Friday, February 10, 2017

Temponauts of the Gods

by Shaun Lawton 





I have scanned our days and all the ways we've planned our normal activities

searching for evidence that we may have been visited from the future and
I have found the one anomaly that fits this description to be ourselves. 

The future  already exists in eternity because every decision we make 
during our lifetimes  creates the past. We are in the process of mutually 
shaping that history. We are the agents sent from the future. 
A side-effect Temponauts deal with is complete disorientation 
with space-time. Those who undergo being sent back 
into the past come to believe that space and time 
are separate to name one of many bizarre hallucinations. 
A time machine operates like a boomerang.
A time machine parallels the scope of an iris.   

Our descendants set the scope of their time machine 
to a series of certain dates   seeding portions 
of the galaxy with in-uteri clones of themselves
in a bid calculated to alleviate the boredom of eternity 
with a closed-loop system of endless variations.

The experiment met with equal measure of success and failure. 

The portion of their failure has amounted to our creation. 

They maximized the variety of flavors within their closed loop 
and increased their menu of lifestyle choices by setting the bar 
as high as possible. By aiming for infinity they went beyond 
their greatest expectations that escaped their wildest dreams. 
They accidentally created us all and themselves in the process.  
This unequivocal success generated the next curious paradox
and there remain whispers to this day across generations 
that paradox itself runs the engines of creation.  

The real nature of our descendant's time-machine experiment 
may be grasped when the realization sets in that every human 
being without exception was seeded from one such time traveler
and that we Temponauts inhabiting Earth today have come to be 
known as Earthlings. Our innate curiosity about extra-terrestrials 
stems from this great time travel experiment. What distinguishes us 
is the fact we didn't so much arrive from the future (that is our own 
misconception as effectively lost Temponauts) as we arrived from 
Elsewher'n, that is to say, from outside this spacetime altogether. 

Our forefathers were bored and therefore created the Milky Way 
Galaxy as a time-machine experiment by which to re-launch themselves 
in their own image by sending their stem cells with neutrinos to certain 
specified loci outside their own quantum realm thereby creating our portion 
of the universe. What they didn't exactly expect was to succeed in granting 
themselves an eternity of variants to further absolve them from boredom
except for the small issue that their own Temponauts grafted of their same
genetics  were doomed to endlessly perpetuate the very existence 
they had intended for themselves. 

And so They wait, our Temporal Masters.  
They sigh while the day their travelers, 
spawned from their own DNA 
return across the great expanse 
of time to their side. The masters 
of the human race have long ago 
learned from their mistake. 

Rather than alleviating their 
own boredom, they accidentally 
created new lives which have been 
chasing after adventure ever since. 

The trick toward understanding
this expanding dynamic lies in 
realizing the Gods themselves 
have come to question their own 
immortality even as they await 
their great time-travel experiment 
to come to fruition, all the while 
leaving us strewn in their path 
as their lost children growing to
question our own sense of mortality.    

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