Contact 39 as of Wednesday, 3rd December 1975
Billy:
Hmmm, then we can still talk some more. I have enough questions in stock. Something is just a bit fishy to me with this journey, namely the time. I am now already about two hours away from home, and I should still stay away for another two days. At the same time, I simply do not understand how one would not notice my absence. This is something that just does not make any sense to me. These time shifts quite simply go beyond my “spiritual” horizon. These little time cramps really do not make me any wiser. I understand what really happens, but how everything is connected together, this is a sevenfold mystery to me.
Semjase:
203. Accept my consolation, because I do not understand any more than you.
204. Even our best scientists know only very few secrets of these matters.
205. They do, indeed, know the how, when, and where, etc., but they do not know the basic causes of the process.
206. Therefore, do not think about it too much, for it would be pointless.
207. I can, however, explain to you what happens, in order for you to be able to have two days with us.
208. It is the simplest possibility for us.
209. You will be with us for two days, while on Earth, only two hours will pass.
210. These two hours, however, are only the length of time that you needed to come to the contact place, arrive here with me, and then go home again.
211. It…
Billy:
But these two hours are, nevertheless, already over and are even exceeded by more than about 40 minutes.
Semjase:
212. Sure, I just wanted to explain that to you.
213. Your way from your house to the contact place, our greeting, and the flight here lasted only 45 minutes.
214. You will also need this time for the return.
215. Besides this, what you do not know is that on the flight here from Earth, I leaped about two days into the past.
216. You do, indeed, know how easy this is.
217. Hence …
Billy:
Girl, now I understand, I …
Semjase:
218. You do not understand, because we have not done a normal leap into the past.
219. It is a time shift that is still unknown to you.
220. You now live twice, namely once here and once down there on the Earth.
Billy:
Now I really do not understand.
Semjase:
221. Understand yet:
222. We do, indeed, live here at present, but we are, at the same time, two days in the past.
223. For us, it is now, indeed, Wednesday, but on Earth, it is now only Monday.
Billy:
I really do not understand. According to your statement, I would now have to be down there on Earth and would be going straight to bed, because on Monday, I did not go to bed until morning. So we are now having Monday there on the Earth, as you say; nevertheless, I am here and, thus, am not climbing into bed. This is, therefore, not clear.
Semjase:
224. You understand everything very well; you just do not want to accept it because you find it too fantastic.
Billy:
Well, well, you claim, then, that I am here in my normal present and, at the same time, two days in the past. I already lived these two past days on the Earth below – as seen from my present. But since I am now moved two days back, I should first start to live these two days down there, or rather live through them, while I will, in reality, first live through these two days with you yet. This is, nevertheless, crazy. Now, according to your statement, I would actually have to exist twice, namely down there on Earth, where I am going straight to bed, and once here. Thus, I could now visit myself down there, eh?
Semjase:
225. Sure, if we would now return to the Earth, then you could – theoretically or practically, depending on the case – talk with yourself.
Billy:
Aha, I could, therefore, go to my own front door and knock until the door would be opened for me. And who would open for me, eh? I for myself, in my own person. Man, girl, I would just like to see my dumb face once, when I suddenly stand before me and even say “hello” to myself. At the same time, it just does not make sense to me that in the normal time, only two hours pass, while the past requires two days for it?
Semjase:
226. That is regulated by a time manipulation.
Billy:
I understand, one of those accursed theories of relativity, which are no longer theories for you. Just listen to me, girl, let these explanations be, for I am too dumb to understand it. My head is already smoking.
Semjase:
227. As you wish, but maybe you do, nevertheless, want to visit yourself in the past sometime?
Billy:
I still want to consider that first, although it excites me to see my own dumb face before me and even talk with myself once.
Time shift
Re: Time shift
Contact 31 as of Thursday, 17th July 1975
Billy:
Oh, yes, that is correct, but there is something else haunting my brain. We were talking about the timeless channel earlier. Something is still not clear to me. In other words, something is not clear to me about this journey. You told me that I had become about half an hour younger than the human beings on Earth. This is because we were in eternity for seven minutes. I know that my wristwatch always goes crazy when I get close to Semjase's beamships. But now it seems to have gone completely crazy, because I already have the date of the 19th day on it. According to that, I should have been cruising around the universe with you for more than two days already. You, Semjase, told me that we would need about 30 hours. Something is wrong with the time. Besides, I am not tired, hungry or thirsty. So what is really being tinkered with?
irj
Ptaah:
673. Semjase did give you some of our fruits and also some vegetables to eat.
Billy:
Of course, but that was a long time ago.
