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If you stopped your grandparents from meeting, do you think

You wouldn't be born

Or you'd be born but with different grandparents?
I'd be my own grandpa
@caPnAhab
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@caPnAhab In some parts of the South it should be the state song. 😅
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@bijouxbroussard I was about to ask, what in the Alabama is this?
Gibbon · 70-79, M
I was a secret adoption. My adopted parents are on my Birth Certificate. I'd still exist because I'm clueless who I'm looking for and fine with it.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Interesting question. Maybe we’d find other families to be born into.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@cherokeepatti I wonder too. And how much of a different person you'd be, how much of you would be retained
Lilymoon · F
You wouldn't exist
given they'd be big parts of my physical chemistry, not to mention the experience for life, I'd have to say that me, as I am now, wouldn't exist.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@stound fair to say, I think
Idk i wonder about my parents sometimes..
@caPnAhab if i weren't their kid would i be the one or the other's? 😅
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@SStarfish one of the... others 👀
@caPnAhab Eh my mom and dad are very different..
Adrift · 61-69, F
Well if I was alive back then, chances are I would be dead right now.
So no probably not.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Adrift This would be temporary time travel.
Adrift · 61-69, F
@cherokeepatti Like back to the future?
I always thought it would be fun to see what my grandparents and parents were like when they were young.
seaglass · F
I'm 1/4 each grandparent, so they'd have gotten some other grandkid and I wouldn't exist
exexec · 61-69, C
I wouldn't exist.
exexec · 61-69, C
@caPnAhab How could I have stopped them anyway? I didn't exist when my grandparents met in 1894. Your question makes no sense.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@exexec it's a paradox
exexec · 61-69, C
@caPnAhab True
Id just have different grandparents
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@Shybutwilling2bfriends I'm leaning towards this, because it solves a paradox
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I’d just like to learn some family history about previous generations. If my father inherited something from one of his grandparents or whatever. It would make it easier to understand why he was the way he was if there was a genetic component.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
No idea, never saw either and my grandfather died of a blood clot around 1934.

He didn't even see the beginning of WWII or how his father was shot

Grandmother survived yet behind the iron curtain.
A puzzling question: if I were able to stop them from meeting, wouldn’t I already exist ? 🤔
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@bijouxbroussard well, you have to exist to stop them, but if you did, you wouldn't exist. So how could you have in the first place? It's a confusing paradox

Or perhaps destiny finds a way to circumvent your intervention
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
So here's the thing. Time travel as it's been shown in popular fiction isn't possible. That's not to say time travel itself isn't possible, but the whole grandparents paradox wouldn't be a thing, and here's why.

When you travel back to a moment in time, you're not actually in your own past. What you've done is created a parallel universe where that moment is occurring right now. What this means for the casual time traveler is that you can fuсk with anything you want. You can unalive historic figures, save historic figures, be the one to personally put Hitler in the ground, but if you manage to make it back to your current time, nothing will have changed. And so in the end, the only use for time travel is to see how things actually were back in the day.

TL;DR: Nothing would happen to you.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@LordShadowfire I'm glad you brought up parallel universes, because I was going to bring it. Like for every choice you make, another universe branches off

should anything go wrong, you revert to a previous timeline where it didnt
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