I always wondered what would have happened if he'd made that second jump into Switzerland and freedom. ..
Anyway, don't worry about Tom Ridge. Despite delays, he'll have the American infernal security machine up and running like a big pig-processing plant before WWIII hits American shores. Unless you all do something about it first. ..
Otherwise, it's "Heil Bush!" (Or Kerry, or whothefuckever happens to be residing after the big November event.)
I think I'm going to split this version of reality; it's getting a bit too ugly for my liking. See you guys, later! Vrooom!
And *this*, ladies and gentlemen, is why we're stuck with peer review. For every interesting, potentially worthwhile idea relaxing the rules would let into public view (think Halton Arp and the electric cosmos/plasma universe theory), we have a thousand idiots like this going on about orgone energy or the young earth.
Sigh. So I'm an idiot, am I?
I don't recall saying anything about, 'orgone' energy, and I certainly don't believe that the Earth is young.
Please use the actual content of my post to illustrate what it is that you think makes me an 'idiot'. If you break it down, you can make some fascinating discoveries about your own thought processes. Good luck!
You can't see if you don't look. When was the last time you strayed from the comfortable pathways of your life? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing your life consists of a combination of, Work, Car, Sleep, Mall, School, Fast Food, Television, Downtown, Video Games, Movies. . . (Give or take a couple.)
That is, if you don't leave the hamster cage, you're never going to see anything but a controlled environment.
Besides, no one's saying there weren't any cities before 1000BC or whatever.
Conventional wisdom is part of the controlled environment.
Instead of spouting conspiracy theory rhetoric, how about some concrete examples
Uh huh. I'll just provide links to incontrovertible proof of the 'impossible' using the powers of the internet so that you don't have to move yourself a single inch while you ignore, scoff and refuse to see.
Instead, how about this; why not go out and find your own examples? Knowledge is worth very little unless you build it and uncover it for yourself. It's not that hard to do, (you can even start by using the internet), and the rewards are utterly enormous.
For instance, I increasingly know more and more about the world I live in and how it works on many levels, both on the fundamental and the complex; knowledge is power in many, many ways. As a result, life parts for me easily as I move through it. Nearly all of the common people I meet, in both positions of high and low authority, are like paper; of little substance or ability to control me or stop me from achieving whatever ends I see fit to achieve. Over the last decade, Anxiety and Uncertainty in all realms have lost their grip upon me. I don't need falsehoods or opiates, (chemical or electronic) to feel confident and excellent in life. Knowledge has substance, it is far more than just data, and having it sets you apart and gives you enormous power.
How much substance do you have? --Or perhaps better put. .,
There is no deep knowledge beneath anything. Modern civilization has risen somewhat around 5000 years ago, that is the ealiest of writings which have been found on the planet.
Says who?
I'm quite serious. Where did this story come from and why do you believe it so thoroughly that you are able to speak with total confidence in its authenticity?
Now, granted, my current thinking is that civilizations get wiped from the face of the Earth on a fairly regular bases, thanks to huge natural disasters, comet impacts and so forth. And the passage of time over a 300,000 year cycle does tend to vaporize easy evidence all on its own. But there are still many items and structures which persist.
The more 'offensive' ones, like massive crystal pyramids and star-gates and other such items which the population has been very firmly programmed to flinch at even the mention of, (Did you flinch? Why? Where did that reaction come from and how did it get there. Start unraveling this and similar questions, and you'll begin to own your mind, possibly for the first time.), are controlled by the military, while the more plentiful and less robust evidence is easy enough to sell lies about, or in many cases, simply ignore.
It's easy enough to keep this stuff hidden and controlled, and the media and teaching institutions are incredibly easy to mislead into teaching false histories. --Just look at Egyptology! When you start to look at how broken and cavalier the orthodox thinking is in those circles, you begin to see just how much people are willing to deceive themselves in order to fit in, (and stay employed). --A good 'surface' example given to us by recent television was the fellow who demonstrated that the famous structures in Egypt, (like the Sphinx), had suffered from massive water-based erosion, which immediately threw into question many of the old, accepted theories of Egyptian history. The amazing part is how firmly the old school university profs continue to fight this change to the safe status quo.
All I'm saying, (and I've said it before in the my other post to you), is that you absolutely cannot trust conventional wisdom. At all. It is almost entirely based on lies designed to make people feel comfortable and to give them a false sense of security and confidence in repeating those same lies.
I know it's not easy to take my words seriously. I can only point at logical inconsistencies and hope people start to seek on their own. I often wish I could write openly about exactly why I have confidence in the things I tell write, but unfortunately, I have more than my own safety to consider. --And I realize that this also sounds outrageous. Sigh.
In the end, you're on your own. Where you go is, as always, entirely up to you. All I can recommend is that you try honestly searching without bias for once. It's the only way out.
But these are for the most part, surface observations, common knowledge. Common knowledge is usually deliberately wrong, i.e., the so-called, "Protocols of Zion". What I find interesting, however, is how that particular manipulation went on to have a world-shaping effect despite it's origins. I find it curious that people are willing to under-estimate the power of a given manipulation simply because, upon investigating, they encounter inconsistencies in the story. It's easy, and usually beneficial to confuse matters. Makes all the good little consumers look the other way and say things like, "Bah!", which is generally one of the most important objectives.
Consider. . . Even though the "Protocols" were not billed as advertised, they still had (what may well be considered), the intended effect; that of fucking-over the Jews, and even more cleverly, the planting of ideas within the certain segments of the Jewish population who are vulnerable and desirous of such ideas as those contained with the 'Protocols'. Combine this with the deniablility provided by those saying, "But the Protocols were a Hoax!", the manipulation becomes both an amazingly powerful behavior-modification tool while being discarded and ignored by the rest of the herd.
Now, that is psi-ops done right! That's how I would have done it, anyway, if I were the sort who wanted such things.
Much like the False-Flag 'terrorist' attacks we've seen so much of these last few years, such tactics get the job done and nobody bats an eye.
In any case. . , little can be taken at face value, especially when it comes to conspiracy theory. Typically, 99 times out of 100, if it has been published and quoted, then it's probably misguided. I have met very few people who have a proper clue as to how the structure of reality really works.
It's very, very easy to mislead and manipulate humans. Stupidly easy. Given the climate of control lust which is so predominant in our world, it is only natural that this aspect of humanity be exploited by those who want power. Happens all the time. ALL the time.
Anyway, it sounds to me as though you simply haven't come in contact with the 'impossible' yet, and so doubt that there is anything beneath the surface. Well, there is. I've seen a variety of different forms of it. Evidence of a greater reality is right before your eyes, if you figure out how to look. If you start seeking in earnest, you'll start making the right connections.
As a Physicist I can tell you that that is exactly like science works and that it has worked well for centuries.
I don't know whether to smile or frown at your statement. --The suppressive systems designed to keep people ill-evolved and ignorant certainly do work effectively, though primarily as population control measures rather than any sort of formula for attaining and sharing knowledge.
"If you put forward an extraordinary, off-mainstream hypothesis you've better a) come from a respectable university/research group, b) show some extraordinary, easily reproducible evidence for it too and c) get ready for some serious ad hominem bashing, ridicule and possibly loss of funds".
Ridicule should be a part of mainstream science. . ?
Hm. See. . . If enormous effort were not expended on instilling crippling thought patterns in people as they grew up, (largely through fear of rejection and being rewarded for punishing those who refuse to go along with the group, regardless of the inherent value of whatever the group happens to be doing). . , if the world was not thumb-pressed into submission through all manner of social and economic pressures, then the growth of knowledge through science would, I think, be truly astounding.
Don't get me wrong. --I certainly adhere to, "I'll Believe it when I See it".
But I also think just as often that, "I'll See it when I Believe it."
--When I finally grew a spine and stopped fearing ridicule and punishment, (which, interestingly, are entirely harmless threats the instant you realize their nature), I discovered that there are fundamental forces in the universe which are keyed on and indeed, which are made from the stuff of consciousness itself. There is nothing but energy, after all; why is it such a leap for so many to take the next few steps?
Science which is locked in the material boundaries of what has been deemed 'acceptable' is self-limiting to the point where it is nearly impossible to advance. Throw in a bushel or two of kooks and cultists, and the game is pretty much done for. --That is, when biased scientists affront the 'impossible' with nostril-flaring scepticism, they actually go a long way to preventing themselves from being able to register entire hosts of phenomenon. --As well as suppressing certain patterns of reality through the force of their own subconscious will and intent.