Semjase:
497. The vegetables and fruits of this kind are very nutritious and thirst quenching compared to your produce.
498. They can satisfy your hunger and thirst for up to 90 hours.
Billy:
I accept this explanation, and it also seems to me to be as you say. But something is still wrong. Why am I not tired?
Ptaah:
674. This is also very easy to explain:
675. You breathe the same air here in the spaceship as we do.
676. But this corresponds to the conditions on our home world and is much healthier and more invigorating than on the Earth.
677. The oxygen content is several values higher than on Earth, and there are also some differences in the composition of the other elements.
678. But everything is as breathable for you as it is for ourselves.
679. The different composition of our air, however, guarantees us a longer wakefulness and a much shorter need for sleep than is the case on Earth.
680. That is the reason why you are not tired.
Billy:
Your explanation makes sense to me, but you are still hiding something. Something is just not right, I can feel it. Is my timer really acting so crazy that it is suddenly going forward by days?
Semjase:
499. Your watch is very accurate.
Billy:
– ??? – I mean, that means we have been cruising the universe for more than two days?
Semjase:
500. Sure, we have spent a bit more time than we intended.
Billy:
Golly, I am going crazy – and you say it so easily. What do you think is going to happen at my house? My wife is going crazy. I told her I would be home no later than the evening of the 18th. Gosh, girl, my wife has already reported me missing to the police. That is going to set off a fuss.
Semjase:
501. It will not be all that bad.
Billy:
You say that, what arias do you think my wife can sing. She can truly replace a whole orchestra.
Semjase:
502. Are you afraid of your wife?
Billy:
Not that, but if it is possible for me, I avoid such theatrics and musical outpourings.
Semjase:
503. Well, that is good then, because we are going to be on the road for many more hours.
Billy:
I am enjoying you. I promptly get my wife to quit loving me after all.
Semjase:
504. It is not going to be that bad, is it?
Billy:
Do you have any idea.
Ptaah:
681. You are taking your fun a bit far, my child.
Billy:
Aha, so Semjase is just teasing me? Then you must have hatched something. Is it possible my timer is not working correctly after all?
Ptaah:
682. You have a very good watch.
Semjase:
505. Sure, that is indeed so.
506. I was just teasing you a little bit.
Billy:
Do you mean loosely along the lines of "love likes to tease"?
Semjase:
507. If you think of it in terms of friendship, then yes.
Billy:
Then I am reassured. But now what have you been keeping from me so far?
Semjase:
508. Father already said that your watch is correct, and we have really been on the road for such a long time too.
509. But you do not have to worry about that, not even if we need a good day or more before we bring you back.
510. You yourself have obviously not grasped the possibilities that are available to us in terms of time.
511. It takes…
Billy:
Oh – I forgot about that. Surely you want to guess at time-travel, perhaps the same form I remember from Asket?
Semjase:
512. Sure. –
513. Since we are in free space and do not influence any events, etc., we can travel back in time for a few days without hesitation and continue to live there without anything changing.
514. Although you will be away from your home for more than three days in total, you will only have been away for about 20 hours according to earthly normal time.
Billy:
That sounds a bit crazy. So I have been away from home for a little over two days now and I will be away for a total of three or more days. So that means I started this journey with you on the 17th and I am now on the road with you for more than two days, because today is the 19th. But now I am going to spend more days with you and then I am going to travel back in time with you to be back home on the 18th, although in reality I am still on a great journey on the 20th or so and I am going to curve through the universe with you. Is that right?
Semjase:
515. Sure.
Billy:
Aha, it is true. I guess that is everything, is it not?
Semjase:
516. Sure.
Billy:
Quite simple, actually. I am sure every human being understands that and does not even break their brain doing it.
