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the core ideas have been around
since before our discovery. Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, ‘This life as
you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and
innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every
pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small
or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession
and sequence.’ Of course, when Nietzsche wrote that from his book, “The Gay
Science,” it was just an idea without any credence.”
    Campbell was analyzing every aspect of the speech.
Stephen was doing well with the Teleprompters. The practice at UCLA the
week before had surely helped. That speech was not as fluid as this
one. Though Stephen was probably dying on the inside, he seemed
confident. Campbell stood with Al, a secret service member who was
assigned to watch him for the day.
    “Are you understanding all this?” Campbell asked him.
    “I knew this before,” Al responded.
    “Good.”
    Campbell resumed watching Stephen on the screen.
    Stephen continued, “The reasons for suicides are
plentiful. Someone may face a death in the family or might not get the
job he was hoping to get.
    “We need to make sure people understand that if they kill
themselves they will be doomed to repeat it forever. They will not have
their miracle shot at changing the past. Not a thing in their past can be
changed.
    “Not a single thing.”
    Al was confounded. “Jay, how can you stop them from
killing themselves if they did it the last time around anyway?”
    Campbell responded, “While what they’re going to do is
already determined, it hasn’t happened here yet. So it’s as if it’s for
the first time.”
    “Do we have Free Will?”
    Campbell’s face quivered. This was the trickiest part
of the equation and the reason so many people had killed themselves
already. No one could accept that they didn’t have a choice in their
lives. Free Will was a concept embraced by most on the planet. Not
having a choice and already having a planned course was beyond comprehension
for a lot of people.
    “Free will…” the television muttered.
    “Perfect timing,” Campbell said to Al. Stephen was
about to relieve Campbell of explaining further.
    Stephen continued, “Free will is the biggest problem people
face. With what I am presenting to you today, Free Will seems to become
an impossibility. I can confidently tell you that we all have a
choice. We can all do what we please. The fact that we do not
remember what we’ve already done enables everything we do to be fresh and
new. However, no matter what we choose , it will be exactly as
we’ve chosen before. This might seem like a paradox, but we nonetheless
all have a choice.”
    Al looked at Campbell with a baffled look. “What?”
    “You have Free Will,” Campbell reassured.
    The television abruptly flashed with static. Where
Stephen’s face had been was now replaced with nothing but rapidly moving white
and black lines.
    “What is this?” Campbell asked Al.
    Al looked at the television, perplexed. “I don’t know.”
    The static stopped and a man’s face appeared on the
screen. He was scruffy looking, dressed in all black and eerily
confident. His long black hair extended to his shoulders. He had a
noticeable scar running perpendicularly over his left eye. It had to be
recent as it was still healing. The poor lighting and pale white
background of the room were overrun by the man’s dominating presence.
    He spoke, “People of the world, what you are hearing now is
false. Everything Stephen Pandora says is a lie. When you die, you
indeed have a fresh start.”
    Campbell and Al watched in horror as this intruder somehow
interrupted Stephen’s speech with his own crazy rhetoric.
    He continued, “In fact, the state of the world has gotten
so bad, we have decided to grant everyone a new beginning. Tomorrow at
3:33 PM Pacific Time, we are going to destroy the world. There