Re: saying hello and why I'm not posting

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Grüe wrote:
>> "Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>>> He killed a mouse.  :-)
>>>
>>
>> Technically, he didn't. If Faraday had still taught her the maze, 
>> tomorrow she'd be hit by a taxi. If he warned her about the taxi, she'd

>> fall in the shower and break her neck. The universe, unfortunately, has
a 
>> way of...course correcting. That mouse was supposed to die. That was
her 
>> path.
>
> That would not have worked for Desmond himself.  He was in real danger
of 
> dying in the past.  That's why he had to find his Constant.  And if he
had 
> died in the past, then who the heck was in Swan Station all those years?


Your argument assumes the existence of just one Desmond in a time period. 
But if present day Desmond travelled back in time and existed separately 
from past Desmond, then present day Desmond could die without affecting
all 
the events that would transpire in between.