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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
so pretty much there's an episode where Picard and the gang are cruising along and they see this probe, and then it shines this light on Picard and he gets knocked out. And then he wakes up in this really primitive village and he's all confused right

so he talks to people asking where he is and all that shit, and they get freaked out and say something to the effect of "what are you talking about, you're our shaman, you've lived here your entire life." He argues with them and says he's a starship captain and all that, but they just say he was very sick and had a month long fever dream where he imagined the events of Star Trek: TNG

eventually Picard accepts this and realizes that he indeed just hallucinated that. He lives out the rest of his sixty years in the village, has a wife and kids and all that, and generally lives out an entire life. He learns to play the flute very well. In the closing days of his life, when he's like 96 or some shit, he lives to see his society learn the basic mechanics of space travel and send a probe up into space

and then he dies

but he wakes up right back on his ship and only like an hour has passed since he initially got knocked out. Instead of being relieved or happy, he's crippingly depressed and just wants to see his wife and kids again. He remembers everything about the life he just lived. He also finds the flute he learned how to play on his bedside dresser, somehow.

so the question is, what if your entire life turned out to be something like this?


 
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I've wondered this before. I feel like I would have a very similar reaction to the one Mr. Picard had.
Living an entire life that turns out to be a dream would be devastating.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
I've wondered this before. I feel like I would have a very similar reaction to the one Mr. Picard had.
Living an entire life that turns out to be a dream would be devastating.
Yeah, exactly. He pretty much lived two separate lives.

I don't know how I would feel...on one hand, I'd be happy to get another "go" at life, but I'd also feel really cheated. It does make you wonder what kind of life you'd wake up to if this happened.


 
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I've wondered this before. I feel like I would have a very similar reaction to the one Mr. Picard had.
Living an entire life that turns out to be a dream would be devastating.
Yeah, exactly. He pretty much lived two separate lives.

I don't know how I would feel...on one hand, I'd be happy to get another "go" at life, but I'd also feel really cheated. It does make you wonder what kind of life you'd wake up to if this happened.
It''s such a strange thing to think about. Would it be something like what you're living right now but a bit different or full on alien world type difference.


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Poor based Picard. :(


 
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His depression was actually withdrawal from his stash of super heavy shaman drugs.


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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.


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It would be kind of good a good thing because then I'd know what to do and what not to do in life.


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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?


 
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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.


 
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You know how I'm already a sentimental clingy mother fucker who already misses people he's lost over time?

Well, that wouldn't fucking help me out one bit.


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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.


 
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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.


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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.


 
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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.
Fight them.


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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.
Fight them.

Because assaulting people that don't believe you're an entirely stable individual will make them reconsider.


 
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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.
Fight them.

Because assaulting people that don't believe you're an entirely stable individual will make them reconsider.

It worked for the Catholic Church.



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This happened in Rick and Morty as well.

There is a video game cabinet at Blitz N Chitz on the temporal asteroid where you control a man named Roy and live out his whole life with the accompanying memories when you beat it.


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This happened in Rick and Morty as well.

There is a video game cabinet at Blitz N Chitz on the temporal asteroid where you control a man named Roy and live out his whole life with the accompanying memories when you beat it.
aw ya beat me to it


 
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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.
Fight them.

Because assaulting people that don't believe you're an entirely stable individual will make them reconsider.
Don't tear apart my argument.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
This happened in Rick and Morty as well.

There is a video game cabinet at Blitz N Chitz on the temporal asteroid where you control a man named Roy and live out his whole life with the accompanying memories when you beat it.
This guy doesn't have a social security number! He's taking Roy off the grid!


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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.
Fight them.

Because assaulting people that don't believe you're an entirely stable individual will make them reconsider.

It worked for the Catholic Church.

If only I were the pope.


 
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Be somewhat confused and move on.
So friggin' stoic. Nihil admirari.

Well, what can I do about it besides make people doubt my sanity?
Show and tell them things with conviction, things too elaborate to be the product of imagination or research. Still... what then?

"You had an alternate life as a shaman."
"Oh cool."

Actually, people might envy you for your double lifetime, which could be bad. People could be somewhat impressed and intrigued as well. I suppose the immediate consequences appear to be purely social.

I think it's a symptom of Schizophrenia to believe you had a past life.
I think that for the purposes of the topic we're 'sane'.

But the hypothetical people we're hypothetically trying to convince don't know that.
Fight them.

Because assaulting people that don't believe you're an entirely stable individual will make them reconsider.

It worked for the Catholic Church.

If only I were the pope.
*magical foxe*

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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Had a couple of really weird dreams like that once. Was fucked up.

I think Phillip K. Dick had the same thing.