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ProfessorGAC

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10. I'm Willing To Suspend My Disbelief For That, But...

Reply to Aristus (Reply #9)

Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:46 PM

4 hrs ago

...traveling forward to events that haven't occurred.
Sort of requires a belief in predestination that I don't have.
If events have yet to occur, there's nothing to travel into.
Also, it bugs me when people travel back in time to an earlier point in their own life. They can't be in 2 places at the same time.
Like Marty McFly seeing himself get shot at. He was in both places at once.
Enjoyed the movie, but that part bugged me.

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