From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   >   
   > So "Sliders" was a TV series that hit the air in 1995, yes, and   
   > it was JTEM's first ever introduction to the concept of   
   > "Manifesting" or "The Secret" or whatever.   
   >   
   > They didn't call it any of that.   
   >   
   > What happened was that either the show was based on or overly   
   > enthusiastic fans adopted this idea of the multiverse.   
   >   
   > Not new.   
   >   
   > But in this "Sliders" the people traveled to new versions of   
   > reality every week, all of them different from this one in   
   > unpredictable ways. They called this traveling "Sliding."   
      
   I liked that show. We've discussed it here previously.   
   I thought of it as a sort of "Twilight Zone", in its   
   own sense.   
   >   
   > And, yes, I saw it claimed that this was real, could be done   
   > and that anything was possible.   
   >   
   >       ...I remember it being explained that you could only   
   > "Slide" to a new universe immediately adjacent to our own, and   
   > thus extremely similar. So if you wanted truly MASSIVE   
   > changes -- like going to a universe where you're emperor of   
   > the world -- you could do that, but it would take many, many,   
   > many, many, many, many, many, many "Slides" to reach a universe   
   > as different from this one.   
   >   
   > So it was very different from "Manifesting" in that regard.   
   >   
   > But that was 1995, this TV series, and I'm sure some type of   
   > "Manifesting" or "Sliding" must've existed long before that.   
   >   
   > Right?   
      
   The TV show "Star Trek the Next Generation" had at   
   least one episode that showed a multiverse, which   
   was produced back in the 80s, and therefore before   
   Sliders.   
      
   But my question for you is this -- while you wish   
   you were in a different universe, which you imagine   
   would cause you to be in a better version of your   
   life than the one you have in this universe -- has   
   it ever occurred to you that you might wind up in   
   a worse life than the one you have now? And maybe   
   you should just be thankful that you're living the   
   life you have -- when even in THIS universe where   
   you could have lived a far worse life (in some   
   crappy hellhole on this planet)?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)