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Is the future for other worlds predetermined? Is it for the Digital World or the Real?

Does knowing what happens, mean it will now always happen?

If you meet someone from your future, does that mean you can't change it any more, since it's their past, and the past can't be changed? If changing your future to help you, might hurt other people and their past, or maybe even remove entire people from existing, do you have the right to try to change anything at all?

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I always thought time was changeable. I'm not so sure anymore.

What if you really can know the future? If a digimon is paired with one of your friends ten years into your future, and they arrive here, everything in their past you haven't experienced yet. Maybe something in it is hurtful, maybe something in it is good. But it already happened for your friend! It's their past.

But it's still your future. And changing it might change everything, for good or for ill. What then? It's possible, here. Time is flexible when it comes to the Chosen.

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That still doesn't mean it's set in stone. The future is very much affected by the actions we take, and I still believe that we can't totally know it, even if someone is telling us what it's going to be like. That's just one possibility of many.

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So you'd change what's supposed to happen whether or not doing so might ruin their lives in the process? And just hope for the best?

[beingthecreature]

There's a chance it wouldn't happen though. There's a saying that goes 'A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.' What it means is that we can't *choose* where things go, nothing is on a predetermined course.

Even if we think we know what'll happen, we can be wrong. All we can really do is keep going as we are. Like I said though, we *can* do our best to make the future alright; an honest try goes a long way.

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It seems reasonable to say trying our best to make the future good for everyone, it makes sense. It just seems harder when one person's future is another person's past.

[beingthecreature]

Yeah, I can understand why that would be...

I hope it doesn't sound too pithy, but keep your chin up? Whatever may- or may not -happen is on hold so long as you're here, as far as I've been able to figure out. That can hopefully give you time to stand back and look at things objectively, think about what to do and how it might go on going back.

I think it'll be alright.

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For now things are safe. But we all go home eventually, wherever we're from. And then the problem will be back.

I hope it'll be alright.