tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74540222024-03-19T04:47:35.354-04:00The Secret SunUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1594125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-28851281905095393002024-03-17T10:49:00.003-04:002024-03-17T10:51:40.516-04:00St. Patrick's Day: The World's Most Ancient Bacchanalia<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4JGeWNYX_2ARINCZU-WNq8nnRDOmhfbFhIBDoE2CZXO3PtKOz8w4g6SEpFCPotai5hVxMuOtLraHTHWT3FrigvMavfqYEASJAjo5rry-jhoQB8NQnaZC3c658Vkk6RqkYP7O76IjmDhXtPNpyxl6rECVNqDWWn2FlwgAcWO7RDyWUHg-6YgPTw/s602/opet-festival-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="602" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4JGeWNYX_2ARINCZU-WNq8nnRDOmhfbFhIBDoE2CZXO3PtKOz8w4g6SEpFCPotai5hVxMuOtLraHTHWT3FrigvMavfqYEASJAjo5rry-jhoQB8NQnaZC3c658Vkk6RqkYP7O76IjmDhXtPNpyxl6rECVNqDWWn2FlwgAcWO7RDyWUHg-6YgPTw/w593-h419/opet-festival-2.jpg" width="593" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Well, it's that time of year again, time to celebrate the Great American Bacchanal and bone up once again on the real origin of this holiday.</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XhzpxjuwZy0" width="560"></iframe></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStEEfnSCt0JYoEXWIb-IuQXaQNhdFdOOouFxeknIBSDWo1yrzGoBGFixRnXitf0zC43YHE1fEK0IZMlFL6_qqKFvGZvIk5THBRzD4rC9XTF__ewDTOniwBXtwv-lzlbq0OpWOfQ/s1600-h/celtic-cross.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><b>March 17 is the day generally believed to be the death of St. Patrick, the British-born missionary who is credited with converting Ireland to Christianity.</b> </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">And as I wrote in one of <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2020/03/at-edge-of-17.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my first posts on this blog:</a></span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was killed on the 17th day of Athyr, the third month of the ancient calendar. (Note that this is October 3rd in our modern calendar)</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">3/17 is also the date of a Masonically-created holiday, St. Patrick’s Day. The story has it that the holiday was established by high level Freemason, George Washington, allegedly to reward Irish soldiers in the Continental Army. But “St. Paddy’s” has traditionally been a very minor Saint’s day in Ireland. Considering that the day has become America’s defacto Bacchanal (which takes us back to Osiris) it’s worth noting some of the parallels of this day with Solar mythology.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">• Osiris was believed to be the source of barley, which was used for brewing beer in Egypt.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStEEfnSCt0JYoEXWIb-IuQXaQNhdFdOOouFxeknIBSDWo1yrzGoBGFixRnXitf0zC43YHE1fEK0IZMlFL6_qqKFvGZvIk5THBRzD4rC9XTF__ewDTOniwBXtwv-lzlbq0OpWOfQ/s1600-h/celtic-cross.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></a></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span>• It’s customary to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day and <a href="http://www.greatdreams.com/osiris.htm">Osiris was known as the “Green Man”</a></span></span> </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;">• The root word of Patrick is pater, the Latin word meaning father. Osiris is the father in the Egyptian Trinity.</span></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="239" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IAjwL0aW6Sg" width="425"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Since then, I've been looking into the curious origin of this holiday and have found out some very interesting facts...</span></span><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>• This one's a shocker- St. Patrick's Day was originally celebrated <a href="http://colonial-america.suite101.com/article.cfm/colonial_st_patricks_day">by Protestant Loyalists</a></b> in the British Army:</span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;">Their first meeting and dinner to honor St. Patrick was an expression of their Protestant faith as well as their intention to bond with fellow Irish émigrés. Their 1775 meeting included British soldiers of Irish extraction. All proceeded, or marched, to the King’s Chapel to hear a sermon devoted to the occasion, and then continued on to a dinner in King Street. British soldiers were still the big show of the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City in 1762.</span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhznyOciTO-K-duzEGM46JLqblRqOU4QR2oFLp8TEV0FdiTfPueABZ6nnM_0XN_IP2A_vgRQy-gZadt48MN5jhhZDCRCVgLs6iT3DTQmdlHO5CT4fxl9s65LOVKMqCtb9czD-L__Q/s1600-h/mason-wash.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178157218918366098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhznyOciTO-K-duzEGM46JLqblRqOU4QR2oFLp8TEV0FdiTfPueABZ6nnM_0XN_IP2A_vgRQy-gZadt48MN5jhhZDCRCVgLs6iT3DTQmdlHO5CT4fxl9s65LOVKMqCtb9czD-L__Q/s320/mason-wash.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span></span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;">The first celebration in New York City was in 1756, at the Crown and Thistle tavern. Philadelphia held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1771. General George Washington issued a proclamation during the Revolutionary War, declaring March 17, 1780 a holiday for the Continental Army, then stationed in Morristown, New Jersey, in honor of the many soldiers of Irish ancestry and those born in Ireland.</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;">It was reported that this was the first holiday granted the troops in two years. Washington’s remark that the proclamation was “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence,” was possibly the origins of St. Patrick’s Day in America as an expression of Irish nationalism as much as Irish heritage or of honoring a Christian saint.</span></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcxYHHHTz6xxO8QMb7ankL39WLjUcaWy9NLbSxpkFFCesEBC0a8g_G8bhzqcpee6UmyZjA6JW9p7CRXa_nGbxf0jlMbnL6B0Z0rUYMY8cVwi_1VWE2l85W1mYKvi2KlmQK2PQTg_SgXmIZxKEC0bvi-I52g0vqQsO-t_xe9uwDug72YWfEsLZrUQ/s630/img_5515-2481776798.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="630" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcxYHHHTz6xxO8QMb7ankL39WLjUcaWy9NLbSxpkFFCesEBC0a8g_G8bhzqcpee6UmyZjA6JW9p7CRXa_nGbxf0jlMbnL6B0Z0rUYMY8cVwi_1VWE2l85W1mYKvi2KlmQK2PQTg_SgXmIZxKEC0bvi-I52g0vqQsO-t_xe9uwDug72YWfEsLZrUQ/w572-h425/img_5515-2481776798.jpg" width="572" /></a></div><p></p><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Since many lodges in Revolutionary-era America were chartered under <a href="http://www.blogger.com/2http://www.masonicworld.com/education/files/mar03/irish_connection.htm">the Grand Lodge of Ireland,</a></b> I'm willing to bet those Irish soldiers were predominantly Freemasons (remember this is pre-Morgan Affair, when Freemasons were <span style="font-style: italic;">hardcore</span>). To show how much a Masonic enterprise the American Revolution was, here's a list of the <a href="http://bessel.org/gwgenmas.htm">Freemasonic Generals in the Continental Army</a></span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiksrWVhyX2seijdyxFWlKDheIvdrc81G2rcCU2K80hLFWgXmZUWWSq4v7VTh8iyeJPaD0r9OPSgR20Z72qAeWFl28pg2aNpkqiNGnwh2vDsV-c_O4Vgz0RdxOhAxaMcObqwVM82A/s1600-h/dublin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img border="0" height="442" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178157214623398786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiksrWVhyX2seijdyxFWlKDheIvdrc81G2rcCU2K80hLFWgXmZUWWSq4v7VTh8iyeJPaD0r9OPSgR20Z72qAeWFl28pg2aNpkqiNGnwh2vDsV-c_O4Vgz0RdxOhAxaMcObqwVM82A/w602-h442/dublin.