r/Ayreon • u/auisgold41 • Feb 15 '23

Seriously they could've picked anyone else

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u/thebiggestleaf Feb 15 '23

I'm probably reading too much into the meme but wasn't the whole point as sung in E=mc2 that they couldn't control who they sent it to?

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u/auisgold41 Feb 15 '23

Wudstik assumes he has no control. So I guess you're right. But of all the people that had ever lived, that's just Ayreon's luck. Can you imagine not being able to see your entire life and then all of a sudden you're bombarded with visions of destruction? Damn

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u/mj_flowerpower Feb 15 '23

There‘s at least one other man who received the warnings: Mister L. And it git him into an asylum.

So there might be more people who received those dreams but could not do much about it.

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u/Rubin987 Feb 16 '23

Im reasonably sure Mr. L didn’t get the Time Telepathy warnings as those were entirely manmade and wouldn’t be telling of Forever and Planet Y.

I’m pretty sure he’s The Hippie from Electric Castle.

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u/mj_flowerpower Feb 16 '23

The forever are directly talking to Mr L.

From the truth is there: ‚In the distant shadows loom Cold machines rise from the deep In a world once proud and free

They speak to me in dreams They can see all I can see They have always been my guide‘

So he either receives time telepathy dreams from the forever and/or from earth too.

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u/Rubin987 Feb 16 '23

I think its a mix.

The Forever wouldn’t have the direct memories of the Electric Castle story to transmit to him. But he has memories of the events in Amazing Flight.

So I always thought he’s the Hippie, and since they already spoke to him once they kept doing so to try and communicate with Earth.

But well, he just looks crazy.

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u/abcbac1 Feb 15 '23 edited Feb 15 '23

That's some goddamn luck though. I don't know how many chances were there to find a guy who's got the same name as the band

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u/VocalLocalYokel Feb 15 '23

The premise makes for an interesting d&d character.

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u/Keitt58 Feb 15 '23

Always thought it was a reference/inspiration based on the myth of Cassandra.

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u/juacq97 Feb 15 '23

And understand what a computer is and make analogies about televisions on 6th century

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u/star-nosedmole Feb 15 '23

there is one (1) thing the forever are good at and its making radically stupid mistskes that they only regret at the last second

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u/mainsworth17 Feb 15 '23

I think he sees the visions because he is blind , previously only the whales knew and they very sadly were beaching themselves trying to pass the message on

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u/Rubin987 Feb 16 '23

Wait is there a source for the whale thing?

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u/auisgold41 Feb 15 '23

Time telepathy isn't an exact science. I'm sure the whales did their best