“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
George Orwell, 1984
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
George Orwell, 1984
“You asked me once,’ said O’Brien, ‘what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.’
The door opened again. A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. He set it down on the further table. Because of the position in which O’Brien was standing. Winston could not see what the thing was.
‘The worst thing in the world,’ said O’Brien, ‘varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by impalement, or fifty other deaths. There are cases where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal.’
He had moved a little to one side, so that Winston had a better view of the thing on the table. It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by. Fixed to the front of it was something that looked like a fencing mask, with the concave side outwards. Although it was three or four metres away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each. They were rats.
‘In your case,’ said O’Brien, ‘the worst thing in the world happens to be rats.'”
George Orwell, 1984
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If a lumberjack were wandering, wondering if there really is an algorithm which might leap one into the future in order to change the past, perhaps he might consult his vast grasp of biblical lore and remark to me what he thinks of my own observations about time.
Now, if any lumberjacks (or other sorts of know-it-all) would do me the favor of commenting on the lines I’ve bolded in both the KJV version and the NIV version.
14 I know that everything
God does will endure forever;
nothing can be added to it
and nothing taken from it.
God does it so that people will fear him.
15
Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.[b]
Injustice Seems to Prevail (NKJV)
16 Moreover I saw under the sun:
In the place of [d]judgment,
Wickedness was there;
And in the place of righteousness,
[e]Iniquity was there.
(NIV)
16 And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
I think the choices of words and altered meaning is profound. I hope a good preacher or wise mentor might stop by and help me grasp the meaning of the less-well-known verses of Ecclesiates 3.
Forgive us our trespasses, Father, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us.
I tried to elaborate and discovered that pretty much says it all.