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;" width="602" /></a><span style="font-size: 13.6px; font-style: italic;">Photo from Freemasons' Hall, 17 Molesworth Street, Dublin</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>• Up until very recently, St. Patrick's Day <a href="http://www.stpattys.com/st-patrick%27s-day-history.html">was not a big deal in Ireland itself:</a></b></span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">In modern-day Ireland, St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been a religious occasion. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be closed on March 17.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">Beginning in 1995, however, the Irish government began a national campaign to use St. Patrick's Day as an opportunity to drive tourism and showcase Ireland to the rest of the world. Last year, close to one million people took part in Ireland 's St. Patrick's Festival in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor theater productions, and fireworks shows.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="239" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QaAZzkRvaC0" width="425"></iframe></div></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>• Modern Saint Patrick's Day shares both a date and a mandate with a<a href="http://tylerpaper.com/article/20080312/FOOD/803120313/-1/FOOD"> far, far older holiday:</a></b></span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;">St. Patrick's Day is also frequently a time for drinking. It used to be that this tradition was strung out for at least five days, the so-called seachtain na Gaeilage or "Irish week."</span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-style: italic;"><b>That may stem from Roman times, when March 17 started the festival of the Bacchanalia,</b> a celebration to the deity Bacchus, to whom wine was sacred. In olden years long gone by, the Irish drank mead, made from fermented honey. You might do better today with a stout Guinness, preferably dyed green</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDVSAhBCcbDOME3NHEvErgSSChJkI40zu33jDLmTp10ksFA2lsZqzFEjoeUo8i4cauJDFOl8U81ppSa9skXkLZ8vwmcaSvtzUI7xtQd3RJvxgj9mIgqIbSsUUuPMPmNk0pnBJvdaM8rc_YNkjDKNWl5q-NPpTtl3zVVp_Ligf6YX1GEuAeEjnng/s760/760px-Bacchanal_and_Dionysiac_dances_(1696).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="760" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsDVSAhBCcbDOME3NHEvErgSSChJkI40zu33jDLmTp10ksFA2lsZqzFEjoeUo8i4cauJDFOl8U81ppSa9skXkLZ8vwmcaSvtzUI7xtQd3RJvxgj9mIgqIbSsUUuPMPmNk0pnBJvdaM8rc_YNkjDKNWl5q-NPpTtl3zVVp_Ligf6YX1GEuAeEjnng/w586-h463/760px-Bacchanal_and_Dionysiac_dances_(1696).jpg" width="586" /></a></div></div><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>• The Bacchanalia are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchanalia">well-documented in the historical record:</a></b></span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">The bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman and Greek god Bacchus. Introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria (c. 200 BC), the bacchanalia were originally held in secret and only attended by women.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">The festivals occurred on three days of the year in the grove of Simila near the Aventine Hill, on March 16 and March 17.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">Later, admission to the rites was extended to men and celebrations took place five times a month. According to Livy, the extension happened in an era when the leader of the Bacchus cult was Paculla Annia - though it is now believed that some men had participated before that.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLMRqUy93cdd5XH5uZd0fVHlZqv2AKSE-wNQFe5rYvZi04JlGasesniHJ-6X4aAIOY_AxZ9oz57U9VoA9Ig24zYsg_ZI3TmsiFBhSee1oGWhUybVooqMkw0nGapX49CS5TZ9s6w/s1600-h/osiris-stpats.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178157218918366114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLMRqUy93cdd5XH5uZd0fVHlZqv2AKSE-wNQFe5rYvZi04JlGasesniHJ-6X4aAIOY_AxZ9oz57U9VoA9Ig24zYsg_ZI3TmsiFBhSee1oGWhUybVooqMkw0nGapX49CS5TZ9s6w/s320/osiris-stpats.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>• <b>Of course, Bacchus/Dionysus is just the Greco-Roman reinterpretation of Osiris.</b> And drinking of <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/196/87.html">beer was sacred to the followers of Osiris, the Green Man:</a></span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span style="font-style: italic;">In Egypt, beer was regarded as food. In fact, the old Egyptian hieroglyph for "meal" was a compound of those for "bread" and "beer". This "bread-beer meal" plus a few onions and some dried fish was the standard diet of the common people along the Nile at the time.</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Beer came in eight different types in Egypt. Most were made from barley, some from emmer, and many were flavored with ginger or honey. The best beers were brewed to a color as red as human blood. The Egyptians distinguished between the different beers by their alcoholic strength and dominant flavor.</span></span> </blockquote><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178157210328431474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStEEfnSCt0JYoEXWIb-IuQXaQNhdFdOOouFxeknIBSDWo1yrzGoBGFixRnXitf0zC43YHE1fEK0IZMlFL6_qqKFvGZvIk5THBRzD4rC9XTF__ewDTOniwBXtwv-lzlbq0OpWOfQ/s320/celtic-cross.jpg" style="display: block; font-family: Raleway; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span style="font-style: italic;">None other than the god of the dead, Osiris, was hailed as the guardian of beer, because to him grain - both emmer and barley - were sacred. The Egyptians believed that grain had sprung spontaneously from Osiris' mummy, as a gift to mankind and as a symbol of life after death.</span></span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This was sufficient justification for the god-like pharaohs to turn brewing into a state monopoly and strictly license brewing rights to entrepreneurs and priests. Many temples eventually opened their own breweries and pubs, all in the service of the gods. The port of Pelusium at the mouth of the Nile became a large brewing center, and trading in beer became big business.