Sometimes we just need to pause and remind ourselves.
July 20th, 2004 | by Scott Jennings |I wrote this nearly two years ago, but it’s as true now as it was then:
When you travel through time to the future, you can’t possibly be seeing the actual future, since it’s a future that happened without you. You’re seeing an alternate timeline that took place after you suddenly disappeared to go on your little jaunt to the false future. Any impact you were to have on the universe would be unobservable. As if that weren’t enough, like I mentioned, travelling into the future generates a timeline where you vanish in an instant. Your loved ones would experience a great deal of very real grief for a lifetime from their perspective — even if you do return to the very spot from which you left, for a time, there was a future where you were dead with no body to grieve. So, to summarize, not only is travelling through time to the future pointless since it depicts a false future, but also you generate a timeline of endless grief for those who care about you. Really, it’s the moral equivalent of suicide. Therefore, travelling through time to the future both yields no real reward and is incredibly selfish, and should not be done.
Please, don’t travel through time to the future.
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