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  Re: It's about the Butterfly Effect The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-31 21:40 -0700
    Re: It's about the Butterfly Effect The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-31 21:49 -0700

#1153039 — Re: It's about the Butterfly Effect

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.

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#1153041

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> 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?

Or is he now a butterfly dreaming he is a catterpilla?

The Butterfly Effect is hurting my head.

I must be dreaming

but, but I did dream I was a catterpilla and I woke up..

and now I'm the catterpilla dreaming I'm  the starmaker!


-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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