Part 2 of 2. Not sure why, but we start out talking a lot about superheroes. But pretty soon we devolve into commercials, and then settled in the rarefied air of nerds talking about time travel. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
What’s your favourite TV jingle? Any that you really hate? –Craig
What are the best/worst time-travel stories? –Jas
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I was laughing so hard about “…and from Taco John’s!” because I, too, do that every damn time. Near the end of the season when I am delirious from 2 1/2 months of Christmas I start tacking that into/onto pretty much any Christmas song I can.
I like that idea… I may use that this season.
One thing I neglected to bring up regarding interactions between 3.5D beings and >3.5D beings… even if a >3.5D being can interact with a 3.5D being (the sphere manifesting to the square as an ordinary circle), not everything the >3.5D being expresses will be comprehensible to the 3.5D being, just as a matter of course. One result of this fact is the isolation of the 3.5D plane from interactions that could mess the 3.5D plane up — potentially damaging information coming from the >3.5D being will be too scrambled to actually do damage to the 3.5D plane. This partially explains how oracles (which would qualify as >3.5D beings) sound like they’re speaking in riddles all the time. (Also partially explained by how paradoxical specific information about the future is… if you state a picture of the future clearly, the future changes, so if an oracular statement regarding the future is going to be a true statement, it must be a cryptic statement. Also, of course, it may just be a statement that causes the future it’s predicting.)
So, any person or phenomenon >3.5D is going to be, by nature, cryptic, unreproducible, and anecdotal on the 3.5D plane. They will be prone to being labeled “paranormal” or “supernatural” by 3.5D beings, and, therefore, will be reasonably doubted as real, even to some degree by the people who experience them. They will be entirely outside the purview of scientific scrutiny, though suitable fodder for metaphysical debate. While *in principle* not scientific, they do provide a non-magical account of phenomena typically considered magical. (E.g.: precognition, telepathy, remote reading, and psychokinesis can all be explained as the activity of an extra-dimensional being without the need to refer to magical or supernatural elements.)
I wanna steal your lunch money and shove you in a locker so bad right now…
My work here is done.