thefarshore | (no subject)

Posted: June 8th
From: Asclepius

Something I've found myself quite interested in over the last few weeks has been a question of...well, I suppose our existence.

Pardon me if this question has been asked before, I haven't seen it. I'd appreciate a summary of that particular conversation, if it has happened before.

Now, as a bit of background--I am from...a fairly significant amount of time in the future. I state that vaguely because there are rules against discussing it, we accidentally time travel often enough that there's protocol in place. But I feel fairly confident after my research that I am also in what I would consider a parallel universe. Those are also fairly well-documented in my time. (I must say this is far more pleasant than the last one I was in.)

Anyway. If all that is the case, I have to wonder: why do the divisions of god and shinki fall as they do? Whatever power brought us here evidently can reach through time and both physical and metaphorical space. Infinite realities mean infinite possibilities that in one or the other reality, we are either alive or dead.

Please keep all specific instances and examples private if you wish to give them. I don't want this discussion to be the cause of harm to anyone.

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I have no proof aside from personal experience: I once traveled 347 years into the past accidentally. And 105 years into the past deliberately.

Of course both times put me well ahead of the current year, but quite a few of the important historical events I know of don't seem to have happened in this reality anyway.

Edited 2017-01-30 17:43 (UTC)

uh huh

if you can't prove it, then show me the research about parallel universes that you mentioned before.

We're about three hundred years away from those case studies. Again, I have personal experience.

And knowledge of major historical events that have not happened according to any history book I can find here, thus my conclusion that this is also an alternative reality from the one I am from.

So, my apologies: I can give you no proof other than my word.

your word doesn't help me do my own research

[It still sounded ridiculous to him, but it wasn't like he had anything better to do. ...Or he was just trying to catch the other in a lie or something similar. Either or.] how major are we talking about here?

Neither does my academic sources being some three and a half centuries in the future.

[Yeah, well, the truth often sounds ridiculous.]

The biggest difference thus far is the complete lack of what we call the Great Wars. Those conflicts should have happened 20 years ago. That isn't to say that there hasn't been war, but it isn't at all the same. The scientific discoveries that led up to that war are also notably missing.

that's fine then. I don't know how important these discoveries are, but it sounds like we'd all be better off keeping things they way they are now

the ayakashi are one thing, but I don't know how much all of us could do about a great war

That was in the past. About 20 years ago, at this point, is when it should have happened but didn't.

[And without that there probably wouldn't have been World War III, so he's not counting on that happening. He'd really rather it not.]

I don't mean that I would rather that have happened, it was an incredibly dark time.