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

David Johnston wrote:
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> 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
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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.
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> And that is inconsistent with what?

  Causality.

  Biff

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