Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-26006155-20190910131416

Jacky720 wrote: People are stubborn. There's almost no way around it. I don't know how people convince people of things. My best guess is that they only convince people who weren't already grounded in their beliefs and build up from there.

Now, am I stubborn? Is Ferret? Are you, WHW? Yes. But I like to think that I can listen to reason and believe things based on logical arguments. If you can show me otherwise, then... responding to such an inquiry (if it is well-founded) is a paradox, isn't it? If I acknowledge that I am too stubborn to listen to good arguments, then I am listening to good arguments, and as such am not stubborn. (Maybe? It's weird.)

I suppose if you show me an instance of me ignoring a strong argument, then I'll make sure to revisit it. Sure, I can be stubborn. But I also try to be fair. And if the evidence debunks one of my theories, I acknowledge it and move on.

When Ambassador suggested someone had erased Gaster's memory from the world, I was skeptical at first. But after checking, the idea seemed more and more likely. And I'm willing to move forward with this assumption now.

On the flip side, his idea that Chara actually fell 400 years before Frisk arrived still seems far beyond possiblity to me. We have proof that the monsters had modern 20th century technology before Chara arrived. And before, it certainly seems, Gaster arrived with his future tech. The stories of Chara and Frisk seem tightly wound, and putting centuries between them seems completely arbitrary to me. Especially if, as my research suggets, Sans is Frisk from the future. His arrival would have pre-dated Chara then.

Have I been wrong before? Yes. More times than I could count.

Have I ever been right as a minority viewpoint before? Yes. While most of the Steven Universe fandom was willing to dismiss vast stretches of the story as filler, I saw meaning in them, and argued for such. And I predicted that Pink Diamond had founded The Crystal Gems over a year in advance of the reveal.

My first priority will always be to find to true story of works of art. Especially works that are misunderstood and under fire. And if someone can find an ironclad debunk for my theories, and/or present others that hold up to the evidence, I'll adjust my theories accordingly, to better home in on the truth.