Re: Amazing-but-True Facts
On Mar 31, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: == A M A Z I N G - B U T - T R U EF A C T S == They'd be more amazing if they were, in fact, true. * The brand name Jelly Belly was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain. Except for the fact that Jelly Bellies have been around since 1976, at least according to their web site. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: reality glitches
On Mar 29, 2005 8:51 AM, Alan Ackley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Hi, David Brin mailed me the contact info for this mailing list group a few days back, and although I've no idea how this will connect with any past discussions, I thought I'd toss this little pebble in the pond; I had a weird reality glitch reminiscent of the Matrix movie; snip Treating this seriously - A number of years ago I had several reality glitches like you experienced when I was under stress and thinking my world was changing for the worse. I finally decided to play with the hypothesis that I was exchanging places within the multiverse of infinite worlds and the external world I was in adjusted to fit my internal karma. After getting in a better mood the worst changes, mutants moving in down the street, the disappearance of some of my things when I knew where they were, seemed to go away and I forgot about it. Your post has made me realize it continued. I've moved into a world where a prep school moron President's disastrous war, national bankruptcy, erosion of liberties, corporate takeover of government, environmental destruction, squandering our economic and moral leadership in the world, systematic lying, and waging war on our unemployed, our children's health, and our minimum wage workers would be of no concern to the electorate. And the Republicans would win by correctly seeing that the chief concern of the electorate was to keep gay couples from getting married and having abortions. I wish to apologise to any of you others I may have brought to this world with me. -- Gary Denton How the Grinch Stole Marriage http://elemming2.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Time on TV
On Mar 29, 2005 6:14 PM, John DeBudge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6 BEST DRAMAS ON TV NOW And the shows are:- Deadwood Veronica Mars Interesting note for people who do not watch both. The actress who plays Veronica Mars was also in a couple of Deadwood episodes. Needless to say, the differences between the two shows are rather striking. I am surprised that Carnivale is not on this list. It is at least on par with Deadwood, and I would definitely say it surpasses Battlestar and Veronica Mars in quality (I have not seen the other shows so I withhold judgement). Also just as a side comment, I grow more saddened each year at the number of quality shows on cable that can never see air time on network tv (unless they are rather heavily edited). I guess thats what you get when the FCC enforces the lowest common denominator. Don't involve government when the networks do it themselves. -- Gary Denton http://elemming2.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Amazing-but-True Facts
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:18:31 -0600 That was 18 minutes and 30 seconds late! For shame, Ronn! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Amazing-but-True Facts
At 05:01 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Erik Reuter wrote: * Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:18:31 -0600 That was 18 minutes and 30 seconds late! For shame, Ronn! Sometimes messages get held up in transmission rather than being delivered immediately after they are sent . . . --Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Time, reality, and preception. (was: the question of reality glitches)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackley Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:02 AM To: Brin-L@mccmedia.com Subject: the question of reality glitches On reality glitches; Aside from proving anything, I have a question or three; 1) Can the past be changed? (or does time have more than one dimension?) 2) If so, can it be changed so that two or more people have differing memories? 3) What effects do recording have? ___ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: the question of reality glitches
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackley Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:02 AM To: Brin-L@mccmedia.com Subject: the question of reality glitches On reality glitches; Aside from proving anything, I have a question or three; 1) Can the past be changed? (or does time have more than one dimension?) 2) If so, can it be changed so that two or more people have differing memories? 3) What effects do recording have? ___ I went into some relative areas before about this, not dealing with reality in its self, though it can be easily expanded into. I'm not sure if I ever covered this on the list but ill do one up here now. Reality: 1. The quality or state of being actual or true. 2. One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: the weight of history and political realities (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.). 3. The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence. 4. That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality. Truth: 1. Conformity to fact or actuality. 2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true. 3. Sincerity; integrity. 4. Fidelity to an original or standard. 