Double Flee A

now vs. then

The world is coming to an end very soon.

We are alive right now, and therefore were likely to be alive immediately before we were alive. According to what set of odds doesn't matter, what does matter is that odds were it would happen when it did, because it did. A useful tautology.

Any person is most likely to live at the time most the people are alive, because there are the most chances for them to be alive at that time.

Therefore, we can assume that the future is not the time when we were most likely to be alive, otherwise we'd "be" then, instead of now, because otherwise it would be the most likely time for us to live, so we would.

Q.E.D.

posted by dale @ 11:07 PM