[Davesprite cocks his head to the side in a distinctly birdlike fashion.]

First, it's called paradox slime not because the slime is a paradox, but because it's what you get instead of the paradox that would result if you jerked the actual person out of that point on the timeline. And you don't need to explain to me how time loops work, dude, I've been through more of them than you can dream.

But the Heinlein ref goes beyond me, so how 'bout you start over from the beginning? Walk me through it. What do you think is going on here?