As such, extraordinary evidence will never be found under such conditions. This is the paradox upon which Faith is based. (A dirty word, to be certain, largely thanks to the other massive mind-control project known as Christianity.)
And that's just the way certain groups would like things to stay, and I don't see attitudes changing. It looks more and more like it will be a destructive and painful shifting of affairs after all. (More so for some than for others.)
Ahhhh! 'Scientific American', a comfortable tool for subtle mind herding. It took me years to figure out just how tiresome that magazine really is. A voice piece for orthodox science.
Any page real estate they give to alternative view points was usually done in such a way as to subtly steer the reader's mind into thinking that s/he is choosing to believe the conventional wisdom out of their own free choice based on the evidence displayed, while forgetting entirely that the evidence is being picked and then editorially filtered by very biased men. Not a rigged jury; (The jury is the reader). It's more like both the lawyer for the defense and prosecution are both working toward the same goal.
In any case, pole shifts are the least of anybody's concerns. Based on everything I've looked at, they seem to me more like a result of bigger events than they are the main attraction.
Keep your ufo and lost civilizations theories out. The illuminati were a group of people who basically were built upon philosophical ideas around the 15th or 16th century.
I'll speak as I will, particularly as your theory regarding secret organizations is completely unconvincing. I try to base mine on more than the PR fluff most people are compelled to automatically subscribe to today. Please keep in mind that 'Illuminati' is just a convenient label I'm applying to a very broad phenomenon.
There are without question deep knowledge structures which are very much beneath the awareness of the rest of the world and which certainly do shape who we are as a race in huge ways. Anybody who bothers to look into the subject will eventually discover this fact as being inescapable.
'Secrets' are only secret to those who choose to be lazy and complacent regarding knowledge. --The same goes for UFOs and 'lost' civilizations. They are hardly lost! You can barely help but trip over all the artifacts and old cities poking out of the ground. The media and our 'scientists' choose, however, not to see. Instead there is the common desire to spread and collectively share in dis-info. A room full of idiots is no more correct than a single idiot; they simply have a much greater ability to fool and reassure themselves. There is a lot of cowardice out there today. But if you actually do want to see, then it's all there waiting for you.
I'll warn you up front, though. It's nowhere nearly as easy, reassuring or as self-congratulatory as arm-chair theory. Wishful thinking feels much nicer, but it'll get you killed in the long run. You can pretty much bank on that.
Seems to me that the Mad Max future is interesting because some people may be living there shortly.
It'll be the Wild Aussie West for a few years, but after the first century of scorched earth living, nobody's shot-guns will work anymore. --And the 'Brotherhood of Steel' as protectorate of high technology is both a stupid and very interesting idea at the same time. ..
--Stupid, because without massive support industries, high-technology is the first thing that will stop working. Without massive factories made from gazillions of impossibly complex parts and maintained with able technicians who don't need to worry about farming, you won't be fabricating anything more complex than a pair of pliers, (and even that might be considered rather wishful!) The best that the 'Brotherhood' might achieve is some sort of preserved knowledge base which is maintained through the next fifty-thousand years or so in the form of an Illuminati-style organization which would work through the ages, influencing the next rise of civilization. Interestingly, 'The Brotherhood' is in fact one of the names we currently call the real-life version of the secret organization which performs that function today.
In any case, Fallout remains a very interesting squint at the next arc of this world's story.
The current game technology isn't there. Even WITH green lasers, (Though, that's getting somewhat closer.)
What I suggest is the following. ..
Full clips of tracer rounds! Those things actually look like Star Wars blaster bolts! And looks are the first step.
Sound? Well. . . Get this: When you fire a gun, you get a lot of fast-moving hot gas, right? It makes sound. Okay. So then you have silencers, which are good at diffusing all that fast-moving hot gas so that it makes very little sound. Right? So then why not a gun modification which doesn't just kill the sound, but rather changes it? I mean, why not? That's what vocal cords do. There's a thousand different musical instruments out there which take moving air and shape it. Sure, you could probably spend millions of dollars screwing around with phonics technology trying to come up with just the right noise, but the fact of the matter is that it could be done, and once you know all the right shapes of metal tube to use, the finished product is low tech and as easy to produce as a kazoo.
So then you'd have both the looks and the sounds!
How about the feel?
Beats me. What does it feel like to get shot with a blaster round? Or a tracer round, for that matter? Probably not good. (Keeping in mind, safety isn't really much of a concern with me, particularly since I don't imagine a properly cool Star Wars blaster system is going to materialize any time soon. Wear a jacket or something and try not to aim for your friend's head.)
Anyway, I suspect the formulation of the flare could be tinkered with. --If you think about it, you'd only really need enough burn-time to last the half second or so that the projectile is airbourn, so the material could be gone the instant it hits the target. Magicians use stuff called 'Flash paper', which is chemically perfect for the job. --Makes a nice rosy blaze for a second or so while you produce your pidgeons or whatever, and then it's gone. You can light the stuff in your hands and not get burned. Neato! In fact, you could even put enough flare material in the round so that it burns for a second after it hits the target. If you formulate it just so, you could probably even get it to flare up for a moment after striking. I bet you could also make a gram of theatrical flash-powder go off on inmpact as well to make a little flash and 'poof'. (Though, I suspect that would be rather pushing the safety margine a touch!)
Anyway, for the final effect, I'd want the projectile to have a second, paintball-like component, except rather than dye, it would be filled with a black chalk dust to simulate blaster scorch marks on targets. Now, honestly. Tell me it wouldn't look just desperately cool to be able to riddle walls with realistic-looking blaster impact marks!
So. ..
Sounds like a blaster, Looks like blaster fire, and everybody knows when the target has been hit.
And finally, you could wire your combat area up to play John Williams over a global sound system. ..
Yes, actually, I HAVE thought about this rather too much, which just goes to show; that which influences you when you were a kid, has a tendency to stick.
Now, if I could just think of a way to integrate all of this clumsy blaster stuff with some of those cool light sabers. ..
Just so long as they get a non-staff writer or a trekie for the script.
Think about it!
The concept is, "War in Space." --Humans versus the Romulans. That's it!
No, "And every cast member of the popular television series except Wil has to have at least X minutes of screen time regardless of how irrelevant to the plot it may be."
If the writer is a good one, if the director is a good one. . , why this could be the best thing since 'Kahn'. --Because we need something. Everything since Kirk left us has been idiotic garbage.
In general. . . Star Trek movies suck when: Huge ensemble casts are scripted by Ricky-"Let's kill Picard's nephew, blow up those two Klingon sisters, make Data say, "Shit", and then crash the enterprise regardless of how little any of this has to do with anything even remotely story-related, cuz we can and it's cool in a college Jar-Head Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! sort of way,"-THE ASS-HAT Berman.
Berman is one of the hugest wannabes in show-biz today. He should stay firmly socketed in the producer's chair and stop pretending that he can write.
So barring his creative involvement, a new Trek film with some new blood and some real talent might just be the best thing to happen to Star Trek movies in over a decade.
Tools are not just tools. Yes, people are getting rather worked up; in looking over the posts here, I've seen those who are laughing maniacally and pointing and name calling. I've seen others throwing up walls of denial, etc. I mean. . , Wow!
The natural response is to say, "You are not your tools. You are not your clothes. Get over it!"
That's wrong, though. We all know this on an instinctive level!
Everything you do is an expression of who you are. You are what you eat. You are the truths or lies that you take into yourselves and embody, and give power to.
For my part, I like to use the tools which break down least often, and get the job done with the fewest hassles and hangups. But I also want my tools to work in the same spirit that I strive to.
I'm very glad that Mozilla exists. It's not perfect, but the rise from Netscape's original and highly unstable browser has been continual and very positive in many, many respects. It has been a fun and friendly ride! Support is community based and highly effective, rather than a hierarchical and lumbering (and largely ineffectual) system like Microsoft's.
--The best part about Mozilla is how it seems to manage to be almost entirely free of corporate greed and the desire to manipulate people and the welfare of the information universe for selfish purposes. This might change at some point, but at the moment, Mozilla seems to be pretty darned clean. Whereas, the life blood of Microsoft is that of Greed, based on the fear of losing power and control; this taints all they do. Mozilla, and similar projects provide an alternative way, not just a way of programming and making software, but of how to exist. Open-source, community-based software feels nice to use and it does so for a reason. Those are feelings you can trust. Open-source creates and concentrates vast human powers and it does so using a system of collaboration and sharing, and thus no need for Greed as a motivating force. Greed sucks. (Literally!) The opposite is very uplifting, in many ways. Constantly-improving software which is given freely to anybody as it is required. . ? Why do some people hate this so much?