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">• <b>Beer wasn't simply a beverage in Egypt, it was also a sacrament. </b>This arose from a myth in which the goddess Sekhmet decided to do away with humankind but was mollified with mandrake-infused beer by the supreme god Ra:</span><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><i>Ra now realized that Hathor-Sekhmet would destroy the human race completely. Angry as he was he wished to rule mankind, not see it destroyed. There was only one way to stop Hathor-Sekhmet, he had to trick her. He ordered his attendants to brew seven thousand jars of beer and color it red using mandrakes and the blood of those who had been slain.</i></span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><i>In the morning Ra had his servants take the beer to the place where Hathor would viciously slaughter the remnant of mankind. Ra's servants poured the beer mixture on the fields. And so, Hathor-Sekhmet came to this place where the beer flooded the fields. Looking down, her gaze was caught by her own reflection, and it pleased her. She drank deeply of the beer, became drunk, fell asleep, and abandoned her blood thirsty quest.</i> </span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>• This admixture of Egyptian festivities, Irish nationalism and Freemasonry </b>might seem outrageous to some, but in fact it was <a href="http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/paine_t.html">part and parcel of Celtic culture before the rise of the Roman Church.</a> Namely in the...</span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">... religion of the Druids, as before said, was the same as the religion of the ancient Egyptians. The priests of Egypt were the professors and teachers of science, and were styled priests of Heliopolis, that is, of the City of the Sun.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">The Druids in Europe, who were the same order of men, have their name from the Teutonic or ancient German language; the German being anciently called Teutones. The word Druid signifies a wise man. In Persia they were called Magi, which signifies the same thing. - <b>Thomas Paine, </b></span><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Origin of Freemasonry</b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">St. Patrick himself was believed to have driven the Druids of out of Ireland, but in fact druidry was merely incorporated into <a href="http://www.grailchurch.org/celtic.htm">Celtic Christianity,</a> which was <a href="http://sacredconnections.co.uk/index.php/celtic-church-and-middle-east/" target="_blank">distinct from other varieties</a> and would remain so until forcibly changed on orders from Rome.</span><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: Raleway;">“The Celtic Church in Ireland and in Scotland owed its origin not to Rome, but to Egypt and the East; its customs, traditions, methods, government came from Egypt through Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary, Martin of Tours, Ninian, and through that religious channel, more than a little independent of Rome.</span></i> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="font-family: Raleway;">The religious ideas of Egypt came to Scotland and Ireland and were absorbed easily into the tribal life of these countries.. There is no doubt that the Celtic Church owed its ritual, its architecture, its worship and its law to Syria, Egypt and Palestine, and that its allegiance to Rome was slight.”</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">• And it seems that the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5gKJH_YSncIC&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&dq=This+universal+illumination+of+the+houses+on+one+night+of+the+year+suggests+that+the+festival+may+have+been+a+commemoration+not+merely+of+the+dead+Osiris+but+of+the+dead+in+general,+in+other+words,+that+it+may+have+been+a+night+of+All+Souls.+For+it+is+a+widespread+belief&source=web&ots=Ws7A3omvfr&sig=tNgjULyrKq7IH3s3Fz97TChfRYU&hl=en">festival of the death of Osiris</a> shares much in common with another holiday that the Irish brought to America:</span><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">This universal illumination of the houses on one night of the year suggests that the festival may have been a commemoration not merely of the dead Osiris but of the dead in general, in other words, that it may have been a night of All Souls.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">For it is a widespread belief that the souls of the dead revisit their old homes on one night of the year; and on that solemn occasion people prepare for the reception of the ghosts by laying out food for them to eat, and lighting lamps to guide them on their dark road from and to the grave.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-style: italic;">Herodotus, who briefly describes the festival, omits to mention its date, but we can determine it with some probability from other sources. Thus Plutarch tells us that Osiris was murdered on the seventeenth of the month Athyr, and that the Egyptians accordingly observed mournful rites for four days from the seventeenth of Athyr.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">And what of the corned beef and cabbage? In late antiquity the Apis bull was identified with Osiris. The <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=rYE2k_xSKhYC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=APIS+BULL+FEAST&source=web&ots=aSB3psMgWC&sig=mlAkpM2_P4_RK0Jn0kZ0g2GMGJA&hl=en">Apis bull would be sacrificed and eaten in ritual feasts.</a> Cabbage is grown in the winter months in Egypt and was <a href="http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch33.html">used to control intoxication at feasts.</a></span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8uzsBHRwvD-57WZuG4qVGIyuBbaActDpU0DXB2V045zWblICH7zj-WEA-0jtPyXeZES_R1ASfOu4sD6fkpuXaLkl8i2zWKebFqaXFMCFWd3OXgm8-X-0yBNmQDfXyW2-YxiNAEQ/s1600-h/osiris2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178166109500668850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8uzsBHRwvD-57WZuG4qVGIyuBbaActDpU0DXB2V045zWblICH7zj-WEA-0jtPyXeZES_R1ASfOu4sD6fkpuXaLkl8i2zWKebFqaXFMCFWd3OXgm8-X-0yBNmQDfXyW2-YxiNAEQ/s320/osiris2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></span></a><b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">So it's official: all of our modern holidays in America are simply covert repackagings of ancient pagan festivals and the increasingly popular St. Patrick's Day is no different.</span></b><br /></span><div><div><br /></div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" style="caret-color: rgb(36, 30, 18); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="855" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDPNsOEm5sIAhApO9x0Bo3bSdY0lKgSfV-bTi5WDf481CJYZ5pGnvFTvTlsb9odOur8ErD-HcRr2l1Zcrg7lNiQf8U3EV4c4exmCPKzBUOUX6Cz1jvVvx1_ZXGeTyNBSyUvjNfhQ/w400-h297/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+6.07.25+PM.png" width="400" /></span></a></span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>click on the Moon for details</i></div></i></span><p></p></div><div style="background-color: white;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Don't forget to<a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> click on that big ol' Moon there</a> and enroll for the fall semester.