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The Doctor hates Twitter (i_mthedoctor) wrote in valarnet,
@ 2013-06-21 03:10:00

Entry tags:

amy pond, audrey, eleventh doctor, jean grey (phoenix), leeloo, ninth doctor, verity

So! Brilliant news! Scientists have designed a minute, but functional tractor beam. Pretty fantastic. What's more, the quadruple helix was found in human cells for the first time!

Also on this day, in 1788, the United States Constitution was ratified. Pretty big day really, for Americans at least. Really the whole world. Today it is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world. Isn't that fantastic?

Also! I just ran a two mile run, gorgeous day out today. Tomorrow I'll try for three! I love running.

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	jokeshopgirl 2013-06-26 06:54 am UTC (link)
	....definitely didn't mean it literally. I suppose it's possible... there are a lot of weird things possible around here, but... It's the records of how things went, not necessarily how they started. Or, rather, it's the records kept by those in power as things went along. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_mthedoctor
2013-06-26 07:04 am UTC (link)

Yes, well, things start because of a beginning. Therefore history is the beginning, and therefore how things started.

Why are you here? Because your parents ... joined, why are they here? Your grandparents joined, so on and so forth. That's biological history, but you can even go beyond that. Why did your grandparents, or great grandparents, or so on and so forth, move here? Or are you full-blooded Native American? Then, can you trace all the way back to ancestors of Aztecs or other Native cultures, and then why did they cross the land bridge? Why did they come here?

You see, there's a beginning a history that starts everything, and that's fascinating.

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	jokeshopgirl 2013-06-26 07:09 am UTC (link)
	Aren't there things that happened before History? You might be talking about a chicken and egg type situation, you know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_mthedoctor
2013-06-27 08:27 pm UTC (link)

Nothing happens before history. I suppose in the typical understanding 'yes'. That's why there are 'pre-historic' times, but that's just typical of us humans to think of ourselves so centrally that history didn't happen before our existence. Come now. History is the study of the past, and the past continues to go on and on until the beginning of time. So, in my mind, History is the study of everything.

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	jokeshopgirl 2013-06-28 03:40 am UTC (link)
	But what happened before the beginning of time? ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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