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[notyourutopian]

Good morning everyone!

I have a couple questions, if people are willing to answer.

The first one is somewhat personal I suppose, so please don't feel obligatedif you don't want to.

Have you, or do you know anyone, who was on the Retrospec network, forgot about it, and then remembered again?
Would you be willing to talk about what it was like? Do you remember the first time you were connected?
Do you feel any different from the first time?

Okay.

My other question is about technology. Many people have received technology from the retrospec people. A lot of it works in ways we're not really used to, or is much more advanced than anything we have here. Or is magic.

(It's not really magic.)

If you have received something like that, would you be willing to allow some of us to examine them? If we can start to figure out how they work, maybe we can start reverse engineering them, or adding them to other things we already have.

On a related note, if you are an engineer or mechanic or anything along those lines and would like to be involved in examining these things, let me know! Maybe we can organize something big here.

Comments

[notyourutopian]

Magic = science we don't understand yet

[lalliho]

part of my soul is a lynx that's its own spirit that isn't science

[notyourutopian]

A lynx that is it's own spirit.

...

Is it part of you or like...something that attached to you?

[lalliho]

both

[notyourutopian]

So you haven't had it your whole life?

[lalliho]

I only got it a few months ago

other Lalli wasn't born with it either

[notyourutopian]

So, at some point, a secondary entity latched itself onto your 'spirit', for lack of a better term.

Can you tell me any more about it?

[lalliho]

spirits are things

you're really little when you get it and it's different for everyone

everyone who has it anyway I don't think a lot of people do? or it isn't the same

[notyourutopian]

How do you get one?

[lalliho]

you're supposed to get it when your teeth start coming in

[notyourutopian]

I don't mean when
I mean how!

[lalliho]

if people get it when their teeth come in I don’t think there’s really a solid idea on how

they just come to you

[notyourutopian]

Hm
And it doesn't seem like sometihng that happens here.
Beyond you, I mean.

So we can't really find anyone to study while it happens.

[lalliho]

you shouldn't study babies for fun anyway

[commandertoolbelt]

how is that supposed to make it better than science

[ sorry eleanor someone is #offended ]

[lalliho]

[Someone else is #offended at this butting in!!!]

I didn't say that specifically was better I just said that wasn't science

[commandertoolbelt]

[ there is nothing wrong with wanting clarification! ]

yeah you did
that's what "magic > science" means

[ (this is not about clarification and everyone probably knows it tbh) ]

[lalliho]

that was a different fact

- magic > science
is not
- literal spirit animal is not science

even if both are true

[commandertoolbelt]

ok but you can't say "magic is better" and explain that with "this thing isn't science"
maybe it isn't science
but what does that have to do with magic being better than science or not

[ because you know

it's not ]

[lalliho]

that's my point it doesn't have anything to do with that and I never explained that with that because I never explained it at all

that was about magic and science being the same which it isn't but that's what she said

if you like science so much you have to learn to actually read you know

[commandertoolbelt]

i did read
and i'm with eleanor on this one
just because we don't know exactly how something works doesn't mean there isn't a logical explanation to it
we just don't know what that explanation is yet

[lalliho]

what science makes 1/3 of someone's soul a wildcat

in what universe would that ever be science

and this is a different argument than the one you wanted to start with me

[commandertoolbelt]

the same kind of science that says we can get memories from other lives, i guess

[ aka "i don't know and i'm mad about it but that doesn't necessarily make it magic!" i'm sorry for him lalli ]

[lalliho]

no that I could see as science

even if you disagree with a lot of stuff you took what I said and changed the meaning and got mad at me for it so you shouldn't ignore that even if you aren't going to apologize for it you should say that's what you did

[Two people can be stubborn, you know.]

[commandertoolbelt]

i kind of didn't though
you said "magic > science"
el replied that "agic = science we don't understand yet"
and you answered that talking about how your soul being part animal or whatever isn't science?
idk i think asking what your second comment had to do with the first made plenty of sense
because it sounded to me like you were saying magic is better than science because of your soul or something