I started thinking about time travel; what if a person went back in time to change the events of the past, which would then change the events of the future, now what if the change of the events of the past made it so that the person that went back in time no longer existed. So poof they just cease to exist… and then it made me think, “where does this person go?” If an afterlife exists, what would happen to this person in the event of a time change? would they go to the afterlife or would they not because they cease to exist? How would that work? Would they just transport back to their own reality or be stuck in the current one? And then finally I thought, if they do go to the afterlife (an afterlife?), is the afterlife filled with theoretical people? People that existed and never existed at the same time. Or would they be in limbo; either way that’s an afterlife kinda, sort of right?. If time travel has been a thing and events have changed, how many theoretical people are in heaven and/or hell or wherever else? Do they have their own separate afterlife?
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I started thinking about time travel; what if a person went back in time to change the events of the past, which would then change the events of the future, now what if the change of the events of the past made it so that the person that went back in time no longer existed. So poof they just cease to exist… and then it made me think, “where does this person go?” If an afterlife exists, what would happen to this person in the event of a time change? would they go to the afterlife or would they not because they cease to exist? How would that work? Would they just transport back to their own reality or be stuck in the current one? And then finally I thought, if they do go to the afterlife (an afterlife?), is the afterlife filled with theoretical people? People that existed and never existed at the same time. Or would they be in limbo; either way that’s an afterlife kinda, sort of right?. If time travel has been a thing and events have changed, how many theoretical people are in heaven and/or hell or wherever else? Do they have their own separate afterlife?
(I actually posited this statement as a question at first for the purpose of provoking discussion, but this sub doesn’t allow questions in titles. Are There Theoretical People in the Afterlife?)
I started thinking about time travel; what if a person went back in time to change the events of the past, which would then change the events of the future, now what if the change of the events of the past made it so that the person that went back in time no longer existed. So poof they just cease to exist… and then it made me think, “where does this person go?” If an afterlife exists, what would happen to this person in the event of a time change? would they go to the afterlife or would they not because they cease to exist? How would that work? Would they just transport back to their own reality or be stuck in the current one? And then finally I thought, if they do go to the afterlife (an afterlife?), is the afterlife filled with theoretical people? People that existed and never existed at the same time. Or would they be in limbo; either way that’s an afterlife kinda, sort of right?. If time travel has been a thing and events have changed, how many theoretical people are in heaven and/or hell or wherever else? Do they have their own separate afterlife?