5. a. Reality; actuality. b. often Truth That which is considered to be the supreme reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value of existence. Time: a. . A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. b. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading. c. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes. d. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M. e. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time. a. . An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles. b. times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times. . A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life. a. . Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed. b. Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf. c. A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat? Human memory is a very interesting and deceitful thing. Though we may believe that what remember is the exact and unaltered truth of what we saw, done, read, in the past it does not make it so. It has been documented through several experiments that over a given time the suggestibility of human memory will cause a change in our long and short term memory. Sometimes the most unreliable thing to have in a police investigation is an eyewitness. Dealing with memories of a event with multiple eyewitnesses comes down in some terms that of having to use the process of observation defined in quantum astronomy. Where an object must be viewed by several different observing devices and combined in order to see the actual object for what it is. i.e. We take 100 people and get them to look at a basket ball bouncing on a court. Then take tem in separate rooms and get them to describe the ball and its actions, you will get 100 different observations of the ball. Combing these 100 different observations we will get a more complete and accurate observation of what the basketball actually looked like while bouncing on the court. To observe is to change the object in question by adding the observer to the observation then a more accurate image can be created. Simple enough right. Nope. No matter how many observations are done we will never get a complete and fully accurate picture of the ball, let alone what the ball was doing. Was it bouncing? Was it rolling? The entire problem is that of those 100 people 1 person could accurately see and describe the ball, and another the way the ball bounced. The other 98 people will have varying observations that will distort the purity of the image of the combined 2 observers. Truth, I heard it once being described as, As long as the subject believes that what he says is the truth then to him it will be the truth, regardless to what everyone else has seen, and what the tape shows. It reminds me of Plato's Cave theory. I found a relatively good explanation of it here http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/AllegoryoftheCave.htm . i have included a excerpt below. The allegory begins with a graphic picture of the pathetic condition of the majority
tower of Babel theory
My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Undoubtedly using ELF waves (extra low frequency) this hypothetical device must still be in operation, and constantly interferes with human communication abilities contributing to war and strife worldwide. A radar jammer will pick up the radar frequency being used and will then broadcast a signal on the same frequency, but 180 degrees out of phase. Similarly I suspect a device which picks up broadcasts of human consciousness then rebroadcasts a wave 180 degrees (in opposition, to cancel or overrride) out of phase. One possible effect of this is to block human telepathy. If the odds are 50/50 that you will recieve the truth or it's opposite, the telepathic link becomes useless, thus humans must fall back on the backup method of uttering sounds. Hypothesizing that pre-Babel humans were telepathic, but separate tribes also used local verbal signs, then when telepathy was blocked, only the widely variant tribal verbalizations remained. One odd observation relating to this; I've noted when I am meditating or deeply into writing or other deep mental states, I very often find the imagined position of my body to be reversed; ie, I awake to find I am faced North, when in the dream-state I was facing South, 180 degrees out of phase with my actual position. Another aside; for a while in the '70s and '80s some reserchers believed that Russians were beaming ELF at the USA from giant low frequency Tesla coils in Siberia. Rumor had it that a lot of the beams were focused for some unknown reason at Oregon. Of course the HAARP project and other huge phased array antenna sites may also have the ability to generate waves that directly affect the mass consciousness of humans. There is no evidence this is being done, but the capability is growing. I suspect such a use would require massive computers to be controlling the antenna output (such as is being done in Alaska with HAARP). Would hate to see what advanced black magician types might do with this type of stuff. (but, hey, my theory IS that the Babble generator is just such an ancient black project, and still operates.) On the good side; to grow a population with immunity, you subject them to an environment full of the toxin. if we, (humanity) have been in the toxic presence of the Babble generator for thousands of years, perhaps we will or are generating a population that has a natural resistance to such interference. Alan. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Babel theory link
