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retrospec2017-07-13 07:29 pm
manufactured) wrote in retrospec2017-07-13 07:29 pm
001. text // i'm wide awake the more i sleep
I'll preface this now with the notion that I don't expect anyone to respond with the content of their memories, should this be relevant to them. It's more a question being shouted into the void, because I don't care to keep it in my head any longer. Make of it what you will; treat it as a pure hypothetical if it suits you, it isn't as though I'll know the difference.
But has anyone had the suspicion that they may have been on the wrong side of whatever conflict may have been occurring in these memories of theirs? Or if not something so drastic, perhaps it's just that the person you seem to have been back then was deserving of, at the very least, a solid shake and a slap across the face.
Either way, people like to assert here that whomever you are now isn't the same as the person you're remembering, and I wholeheartedly agree with that notion. However, the question likewise comes up from time to time of whether or not the patterns we recall are what we're destined to fall into again.
That possibility becomes decidedly more difficult to disregard when the memories you receive are of someone that you have neither the interest nor the desire to become.
But has anyone had the suspicion that they may have been on the wrong side of whatever conflict may have been occurring in these memories of theirs? Or if not something so drastic, perhaps it's just that the person you seem to have been back then was deserving of, at the very least, a solid shake and a slap across the face.
Either way, people like to assert here that whomever you are now isn't the same as the person you're remembering, and I wholeheartedly agree with that notion. However, the question likewise comes up from time to time of whether or not the patterns we recall are what we're destined to fall into again.
That possibility becomes decidedly more difficult to disregard when the memories you receive are of someone that you have neither the interest nor the desire to become.
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A few months ago I would have told you I don't believe in past lives, and then all of this nonsense happened. I still want to know how all of this could happen because of an app, personally.
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Although I'm still not certain I fully subscribe to the notion that this is truly a reincarnation situation. I'll admit that it's something that we can't discredit entirely, either, however.
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In the movies reincarnation always seem to be from a past life here on Earth, and I'm nearly positive whatever I'm remembering couldn't possibly have happened on Earth for a variety of reasons.
What do you think is going on if not reincarnation? Personally I'm leaning towards Retrospec just making shit up.
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...That really does seem to be the simplest solution, doesn't it? Retrospec making things up as they go.
You'd think they would do a slightly better job matching the memories to the person they're giving it to, then, tonally.
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I've shared memories of the same place with a few people here, though. So props to them for consistency, I guess.
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I wonder why that would be?
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On the other hand, I'm slightly hesitant to offer too many identifiable details to others. I suspect that whomever I'm sharing memories with wasn't terribly well-liked, and for good reason.
...I have to wonder if that's another reason this could be happening, now that I'm thinking about it. Driving rifts between people, having some of them remember horrible things and others being victimized.
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But you have a point. I can't really remember anything in particular about this guy whose memories I'm getting, but who knows what kind of person he is.
I can't really see what they would gain from giving an entire population an identity crisis unless they're secretly cartoon villains. Not that I'd put it past them at this point.
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They're one step removed from Snidely Whiplash.
Hope I didn't give them ideas with that.
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Our "friend" Jim seems like the best bet, but I guess the higher ups caught on to that fact since he's been put in the PR equivalent of time out.
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Or we'll find out everyone else in the organization is just as incompetent. I'd be okay with both.