Thanks to Nick Lidster for the elevating discussion of Platos cave. I
wont claim Ive made it into the light yet, but I believe I may have gotten
beyond staring at the shadows
Thanks also to Gary Denton for the apology. But I doubt you brought anyone
along unless they were trapped in the car with you when you arrived.
I agree that you probably wont have any recordings of the previous universe
once youve entered into the new universe. Indeed this model seems to fit
my experience. I seem to have come here alone into a new universe populated
with near duplicates of the people I knew there.
I had another slight glitch today. I was searching out someone I had
interviewed with (for an elevator repair job) five years ago. He had since
retired. At that time I was told that the repair shop covered elevators in
many cities (all being on state owned university campuses). Today I was
told that the local repair shop only covers this one campus and NEVER had
responsibility for other campuses. Apparently this is one more small
difference from the universe I previously inhabited.
I did a backup visit to the construction company where the temp agency had
seemingly been a month earlier. The construction company has been there
five years. The secretary appreciated my tale and hummed a nice rendition
of a bar from the Outer Limits theme.
Theyve built a wall where I talked to the guy last month. I mean it! The
floor layout is different! I dont believe I dreamed this, although once I
dreamed a Wednesday, then woke up and it took half the day for me to realize
it really wasnt Thursday yet. I had to do Wednesday over again.
There was an interesting study done of the memories of Titanic survivors.
Over the years people seemed to modify their memories to make their own
roles seem more heroic or justified. This doesnt seem to apply to my case
where the nature of these glitches do nothing to make or break my ego, just
odd pointless differences.
I read The Bible Code a while back, and wondered if the code, which seemed
designed to pass messages into the future, had been used to stabilize a
particular timeline. Travelers entering into a new universe could get a
copy of the Torah and, decoding it with their computerized time travel
decoder rings, might get some numerical indication of how far they were from
their original timeline. Bush is mentioned in the Bible Code, along with
the Kennedy assassination and Rabins assassination, so I suppose his reign
of errors is also somehow emblematic of this timeline.
Thanks again for the various comments, from whichever universe. Id really
rather not doubt the accuracy of my own memories, but I have less scruples
when it comes to doubting the memories of others.
Alan Ackley.
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