{"id":61,"date":"2003-07-11T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=61"},"modified":"2003-07-11T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T20:56:11","slug":"the-yeti-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2003\/07\/11\/the-yeti-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yeti Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments from The Yeti<\/a>, and my responses:<\/strong><\/p>\n

On your peculiar regenerative condition.<\/p>\n

It indeed sounds like you do not die, but rather consume fuel, which would not make you human. You could perhaps be an intelligence inhabiting a human form that was reduced to a simple parasitic state in the distant past. It would explain your comments on how you thought you were rather stupid when you first remember consciousness.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of science fiction stories from the 60’s that theorize this kind of possibility. I could look them up if you are interested.<\/p>\n

Other possibilities – that you are what was once perceived as a minor God, as you thought yourself for a while. The Scientologists teach that precursors to human beings were invaded by alien spirits. Perhaps they are not entirely wrong, and only a few people were. Those few are destined to wander?<\/em><\/p>\n

You raise some interesting points; however, I am not quite prepared to abandon any claim to humanity just yet. The idea that I consume fuel and that this would be sufficient to distinguish me from humankind seems a bit rash. Let me propose that you allow me to lock you in my basement and feed you nothing but water for three weeks. I daresay you would come out of it alive, but with a noticeable loss of body mass. Would I be justified in saying that you consumed your own mass as fuel?<\/p>\n

Do not misunderstand- I freely admit that my continued existence is in and of itself sufficient to raise suspicions as to my humanity. Add to this that I apparently cannot reproduce and I have to conclude that if this is a mutation it is a singularly unsuccessful one. While immortality might seem a desirable goal for an individual it appears it would be terribly inhibiting to a species, an evolutionary dead end.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps anyone like you truly does just learn to lay low. With the vast amount of experience gained over time, they would seem god-like to others. Or demonic, as you have found.<\/p>\n

Jesus Christ? Mohammed? Buddha?<\/p>\n

Of course one might begin to remember what happens to those who step forward to show a new way for humanity. Christ the Almighty has risen? How hard would that be for you to pull off?<\/p>\n

Or perhaps myths and scary stories.<\/p>\n

Vlad the Impaler? Zombies? Werewolves?<\/p>\n

No doubt a person with your peculiar talents would easily inspire stories among illiterate peasants. But what might it do to a philosopher with an ability to write and on whose writings portions of societies are created. <\/em><\/p>\n

Why did I “lay low” for so long? It was not a conscious choice at first, just a seemingly fortuitous set of coincidences which led me to move from one situation to another in a way that served to protect me from scrutiny by those too primitive to understand my nature. I am willing to entertain the idea that at some subconscious level I was aware of the danger presented by staying too long in any one place; however, by my reckoning it was some four hundred years or more before I came to fully understand and accept my condition. This implies more than just subliminal understanding, almost a programmed response. I dislike the idea that I might be some semi-autonomous device gone slightly awry.<\/p>\n

As to myths, scary stories, etc inspired by me, I tend to doubt I have had such influences. I recently recounted probably the most public and untidy of my exits from society and that failed to generate much in the way of folklore. Of course since I make a habit of avoiding returning to places I have dwelt in the past it is possible that I did leave such things in my wake without being aware of it. Still, I tend to discount it for as I have noted before I have steadfastly avoided bringing attention to myself. Even in those rare circumstances where people began to suspect something was odd and acted against me it was never a momentous event. In most cases I was simply banished. On occasion it was worse.<\/p>\n

What would Voltaire, or Emerson, or Thoreau have done with this knowledge.<\/p>\n

And if there are more of your kind, is there some impulse that leads itself to eventually outing yourself to the world – like you have just done on your blog?<\/p>\n

You count on hiding out in the open – and I’ll respect your choice whatever it may be and never ask you, the suspense of not knowing of course being a fantastic creative engine on its own for me. Well done, Methuselah’s Daughter. Here’s to another 3500 years.
\n-TheYeti<\/em><\/p>\n

As to what impulse has led to this “outing” of myself, who can truly tell? Perhaps it is a subconscious urge to self-destruction. It is certainly frightening to be so open (and believe me, I am being deliberately obfuscatory in both my replies and my recounting of events), and in all honesty I can only see bad things coming of it. Yet still, here I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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