, unlike, or irrelevant to the action. You slap your friend, he slaps you back. You go out of your way to help someone you have a crush on, he/she wonders what the hell is going on. And even if you do not move when someone is about to throw a snowball at you, you still gave a reaction; your reaction was to ignore that buffoon.
Imagine a world where consequences do not occur. There is no reaction to any action. Wouldn't this world be frozen in time? The 2nd minute of an hour comes because the 1st minute has passed. So the arrival of the 2nd minute is a reaction to the 1st minute passing by. So this event cannot occur in a world of no consequences, and time stops. But then it's not much fun to be in such a world....hmmm.... Ok, just for the fun of it let's pardon time and Newton's 3rd law. Time flows by as usual and there are only reactions to material actions. You push a wall, it shows resistance, but you kick someone in the bum, he shows no anger, pain, anything. He only falls flat on receiving the kick. What would you do in such a place? The possibilities are really enticing :D. You could get back at all the people who annoyed you, travel to any part of the world for free, get a Lambhorghini, a private plane, buy a mansion, get a supercomputer that takes care of the whole mansion and all other stuff you own(like in the movie Iron Man), go to Las Vegas and crap yourself out, see what it's like to shoot a bazooka, or drive a submarine, check all the restricted military areas of the world to see if there ever really was a genuine alien activity that was hushed up, go to space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.....

4 comments:

  1. one,I really don't know how you come up with thoughts like these..genuine.. :)
    two, I personally don't know what I would do in such a world...hmmm...I was thinking about it and all I saw in my mind was a blank wall...

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  2. a blank wall? you didnt want to kick anyone's ass? :D or go on the moon?

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  3. nice witty comment on my bloggg ;) <3

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  4. sometimes, nothing comes to me...happens a lot!

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