Well, well, well...
Originally posted by Perry Nelson@Nov 17 2004, 03:35 AM
You will need to appreciate that a lot more is at stake here than appeasing your curiousity, and that I have arrived here to find that nothing is as it was supposed to be.
Our curiosity is what drives us to make ourselves rich in knowledge, to learn the mysteries of the Universe and understand the workings of our own minds and it is never appeased. The second part of your statement is insensitive, given the nature of your opening remarks. You tell us that our curiosity is of no consequence to you, or your mission, then deliver a provactive and curiously enigmantic hook to bait our curiosity. The very same curiosity that you expect us to suppress for the greater good of your mission.
Curious. What drove your people to discover Time Travel? I'll bet that it was your curiosity wasn't it? So, you're allowed it and we have to dismiss it, is that right?
I am glad to see that the Coyote has been outed, and I am assuming from the post of the moderator that he is just playing games and not actually dangerous. I still await the man whom I thought the Coyote was. You will note that while I did not post on this board until I responded to the Coyote, I have been registered here for one month, since October 16. I have been waiting.
Again, a provocative opening statement. Was Coyote ever dangerous? To whom and why are you concerned. You seem to insist on stimulating my curiosity, don't you. For you to assume that Coyote has been ousted is a dangerous thing to do, for an assumption is after the fact and should always be made in certainty. You are obviously unceratin, given the way you pitch this assumption as a question. When you assume, you make an ASS of U and ME, so please don't assume anything.
Again we see the sliver of provocative information that you choose to let slip here, in your second sentence. You still wait, for whom? Why are they important? Does the fate of the world hang by a thread, temporal or otherwise?
For someone trying to get me to suppress my curiosity, you are doing a poor job of it. But then again, this may be some footure reverse psychology at work on us poor primitives.
I will say this much. The prediction of a civil war to follow the 2004 elections is correct. You are seeing the beginnings of this now. It is, however, the 2006 elections that will actually cause the situation to escalate past the point of no return. The entire electoral process in the United States has been irrevocably tainted, not because of those isolated events of dishonesty, but because of the rhetoric which has surrounded the last two presidential elections. This \"rhetorical war\" will become far worse as the 2005 inaugural ceremony approaches.
For someone who doesn't want our curiosity getting in the way, you sure seem to be hell bent on getting my primitive mind working full on. You say that you can't say too much, but what is too much? I bet that last paragraph crossed the line somewhere around the beginning of the second sentence.
I am curious. Why would America have elections in 2006? I thought that the next ones were to be held in 2008. But, you're the footure boy, so you know best.
Do you like bananas by the way. Coyote did.
There are limits to what I can divulge in the past without endangering my present. We had believed for a time that the past was set, but the last three to travel have discovered discrepancies. One of these is quite large, though there are difficulties involved in proving the discrepancy, and there are those who argue that the discrepancy is not real and has been fabricated by those who are against time travel.
See, there you go again, citing the
Prime Directiveand then ignoring it again. Can you tell us anything, or can't you. Make up your mind and either A) Spit it out, or B)Shut up about it.
You can't be both myserious Traveller and Temporal confidante, it doesn't work and makes you look all confused and uncertain.
Please choose A or B and stick with it, the story will run much smoother once you get the script pages in order.
This is all politically complicated and the science involved is beyond my comprehension. The problem is that we rarely send the scientists back but rather the historians. I am here because I am an expert on the events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Look, I'm sorry if I seem all churlish in the face of your cryptic efforts to sort our time out for the benefit of all footure mankind, but what is the script here? What is all Politically complicated? None of it is to me. You come here, get all enigmatic with Coyote, laugh when he leaves, tell us that you are sworn to secrecy and then divulge footure secrets at you leisure. It is this complicated for me:
1) Are you a Time Traveller...
2) Can you tell us of the footure...
Both have to be a resounding YES to keep my magnificent intellect hanging on your every post.
I will not ask you for patience, since that seems to anger many on this board, a reaction I am unable to understand.
Then don't as it is terribly condescending. So now you understand it.
That you expect me to come onto this board and simply divulge everything is not realistic, and that you refuse to understand my own concerns incomprehensible.
No, you're wrong there.
You sailed in here seeking some mysterious other contact, so you were using
our Board to your own ends, without our permission or so much as a by your leave. You didn't even have the courtesy to post as a regular member, thus keeeping your alter-ego safe from prying eyes. So, now you expect us to kow-tow to your standards of decency following your duplicitous behaviour?
You are going to have to work on those people skills some more, my friend.
See, honesty gets you respect by the truck-load here. Fair play gets you support for your mission from the Members here. A bit of resepct for us, gets you a lot in return. So, don't be so cheeky and we'll get along well.
There are things I was told I could reveal, and I will reveal them once I determine the cause of the discrepancies that I have noted between my knowledge of this period and the actual events I have witnessed since September of 2004, when I first arrived. I am not certain whether they can be attributable to the problems that always accompany the passing on of history, or if I have discovered something far more troubling. Hence my concern with the Coyote.
The share your concerns with us. We have some bright sparks here, more than a handful of concerned intellects and a whole passel of comforting shoulders to cry on. You never know, we might actually be able to help. But, you won't know unless you start being truthful, will you?
Until then, you can believe me or not believe me. But I would appreciate it if you would treat me politely.
I choose... maybe. Tell us what you are about, give us some shred of believable evidence that you are who you say you re, then we go from there. Else, me being polite is all you will get, 'cos some of 'em are downright vicious when they think someone is foolin' around behind the woodpile.
Also, I cannot be online continuously, as there are many things I have to do in this time period. Also, I am \"borrowing\" the unsecured wireless connection of one of my neighbors. He or she leaves it on most of the time, but there are occasions on which I cannot get online.
S'okay, someones always here. But, be straight, or begone. I ain't got time for all your enigmatic fiddlin' about with the semantics of your mission parameters, frippery irritates me no end.
'Til then, take care and be lucky.
