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  "thread": {
    "id": 2968,
    "subject": "projective precognition",
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    "first": "2002-02-19T17:28:18+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-19T17:28:18+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-179@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-19T17:28:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) projective precognition",
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          "text": "Rostrum: \nThanks for responding to my idea that Silk can inspire others.  Look at \nseveral of the other dream sequences in Long Sun: Hyacinth and Silk in a \ndeadcoach, all the Scylla dreams in the Short Sun.  His cheek tracing pattern \nusually precedes the deductive leaps he makes.  Of course these leaps resemble \nprecognition, but he doesn't have absolute faith in them.  I am willing to say \nthat Silk's major problem is self-doubt, but not doubt in external forces like \n\"God\".  I have always thought the analytical power he shows (like in \nNightside, when he knew Chenille had stabbed Orpine, or in Exodus, when he \nknows Hyacinth cheats on him) where in large part due to his precognitive \nabilities.  Silk \"knows\" without knowing.  After all, the enlightenment gave \nhim glimpses into all times in one time.  He saw Jesus crucified, he saw the \nwar, he sees accurate symbols in the guts of animals.  He is a precog who does \nnot have faith in his precognitions.  The tracing of circles on his cheek \nusually precedes these jumps.  I think his precognition might have allowed his \nenlightenment to occur.  I don't know if this helps. Maybe he has some kind of \nprojective precognition: without directly knowing, he can inspire that same \nknowing in others.  Odd.  I'll need to re-read Long Sun again... he doubts \nthat Jahlee bit Sinew because he cannot rationalize his \"prophetic soul\" -> \nthe same thing Hamlet does.  Do I act? Do I just sit here? To be?  Not to Be? \n(even though he knows there is \"being\" after \"not being\" because his father \nhas appeared to him after death, and it agrees with what he suspects from the \nbeginning) Sorry for the Shakespeare digression.\nThe main thing is that Silk does NOT need all the evidence to reach accurate \nconclusions (something that resembles the concept of \"FAITH\") and he can \nproject this accurate knowing without evidence onto others.  Does that make \nsense? I think I'll adopt that stance on his powers for now...\nMarc Aramini"
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