Are the C's really Lizards?

[Soluna]

Hi History =) I was not specifically responding to you in this post, although you definitely came to mind as I was writing the last small paragraph and I am glad you found some of the comments helpful, or useful as you said. I began by trying to emphasize to those who question the 'C's', and those who accuse the forum for idolizing them or taking everything they say as fact that this is not the case. As a not-very-knowledgeable poster, I wanted to show that with even a little reading (including the quote I added), a lot of the accusations made were clearly not grounded in reality.

Thank you for sharing your stories Laura - it makes me happy to imagine children brought up so thoughtfully and lovingly.

I feel, as I have been reading through some of the copious material provided on this forum and written by Laura, that one of the most frequent points made; is that if you are interested in a subject and/or have more questions regarding the background or the truth of that subject, that you do further reading more specialised to that subject, and often many bibliographical suggestions are made.

Laura has often also made the point that her contact with the C's is viewed as an experiment - nothing seems to be taken at face value and is always scrutinised by her and the team. The fact that they share the raw transcripts with us is just sharing part of their experiment - and at the very top of the transcript database they add this warning:

We strongly discourage people from reading the Cassiopaean transcripts on their own, outside of the context provided by Laura's work, as in our experience people often misinterpret them and tend to project their own ideas, beliefs, and biases onto them. Therefore we advise the reader to read them in context, that is in the Wave and Adventures with Cassiopaea series.

Taking what is read on the forum alone with no context within the rest of the hard work Laura's team puts in is very ignorant, and indeed very misleading - especially when one ignores the very warnings presented by them. The team have themselves said, that it is very probable that some of the transcript material may not be from the expected 'source' and to be skeptical of it - hence their wealth of research and investigation and collection of 'knowledge'. How can one attempt to glean any truth without knowledge?

Am I clear that you were responding to me with the above? Either way, your comments are useful, so thank you.

I was NOT referring to the C transcript in my inquiry about making inquiries (nor was I defending any other poster, etc.) just to be clear (I keep repeating "just to be clear" apparently).

I know I have a very strong 'be nice, support the underdog' program running, and had to step back and think clearly on the points that the moderators had posted. They 'always' encourage that you not take any information as truth or knowledge by 'faith' alone in what they present - but that you look into the background of their material yourself and draw your own conclusions. Much of their work shares their own journey in doing so, and it is up to you to take that extra step. There is no free lunch, you need to truly understand things for yourself before you can accept things as truth, or misguided, or incorrect or questionable.

That is EXACTLY why I ask questions.

 

[history]

Hi History =) I was not specifically responding to you in this post, although you definitely came to mind as I was writing the last small paragraph and I am glad you found some of the comments helpful, or useful as you said. I began by trying to emphasize to those who question the 'C's', and those who accuse the forum for idolizing them or taking everything they say as fact that this is not the case. As a not-very-knowledgeable poster, I wanted to show that with even a little reading (including the quote I added), a lot of the accusations made were clearly not grounded in reality.

Thank you for sharing your stories Laura - it makes me happy to imagine children brought up so thoughtfully and lovingly.

Hi Soluna,

Thanks for the mention. The last few days here have been very, very useful. Scary useful actually but hopefully with a greater purpose to unfold.

As for reality, I have no idea what that is anymore and all I can do is surrender to that I don't know and "pray" I figure it out before it's too late.

Thanks again!


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