For the first, I assume time and fate were sorted out long before I came along, therefore nothing I do in my life would actually change anything. Therefore, should I choose to go back in time, I would only be changing things so that they became as they did, not so that they became a different thing. (Man, I hate discussing time continuums without a copy of H2G2 to refer to issues of tense. XD)
As for the next two, I'd try to change the child to avoid that future, but if my above belief holds true, then you were doomed from beginning. I guess it stems from how much you trust your prophets, and I tend not to. So... I probably wouldn't kill the one, unless my loved one was at risk in the vision of the future. Then, the one would be dead, child or no.
Destiny... well. There's destiny and there's destiny. There's the way things OUGHT to happen (as in, were pre-ordained to happen), and there's the way things DO happen. The way things DO happen is what I believe in. The other is just a hopeful delusion.
I don't think I explained that well at all. But I know what I mean. *sigh* Damn. One of those wordless things.
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Date: 2005-05-26 11:43 am (UTC)As for the next two, I'd try to change the child to avoid that future, but if my above belief holds true, then you were doomed from beginning. I guess it stems from how much you trust your prophets, and I tend not to. So... I probably wouldn't kill the one, unless my loved one was at risk in the vision of the future. Then, the one would be dead, child or no.
Destiny... well. There's destiny and there's destiny. There's the way things OUGHT to happen (as in, were pre-ordained to happen), and there's the way things DO happen. The way things DO happen is what I believe in. The other is just a hopeful delusion.
I don't think I explained that well at all. But I know what I mean. *sigh* Damn. One of those wordless things.