11-08-2007, 02:09 PM | #1 |
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A thought experiment in Time Travel
Say you could time travel, and you went back to Carthage with an M-16, and you picked off the mob, and thereby saved Joseph Smith from death, in what would be described as a miraculous deliverance (you do not reveal yourself).
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11-08-2007, 02:13 PM | #2 |
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Sounds like Mike is about to wade into the waters of LDS fiction writing.
"M-16's Among the Danites"
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11-08-2007, 02:14 PM | #3 |
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Are we assuming that we spared just Joseph's life? Or was Hyrum spared as well?
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11-08-2007, 02:21 PM | #4 |
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I don't think that Joseph would live that far beyond the Carthage time. I suspect that Joseph would remain in Nauvoo with a small group of members while Hyrum lead the church out west. Eventually, Hyrum would become prophet because the mobs and the tension would remain and ultimately cause joseph his life. If Hyrum had lived and become prophet, perhaps the RLDS would've never happened. And you would all be cheering for Hyrum Smith University.
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I can't imagine what it would be like had Joseph lived to an old age. The church would be completely different today. |
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WHich of course could lead to a change that would make your existence impossible so you would 'poof' disappear and then what would happen to your effort to change time? This is why I really dislike this sort of plot device.
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11-08-2007, 03:50 PM | #10 |
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Well if it is a novel then God has come in and given me a special dispensation to survive any time-travel paradox. Of course Joe, the mean guy in Junior High, will be a victim of the paradox.
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