bad hoaxes
I can tell you from my own personal experience that some who may not even be hoaxers might be uncomfortable with speaking out on a forum such as this because of the incessant grilling that they will have to go through. I cannot speak for those claiming to be from the future, since that is not my experience, but I can speak to what someone in my situation might be going through. You show up in a time not your own and you know absolutely nothing of the time you are in, unless you end up in a previous time, which was not my case. You go through all manner of confusion, attempting to sort out what happened, why it happened, and whether or not anyone would believe you. You see how society treats anyone who does not fit in, anyone who sticks out in any way, and you see how your experiences do not fit in with mainstream belief. You know that since you did not come here by your own doing, you certainly have to way to replicate what happened, thus no way to offer anyone absolute proof of what you say. So you keep your mouth shut. You read everything you can get your hands on in an effort to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can, in order to fit in quicker. You go along with these memories you cannot share with anyone for fear of how you may be treated. Then you learn how to use the internet and you start researching to see if anyone else out there is having your own experiences. You come across discussion forums and lo and behold, there are people on there speaking about what you have been through. You feel some hope, then you see how those people are all ripped apart, most of them justifiably so, but you realize that if and when you tell your story, you will be subjected to the same gauntlet. So you keep quiet, taking some solace in some of the stories you are reading and the fact that some of them appear to be genuine. Then eventually, after maybe a year or so, you stir up the courage to tell your story. At least I did, but how many stopped short of telling theirs? How many are there whose stories we will never see, because of the fear they have of how they will be treated? That is how I felt for a long time, all those times I was reading the other forum as a guest and never registering or posting. It is not something easy to go through. You all have been cordial with me and that has helped make the experience easier, but sometimes the sheer volume of questions that were thrown at me in the beginning was a lot to handle. Thank you all for the polite reception you have given me.
Sincerely,
Padraic
I can tell you from my own personal experience that some who may not even be hoaxers might be uncomfortable with speaking out on a forum such as this because of the incessant grilling that they will have to go through. I cannot speak for those claiming to be from the future, since that is not my experience, but I can speak to what someone in my situation might be going through. You show up in a time not your own and you know absolutely nothing of the time you are in, unless you end up in a previous time, which was not my case. You go through all manner of confusion, attempting to sort out what happened, why it happened, and whether or not anyone would believe you. You see how society treats anyone who does not fit in, anyone who sticks out in any way, and you see how your experiences do not fit in with mainstream belief. You know that since you did not come here by your own doing, you certainly have to way to replicate what happened, thus no way to offer anyone absolute proof of what you say. So you keep your mouth shut. You read everything you can get your hands on in an effort to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can, in order to fit in quicker. You go along with these memories you cannot share with anyone for fear of how you may be treated. Then you learn how to use the internet and you start researching to see if anyone else out there is having your own experiences. You come across discussion forums and lo and behold, there are people on there speaking about what you have been through. You feel some hope, then you see how those people are all ripped apart, most of them justifiably so, but you realize that if and when you tell your story, you will be subjected to the same gauntlet. So you keep quiet, taking some solace in some of the stories you are reading and the fact that some of them appear to be genuine. Then eventually, after maybe a year or so, you stir up the courage to tell your story. At least I did, but how many stopped short of telling theirs? How many are there whose stories we will never see, because of the fear they have of how they will be treated? That is how I felt for a long time, all those times I was reading the other forum as a guest and never registering or posting. It is not something easy to go through. You all have been cordial with me and that has helped make the experience easier, but sometimes the sheer volume of questions that were thrown at me in the beginning was a lot to handle. Thank you all for the polite reception you have given me.
Sincerely,
Padraic
