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doctor who is definitely more enjoyable when you don't take it too seriously

Good evening! 😊 It's warm enough at night right now to roll down the windows all the way on the drive home. 😁 A Bruce song came on the radio and of course Simmie was very very happy! 🥰

time is wibbly and wobbly

yeah that's fair, they're anything but consistent, but that's part of the fun! time is in flux basically.

oh, that makes sense, I thought I remembered it working in multiple different ways it's like he can choose when he time travels to do a "fulfill something that needs to have happened" or a "change the future" post #186,000

doctor who usually keeps more or less consistent in how time travel works for a given storyline, but between storylines there is no consistency at all

at first I was writing examples for each of those types of time travel, and I was going to mention Doctor Who, but I gave up on the examples thing entirely because Doctor Who's time travel is too complex (and we've not seen enough of the show) to summarize it accurately I was mostly thinking of an I think 11th doctor time they saw themselves in the distance after time traveling to the same time/place twice (which the Doctor usually has a rule against) and how they had to not interfere with them but also of course the entire show is about changing the future, so I think there's both "it always happened, we just have to make it have happened" and maybe also change-the-future, following the doctor/time traveler's perspective? idk just some thought from earlier we did love Doctor Who :P we don't expect to have the motivation to watch more or earlier doctors we missed though(dw, we've seen many of the biggest scenes and had stories recounted by our brother), and/so we've read ahead on the wiki covering the big story plots since we stopped watching (end of 11th) which kinda seals the fate

i have watched all of doctor who. i enjoy the show alright, but i definitely don't watch it for the well thought out and consistent time travel mechanics lol

here, some recounted internal OCD/overthinky thoughts of ours for you @TB

you'd love doctor who

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no problem! and yeah, it's good to not bring expectations into a sit and let whatever happen to happen. don't worry if it seems hard, only your successes count, not failures. you want to be kind to yourself and i'm glad you feel i expressed it well! i wish you luck

Goodfight

that's a really epic but tragic dream i miss having dreams like that. i never thought of what they may have meant most of the time

Coincidentally, I was also born in 2005! In my past life, we lived in a magical world which was divided into two major factions: the Extremist Faction and the Guardian Faction. The Extremist Faction believed that those humans who couldn't use magic or had extremely low magical talent would hinder the improvement of the overall magical energy level of the planet. They even used human babies as sacrifices. To be honest, it's really crazy, and I don't know why I had such a dream. It was "nineteen years ago" there (I was just born in my past life) that I was saved from the altar of the Extremist Faction by Richard during the war between the two magical factions. If he hadn't saved me, he could have dealt a heavy blow to those extremist magicians. However, he saved me and raised me all by himself. Richard was called a traitor by the extremist magicians because he protected me, a human with poor magical talent. One of the extremist magicians (perhaps a key figure among them) threatened him a month before they killed him. Then Richard began to desperately use all kinds of barriers and protective magic to protect me. On the day he was killed, that magician asked him if he had thought it over and whether he wanted to continue being a traitor and going against their "powerful" and "noble" magicians. He gave a positive answer and was then severely injured by them. That magician said he allowed Richard to spend the last moments with me that day and then teleported him home. His first thing to do was to change his blood-stained clothes for fear of scaring me. At the same time, I, my friends in my past life, and my teacher from the magic academy had just finished a battle. They used black magic to summon a group of monsters (in fact, they were trying to deplete our magical power and physical strength so that it would be easier to completely eliminate us at night). After the battle, we had a premonition that something might have happened to Richard, so we rushed home as fast as we could. When I got to the door, I went in alone first to check the situation. When Richard saw me coming back, he immediately said that he would make my favorite... sunny-side-up eggs for lunch... To be honest, he was in a very bad state at that time, but he was still thinking about me, which really touched me. However, under normal circumstances, he was cruelly tortured to death by that despicable magician, which was really cruel to me. In order to protect me, he didn't allow me to fight back and used an isolation wall to keep me out. I could only watch him die like that. I almost collapsed at that time. Until I realized that I was the protagonist here, and then I dramatically pulled the present me in, and then we merged, obtaining much more powerful magical energy and defeating that evil magician. But I wasn't really happy. Instead, I felt a bit empty, as if I had changed something that I shouldn't have changed. This dream ended in such an incredible atmosphere.

bootstrap paradox time travel is very satisfying when done well, but it's also probably the easiest to mess up and make things either not make sense or seem contrived. i think it works better when it avoids creating something out of seemingly nothing as much as possible (no sending information back in time that you only got from it being sent back in time)

