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John R. Lunise
2/8 near Recolle
On the subject of horses, allow me to ask you a question: When you were a child, what was the name of the bear family who taught valuable life lessons in easily digestible books?
Chances are, you answered 'the Berenstein Bears'. And, as it happens, that is incorrect; it is the Berenstain Bears.
How can everyone misremember this? How can something so patently true turn out to be terribly false? Some people will tell you it is the 'Mandela effect', named after a shockingly large number of people believed Nelson Mandela died in prison... but simple mass misremembering is a fairly boring answer, isn't it?
Consider instead a possibility physics allows us: that infinite universes exist, that every possibility spawns a diverging universe. Consider then that these different universes must be ruled by mathematics and science, that were were able to observe them, some concrete, tangible difference must exist to distinguish them.
Consider also that the laws of physics as we know them are, in some cases, simply and utterly inoperable. The quantum scale, for example. Or a naked singularity. It is, therefore, conceivable that through some quirk of physics, some awesome miracle... we have merged or shifted into a world in which horses never existed, and chocobos always did.
Impossible, you say, and perhaps rightly so... but I have no better explanation.

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Jack Dawes nah mescaline is where its at
Jack Dawes anyone reading can test me if they want im clean but back in the day? whew
Jack Dawes i actually did the fear and loathing in las vegas thing IN las vegas way back when and thats probably at least ten percent of why im the way i am today tbh

Jack Dawes whats crackin johnny

[Much was explained this day.]

John R. Lunise Judging from everything that has happened, our heads, and not for any simple chemical reason either.

Jack Dawes seriously youre not gonna get a straight answer out of half these people
Jack Dawes dont know why youre even bothering

John R. Lunise Because an occurrence needs an explanation, and it the duty of science to attempt to seek and provide one.
John R. Lunise Nothing more and nothing less complicated than that.