SUBJECT>Attention !! Communication trap !! POSTER>Xanthos EMAIL>m.f.g.@usa.net DATE>July 17, 1997 at 01:26:53 EMAILNOTICES>no PREVIOUS> NEXT>2986 LINKNAME> LINKURL>


Reading the "loose ends"-thread I found bad temper expressed by joule:
> I don't know about the rest of you, but the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up.

I was thinking about that.

What makes this temper rising ?? Is it the classical prisoner dilemma, in which everything
runs fine until one side fears the other side might cheat ?? Is it, as the ETs are tolerating
our explorations at their territory and are even helpsome without asking for revenue, so we
are in a disbalance of give and take ?? Is it for they are armed ??
-- I think there is something else too. --

The current situation we are in reminds me strongly at a similar situation we had been in
once with the Sentients at Eon4. -- The Sentients had been always acting correctly and had
been always helpful and always open minded to our wishes. Even Mayce's statement about
T'laar had been finally correct. But we had serious difficulties to deal with them. We called
them arrogant and we had been hard looking for each possibility of misunderstandings. --
How ever you might think about that, but we never had any troubles with the conspirators,
though they had abducted our ancestors not even saying sorry for that.-- [Btw, at my fully
surprise we didn't even loose a word against D.O.D. after they had classified files.] --

What had been the main difference between the Sentients and the conspirators ?? -- After
some thinking I find, the main difference had been, that we knew about the intentions and
objectives of the conspirators. Therefore we knew how to deal with them. Their reactions
had been understandable to us and we could be willingly part of their game or let's say, we
willingly participated and follow our intentions too. They had been feasible counterpart to
us in exchanging and sharing efforts. --

Concerning the Sentients we hadn't known anything about their intention, objectives and
about their relationship to us, except that they are providing their world as an object to be
studied, because of ... ?? -- Yes, I think that's exactly the reason, why we could not deal
with them and why we had started with negative feedback loops talking about them.
-- We did not know in its ultimate consequence, why they had been friendly to us. --

Okay, okay I know, I'm pretty broad again. Here is my conclusion:

If we want to deal with the ETs successfully and to keep up our psychological hygiene, the
main target at the moment should be (ought to be ??) to learn about their current objectives
and their current intention to clear our relationship to them. - WHY are they friendly to us and what does that mean in the ultimate consequence for them and for us ?? --

We've learned already about them. They are refugees, their planet had been invaded by Amphibians and their Groove back home is closed. -- But what are their intentions ??
To sleep another 400 revolutions ?? -- To destroy the Amphibian Planet, which surface might probably show two third of liquid water and one third of solid land ?? -- To spread their Way of Life ?? --

After that being cleared we will be able to form alliances with them and then we also will
be able to find proper words for Enoch speech ... dixi.

m.f.g.

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