Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

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Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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No dia 2011/11/17, ?s 23:11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>>>> Is that supposed to be an answer? If so, I don?t understand it 
>>>> . Why
>>>> is the Rajan wearing it?
>>>
>>> So why would PIKE be wearing Pike's callotte? Pike is a ghost. He
>>> doesn't need head covering. I don't see the significance of the  
>>> ghost
>>> wearing Pike's callotte. ANYONE who broke into Pike's room might  
>>> have
>>> been caught wearing it.
>>
>> So your answer as to why is the Rajan wearing Pike's calotte is that
>> it's of no significance, that everyone who enters that room puts it  
>> on?
>
> PM, Ant?nio Marques wrote:
> The reason he is there is because he knows he is supposed to be  
> there. And for all I know, it's a little Time-travel reminiscing. If  
> you had the ability to travel in Time whenever you slept, wouldn't  
> you be likely to revisit your old home and watch yourself playing as  
> a kid? If you saw a hat that played a role in a key turning point in  
> your life, are you saying you wouldn't put it on? There are any  
> number of reason why the Rajan would be in Pike's room and why he  
> would try on that fated callotte when he encountered it.  It's a  
> demand for justification of something that doesn't require  
> justification.

That looks to me a lot like the kind of thing y'all accuse Gerry of  
doing - saying that something which is actually there when it needn't  
needn't a special explanation. Something tells me that if your  
confidence were absolute, you'd try to find a cool way in which the  
cap actually strenghtened your case (for all I know, it may even  
exist; in this whole episode I'm with those who think something  
special happens, and a purposeless ghost doesn't cut it, unless the  
whole thing is one of those tropes and we haven't identified the  
source).

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