From 2000 to 2012, fans of all 32 NFL teams were invited to vote for their favorite team to be featured on the next Tempt Destiny billboard. The Tempt Destiny billboard competition was an experiment about how choice predetermines the certainty or probability of the event that follows, i.e., destiny. The tradition is, after the team depicted on the billboard wins the SB (cause) can the billboard painting be completed by having the football painted silver (effect) to represent the trophy won. The premiss is twofold. When a direct selection is made, the completion of the artwork is certain (artwork on the left side). When an indirect selection is made, the completion of the artwork is probable (artwork on the right side).

Tempt Destiny Billboard of Choice (*direct selection) – 3-for-3 (SB XXI, SB XXV, SB XLII)
Tempt Destiny Billboard of Chance (**indirect selection) – 1-for-2 (SB XLIV, SB XLV)

*Direct Choice - the team with the most votes also winning its conference championship game (1024-1 odds).
**Indirect Choice - Beginning with the 2009 season, if the direct selection does not take place, then the SB bound team with the most votes is chosen (2-1 odds).

Official Results (click here)

The experiment confirmed that events are predetermined by the manner of the selection made which result in, and are inclusive of, both certain and uncertain physical states... everything. This brings me to the next challenge. How to explain, without bias, what I have learned in a way that most anyone can understand? To be frank, the world is full of opinions and I do not wish to add to it. With that in mind, I felt it best to write a book about this quest to validate or disprove the concept of destiny not as a sciencetific research paper, which I have already done, but as a story of why and how I came to understand what had taken place. I hope by sharing this insight with the reader that he or she may gain answers about their own destiny by offering a different perspective about this mystery we call life. The ramifications of this journey has many implications for it addresses the fundamentals of our existence, both physical and spiritual, not as a matter of opinion but as evidence of itself.

This site is dedicated to the loyal fans who have helped me to obtain evidence of what destiny is about. Their story and the journey of this quest has served to inspired the writing of a book; the introduction of which follows:

Selectors of Destiny
By Manuel Morales © 2012

INTRODUCTION

You live, you die, and stuff happens in between – so, what is that about?

If you're like me you may have wondered what's in this for me. Why have I (we) been invited to this party we call life? Are we just an accident of nature existing as momentary parasites on a planet in the universe? Or does our existence have a purpose ... a destiny. If our lives do have a destiny, then are we like puppets pulled by strings beyond our control, or do we have free will to pull our own strings?

Prior to the existence of methods of testable explanations and predictions about the world, i.e., the art of modern science, the art of religion served as mankind's first science by providing us with non-testable explanations and speculations about the meaning of our existence. Modern science uses empirical methodology to obtain knowledge while religion uses a method of rationalization and conjecture for its knowledge base. Both fields of knowledge, although seemingly different in their respective practice of the art, use the same perspective in order to obtain their conclusions.

If I were to sum up into one word mankind’s understanding of its existence it would be, effects. Our knowledge, either from science or religion, is based on observation of effects and how effects cause other effects. I have come to understand that our interpretations of these effects are not as important as in the order of how we interpret them which is quite frankly … ass backwards, or as the saying goes, “putting the cart before the horse”. In other words, for an effect to be an effect it cannot simultaneously be the cause of itself. Something is amiss…

As a visual artist, I have trained myself to look at things from multiple and sometimes unorthodox perspectives in order to see beyond the obvious. What good is it to only understand things the way you want to perceive them, or be told how you should understand things? Why not just allow nature to speak for itself? After all, we are all physical beings of nature, as such; we cannot act in violation of our own physical existence just like we cannot make more than one type of selection, either directly or indirectly, at a time. That being said, what better way to begin looking for evidence of destiny then with the puppets of the show … us, the selectors of destiny.

This is a true story about how thousands of football fans participated in a twelve year experiment to see if the concept of destiny actually exists. The Tempt Destiny experiment consisted of an unorthodox approach of pairing the fans choice with the chance of the team selected actually going to the Super Bowl. This choice would initiate a series of events which would confirm, and thus provide evidence, that the effects of the choice made was certain or probable. The premise being that the type of selection made (cause) would predetermine the certainty or probability of the event that followed (effect).

This story is not about football, art, science, mathematics, or religion as much as how these diverse elements served as tools to understand the mechanics of a phenomenon that took place. What began as a friendly online competition between football fans to win a billboard in support of their team's Super Bowl bid has provided empirical evidence for the research paper I have written about the physics of predetermined events which is now referenced in the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System.

Be forewarned, if you thought you knew what destiny is then you will be in for a rude awakening. Suffice to say, what you are about to read may challenge what you believe to be true about your own existence. It did for me.

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On April 30, 2011, at the American Physical Society (APS) convention, I presented my research findings of the Tempt Destiny experiment in the manuscript entitled: "Physics of Predetermined Events".

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

 

In the Waking Life video clip below, they talk about choice and how it conflicts with physical laws which I would like to share with you. 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Manuel Morales
BCC Professor

News 12 video aired on February 2, 2008:

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