No Future
August 30, 2010 in Blogs
My newest Examiner temporal anomalies article is really about predestination as it impacts time travel. It’s called The Time Traveler’s Wife part 7: just say “No”, and considers the ramifications of Clare’s rejection of Henry’s marriage proposal, which she immediately changes to acceptance.
It strikes me that it’s easy to think that life is rough when you are focused on what you think you should be doing and other people think you should be doing something else. Today, though, a large part of the roughness came from things I thought I should do that I couldn’t do because of other problems–like that New Jersey decided to shut down motor vehicles offices on Mondays from now on to save money. I went to the near one, and when the sign on the door gave its new hours including closed Monday, I drove half an hour to another, which had the same sign. So I lost too much time on that, and on a couple other fool’s errands that amounted to time spent accomplishing nothing.
This leaves me too short of time to complete today’s work or do everything else I’m expected to do, so I’m not sure how I’m going to handle it from here. That, though, seems more and more to be the norm, so I’m going to have to adjust to it somehow.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on August 31, 2010
Isn’t that the entire problem we’ve been having? I think I should be talking about my problems and trying to fix them, everyone else thinks I should shut up and live with it. You just hit the nail right between the eyes with that one MJ.
M. J. Young said on August 31, 2010
“Isn’t that the entire problem we’ve been having? I think I should be talking about my problems and trying to fix them, everyone else thinks I should shut up and live with it. You just hit the nail right between the eyes with that one MJ.”
Perhaps so; but then, the deeper question is whether the community here at Gaming Outpost is the right group with which you ought to be talking. That is, even if you are correct that you should be talking about your problems so as to try to fix them, that does not in any way mean that you ought to be talking /to us/ about those problems. We aren’t actually your therapy group. I won’t say that none of us are your friends, but it does seem presumptious for you to assume that all of us are.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on August 31, 2010
“Perhaps so; but then, the deeper question is whether the community here at Gaming Outpost is the right group with which you ought to be talking.”
I say yes, because the problem was caused by a game world, but that’s just my opinion.
M. J. Young said on September 1, 2010
I think that you’ve moved yourself into Check.
You say that the problem was “caused” by a game world; if that is the case, then you should not play the game and should not be on these forums, because they cause your problems.
I say that the game world at most “exacerbated” the problem. If that is the case, then the game is not responsible for the problem and the players should not bear the brunt of it.
Further, we have established that the world in question was a solo world in which you were the only player and Adam was the referee. That means no one else on this board was directly involved in the problem. Adam chooses not to discuss it with you, and even if you were certain his world caused the problem you have no claim on him to do anything for you for which he did not volunteer. He volunteered to run a game world for you. He did not volunteer to baby you through any psychological problems that arose from that, and did what any sensible referee would do: when he saw that you had psychological problems connected to the game, he got you out of his game.
I hope that I don’t have to do the same on a broader scale.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on September 1, 2010
You were the only one obligated to read and reply. Everyone else did so of their own free will. They chose to deal with it. Please note, Osevens has never said word one about any of it, and he’s been here practically since it happened. I often wonder what he thinks of it. No one besides you was obligated to read anything I put down. You can’t blame me because of what others choose to do in response. They could have done like Osevens did.
If it’s any consolation, it’s FINALLY out of my head!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JohnA1nut said on September 1, 2010
And yeah, “Caused” probably wasn’t the right word to use. That was a 30 roll, even for someone with my condition. Any other world, it wouldn’t have happened. If that world had gone any other way, it wouldn’t have happened. From where you were sitting, it looked good. I can see why you chose that world. You had 35 years of gaming experience working against you though, because you’ve never before met one like me. Don’t kick me off the board now that the problem is (99%) solved. All the time you spent on it would, in essence, be for nothing if you did so.
JohnA1nut said on September 2, 2010
Three
Oh yeah, thanks to everyone for dealing with me. You could not imagine what it meant to me. I’m giving all of you an honorary 1@3 Council Psychotic in Time of Crisis skill.
M. J. Young said on September 2, 2010
“You were the only one obligated to read and reply. Everyone else did so of their own free will.”
There are two problems with that.
First, you sometimes derailed threads that were originally about other subjects and continued to be about those other subjects despite incorporating discussion of your individual problem with them.
Second, it is not always possible to know whether a thread is significant without reading some of it.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on September 2, 2010
Good points on both sides. Draw?
(Doing Therapy)