Link to a paper discussing low frequency interference with consciousness; http://www.geocities.com/nwbotanicals1/oak/newphysics/schumann.htm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
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Re: reality glitches
On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Gary Denton wrote: I wish to apologise to any of you others I may have brought to this world with me. That was you? You bastard! Stop observing the universe! You're influencing it way too much with your pessimism! -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: reality glitches--QM
- Original Message - From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:03 PM Subject: Re: reality glitches On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Gary Denton wrote: I wish to apologise to any of you others I may have brought to this world with me. That was you? You bastard! Stop observing the universe! You're influencing it way too much with your pessimism! I haven't heard much from you since I started my QM tutorial. Did it make sense and give you something to mull over or wasn't I clear enough. Dan M. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: reality glitches--QM
On Apr 1, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Dan Minette wrote: I haven't heard much from you since I started my QM tutorial. Did it make sense and give you something to mull over or wasn't I clear enough. Oh, I'm chewing it over. ;) Thanks again for all the work you've put in on it. I'm sure that I'll comment on *something* eventually. (That's a safe bet...) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
At 10:37 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Leading one to wonder aloud if said Mr. Keel has been standing too close to said stone monument for too long . . . --Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Amazing-but-True Facts
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: * In the late '90s, Microsoft secretly developed its own version of Linux, but shelved it after quality control researchers deemed it too stable. I can debunk this one. First of all: 70s/80s, Unix not Linux, Not Secret. During the Unix Wars when there were a large number of Unix versions with different names Microsoft ported one to certain PC flavors named Xenix. Microsoft had no intention of selling it themselves, but subsequently resold licenses to Xenix to several smaller companies and OEMs to market and sell themselves. The best selling Xenix distribution was SCO Xenix. SCO is well known now for being litigious bastards. Eventually they ended up purchasing the last remaining remnants of the original ATT Unix properties, well after the Unix source and brand had been too widely diffused, and then used those patents and copyrights to sue just about every other Unix distribution. http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=xenix.historyF=11G=Y -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ The WorldMaker.Network: Now more Caffeinated! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
On Apr 1, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Alan Ackley wrote: Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. The stone at Mecca is not big. It's a meteorite fragment that is small and light enough that four men can carry it by placing it in the center of a rug, gripping the rug at its corners. Muhammad himself proved that; it was how he prevented a tribal dispute. There's no way a meteoric chunk of stone small enough to be carried by a procession of pallbearers could contain any sort of radar or any other kind of mind-affecting generator. The effects the stone has upon the minds of believers are sourced in the minds of those believers, nowhere else. Undoubtedly using ELF waves (extra low frequency) this hypothetical device must still be in operation, and constantly interferes with human communication abilities contributing to war and strife worldwide. So god jammed our freqs and is continuing to do so? Why? Out of spite? Or is it satan instead -- and if so, why did god let it happen? Or is it more parsimonious to suggest that the Babel myth is a just-so story used to explain the variety of languages in the world? A radar jammer will pick up the radar frequency being used and will then broadcast a signal on the same frequency, but 180 degrees out of phase. Similarly I suspect a device which picks up broadcasts of human consciousness then rebroadcasts a wave 180 degrees (in opposition, to cancel or overrride) out of phase. In that case, there should be no human consciousness. One possible effect of this is to block human telepathy. Or perhaps there's no evidence of human telepathy for a much simpler reason. One odd observation relating to this; Only one? I've noted when I am meditating or deeply into writing or other deep mental states, I very often find the imagined position of my body to be reversed; ie, I awake to find I am faced North, when in the dream-state I was facing South, 180 degrees out of phase with my actual position. And this means what, exactly? It's not an uncommon experience... On the good side; to grow a population with immunity, you subject them to an environment full of the toxin. if we, (humanity) have been in the toxic presence of the Babble generator for thousands of years, perhaps we will or are generating a population that has a natural resistance to such interference. Do you have any evidence at all -- real, hard evidence, not anecdotal accounts -- that any single scrap of what you posted is in any way objectively valid, real or otherwise not hooey? Or is this all a big April Fool's prank? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Crichton satire
