Sometimes I think about that guy who explained to me that democracy doesn't work and then described to me an argument against anarchy, only he somehow confused anarchy and democracy.
His argument was thus;
"Democracy doesn't work. Democracy says there are no rules. Everyone can do what they want, there is nothing stopping them. But if, say, I wanted to rape this random woman, then I'll be infringing on her freedom so that I can do what I want. And that violates democracy."
He was more verbose about it of course. And I was stuck with him for a few more hours so I just nodded along but the entire time I was thinking, like, are you for real guy?
Anyway sometimes I think about him and marvel at how strange and terrifying the world is.
In the mid-twentieth century, an eccentric scientist and mathematician discovers a way to time travel. The method was costly and convoluted, not to mention horribly dangerous. It was treated as a novelty of human ingenuity and then forgotten. Both time travel and its inventor falling into obscurity...
Until the early twenty-first century, when a struggling college student reads the research papers and reinvents time travel as their college thesis. The materials, technology, and scientific knowledge of the twenty-first century is able to make up for the gaps in the original inventor's work. The college student crowdfunds the first working prototype, and is so successful that they are able to give every backer a taste or two of actual, real-world time travel.
Within the first week the weaves of history, fate, and time itself is in shambles. This is nothing compared to what is to come.
The college student is able to successfully graduate and springboards their company providing accessible and consumer-friendly time travel to anyone and everyone. Some say the company isn't owned by her but by an older, more successful her. From the future, of course. This isn't strange in the world that she has created. Nothing is really strange anymore. Paradoxes are avoided through trial and error and frequent PSA's, but there are still losses every now and again. After a very long couple of months that took people centuries to engineer, the world has reached a stable equilibrium. Killing dictators won't irreversibly change the course of history anymore than it already has been. Visiting the dinosaurs and leaving behind a plastic bottle isn't going to kill off the ancestor of the bacteria that will help the neanderthals' evolutionary line develop a resistance to capsaicin. Shooting your grandfather won't blip you out of existence. Mostly because the dictators, the bacteria, and your grandfather also have access to time travel now.
No one really understands how it works. It just does. The world, time, and humanity have reached an equilibrium of sorts. Though there are still the occasional and avoidable paradox here and there, as well as a few... interesting things.
Most popular of these 'interesting things' is the case of the Ronin-Inu. An anthropomorphic shiba-inu in what used to be feudal Japan and is now a dangerous time-period crawling with mutated beasts from all sorts of time periods and places. His origin and journey is broadcast for everyone to see in the Time-Stream...
Some time in the distant past, in a distant land, a mysterious light shines on two roadside graves, one much smaller than the other.
The inhabitant of the larger grave wakes up and claws his way out. Bewildered at his revival, he goes on his merry way. But not before paying his respects to his loyal shiba inu's grave.
Some indeterminable time later, the mysterious light shines again. The shiba inu claws his way out. He has a human body, but a dog's head. He has a human mind, but a dog's memories. He smells his master has been here and left. And so he begins his journey in search of his master. Only, the world is very different from how he remembered it being. There are twisted monsters, abominations, and other creatures roaming the countryside. Every village he meets is distrustful of him for his dog head and human body. He eventually acquires a sword, and wanders the land slaying monsters and rescuing people while searching for his master.
The regular people he rescues treat him with distrust and fear. But as time goes on, he realizes there's another kind of person he's been rescuing, more and more frequently. These people wear strange clothes, have strange accents, and look at him with stars in their eyes. They talk to him as though they already know him and the things he has done. Sometimes, they know what he will do in the future.
He is... the Ronin-Inu.
The one and only anthropomorphic animal who isn't completely mad and feral. He was presumably created by a misfired experiment in a closed timeline performing research on both post-slash-transhumanism and resurrection. Both unethical and highly illegal subjects. The latter especially, for how close it comes to violating another fundamental law of the universe.
Still, the Ronin-Inu is a dearly beloved celebrity, and fan visits are carefully managed so as not to overwhelm him.
