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ChongFire
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Alright so my roomate and I are having an argument and we need some help. My roomates argument is, if you were to teleport into the future, the moment you step into the future you would create destiny up until the moment you stepped into the future. In order to see everything that is in the future that you step into then nobody had a choice but to do what they did. His argument is that as long as you don't travel into the future then you have free choice, but the instant you travel into the future then and only then is everything up until that point destined to happen. By traveling into the future you create destiny. You have the free choice of wether or not you travel into the future, but as soon as you travel into the future then everything that happened had to have happened that way, thus creating destiny. In essence the future is not set till somone sees it.
My argument is that if you can travel into the future then all you are seeing is everything that happened the way it happened. Not that it has to happen as it will, but it merely means that everything in the past at that point has to have happened. This is not creating destiny. This is merely seeing what happened in the past.
An example. If someone traveled from one minute before you read this to one minute after you read this. Relative to the one minute after you read this, my roomate would say that you were destined to read this the moment the guy arrived in the future. He is saying that because this guy traveled into the future then and only then you can't change the past. I would say that the guy only saw what happened up until that point, because you can never change the past wether you went into the future or not.
My argument is that if you can travel into the future then all you are seeing is everything that happened the way it happened. Not that it has to happen as it will, but it merely means that everything in the past at that point has to have happened. This is not creating destiny. This is merely seeing what happened in the past.
An example. If someone traveled from one minute before you read this to one minute after you read this. Relative to the one minute after you read this, my roomate would say that you were destined to read this the moment the guy arrived in the future. He is saying that because this guy traveled into the future then and only then you can't change the past. I would say that the guy only saw what happened up until that point, because you can never change the past wether you went into the future or not.