Icarus (or whoever wrote his story) had his mark (footprint) placed in mythos history by flying too high and getting smoked for it.

e: And having double-checked who the author is, I feel like leaving him unnamed would be doing it right, since he’s kind of infamous for otherwise souring the meat.

The TL;DR of the following: Please check the other reply.

I went over that. If you went in with the intent to change the future, you’ve committed to changing it. There’s literally no purpose to what-iffing the after effects, as (a) if it drives you to utilize time travel to prevent that, you’re still doing something vs (b) the same risk is inherent in the initial timeline (something vaguely connected to your choice ruined or ended a life that wasn’t your own).

If it works, depending on the time travel involved, you are unlikely to know either way. If you spawned a timeline where you’ve caused a possibility, the ‘you’ that went back isn’t a part of it, because that ‘you’ didn’t experience it. Alternately, if the ‘you’ that went back gets fully overwritten by the new experience, you have no idea any time travel happened and are living your (changed) life as normal. Third-string, if ‘you’ get merged with your new life, whoopie, you probably have an idea how to keep changing the past as you want.

Whatever the case , the r/GetMotivated point comes down to “if you have time to worry about a hypothetical, you have time to shape the future to your will in the present.” Anything further concerning time travel is better left to r/timetravel .

Well, no, but at this point we get into what brand of shenanigans is taking place, which can probably parsed in r/timetravel. As far as r/GetMotivated is concerned, I think, the point is that if worrying is the only thing preventing a person from going back to change the future based on “what if I change too much,” that logic should be applied to the present for the sake of driving that same change intentionally, with a solid idea of a goal instead of a mystery box. . . . . .

Buuut if we want to get into the weeds immediately, I’ll comply; I don’t personally know of any proposed theories on time travel that would allow what you say wouldn’t happen, but it’s probably worth needling at. What I was meaning is that the ‘you’ that went back (u1) would either cease being (with the ‘you’ you convinced to do the hard work, u2, provided a solid impression someone else convinced them to do med school, and following through to the best of your ability) or nothing would change for u1, as what you’ve done is initiate a ‘potential’ future that u2 is now the driver for instead of fully retconning what you yourself did. Or your consciousness blends into a present version of u2, with no impression of what you went through as u1 to drive you to time travel (and so, no reason to need to do it, which doesn’t actually necessarily do a paradox).

Of course, u1 could also do things the long way and manually study for however long you feel appropriate to soak in the knowledge you seek, though at that point you’re less time traveling and more fully time displaced. But, again, something more appropriate for r/timetravel I imagine.

I mean, if you changed your future intentionally, it stands to reason that you would have felt comfortable that any adjustment would be better than what you have.

And besides that, there’s no particular reason the ‘you’ that went back would exist in the same capacity to comprehend that a change took place at all. Short of the change having so little impact that you wind up in the same position trying to change it, anyway.

Five months is a bit too long to then go “I know, you probably think it’s no big deal.” Nah, that was a big deal by month 2, and unless he’s really holding back on those corpses (which, their graves remaining “fresh” should have been a sign), there’s probably not much left for him to subsist on by month 5.

Graveyards are explicitly dedicated to the dead, which is why they cost as much as they do. Burying people wherever one wants to has a nasty habit of others stumbling across the bodies at a later date, more often than not associated with foul play.

Especially so for something like a back yard, presuming the property will eventually be resold and someone else has to deal with corpses in the ground causing things unprecedented.

OP would like to imagine that Harry will make it home, but based on him having gone missing with the other guys, doubts he survived.

Probably because Harry first gets mentioned after the crash, when he could have been established as present in the scene beforehand?