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Klara Guildsen (lostababyfang) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-09-18 00:22:00

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[Day 237] FAMILY ISSUES GROUP THERAPY MINGLE
[Anyone brought to this group will find that there are tables set up around the perimeter of the room, one with snacks and drinks, some even with art supplies on them, while the chairs are all pushed into a circle in the middle. There is a projector set up to one side and it flashes images every so often onto the wall. Images of children, adults, the elderly with the young--some of them more formal, posed, others candid as the brief moments of life they were. Some of these images might even be familiar to certain inmates. It shouldn't be hard for them to pick out their own families after all.

In the center of the circle of chairs is a table with a large bowl of treats, wrapped candies of various sorts. Hard candies, caramels, chocolates, taffy. Beside the bowl is a set of cards with instructions written on the back of them.

"Select a card and read the question aloud to the group. Whoever answers the question gets to choose a reward from the bowl and then select the next card. Continue until all of the cards have been viewed or the bowl is empty. More than one person can answer--the first to respond gets to select the next card. If no one volunteers, the card picker gets to select a person."

The cards themselves have a variety of questions and tasks, but they all have a very similar theme.]

1. What does "family" mean to you?
2. Draw a picture of your family and describe it to the group.
3. What is your ideal family unit?
4. Do you have any siblings? If so, what are they like? If not, what would you do if you found out you had one you had never met before?
5. Have you ever done something to hurt or upset a member of your family on purpose?
6. What is the strongest memory you have of your mother and/or father?
7. Imitate one of your parents when reprimanding you.
8. Have you ever felt like an outsider in your family?
9. What is something you have done to a member of your family or they had done to you that took a long time to move beyond (if ever)?
10. Who are you closest to in your family?
11. How many close family members have you lost?

{OOC: Mingle! These questions are not the only ones. Feel free to come up with more. Also the candy in the bowl is spiked just like the pastries and coffee, so the more characters eat...you get the picture.}

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	thisiscalm 2013-10-14 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	Well... I wouldn't be so quick to draw that conclusion. How much do you know about the many-worlds theory? Quantum physics? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	evilspawn 2013-10-20 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	Is this about to get real nerdy? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-10-21 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, it is. Think you can handle it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	evilspawn 2013-10-21 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	[Hn.] Hit me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thisiscalm
2013-10-22 06:57 pm UTC (link)

According to the many-worlds theory, every possible outcome of every possible action exists simultaneously in parallel realities. Schrödinger's cat is the most famous example of this. A cat is placed in a box with a canister of cyanide. There's a 50% chance that the canister will be broken within the hour and once that hour is up, the cat exists in a quantum state of being simultaneously alive and dead. Without opening the box, we can't tell which is true and so both states are possible realities.

[ And if you talk to Kitty at the costume party a few days from now, you'll see it in costume form. ]

Are you with me so far?

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	evilspawn 2013-10-23 01:49 am UTC (link)
	[Don't let this mindless sort of stare fool you, he's... still with you. Grudgingly. He grunts a 'yes'.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thisiscalm
2013-10-23 03:06 pm UTC (link)

[ Well then. Looks like he's not the only nerd around here. ]

My theory is that this is a practical application of the many-worlds theory. Somehow they have the power to bend in separate timelines into this... pocket dimension where they can coexist without conflict. That's how we get several versions of the same individual, sometimes with vastly different backgrounds. There's a lot more to it of course, but it's a lot more comforting to think that this is advanced quantum physics than that something's really wrong with us.

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	evilspawn 2013-10-23 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	You are a total freakin' nerd. [...] But yeah, I guess that can make a little sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-10-23 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	[ A little shrug. ] Humans strive for explanations to things they don't understand. It's either science or God and I don't believe in God. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	evilspawn 2013-10-23 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	[Considering he's in the medical field, you can expect he feels similarly.] So like, you just said there can be two of a person? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thisiscalm 2013-10-23 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	There can be. There is, actually. Kitty's got a younger doppelganger around... and I heard that, uh... a version of me from six years back was around not too long ago. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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