Dr. Smax ([info]drsmax) wrote,
@ 2004-06-30 06:25:00
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The Twelve Steps of TimeTravelers Anonymous
The Twelve Steps of TimeTravelers Anonymous



1. We admitted we were powerless over TimeTravel and that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to our proper time frame.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care the ElderGods as we understood Them.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and each of our Past and Future Selves (While not under the influence of Morality Supressants).

5. Admitted to the ElderGods, to ourselves (including any PastSelves and FutureSelves existing in time frames that we could reach by telephone), and to another human being or a sufficiently Re-evolved Non-human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have the ElderGods remove all these defects of character or at least replace them with relatively useful defect upgrades.  And in time frames wherein Infinite Will pills are available, replace "entirely" with "infinitely".

7. Humbly asked Them to remove our shortcomings or at least replace them with relatively useful shortcoming upgrades.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, including Past and Future versions of said persons, and became willing to make amends to them all. And in time frames wherein Infinite Will pills are available, replace "willing" with "infinitely willing".

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others or the very SpaceTime continuum itself.

10. Continued to stay off of Morality Suppressants, take personal (as well as Past-Personal and Future Personal) inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through Magickal Rites and UltraVoid Broadcasts to improve our conscious contact with the ElderGods, as we understood Them, placating them only for knowledge of Their Infinite Will for us (not porn!) and the power to carry that out or at least carry out finite approximations of it when restricted to time frames wherein Infinite Will Pills are unavailable.

12. Having awakened to our natures as ethereal matrices of vibrations from the UltraVoid as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other Time Travelers, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.



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Time keeps on slippin'. . .
(Anonymous)
2004-06-30 05:49 am UTC (link)
Isn't everyone a time traveler?

p.s. Yes I know that would include me. And that I am posting anonymously. But though that makes me an anonymous time traveller, I am in no way associated with Time Travellers Anonymous.

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Re: Time keeps on slippin'. . .
(Anonymous)
2004-06-30 07:56 am UTC (link)
Even you, then, can benefit from TTA. Like any journey it all starts with The First Step.

--F.P.

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Re: Time keeps on slingin'. . .
[info]justjohn
2004-06-30 12:42 pm UTC (link)
It can only begin with the First Step after we have vowed to adhere to linear causality.

Hang on ... there might be a flaw in that.

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Re: Time keeps on slingin'. . .
(Anonymous)
2004-07-01 08:11 am UTC (link)
See? This is what happens when you fuck with the SpaceTime continuum.
--F.P.

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Re: Time keeps on slippin'. . .
(Anonymous)
2004-07-01 10:36 am UTC (link)
That's funny, F.P.
I could have sworn it started with the last step. "Last" as in "the one previous" not "the final one."

~P.R.

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[info]justjohn
2004-06-30 12:39 pm UTC (link)
Shouldn't #1 be amended by adding "or, if not yet, that this would inevitably become so?"

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[info]drsmax
2004-06-30 12:44 pm UTC (link)
Interesting suggestion. I'll take it into consideration. I still haven't fully worked out yet what I want the members of TTA (and their detractors) to think about FreeWill vs. Determinism.

But anyway: Thanks.

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[info]justjohn
2004-06-30 12:57 pm UTC (link)
A firewall versus Determinism? Wotta great idea! Oh, wait ... just my dyslexia kicking up again.

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semantic wonderland
[info]raygunn
2004-07-01 10:43 am UTC (link)
"defect upgrades" - Now with 20% more defect!

Jokes aside, this really is a wonderful use of the concept, babe. I'd say even better than you-know-who. Great jorb.

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Re: semantic wonderland
[info]drsmax
2004-07-01 02:19 pm UTC (link)
Wow. Thanks babe.

You know, with David Foster Wallace waiting in The Public Theatre the other night, and Phillip Seymore Hoffman sighted on the outside, I've become jealous of their triplets of bisyllabic names.

For now on, you may call me. . .

"Peter Johnjohn Mandik".

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#10
(Anonymous)
2004-07-01 10:44 am UTC (link)
I was wrong about the "high-velocity gun."

~P.R.

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Re: #10
[info]drsmax
2004-07-01 02:22 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha. Nice one.

I'm never wrong (though a few of my past versions have been).

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