Thank you. Clearly there's a lot of background stuff I'm missing or have forgotten!
Okay, so it's definitely getting into the realm of 'more going on than I think'. Thanks. There's some sense to this, though how
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we can have beings who exist in a universe that is all there with the granular illusion of time being the only thing that keeps us from seeing everything, and still have 'free will' and the capacity to act outside of 'everything is already done and determined and we just don't know it yet', because that breaks predetermination...but then, we're into abstract stuff and getting deeply into philosophy, and I would be curious to see where that ends up. Does it then re-introduce free will, because 'stuff has changed'? Or does it just reposition 'everything' from that point 'forward' in the illusion we name time? Or is that predetermination more flexible, in that someone capable of this can act on their own, but unless they REALLY take some pretty destructive action or the like, everything just flexes around their choices (obviously if someone does something in the 'future' and gets killed, that thing can no longer occur, but maybe reality is more flexible)?
Possibilities, possibilities, and having GM'ed for so long, I know the best possible answer is 'probably none of those choices from the writer, but something completely different'. ^_^
Also not at all saying it's bad, just wondering where it ends up.
Ugh. I'm very, very sorry. I wish you only the best in this, and hope it gets resolved.
I'm glad I haven't said anything 'mean', but...my speech is peppered with gender references (like my first reply to you!), and I have to focus to take those things out/keep it neutral. I would never say anything maliciously or with intent to harm in this, but I might accidentally/habitually say something that isn't appropriate. So I need to check my language, is all, because words ARE important. ^_^
I'm one of those who is still wearing masks. Always when I go out. The only exception is when I'm practicing in the park with two other 'seniors' of my retired teacher, and when we get interactive the masks go back on. VERY glad to hear you've dodged the virus (same here) - I know many who haven't.Yep - and somehow I've dodged the virus so far despite being exposed to a few family members when they had it but were still asymptomatic. I still wear masks on occasions (not out to eat, got to take them off anyways for that, but for general shopping), still fairly social distancing, but definitely feels like it's mostly been pure luck at this point.
And my needs are fairly simple, so I could give most of it away. ^_^God I wish I were ginormously rich. Or any kind of rich really. And yeah, people are struggling these days. Just the weather this summer alone has been fairly disastrous world wide, never mind everything else.
People ARE struggling, things are ugly all over the world. I have little hope. Not saying it's not worth TRYING to help, but I can do that while holding little hope. Giving up isn't an option.