- Eagle 117
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Yes, Chaplain has become the "expert" on this topic.
As I’ve made known before, this interpretation of 343 GS statments is quite strict. I’d like to offer an example of how 343 GS statement could be used in different terms. Lets say that one of my best friend, lets call her Sarah, went missing one afternoon. I waited to here from her for days, which then turn into weeks, and then months. I even decide to go out searched for her myself; however, I couldn’t seem to find here.
Two years pass by, and one day I get a call from some gov. agency telling me that they’ve found Sarah. Of course, I’d be over joyed with the news. I’d rush to where Sarah was being held, and as soon as I’d see her, I run up and hug her. I’d ask her where she’d been, tell her how much I had missed her, and then tell her about how much we had to catch up on from “all our lost time.”
Now, the example I’ve shown here obviously has me representing 343 GS, and my friend Sarah representing the MC. However, what I failed to mention was what the gov. agency told me when they found Sarah. She was found 3 states over eating scraps in an ally behind the local movie theater. She was starving, really needed a bath, and she had flees... Sarah is my pet dog!
While this may be one of the cheesiest example in the history of b.net, and completely made up, it illustrates that there are other ways of interpreting 343 GS’s statement. When I said "our lost time," I was in no way implying that I'm a dog, or that Sarah (dog) is my equal. "Our" doesn't have to mean that the subjects being described are the same/equal, as you're suggesting.
One other thing to point out. When 343 GS states “our” lost time, he’s aquatinting himself, not his maker/s, with the MC. The last time I checked, 343 GS isn’t a Forerunner, but rather an AI construct. You surely aren’t saying that 343 GS associates himself (he does says “our”), an AI, as being the same as the MC?
-Eagle 117