"Hey what's up Time-Stream it's me InuFan1737 and this week I'm preventing a paradox and finally making that viral video I released seven years ago. And the topic for this video? You know it, I know it, the dog the myth the legend we all know and love, Ronin-inu! So let's get"
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Video Transcript: 57:00 to 58:07
"And I know a lot of the things I've shared in this video have been disproved or expanded on in the twelve years since its explosion in popularity, but I have to keep them in for the continuity. I'm very proud to soon become one of the foundational sources on our guy the Ronin-inu. So thank you so much for watching and, as always, see you last week!"
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● InuFan1737 (OP) ✓ 6 years ago *Pinned
Wait what, I have to make this? It's my second day of college man everyone's talking about me like I'm already famous. I can't deal with this right now 😭
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● InuFan1737 (OP) ✓ 3 minutes ago
Don't worry man it gets better. Some people just can't keep kayfabe. Just ignore them and live your life. And I know it won't help much for me to say this, but I've already read it so I know to say it so I know it's fine, but take it easy, yeah? It'll work out.
● Solsweeper83 2 minutes ago
@InuFan1737 Do you not realize how much of a hypocrite this makes you to reply to your past self while criticizing others for not keeping to the kf.
● augustJammin' 1 minute ago
@Solsweeper83 Chill bro he'd already replied to himself in the past which means he knew he'd be safet o reply because it's already happened. And not doing it would have created a paradox because it's already happened anway, so if anything you're the hypocrite tryingt o get InuFant o break continuity.
● buperdalisamifamotilitic 10 seconds from now
@augustJammin'Right??? Smh keyboard warriors with nothing better to do.
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● Airn ✓ 7 years ago
Yo this came out just in time ong
Edit: Holy shit this is the reason I got verified??? It was a joke comment I made eight years ago guys c'mon.
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● FUSSYDESTROYER39850 7 years ago
@AirnFALSE FACTS NOOB!! ronin inu isn't real! check my video to see some REAL news!!!
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● Edward Richens ✓ 11 years ago
^^^ Ignore bot above and report ^^^
● Foramin ✓ 17 years ago
@Edward Richens Richens! Another great man taking time out of his research to stand above the bots and government agents blocking the path to true knowledge!
● therealjelkinsVA ✓ 2 years ago
@Foramin Ami Fordes?!
● Emilija Kutkiene ✓ 4 years ago
@therealjelkinsVAJelkins!?
● Airn ✓ 7 years ago
Famous people congregation lmao
● VeriFinder ✓ 7 years ago
For those curoius, yes this is the official verified account of the real Edward Richens, but the reply was made several years (personal time) before he published the Richens Principle. Please be respectful and don't break chronological kayfabe. For much the same reason this video still has its many inaccuracies. We don't want another paradox like the one that created the monsters.
P.S. All the other accounts above me are also real.
P.P.S. All of the ones below me are also real.
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● -user_undetected_error- ✓ -verification_system_query- -undetermined_error- time ago
Thank You
● Underground 66 ✓ 8 weeks ago
curoius
● TheresaOslo ✓ 2 years ago
curoius
● chesssss ✓ 2 weeks ago
*crousiu
● ''""'' ✓ 1 year ago
yeah but I do want another paradox like the one that made ronin0inu though
● Patch2 [MODERATOR] 2 months from now
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● Milkoyo 1 seconds ago
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● Bada-Bung 4 months from now
Okay but the Richens Principle already proved that the time travel couldn't have directly caused Ronin-Inu's body to turn anthropomorphic. Current leading theory is a dead timeline doing illegal experiments on the nature of humanity. And in 5 years we'll discover the true identity of Ronin-Inu's master and prove definitively that his body isn't based on that. Further, it's common knowledge that Ronin-Inu's sword is NOT a katana but an odachi. Honestly, did you even do your research?
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● augustJammin' 5 minutes from now
@Bada-Bung Did you even do your research? InuFan's video is the basis and inspiration of a lot of research that ledt o a lot of what we know about Ronin-inu now. Obviously it has inaccuracies because without those inaccuracies the other studies wouldn't have been done. It wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say that this is the first serious in-depth study int o Ronin-inu that has been publicized. People watched this video and asked questions which led themt o do their own studies int o Ronin-inu. Honestly, did you even watcht o the end of the video? InuFan explicitly states that he kept the inaccuracies int o keep kf and make sure that the continuity isn't broken. Which apparently you can't do since you're bringing up discoveries from five years from now.