</b> For as little as three bucks a month you can get access to more high-density esoteric edutainment than you can shake a stick at.</span></blockquote></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-81759618783405283872024-03-12T20:52:00.003-04:002024-03-12T20:52:54.109-04:00Secret Sun is Back on Tin Foil Hat...<iframe allowfullscreen="" allowtransparency="true" data-name="pb-iframe-player" height="300" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.podbean.com/player-v2/?i=eys6q-1dad19fa-dir&square=1&share=1&download=1&fonts=Arial&skin=1&font-color=auto&rtl=0&logo_link=episode_page&btn-skin=7&size=300" style="border: none; height: 300px; min-width: min(100%, 430px);" title="755: The Eclipse Of Social Decay With Christopher Knowles" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'm back with Sam, Xavier and Johnny on the mighty Tin Foil Hat Podcast. Dive in.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://samtripoli.com/tfh-755-the-eclipse-of-social-decay-with-christopher-knowles/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Click here if you want some video.</span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-59895848510624862522024-03-09T16:11:00.004-05:002024-03-09T16:12:07.807-05:00Under the Silver Lake Livestream Tonight 9 PM ET<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC2hXaW5Qhu_xx6Iw9RW6cKFI5V30SUYnS89eg969b-IMZFYKHY67Qg3kMbIfdklTKxAIrvh5ILaeTzFwZ2T98g8ArUDOacfVOws637cki0jjM34x7YKkOolGONnEWiQed817xWJE8BaZV_W2sjw2jzkwAk2_qChtePrMhmqNDzmxebc9zcPbvdg/s1055/GIKlXh9W0AAWKoz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1055" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC2hXaW5Qhu_xx6Iw9RW6cKFI5V30SUYnS89eg969b-IMZFYKHY67Qg3kMbIfdklTKxAIrvh5ILaeTzFwZ2T98g8ArUDOacfVOws637cki0jjM34x7YKkOolGONnEWiQed817xWJE8BaZV_W2sjw2jzkwAk2_qChtePrMhmqNDzmxebc9zcPbvdg/w611-h325/GIKlXh9W0AAWKoz.jpg" width="611" /></a><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who is the Dog Killer? Who is the Songwriter? Who are the Shooting Stars? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">What is this epic cult classic <u>really</u> about?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Tune into tonight at 9 PM for the ULTIMATE decoding of Under the Silver Lake.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/under-silver-9-99870353" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br /></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/under-silver-9-99870353" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS</a></b></span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> </span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-61770326758817193612024-03-08T11:32:00.003-05:002024-03-08T11:32:28.507-05:00Deep Diving Under the Silver Lake<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuxSfG-EIk6tYKwNKRiBGzPYODYZmKxtYywjjqk3DQm7c_83lxPLDsoDTCeOgEkgngFFQAWUAhblhHZxKQkj6Xg23glT0W7C9SrMIm2M70emPsGfyFCNkD8FauafJHYBJzmUY7MbXJcRSYy9O9CJctaSLD0_L2sKB22pQezD2LZwUwGKf98I1mmg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="538" data-original-width="823" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuxSfG-EIk6tYKwNKRiBGzPYODYZmKxtYywjjqk3DQm7c_83lxPLDsoDTCeOgEkgngFFQAWUAhblhHZxKQkj6Xg23glT0W7C9SrMIm2M70emPsGfyFCNkD8FauafJHYBJzmUY7MbXJcRSYy9O9CJctaSLD0_L2sKB22pQezD2LZwUwGKf98I1mmg=w562-h367" width="562" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This Saturday night, we'll be taking a deep dive into one of the most revelatory (and Synchromystical) films of the past 10 years...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZCFpReMnFQDWsyFcdIfrrHrDHI2StD2D0UpkJAX1sLIYE1Zi-Wiu5AeR2FxlRqIncfhHgvfPii-CPBP77e4saUR7MRqXss5zuFfAuD4x7WegQui6vecKIU668W8AwWYp4ADf2BHWFb8aX-WukOmd_DlLel131oD6uyZGAma7Bkc6NblLMcFN6YA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1055" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZCFpReMnFQDWsyFcdIfrrHrDHI2StD2D0UpkJAX1sLIYE1Zi-Wiu5AeR2FxlRqIncfhHgvfPii-CPBP77e4saUR7MRqXss5zuFfAuD4x7WegQui6vecKIU668W8AwWYp4ADf2BHWFb8aX-WukOmd_DlLel131oD6uyZGAma7Bkc6NblLMcFN6YA=w594-h316" width="594" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">... Under the Silver Lake.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Click Here for More Information.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's a short piece I wrote on the film <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2019/08/sync-to-top-la-coincidental.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">back in 2019...</a></span></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguUnleOtHjNqbMvMyODTx2o6U5qMP1yOGdmKfq6TQ7aFw5iSI3Wsj55TiDqdyVIZrOzmeW_gC-SczZ6gvrVzwBbIc3oZ9adnqHVE1kM3Au6REj0KUcytvBAT76bQCluNuuKbj4Eg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-08-11+at+1.35.35+AM.png"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguUnleOtHjNqbMvMyODTx2o6U5qMP1yOGdmKfq6TQ7aFw5iSI3Wsj55TiDqdyVIZrOzmeW_gC-SczZ6gvrVzwBbIc3oZ9adnqHVE1kM3Au6REj0KUcytvBAT76bQCluNuuKbj4Eg/w448-h640/Screen+Shot+2019-08-11+at+1.35.35+AM.png" width="448" /></a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><b><u><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span></u></b><blockquote><i><b><u><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY LAKE</span></u></b><br /><b><u><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></u></b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>A movie I liked even better than Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Under the Silver Lake, starring Andrew Garfield.</b> It's very much a companion piece to the Tarantino picture, in a very strange way. The writer-director whose name I'm too tired to look up at the moment was definitely going for that late 60s Hollywood Noir vibe, and does so with an absolutely brilliant score by...someone whose name I can't figure out from the iMDb page. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Either way, it's a great soundtrack and made me feel like I was watching a Quinn Martin production, back when everyone dressed great and had great haircuts and drove great-looking cars. Like in The Invaders. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Before the 70s came and everyone started looking like a sleazy asshole on their way to a key party.</span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span>Under the Silver Lake is<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"> not a film I can exactly describe, but it's a film I think everyone who reads this blog will grok mightily. It reminded me more than a bit of something David Lynch might make if he were younger, hornier and more pop-savvy.