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Originally Posted by Profpat

Thanks RP and MJA:

It looks like we all believe in equality. I know I do. Not sameness but equality. But here is a question.

"IF YOU COULD CHANGE THE WORLD WOULD YOU"

AND IF YES HOW AND WHY ?

I would leave everything alone and let revolution and evolution take its course.

Best regards:

Profpat

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A History of the Future:
out of the past and the present...
- K.B. Robertson

Lao Tzu's 'Butterfly Theory':
"The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does."
(Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)

For this reason it is recently being proffered that long range weather prediction may be impossible.
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J. Alfred Prufrock presents and enlightened man who is in a quandary as he's seated in a full lotus. "Do I dare move. Do I dare change the universe?" Meanwhile, even by his very thoughts and physical inactions, his breathing and metabolism, he is effecting the universe, permanently. Making it different than it would be were it not for his sentient being.
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To make a longer story shorter, Lao Tzu's Butterfly theory and Prufrock's Eternal Question are - each in their own way - personal, individual - correct - realizations that every single event in the universe, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, projects upon the universe and influences permanent changes and courses of events that would have unfolded differently had not the smallest of events occurred.

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Excellent post, Prof.
Gonna dedicate a thread to you and your question:
"If You Could Change The World, How & Why Would You?"

Best regards,
- RP