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It's different for her. Twilight initiated time travel and visited her past self, and even at the end of the episode, she still isn't her future self, she's her present self of her time. Her real present self is, if you use the logic in the OP, possibly many years in the future.

That was a mere joke rather than Spike acknowledging that he was an actual future self of his past form. Like, I could say that my future self will get up and sit down in ten seconds and that happens and say I am my future self (future self from the perspective of 10 seconds ago), but it's not creating any loopholes or anything. That's basically putting the question that I had into a more detailed fashion. How did she actually start all of this? It would be unreasonable, knowing Twilight, to go back into the past for no reason and warn her past self about the upcoming Tuesday.

From her perspective, it doesn't impact anybody else, really, yes. But that wasn't the question. How does this impact the other ponies perspectives? What happens, in their eyes, when Twilight goes back in time?

I wasn't talking about time travel when I referenced Greek Mythology. I was talking about how, in most cases, you can't change the past.

But how is the Twilight "going on to do what she did during the course of the episode" when there's already the Twilight we saw at the end of the episode? Let me post the process: Future Twilight visits past Twilight > past Twilight freaks out and tries to fix > After Tuesday morning, Past Twilight visits second Past Twilight and warns her > First Past Twilight returns to her own present time. If you say that "she went on to do what she did during the course of the episode," then, if there's only one Twilight, how is she able to do that when there's also the Twilight that returned to her own present time? Also, one of the question still hangs in the air: Why did the original Twilight go back in the past in the first place and tell the "Past Twilight" that there was a disaster coming up?

But what about, at the end of the episode, the past Twilight she talked to just like what happened at the beginning of the episode? What happened to that Twilight? Is it not the same thing that happened to the Twilight we saw in the beginning of the episode? You can make a comparison on that subject to Greek myths specifically including fate. Example, Oedipus. He had known the fate that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother, yet what he did to try to prevent it inevitably caused the whole thing to happen.

@@Jinx, don't brohoof my post here, brohoof the actual thread xD

http://mlpforums.com/topic/45641-its-about-time-questions-and-theory/

Old episode, I know, but some of these thoughts have been in my brain for a while so I decided to post them. If you need a refresher, the episode "It's About Time" is: "After receiving a warning from her future self, Twilight drives herself crazy in an attempt to avoid an unspecified upcoming catastrophic disaster." As you know, Twilight was in her study and she was visited by a future version of her sometime <7 days in the future ("next Tuesday morning"). Here are a few questions: Where in the the whole loop of Twilight visiting herself start and why? What caused the "original" Twilight to go back into the future and tell the past Twilight about some "upcoming disaster?" The first Twilight to ever do such a thing would have no reason to go back into the past to tell her past self not to worry about next Tuesday morning, as that original Twilight was never warned by any of her future selves. Are we watching a past version of the show? Clearly we aren't watching the most modern version of Twilight if some future version of herself had visited her. Here's a quote that Pinkie Pie specifically said after the Twilight we were watching the whole show went and visited her past self in the end of the episode: "Aww, don't worry about it! It's past Twilight's problem now." If you think about it, at the beginning of the show, we were watching past Twilight. So, repeating myself again, does that mean that we are watching a past Twilight rather than a present Twilight? Have all the episodes that we've seen in S3 (and possible even after that) already happened for the present Twilight? Here are my thoughts: Though the developers never intended this, we might be watching a past version of Twilight because the future version of Twilight might not be the same dorky, young pony that has five other friends. The present Twilight could be a middle aged pony doing her work and perhaps maybe have split up from her Mane 6 group to go on and live her life (because, most of the time in real life, people who were your friends at a young age aren't so much anymore due to moving away for college, jobs, etc.) That Twilight might not be a fun pony to watch a show about. This point also questions how far into the future from the Twilight we are watching is the present Twilight. How many times has the "going back into the past" spell been performed by this pony? Let's assume that this process happens every week. There are roughly 52 weeks in a year. So, the whole process of "future Twilight visits past Twilight, past Twilight worries about the whole thing until Tuesday morning when she finds out that it was all for nothing" happens 52 times per year. Essentially, if it's been a year since the present Twilight has done this process, we're currently watching the past 52nd version of Twilight. That's a big number. Now, Imagine if it's been, say, 3 years since the original Twilight had first gone back into the past. If that was so, we're currently watching the 156th past version of Twilight, which is unreal. It can go on and on and on. Of course, this also sprouts questions about general time travel: What happens to the other ponies of Equestria who aren't time traveling with Twi? When present Twilight goes into the past, are the present ponies suddenly gone? If you were to go into their shoes, what would happen to you the moment Twilight goes into the past? Are your current memories erased up until the point in time that Twilight traveled back into? -- These are just my thoughts on the whole matter. What do you think about the subject? Do you have a different idea of how the whole process went down?

back to the old days

RP posts don't count xD

Wait... what's this?

I do both, completely depending on the situation. Dealing with kids, I mask it up. Dealing with people that are really nice, I mask it up sometimes, but if needed I'll say it. People that piss me off I'll chuck that mask at them and speak my mind.

Unfortunately, a TON of people nowadays would find you attracted to a fictional character, much more one that isn't even human, abnormal. Personally, I think people can be attracted to whatever they want, but just because we think it isn't weird, doesn't mean the rest of the world won't. I wouldn't judge the majority's feelings based on what we say as a forum and a brony community, because the truth is, lots of people are going to think you're weird for being attracted to Rainbow Dash.

I have read his post and I agree. But, of course, there are other factors into deciding who is the best fan, and I'm eager to see what you think in the thread you're creating. (OT: I'm sending you a friend request. You're one of the more intelligent members on here that I've come across. I don't send friend requests often, so be honored JK.)

I think there's a huge difference, also, between fans and fanboys/girls. Being a fanboy isn't really a true fan IMO, they are ignorantly blinded by their "love" for the character that they won't accept anything said that's negative about them. That's not the kind of fan that's fun to be around, either. Whether or not they want the character to do/not to do something, whether the character is this way or that way. Whatever the fan's own opinion about the character and what they call "fact," they won't change it no matter what, even if it makes complete sense and could change the character's plot line for the better.

How do you determine "best fan" then? There are too many factors that I think determine the best fan of each character and I'm too lazy to type them out xD

I would love to have a CHIBI pony, they're really cute :3 I'll definitely request one in your thread when it's created

Well, this is an opinion thread xD I wouldn't really consider what we were arguing about the other day factual, really. Opinions aren't right or wrong. So I couldn't have won an argument with no right answer, could I? xP

I think it's a good piece of art in general, but for me Applejack is unrecognizable... If you didn't say that it was her, the only way I would have known it was AJ would have been by her tail... Aside from that, good drawing.

http://mlpforums.com/statuses/user/8143-derpyhoovesfan10123/?status_id=136197 http://mlpforums.com/statuses/user/353-pinkazoid/?status_id=136522 http://mlpforums.com/statuses/user/8143-derpyhoovesfan10123/?status_id=136521 T_T Anyway, another unpopular opinion of mine is that I really don't mind when people are stubborn. Just the sheer pleasure that I know I won the argument when they start coming up with stupid excuses or saying "WELL, I DON'T CARE"

It's really old, but I still find this trippy as shit. An applause for Nintendo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDDAXsgoc5s