But that’s not the topic of this article. Whatever the fuel is, I think we have overlooked one of the most important things about advancing transportation. What I’m talking about is solving the problem of people trying to multitask while driving, which usually leads to serious auto accidents and quite often death. Too many people are trying to drive while they talk on their cell phones, text to the friends, read maps, eat a fast food burger and fries along with a Coke to slurp it down, gawk at flashy billboards of half nude chicks, or literally anything distracting, which makes me think we’ve got a lot of subconsciously suicidal people on our hands. If you really wanted to drive safely, you would focus all your attention on the wheel, not everything else around the wheel. If death is what you seek, by all means do everything else while you sit at your wheel, except actually drive your car! Results will be instantaneous death! Guaranteed! Considering a large percentage of human beings are virtually stupid, I have determined that such stupidity can in fact lead to dearth.

Therefore, I recommend that auto industries invents the self-driven car. Essentially you would type into the car’s computer your destination, and the car will literally take you there without you lifting a finger. All you have to do is sit back and relax, or put on your makeup, give yourself a close shave, or both, babble away on your cell phone, text to all your friends, read your favorite book, or whatever extracurricular activities you wish to do in the car while said car merrily drives you to your destination. Anything goes now, considering you don’t have to drive the car yourself. So now your off the hook.

I think this would be a great innovation of the automobile. We would have fewer or no accidents on our streets and freeways, or even parking lot (Yes! Parking lot accidents are not a myth! Stupid is as stupid does!), and the only way accidents could occur is if there was a virus in your car’s computer, which means some day some sly hacker will come up with some kind of a auto accident causing virus, and then we would once again have the twenty car pileup on the freeway just like the good old days. I suppose some things just can’t be avoided. Oh well…

More alarming is the serious possibility that certain factions or individuals exist today that zealously believe in literal Bible prophecy to the point that they wish to help instigate an Armageddon war. As a matter fact, the three Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, all seem to have a stake in some kind of scriptural prophecies that evidently require a war, or some kind of squabble between the three religions, because each believes it is the one true religion in which case it must extinguish the others. This kind of hatred between the three religions alone might actually lead to such an Armageddonal war, or another holy war. Granted, not all members of these religions feel this is way, but just the more radical zealous members definitely do.

Each of these religions have their own coming Messiah, and they believe steps must be taken to allow this to happen, to make way for their Messiah, and one of the steps is this Armageddon type war. Hence, the sooner such a war takes place, sooner their Messiah will come. So the zealous members of these religions desire to take upon themselves the task of hastening these prophecies. Which means they must definitely cause a war .Now doesn’t that sound insane?

Further fanning the flames of apocalyptic times and an Armageddon war are the strictly literal Bible-prophecy-based books of the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. What could be worse than this to incite people, if not to cause religious riots, which might actually spawn the end times that these zealous people emphatically believe in.

Likewise, it’s a scary fact that certain major political leaders also believe that the End Times are near, and they emphatically wish these times are now. Here’s a quote from the most intriguing volume, Racing Toward Armageddon:

“The apocalyptic view of Middle East events held by recent US administrations, most evidently with President George W. Bush, really began with President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. Famously, in 1981, Ronald Reagan revealed that he believed, ‘for the first time ever, everything is in place for the battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.’ He later echoed this belief, stating, ‘I turn back to the ancient prophets in the Old Testament and the signs foretelling Armageddon, and I find myself wondering if — if we are the generation that is going to see that come about.’”

If that’s not bad enough, how about this: “Two decades later, President Bush contented himself with advice from God. In 2003 he explained to the Palestinian prime minister, ‘God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam.’ He seems to speak like Moses or Joshua; perhaps he really did believe that he was leading us to the Promised Land.”

If warmongering national leaders believe in war between nations from the standpoint of causing the biblical Armageddon, then it seems that we are definitely doomed. Is there no stopping them? It’s quite possible World War III is at hand, which will most likely be called the Armageddon War. So sometimes I often wonder, who is really creating Bible prophecy: God, or religiously insane people?