Educate yourself before tryingt o educate others.
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● Bada-Bung 4 months from now
@augustJammin' Yawn. TLDR. Don't even say anything if you need so many words to say it.
● augustJammin' 7 minutes from now
@Bada-Bung Do you even realize the hypocrisy of what you're saying? Keep your own comment short if you're goingt o criticize others for long comments. I'll even make it easy for you.
TL;DR: You're a hypocrite and a troll.
● Bada-Bung 4 months from now
@augustJammin' Sure whatever you say. I just spelled the facts. You're the one who's getting worked up.
In the mid-twentieth century, an eccentric scientist and mathematician discovers a way to time travel. The method was costly and convoluted, not to mention horribly dangerous. It was treated as a novelty of human ingenuity and then forgotten. Both time travel and its inventor falling into obscurity...
Until the early twenty-first century, when a struggling college student reads the research papers and reinvents time travel as their college thesis. The materials, technology, and scientific knowledge of the twenty-first century is able to make up for the gaps in the original inventor's work. The college student crowdfunds the first working prototype, and is so successful that they are able to give every backer a taste or two of actual, real-world time travel.
Within the first week the weaves of history, fate, and time itself is in shambles. This is nothing compared to what is to come.
The college student is able to successfully graduate and springboards their company providing accessible and consumer-friendly time travel to anyone and everyone. Some say the company isn't owned by her but by an older, more successful her. From the future, of course. This isn't strange in the world that she has created. Nothing is really strange anymore. Paradoxes are avoided through trial and error and frequent PSA's, but there are still losses every now and again. After a very long couple of months that took people centuries to engineer, the world has reached a stable equilibrium. Killing dictators won't irreversibly change the course of history anymore than it already has been. Visiting the dinosaurs and leaving behind a plastic bottle isn't going to kill off the ancestor of the bacteria that will help the neanderthals' evolutionary line develop a resistance to capsaicin. Shooting your grandfather won't blip you out of existence. Mostly because the dictators, the bacteria, and your grandfather also have access to time travel now.
No one really understands how it works. It just does. The world, time, and humanity have reached an equilibrium of sorts. Though there are still the occasional and avoidable paradox here and there, as well as a few... interesting things.
Most popular of these 'interesting things' is the case of the Ronin-Inu. An anthropomorphic shiba-inu in what used to be feudal Japan and is now a dangerous time-period crawling with mutated beasts from all sorts of time periods and places. His origin and journey is broadcast for everyone to see in the Time-Stream...
Some time in the distant past, in a distant land, a mysterious light shines on two roadside graves, one much smaller than the other.
The inhabitant of the larger grave wakes up and claws his way out. Bewildered at his revival, he goes on his merry way. But not before paying his respects to his loyal shiba inu's grave.
Some indeterminable time later, the mysterious light shines again. The shiba inu claws his way out. He has a human body, but a dog's head. He has a human mind, but a dog's memories. He smells his master has been here and left. And so he begins his journey in search of his master. Only, the world is very different from how he remembered it being. There are twisted monsters, abominations, and other creatures roaming the countryside. Every village he meets is distrustful of him for his dog head and human body. He eventually acquires a sword, and wanders the land slaying monsters and rescuing people while searching for his master.
The regular people he rescues treat him with distrust and fear. But as time goes on, he realizes there's another kind of person he's been rescuing, more and more frequently. These people wear strange clothes, have strange accents, and look at him with stars in their eyes. They talk to him as though they already know him and the things he has done. Sometimes, they know what he will do in the future.
He is... the Ronin-Inu.
The one and only anthropomorphic animal who isn't completely mad and feral. He was presumably created by a misfired experiment in a closed timeline performing research on both post-slash-transhumanism and resurrection. Both unethical and highly illegal subjects. The latter especially, for how close it comes to violating another fundamental law of the universe.
Still, the Ronin-Inu is a dearly beloved celebrity, and fan visits are carefully managed so as not to overwhelm him.