Stefan Jones offered the following (From: http://www.realclimate.org/) Doubts about the Advent of Spring A consensus view amongst climate scientists holds that the Northern Hemisphere will be warming this month, as spring is coming. This is thought to be due to the Earth's orbit around the sun and the inclination of the Earth's axis, tilting the Northern Hemisphere progressively towards the sun throughout March and April and increasing the amount of solar radiation received at northern latitudes. In a new novel, State of Euphoria, bestselling author Michael Crikey uncovers major flaws in this theory and warns against false hopes for the arrival of spring. This is not merely fiction: Crikey underpins his thesis with numerous scientific diagrams. He presents measurements from over a dozen weather stations in the Northern Hemisphere where temperatures show a cooling trend in March. He further cites scientific results which show that in some places, snow and ice have increased in the past weeks, counter to climatologists' claims that they should be melting away in the spring sun. He further argues that even the average temperature of the Northern Hemisphere has not increased steadily; during one week of March, it showed a slight cooling despite the increase in solar radiation. This casts a grave shadow of doubt on the theory of the seasons, says Crikey. Consensus science is not good science. He says we should not trust computer models projecting that June will be much warmer than March in most of the Northern Hemisphere. These models cannot even predict the weather in two weeks time - why should we believe what they say about temperatures in two months? He also says that only six months ago, scientists were predicting a cooling. Nobody can predict the future, asserts Crikey. Farmers risk wasting billions of dollars if they trust the warming forecast; Crikey urges them to wait with sowing until it is clear that summer temperatures have indeed arrived. Crikey argues that climatologists cling to the ill-founded theory of seasons for political reasons. Scientists have promoted their orbital theory of seasons for centuries without questioning it, says Crikey. It has become like a dogma. They cannot admit that it is wrong without suffering a serious setback in credibility and research funding. Crikey's book was welcomed by many organisations, such as the Science and Environment Propaganda Project (SEPP) and the Frontiers of Fallacy Foundation (FF). In an emotional speech, Senator Outhofe urged his colleagues to take the time for reading the novel. He called seasons a great hoax and emphasised that science is overwhelmingly on the side that, in fact, they are not occurring, and if they are occurring, are not a result of the Earth's orbit. Climate scientists, on the other hand, quickly jumped up to reject Crikey's claims. We have a curve called the 'tennis racket' which proves seasons are real, says NASA's Gavin Schmoot. It is based on a sophisticated statistical analysis of the isotope composition of sediment in old French wines. In fact, we have many rackets so it is more like a tennis club. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Brin: Re: Crichton satire
At 04:23 PM Friday 4/1/2005, you wrote: Stefan Jones offered the following (From: http://www.realclimate.org/) Doubts about the Advent of Spring A consensus view amongst climate scientists holds that the Northern Hemisphere will be warming this month, as spring is coming. This is thought to be due to the Earth's orbit around the sun and the inclination of the Earth's axis, tilting the Northern Hemisphere progressively towards the sun throughout March and April and increasing the amount of solar radiation received at northern latitudes. In a new novel, State of Euphoria, bestselling author Michael Crikey uncovers major flaws in this theory and warns against false hopes for the arrival of spring. [snip] Ha! I wonder if I should present this the next time I teach the subject . . . --Ronn! :) Ronn Blankenship Sometime Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL Disclaimer: Unless specifically stated otherwise, any opinions contained herein are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent the official position of the University of Montevallo. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:37 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Leading one to wonder aloud if said Mr. Keel has been standing too close to said stone monument for too long . . . Or to wonder if it is a coincidence that this message was delivered on this particular day of this particular month (like another thread posted eighteen minutes and thirty seconds after midnight). Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
