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John R. Lunise
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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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John R. Lunise You are correct: my theory is untestable, which thereby makes it only a theory.
John R. Lunise We can never know if it is true, we can only accept or reject it based on how it suits available evidence, and refine it as more comes to light.
John R. Lunise Your proposition, conversely, can be tested -- so if you truly want to find out what is going on, than either you must test it, or you must accept it as a belief rather than a truth.
John R. Lunise So I ask you: do you want an answer, or the answer?

Dante Rantanen i mean right now i'd be satisfied with AN answer so long as it made sense and explained what's going on
Dante Rantanen i can adapt to a different answer whenever proof comes up to prove the first answer wrong
Dante Rantanen that's probably not the answer you're looking for though

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Edited (ONE DAY. ONE DAY I'LL LEARN TO CLOSE HTML TAGS SOB) 2017-02-21 02:34 (UTC)

John R. Lunise To the contrary, that is the beginning of science.
John R. Lunise Although science involves testing your assumptions.

Dante Rantanen and right there's the problem
Dante Rantanen if you want to test it be my guest
Dante Rantanen right now i'm good with my empirical evidence
Dante Rantanen but who knows, maybe if strange things keep happening i'll change my mind

John R. Lunise Then I do advise caution in how you let your belief influence your behavior -- just in case.
John R. Lunise Or to put it another way: Don't get into trouble you can't get out of.

Dante Rantanen thanks for the warning but i'll be okay
Dante Rantanen i always am

[...aaaaaaaaand if he isn't then John just might get something in his inbox going "help?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

[He remembers those days.]

John R. Lunise Then I wish you the best of luck.