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Doctor Julian Bashir ([personal profile] asklepian) wrote in [community profile] thefarshore2017-01-29 09:06 pm

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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.
giftedistheterm: (snarky)

[personal profile] giftedistheterm 2017-01-31 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't notice them using these message boards at all. Maybe they're all Luddites?

History which may no longer fully apply. I can understand why you wouldn't want to share the specifics of what your history books contain, I wouldn't either rules or no. Though I confess I'm curious how much of what you were taught differs from my own lessons.
giftedistheterm: (She's really crazy...)

[personal profile] giftedistheterm 2017-01-31 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That is very different from what I was taught.

[Understatement of the year there, Simon.]

As far as I'm able to determine, if this timeline differs from mine we won't know for certain for another five years or so. There was no rampant genetic experimentation in my history books, and humanity managed to avoid finding other reasons for another world war.
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giftedistheterm: (it would be nice)

[personal profile] giftedistheterm 2017-02-08 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
That at least seems to be a constant, yes. I suppose I should clarify: there were no additional world wars on Earth, but there was the Unification War that ended only five years ago. So really, humanity hasn't changed all that much over the centuries.

I assume you're speaking of finding alien life? I suppose that isn't as unusual as being gods...how did things improve?
giftedistheterm: (snarky)

[personal profile] giftedistheterm 2017-02-14 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
So finding out we're not alone in the universe is the impetus needed to finally and properly pull ourselves together? I can believe that.

Though it sounds like your 'version' of Earth has advanced further than mine in several ways. We left Earth to settle on another system but had to do so without the aid of faster than light travel. There was an entire generation that never saw the outside of a space ship, as historians like to put it.