Well, there is an answer to that of course, but none of those who hate Open-Source are able to stand the answer. It's an ugly answer, after all. It's an old division, and it delineates people in very obvious ways. The world is at war right now, on many levels because of those very same forces.
Interestingly, the world in many, many ways is moving unstoppably towards a paradigm based on non-greed, non-selfish shared resources. This will spell the end of centralized power and men like George Bush and all that they represent. The only problem is that there is going to be a massive melt-down as the old, dark structures which make up most of the world collapse under their own morbid weight. We are seeing the beginning of this, and our current masters, sensing that this is coming, are cranking up the controls to increasingly high levels, knowing that if they lose control, they will be ended. They are working from fear, and the conflict is going to kill many of us. It has already started and it is going to get a lot worse. But is a natural process, not one to be feared.
The lesson we all can learn through such simple means as community produced software are far, far more powerful and far-reaching than most people are capable of realizing.
We are literally learning the tools necessary to survive in the coming age.
In my case, I'll continue using my rusty old copy of Win98 until I finally decide to tackle the Linux learning curve and re-acquire all the software I need. (That is, change my library of tools into 'open-source' as opposed to 'pirated'.)
I figure the whole process will probably take about two weeks of screwing around, and another series of hiccups as I settle into the new 'reality'. --After which I'm sure I'd
I must admit, first of all, that I am a Buccaneer-Canadian, and that I am of Chinese (Hong Kong) descent.
Let me say, though, on the MPAA and RIAA's behalf, that piracy is honestly and truly wrong, and is going to cause the destruction of the music and movie industries (and whatever else can be downloaded, like personal and SOHO targetting apps such as games).
The only reason why the MPAA and RIAA's earnings are going up rather than down is because, in North America (where these outfits are based), piracy is still in its infancy. There are two main barriers preventing the music and movie industries from crumbling right now: the last mile distribution problem and piracy source organization.
I don't know. . . My friend is a rabid fan of Hong Kong movies. They are usually available on DVD for between $8 and $15. The pirate copies are $8-$12 dollars; they're badly ripped and unreliable, while the real ones are in the $15 range, and they work all the time. This is in Chinese malls in Canada, and the pirate copies are stacked right there on the shelves along with the real copies. Yet, somehow, the Hong Kong film industry continues to thrive.
I see piracy as a natural method for keeping prices honest. A $28 DVD is a rip off. I hope piracy 'ravages' America. It won't. In America, Walmart will never have pirate copies, nor will American video rental shops.
And movies will continue to proliferate the world. Heck, I knew a guy who's uncle made films for Disney. --He produced one of those stupid movies with an ape which plays on a sports team. Anyway, he was approached by the Mob with the proverbial suitcase full of cash and instructed to spend it very wastefully on products and film Union services which would be provided. Organized crime has been using Hollywood since day-one to launder money.
The MPAA is about greed. --That and control. --Like this idiot 'War on Terrorism' the MPAA is a line sold to the naive designed to create a political atmosphere where putting people in jail for no good reason is accepted by the public. It's largely about control.
And anyway. . . Film and television are too important a medium of cultural mind-programming to be abandoned regardless of what happens to the market.
Sadly, there will be awful movies for as long as there is an industrialized human population. --That is to say, I expect we'll see the end of Hollywood and hockey-playing monkeys in somewhat less than a decade. Here's hoping!
I guess so, but only if you are capturing the metaphor by the rules of literary criticism in very exacting language. In a term paper. --And then perhaps roll it up and stuff it into your professor's arse. Literally. Not metaphorically.
If the government had a propulsion system like that they would use it for space launches.
As a point of pure logic. . , if the government had secret engine technology, then why not secret launches? Isn't that sort of the raison d'etre of a Top Secret Air Force base?
In any case, I read that part, too. I just don't like to discount all ideas from any source just because some of the ideas seem 'off'. After all, nobody is right about everything they think they know. --Which is why I was asking about his take on the Ionosphere stuff; Slashdot is a great place to bounce that kind of idea and get a pretty good reading on all kinds of relevant data, and thus close in on what the approximate truth might really be.
UFO stuff is better examined in other forums made up of people who have their minds open enough to actually read, contrast and compare data rather than just sneer at it in states of near total ignorance, (which is the predominant reaction around these parts.) For each question, you have to find the proper forum in which to network.
I've gone through that kind of crap as well, but I've never seen it happen in a place where they don't work on commission!
Did the clerk own stock or something?
Sheesh.
I went once with a girlfriend to help fend off the vultures when she was buying a printer. When the inevitable commissioned sales clerk tried to push all manner of extras and warranties on her, I luxuriated in making him look like an ass. --I know he was "just doing his job", but frankly, that's a piss-poor excuse. If deliberately exploiting people's lack of knowledge rather than informing them and helping them to find a good buy is what he does, then he bloody-well deserves to be punished. --And it's easy enough to do; you just stand there and ask all kinds of long and embarrassing questions which illustrate exactly how morally bankrupt a sales clerk is while wasting tons of his precious floor time which he might otherwise be using to rip off other customers.
In that particular case, I easily saved her from spending more than double the listed amount on a dorky inkjet.
These customers generally leave with $100 of stuff for under $10
Sounds like I should start clipping the damned coupons! Why on earth would anybody blow $90 without needing to?
I feel for you, though. I worked retail as well for a couple of years. As they say, "the buck stops at the cash register." If this were a perfect world, store policy would be written by the clerks.
Q: (L) What was the event a hundred or so years after the flood of Noah that was described as the confusing of languages, or the tower of Babel? A: Spiritual confluence. Q: (L) What purpose did the individuals who came together to build the tower intend for said tower? A: Electromagnetic concentration of all gravity waves. Q: (L) And what did they intend to do with these concentrated waves? A: Mind alteration of masses. Q: (L) What intention did they have in altering the mind of the masses? A: Spiritual unification of the masses. Q: (L) Who were the "gods" that looked down on the tower of Babel, at those who were building it with the intention of unification, and decided to destroy their works? A: Lizards. Q: (L) Okay, so the Lizzies blew up the tower of Babel. What else did they do to the minds of mankind; did they do something causing literal disruption of their understanding of language? A: Close. Q: (L) What tool did they use to accomplish this divisiveness? A: Brainwashing of masses. Q: (L) Did they do this through implants and abduction? A: Partly.
Q: (L) What is the true meaning, the original meaning, of the Hebrew word "shem"? A: Purity. Q: (L) Why was this word related to the obelisks or standing stones later called "shems" by the Hebrews? A: Symbolic of purity: unification. Uniformity. Q: (L) Did these stones themselves actually possess any power? A: Residual. Q: (L) What object were the ancients going to place in the tower of Babel to... A: Crystal. Q: (L) Is "shem" also synonymous with "crystal"? A: Close. Q: (L) Shem, the son of Noah, was the ancestor of the group that built the tower, is this correct? A: Yes.
Q: (L) How were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed and the other cities of the plain? And by whom? A: Nuclear; EM pulse. Who else? Q: (L) The Lizzies? A: Yes. Q: (L) Why? A: To implant fear and obedience. Q: (L) Weren't the Sodom and Gomorrans really evil and bad doing sodomy and Gomorrahy? A: That is a deception of history. Q: (L) Did Lot's wife get turned into a pillar of salt? A: No. Q: (L) Is there any symbolism in that particular story for us today? A: No.
Q: (L) Was the god who communicated with Abraham one of the Lizzies? A: Yes. Q: (L) Was the pact that Abraham made with the Lizzies? A: Yes. Not directly. Q: (L) Was Melchizidek a priest of the Lizzies? A: No. Q: (L) Did Melchizidek give Abraham the true information? A: Close. Q: (L) Is the cabala the true teachings of the good guys? A: Close. Q: (L) Is the Osirian cycle the exemplification of the action of the Lizzies upon mankind in terms of the cutting up of Osiris' body as the breaking apart of the strands of DNA? A: Close.