Thank you so, so much for your help. It's indeed a bit difficult for me to read for prolonged periods because of the focus issue, but I'll do my best, I really, really want to improve on this. I'll try to put your advice into practice tomorrow. I'm honestly not expexting to do well right away, but I'll try not to worry about it too much and just do my best^-^ I think you expressed yourself great, I think I understand^^ I'll let you know how it goes and if I have any questions! I just realized I hadn't responded yet, I thought I did, my apologies, I went through the thread and it was really interesting, although I didn't expect that meme to feel so relateable^^;

the first thing that ever got me to understand what meditation is and how to progress in it, was reading the early chapters of the book "The Mind Illuminated" by john yates phd/culadasa. it's a pretty thorough manual on how to start a meditation practice, and what obstacles to expect at different stages, and what to do to work on overcoming those obstacles. and gives a model of understanding the mind in context of what is going on in meditation it can apply to any meditation, but in the book he mainly teaches following the breath sensations at the nose, so that's what i primarily did, and also metta, which he explains in the appendix. he also has guided meditations on youtube. i think there are pdf of the book online for free. though i know telling someone to just read a book is a lot, so don't feel pressured to. just letting you know what helped me if you want to start with what i started, it would be finding a comfortable place to sit where you can sit still without moving for a long time, and close eyes. the meditation object would be the sensations of the breath at the tip of the nose. but instead of immediately putting your focus on it, start with having an open awareness of the space around you, your body, your thoughts. don't try pushing out or clinging onto any experience, just watch all that's going on from a detached far away kind of way, a really broad way. then slowly transition into having awareness just surround the body, so exclude things outside of body sensations from attention. that doesn't mean surpress them, but they should only be known in background awareness and not where your attention goes. after that, when ready you can narrow attention further to just breath sensations in the body, whether it is the nose or belly or wherever you feel breath sensations. then after that, narrow it to just the breath at the nose your attention will wonder to a distraction, but you will realize it happened and be able to return to the breath. when you have these realizations, it is called spontaneous introspective awareness. you want to celebrate these moments as victories, to encourage the mind to have them more often. you want your mind to be introspectively aware, so aware of itself and what its doing that's basically a summary of beginning instructions for meditating. i'm sorry if they aren't written well, i'll try to clarify anything confusing. but you'd basically do that practice and once the introspective awareness happens quicker and quicker every time you enter mind wandering, and the periods of being focused increase, you start the next stage to build other skills to overcome the next obstacles let me know if you have questions about that

So the tl;dr is, Esper, born around 1924, little wolf pup, died. We have a vague memory we've held onto for a while that we believe like gospel, of staring down a double barrel after following a young kid, and that's curtains. Fast forward, 2005, I'm born, with a bit of my soul Esper's. was dormant till a bit after I first began tulpamancy, and we had this epiphany, that Esper and I are the same, but not quite. Like, there's 150% of a soul, so there's 50% we share but 50% that's separate and it's all sort of messy. so basically, Esper reincarnated but with a bit extra of a person thrown in. Subsequently, technically, Esper is the original. This body, however, we still consider "mine." We're thankful for being human because it means we're able to experience so much more, but we still value our origins. This sort of second chance at life has given us a massive appreciation for, well, living. We don't wanna go anytime soon, no matter how bad things get. We may be wrong, and we fully acknowledge that, but frankly, that's neither here nor there. Related, I want to get a tattoo of a theta delta, a symbol commonly associated with therianthropy, somewhere on our body visible to ourselves. A reminder. Even if we disavow these beliefs later down the line, we want to commit ourselves to the permanent reminder of this life that we have, and what it means. that's the tl;dr

What? That's amazing I want to hear it

that sentence really got away from you huh Esper and I have similar lore, andre

I haven't head of this effect before. I imagine that there's no way that you could remember all of dragon ball at once. And... Dragonball! 🐉⚽ Thanks for your answer Lucilyn! It's like how the body is also intact lile the memorys/brain is.

when googling "types of time travel" and seeing a bigger list of 8, one was something like "The time traveler's mind doesn't change" - so that's where they come back to a different future, but their memories have stayed unchanged, I guess

he does change the future in a roundabout way though. his fighting experience and HTC in the past allowed him to be strong enough to not only defeat future 17 and 18, he was able to be aware that cell exists, and thus find him and kill him too does super have this one also? with the time rings kaioshin are revealed to have. because zamasu's villian origin story is after already seething that mortals are irresponsible and stupid, he meets goku, who is also as strong as the gods, which makes him inspired to come up with his 0 mortals plan, but the reason goku even interacts with zamasu in the first place is related to goku black aka zamasu doing that... unless that zamasu was traumatized by something else and not goku. hmm i need to rewatch that arch some things went over my head. i know they show future zamasu killing gowasu like past was going to but succeeding and goku black meeting up with him right after i think? idk, feels like there is a paradox there. iirc, the goku black that is ruining trunks' future isn't neither the goku or zamasu of that timeline. or i have false memories implanted in me lol *fridge logic sustained by poor memory* imagine if goku black had already succeeded at 0 mortal plan of other timelines and trunks's timeline was just one of many he had to deal with. i think that is actually what he does in either dbheroes and/or some fan manga

I would have answered your question, but Lucilyn has already given you a better answer than me. I can describe that paradox like this however. If you were to go back in time and hand Shakespeare a copy of his works, and then he writes his works based on this book, if you then go back to the present, who wrote Shakespeare? Two things: 1: Is it possible to have memories of a past that never happened due to the past being altered by the present? 2: I've seen a video on YouTube that talked about how two different conflicting things can exist simultaneously, a way of time repairing itself, but I can't remember what it was called.