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Evard's Tentacles of Forced Intrusion
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I was once told by a professor of mine that Forrest Gump was "the little engine that could for adults." And she was right, and now I have trouble taking the movie seriously.I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only movie I've cried during is Forrest Gump.
I almost cried. For the record, the last movie I did cry at was The Lion King. I was six, and Mufasa was trampled.But yeah, the last movie I almost-cried in was Toy Story 3. For those who have seen it, you know which scene I'm talking about.
Check my avatar for further details.Like that one scene in Up!.
I sometimes cry on Forrest Gump and the opening of Up. But I will always, ALWAYS cry at the end of Schindler's List, WALL-E, and Saving Private Ryan.
So, are you here to kill Sarah Connor or save her, Newbie?
Neither. I am here to subtly influence pop-culture to my own ends, resulting in (of course) vast amounts of wealth and power for future me. When I arrive in the future, I shall tell myself the plot was a success, and there's no need for me to go back. I will then become my own right hand man, and eventually betray myself to usurp my power from me.
None of that makes sense for a robot.
But if you succeed, your future you will have no need to have gone back in time to get wealth and power. It creates a time paradox! What have your careless hands wrought?!
I am of the belief that it would be impossible for you to change your timeline.
Either time is absolutely linear and universal, meaning it doesn't depend on when you were born. If you go back in time to before you were born to change something that would mean you wouldn't have to go back in time, the timeline doesn't revolve around you, if you decide to go back in time, you've already gone back in time and anything you would do has already been done, meaning no changes can be made.
Like I said, if it's universal: If you do go back in time to kill him, it's already been done before you went back in time. Time doesn't follow you. Either you'd be unsuccessful or it already happened. I'm not a fatalist, but if something happened, it happened. I don't think there's no arguing that point. You were either already at that point in time long before you decided to be, or you weren't. It'd be easier with an interactive visual
Time is linear to an individual. You go back in time, but you are still progressing through your time line. Move beyond this and you get the complicated bits that lead to self-sustained causal loops and grandfather paradoxes and such.