And this question must be asked: isn’t it up to God to determine the time and the hour, not mankind? That’s what makes this whole thing so absurd. Evidently these crazy staunchly dogmatic zealots have taken the whole matter out of God’s hands, and they’re going to initiate the End Times themselves, without God. How religiously arrogant can people get? It’s bad enough that they will most likely indeed cause the end of the world. God forbid!

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For more information regarding this topic, read Racing Toward Armageddon by Michael Baigent

I have actually heard of individuals meeting their doppelgängers, even if just momentarily. I’m not sure what really took place, perhaps they were just schizophrenic. Or perhaps they actually witnessed their other selves inadvertently stepping from their universe into ours.

Hypothetically, depending on what kind of choices we make in life, each choice may have created another self to act on that decision. Perhaps you decided to make a certain career choice, and you stuck with it, which panned out for the majority of your life. If you had made a different decision and found a different career to follow, perhaps a different self of you would split off and take that path. Does this mean that your own personal parallel universes can be created depending on your choices and decisions? Or perhaps they’re merely parallel potentialities that could have existed if you had made certain decisions.

It’s similar to the concept of time travel, wherein you feel you’ve made a mistake in life, which made you consider the idea that if you had the chance to do it over again you would have done it much differently. So if you were to travel back in time, you would make a much better decision, leading you upon a more prosperous path. Perhaps making such changes via time travel would create new timelines, hence you have other selves existing in these other parallel universes you created.

And perhaps someday through manipulating temporal physics, and developing the technology to breaking through into these other parallel universes, we will perhaps acquire some very enlightening answers. But such possibilities may be found in the future.

However, perhaps via a psychic extra-dimensional phenomenon, these things occur without technology. Many people have experienced what is called “reality shifts,” which may be doorways into these parallel universes. I have experienced many of these reality shifts myself, but I’ve yet to have one where I meet my other self, or selves. Who knows, that may yet occur someday.

Parallel universe explains an infinite amount of possibilities, and perhaps they are merely actually “parallel potentialities” that could have existed, but never fully manifested. Perhaps there is only one primary universe, where only a certain agenda will manifest, and perhaps certain potentialities or parallel universes could not fully manifest because certain events never took place in the primary universe. So a potential parallel universe might never become a primary universe, whereas a different parallel universe whose momentum has built up will indeed become the main universe. All such manifestations of such events that entered the primary universe were based on choices people made, and the momentum that was built up behind their choices.

Granted, this is a very limiting theory involving parallel universes, perhaps less dramatic. However, the idea of the Multiverse is more radical, as it involves the existence of countless parallel universes existing simultaneously, which means all of these potentialities exist at once, because all possible choices manifested in some form or another, hence creating these parallel universes, which would explain the bleeding through or reality shifts. This is very much like the many branches of a tree. Perhaps at one time there was only one universe; however, based on the definite choices people made throughout history, other universes were created, or perhaps you could call them separate timelines. In which case, there could be an infinite amount of timelines throughout the totality of existence.  This would become the Multiverse.

And this is quite possibly why we experience these bleed-through phenomena, or reality shifts. Because certain incidents from a parallel universe will bleed through into ours momentarily, often causing confusion or disorientation. Is this why we have missing socks when we do laundry? Is this why the car keys you set on the coffee table strangely reappear inside the refrigerator? Or perhaps this is why the car that was tailgating you one second strangely disappears the next. Or perhaps you met someone and got to know him for a few months, and when you parted, then met again a few years later, he had absolutely no recollection of who you were. Or perhaps you heard about a famous individual’s death in the news, but then a year or two later you hear a news story discussing some event about the same person, implying he was still alive. There are numerous inconsistencies like this that we can cite, and the best explanation is the existence of parallel universes. However, it could be explained as somebody experiencing memory loss, or even some kind of fractured memory disorder, if not insanity. But that would mean a lot of people in this world are insane. Perhaps that is the case. Or perhaps we just can’t trust our own minds, which tend to play tricks on us. Or perhaps the existence of parallel universes is real.

