At least, you’ll have an idea of what’s going on in your new dimension
Gray’s Sports Almanac
Not sure how many people in this dimension have read one.
(Obvious comment is obvious)
I can think of 77 Million who haven’t.
I’m sure they’ve read the Bill Cooper collected works.
Make sure to assume it’s all propaganda as well
how you gon read alternate dimension language?
How do you read anything in a dimension where oral tradition rules and writing isn’t even a thing.
That it’s an alternate dimension doesn’t mean that the language isn’t semiinteligible
Good idea. You should also figure out if the new universe is in the past. Could give you some nice foreknowledge.
The gambler!
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Go to an alternate dimension
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Immediately look for a history book
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Find one
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It’s in French
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If you end up in an actual alternate dimension: read the future book.
Checks to see if it’s titled Bearinstein Bears or Barenstain Bears
Or Berenstain, like in this dimension.
“Al, I need to leap again.”
Reading history books is the right thing to do, in every dimension you are
Don’t forget to bring a towel.
Yeah fuck food or clean water, let’s read
See, this is why the history book is important. Yeah in your dimension they have sex with the food and have to physically scrub the water clean, but here in our dimension for the most part people eat the food and just make sure the water is clean by boiling.
I think their Wikipedia might be better than a history book at this point
An history book and common sense can help you get a place to stay.
The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.
Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)
Most people wouldn’t even know they are in a different dimension. If you aren’t well versed in the history of your home, then you’re just learning new historical facts.
“Huh, I didn’t know Hitler and Einstein were married. Weird.”
“Weird, I could have sworn the Nazis lost WWII”
First things first: sex robot.
You should read Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein. This is basically the main theme
funny that Heinlein is mentioned. dude was a libertarian Nazi propagandist.
take all his works with a pound of salt.
Uh, curious where you got that from, especially since I don’t see how you can be both a Nazi and a libertarian. Did you misinterpret Starship Troopers to be straight endorsement of militant fascism?
I don’t see how you can be both a Nazi and a libertarian.
there’s a whole bunch of Ron Paul supporters that certainly turned out that way…
Did you misinterpret Starship Troopers to be straight endorsement of militant fascism?
yes!
Did you misinterpret Starship Troopers to be straight endorsement of militant fascism?
yes!
There’s your problem. Just because an author writes a book with a world building premise does not mean they fully endorse the world created. In Stranger in a Strange Land, which came out less than two years later, the main character creates a free love hippie movement. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a few years later, is about a revolution against authoritarian oppression.
If a person names as his three favorites of my books Stranger, Harsh Mistress, and Starship Troopers … then I believe that he has grokked what I meant. But if he likes one—but not the other two—I am certain that he has misunderstood me, he has picked out points—and misunderstood what he picked. If he picks 2 of 3, then there is hope, 1 of 3—no hope. All three books are on one subject: Freedom and Self-Responsibility.
Heinlein wrote thought experiments. He wrote about the relationship between people and the society they live in. To that end, he wrote about a number of different kinds of society, and how people related to them. Insofar as you could ascribe any particular political ideology to him based on his writings, he was broadly anti-authoritarian. Nothing remotely close to a Nazi.
