Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2966-2970 (25th to 29th May 2015)
pwhodges:
Global Moderator Comment There may be a little jumbling of conversations above, as I moved the posts on this week's comics across from last week's thread.
osaka:
Actually, I think it's much simpler than that. When you thank past-you for what they did, you're using the present-you memory of past-you, which is technically a present representation with no time travelling involved. In fact, what you think past-you was might not be 100% true, creating the image past-you' which is the one you're thanking and which never existed in the first place.
This might be easier with an optics diagram...
cesium133:
--- Quote from: osaka on 27 May 2015, 04:09 ---This might be easier with an optics diagram...
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Okay, so past-you is the virtual image and present you is the object. Future you is a real image. No matter how much you want to, you cannot strangle a virtual image. Stupid past me. I hate that guy.
snubnose:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 May 2015, 01:16 --- I know someone with this condition and I have to watch what I say. If I even hint about something medically-related, by the end of the conversation, he'll be sure he has a serious illness simply because he's been thinking too hard about it. It's no different from any other anxiety disorder - it has no real basis in reality but is nonetheless potentially disabling and always very distressing.
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Whow. I cannot even truely imagine that.
Zebediah:
Okay, just a general comment about anxiety disorders: The basis for them is irrational. So anyone saying "that doesn't make any sense" is missing the point. Of course they don't make sense; that's why they are a problem. And no amount of logical argument is going to alleviate them because they are aren't based in any logic to begin with. They grab hold of a person's thought processes and do not let go, and the person suffering from them has no control over this.
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