RelativeObscurity Today at 9:49 PM Hey Shouto. It's Maggie, and I am very glad I have you added here. So... you're one of the missing people too? ... You know, it's funny just how much the world's not making sense anymore. And judging by what we've been learning from Retrospec, there's a sensible reason for that. Not necessarily an ordinary one, or even one I fully get but, there's an explanation behind it. A logic, that no one's really getting. I have been able to officially confirm that our memories happened. Elsewhere, but,t hey happened. They're real. But it raises a question. Who is the most real? Is it us? Is it them? Or, are we equally real? The versions of ourselves in our memories, memories, I mean. But is that world, or this world, the one that takes precedence in the "true essence of ourselves"? Or perhaps, no matter what universe, we're still the realest us we can be. ...Wow, way to get philosophical on a topic that doesn't even relate to what's going on. Well, still, hope you see this. And if you do, respond. Then I'll definitely know you're back! And also whether or not you enjoy philosophy.
I got it. I don't know if we're really ourselves anymore. If what we found in space was true, then our lives are just constructs. The memories that we've been getting are real. They're ours. It's not a reincarnation or something like that.
From what it sounded like. They both feel real, and that's the problem. The feelings I get from the retrospec memories and my real ones Neither feels fake.
If something is indistinguishable from reality, then it is real.
But yet, if that illusion is not true, then whatever the truth is, if we are capable of experiencing it, is "more real" than the other thing, even though that is real as well, simply by virtue of being the correct perception.
If we're both remembering these worlds that were real, then at least I know that, if nothing else, everyone on this app is real, since they're remembering their own "realities" which are just as real as the one I'm remembering is.
They are dispelling the "false" reality we're in and restoring us to our "true" reality of ourselves? If we're just constructs, and we're literally gaining abilities and changing physically to resemble our other selves.
It's impossible to ignore it. And trying to do something like that is stupid anyway. When reality is changing, it's stupid to hide from it. But I still hate it.
Exactly. If we're going to be changing, then we just have to accept it. Not deny that it's a part of our "real self", not try and live as if it's not occurring, not blame Retrospec as some being entirely evil(though they're still shady af). But, I'm not saying to over-embrace it either, and lose ourselves in the process. I guess we should just, deal with it like normal human beings.
That's what we're supposed to do in all this, I think.
What I'm saying is we need to accept that this is happening, the memories we're receiving are just as, if not more, real than our own, and that things are never going back to normal.
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RelativeObscurity Today at 9:49 PM
Hey Shouto. It's Maggie, and I am very glad I have you added here.
So... you're one of the missing people too?
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You know, it's funny just how much the world's not making sense anymore.
And judging by what we've been learning from Retrospec, there's a sensible reason for that. Not necessarily an ordinary one, or even one I fully get but, there's an explanation behind it. A logic, that no one's really getting. I have been able to officially confirm that our memories happened. Elsewhere, but,t hey happened. They're real. But it raises a question.
Who is the most real? Is it us? Is it them? Or, are we equally real?
The versions of ourselves in our memories, memories, I mean. But is that world, or this world, the one that takes precedence in the "true essence of ourselves"? Or perhaps, no matter what universe, we're still the realest us we can be.
...Wow, way to get philosophical on a topic that doesn't even relate to what's going on.
Well, still, hope you see this. And if you do, respond. Then I'll definitely know you're back! And also whether or not you enjoy philosophy.
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I don't know if we're really ourselves anymore.
If what we found in space was true, then our lives are just constructs.
The memories that we've been getting are real. They're ours. It's not a reincarnation or something like that.
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So, our current lives are the fake ones, then?
Or perhaps, they are both real, but this life is simply "less real" than that one.
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They both feel real, and that's the problem.
The feelings I get from the retrospec memories and my real ones
Neither feels fake.
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But yet, if that illusion is not true, then whatever the truth is, if we are capable of experiencing it, is "more real" than the other thing, even though that is real as well, simply by virtue of being the correct perception.
I think that is how I would put it.
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Also this is going to give me a headache.
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But still... then that just raises the question as to what in this world is real besides ourselves?
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But I don't know.
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If we're both remembering these worlds that were real, then at least I know that, if nothing else, everyone on this app is real, since they're remembering their own "realities" which are just as real as the one I'm remembering is.
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I've seen some people in those memories that I know here.
It's weird.
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But, are the Retrospec employees real, then?
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They are dispelling the "false" reality we're in and restoring us to our "true" reality of ourselves? If we're just constructs, and we're literally gaining abilities and changing physically to resemble our other selves.
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But I don't want to be him.
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And trying to do something like that is stupid anyway.
When reality is changing, it's stupid to hide from it.
But I still hate it.
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That's what we're supposed to do in all this, I think.
[Take your own advice Maggie.]
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What I'm saying is we need to accept that this is happening, the memories we're receiving are just as, if not more, real than our own, and that things are never going back to normal.
Which, still easier said than done, but still.