Hmm...[The video feed flickers to life, showing a close-up of what could be some kind of bird tattoo. The angle shifts and soon one can see that the tattoo is on the forehead of a very, very big man
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[A very tired-looking Heather tiiiilts her head one way, then another. She's trying to decide if all this spirit garble is actually coming out of her speakers, or if she's just having another one of those really weird dreams after eating the weird salads from the food court in the Goldenrod Department Store.]
[The grossed-out face is unsurprising to the shaman.]
It is the natural order of things. The ravens marked me as their own-[He taps the mark on his brow]-at my birth. It is to be expected that they claim me at my death.
...Perhaps you could direct me to the proper path, then? This is my first death.
[He sounds mildly apologetic, as if embarrassed to have made an error. Should he have done something differently to get to the right afterlife?]
An Austrian physicist who put forth a thought experiment.
To be brief, there is a cat and poison in a box. Since one cannot see inside the box, after some time it is decided that the cat is both alive and dead, a paradox in terms.
One must open the box to cement the reality of whether the unfortunate feline is still living or not.
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[This is a nerd whose mouth just fell open and won't close.]
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You're not dead. Don't worry too much about that.
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Why not? I was looking forward to my reception in Valhalla.
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Nobody really knows. I've only been here a few weeks myself, though. People just... show up here.
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Are you kin to another Doctor?
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... You look pretty alive for a dead guy.
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It would not be a pretty sight for my soul to look like my corpse.
I was eaten alive by ravens.
[He does not seem upset by this.]
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Uh... that's, um... that's nice.
Anyway, I'm not dead, so... maybe this isn't the spirit world you're lookin' for.
... I've met a few dead people since coming here, though.
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It is the natural order of things. The ravens marked me as their own-[He taps the mark on his brow]-at my birth. It is to be expected that they claim me at my death.
...Perhaps you could direct me to the proper path, then? This is my first death.
[He sounds mildly apologetic, as if embarrassed to have made an error. Should he have done something differently to get to the right afterlife?]
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Like Schrodinger's cat, I am both alive and dead.
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Schrodinger?
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To be brief, there is a cat and poison in a box. Since one cannot see inside the box, after some time it is decided that the cat is both alive and dead, a paradox in terms.
One must open the box to cement the reality of whether the unfortunate feline is still living or not.
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[The large man raises an eyebrow.]
I had been told you were from far beyond my time...
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You have aged gracefully.
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