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m. f. luder ([personal profile] bigfootfetish) wrote in [community profile] ximilia2023-04-01 09:36 pm

text. un: knicksfan1961

[ In 1999, usernames describing interests are king and web 2.0 has yet to be dreamt of. This looks like a place to keep a weblog, and Mulder's not opposed to the possibilities. ]

Since childhood, I've dreamt of space. Who among us didn't, raised as we were? We grew up in the shadow of JFK's promise to take America to the moon, watching Neil Armstrong's fateful steps on minuscule TV screens, sitting in sweltering living rooms and imagining we were the ones clambering out of Apollo 11. That it might have been faked by Stanley Kubrick is beyond the point; we were kids, and we believed.

I've taken a giant leap for a man, let alone mankind, waking up in what appears to be a space station and not a sound-stage built by the Walt Disney Company. I see no flaws as of yet, no flies in the ointment. And yet I confess that I'm suspicious.

My concerns are several, key among them the possibility that I'm actually dying in a cave somewhere under the surface of North Carolina. That this is a distraction from the real work I intend to do, lunatic hallucinations designed to keep me from escaping my fate - but if my mind doesn't deceive me, this could be the case I've waited for. There's no denying that the bargain I've (allegedly) made is a strange one, threatening the fabric of time and space. And yet it feels almost reasonable: if I can be stolen from a hospital bed to the furthest reaches of the universe, why can't I intercede in events that have already happened?

(Merely existing here, witnessing technology beyond any I've seen in my dealings with Cancer Man or his shadowy colleagues, already continues work I've chased for years. I want to know more.)

I'm keeping a careful eye out for anomalies in my perceptions, anything that might lend credence to my null-hypothesis (digestion by way of fungi). I'm also on the search for a functional television and VCR; among other things, I've arrived with a handful of videotapes, but I have no way of watching them.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-02 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, who is Jose Chung?
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-02 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Gee. Those words strung together in a way that has no particular meaning really cleared that up.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-02 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
From Outer Space is a bestselling novel?Sounds like the type that's really popular in airports.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-02 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
And just what year did this masterpiece come out?
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-02 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to break this to you, but your bestseller is old enough to drink.

Sounds like something everyone forgot about when Dan Brown hit shelves.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-08 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
He's a hack who appeals to conspiracy theorists who want to feel smarter than they are.

Soooooo
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-11 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Some Catholic bullshit that even Tom Hanks can't make sound convincing.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-12 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
There's a good kind of conspiracy?
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-13 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I sincerely hope you're talking about Iran Contra and not Loch Ness Monster, but you already brought up the moon landing.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-13 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Now Whitman. You definitely have eclectic taste in literature.

Is there anything you don't believe?
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-14 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. Global Warming. Over-population. The biodiversity crisis.
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[personal profile] greenpower 2023-04-14 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
You'd think that, wouldn't you? But no, somehow half the country is still mumbling about the science still being out or how it's not man made, and how if we cut down on carbon output and air pollution and if we did a single thing to minimize 100,000 big macs worth of cows producing methane, it wouldn't change anything.

We'd just have cleaner air and drinkable water and green spaces for nothing.


[Well, he got her started.]

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