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Question: How powerful is the butterfly effect in changing people's lives!?
The simple fact that you are reading this has changed your life forever!. Now you will marry someone different (if you haven't already) and have entirely different children because I have altered your behaviour pattern!. A butterfly wings has the power to change the weather half way across the globe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I've always been interested in the unordinary and far fetched theories, only when it's interesting, like this butterfly effect!. i think that every situation has different possibilities and it's not all premeditated and planned out!.!. i think the decisions we make lead to something else, and ultimately, may completely alter what our lives would have been had we chosen the other path!. some decisions can change your life, literally!. cheers to posting this theory on the butterfly effect, it's so interesting and it hasn't come up in my mind lately ;)



by the way, i am totally with you on this one!.!. reading this could stop a possible fatal car accident, because it completely alters the pattern, he might've been in bed in those 5 minutes he took out to read and reply to your post, therefor offsetting what otherwise would've been the normal plan!. maybe tomorrow he'll spill milk and it'll take him 10 minutes to completely clean up, now that's 15 minutes that are taking his complete schedule back!. maybe if those 15 minutes hadn't occurred, he would've been in his car at a certain half second of time, and subsequently crashed into this other ''car'' who, now because of those 15 minutes, completely avoided his car, because it wasn't there 'on time'

again, cheers to posting this!.!.!. thanxWww@QuestionHome@Com

Let's not exaggerate!. Because, if we do this, then the fact that I answered your question will change your life forever!. You will marry someone different (or you'll get divorced, if you're married), you'll have different children bla bla bla!. Do you really believe this!?
It is absolutely true that my entire life is nothing but a sum of changes caused by the butterfly effect, just like yours, but I really don't think that your question is going to effect my future!. Think about it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I agree with Urbane Radio!.

Everything that happens is bound to happen!.

also here is where the contradiction begins:What happens if a healthy person develops heart disease!?

Shouldn't that healthy person diet prevented them from getting heart disease!?

Or did that person get heart disease because they were genetic predisposed to having heart disease!?

Think about it, almost everything in life is predetermine!. Our eyes are predetermined, hair, color, height, genetic diseases, etc!.

There's really is no alternative; at least not one that I know of!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think the "butterfly effect" theory is just plain BSWww@QuestionHome@Com

wow this interesting to think about
i personally think it is trueWww@QuestionHome@Com

haha why!? scare oredi ah!? haha!.!.!.too many evil sin had done is it!? hahaWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yeah but it goes 99!.99% unnoticed!. That why people think free will exists, they don't see the strings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

ever heard of chaos theory!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

this supposition can only be true if a) there is one true timeline that weve deviated from and b) in x amount of days/years we could travel thru time back to this moment and compare what happened with the supposed direction my life was tacking prior to reading this!.

while the butterfly effect makes perfect sense, its not as profound as you make it seem, i submit to you that you did nothing that wasnt supposed to happen, you wrote a question and i clicked to read it!. how can you say this was never going to happen, i say it was always bound to happen, it would seem there are infinite different possibilities but since i am unable to completely flesh out every single event that lead me to this point im left to conclude that this was inevitable!. only now do i consider 'what if i had not read this question and instead gone to sleep!?' it doesnt matter now, theres no 'undo' button!. where the possibilities seemed infinite there was actually only one, it happened, and i dont see it being anything that was completely random!. decisions brought me here to read a question you made the decision to post!. and thats just the beginning

lets worry about the butterfly effect when efficient time travel is created, though it would seem if time travel was possible that it would only create an alternate universe, a duplicate of the original, and the original could not be returned to, instead another alternate would be made, and on and on!. but thats not what this is aboutWww@QuestionHome@Com