r/Showerthoughts • u/Nagi21 ‎ • 3d ago

Casual Thought There is a non-zero chance humans may have already gone back in time to keep humanity from suffering worse historical and current events than we already have, and this is actually the brightest timeline.

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u/McFuu 3d ago

If time travel in reverse in a functional manner is actually possible, that just means we are either A: on the original timeline and time travel simply hasn't been invented yet, or B: time travel causes a new timeline and whatever timeline we are on with whichever change was made, we are stuck with moving forward.

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u/Even_Account_474 2d ago

Thanks I hate it

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u/MysticalSylph 2d ago

If you believe in John Titor, then it would be B