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p. 116
"Somebody in the zoo crowd asked him through the lecturer what the most valuable thing he had learned on Tralfamadore was so far, Billy replied, 'How the inhabitants of a whole planet that has been engaged in senseless slaughter since the beginning of time"'

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p. 116
"Somebody in the zoo crowd asked him through the lecturer what the most valuable thing he had learned on Tralfamadore was so far, Billy replied, 'How the inhabitants of a whole planet that has been engaged in senseless slaughter since the beginning of time"'

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p. 86
"'If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings', said the Tralfamadorian, 'I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by 'freewill'. I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of freewill"'

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p. 86
"'If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings', said the Tralfamadorian, 'I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by 'freewill'. I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of freewill"'

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p. 27
"When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say that the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes"'

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p. 27
"When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say that the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes"'

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"He has always pressed it and he always will." 117

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Time doesn’t change its constant and the future which is only a construct of time will therefore also remain unchanged

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“Why anything? Because this moment simply is.”
Everything is predetermined and no one has the ability to change the future

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"Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he had no choice but to say to himself, "That's life." 115

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The tralfamadorians view life as just being set out for them with no reason why

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"He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way."

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The future is predetermined therefore what you think is free will doesnt exist since everything you do technically was decided before you exercised your free will to choose to do anything

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Earth gets wiped out
The future
Can’t prevent war
Look at pleasent moments

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What happens isn't really their problem, the world ending is just another moment

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P. 117 We ignore the wars we look at pleasant moments like today at the zoo.

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Everything that will happen happens and human free will comes out of not knowing the outcome

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The will of being free

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"One of the biggest moral bombshells handed to Billy by the Tralfamadoraians, incidentally had to do with sex on Earth." 114

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The tralfamadorians do not believe in free will. To them, life is predetermined and everything that is going to happen always will happen. They can see all of time all the time. They see the concept of free will and Billy’s way of viewing time as a trap almost. They feel like he is stuck in the present moment.

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“The flatcar sometimes crept, sometimes went extremely fast, often stopped-went uphill, downhill, around curves, along straightaways. Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he head no choice but to say to himself, “That’s life.”” Page 115
—> things happen to us in life and these things are often out of our control: a deterministic view on free will in this case, all that has, and will happen exists as one

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"You'll

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war
death
memory
raising awareness
repressed memories
PTSD
story telling
time
loneliness
solitude
fate vs free will
so it goes
organized religion
apathy
mundanity
grief

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why is Vonnegut focused on an alternate universe ( separate from earth)?

What are billy's triggers?

When is the quote "so it goes" always mentioned?

why is optometry important?

what are similarities between his experiences on earth, and his experiences on Tralfamadore?