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Volume 14, pg.1 Printed and Published Whenever by jimgee.com, Washington Crossing, Bucks County, Pennsylvania NUMBER 39. |
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On the (Im)possibility of Time Travel
In their continuing efforts to provide their adoring public with accurate, meaningful traditional music, Na'Bodach has made the claim of "time travel". By going to past venues and periods to listen and collect the
"real thing", Glenn Owens, Andy Redmond, Bud Osthaus, George Zienowicz and Casey Jones have offered some arguments suggesting that possibility by submitting the following photograph.
Presumably, when the band says that time travel is possible, Na Bodach means that a person can go back, for example, to the real, true, genuine 1776. But if the band traveled back to the real 1776, then what are they doing there? They didn't exist in 1776, so to say that they are in the real 1776 is to say that it's not the real 1776, which is yet another contradiction. This argument is unsound, for--given that the band has assumed the actual accomplishment of time travel--it has a false premise. If I've traveled back to 1776, then I did indeed exist in 1776--the real, true, genuine 1776. So the contradiction is not produced. Owen's has asked us to consider what ramifications time travel would have "for morality, heaven and hell, God, angels, Croydon, etc." I'm not sure what ramifications Glenn has in mind--indeed, I can't see a significant problem arising from any of the directions mentioned here. Perhaps in a later article, Owens will provide some of his reasons for making this suggestion. As it is, the band is now working on a process that will create "musical cod-pieces". Stay tuned. |
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