Q: (L) What was the Fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that was supposedly eaten by Eve and then offered to Adam? A: Knowledge restriction. Encoding. Q: (L) What did it mean when it said Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. What act did she perform to do that? A: Consorted with wrong side. Q: (L) What does consorted mean? A: Eve is symbolic. Q: (L) Symbolic of what? A: Female energy. Q: (L) The female energy did what when itconsorted? A: Lost some knowledge and power. Q: (L) Why was the eating of the fruit of this tree called knowledge of good and evil feared by god or gods to enable Eve to be equated with gods? A: What? Clarify please. Q: (L) Who was the god that feared that the eating of this fruit would make Eve equal to him or them? A: No. Q: (L) The Bible says that God said that they were afraid that they would now take hold of the fruit of the tree of life and live forever. What does this mean? Why did the eating of this fruit ma
It is well known that a very high voltage potential exists between the earth and the ionosphere. Ionosphere electrical charge is believed it to be at least 10 million volts with respect to the earth ground.
Next, imagine a cable 62,000 miles long. A CONDUCTIVE cable that is. Imagine the electrical arc as cable construction reaches down toward earth. The 10 million volts will have a tremendous current from millions of square miles of ionosphere. With millions of amps of peak current and power levels in billions of watts, it will create quite a fireworks display. The inherently CONDUCTING carbon nanotube cable will act as a shorting wire carrying billions of watts of power. The current will continue to flow between the earth and the ionosphere, until both are at the same potential. But this is just the beginning of big trouble.
A good example of what will happen has already been proven on a space shuttle mission. On mission STS-75 [3], 3,500 volts at.48 Amps was measured when a tethered satellite was lowered about 12 miles. The satellite was lost when the aluminized tether snapped. It was later determined that the Kevlar tether broke, from burning through where it contacted the payload bay deployment tower. Remember this was a cable just 12 miles long, yet it developed 1,680 watts of power. Now imagine how much power a cable 62,000 MILES LONG will develop, connected between ground and the charged ionosphere of the entire planet.
The current with the ionosphere's 10 million volts will almost certainly vaporize the cable. But that would be a blessing, because of the repercussions of this cable.
WHO NEEDS THE IONOSPHERE ?
I remember reading about the Shuttle experiment with the tether, the idea, if I recall, was to see if usable energy could be generated in this manner. Everybody was surprised at how quickly a charge built up and burned out the cable. This doesn't sound good for space elevators!
Is it just me, or is this guy talking like he wants to fire up Auschwitz?
Absolutely not!
But I cannot say the same for the Rothschilde-financed Zionist creation called Israel, which is effectively putting all the 'eggs' into one basket for later termination.
Israel is being led by the Zionist agenda into deliberately turning world opinion against the Jews. When the time comes, it will be very hard to stop Israel from being wiped off the map despite the many Jews who are deeply opposed to the Sharon government and its murderous, Zionist agenda.
One of the goals of the Powers That Be is to destroy all with semitic blood, both Moslem and Jew. The current ploy is to turn everybody against their brother through false-flag operations, like 9-11, and a vast portion of the 'terrorist' attacks and suicide bombings happening around the globe. --You'll notice that in virtually every each case, suicide bombings derail peace processes just when they are threatening to go somewhere, and only serve to worsen world opinion of the groups which are supposedly attacking. --Which is, of course, the real goal; to keep the fear of terrorism alive and well so that control over the human race can continue to clamp into place.
When you want to wipe out a whole race of people, peace and civility are not desirable. --Amazingly, everybody falls for such simple tactics, despite the simplicity and historically proven methods of such secret operations. For some reason the thought of one's own government bombing its own people is considered 'beneath' anybody. (Despite the fact that Bush and Sharon and their kind obviously don't care about scruples or morality; why would they stop short of such incredibly effective tactics?)
Another tried and true tactic to keep people from looking at the obvious is the oft-invoked, "One Must Never Criticize the Jews!" line. The Mossad is one of the most prolific and powerful secret organizations on the planet. Do some investigation into this, and you'll quickly begin to understand how it all works.
You know, while reading the stories here, I realize that I have been quite fortunate over the-
Oops. oooh. Oh yeah. . . That.
Whew. I'd actually blocked that one from memory. ..
Okay. ..
So way back when a 486 was something special, I was young and didn't have a cool computer of my own. Upstairs where the adults lived, (I slept in the basement, would you believe?), my father had just such a gleaming-cool 486 with many bells and whistles, the most significant being a sweeeeet laser printer he'd just wrangled out of his job.
We're talking a top-of-the-line Hewlet Packard beast. This was back in the day when HP made good printers rather than the cruddy consumer-level, guaranteed to break within three years junk boxes they sell today. It was a very nice machine and my father was pink with pride about it.
I was working on an art-project at the time, which involved animation cell-painting onto clear sheets of acetate. I'd been running heat-resistant acetate sheets through printers and photo-copiers for a while, outputting line-work for painting on later, so I was all knowledgeable about this. Cocky, even.
But that evening, I'd just used up my last sheet of acetate right in the middle of a job I was really enthusiastic about. I didn't want to wait a whole night just to go out and buy more, so I dug around and actually found a stray sheet. Only problem was, I didn't know where I'd gotten it from, and I didn't know if it was treated for high temperatures or not. ..
Can you see where this is going?
Erg. My palms are sweating at the memory. ..
So there I was, with this rogue sheet of clear plastic poised over the paper intake of that HP thinking, "Come on! I'm sure it's heat treated. Why would it not be? And anyway, even if it isn't, how bad could things get? Probably at worst, it'd just go a bit warped, right? Just put it through and quit worrying so much, you dork!" So I put it in.
It didn't come out again.
In its place issued a series of interesting sounds and smells. Panic.
My father was in the next room half an hour into watching some hour-long television drama. I remember, clearly, because I can still see in my mind the clock dial telling me that I had exactly 32 minutes to smuggle tools up from the basement, casually walk past the television and into the back room where I was silently, desperately dis-assembling a damned printer.
Have you ever tried to take apart a thirty pound computer appliance on a hardwood floor in total silence as fast as you can? It's difficult! I mean, you drop a single screw and it will bounce off that hardwood with the loudest, "TACK!" you ever heard. And my dad is the suspicious sort who perks his ears up to any unexpected noise. --He spent most of my childhood convinced that his son was a dangerous klutz who could burn down the backyard fence playing with fireworks if given half the chance. (That was a LONG time ago!)
Anyway, my point is that nothing, nothing adds stress to a situation in quite the same way a father does.
While in the process of cutting free a mess of baked-on crusty plastic from the innards of that HP beast, I managed to gouge out big wads of pink rubber stuff from one of the rollers which was certainly not designed to be gouged. That's what you get for rushing. Take the job slowly; you'll only regret it later if you don't. It doesn't matter that you're going to DIE in. . . 14 minutes and counting.
"How's it going in there, Son?"
"Hmm. . ?" Panic. Fear. Adrenaline. Please, please, please, don't come in! Just keep your gnarly head turned toward that flickering TV screen, old man, because I have your fucking printer in pieces all over the floor and crumbs of pink rubber stuff on my guilty fingers. "Oh, just doing some work in Corel Draw, Dad."
"Oh, Corel Draw? Do you need a hand with that? I upgraded to
I know this is a matter of perspective, but still. ..
A reactor melt-down is 'critical'. Massive head-wound trauma? Critical. Making ten percent fewer billions of yen a year selling Mario Brothers game cartridges. . ?
They're digital plumbers, for goodness sake! It's not a product; it's flashing lights on a screen! A hallucinogenic daydream! It's a complete freak of nature that a thin dime was ever made in the first place!
Several lucky stars should be counted and thanked that any grocery money was procured at all selling video games. And ugly words like 'critical' should be dropped immediately from the game industry lexicon.
My other favorite part was that grown men from the Japan Economic Foundation were in attendence, listening gravely as global strategies were being discussed.
It's DIGITAL ITALIANS WITH CUTE WRENCHES, for goodness sake! Chill the heck out!
The problem with revisiting old, once-popular stuff is that there is a schism between two types of audiences, and therefore, market forces.
1. Many older fans don't want innovation or new things. They want comfort food for the soul. They want to be able to take refuge in the things of their youth. Punch the hot button on their emotional centers, wired up nicely from all the work they did reading, viewing, experiencing in their childhoods. Making new connections is hard work, especially with the much wider range of knowledge and experience they have available to filter stories through. When it is so much easier to see the shit, it's so much harder to bother looking. Finding good things to be motivated by is hard, because 'Good' is bloody rare. (I just finished watching the Firefly DVD set. That's good stuff!
