It was thinking along these lines (maybe in less depth, maybe more, I don't know) that led me to a completely different belief system than I had in the 1990s. Is there only one soulmate out there, or are there thousands that drift in and out of a Venn diagram saying, "Compatible with You"? What religion is the right one -- are there several or possibly none? If I'm in the mall, and I spontaneously stop walking for 10 seconds, how many lives will this affect through a personal butterfly effect? On that last one, when I'm feeling particularly down, I tend to go somewhere populated and do this, knowing I have had a weird reality-altering effect on the Earth, and maybe the universe, in some minute way. I have both created and destroyed the next Hitler or Hawking, Stalin or Sagan, and so on. I have both totally enriched and utterly wrecked days of my own life, through random happenstance. In what ways, it's impossible for me to ever know, unless this is all a simulation that I can review later.
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