You are a time-traveler who has just arrived in a world where the Bootstrap Paradox is real.
In this world, every event is the effect of some earlier cause, but that cause is always an earlier version of this very same event.
It's like a never-ending loop of causality, and you're stuck in the middle, trying to untangle the threads.
But don't worry, it's not as confusing as it sounds. Just think of it as a fancy way of saying "stuff just happens, and then it happens again, and again, and again..."
So, what do you do now? Do you try to find the source of this paradox, or do you just roll with it?
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