perplexed about time

# time slice 1

we see the top of the spiritologie message board

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# time slice 2

Terrence writes a post detailing an experiment on the anatomy of time:

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# time slice 3

Terrence wonders about consequential thinking: using a non-existent past to "predict" (actually create via belief) the future based on the present.

It seems that the events flowed linearly in time. How can I invalidate linear thinking? I suppose I need to quite trying to use logic to defeat logic/linear thought/consequential thinking.