And if so, does that mean each one of us has other selves? Is it possible that each individual has a countless number of other selves existing in these parallel universes? Something to think about.

For one thing, there is a strange phenomena metaphysicians call “reality shifts,” because they seem to explain the existence of parallel universes. It’s quite possible that we unknowingly shift in and out between these parallel universes. When we experience things disappearing or reappearing, missing time, translocation, synchronicity, physical inconsistencies, and other incongruent anomalies, these are reality shifts. Or you could call them “frequency shifts,” since there are innumerable dimensional levels in existence like different frequencies on the radio as you move the dial along to find a clear station. Sometimes you cross between two frequencies, or get bleed-throughs as we move from one to the other, but in this case, as you live your life day to day, you may be moving unknowingly through these frequencies. Therefore, you will be experiencing weird inconsistencies and such anomalies that make little sense. When your car keys are not where you left them but you find them somewhere else where you never put them, or the book you leant a friend oddly appears in your bookshelf as if it never left, or an old acquaintance you meet again denies ever having met you, or a beautiful park you found in town seems to have vanished from existence the next time you try to find it – these are all examples of the phenomenon of reality or frequency shifts.

Eastern philosophies have their own explanation, stating that our dense physical world is an existence of illusion, which can explain the inconsistencies in life. It’s very much like the inconsistencies and illogical nature you may experience in dreams. In that case, this world is a dream — theoretically speaking. Whether you want to call this a world of illusion, or the peculiar interplay between parallel universes, something very strange is taking place.

It’s quite possible that while you go through your normal humdrum daily life, certain things may bleed through from a nearby parallel universe. For example, perhaps you distinctly remember taking a particular book from your bookshelf and setting it down on your coffee table. It could be the next day or perhaps an hour later that you notice the book is gone. Perhaps later on it reappears somewhere else in your house, perhaps in the bathroom. This is what you could call a parallel-bleed-through. In one parallel plane the book was on the coffee table, but in another plane it was in the bathroom. You stepped unknowingly from one plane to the other.

Ask yourself, have you yourself experienced any freaky things in life that might be reality shifts?

Artificial hearts and limbs are becoming more common now, and other artificial organs are in the works, such as the eyeball, liver, pancreas, bladder, trachea, ovaries, etc. Perhaps someday most of our organs, if not all, could be replaced with bionic or cybernetic parts which last much longer than biological organs. Perhaps near-immortality could be achieved. And could our epidermis be replaced with cybernetic skin too?

In fact, this transformative process may be accomplished through nanotechnology. Take an infant and inject thousands of nano-bots into its bloodstream and they would gradually transform parts of its body into sophisticated machinery, and the child would eventually become half machine and half human. As the child grows, the nano-bots gradually transform other parts of its body into cybernetic components, until it grows to maturity. Then it becomes an adult piece of bio-machinery that has united with the one mind of the Borg Collective. There will be many members but one mind, with one objective: to conquer the rest of humanity! Beware! They come not in peace, and declare to us, “You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!”

Is this concept too fantastic? Can this only be found in the realm of science fiction? Or is there some potentiality for it to be developed in our realm of actual possibility? Would a biological organism, such as a human being, be able to actually function with cyborg parts? Or would the combination of biology and machinery cause serious problems, leading to a cascade effect and an eventual breakdown? It’s something to think about.

Let’s use this scenario exemplified in The Butterfly Effect, there were three movies in the series, the first one being the best, of course. If you haven’t seen it, by all means check it out.

My question is, what if you could travel back in time but manifested through your younger body, but maintaining your present consciousness? In other words, you plan to change something in your personal past, perhaps correct some error, or perhaps you wronged somebody, or made a big mistake. Perhaps you were drinking and driving and caused a really serious car accident and crippled the other guy for life. You would definitely want to try and change that. Like they say, “If I could do it over again, I would have done it differently.” Of course as Dr. Wayne Dyer says, “You couldn’t have shouldn’t have done anything.” But the rules change with time travel.

