Re: reality?
| From: | J. Barefoot <lesfraises@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 2, 1999, 2:46 |
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Eric Christopherson <eric@...> wrote:
>That's exactly the kind of thing I have thought about before. Perhaps
>there are infinite parallel universes, and somewhere there are people
>who speak Zaraitian or Dhakrathat or Lainesco. Then I sometimes
>wonder, like you said about genocide, if what I decide about those
>alternate worlds will really happen, like if I decide a people is
>conquered and destroyed, does that really happen in some universe? The
>scariest idea is that of religion; if someone makes up a conreligion
>where there is some sort of hell, does that mean that people in an
>alternate universe can go there if you decide so? SCARY! :D
Now that's power. There is something inherently "fascist" about the
whole idea of creating a language and culture, something you can
completely control (or can you?). I mean that in the best possible way.
It almost makes me want to make all my concultures utopias, but not
quite. Just make it so if they go to hell, they probably had it comin'.
Jen
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