When I was checking my email this ad came up on the side of gmail:
That’s definitely one of the weirdest ads I’ve seen…
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Apparently the theory goes that you have infinite other versions of yourself in parallel worlds who are, in their own right, better at anything you can imagine than you are. So you can access them, being connected to them as you ARE them, to increase your own abilities at anything.
This doesn’t take into consideration that if there’s infinite other yous, then they must all infinitely suck at everything ad well, so connecting with the wrong one would lower your own abilities considerably. But that would never happen in Get-What-You-Want-Without-Effort Land, would it?
The idea is that you can specifically telepathically connect with the ones you want. So for example, if I want to be a photographer, I just connect with the one (or one of the many, I suppose) who is a great photographer. No explanation is given as to how this is supposed to work. You just sort of imagine it. A little magic thinking is required beforehand, of course.
Note that he is always talking to himself in another world, never anybody else. This goes along with the fact that in reality he is literally talking to himself in a dream, I suppose.
That all being a dream would explain that alternate universes would not resemble our own: the people, the events, etc. Not even you would be the same. I mean, you can call it another you all you want, but someone who is different from you, even though they have the same body, birthday, birthplace, parents, and siblings, is NOT you. And this is assuming you were even born to begin with in any given alternate universe.
I guess you could hand wave that away by saying there are infinite possibilities, but being able to weed through those infinite possibilities to find the exact one you want would be nigh impossible. Even after you find the right one, what guarantees are there it would want to talk with you? Just because “they” are “you”? Get real.
Sorry, there should be a period between the first “that” and “Alternate.” Being a dream would explain away all those discrepancies I listed.
What happens if you contact an evil you? A “you” that learned to take over bodies in other dimensions?
The One, starring Jet Li and Jason Statham. Interesting effects: Li fighting another (identical) version of himself, their speed while fighting shown by slowing down everything else.
Meh.
If they had Psychic abilities couldn’t they have just sent the advertisement via Telepathy? I
f they could do that, I’d buy it.
Hahaha. I got a 10 minute mail account to see what the “course” was, and it’s just a series of Youtube videos. The first one is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crLGYdphfbI. I haven’t watched it yet, but if it’s anything like the homepage, it will be a doozy . . .
Ah, apparently he describes the quantum jump as “like a controlled daydream, but much more than that.”
So he is actually just lucid dreaming. I guess that makes sense.
Just the fact that you noticed it, says a lot about Google. I never pay attention to ads, but for some reason, I always catch myself reading (and sometimes clicking on) the ones in Gmail. Maybe because they are actually relevant to me, or just that Google is God!
Bet James Randi is sweating on his $1m prize…
Nah.
Mike, after several decades James Randi has withdraw his prize. It was never going to be claimed.
This idea of infinite you is so incredibly ego-centric. We just are not that important!
I am.
I concur, Len is
Seems like somebody read Dean Koontz’s “From the Corner of his Eye” and then got all excited.
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe (podcast) did a dissection of this phenomenon several months back: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=192
Enjoy!
I would prefer an oblique dimension – going off in a different direction is fun sometimes.
I often feel that I jumped into a parallel dimension years ago – Especially when watching the news or during the soccer World Cup.
If we all jumped into a parallel dimension every time we had to use the loo, jumping back here after we’d finished our biz, wouldn’t our world be a much cleaner place? Oh wait, maybe that would cause paradoxical imbalances between the dimensions thereby creating a multitude of crappy little quantum crises. Eeek!
They did something similar in Family Guy and there was no imbalance there:p
Strangest sidebar ad (it was actually a topbar ad) I ever got on my gmail account page was one offering me a discounted price for cloning my cat.
I just ~had~ to follow that link…. It did lead to a legitimate (looking) website and company, one of those ones that clones a person’s deceased pet so that they “can have their beloved pet back again.”
However, I declined their offer.