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There's expanded thinking, magical thinking, and fantastic thinking, anon.
You've gone straight past magical thought and gone to fantastic thought. Timelines do not exist. Time does not exist in the way many like to think about it. Quantum Mechanics destroys the concept of time and time lines.
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"Alexa…" Perhaps humans were granted access to devices that made 'telepathy' a thing. Let's pretend a number of the gods were actually relatively generous and trusting of humanity. They shared their technology willingly with us and we could chat away with each other using a broadband network, or something, much like today.
Then we got carried away, started trying to overtake them in some way or another. Perhaps there was a power shift among their own orders and parties more suspicious of humanity decided to update the terms of service without notification.
If I had to shoot a well aimed spitball.