Re: 1st Season Terminator: TSCC - Heavy Metal - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:25:19 GMT, Beowulf Bolt <abd.al-hazred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>David Johnston wrote:
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>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:53:58 GMT, Beowulf Bolt <abd.al-hazred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >David Johnston wrote:
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>> >> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:00:48 GMT, Beowulf Bolt
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>> >  By my (somewhat dim) recollection, the concept of tem****al 
>> >paradoxes were popularized in science fiction by Heinlein's stories 
>> >"By His Bootstraps" and "All You Zombies".  According to you, then, 
>> >neither of these stories present tem****al paradoxes?
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>> >  Why do you have to *prevent* your birth to be a paradox?  Is it not
>> >equally logically inconsistent to *enable* your own birth?
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>> Inconsistent with what?  Kill your ancestor and the inconsistency is
>> obvious.  You were never born and yet you exist.
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>  It is equally inconsistent that you could never *be* born save by your
>own actions.  

And that is inconsistent with what?