Shapeshifter hearsay

Tony Ellis · 01 Aug 2006, 18:04 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:04:56 +0100
Subject: (urth) Shapeshifter hearsay
Message-ID: <000001c6b594$ff5e1160$6501a8c0@cthulhu>

Dan'l wrote:
>Yes, the same principle applies. However, I think Tony may be
>overstating the power of the principle; or perhaps I'm misreading
>him. As he says, "...something is definitely going on." However,
>it is too much to say, simply from this principle, that
>"shape-changing and mimicry" "is definitely going on."

You are slightly misreading me, I think, or more likely I wasn't being
as clear as I thought I was, as I thought I was being very careful *not*
to say "because there's so much hearsay, we know that shape-changing and
mimicry are definitely going on." There are far more concrete reasons to
believe the Annese are mimics.

My only points were that (a) Annese shape-shifting/mimicry can't be
*dismissed* just because it's hearsay, and that (b) the sheer volume of
this hearsay should warn us that something important is being
communicated.

Exactly what that 'something' is we can argue about indefinitely, and
knowing this list we no doubt shall. My own take on it is that we are
simply being told "the myth that the Annese could change their shape is
too widespread not to have some basis in reality."

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