• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    My thought was that it would be immutable. It wouldn’t change even if I told them.

    I don’t think I’d tell very many people. It’s not something I’d want people to know about me. Also, the few I told wouldn’t believe me and if I proved to others that I knew this, I think they’d see me, rightly so, as some sort of freak. The temptation to ask would be overwhelming, but they don’t really want to know.

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      It kind of ruins the concept if you can’t use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        5 days ago

        Very Cassandra to have knowledge of the future but be unable to change it

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        5 days ago

        You can’t change fate but maybe can change how ppl meet it?

        Like If you knew someone was going to die maybe help them bring them peace sooner.

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          Or maybe if you knew your own date you could do reckless shit. Although you might just spend 20 years in a coma before you die.