You feel the world is smiling at you. Every billboard, poster, and advertisement sports a friendly face. The bumpers on cars look like smiles. Strangers grin with perfect teeth. Every flower, every rainbow, every reflection in every mirror is smiling at you. Yes you, you little grumpy-face! Isn't it wonderful? Why don't you smile back, darling?
The crinkling of the metal roof under the sun sounds like raindrops. The wash of white noise from the highway sounds like the sweep of rain. The sky is ambiguously gray. The smell of ozone is in the air. Did you put the laundry in? Is it raining, or are you imagining it?
When Archdemon Ludicrous was slain by Great Hero Relentless, it is said that his crimson eyes sparkled with mirth. As though privy to some joke known only to him. The Dread Generals, when told of their treacherous leader's demise, would devolve into an unstoppable, maddened laughter. They would laugh, and laugh, and laugh until, shaking and crying and weak from joyous giggles, they were cut down. Thus was another cycle of Archdemons and Heroes completed. And the world prepared for the next Archdemon's coming, one hundred years later.
A hundred years passed, and the Human kingdoms rallied as the Demons began to stir. A new Hero was chosen, trained, and sent off to Demon-occupied lands. For twelve years they searched the lands Above and Below, subjugating beasts and culling The Enemy, yet there was no sign of the Archdemon. The Demons themselves had their plots, but unlike before there was no linking thread, no overwhelming power or insidious hand guiding them. Merely beasts acting in their nature, sometimes aided by the greed of Man.
The Hero grew tired, had children, and settled down. Only occasionally would they sally forth to investigate cases of unrest, Demonic or otherwise. None of them showed any signs of an Archdemon's manipulations. And so retired Aimless Hero Headstrong, with nothing to show for her mantle but an era of peace unmatched by those before.
Some hundred years after Headstrong was chosen, again the Demons began to stir. Again, a Hero was chosen. And again, no Archdemon emerged for them to challenge. A hundred years later, so too did another Hero find themselves with no destiny to fulfil. And again a hundred years later. With great power and no true enemies to fight, the Heroes turned their attentions elsewhere.
Godking Hero Vital united the Human kingdoms under one Empire that broke apart a hundred years later under Rebel Hero Wistful's guidance. Curious Hero Insight furthered the advance of science and magecraft, and Archmage Hero Seeker continued their work by establishing The Library. And on and on and on. Two dozen names over two dozen centuries. A few were lost to time, a few were lost to treachery, a few lost to negligence. Some were said to be greater than any Hero before them. Some were barely more accomplished than a regular Human.
And all this time, no Archdemon rose for the Heroes to challenge.
With no champions or rulers to fight for them, the Demons fell on each other, much like the Humans did in the lands Above. Lacking a protector, many grew weak, and they were killed by Heroes looking for answers for why their destinies were incomplete.
In their desperation, the few surviving Demons, those that remained powerful, sealed away the lands Below. The Humans and their Heroes, thinking this a ploy by the first Archdemon to appear in two thousand years, found their way past the seal. And again they searched with fervor renewed. Again, they found nothing.
And so the worlds were separated. The Human lands developed, the Demon lands were banished into myth and fairytales. Along with them went the tales of the Archdemons, the truth diluted. Kept known only by dusty old tomes kept in The Library, perused only by Heroes, demonologists, and historians.
...
Nancy Miriam considered herself a demonologist, of sorts. She considered herself a lot of things. The One True Princess of Seeker Middle School, Righteous Banisher of Baths, One Who Holds The Archdemon In Her Left Eye, Best Dressed of Years 2485 Through 2496, Future Strongest Mage of the Library, and Destined Hero, among other prestigious titles.
Every day she donned her eye-patch to contain the terrible power contained within her left eye, and adjusted the frills and ribbons on her outfit to flare out all the more. And every morning she'd throw open the doors to her Office of Eternal Drudgery with all her might.
"Rejoice, mortals! For the Witch of Envy, Namiria has arrived once again to absorb your offerings of knowledge!"
Matron Heathers sighed. "Nancy... Class started five minutes ago. And don't slam the door."
Even as the rest of her fought not to wither under the stares and snickers of her classmates, beneath a patch of purest black, one ruby eye glimmered with mirth.
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