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Albert Wesker ([personal profile] manufactured) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-03-12 12:50 am

005. Text // my world is unaffected

It's been some time since Retrospec has properly dropped some sort of identity crisis on us, though I suppose it's good to know that we're getting a bit more information out of them now than we were in the past; I'm in no way looking down on small favors and silver linings. Just the same, I wonder for the time being where that leaves us - I know I've asked a few of you about this in the past, and I'm sure that a fair amount of you have made your decisions regarding it since.

I suppose what I want to hear is your thoughts on these people you're receiving memories of, whether you consider them "you" or otherwise - do you still think of them as a separate person from yourself or do you consider them to be the same as "you", and why you've come to feel that way. I'm not going to argue for feeling one way or another on the matter, I'm just wondering how you've come to see these people that technically don't exist anymore.

Of course, if you reject this entire matter completely and just consider this to be an example of some corporate entity you hate ruining your life for no apparent reason, that's likewise fair.

I've formed my own views on this fairly recently; I tend to find it calming, having some sort of conclusion that I can accept as reasonably true for the time being. It's not always convenient, but it's calming.
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[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-03-16 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Disappointing, and that's where we'll have to hit our impasse, because I am here to argue differing viewpoints. How else can any of us figure out what this means to us?

But Carlisle insisted that Retrospec has just been facilitators. Retrospec's current incarnation isn't who started the process. They also can't stop it. Whoever does know what's going on isn't communicating it to their employees, either, there's just this implicit trust that the process will do what they expect it to.

And, again, no one can say for sure what happens at the end of the process. If this other soul is totally restored, what does that mean for the world that soul comes from? And what does it mean for the consciousness the soul is stored in for the time being, or, us.
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[personal profile] standalonehuman 2018-03-16 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
So if this other man's experiences are not the ones you want in your own life, as you said earlier, what meaning are you getting out of all this? And when the day comes that you remember everything about that life, what do you expect to happen?