Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: It's about the Butterfly Effect Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:40:15 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 33 Message-ID: <6AE6C2AF.22CD@ix.netcom.com> References: <11bp1m3$15c2m$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1791141"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/fBXiPZTSLbMJyL/iF4QjG/va230D7b8w="; posting-host="cf0ea24fa5c8e71ae1599bff2748cdb0" Cancel-Lock: sha1:CD8/NHkRIkDWizz4FanRPRFpHrA= sha256:uslWWHkJz66WdCtXkOmlNjauQ/PJ2WVvNs/244RsyU4= sha1:JLpUHwHq3rk6lA90FHbhVVkkfW8= sha256:/cWAqfjQ6LaFRUIY8jNpU6INHWxqFPHBbdxhLuYUrMA= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 261031-10, 10/31/2026), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:661668 alt.usage.english:1153039 sci.physics.relativity:675430 Blaine wrote: > > https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-butterfly-effect-why-you-can-t-predict-what-happens-next/vi-AA20zX09 > > The smallest change in conditions can to the biggest results. > > -- > Sometimes I just feel like I need to get away > A place where I can be by myself, all alone > I kinda lay down in the back yard > Watch the leaves fall down on my face I was thinking of a different butterfly effect... In Brooklyn trees I used to watch caterpillars turn into cacoons, then a butterfly. Does that mean the caterpillar dreams he's a butterfly now? He fluttered about happily, doing as he pleased, completely unaware that he was a human named Zhuang Zhou. When he suddenly woke up, he was unmistakably himself again. This left him with a deep question: Was he a man who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or is he now a butterfly dreaming that he is a man? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.