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Originally Posted by Kevin-SFBucks
You are close in your thoughts.
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Hardly. I am a big geek, I have probably studied more physics, quantum physics, string theory, space and time paradox theory than the average person. Cant help it, its in my family genes. At any rate, it is YOU who is close minded to the possibility of anything other than, they stopped it, so now no one has a set future. Even if we weren't talking about this show it is this simple:
We will take Hurrican Katrina for example, hell why not Sept. 11 for that matter. Those events were tragic and DID have a wide spread ripple effect across the country, even the world.
Now lets say, I am Joe Schmoe, living in Anytown, USA. Using whatever it is life dealt me in the way of my perception of my own reality around me, whether I am a HS dropout, abused as a child, poor or wealthy, etc. anything that makes me what I am today. All these factors ultimately determine what I will become. Say I like the aspects of becoming a lawyer or a serial killer or a doctor, doesnt matter what it is. I will become that thing regardless of small scale events around me, especially in this instant, whether those events happened or not. Could they affect my future choices, sure they can, but only insofar as whatever effects they may or may not have will be purely based on my original disposition.
So if I was leaning towards Law Enforcement or a Military career, Sept. 11 might bring me quicker to that goal, but even without that event happening it can be pretty much guaranteed I STILL would have become one of these two things. You can not have a future that isnt built on the past and present. Would you be a 100% different person just because a tragic event happened or didn't happen? Of course not, you would simply be the exact same person, and cataclysmic event not withstanding you will continue to be the same person, and continue to go on and do the things you are predisposed to.
If the writers choose to completely wipe the slate clean as far a future outcomes are concerned that is up to them, but in the eyes of logic I believe it would be a mistake to do so.
Every choice we make is the only choice we CAN make because all our choices are set in stone by our own personal life events and experiences. There is no middle ground and even spur of the moment choices are indicitive of the very being of what and who we are.