Didn't think I'd listen to the whole thing, but it drew me in. Factually it sounds bunk, especially given that his alternate track with Nixon taking over seems like the common false narrative about him being a bad president, the Nazis being bad, etc. BUT, openly considering his presentation as possible opens up one's mind to fascinating potentials. I think that seriously entertaining things like this is important to not get too stagnant in certainty. The idea that we might be switching between alternate timelines and having dim memories of others is fascinating. It ties into the dream world and the strong meaning after being in a dream. I'm not going to to dismiss his ideas as definitely fiction.
You make many good points worthy of responding to, gibs me a minute to get off mobile and I will.
This documentary Philip K. Dick - A Day In The Afterlife(youtube.com) came up in my feed.
I hadn't completely finished listening. and now I see his main point is about government and fascism and that we should take it seriously so we can avoid it as much as possible, so it wasn't just a talk about a curious timeline phenomenon. I'm not familiar with him but apparently he wrote a lot along these lines and was being spied on by the government, I guess because his themes weren't good for their overreach.
I can't get the parallel time idea out of my head and it's changed how I'm perceiving things. I really dig ideas like this which question basic perception and the structure of things. They can't be refuted if one has some humility, so they can be powerful.
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