</span></i> </blockquote><blockquote><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">It's got at least one face Lynchies will recognize and it's filled to the brim with ciphers, sigils and symbols, not to mention some scantily-clad starlets that are quite easy on the eyes. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Plus, water and swimming and secret languages. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I don't know if anyone's seen Die, Mommy Die!, but it kind of reminds me of that. Plus, Ritual of Evil. Don't ask me why.</span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">I'd go into all the symbols and this and that, but I don't want to spoil anything. Plus, symbols and codes and secret societies and all of the rest of it aren't novel or mysterious anymore, they're everywhere these days. They're the New Normal. </span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Your grannie is probably an expert at spotting sigils at this point. Probably better than me.</span></i></blockquote><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"></span><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZCFpReMnFQDWsyFcdIfrrHrDHI2StD2D0UpkJAX1sLIYE1Zi-Wiu5AeR2FxlRqIncfhHgvfPii-CPBP77e4saUR7MRqXss5zuFfAuD4x7WegQui6vecKIU668W8AwWYp4ADf2BHWFb8aX-WukOmd_DlLel131oD6uyZGAma7Bkc6NblLMcFN6YA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-75221864405823239982024-03-04T04:00:00.001-05:002024-03-04T04:00:00.136-05:00Troubled by Gods: Full Livestream<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sz4OFOLEVm4?si=Z-N_tYNSG8qSzeBY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>A momentous milestone in the history of this blog:</b> <span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Help us bid farewell to the gods, angels and demons unleashed on the world by visionary madman, Jack Kirby. This hits all of those Secret Sun sweet spots, believe it.</span></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">I burned a lot of bandwidth in the early days of The Secret Sun talking about comics legend Jack Kirby. Some folks dismissed it as fanboy indulgence, until Kirby's delirious psychedelic visions of modern-day gods, angels and demons conquered Hollywood and defined pop culture for an entire decade. </p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Kirby died thirty years ago last month, just as the overheated, post-Batman comic book market began to crash. We'll be looking at his legacy as his heroes ascend to Valhalla and as the superhero genre finally collapses and leaves the world stage forever.<br /><br />Kirby's life and work is one great, big game of Secret Sun Scrabble and this presentation hits all the bases. Kirby saw the cold new world that was coming more than most, and tried to warn us of manmade horrors beyond our worst imaginings the only way he knew how.</p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kirby's life and work is like one great, big game of Secret Sun Scrabble, as these images make manifestly clear... </span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaQekAhSj3S5AMiOIHVSa4AyeZtf1NEQ4sYLZpaFNYbhU00IHsawevKzpubDojrR5vdWU-KcjC9DcOW05PVYxzxG9j6LzueMybmO-VGPaJ7QL1zPpL9lLnG3AxcmqC4uYBQwUHrD0rUFFS1QJ8MXmbv9NqXv1EeK9kWpK0lbW8W7Gpjm1RcKvmw/s667/faceonmars.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="450" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaQekAhSj3S5AMiOIHVSa4AyeZtf1NEQ4sYLZpaFNYbhU00IHsawevKzpubDojrR5vdWU-KcjC9DcOW05PVYxzxG9j6LzueMybmO-VGPaJ7QL1zPpL9lLnG3AxcmqC4uYBQwUHrD0rUFFS1QJ8MXmbv9NqXv1EeK9kWpK0lbW8W7Gpjm1RcKvmw/w289-h428/faceonmars.jpeg" width="289" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjDYGVaAIFeMkupcp-9UT_YU42xqVAZFmkq8Xw9zqyFR38PFQKWkvR02k3A_Sv9QBBZLuejtCV73gdImhE2rcPAGMCRfgjsIXW_DYUDgtavokjlZU9KS4zrTkfwPPbuBjFNpA1A/s1600-h/destroyerduck.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-align: left;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="449" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149851516385472690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjDYGVaAIFeMkupcp-9UT_YU42xqVAZFmkq8Xw9zqyFR38PFQKWkvR02k3A_Sv9QBBZLuejtCV73gdImhE2rcPAGMCRfgjsIXW_DYUDgtavokjlZU9KS4zrTkfwPPbuBjFNpA1A/w303-h449/destroyerduck.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="303" /></span></a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCytuCBbyTUk27If7Rk0onBiBci9GexBW02RFMh355UfMzmh7ljGE-V_YNslqBDKx27eis1la2QsbF0G8Ez9oOS-1whTMi91MsRZmEWIO5r2p7TFWcUNpGQXcf20QFVfkw3PzAanlAnu52jZ3lSYMBapu9D3B9nEZskZXLgYQjVxIlC6Zm8sDHQ/s401/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-01%20at%202.51.39%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCytuCBbyTUk27If7Rk0onBiBci9GexBW02RFMh355UfMzmh7ljGE-V_YNslqBDKx27eis1la2QsbF0G8Ez9oOS-1whTMi91MsRZmEWIO5r2p7TFWcUNpGQXcf20QFVfkw3PzAanlAnu52jZ3lSYMBapu9D3B9nEZskZXLgYQjVxIlC6Zm8sDHQ/w299-h400/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-01%20at%202.51.39%20PM.png" width="299" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">... and that's just the smallest sampling of the high weirdness and parapolitical insanity we'll be poring over on Sunday. You <u>don't</u> want to miss this one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/sunday-matinee-99538908" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here for more details<br />on this mind-pulverising presentation!!!</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="640" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVo-f2iYVoCW1as4q0RicV4LwZaRSGkx9TnjIVBNtAHaWG5hfBoPI-BxpPGZGLfzo5GU1uhfUuJt4wXpaVhO87EGt1rxeweW3Y74utaopqO9B3aUmchgzd5E2QQ8K2bivtlze7JTunQuju-4e3JphTM3qhI3rS8F8Zxw7MUP3N1S8qOAkqtdDiPDpJdkM/w640-h450/spandex-files00001.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="640" /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">And don't forget <i>The Spandex Files. </i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">What is <i>The Spandex Files</i>, you ask?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOpYk_O4dMGHhCL2hgPfV1MzTzs_CSUTvr-vA_Y7XXhm3n8rTDvezf2D1RGIopbyrbdF5O0wHSOQ_6Yq0ZaYOLQE1D7aqI4NnvNAceAtHb1zo_7x9nmXraA5vjTW8cCw2YSpUywZr-CNxpb_6RnYnrHUm-r0gdo68KLZxP6PGhf_xNdMlGJYsQHWjgFU/s640/spandex-files00002.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="640" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOpYk_O4dMGHhCL2hgPfV1MzTzs_CSUTvr-vA_Y7XXhm3n8rTDvezf2D1RGIopbyrbdF5O0wHSOQ_6Yq0ZaYOLQE1D7aqI4NnvNAceAtHb1zo_7x9nmXraA5vjTW8cCw2YSpUywZr-CNxpb_6RnYnrHUm-r0gdo68KLZxP6PGhf_xNdMlGJYsQHWjgFU/w400-h295/spandex-files00002.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Click pages to enlarge</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Spandex Files</i></a></b><b> </b>is 280 action-packed (and lavishly illustrated) pages of information and edutainment, filled with the chills, spills and laughs you've come to expect from your pal here at The Secret Sun! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V5lynXzWG-_QCmjQ47AAVgCL-7eT0zl_6_Z14MxrsRrolNXGEGc8lwVHNs37ijMr6px2r2kvRd9nHmZ6HKfE_X3teqyratw6y17OhKEFxCTbOEEp4cypKYLwqjJ2KJhT11cxa74h1DUqMoEdeaqjQVkj5Rry_h53ArvzBwzzfROZ4aTqWKVocfBK9S8/s640/spandex-files00004.