User blog comment:Awayorafk/Believe. The Indoctrination Theory./@comment-199.254.212.145-20131112154817

Regardless of if you believe in the IT or not, it really grinds my gears when the anti-Iters butt heads with the ITers. y saying,"You didn't play the game! The prithean VI clearly proves I'm right!" Allow me to poke a while into that detail. Immediately following Vendettas elaboration on the Prothean's attempt to create the device, he explains that they were betrayed by a group wanting to control the reapers. Here's the kicker, his exact word were that they LATER ground out they were indoctrinated. If the prothean VIs were infallie in detecting indoctrination, they would have detected it immediately according to those trying to use it as evidence against the IT. But, clearly, if they couldn't detect indoctrination when it mattered most, do you really have full faith in their capabilities at all? In my opinion, indoctrination has stages, and the codex supports this. Indoctrination starts by receiving a signal through electromagnetic waves, supersonic and ultrasonic noise, and other subliminal messages from a reaper or a reaper artifact. However, "Ultimately the reaper gains the ability to use the victens body to amplify its signals, manifesting as alien voices in the mind." See that, once an individual has been in proximity long enough, the amount of time unknown, the reaper can continue to influence them using one's own body as a transmitter. I'm all for intelligent debate, but obviously both sides nitpick only what they want and leave crucial information out. BOTH sides. Observing this from an outsider perspective, insulting the ITers is childish regardless of how crazy their ideas may or nsy not be.