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it may be impossible to know the future

of course. why would you know it?
you are working off past knowledge, meeting each passing moment as it comes. This is how time works, right? You experience NOW and keep a catalogue of all the previous NOWs mostly vague and uncategorized inside of your brain, only bookmarking the important and relevant ones.

this is useful as the Animal Man, to have a backlog of prior trial and error to reference when facing whatever the new day brings. If I stick my hand in a fire, it will get hurt and that will be bad. If I dance around really cool and sexily, maybe a pretty lady will let me touch her boobies. Etc. That’s kinda how it goes right

Our powers of prediction seem limited to observation. “A priori” experience is a thing wherein you can use your understanding of systems and patterns to determine the outcome of a thing you have not seen before. This is like that, your brain says to you, so I reckon something similar will happen.

This is abstract thought. Abstraction lies entirely in the future. The mind takes what is, creates an architecture built upon it, and allows you to suppose. When you have an abstract thought, when you plan or wonder or any of that shit, this is your future-seeing farsighted mind disconnecting from the NOW of your animal self and living outside of the stream of time.

Less intelligent animals lack our ability to plan, to remember, to think as we do. They snap from moment to moment. They lack the juice for abstraction, and therefore consciousness.

It’d be tough-sleddin’ for any cowpoke to explain how this dang-ole universe is not mechanistic and deterministic. On a Neil Tyson-simp bent, the base level of reality is molecules and particles and atoms and all those little dudes just bumping off each other, which is mathematically predictable, something that given enough time and computing power you could recreate with perfect accuracy. Some dummies act like quantum physics somehow disrupts this, but probably not, right. like that is just a facet of the measurable that we don’t have the tools to inspect yet. It’s like my ex-wife’s vagina: we ain’t made a caliper big enough yet.

But even if you take a more spiritual bent to the thing, and ignore modern science (which I am happy to do, because I think it’s preposterous that we think now, just now, we have all the right tools and strategies for determining the true nature of the universe. scientific method provided it for us. aren’t you so lucky to live here, right now, wherein we just got it all figured out? unlike any other time in history. those dumbasses) anyway where was i going with this

Oh yeah

Even if you take a more spiritual bent and assume that the universe isn’t mechanistic and deterministic, well then some day, some day, this crazy world will end. And God will take back from us the things that he did lend. And therein, with the closing of the last page of the book there will be a finality, there will be One Complete Copy of Existence. And even if it has not arrived yet, it one day will, and that will be Eternity. And if Eternity truly has no end point, there will be a demarcation between the way things are now and they way they will be, and that would be a significant bookmark in the way things are. The way things are will have gone, so that will have been the end of time.

Please stay with me here, I’m not fuckikng crazy. I’m a few Miller Lites deep and I’m in a groove. That’s different from being insane. Don’t try to get deep into my groove though. That’s just not how I roll.

A lot of people smarter than me have said that human beings are 3D creatures existing in a 4D world. Maybe it’s 13D. I don’t know. We have immediate access and control over three dimensions, height, width, and depth, I think. They tend to place time as the next dimension up, which we also experience too, but just not in a controlling way. We are subject to it. I can move freely in space, but in time, I am just along for the ride.

We are in that 4th dimension though, bro. We’re a pattern that is coherent throughout that world. None of my physical body is the same one I inhabited even 10 years ago. What is this “me”? Our bodily cells die and regrow all the time but there’s this continuity of something, man!

Alan Moore is a great writer and he said something about important moments having a weight in spacetime, that they affect the gravity moving back and forward in the timeline. He said that in 1999, and asked if you could feel something coming. It was probably 9/11 right? That sunk the collective consciousness into itself. I think it’s happening now. I think we’re walking downhill. Maybe good, bad. I don’t know. I feel the gravity.

We don’t know the future. Maybe we don’t allow ourselves to. It might be forbidden. It’s probably a little scary. It’s probably beautiful.

We will all touch eternity just for a moment, right at the scariest part.