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21 Aug 09
Originally posted by FleabittenHang on here Flea, she's the "same" wife just older but if it excites you to think you've had an affair......go for it.
No. I mean suppose I'm married now and I travel forward in time about five years. While there, I sleep with my wife but it's my wife now five years older. If I then return to the present, will I have cheated on 'present' wife?
21 Aug 09
It depends on how you percieve time. Some would say that there are an infinate number of alternate universes, and to travel through 'time' would be to enter into another of these universes and interact with an almost identical but slightly different version of the people you know. So by using this theory you would have cheated.
Then again, if you go down the more traditional route of there being only one timeline which cannot be altered, then you are not cheating - otherwise you have already done so in our real universe, as your present wife was once a future wife.
A more interesting idea of this arguement would be this:
If you go back/forward in time and meet another version of yourself and have sex with them - would it be gay?
21 Aug 09
Originally posted by Great Big SteesWell, no, it's not the excitement of having an affair. Tchex is on to what I'm talking about. If our identity is comprised of the sum of our experiences at any given moment in time, then am I a separate and distinct persona at any given moment in time?
Hang on here Flea, she's the "same" wife just older but if it excites you to think you've had an affair......go for it.
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21 Aug 09
Originally posted by FleabittenIf you believe that your identity is indeed made up of those experiences, at any given moment in time, then I suppose your thinking "may" be right........"if".
Well, no, it's not the excitement of having an affair. Tchex is on to what I'm talking about. If our identity is comprised of the sum of our experiences at any given moment in time, then am I a separate and distinct persona at any given moment in time?
21 Aug 09
Originally posted by Fleabittenand when you'd catch yourself doing her while you were supposed to be on a business trip, would you kick your ass?
If we assume that our identities are inexorably infused with the sum of our experiences in life, would it be considered cheating if I travelled forward in time and had relations with 'future' wife?
21 Aug 09
Originally posted by FleabittenDude, of all the shhhiiittt in the world there is to worry about, I wouldn't torment yourself over this scenario.
No. I mean suppose I'm married now and I travel forward in time about five years. While there, I sleep with my wife but it's my wife now five years older. If I then return to the present, will I have cheated on 'present' wife?
It's quite unlikely to reach fruition, and it's also very silly.
21 Aug 09
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Originally posted by FleabittenIf you're going to cheat on your present wife why not go back in time and cheat on her when she was younger?
No. I mean suppose I'm married now and I travel forward in time about five years. While there, I sleep with my wife but it's my wife now five years older. If I then return to the present, will I have cheated on 'present' wife?
21 Aug 09
Originally posted by Fleabitteni did that very thingy last week...
If we assume that our identities are inexorably infused with the sum of our experiences in life, would it be considered cheating if I travelled forward in time and had relations with 'future' wife?
itz not so bad...
a quick moment of confusion az to "who" i am, and "who" i will be...
then off to disneyland fer ice cream and mickey...
i recommend tha ride...😀
rookie
21 Aug 09
Originally posted by FleabittenYou travel forward in time and appear just outside the kitchen window. You look in, and your wife and you are just finishing up a meal. You know by routine that soon you will take out the garbage.
If we assume that our identities are inexorably infused with the sum of our experiences in life, would it be considered cheating if I travelled forward in time and had relations with 'future' wife?
When you come outside, you knock you over the head with a log and go inside to do the deed with your future wife.
Next, you go back in time where you belong and wait 5 years.... on that very same evening taking out the trash you go out the back door and bonk yourself over the head from behind before he can bonk you.
You go in and do the deed.
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21 Aug 09
Originally posted by Fleabitten"... and, forsaking all others, to be faithful only to him/her as long as you both shall live..."
If we assume that our identities are inexorably infused with the sum of our experiences in life, would it be considered cheating if I travelled forward in time and had relations with 'future' wife?
No one thought about time travel when they wrote the wedding vows.
Back to the drawing board.