QUOTE (Agent. Mulder @ Feb 2 2008, 03:07 AM)

ok, so you cant go back in time, and change Your timeline. but instead, you can go back and change others. therefore, if you went back to 1776, to STOP the declaration from being signed, you would go to the timeline of, 1776. not back in this time, and change the present. you would change That timelines future. not our present one.
anyone in agreement? or disagree? opinions?
If you could go back in time and change
any timeline, then why can't you change your own ? Is it just because you have a unique perspective on your own experiences, that you know everything that actually happened to you, so if anything was changed, then you would somehow know it had been changed ?
You could go back in time and try to stop the signing of the declaration, but you would fail, simply because we know that it
was signed. If you went back in time, you could try to do anything you wanted to, and you may succeed in some things. For example, you may be wandering around new York and see a person about to be hit by a car...You save them just in time and on your return to the present, you find out that they remember you saving them ! Simple.
In the case of your
own timeline, a change would have to be much more subtle, because you have to change something in a way that
you do not know it has been changed....Let's see... well, I don't know about you guys reading this, but
I can't remember what I did 78 days before my 12th birthday. Come to that, I can't remember what I did on most of the days of my youth !!!! There's an opening for me to make a change. And would I, at the age of 14, recognise myself at the age of 45 ? And would I, at the age of 76, think that it would be a pretty good idea not to give myself a cardiac arrest, or get myself locked up for lunacy at the age of 45 by appearing to myself and saying 'Hi, I'm from the future !!' and so wear a disguise ? I think all of those are pretty subtle !!
AJ