Welp, here goes. First quoting the page:
Now my interpretation:
If we were to take the timeline as a line, then a type 2 being is like a single dot inside that line. It can move to different points in time (in linear or not), but it does not leave any trace behind, not even immediate traces.
Because even changes to your self from 1 second ago can effect the present, such that if you were to be erased 1 second ago, you won't exist 1 second later; by being immune to that, type 2s are essentially screaming that they only exist in the present. The true essence is not creating a path across space-time, not about "erasing your history" or whatever, though that may be one of the unconventional ways to get type 2. But yes, you have to be constantly erasing your past/future if you want to get Type 2 via that method.
Graphically, it's something like this:
- Normal people trace a path in time normally. You can manipulate any of their past points.
- People whose past is retroactively erased at different points in time cannot have their erased past manipulated, but their immediate past is still there for one to erase. Only way to bypass this is IF the retroactive erasure is passive and constantly doing its job (as that's no different from a type 2 except in how they erase it)
- Type 2 beings just don't trace a path AT ALL. Thus why a future or past is never generated for them that can be manipulated.
Hope that helps.
Personally I'm neutral to the proposal on the thread.
Not reading that long of a yapfest :d