J. Barefoot wrote:
>
> As an aside to the whole thing, I've been watching this Twilight Zone
> Marathon and one episode got me thinking (at about one o'clock this
> morning becauses I couldn't sleep). It was about a man condemned to the
> electric chair. He tries to warn everyone that when he dies they'll all
> die too because the whole world that they think is 'reality' is just a
> dream he's having. Well it turns out that he's right and all these
> people's lives are really just his recurring nightmare. So it makes me
> think that maybe somewhere there's people who speak Yisian or Teonaht or
> Nova or Brithenig (maybe somewhere in the Twilight Zone?) and that
> whenever we say "Allright enough of this nonsense for right now, I've
> got to do some actual work" perhaps it's an act of genocide.
> Remember, I came up with this at one this morning.

That's exactly the kind of thing I have thought about before. Perhaps
there are infinite parallel universes, and somewhere there are people
who speak Zaraitian or Dhakrathat or Lainesco. Then I sometimes
wonder, like you said about genocide, if what I decide about those
alternate worlds will really happen, like if I decide a people is
conquered and destroyed, does that really happen in some universe? The
scariest idea is that of religion; if someone makes up a conreligion
where there is some sort of hell, does that mean that people in an
alternate universe can go there if you decide so? SCARY! :D