2. The second type of audience is the one NOT looking for old thrills; they are looking for Firefly and new ideas.
So. ..
This is not to say that revisiting Dr. Who is a bad idea. Either approach can be done in a successful way. If it's fresh enough and done with an honest intent to really explore and have fun rather than copy old successes, it could easily be a very exciting ride. While, as per Sam Raimi's Spider Man movies, which attempt primarily to be faithful to the originals, there are examples of how re-telling old stories can also work very well. --After all, there is a reason people once sat around the story teller and cried, "Tell it again!" Every society has its favorite myths.
I wonder how it will go with Dr. Who revisited. ..? The idea of an alien explorer for whom Time is fluid, could be awesome. But I seriously doubt they're going to be exploring all the new territory which is available these days.
There are some extremely cool ideas which have only recently become available to our popular artists and which have not yet been properly explored, and which could be as explosive and fun as the first Matrix film. In much the way the last couple of Star Wars films could have blown the lid off today's society had they not sucked, Dr. Who could be dazzling. (Just watched the Phantom Edit again. . . Solid stuff. If only the Phantom Menace hadn't sucked, the world would have had a very powerful lesson in how corrupt fascist states can rise. --The methods used by Palpatine were actually more sophisticated and less 'Bruce Willis' than those employed by Bush!).
Anyway. . , Dr. Who could be a great delivery device for some sympathetic themes which the collective subconscious of the Human race would enthusiastically absorb, as it did with the Matrix. But we'll have to see what they come up with. My sense of jade says, "Suckage." But we'll see.
Check this thing out. It's cute and informative, but be wary!
Howard Dean? John Kerry? These guys are not saviors. Not even close. Dean was a ranking member of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League before he got into the presidential race. This guy was one of Israel's pawns, and it's a good damned thing he got washed out of the electoral process.
J. F. Kerry is worse. He's got two grandparents of Jewish descent, and is being promoted by the Zionist-owned media, (ie, ALL media), as the only logical choice. A video game? I'd love to know more about who financed and created, 'Bushgame'. ANY money says it leads back to Israel.
The lunatics in charge of Israeli foreign policy are NOT representatives of sane Jewry. Zionist policy, despite its outward claims, is very, very much anti-Jew. Rothschilde money, and darker sources, were instrumental in originally setting up Israel and putting all the Jews in 'one basket' for later termination. The current world herding techniques are leading towards a spectacular bit of mass-genoide of all Semites, with the destruction of the Jews aimed as being the crowning achievement.
Watch the patterns.
John F. Kerry, ('JFK'; yes, these stupid Hollywood techniques at emotional manipulation work; that's what 9-11 was all about), is as hard-line as Bush Jr. with respect to the Semitic peoples of the world; the destruction of the Arab nations will continue and increase under Kerry. And when the chaos is at peak levels, Israel will finally be attacked and overwhelmed.
Voting is not going solve anything. There are other ways of surviving the unfolding trap which has been planned for us by the farmers of humanity. But they require one to learn as much as possible about ALL matters regarding history, society, money, mind-control, spiritual energy, and the 'wierder' stuff, like aliens, crop circles and the occult and various religions. It's all interconnected, and only through understanding it all will you be able to grow from the whole experience that the Earth and human race is going through right now.
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I always wondered what would have happened if he'd made that second jump into Switzerland and freedom. .
Anyway, don't worry about Tom Ridge. Despite delays, he'll have the American infernal security machine up and running like a big pig-processing plant before WWIII hits American shores. Unless you all do something about it first. .
Otherwise, it's "Heil Bush!" (Or Kerry, or whothefuckever happens to be residing after the big November event.)
I think I'm going to split this version of reality; it's getting a bit too ugly for my liking. See you guys, later! Vrooom!
-FL
Sigh. So I'm an idiot, am I?
I don't recall saying anything about, 'orgone' energy, and I certainly don't believe that the Earth is young.
Please use the actual content of my post to illustrate what it is that you think makes me an 'idiot'. If you break it down, you can make some fascinating discoveries about your own thought processes. Good luck!
-FL
You can't see if you don't look. When was the last time you strayed from the comfortable pathways of your life? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing your life consists of a combination of, Work, Car, Sleep, Mall, School, Fast Food, Television, Downtown, Video Games, Movies. . . (Give or take a couple.)
That is, if you don't leave the hamster cage, you're never going to see anything but a controlled environment.
Besides, no one's saying there weren't any cities before 1000BC or whatever.
Conventional wisdom is part of the controlled environment.
Instead of spouting conspiracy theory rhetoric, how about some concrete examples
Uh huh. I'll just provide links to incontrovertible proof of the 'impossible' using the powers of the internet so that you don't have to move yourself a single inch while you ignore, scoff and refuse to see.
Instead, how about this; why not go out and find your own examples? Knowledge is worth very little unless you build it and uncover it for yourself. It's not that hard to do, (you can even start by using the internet), and the rewards are utterly enormous.
For instance, I increasingly know more and more about the world I live in and how it works on many levels, both on the fundamental and the complex; knowledge is power in many, many ways. As a result, life parts for me easily as I move through it. Nearly all of the common people I meet, in both positions of high and low authority, are like paper; of little substance or ability to control me or stop me from achieving whatever ends I see fit to achieve. Over the last decade, Anxiety and Uncertainty in all realms have lost their grip upon me. I don't need falsehoods or opiates, (chemical or electronic) to feel confident and excellent in life. Knowledge has substance, it is far more than just data, and having it sets you apart and gives you enormous power.
How much substance do you have? --Or perhaps better put. .
Are you a slave or are you happy?
-FL
Says who?
I'm quite serious. Where did this story come from and why do you believe it so thoroughly that you are able to speak with total confidence in its authenticity?
Now, granted, my current thinking is that civilizations get wiped from the face of the Earth on a fairly regular bases, thanks to huge natural disasters, comet impacts and so forth. And the passage of time over a 300,000 year cycle does tend to vaporize easy evidence all on its own. But there are still many items and structures which persist.
The more 'offensive' ones, like massive crystal pyramids and star-gates and other such items which the population has been very firmly programmed to flinch at even the mention of, (Did you flinch? Why? Where did that reaction come from and how did it get there. Start unraveling this and similar questions, and you'll begin to own your mind, possibly for the first time.), are controlled by the military, while the more plentiful and less robust evidence is easy enough to sell lies about, or in many cases, simply ignore.
It's easy enough to keep this stuff hidden and controlled, and the media and teaching institutions are incredibly easy to mislead into teaching false histories. --Just look at Egyptology! When you start to look at how broken and cavalier the orthodox thinking is in those circles, you begin to see just how much people are willing to deceive themselves in order to fit in, (and stay employed). --A good 'surface' example given to us by recent television was the fellow who demonstrated that the famous structures in Egypt, (like the Sphinx), had suffered from massive water-based erosion, which immediately threw into question many of the old, accepted theories of Egyptian history. The amazing part is how firmly the old school university profs continue to fight this change to the safe status quo.
All I'm saying, (and I've said it before in the my other post to you), is that you absolutely cannot trust conventional wisdom. At all. It is almost entirely based on lies designed to make people feel comfortable and to give them a false sense of security and confidence in repeating those same lies.
I know it's not easy to take my words seriously. I can only point at logical inconsistencies and hope people start to seek on their own. I often wish I could write openly about exactly why I have confidence in the things I tell write, but unfortunately, I have more than my own safety to consider. --And I realize that this also sounds outrageous. Sigh.
In the end, you're on your own. Where you go is, as always, entirely up to you. All I can recommend is that you try honestly searching without bias for once. It's the only way out.
-FL
But these are for the most part, surface observations, common knowledge. Common knowledge is usually deliberately wrong, i.e., the so-called, "Protocols of Zion". What I find interesting, however, is how that particular manipulation went on to have a world-shaping effect despite it's origins. I find it curious that people are willing to under-estimate the power of a given manipulation simply because, upon investigating, they encounter inconsistencies in the story. It's easy, and usually beneficial to confuse matters. Makes all the good little consumers look the other way and say things like, "Bah!", which is generally one of the most important objectives.
Consider. . . Even though the "Protocols" were not billed as advertised, they still had (what may well be considered), the intended effect; that of fucking-over the Jews, and even more cleverly, the planting of ideas within the certain segments of the Jewish population who are vulnerable and desirous of such ideas as those contained with the 'Protocols'. Combine this with the deniablility provided by those saying, "But the Protocols were a Hoax!", the manipulation becomes both an amazingly powerful behavior-modification tool while being discarded and ignored by the rest of the herd.
