A look from outside

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:13 pm

Say a raccoonar learns about our world (magic mirror, astral projection, teleportation, whatever). What would he think of us? Would we be his vision of the "wrong place" you go to if you are bad when you die? Would he marvel at what we had done without lux? Would he pity us? Loath us? Admire us?

UncleMonty · Post by **UncleMonty** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:23 pm

He would likely find us... verrrry eenteresting.
Anything beyond that relies upon the character and mindset of the individual Rac Conan.

RedSquirrel456 · Post by **RedSquirrel456** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:07 pm

Well, if it's the average, good-hearted, Yeshua worshiping Rac'Conan, and he got a good, wide view of people in general here, he'd probably have a heart attack after he died of shock.

I suppose in general they'd see us as an oddity that needed either dealing with or ignoring... and if they knew the link worked both ways, a sincere threat. Assuming they could figure out how guns and missiles and human nature worked before PEDA and our UFO lovers got to them...

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:30 pm

I think it'd lead to a very awkward moment when they see this webcomic for the first time

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:42 am

RedSquirrel456 wrote: I suppose in general they'd see us as an oddity that needed either dealing with or ignoring... and if they knew the link worked both ways, a sincere threat. Assuming they could figure out how guns and missiles and human nature worked before PEDA and our UFO lovers got to them...

Sorry, I know it's a typo, but I can't help myself...

People for Entertainment by Diminutive Animals?

On to topic, if it were a visual-only interface I could almost see a "Turn that off Timmy, It'll rot your brain!" type of response.

Lux-aside I think the most intriguing part of an actual cultural interface, with the greatest social ramifications would be when it was discovered that they were a community of (southern?) baptists.

How well (or poorly) an actual interchance would go would definitely depend on the prejudices and tempraments of individuals on both sides. (There's a reason why the rac-conans are hidden behind the mistwall...)

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:35 am

it may depend on their predisposition as far as how they view fiction. I figure it's just as likely (if both worlds actually exist) that they may have fictional stories concerning our world as we may have about theirs.

should said rac viewing our world be a fiction goer, he/she amy find a place they actualy recognize!

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:07 am

They are from Earth-C, it is all very real. You seen when Ralph sleeps his mind becomes in tune with the alternate Earth. So his dreams are in fact images and visions from Earth-C, which he creates into the comic.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:27 am

so... which earth do WE live in?

EARTH-S (for solidus) or EARTH-H or something?

RedSquirrel456 · Post by **RedSquirrel456** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:52 am

Dang. I spelled PETA wrong. Oh well... it seems to work better with what you said anyway, Tbolt.

Maybe, if you want to get metaphysical about it, we're all just dreaming about the same alternate Earth, and when we die, we wake up in the other one?!

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:01 am

so this earth is just some "mass dillusion" or something like that?

kinda like the forums themselves. it's just some pseudo world where everyone gets together and acts silly and when all's said and done, it's time to get back to reality and pay the bills.

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:16 am

Multi User Simultaneous Hallucination!

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:27 am

I like the Chronicles of Narnia theory, where our world is just one of many worlds (some of which are other planets, while others are in completely different universes). Each world has its good points and its bad points, and some worlds are better than others. (An example of a bad world is the kingdom of Charn, in which the queen there basically nuked all life out of existance, except for herself.) However, each of these worlds are just shadowy illusions based on the one true world, Heaven. In this heaven, you can recognise aspects of all the worlds, except that they aren't shadowy and distorted (ie imperfect or sinful) like the other worlds are.

As for whether our world is a good one or a bad one... I think it's both. If you had a magic video camera that recorded all the noble actions through history (which usually occur when life is at its worst), you'd be convinced that this is a great place, one worth living in despite the wrongs. But, if you recorded all the bad things througout history, then you'd be ready to have this whole place thrown into the trash can (or dust bin). In my opinion, God is the only person who can completely reconsile or comprehend the two sides.

Anyway, those are my two cents. It's okay if you disagree.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:51 pm

UncleMonty wrote:He would likely find us... verrrry eenteresting.

Thank you Artie Johnson...you lovable little bispectacled Kraut hiding behind the potted palm.

Hey Monty......lessee how many of 'em know what th' heck I'm talkin' about.

Squeaky.....you stay outta this....at least for now...

S'aaruuk

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:07 pm

lessee here.

loveable = face value

little = face value

bispectacled = wears glasses

kraut = a term used by WW2 soldiers to describe the 'enemy' which was
often Germans (ie. the makers of SOUR-KRAUT)

hiding behind the potted palm = (there may be a specific reference here but I don't know what it is to, I assume it's a potted palm tree or something, I'm a bit lost at this point)

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:11 pm

So far, so good.....you're doing fine.

Yes the "potted palm" is a specific reference.......keep going.

S'aaruuk

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:20 pm

Where President Nixon asked "Sock it to me?"

Maybe you should look it up in your Funk and Wagnall.

Want a bite of my Walnetto?

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:26 pm

Jaydub's got it....

S'aaruuk

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:27 pm

*pops up from behind a potted plant, wearing a German WWII war helmet, spectacles, and sporting a pipe in his mouth, looking around the room*

Veeerrrrrrry, eenteresting.

*disappears behind the potted plant*

(and I only know this by seeing the commercials advertising the DVD collections...)

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:42 pm

shyal_malkes wrote:so this earth is just some "mass dillusion" or something like that?

kinda like the forums themselves. it's just some pseudo world where everyone gets together and acts silly and when all's said and done, it's time to get back to reality and pay the bills.

I would think it is more like Robert Heinlein's idea of the "World-As-Myth" as mentioned in his book, "Number of the Beast"

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:45 pm

A lot of times he'd have a cigarette held in the European style, palm toward the face cigarette held between thumb and forefinger.

One scene I remember well, the rest of the asylum (cast) did some sketch and blew it......."Hermann the German" parts the fronds, squints thru those inch thick lenses, and intones:

Veeeeeeery innnnteresting.......but vonce again...dey schrewed it up.. 8) ....*shakes head and withdraws*!

S'aaruuk