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  1. Supposing you're thawed from cryosleep 1,500 years into the future.
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  3. The first major difference you notice upon touring your home city for a bit is that all of western culture including art, music, holidays, etc. are based around the teachings of Gene Ray, the "Time Cube" guy. (www.timecube.com)
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  6. This is regarded as absolutely normal. Everyone was raised to believe it and because they see it reflected in society all around them, it seems authoritative and credible. Gene Ray's life has been aggrandized in a holy book and everyone gathers at cube shaped churches four times per week (to reflect the four simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of the Earth)
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  8. This seems intensely asinine to you, because when you lived, Gene Ray was one of countless similar cranks and cult leaders. Marshall Applewhite, Michael Travesser, Jim Jones, any one of them could have inspired a following that eventually refocused all human thought and culture around the teachings of their respective groups, it just happened to be Gene Ray for whatever reason.
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  10. Nobody else recognizes that it began as one of many cults and they are deeply offended by the observation. Anything you say which even hints that you feel this way is seen as asshole behavior, simply calculated to hurt people, and you're shunned accordingly. This makes it difficult to get or keep jobs, while those who consistently attend cube church gain opportunities by networking that are unavailable to you.
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  12. The few who don't react to your unbelief with reflexive hostility conclude you were simply miseducated in the wrong sect of Time Cubism, or haven't been exposed to enough Time Cubist materials. They direct your attention to the last 15 centuries worth of sophisticated apologetics written by the greatest Time Cube theologians.
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  14. Their reasoning is that if such intelligent men devoted their lives to defending the idea, and so much complex literature has been written about it, it MUST be true and you can't claim it isn't until you've read everything Cubist theologians have ever written.
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  17. Supposing this is the world you must live the rest of your life in. Do you spend your remaining days struggling to restore sanity to the world or do you go with the flow because it will make things easier and more comfortable for you and those close to you?
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