Semjase:
517. It is to be understood.
Billy:
Sure, sure, it is the simplest thing in the world that I go on a big trip with you on the 17th, find out on the 19th that I am already here for more than two days and return home tomorrow on the 20th or even later and arrive there on the 18th. Really, this is very simple, and everyone can understand it perfectly. It is only a simple madness of universal proportions. Even a child can understand it. It is just as simple as the elimination of trees. There is a huge fir tree in a meadow that a farmer has been sawing off the lowest branches for 50 or 70 years, gathering up the fir cones and burning them. Then you simply come and eliminate the tree – and for 50 or 70 years the said farmer has never constantly sawn off the lowest branches and also not gathered up any pine cones and of course not burnt them either. This is all really very simple, and any human being can understand that.
Semjase:
518. Now I do not understand you.
Billy:
That is very simple: everything is very clear to me and I understand everything very well, but make that clear to my dear fellow human beings for once. H. Jacob, for example, still cannot digest the fact that the Weather Firs have simply disappeared and that no human being can remember them except me. It also does not make sense to him that you have also erased his memory, because he knows at least that one area very well where one of the trees used to stand. It simply does not make sense to him that he cannot remember the tree, although he must have seen it again and again over a long period of time. Therefore, he also comes back to this tree again and again and explains that no tree could have stood there.
Semjase:
519. These things are peculiar to ignorant and doubting Earth-humans.
520. So do not trouble yourself further with these things.
521. If you wanted to adduce evidence, it would be useless, for where understanding of certain things is lacking, it cannot be helped by Gewalt.
522. In former times visible proofs were necessary for the human beings of the Earth in order to impart certain forms of thought to them.
523. But by these visible proofs they began to believe in miracles, and at other times they went astray.
524. The present time of the Earth has progressed beyond visible evidence, and the path of clear and logical rationality and equally clear and logical understanding alone must be followed.
525. Only these values count for the present time, and they are the better evidence than all those which are visible.
See A Peculiar Beard Story
Billy:
Oh, yes, that is correct, but there is something else haunting my brain. We were talking about the timeless channel earlier. Something is still not clear to me. In other words, something is not clear to me about this journey. You told me that I had become about half an hour younger than the human beings on Earth. This is because we were in eternity for seven minutes. I know that my wristwatch always goes crazy when I get close to Semjase's beamships. But now it seems to have gone completely crazy, because I already have the date of the 19th day on it. According to that, I should have been cruising around the universe with you for more than two days already. You, Semjase, told me that we would need about 30 hours. Something is wrong with the time. Besides, I am not tired, hungry or thirsty. So what is really being tinkered with?
irj
Ptaah:
673. Semjase did give you some of our fruits and also some vegetables to eat.
Billy:
Of course, but that was a long time ago.
Semjase:
497. The vegetables and fruits of this kind are very nutritious and thirst quenching compared to your produce.
498. They can satisfy your hunger and thirst for up to 90 hours.
Billy:
I accept this explanation, and it also seems to me to be as you say. But something is still wrong. Why am I not tired?
Ptaah:
674. This is also very easy to explain:
675. You breathe the same air here in the spaceship as we do.
676. But this corresponds to the conditions on our home world and is much healthier and more invigorating than on the Earth.
677. The oxygen content is several values higher than on Earth, and there are also some differences in the composition of the other elements.
678. But everything is as breathable for you as it is for ourselves.
679. The different composition of our air, however, guarantees us a longer wakefulness and a much shorter need for sleep than is the case on Earth.
680. That is the reason why you are not tired.
Billy:
Your explanation makes sense to me, but you are still hiding something. Something is just not right, I can feel it. Is my timer really acting so crazy that it is suddenly going forward by days?
Semjase:
499. Your watch is very accurate.
Billy:
– ??? – I mean, that means we have been cruising the universe for more than two days?
Semjase:
500. Sure, we have spent a bit more time than we intended.
Billy:
Golly, I am going crazy – and you say it so easily. What do you think is going to happen at my house? My wife is going crazy. I told her I would be home no later than the evening of the 18th. Gosh, girl, my wife has already reported me missing to the police. That is going to set off a fuss.
Semjase:
501. It will not be all that bad.
Billy:
You say that, what arias do you think my wife can sing. She can truly replace a whole orchestra.
