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06-21-2003, 12:32 AM
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 ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="catalina_marina"]What if he was originally saved by someone else, but, because he travelled back, somehow he wasn't, so he had to do it himself. He would have disrupted the timeline, by actually getting his younger self killed, but he corrected it, by saving himself, so that it all works out anyway.[/quote ost_uid0]No no no!  He originally did save himself. [iost_uid0]There was no "alternate timeline" involved.[/iost_uid0] No more so than someone who, by walking along a sidewalk and suddenly stepping off into the grass, walking back a few paces, and then stepping back onto the sidewalk to resume his or her original path, is walking on two different sidewalks.[/colorost_uid0]
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