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[fatalissimo]

I'm not really the sort for philosophical things, or romantic things, and I think I've told at least one person that I'm not good at Zen stuff, either. But once in a while something happens and it just sort of makes you think about the sort of stuff you wouldn't normally, I guess.

Do you ever think that we were brought here to meet someone specific? To maybe have an experience that we wouldn't have back home, and even if we won't remember it, for a little while we'll turn out better for it.

Or something.

Maybe it's just the season making me all nostalgic or something, who knows. It's a stupid question anyway. But it's something that I've been wondering about once in a while.

No one seems to know why the hell we're here anyway; that sounds as good as anything else.

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[anon text]

[whitehairedprettyboy]

Hmm. An interesting proposition. I myself have met someone here without whom I believe my life would be a great deal poorer. The idea that I might have been brought here to meet them is not an unpleasant one.

What makes you think we won't remember it? I certainly intend to.

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[fatalissimo]

Have you just not spoken to anyone who's gone home? We don't remember anything about this place when we leave, and it's pretty obvious why, too.

Think about it. A lot of us showed up in the middle of important things, and a bunch have talked to people who are further along on the...timeline, I guess, than we are. It's pretty reasonable to think that they'll tell us how our lives turn out - or don't turn out, given all the dead people. If we remembered, it's possible they'd go back and change something to try to fix their outcome, and I don't think I need to tell you how badly that might screw something up even worse than it was already.

Since there hasn't been anyone on the network posting with "Oh god, I went home and messed everything up, what do I do?" - and you know if someone had done that it would be the first thing some of these people would do about it, since they like broadcasting their problems to the world - it's pretty clear that no one remembers.

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[whitehairedprettyboy]

[ ...Oh. ]

You're serious.

Well, in that case, I can't imagine your original assertion holds very much water. Why bring us here to meet someone if we will simply forget them upon leaving? Why give us these experiences, only to erase them? Really, given this information, I can't imagine we were brought here with any sort of purpose. If we forget upon returning, it's the same as if we were never here at all, isn't it?

I also disagree with the idea that trying to change the timeline is necessarily a bad thing. It's worked out in my favor before, after all.

[fatalissimo]

Yeah, and what works out in your favor might end up screwing over everyone else. There's at least one person here that I wouldn't want messing with my personal timeline. Why should you or them or anyone else get that sort of power?