Now, that is psi-ops done right! That's how I would have done it, anyway, if I were the sort who wanted such things.
Much like the False-Flag 'terrorist' attacks we've seen so much of these last few years, such tactics get the job done and nobody bats an eye.
In any case. . , little can be taken at face value, especially when it comes to conspiracy theory. Typically, 99 times out of 100, if it has been published and quoted, then it's probably misguided. I have met very few people who have a proper clue as to how the structure of reality really works.
It's very, very easy to mislead and manipulate humans. Stupidly easy. Given the climate of control lust which is so predominant in our world, it is only natural that this aspect of humanity be exploited by those who want power. Happens all the time. ALL the time.
Anyway, it sounds to me as though you simply haven't come in contact with the 'impossible' yet, and so doubt that there is anything beneath the surface. Well, there is. I've seen a variety of different forms of it. Evidence of a greater reality is right before your eyes, if you figure out how to look. If you start seeking in earnest, you'll start making the right connections.
-FL
I don't know whether to smile or frown at your statement. --The suppressive systems designed to keep people ill-evolved and ignorant certainly do work effectively, though primarily as population control measures rather than any sort of formula for attaining and sharing knowledge.
"If you put forward an extraordinary, off-mainstream hypothesis you've better a) come from a respectable university/research group, b) show some extraordinary, easily reproducible evidence for it too and c) get ready for some serious ad hominem bashing, ridicule and possibly loss of funds".
Ridicule should be a part of mainstream science. . ?
Hm. See. . . If enormous effort were not expended on instilling crippling thought patterns in people as they grew up, (largely through fear of rejection and being rewarded for punishing those who refuse to go along with the group, regardless of the inherent value of whatever the group happens to be doing). . , if the world was not thumb-pressed into submission through all manner of social and economic pressures, then the growth of knowledge through science would, I think, be truly astounding.
Don't get me wrong. --I certainly adhere to, "I'll Believe it when I See it".
But I also think just as often that, "I'll See it when I Believe it."
--When I finally grew a spine and stopped fearing ridicule and punishment, (which, interestingly, are entirely harmless threats the instant you realize their nature), I discovered that there are fundamental forces in the universe which are keyed on and indeed, which are made from the stuff of consciousness itself. There is nothing but energy, after all; why is it such a leap for so many to take the next few steps?
Science which is locked in the material boundaries of what has been deemed 'acceptable' is self-limiting to the point where it is nearly impossible to advance. Throw in a bushel or two of kooks and cultists, and the game is pretty much done for. --That is, when biased scientists affront the 'impossible' with nostril-flaring scepticism, they actually go a long way to preventing themselves from being able to register entire hosts of phenomenon. --As well as suppressing certain patterns of reality through the force of their own subconscious will and intent.
As such, extraordinary evidence will never be found under such conditions. This is the paradox upon which Faith is based. (A dirty word, to be certain, largely thanks to the other massive mind-control project known as Christianity.)
And that's just the way certain groups would like things to stay, and I don't see attitudes changing. It looks more and more like it will be a destructive and painful shifting of affairs after all. (More so for some than for others.)
Ah well. Interesting times and all that. . !
Cheers and good luck to you!
-FL
Any page real estate they give to alternative view points was usually done in such a way as to subtly steer the reader's mind into thinking that s/he is choosing to believe the conventional wisdom out of their own free choice based on the evidence displayed, while forgetting entirely that the evidence is being picked and then editorially filtered by very biased men. Not a rigged jury; (The jury is the reader). It's more like both the lawyer for the defense and prosecution are both working toward the same goal.
In any case, pole shifts are the least of anybody's concerns. Based on everything I've looked at, they seem to me more like a result of bigger events than they are the main attraction.
-FL
I'll speak as I will, particularly as your theory regarding secret organizations is completely unconvincing. I try to base mine on more than the PR fluff most people are compelled to automatically subscribe to today. Please keep in mind that 'Illuminati' is just a convenient label I'm applying to a very broad phenomenon.
There are without question deep knowledge structures which are very much beneath the awareness of the rest of the world and which certainly do shape who we are as a race in huge ways. Anybody who bothers to look into the subject will eventually discover this fact as being inescapable.
'Secrets' are only secret to those who choose to be lazy and complacent regarding knowledge. --The same goes for UFOs and 'lost' civilizations. They are hardly lost! You can barely help but trip over all the artifacts and old cities poking out of the ground. The media and our 'scientists' choose, however, not to see. Instead there is the common desire to spread and collectively share in dis-info. A room full of idiots is no more correct than a single idiot; they simply have a much greater ability to fool and reassure themselves. There is a lot of cowardice out there today. But if you actually do want to see, then it's all there waiting for you.
I'll warn you up front, though. It's nowhere nearly as easy, reassuring or as self-congratulatory as arm-chair theory. Wishful thinking feels much nicer, but it'll get you killed in the long run. You can pretty much bank on that.
Cheers to you and good luck!
-FL
It'll be the Wild Aussie West for a few years, but after the first century of scorched earth living, nobody's shot-guns will work anymore. --And the 'Brotherhood of Steel' as protectorate of high technology is both a stupid and very interesting idea at the same time. .
--Stupid, because without massive support industries, high-technology is the first thing that will stop working. Without massive factories made from gazillions of impossibly complex parts and maintained with able technicians who don't need to worry about farming, you won't be fabricating anything more complex than a pair of pliers, (and even that might be considered rather wishful!) The best that the 'Brotherhood' might achieve is some sort of preserved knowledge base which is maintained through the next fifty-thousand years or so in the form of an Illuminati-style organization which would work through the ages, influencing the next rise of civilization. Interestingly, 'The Brotherhood' is in fact one of the names we currently call the real-life version of the secret organization which performs that function today.
In any case, Fallout remains a very interesting squint at the next arc of this world's story.
-FL
Realistic Star Wars Blaster Battles.
The Conclusion?
The current game technology isn't there. Even WITH green lasers, (Though, that's getting somewhat closer.)
What I suggest is the following. .
Full clips of tracer rounds! Those things actually look like Star Wars blaster bolts! And looks are the first step.
Sound? Well. . . Get this: When you fire a gun, you get a lot of fast-moving hot gas, right? It makes sound. Okay. So then you have silencers, which are good at diffusing all that fast-moving hot gas so that it makes very little sound. Right? So then why not a gun modification which doesn't just kill the sound, but rather changes it? I mean, why not? That's what vocal cords do. There's a thousand different musical instruments out there which take moving air and shape it. Sure, you could probably spend millions of dollars screwing around with phonics technology trying to come up with just the right noise, but the fact of the matter is that it could be done, and once you know all the right shapes of metal tube to use, the finished product is low tech and as easy to produce as a kazoo.
So then you'd have both the looks and the sounds!
How about the feel?
Beats me. What does it feel like to get shot with a blaster round? Or a tracer round, for that matter? Probably not good. (Keeping in mind, safety isn't really much of a concern with me, particularly since I don't imagine a properly cool Star Wars blaster system is going to materialize any time soon. Wear a jacket or something and try not to aim for your friend's head.)
Anyway, I suspect the formulation of the flare could be tinkered with. --If you think about it, you'd only really need enough burn-time to last the half second or so that the projectile is airbourn, so the material could be gone the instant it hits the target. Magicians use stuff called 'Flash paper', which is chemically perfect for the job. --Makes a nice rosy blaze for a second or so while you produce your pidgeons or whatever, and then it's gone. You can light the stuff in your hands and not get burned. Neato! In fact, you could even put enough flare material in the round so that it burns for a second after it hits the target. If you formulate it just so, you could probably even get it to flare up for a moment after striking. I bet you could also make a gram of theatrical flash-powder go off on inmpact as well to make a little flash and 'poof'. (Though, I suspect that would be rather pushing the safety margine a touch!)
Anyway, for the final effect, I'd want the projectile to have a second, paintball-like component, except rather than dye, it would be filled with a black chalk dust to simulate blaster scorch marks on targets. Now, honestly. Tell me it wouldn't look just desperately cool to be able to riddle walls with realistic-looking blaster impact marks!
So. .
Sounds like a blaster, Looks like blaster fire, and everybody knows when the target has been hit.
And finally, you could wire your combat area up to play John Williams over a global sound system. .
Yes, actually, I HAVE thought about this rather too much, which just goes to show; that which influences you when you were a kid, has a tendency to stick.
