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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It's actually not that easy to cross between. All the documented instances of it--that I am aware of, mind--were accidents or deliberately recreated versions thereof. I don't have access to the technology that would allow me to attempt a recreation, and even if I did, I'm a doctor, not an engineer.

It's something to think about, at least. It's unfortunate that there can't be a definite way to prove this theory.

Oh, that is the part of all this that I am quite certain of.

The difference in historical events is just too great for me to think it was anything else.

Differences such as what?

Well, for one, we should still be in a period of recovery from a worldwide series of conflicts that simply haven't happened. In the early 1990s, a group of dictators rose to power and controlled every major nation on Earth in blocs. They were overthrown in 1996, but between thirty and thirty seven million people were killed worldwide.

We can't say for certain because the historical records from this timeframe were mostly destroyed in the following decades.

That's horrible. [It really is. That's just. Worldwide devastation.] And you were going through that?

I'd recommend the library for any further inquiries if you want to search for more information, but I'm not sure if there'll be anything that will help you.

No, that is what we'd be going through now. I'm from a good few centuries past that.

It wasn't a proud moment of Earth's history, though.

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No, it didn't seem like it would be. But it doesn't appear that there's been any war like that here.

No, it doesn't. And I'm glad for that, certainly.

It's not that everything didn't turn out alright, at least for the moment, but it was a hard road to get there.

You seem to have a good enough job to get through it, at least.

I'm a doctor. I suppose someone out there has a decent enough sense of humor to think I needed to be the purported incarnation of the Greek god of medicine.

It's a fitting role for you.

Funny, most of my friends would say it was a fantastic way to inflate my ego.

Can't say I know you well enough to say that.

I've been called an 'insufferable pest' more than a few times.

So far, you've been pleasant enough to talk to.

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