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="640" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V5lynXzWG-_QCmjQ47AAVgCL-7eT0zl_6_Z14MxrsRrolNXGEGc8lwVHNs37ijMr6px2r2kvRd9nHmZ6HKfE_X3teqyratw6y17OhKEFxCTbOEEp4cypKYLwqjJ2KJhT11cxa74h1DUqMoEdeaqjQVkj5Rry_h53ArvzBwzzfROZ4aTqWKVocfBK9S8/w400-h298/spandex-files00004.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Spandex Files</i></a></b> <b>is my final farewell to comic books and superheroes,</b> both of which defined my life and career for so very long. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA7B51AoYYNIWITfcBLUethNOToqCgDRTd1smzxC1eEnTkzN34sp4uyRePBhQaNMbnQNkHETnQIFQ36GXQMpnUCXBtPDG2czZNB6Q5mfgqzH_WIKnF-Hd8BJWF2Mwmg4_czegHzpCY41O9e6EFR21pCQxBTrbW7bR1wFK5dyoEoPH4lqaaFkN8Xl8A7M/s640/spandex-files00003.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="640" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA7B51AoYYNIWITfcBLUethNOToqCgDRTd1smzxC1eEnTkzN34sp4uyRePBhQaNMbnQNkHETnQIFQ36GXQMpnUCXBtPDG2czZNB6Q5mfgqzH_WIKnF-Hd8BJWF2Mwmg4_czegHzpCY41O9e6EFR21pCQxBTrbW7bR1wFK5dyoEoPH4lqaaFkN8Xl8A7M/w400-h297/spandex-files00003.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's a special emphasis on superhero and comic book-inspired movies, as well as several pieces on Alan Moore and - of course - Jack Kirby!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivoJ0HPNxxKq6o1NFPqqBs76mGk9bqLJLGzlyb3TCJw6LVuyzxZpKezJ92B-l2GjeDh8cReu2dgW5YSfXFVDjRg0qWtw7uQUTBpUh_JNqVRmHGSIhQ_rVCxqzgPALFti55hHFqpLDbFGrhkYGdGtHoF8p9Ta0TXIYVr95SarVv1CydCmKj1-0azA/s792/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-01%20at%2012.25.24%20PM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="792" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivoJ0HPNxxKq6o1NFPqqBs76mGk9bqLJLGzlyb3TCJw6LVuyzxZpKezJ92B-l2GjeDh8cReu2dgW5YSfXFVDjRg0qWtw7uQUTBpUh_JNqVRmHGSIhQ_rVCxqzgPALFti55hHFqpLDbFGrhkYGdGtHoF8p9Ta0TXIYVr95SarVv1CydCmKj1-0azA/w640-h320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-01%20at%2012.25.24%20PM.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;"><b>I burned a lot of bandwidth in the early days of The Secret Sun talking about comics legend Jack Kirby.</b> Some folks dismissed it as fanboy indulgence, until Kirby's delirious psychedelic visions of modern-day gods, angels and demons conquered Hollywood and defined pop culture for an entire decade. </span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kirby's life and work is like one great, big game of Secret Sun Scrabble, as these images make manifestly clear... </span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaQekAhSj3S5AMiOIHVSa4AyeZtf1NEQ4sYLZpaFNYbhU00IHsawevKzpubDojrR5vdWU-KcjC9DcOW05PVYxzxG9j6LzueMybmO-VGPaJ7QL1zPpL9lLnG3AxcmqC4uYBQwUHrD0rUFFS1QJ8MXmbv9NqXv1EeK9kWpK0lbW8W7Gpjm1RcKvmw/s667/faceonmars.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="450" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaQekAhSj3S5AMiOIHVSa4AyeZtf1NEQ4sYLZpaFNYbhU00IHsawevKzpubDojrR5vdWU-KcjC9DcOW05PVYxzxG9j6LzueMybmO-VGPaJ7QL1zPpL9lLnG3AxcmqC4uYBQwUHrD0rUFFS1QJ8MXmbv9NqXv1EeK9kWpK0lbW8W7Gpjm1RcKvmw/w289-h428/faceonmars.jpeg" width="289" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjDYGVaAIFeMkupcp-9UT_YU42xqVAZFmkq8Xw9zqyFR38PFQKWkvR02k3A_Sv9QBBZLuejtCV73gdImhE2rcPAGMCRfgjsIXW_DYUDgtavokjlZU9KS4zrTkfwPPbuBjFNpA1A/s1600-h/destroyerduck.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-align: left;"><span style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">... and that's just the smallest sampling of the high weirdness and parapolitical insanity we'll be poring over on Sunday. You <u>don't</u> want to miss this one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/sunday-matinee-99538908" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here for more details<br />on this mind-pulverising presentation!!!</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVo-f2iYVoCW1as4q0RicV4LwZaRSGkx9TnjIVBNtAHaWG5hfBoPI-BxpPGZGLfzo5GU1uhfUuJt4wXpaVhO87EGt1rxeweW3Y74utaopqO9B3aUmchgzd5E2QQ8K2bivtlze7JTunQuju-4e3JphTM3qhI3rS8F8Zxw7MUP3N1S8qOAkqtdDiPDpJdkM/w610-h429/spandex-files00001.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="610" /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And don't forget <i>The Spandex Files. </i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What is <i>The Spandex Files</i>, you ask?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOpYk_O4dMGHhCL2hgPfV1MzTzs_CSUTvr-vA_Y7XXhm3n8rTDvezf2D1RGIopbyrbdF5O0wHSOQ_6Yq0ZaYOLQE1D7aqI4NnvNAceAtHb1zo_7x9nmXraA5vjTW8cCw2YSpUywZr-CNxpb_6RnYnrHUm-r0gdo68KLZxP6PGhf_xNdMlGJYsQHWjgFU/s640/spandex-files00002.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="640" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOpYk_O4dMGHhCL2hgPfV1MzTzs_CSUTvr-vA_Y7XXhm3n8rTDvezf2D1RGIopbyrbdF5O0wHSOQ_6Yq0ZaYOLQE1D7aqI4NnvNAceAtHb1zo_7x9nmXraA5vjTW8cCw2YSpUywZr-CNxpb_6RnYnrHUm-r0gdo68KLZxP6PGhf_xNdMlGJYsQHWjgFU/w400-h295/spandex-files00002.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;">Click pages to enlarge</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Spandex Files</i></a></b><b> </b>is 280 action-packed (and lavishly illustrated) pages of information and edutainment, filled with the chills, spills and laughs you've come to expect from your pal here at The Secret Sun! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V5lynXzWG-_QCmjQ47AAVgCL-7eT0zl_6_Z14MxrsRrolNXGEGc8lwVHNs37ijMr6px2r2kvRd9nHmZ6HKfE_X3teqyratw6y17OhKEFxCTbOEEp4cypKYLwqjJ2KJhT11cxa74h1DUqMoEdeaqjQVkj5Rry_h53ArvzBwzzfROZ4aTqWKVocfBK9S8/s640/spandex-files00004.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="640" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V5lynXzWG-_QCmjQ47AAVgCL-7eT0zl_6_Z14MxrsRrolNXGEGc8lwVHNs37ijMr6px2r2kvRd9nHmZ6HKfE_X3teqyratw6y17OhKEFxCTbOEEp4cypKYLwqjJ2KJhT11cxa74h1DUqMoEdeaqjQVkj5Rry_h53ArvzBwzzfROZ4aTqWKVocfBK9S8/w400-h298/spandex-files00004.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Spandex Files</i></a></b> <b>is my final farewell to comic books and superheroes,</b> both of which defined my life and career for so very long. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA7B51AoYYNIWITfcBLUethNOToqCgDRTd1smzxC1eEnTkzN34sp4uyRePBhQaNMbnQNkHETnQIFQ36GXQMpnUCXBtPDG2czZNB6Q5mfgqzH_WIKnF-Hd8BJWF2Mwmg4_czegHzpCY41O9e6EFR21pCQxBTrbW7bR1wFK5dyoEoPH4lqaaFkN8Xl8A7M/s640/spandex-files00003.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="640" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA7B51AoYYNIWITfcBLUethNOToqCgDRTd1smzxC1eEnTkzN34sp4uyRePBhQaNMbnQNkHETnQIFQ36GXQMpnUCXBtPDG2czZNB6Q5mfgqzH_WIKnF-Hd8BJWF2Mwmg4_czegHzpCY41O9e6EFR21pCQxBTrbW7bR1wFK5dyoEoPH4lqaaFkN8Xl8A7M/w400-h297/spandex-files00003.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's a special emphasis on superhero and comic book-inspired movies, as well as several pieces on Alan Moore and - of course - Jack Kirby!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Tunney and the Post-Human Challenge<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kln-6PoH_7U?si=T-EGon_d5u_ZQNRM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>It's a great honor to have James G. Tunney on the Mystery Hour to talk about Transhumanism</b> and what he calls the "Post-Human Challenge."