Would You Take Advice From Your Future Self?

[Cain]

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Has anybody read the sound of thunder? As well as giving the name for the butterfly effect it also suggested that time decides to avoid paradoxes and makes it so that you cannot see each other but still feel your future or past self's presence. Its sci-fi but this thread isn't exactly realistic.

 

[HobbeBrain]

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I'm writing a story on Time Travel for a project at school, they do mention such a devise, I called it the 'Paradox Filter.' I said if the person has screwed time so bad it couldn't undo the damage, the whole universe would disapear in a puff of logic ^_^

 

[Fenrir]

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Well I would definately have to make a d*mn compelling case allong with some evedince that its really me.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

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i absolutely would not. i know full well what a sick ******* i am, i'd probably try to get myself into the worst situation possible. i can't say i'd blame myself for it, because low self esteem can be unhealthy.

 

[Wonderfoole WINO]

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I would take it anyway. Although I trust future me more than anyone, if I don't take it, future me will have no reason to go back and tell me not to, and therefore he won't. So I will have never been told not to, so I would end up taking it anyway. Then, after the money ruins my life, I will attempt to go back and warn myself not to, but it will never work. And then there will be an endless loop of past mes growing up and going back to warn their past selves.

The only way to stop this would be to get to the point where the future me went back in time, but not go. But then I would have never appeared to my past self, so I would not remember to not go, so I would be forced to go anyway, and the loop affect would never stop. So here is what I would do, I would kill my future self for being a dumbass and ****ing up the entire time space continuum.

 

[HobbeBrain]

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^ That might not be the case. Future you could come back purely because he was once you visited by Future you, and not actually know how it'd ruin your life.

 

[William1193]

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After reading this, you have just boggled my mind. i think i need a lie down now :S

 

[Arseface]

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[Tsuyu]

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You simply can not change the past in order to alter your present, simple as that. I present to you 'The Grandfather Paradox'(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox):

Lets say you, for whatever reason, decide to travel back in time to kill your own grandfather in order to prevent one of your parents from being born, thus not being able to give birth to you. This is impossible. Because if you kill your Grandfather in the past, the you who decided to travel back to time won't exist and can not take that journey. Another example is killing Hitler in order to prevent WW II. That's also impossible. Because if one would kill Hitler he won't be able to start WW II, your present you would not have any reason to travel back in time to kill him and as such it won't happen.

TL;DR - If you go back to perform an action in the past, that action will already have happened at the present where you decide to travel back in time. With that action already having taken place, you wouldn't go back in time to cause it because there is no need.

As such is its logically impossible to alter the past.

 

[HobbeBrain]

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How many times have I explained this?!?!

Future you may only have come back because he was in your place and was visited by Future You, and needed to come back and tell you simply because he'd been informed before, not actually knowing how it could ruin your life.

 

[Tsuyu]

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And? The very fact that Future You is speaking to You means that you still messed up your life; otherwise he wouldn't be there talking to you, since his travel back in time requires you to have effed up.

 

[HobbeBrain]

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It's a circle. The fact is, you are visited by Future You purely because Future You was once You who got visited from Future You. There is no concievable reason why he appears in the first place.

 

[Tsuyu]

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It's a circle. The fact is, you are visited by Future You purely because Future You was once You who got visited from Future You. There is no concievable reason why he appears in the first place.

As I said, Future You going back in time requires that Past You have effed up his, your, life. If you did not eff up your life, Future You would never go back in time. As such his visit to the past is futile as it is only a confirmation of that you will eff up your life in the end.

 

[droded]

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You simply can not change the past in order to alter your present, simple as that. I present to you 'The Grandfather Paradox'(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox):

Lets say you, for whatever reason, decide to travel back in time to kill your own grandfather in order to prevent one of your parents from being born, thus not being able to give birth to you. This is impossible. Because if you kill your Grandfather in the past, the you who decided to travel back to time won't exist and can not take that journey. Another example is killing Hitler in order to prevent WW II. That's also impossible. Because if one would kill Hitler he won't be able to start WW II, your present you would not have any reason to travel back in time to kill him and as such it won't happen.

TL;DR - If you go back to perform an action in the past, that action will already have happened at the present where you decide to travel back in time. With that action already having taken place, you wouldn't go back in time to cause it because there is no need.

As such is its logically impossible to alter the past.

This is the only statement I've agreed with in this thread, as it's the only one which makes sense. +Rep

 

[Purple Nurple]

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Let us consult 'My Future Self N' Me.'

Okay, so if Stan's hand gets cut off in the present, yet his future self still had his hand at the time of meeting his past self, then surely the future Stan must in fact be an employee of MotivationCorp. Oh, it all makes sense now.

 

[Firis]

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Solution: Take the money, give it all to charity, become renowned and loved.

 

[HobbeBrain]

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This is the only statement I've agreed with in this thread, as it's the only one which makes sense. +Rep

Um... this thread isn't exactly trying to border the realms of reality as it is.

 

[D3m190d]

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If future you comes back in time to tell you you're going to ''eff up'' your life, maybe that is exactly why you do so. Future you coming back to say you're life gets ff'd up doesn't mean you can prevent it, from then on.

 

[Arseface]

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It's a circle. The fact is, you are visited by Future You purely because Future You was once You who got visited from Future You. There is no concievable reason why he appears in the first place.

I think what Tsuyu's trying to get at, is how (and why) did that loop start?

 

[HobbeBrain]

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I think what Tsuyu's trying to get at, is how (and why) did that loop start?

Fair doos. Maybe it only started because Future You came back...? I don't know, but to be honest it's unimportant. If you didn't take the money and nothing bad happened, wouldn't you go back to tell yourself not to take it just so you felt everything had come full circle?