Now, if I could just think of a way to integrate all of this clumsy blaster stuff with some of those cool light sabers. .
-FL
Think about it!
The concept is, "War in Space." --Humans versus the Romulans. That's it!
No, "And every cast member of the popular television series except Wil has to have at least X minutes of screen time regardless of how irrelevant to the plot it may be."
If the writer is a good one, if the director is a good one. . , why this could be the best thing since 'Kahn'. --Because we need something. Everything since Kirk left us has been idiotic garbage.
In general. . . Star Trek movies suck when: Huge ensemble casts are scripted by Ricky-"Let's kill Picard's nephew, blow up those two Klingon sisters, make Data say, "Shit", and then crash the enterprise regardless of how little any of this has to do with anything even remotely story-related, cuz we can and it's cool in a college Jar-Head Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! sort of way,"-THE ASS-HAT Berman.
Berman is one of the hugest wannabes in show-biz today. He should stay firmly socketed in the producer's chair and stop pretending that he can write.
So barring his creative involvement, a new Trek film with some new blood and some real talent might just be the best thing to happen to Star Trek movies in over a decade.
-FL
See, it's like this. . .
Tools are not just tools. Yes, people are getting rather worked up; in looking over the posts here, I've seen those who are laughing maniacally and pointing and name calling. I've seen others throwing up walls of denial, etc. I mean. . , Wow!
The natural response is to say, "You are not your tools. You are not your clothes. Get over it!"
That's wrong, though. We all know this on an instinctive level!
Everything you do is an expression of who you are. You are what you eat. You are the truths or lies that you take into yourselves and embody, and give power to.
For my part, I like to use the tools which break down least often, and get the job done with the fewest hassles and hangups. But I also want my tools to work in the same spirit that I strive to.
I'm very glad that Mozilla exists. It's not perfect, but the rise from Netscape's original and highly unstable browser has been continual and very positive in many, many respects. It has been a fun and friendly ride! Support is community based and highly effective, rather than a hierarchical and lumbering (and largely ineffectual) system like Microsoft's.
--The best part about Mozilla is how it seems to manage to be almost entirely free of corporate greed and the desire to manipulate people and the welfare of the information universe for selfish purposes. This might change at some point, but at the moment, Mozilla seems to be pretty darned clean. Whereas, the life blood of Microsoft is that of Greed, based on the fear of losing power and control; this taints all they do. Mozilla, and similar projects provide an alternative way, not just a way of programming and making software, but of how to exist. Open-source, community-based software feels nice to use and it does so for a reason. Those are feelings you can trust. Open-source creates and concentrates vast human powers and it does so using a system of collaboration and sharing, and thus no need for Greed as a motivating force. Greed sucks. (Literally!) The opposite is very uplifting, in many ways. Constantly-improving software which is given freely to anybody as it is required. . ? Why do some people hate this so much?
Well, there is an answer to that of course, but none of those who hate Open-Source are able to stand the answer. It's an ugly answer, after all. It's an old division, and it delineates people in very obvious ways. The world is at war right now, on many levels because of those very same forces.
Interestingly, the world in many, many ways is moving unstoppably towards a paradigm based on non-greed, non-selfish shared resources. This will spell the end of centralized power and men like George Bush and all that they represent. The only problem is that there is going to be a massive melt-down as the old, dark structures which make up most of the world collapse under their own morbid weight. We are seeing the beginning of this, and our current masters, sensing that this is coming, are cranking up the controls to increasingly high levels, knowing that if they lose control, they will be ended. They are working from fear, and the conflict is going to kill many of us. It has already started and it is going to get a lot worse. But is a natural process, not one to be feared.
The lesson we all can learn through such simple means as community produced software are far, far more powerful and far-reaching than most people are capable of realizing.
We are literally learning the tools necessary to survive in the coming age.
In my case, I'll continue using my rusty old copy of Win98 until I finally decide to tackle the Linux learning curve and re-acquire all the software I need. (That is, change my library of tools into 'open-source' as opposed to 'pirated'.)
I figure the whole process will probably take about two weeks of screwing around, and another series of hiccups as I settle into the new 'reality'. --After which I'm sure I'd
I don't know. . . My friend is a rabid fan of Hong Kong movies. They are usually available on DVD for between $8 and $15. The pirate copies are $8-$12 dollars; they're badly ripped and unreliable, while the real ones are in the $15 range, and they work all the time. This is in Chinese malls in Canada, and the pirate copies are stacked right there on the shelves along with the real copies. Yet, somehow, the Hong Kong film industry continues to thrive.
I see piracy as a natural method for keeping prices honest. A $28 DVD is a rip off. I hope piracy 'ravages' America. It won't. In America, Walmart will never have pirate copies, nor will American video rental shops.
And movies will continue to proliferate the world. Heck, I knew a guy who's uncle made films for Disney. --He produced one of those stupid movies with an ape which plays on a sports team. Anyway, he was approached by the Mob with the proverbial suitcase full of cash and instructed to spend it very wastefully on products and film Union services which would be provided. Organized crime has been using Hollywood since day-one to launder money.
The MPAA is about greed. --That and control. --Like this idiot 'War on Terrorism' the MPAA is a line sold to the naive designed to create a political atmosphere where putting people in jail for no good reason is accepted by the public. It's largely about control.
And anyway. . . Film and television are too important a medium of cultural mind-programming to be abandoned regardless of what happens to the market.
Sadly, there will be awful movies for as long as there is an industrialized human population. --That is to say, I expect we'll see the end of Hollywood and hockey-playing monkeys in somewhat less than a decade. Here's hoping!
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I guess so, but only if you are capturing the metaphor by the rules of literary criticism in very exacting language. In a term paper. --And then perhaps roll it up and stuff it into your professor's arse. Literally. Not metaphorically.
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As a point of pure logic. . , if the government had secret engine technology, then why not secret launches? Isn't that sort of the raison d'etre of a Top Secret Air Force base?
In any case, I read that part, too. I just don't like to discount all ideas from any source just because some of the ideas seem 'off'. After all, nobody is right about everything they think they know. --Which is why I was asking about his take on the Ionosphere stuff; Slashdot is a great place to bounce that kind of idea and get a pretty good reading on all kinds of relevant data, and thus close in on what the approximate truth might really be.
UFO stuff is better examined in other forums made up of people who have their minds open enough to actually read, contrast and compare data rather than just sneer at it in states of near total ignorance, (which is the predominant reaction around these parts.) For each question, you have to find the proper forum in which to network.
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Did the clerk own stock or something?
Sheesh.
I went once with a girlfriend to help fend off the vultures when she was buying a printer. When the inevitable commissioned sales clerk tried to push all manner of extras and warranties on her, I luxuriated in making him look like an ass. --I know he was "just doing his job", but frankly, that's a piss-poor excuse. If deliberately exploiting people's lack of knowledge rather than informing them and helping them to find a good buy is what he does, then he bloody-well deserves to be punished. --And it's easy enough to do; you just stand there and ask all kinds of long and embarrassing questions which illustrate exactly how morally bankrupt a sales clerk is while wasting tons of his precious floor time which he might otherwise be using to rip off other customers.
In that particular case, I easily saved her from spending more than double the listed amount on a dorky inkjet.
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Sounds like I should start clipping the damned coupons! Why on earth would anybody blow $90 without needing to?
I feel for you, though. I worked retail as well for a couple of years. As they say, "the buck stops at the cash register." If this were a perfect world, store policy would be written by the clerks.
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Here's the most relevant quote. .
I remember reading about the Shuttle experiment with the tether, the idea, if I recall, was to see if usable energy could be generated in this manner. Everybody was surprised at how quickly a charge built up and burned out the cable. This doesn't sound good for space elevators!
Any takers on this item?
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Absolutely not!
But I cannot say the same for the Rothschilde-financed Zionist creation called Israel, which is effectively putting all the 'eggs' into one basket for later termination.
Israel is being led by the Zionist agenda into deliberately turning world opinion against the Jews. When the time comes, it will be very hard to stop Israel from being wiped off the map despite the many Jews who are deeply opposed to the Sharon government and its murderous, Zionist agenda.
One of the goals of the Powers That Be is to destroy all with semitic blood, both Moslem and Jew. The current ploy is to turn everybody against their brother through false-flag operations, like 9-11, and a vast portion of the 'terrorist' attacks and suicide bombings happening around the globe. --You'll notice that in virtually every each case, suicide bombings derail peace processes just when they are threatening to go somewhere, and only serve to worsen world opinion of the groups which are supposedly attacking. --Which is, of course, the real goal; to keep the fear of terrorism alive and well so that control over the human race can continue to clamp into place.