At 04:34 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:37 AM Friday 4/1/2005, Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Leading one to wonder aloud if said Mr. Keel has been standing too close to said stone monument for too long . . . Or to wonder if it is a coincidence that this message was delivered on this particular day of this particular month (like another thread posted eighteen minutes and thirty seconds after midnight). Didn't Freud say there are no coincidences ? --Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Undoubtedly using ELF waves (extra low frequency) this hypothetical device must still be in operation, and constantly interferes with human communication abilities contributing to war and strife worldwide. A radar jammer will pick up the radar frequency being used and will then broadcast a signal on the same frequency, but 180 degrees out of phase. Similarly I suspect a device which picks up broadcasts of human consciousness then rebroadcasts a wave 180 degrees (in opposition, to cancel or overrride) out of phase. One possible effect of this is to block human telepathy. If the odds are 50/50 that you will recieve the truth or it's opposite, the telepathic link becomes useless, thus humans must fall back on the backup method of uttering sounds. Hypothesizing that pre-Babel humans were telepathic, but separate tribes also used local verbal signs, then when telepathy was blocked, only the widely variant tribal verbalizations remained. One odd observation relating to this; I've noted when I am meditating or deeply into writing or other deep mental states, I very often find the imagined position of my body to be reversed; ie, I awake to find I am faced North, when in the dream-state I was facing South, 180 degrees out of phase with my actual position. Another aside; for a while in the '70s and '80s some reserchers believed that Russians were beaming ELF at the USA from giant low frequency Tesla coils in Siberia. Rumor had it that a lot of the beams were focused for some unknown reason at Oregon. Of course the HAARP project and other huge phased array antenna sites may also have the ability to generate waves that directly affect the mass consciousness of humans. There is no evidence this is being done, but the capability is growing. I suspect such a use would require massive computers to be controlling the antenna output (such as is being done in Alaska with HAARP). Would hate to see what advanced black magician types might do with this type of stuff. (but, hey, my theory IS that the Babble generator is just such an ancient black project, and still operates.) On the good side; to grow a population with immunity, you subject them to an environment full of the toxin. if we, (humanity) have been in the toxic presence of the Babble generator for thousands of years, perhaps we will or are generating a population that has a natural resistance to such interference. There's a glaring hole in this theory: there is no explanation as to why communications get messed up when Mercury is in retrograde. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
glitched reality continues
Thanks to Nick Lidster for the elevating discussion of Platos cave. I wont claim Ive made it into the light yet, but I believe I may have gotten beyond staring at the shadows Thanks also to Gary Denton for the apology. But I doubt you brought anyone along unless they were trapped in the car with you when you arrived. I agree that you probably wont have any recordings of the previous universe once youve entered into the new universe. Indeed this model seems to fit my experience. I seem to have come here alone into a new universe populated with near duplicates of the people I knew there. I had another slight glitch today. I was searching out someone I had interviewed with (for an elevator repair job) five years ago. He had since retired. At that time I was told that the repair shop covered elevators in many cities (all being on state owned university campuses). Today I was told that the local repair shop only covers this one campus and NEVER had responsibility for other campuses. Apparently this is one more small difference from the universe I previously inhabited. I did a backup visit to the construction company where the temp agency had seemingly been a month earlier. The construction company has been there five years. The secretary appreciated my tale and hummed a nice rendition of a bar from the Outer Limits theme. Theyve built a wall where I talked to the guy last month. I mean it! The floor layout is different! I dont believe I dreamed this, although once I dreamed a Wednesday, then woke up and it took half the day for me to realize it really wasnt Thursday yet. I had to do Wednesday over again. There was an interesting study done of the memories of Titanic survivors. Over the years people seemed to modify their memories to make their own roles seem more heroic or justified. This doesnt seem to apply to my case where the nature of these glitches do nothing to make or break my ego, just odd pointless differences. I read The Bible Code a while back, and wondered if the code, which seemed designed to pass messages into the future, had been used to stabilize a particular timeline. Travelers entering into a new universe could get a copy of the Torah and, decoding it with their computerized time travel decoder rings, might get some numerical indication of how far they were from their original timeline. Bush is mentioned in the Bible Code, along with the Kennedy assassination and Rabins assassination, so I suppose his reign of errors is also somehow emblematic of this timeline. Thanks again for the various comments, from whichever universe. Id really rather not doubt the accuracy of my own memories, but I have less scruples when it comes to doubting the memories of others. Alan Ackley. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: glitched reality continues
- Original Message - From: Alan Ackley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 5:52 PM Subject: glitched reality continues [SNIP] I think it is time for me to repost the Janelle story.G xponent Alternate History Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html xponent Fun Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
