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Temporal Paradoxes, Greek Mythology, And Scifi

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Temporal paradoxes, Greek Mythology, and SciFi are fascinating to me. All of these topics pull me from the realm of reality into fantasy, it distracts me from the things around me and challenges me to look at the world in a different on how it could affect the world. I always try to push myself mentally to view the world in another perspective. My sources vary from youtube to news articles.

SciFi on television keeps my mind active with its possibilities of that could actually be our future. Scifi is the subject that pushed me towards a career in technology and science. For Example a show I 'm currently watching called "The Flash" introduce a possibility of the multiverse which is basically multiplied parallel universe within our universe. It
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