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[–] [email protected] 154 points 2 months ago (4 children)

POV: If you're not immune, you wouldn't be able to realize it

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You realize you’re not immune right AS you are in the midst of the act of snapping your fingers

[–] aoidenpa 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And you are stuck in that thought forever.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Assuming nobody else is immune and has the power to restart it. If someone else did have the power to restart time, I think the thought process would go:

Bob: "Aha! I have the power to stop time with the snap of my fingers"

[starts to snap]

Bob: "Oh wait! What if I'm not immune!"

[time is frozen]

Some dude elsewhere: "Weird, time stopped again! I guess I'll take advantage and rob this bank." Then, later "Ok, got all the money, now I'll just crack my knuckles to restart time."

[time is unfrozen]

Bob: "Wait... I just snapped my fingers and time didn't stop! I guess I don't have that power at all!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That is an amazing story idea! One person has the ability to stop time, someone else somewhere has the ability to start it. They could even have a cat and mouse thing similar to Death Note...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But it’s ok because you don’t realize you’re stuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Unless you realize really fast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Realize as in remember, yes, I give you that. But realize as in you're surprised, not.

[–] Klear 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I realised that. Must mean I'm immune.

[–] samus12345 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, just "you're not immune" would have been better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I actually think about this. People recognize that time is a dimension of our reality, but ask: why does it only move forward? But wat if it doesn't? What if we go backwards and forwards often? But our memories are "unmade" when moving backwards and "remade" when moving forwards. We simply can only perceive the forward direction.