When you want to wipe out a whole race of people, peace and civility are not desirable. --Amazingly, everybody falls for such simple tactics, despite the simplicity and historically proven methods of such secret operations. For some reason the thought of one's own government bombing its own people is considered 'beneath' anybody. (Despite the fact that Bush and Sharon and their kind obviously don't care about scruples or morality; why would they stop short of such incredibly effective tactics?)
Another tried and true tactic to keep people from looking at the obvious is the oft-invoked, "One Must Never Criticize the Jews!" line. The Mossad is one of the most prolific and powerful secret organizations on the planet. Do some investigation into this, and you'll quickly begin to understand how it all works.
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You know, while reading the stories here, I realize that I have been quite fortunate over the-
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Oops. oooh. Oh yeah. . . That.
Whew. I'd actually blocked that one from memory. .
Okay. .
So way back when a 486 was something special, I was young and didn't have a cool computer of my own. Upstairs where the adults lived, (I slept in the basement, would you believe?), my father had just such a gleaming-cool 486 with many bells and whistles, the most significant being a sweeeeet laser printer he'd just wrangled out of his job.
We're talking a top-of-the-line Hewlet Packard beast. This was back in the day when HP made good printers rather than the cruddy consumer-level, guaranteed to break within three years junk boxes they sell today. It was a very nice machine and my father was pink with pride about it.
I was working on an art-project at the time, which involved animation cell-painting onto clear sheets of acetate. I'd been running heat-resistant acetate sheets through printers and photo-copiers for a while, outputting line-work for painting on later, so I was all knowledgeable about this. Cocky, even.
But that evening, I'd just used up my last sheet of acetate right in the middle of a job I was really enthusiastic about. I didn't want to wait a whole night just to go out and buy more, so I dug around and actually found a stray sheet. Only problem was, I didn't know where I'd gotten it from, and I didn't know if it was treated for high temperatures or not. .
Can you see where this is going?
Erg. My palms are sweating at the memory. .
So there I was, with this rogue sheet of clear plastic poised over the paper intake of that HP thinking, "Come on! I'm sure it's heat treated. Why would it not be? And anyway, even if it isn't, how bad could things get? Probably at worst, it'd just go a bit warped, right? Just put it through and quit worrying so much, you dork!" So I put it in.
It didn't come out again.
In its place issued a series of interesting sounds and smells. Panic.
My father was in the next room half an hour into watching some hour-long television drama. I remember, clearly, because I can still see in my mind the clock dial telling me that I had exactly 32 minutes to smuggle tools up from the basement, casually walk past the television and into the back room where I was silently, desperately dis-assembling a damned printer.
Have you ever tried to take apart a thirty pound computer appliance on a hardwood floor in total silence as fast as you can? It's difficult! I mean, you drop a single screw and it will bounce off that hardwood with the loudest, "TACK!" you ever heard. And my dad is the suspicious sort who perks his ears up to any unexpected noise. --He spent most of my childhood convinced that his son was a dangerous klutz who could burn down the backyard fence playing with fireworks if given half the chance. (That was a LONG time ago!)
Anyway, my point is that nothing, nothing adds stress to a situation in quite the same way a father does.
While in the process of cutting free a mess of baked-on crusty plastic from the innards of that HP beast, I managed to gouge out big wads of pink rubber stuff from one of the rollers which was certainly not designed to be gouged. That's what you get for rushing. Take the job slowly; you'll only regret it later if you don't. It doesn't matter that you're going to DIE in. . . 14 minutes and counting.
"How's it going in there, Son?"
"Hmm. . ?" Panic. Fear. Adrenaline. Please, please, please, don't come in! Just keep your gnarly head turned toward that flickering TV screen, old man, because I have your fucking printer in pieces all over the floor and crumbs of pink rubber stuff on my guilty fingers. "Oh, just doing some work in Corel Draw, Dad."
"Oh, Corel Draw? Do you need a hand with that? I upgraded to
I know this is a matter of perspective, but still. .
A reactor melt-down is 'critical'. Massive head-wound trauma? Critical. Making ten percent fewer billions of yen a year selling Mario Brothers game cartridges. . ?
They're digital plumbers, for goodness sake! It's not a product; it's flashing lights on a screen! A hallucinogenic daydream! It's a complete freak of nature that a thin dime was ever made in the first place!
Several lucky stars should be counted and thanked that any grocery money was procured at all selling video games. And ugly words like 'critical' should be dropped immediately from the game industry lexicon.
My other favorite part was that grown men from the Japan Economic Foundation were in attendence, listening gravely as global strategies were being discussed.
It's DIGITAL ITALIANS WITH CUTE WRENCHES, for goodness sake! Chill the heck out!
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1. Many older fans don't want innovation or new things. They want comfort food for the soul. They want to be able to take refuge in the things of their youth. Punch the hot button on their emotional centers, wired up nicely from all the work they did reading, viewing, experiencing in their childhoods. Making new connections is hard work, especially with the much wider range of knowledge and experience they have available to filter stories through. When it is so much easier to see the shit, it's so much harder to bother looking. Finding good things to be motivated by is hard, because 'Good' is bloody rare. (I just finished watching the Firefly DVD set. That's good stuff!
2. The second type of audience is the one NOT looking for old thrills; they are looking for Firefly and new ideas.
So. .
This is not to say that revisiting Dr. Who is a bad idea. Either approach can be done in a successful way. If it's fresh enough and done with an honest intent to really explore and have fun rather than copy old successes, it could easily be a very exciting ride. While, as per Sam Raimi's Spider Man movies, which attempt primarily to be faithful to the originals, there are examples of how re-telling old stories can also work very well. --After all, there is a reason people once sat around the story teller and cried, "Tell it again!" Every society has its favorite myths.
I wonder how it will go with Dr. Who revisited. .
There are some extremely cool ideas which have only recently become available to our popular artists and which have not yet been properly explored, and which could be as explosive and fun as the first Matrix film. In much the way the last couple of Star Wars films could have blown the lid off today's society had they not sucked, Dr. Who could be dazzling. (Just watched the Phantom Edit again. . . Solid stuff. If only the Phantom Menace hadn't sucked, the world would have had a very powerful lesson in how corrupt fascist states can rise. --The methods used by Palpatine were actually more sophisticated and less 'Bruce Willis' than those employed by Bush!).
Anyway. . , Dr. Who could be a great delivery device for some sympathetic themes which the collective subconscious of the Human race would enthusiastically absorb, as it did with the Matrix. But we'll have to see what they come up with. My sense of jade says, "Suckage." But we'll see.
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Check this thing out. It's cute and informative, but be wary!
Howard Dean? John Kerry? These guys are not saviors. Not even close. Dean was a ranking member of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League before he got into the presidential race. This guy was one of Israel's pawns, and it's a good damned thing he got washed out of the electoral process.
J. F. Kerry is worse. He's got two grandparents of Jewish descent, and is being promoted by the Zionist-owned media, (ie, ALL media), as the only logical choice. A video game? I'd love to know more about who financed and created, 'Bushgame'. ANY money says it leads back to Israel.
The lunatics in charge of Israeli foreign policy are NOT representatives of sane Jewry. Zionist policy, despite its outward claims, is very, very much anti-Jew. Rothschilde money, and darker sources, were instrumental in originally setting up Israel and putting all the Jews in 'one basket' for later termination. The current world herding techniques are leading towards a spectacular bit of mass-genoide of all Semites, with the destruction of the Jews aimed as being the crowning achievement.
Watch the patterns.
John F. Kerry, ('JFK'; yes, these stupid Hollywood techniques at emotional manipulation work; that's what 9-11 was all about), is as hard-line as Bush Jr. with respect to the Semitic peoples of the world; the destruction of the Arab nations will continue and increase under Kerry. And when the chaos is at peak levels, Israel will finally be attacked and overwhelmed.
Voting is not going solve anything. There are other ways of surviving the unfolding trap which has been planned for us by the farmers of humanity. But they require one to learn as much as possible about ALL matters regarding history, society, money, mind-control, spiritual energy, and the 'wierder' stuff, like aliens, crop circles and the occult and various religions. It's all interconnected, and only through understanding it all will you be able to grow from the whole experience that the Earth and human race is going through right now.
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