Re: What would make you believe?

Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:26:10 -0800 (PST), DJensen <i_m0nk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>>It seems to me if this Descendant Command really wants to ensure my
>>time line doesn't follow theirs down the drain, they'd forget about
>>the $65 million and the lottery and take billions from parallel times
>>and use it to fund a full-on organization dedicated to making whatever
>>changes are necessary.
> 
> Too many universes to save, too few personnel to manage an invasion. 
> 
> Also, there's an experimental stage: "the smallest effect to produce
> the greatest result."

He doesn't have to convince me before the lottery draw. Without
convincing proof, there's nothing he can say to convince me. But if
he buys me a lottery ticket, tells me this story, and it turns out
my ticket wins, well, I might at least be willing to listen to him
again. If he tells me what stock to buy with the money he effectively
gave me, I might doo that. Not will all of the money, but with part
of it, perhaps. If he's right, this should make me a multibillionaire
within a fairly short time.

I still won't believe he's actually from the future, but if he says
wars and plagues will destroy the earth, I'm certainly willing to
spend quite a lot of my new found wealth on fighting those wars and
plagues.

But if he asks me to now spend this money on something I consider
bad, evil and harmful, then I'll probably still kick him out,
ungrateful bastard that I am.


mcv.
-- 
Science is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. It's a tool.
A very powerful tool, but not the only tool. And if only that which
could be verified scientifically was considered real, then nearly all
of human experience would be not-real.                  -- Zachriel