Snow Globe Theory

[mervap]

My Mom collects snow globes...you all have seen them, the small plastic or glass conatiners filled with a watery substance, some scenery and little flakes of what will pass for snow. You can buy them at almost any souvenir stand in the world, even places that never get snow. It made me think of something Two and I once discussed about human nature: Given a rigid set of facts, would humans of every walk arrive at the same point in their history....even eventually? An example: If you took Leonardo DaVinci from the renaissance age and put him at a university in our present, would he still excel in a manner similar to what he did in his own time?
I ask this because in a 'snow globe world', you have some things that never change (scenery) and some things that always change (the snow). Every time you shake the globe, the snow falls in a slightly different manner, landing in a different place.


With this in mind, please proceed now to my movie review of the new "Star Trek" film.

[Paperback Writer]

Very, very interesting topic, I don't know, but you could point to both yes and no and convince oneself.

Yes - The charater, quality is timeless and applies to the situation.
Yes - The environment of the situation is like chemistry - all the elements are there and the same thing is guaranteed by the laws of nature to happen.
It's all fate - only changing variable is time.

No - The evolving forces of nature prevent a similar circumstance, setting from re-occurring (Snowflake Theory)
No - Knowledge gained prior to the next re-occurance, re-calibrates everything.
No - You can never go home again, the culture, context is different

It's like Deja Vu -All over again!  Grandma screamed for Sinatra, Mom sreamed for Elvis and Wifely screamed for the Beatles............

[SavoyTruffle]

Yes, but today Da Vinci's masterpiece would be called the "Money Lisa" (because she demanded a lot of it b4 the sitting)