Therefore, when you travel back and enter your younger body, would you be able to easily correct that mistake in one shot? Or would that perpetuate a different undesirable result? And would you have to go back a few more times, or even several times and try to fix the ongoing mistakes you continue to make every time you go back in time? In various time travel stories I’ve read and movies I’ve seen, this negative vicious circle seems to be a recurring theme. It’s as if there is some kind of temporal law that says, “If it’s broke, leave it broke; learn from your stupid mistakes, so you don’t do it again next time.” As opposed to the,” If it’s broke, fix it” rule, which is what we’re trying to do by traveling into the past.

In our normal time, where time travel seems to not exist, that’s all we can do: when we make mistakes, we learn from them and strive not to make them again, because we really can’t go back and fix them. Of course, the ability to time travel would change all that, and we could potentially fix all of our mistakes. As long as we don’t create new mistakes while we’re trying to fix the old ones. As I said earlier, that’s the time travel predicament we may be stuck with in that kind of scenario. So what’s the lesser of two evils, risking going back and fixing things, or just living with the mistakes we made and learn from them?

Something to think about, folks.

I think we’ve exhausted the whole Stargate idea, whether it’s the concept or the fascinating TV show, but has anyone considered the idea of a Time Gate? Possibly, but is it possible as a scientific theory? And could this means of traveling from one point in time to another be more than just a theory? Could there be any reality to it?

Further scientific research may uncover this someday, and in the meantime, science-fiction writers and science-fiction conversationalists can have fun with this whole idea.

Alright, folks, I’m going to step through my personal Time Gate and go forty years in the future and talk to my old geezer self — if he’s still alive. I hope so! I have too much to live for!

But the concept of a person being able to time travel into the past still is believed to be an impossibility by many. However, I postulate you can do this using psychological means. By means of trans-regression, you can travel into your own personal past to observed it more clearly. Some mystics using psychic-regression claim to have traveled into the ancient past to observe actual events that took place thousands of years ago. The question is, when they travel via this mental medium, can they actually affect the past, or only visit it and observed it? Has any of them tried it?

Time travel remains as yet an undiscovered realm of possibilities. We don’t know what its limitations are, or how vast its scope could be. Right now all we can do is speculate, but someday perhaps someone will invent an actual time machine, take a trip in it, and return to tell about it.

Anyway, we’ll have to go back in time and change all that so that we have a gender-neutral or gender friendly language. Such as, “If the time traveler enters his/her time machine and travels ten years back to when he/she was a youngster, and talks to him/her in order to warn himself/herself about all the insane crap that is going to happen in his/her life in the future, so that he/she can change it so it won’t happen to him/her, what will actually happen as a result?”

All gender crap aside, because that gets real cumbersome and stupid, the question is: when you go back to change your own past, warning yourself so that you won’t do all those stupid things, will it work? Or will everything go wrong? And will you have to go back and fix that mistake? And then when you realize things have gotten even worse, you’ll have to go back and fix it again.

This has to do with the Butterfly Effect, an idea that did not originated in the movie of the same name, but in an old Ray Bradbury story, called The Sound of Thunder. Several years ago a movie was made from this, but it actually took a tailspin  out of proportions from the original story, which means they exaggerated the bloody heck out of it. It was actually a pretty good version, all said and done and trampled on. I won’t give the ending away from either the movie or the story, but the theory in this particular time travel story is that if you go off the main path of safety, there is a possibility you might effect time in the past in such a way that it will eventually affect the future, whether subtly or dramatically. Let’s just say the original story suggests a subtle change, but the movie gives a completely radical dramatic change in the future. In other words, if you go back in time and step on a butterfly, hence killing it, that may change all future events, eventually.

I would like to get some feedback on these theories, possibilities, potentialities, arguments, so forth and so on. And keep this in mind: if you could go back in time, what would you change in your life? Or what would you alter, do or undo to make things better?