At 05:37 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). The Babylonians were building a tower to reach to the sky, and when God, (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Undoubtedly using ELF waves (extra low frequency) this hypothetical device must still be in operation, and constantly interferes with human communication abilities contributing to war and strife worldwide. A radar jammer will pick up the radar frequency being used and will then broadcast a signal on the same frequency, but 180 degrees out of phase. Similarly I suspect a device which picks up broadcasts of human consciousness then rebroadcasts a wave 180 degrees (in opposition, to cancel or overrride) out of phase. One possible effect of this is to block human telepathy. If the odds are 50/50 that you will recieve the truth or it's opposite, the telepathic link becomes useless, thus humans must fall back on the backup method of uttering sounds. Hypothesizing that pre-Babel humans were telepathic, but separate tribes also used local verbal signs, then when telepathy was blocked, only the widely variant tribal verbalizations remained. One odd observation relating to this; I've noted when I am meditating or deeply into writing or other deep mental states, I very often find the imagined position of my body to be reversed; ie, I awake to find I am faced North, when in the dream-state I was facing South, 180 degrees out of phase with my actual position. Another aside; for a while in the '70s and '80s some reserchers believed that Russians were beaming ELF at the USA from giant low frequency Tesla coils in Siberia. Rumor had it that a lot of the beams were focused for some unknown reason at Oregon. Of course the HAARP project and other huge phased array antenna sites may also have the ability to generate waves that directly affect the mass consciousness of humans. There is no evidence this is being done, but the capability is growing. I suspect such a use would require massive computers to be controlling the antenna output (such as is being done in Alaska with HAARP). Would hate to see what advanced black magician types might do with this type of stuff. (but, hey, my theory IS that the Babble generator is just such an ancient black project, and still operates.) On the good side; to grow a population with immunity, you subject them to an environment full of the toxin. if we, (humanity) have been in the toxic presence of the Babble generator for thousands of years, perhaps we will or are generating a population that has a natural resistance to such interference. There's a glaring hole in this theory: there is no explanation as to why communications get messed up when Mercury is in retrograde. Clearly because they're coming through Uranus . . . American Standard Maru --Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: Re: tower of Babel theory At 05:37 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Alan Ackley wrote: My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's Eighth Tower). [SNIP] toxic presence of the Babble generator for thousands of years, perhaps we will or are generating a population that has a natural resistance to such interference. There's a glaring hole in this theory: there is no explanation as to why communications get messed up when Mercury is in retrograde. Clearly because they're coming through Uranus . . . They want to take our pottyable water. xponent Moen Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: tower of Babel theory
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:08 PM Subject: Re: tower of Babel theory At 05:37 PM Friday 4/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Clearly because they're coming through Uranus . . . They want to take our pottyable water. xponent Moen Maru rob Noo!!! Not our precious bodily fluids! Anything but! ~Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
HAARP ufo's?
HAARP; High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It seems Arco owned a bunch of natural gas rights in Alaska, where no one needed the gas. They lobbied to get this weird thing built; a giant phased array antenna, fed by its own power plant. The original idea seemed to be to modulate the electrojet (the stream of electrons and negative ions fed into the Earth by the solar wind, which is the source of the aurora) Seems it may have had other uses as well. Apparently a prime use is to heat a local patch of atmosphere, wherever the thing is aimed (by phase adjusting the array) and might be used as a weapon or just to make pretty lights and oddball radar reflections. I think the HAARP could be used to duplicate some of the UFO phenomena; A blob of light that moves as if without mass (because it is just a spot where the air is glowing and heated) and can make sudden impossible seeming turns and accelerations. The temperature inversions around the heated area could reflect radar. Certain classic UFO cases may have been tests of using this effect as a psychological warfare device (one in Spain and another in Florida). I don't know, but I imagine the possibility of projecting a gigantic image into the clouds, of Jesus returning with angels and trumpets, or some such hoo haw. Of course this sort of imaging would be far more difficult to program into the phased array antenna than a mere blob of light. It might be possible to use the arrays in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Australia in unison. One of Jacques Vallee's more recent books points to evidence of this sort of fake UFO, and in Spain, a psychological operation. I believe the book was called Revelations, the third book in a trilogy (Dimensions, and Confrontations being the other two in the trilogy). Alan. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