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For those who aren’t familiar with his work, James is an author, poet and painter who left a successful academic career in law to focus on spiritual and artistic development... </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">James has published several academic articles and reports, consulted internationally, and given talks on various aspects of globalization in many countries around the world. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">He has also held artwork exhibitions in several countries for more then a decade.</span><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">James has published books including two novels, poetry, and a number of books on Mysticism, Scientism & consciousness including Mystic Murmuration, The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, and AI-Posthumanism: A Cryptic Soap Opera.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He has also done a series of appearances on Jeffrey Mishlove’s legendary talk show Thinking Allowed on topics near and dear to Secret Sunner’s hearts, particularly the work of Mr. Philip Kindred Dick and his mystical works.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To hear the entire, mind-expanding show, keep reading...</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><span><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" style="caret-color: rgb(36, 30, 18); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="855" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDPNsOEm5sIAhApO9x0Bo3bSdY0lKgSfV-bTi5WDf481CJYZ5pGnvFTvTlsb9odOur8ErD-HcRr2l1Zcrg7lNiQf8U3EV4c4exmCPKzBUOUX6Cz1jvVvx1_ZXGeTyNBSyUvjNfhQ/w400-h296/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+6.07.25+PM.png" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><p style="orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>click on the Moon for details</i></div></i></span><p></p></div><div style="background-color: white;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click on that Moon there</a> to enroll for the spring semester at the SSI. </b>You can hear the rest of this incredible conversation...</span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>For as little as three dollars a month you can join in the most immersive and elaborate database of Synchromysticism anywhere in the world. </span>And it's growing by the day. </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You know the old saying: Come for the scholarship, stay for the fellowship.</b></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-5054196099284586252024-02-20T20:14:00.003-05:002024-02-21T00:00:39.410-05:00Here, have some FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE.<p> <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4bfjwl/?pub=4" width="640"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Get ready for a rollickin' rocket ride to a forbidden realm of the kind of knowledge you can't get in college...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoxuXeFqNhsijgM2p9fBFBI9ZpzfBvhUp__Cf6ft_npLcWwa7LXfXkMxTeM4Rm6BcR3xNxToauumJ2OXj7hIYgQ1vsRV7KeYcMoJoR5jybFeMnLKLGTOf6SAdjcHhnh2-n9ljFXeuX24E3B-OglPuxYX5WM-QcfVGPTaGFAkKM4hqhFmaq8jVyw/s640/476d28ed84e86d76a65e8eac18e4d5f9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="640" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoxuXeFqNhsijgM2p9fBFBI9ZpzfBvhUp__Cf6ft_npLcWwa7LXfXkMxTeM4Rm6BcR3xNxToauumJ2OXj7hIYgQ1vsRV7KeYcMoJoR5jybFeMnLKLGTOf6SAdjcHhnh2-n9ljFXeuX24E3B-OglPuxYX5WM-QcfVGPTaGFAkKM4hqhFmaq8jVyw/s320/476d28ed84e86d76a65e8eac18e4d5f9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">...then ask yourself, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">why are you here? </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">What are you looking for?</b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">What do you want from this life? </span></div></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do you want</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><u style="font-family: verdana;">proof</u><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">that powers far beyond human reckoning are at work in the world - right now, as we speak - or are you just frittering your life away with trivial nonsense? </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I've been saying for the past several years, someone or something is going to extreme lengths - nearly <i>absurd</i> in their absolute overkill - to send you a message. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And I do mean <u>YOU</u>. I mean <i>all of us.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Are you going to continue to waste precious time or are you going to put aside your entrained illusions, pick up the phone and take the call?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>If it's the latter, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here.</a> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="518" data-original-width="820" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tPQL8ick34ooNuGjjYiLCFChsIjGL3SZBdJj3rWTS_Mcqv088xJEBvbBq2doH1liqEp3zaaDf62Dle4qyY3Q1UwZkqC5m8H5HdnLoaSrysIYfRgpLIJ6khRqWHj-khXfc56xH2Tjz2Tcw2S405JA-PYaiWoZuhTiwZxz8LpO9zQORd_3cBI3tA=w400-h253" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"Reality is that which, when you stop<br /></i><i>believing in it, doesn't go away."</i> - PKD</div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's a new, three and a half-hour presentation of irrefutable prophecy waiting for you to dive into, and that's just the start of it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-7310823558627871752024-02-18T12:05:00.005-05:002024-02-20T22:06:07.999-05:00Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour: Return of the Dragon<div style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEO-Y-oL1ZIStubFVLUQ568ViQDPp3roMWE1hMsmgWeoPAyEyNFLPeiG3jy4XqH_noTUYwItvDWZWfQPBd6g9tUImWAnRdmjiGa0qa5xp5eomWRKNn2PVAgEdmrfelYSYDjHSFMsAceO5nzyQ2t8jBs6c_SRvdk-BUHF1_mBzpTMArHyeNJSnVhQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="494" data-original-width="428" height="529" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEO-Y-oL1ZIStubFVLUQ568ViQDPp3roMWE1hMsmgWeoPAyEyNFLPeiG3jy4XqH_noTUYwItvDWZWfQPBd6g9tUImWAnRdmjiGa0qa5xp5eomWRKNn2PVAgEdmrfelYSYDjHSFMsAceO5nzyQ2t8jBs6c_SRvdk-BUHF1_mBzpTMArHyeNJSnVhQ=w459-h529" width="459" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><div>Are you ready for another wild ride into the unknown with the Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour?</div><div><br /></div><div>This one is sure to shake things up...</div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><span><a name='more'></a></span>Why's that, you ask?