Semjase:
502. Are you afraid of your wife?
Billy:
Not that, but if it is possible for me, I avoid such theatrics and musical outpourings.
Semjase:
503. Well, that is good then, because we are going to be on the road for many more hours.
Billy:
I am enjoying you. I promptly get my wife to quit loving me after all.
Semjase:
504. It is not going to be that bad, is it?
Billy:
Do you have any idea.
Ptaah:
681. You are taking your fun a bit far, my child.
Billy:
Aha, so Semjase is just teasing me? Then you must have hatched something. Is it possible my timer is not working correctly after all?
Ptaah:
682. You have a very good watch.
Semjase:
505. Sure, that is indeed so.
506. I was just teasing you a little bit.
Billy:
Do you mean loosely along the lines of "love likes to tease"?
Semjase:
507. If you think of it in terms of friendship, then yes.
Billy:
Then I am reassured. But now what have you been keeping from me so far?
Semjase:
508. Father already said that your watch is correct, and we have really been on the road for such a long time too.
509. But you do not have to worry about that, not even if we need a good day or more before we bring you back.
510. You yourself have obviously not grasped the possibilities that are available to us in terms of time.
511. It takes…
Billy:
Oh – I forgot about that. Surely you want to guess at time-travel, perhaps the same form I remember from Asket?
Semjase:
512. Sure. –
513. Since we are in free space and do not influence any events, etc., we can travel back in time for a few days without hesitation and continue to live there without anything changing.
514. Although you will be away from your home for more than three days in total, you will only have been away for about 20 hours according to earthly normal time.
Billy:
That sounds a bit crazy. So I have been away from home for a little over two days now and I will be away for a total of three or more days. So that means I started this journey with you on the 17th and I am now on the road with you for more than two days, because today is the 19th. But now I am going to spend more days with you and then I am going to travel back in time with you to be back home on the 18th, although in reality I am still on a great journey on the 20th or so and I am going to curve through the universe with you. Is that right?
Semjase:
515. Sure.
Billy:
Aha, it is true. I guess that is everything, is it not?
Semjase:
516. Sure.
Billy:
Quite simple, actually. I am sure every human being understands that and does not even break their brain doing it.
Semjase:
517. It is to be understood.
Billy:
Sure, sure, it is the simplest thing in the world that I go on a big trip with you on the 17th, find out on the 19th that I am already here for more than two days and return home tomorrow on the 20th or even later and arrive there on the 18th. Really, this is very simple, and everyone can understand it perfectly. It is only a simple madness of universal proportions. Even a child can understand it. It is just as simple as the elimination of trees. There is a huge fir tree in a meadow that a farmer has been sawing off the lowest branches for 50 or 70 years, gathering up the fir cones and burning them. Then you simply come and eliminate the tree – and for 50 or 70 years the said farmer has never constantly sawn off the lowest branches and also not gathered up any pine cones and of course not burnt them either. This is all really very simple, and any human being can understand that.
Semjase:
518. Now I do not understand you.
Billy:
That is very simple: everything is very clear to me and I understand everything very well, but make that clear to my dear fellow human beings for once. H. Jacob, for example, still cannot digest the fact that the Weather Firs have simply disappeared and that no human being can remember them except me. It also does not make sense to him that you have also erased his memory, because he knows at least that one area very well where one of the trees used to stand. It simply does not make sense to him that he cannot remember the tree, although he must have seen it again and again over a long period of time. Therefore, he also comes back to this tree again and again and explains that no tree could have stood there.
Semjase:
519. These things are peculiar to ignorant and doubting Earth-humans.
520. So do not trouble yourself further with these things.
521. If you wanted to adduce evidence, it would be useless, for where understanding of certain things is lacking, it cannot be helped by Gewalt.
522. In former times visible proofs were necessary for the human beings of the Earth in order to impart certain forms of thought to them.
523. But by these visible proofs they began to believe in miracles, and at other times they went astray.
524. The present time of the Earth has progressed beyond visible evidence, and the path of clear and logical rationality and equally clear and logical understanding alone must be followed.
525. Only these values count for the present time, and they are the better evidence than all those which are visible.
See A Peculiar Beard Story