Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 15, 2014

This might be hard for her to understand,but if she goes back and tries to change the past , she will alter her present too!

Danae, dollingk, there was no such time.Boogerbrain he may be, but Jeffrey is waaaay ahead of you on this one!

I’d like to see Jeffrey be clever enough to pick a time period that would deflate Danae somehow. Her ego is a balloon begging for a sharp needle.

There has never been a time when people weren’t stupid and annoying.

Oh, this is a Miller classic….The pregnant pause in panel three, Danae’s apparent optimism in panel two, and Jeffry in panel four…Great stuff…..Well written and well drawn…

I am just going to sit here very quietly.

Give it a try – Google finds a lot of stuff that’s not real.

“That was the cause of world war one”…I think you meant to use “excuse” rather than cause. War has only one cause, power and who has it.

“Any world that I’m welcome to is better than the one I come from.”Steely Dan

Perhaps back to the dinosaurs? It’ll be fine unless they bump into Calvin & Hobbes.

How about gong back to 100 million BC? Way before stupid, annoying humans were around. Of course, there will be plenty of stupid and annoying dinosaurs looking to eat you. Oh well.

I think you’ve got the wrong planel, Danae.

And the internet has opened up public stupidity and annoyance beyond anyone’s dreams.Lately when I go to youtube, the opening page suggests multiple videos re time travel. Why? Why me? I don’t even read sci fi much anymore.

Ah, the age of the dinosaurs.

and most of them live in my building, now, you want to see and hear stupid, come and visit a while….please.

“I’m gettin’ sick of this universeAin’t gonna get better; it’s gonna get worseAnd the world’s gonna sink with the weight of the human race

Hate and fear in every faceI’m gettin’ ready and I’ve packed my caseIf you find somewhere better, can you save my place?"

“Had Enough,” the Who

Y’all need to read Stephen King’s 11/22/63. Perfect fit here.

There’s a time traveling theory I just read about, relatively recently, that states that you can’t change the past. And that if you actually go back and do something, it already happened. So what we have today, REQUIRES you to go back because it already happened! There won’t be any changes because you already did it.

Well, our friend Jeffrey presents us with a quandary. Are we working outside of the existential where Danae is or somewhere in the quantum universe?

What is your definition of stupid and annoying Danae?

If Archduke Ferdinand hadn’t been assassinated, it would have been something else. The Powers that Were, were spoiling for a fight.

before the apple.

Day 7

Actually, the answer is not difficult. Danae asked only for a time “when people weren’t SO stupid and annoying”, the operative word being “so”.

Jeffrey can just take her to any time before she was born.

Adam and Eve… before the snake showed up.

The closest you can get to a time when people weren’t so stupid is the time when they were so low-down mean and vicious that your couldn’t SEE the stupid. hmmph. Guess I’m a little down today.

Don’t you believe it. There WAS such a time. I couldn’t push a shopping cart with $400 of groceries in it. After an election, people said “good for you, let’s get on with it”. You could ride the bus to New York for a quarter. – “Hey, you kids get off my lawn.” Remember when kids had their own lawns?

Actually there is such a time. It’s before humans evolved.

Go back to 1984, pick up and bring back a Delorean. Rust free, low milage, original ones are hard to find today!.Even better if it does not have a flux capacitor…

Good one, Wiley…BrassOrchid, You make a good point, but in reality, although it does matter who has the power and the intent, the actual cause can be anything….Territory, water, religion, economics, just plain hate……..

Sure such a time existed. Before people came up with the word ‘ideology’.

There are an infinite number of possibilities, probabilities, both past and present.

I suppose we shouldn’t forget that current up to date physics, quantum theory to be specific, postulates there is an infinite number universes…..Because that really is a game changer….

I can’t picture going back and forth in time, but what if there was a similar, but different universe right next door that you could slide into?

I envision an infinite number of universes, and an infinite number of Packratjohns, but in none of them do I dance…. (slightly paraphrased quote from Sheldon on BBT)

Try the twelfth of never …

Google Search!!!!! HA!