</span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-0" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-0" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><b>Well, it's because my guest this week is Lewis Ungit, </b>author of The Return of the Dragon: The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies. </span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-1" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true">Lewis is a multi-credentialed writer who's taken a deep dive into the history of </span></span><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-2" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true">pharmakeia</span></span><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-3" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"> and its effect on humanity, from ancient cults to Medieval witchcraft to current events.</span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8M7W0Nw3QXnVvX4GvmsX5MjRbTj4WQ2DqVJ47lBdwiDDa66tSHWLF49q_SeWibRPfUTmTl72ATiF_EI2_XkfPwbRzQf_saRnW6_soFSseiPkk519KEGcGonYudWRpH5Dw56ElOu2nHWV0GWkBKHii-NZRfKwff13KP5GTdziXwiVMh1_ApzrdbQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="458" data-original-width="303" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8M7W0Nw3QXnVvX4GvmsX5MjRbTj4WQ2DqVJ47lBdwiDDa66tSHWLF49q_SeWibRPfUTmTl72ATiF_EI2_XkfPwbRzQf_saRnW6_soFSseiPkk519KEGcGonYudWRpH5Dw56ElOu2nHWV0GWkBKHii-NZRfKwff13KP5GTdziXwiVMh1_ApzrdbQ=w424-h640" width="424" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-3" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lewis has a fresh perspective on these issues and has documented how often pharmaceutical sorcery leads to spiritual dis-ease, ritual abuse, and even human sacrifice... </span></span></span><p></p></div><div><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-3" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/98369109" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="92rdd-0-3" style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/98369109" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE WHOLE SHOW!</b></span></a></span></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-20008317355494125112024-02-12T01:51:00.007-05:002024-02-12T02:26:55.128-05:00The Kansas Swifty Chiefs Win the Šurpu Ba'al? Shocking! Improbable!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKmMtcHPZh0NC_R1HANCq6wOpDsoczdfJiLybymAmRmmcP758sJWwQ2iPdouOIjX5MCYyyE42nuU-HXhQKJe8UUxCY9VnH7SWPYfTpVjmEnHkmtpY5QMr4IFYa1VCPWqwCbFFGQnKijs_HHRzjE-nDEarttsMIbHnNnyryQqV12JnWRvbFQYlDVw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKmMtcHPZh0NC_R1HANCq6wOpDsoczdfJiLybymAmRmmcP758sJWwQ2iPdouOIjX5MCYyyE42nuU-HXhQKJe8UUxCY9VnH7SWPYfTpVjmEnHkmtpY5QMr4IFYa1VCPWqwCbFFGQnKijs_HHRzjE-nDEarttsMIbHnNnyryQqV12JnWRvbFQYlDVw=w564-h564" width="564" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><b>Patrick Mahomes letting you know who he really answers to.</b> He's quite proud of it. Why wouldn't he be? He's paid very well for his service.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a name='more'></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ5jr68LI78k9o0uuOLryllw4tUwC90oDBb_-8yoztTVpvL9cgWS9nYTO_J0mh2FYARPuk0wVOSB1keMx4TASUC3O8As14cUrNE_bOBVMys_SYJ8apoXZiKzr2DqO_7tJM0g-D9KaEGaDKmcO9XGa9NsGuG0zIA9n8D9CYZ7CZs7gIb8i1r7mkWw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="868" data-original-width="588" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ5jr68LI78k9o0uuOLryllw4tUwC90oDBb_-8yoztTVpvL9cgWS9nYTO_J0mh2FYARPuk0wVOSB1keMx4TASUC3O8As14cUrNE_bOBVMys_SYJ8apoXZiKzr2DqO_7tJM0g-D9KaEGaDKmcO9XGa9NsGuG0zIA9n8D9CYZ7CZs7gIb8i1r7mkWw=w435-h640" width="435" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Regime letting you know who's really pulling the strings.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">No, not Grandpa Dribblecup, dummy - his cabal of sorcerers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs-ubRvQV8K4UqKqqY3XTFlilZmUK1NKqkrqaej3A0T0nNmpaZqFSYSMV4_KjgRal6KdhhAGDVVYbbbuMi7Zwtg594dhgTs6uA9AN68j207ETci5QYFtBg3Y3ISbbU_7bdnGiruqlOgJM4o-gcZO7EwlPXc-igkKjWKwkeQcbjezCT462X7RnjbA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="650" data-original-width="720" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs-ubRvQV8K4UqKqqY3XTFlilZmUK1NKqkrqaej3A0T0nNmpaZqFSYSMV4_KjgRal6KdhhAGDVVYbbbuMi7Zwtg594dhgTs6uA9AN68j207ETci5QYFtBg3Y3ISbbU_7bdnGiruqlOgJM4o-gcZO7EwlPXc-igkKjWKwkeQcbjezCT462X7RnjbA=w584-h526" width="584" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Shocking coincidences.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjayxDH7ueEvbmBcK6Rk4hImZxPFmr9oLLtl1c3_qBsf6XE508hBZ1skNw4djhnBcS-9J65EdR6nDIQGRvLdDPAgx74JOSIfiWEb9XSuOXCLZHhtrc5hBF2h-zPRBsl7UQuF8WK0yRTnLHjb5JifL2rH6MBogEG1Z4zUDHLdLd5SscGlUUqzWa_jw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="635" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjayxDH7ueEvbmBcK6Rk4hImZxPFmr9oLLtl1c3_qBsf6XE508hBZ1skNw4djhnBcS-9J65EdR6nDIQGRvLdDPAgx74JOSIfiWEb9XSuOXCLZHhtrc5hBF2h-zPRBsl7UQuF8WK0yRTnLHjb5JifL2rH6MBogEG1Z4zUDHLdLd5SscGlUUqzWa_jw=w390-h400" width="390" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn-YLl1Tn_CkZLZzUMY-bVg6bFPsy52bSVIPixfXCicN-qB291GdPC09wrogbiyQzfJjTWRPSwhRp_SsKWoeuIYFkd_oOCZ0hfg4HOo5nL1gSvs9QjRyuDV-1_2GEeklK4bWlF5UgcBeBpFMCZ-_TJVtmsdtdVC2ecYheSe9_5I5FbURc8FcqXJQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn-YLl1Tn_CkZLZzUMY-bVg6bFPsy52bSVIPixfXCicN-qB291GdPC09wrogbiyQzfJjTWRPSwhRp_SsKWoeuIYFkd_oOCZ0hfg4HOo5nL1gSvs9QjRyuDV-1_2GEeklK4bWlF5UgcBeBpFMCZ-_TJVtmsdtdVC2ecYheSe9_5I5FbURc8FcqXJQ=w390-h293" width="390" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">The Three Ruffians sacrificed to the dark gods at the hands of a Big Pharma operative. Allegedly. Remember that from a few weeks back?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">You can't make this stuff up. Even if you tried.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ1e0e64Qxli_BKn2FRAJYtFZl2Z-tKh5runRJQR_Ti57o_EqzOiY_ezaDBT6F59vG5KEO7kNZuVL10k5EfqfTcajBnqAAMKPixSrnyt96Hnuo-1Lq9bfkW1ZFq2mr1MFalAn0ebDs8d-RMxg-HZNcYwGQ187hEueAf8NuaTbYiOIS3iDpJEk5kw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="424" data-original-width="510" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ1e0e64Qxli_BKn2FRAJYtFZl2Z-tKh5runRJQR_Ti57o_EqzOiY_ezaDBT6F59vG5KEO7kNZuVL10k5EfqfTcajBnqAAMKPixSrnyt96Hnuo-1Lq9bfkW1ZFq2mr1MFalAn0ebDs8d-RMxg-HZNcYwGQ187hEueAf8NuaTbYiOIS3iDpJEk5kw=w570-h472" width="570" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Not taking any chances, I reckon. But I don't think this one went off as planned.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">It happens. Allegedly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: white;">But hark, what do I behold over yonder?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0xJeTlR8Q77pyqbcRPj44LBNd9RqbGIWGeVtwV4GeN0c7YbfcRGwI2Gno3Xi8zeOaS40SRRrBSV75ZVYBhp1DH97-YEhsR0ZXd4-bqZv-m_omD5TDlN3Y4i2qSzvJKnT__jTKmOhC0DaebAWJN-BEIdUFNjpn5ZrZiBlE6jNDNX1V4Je1Vekafw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="645" data-original-width="801" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0xJeTlR8Q77pyqbcRPj44LBNd9RqbGIWGeVtwV4GeN0c7YbfcRGwI2Gno3Xi8zeOaS40SRRrBSV75ZVYBhp1DH97-YEhsR0ZXd4-bqZv-m_omD5TDlN3Y4i2qSzvJKnT__jTKmOhC0DaebAWJN-BEIdUFNjpn5ZrZiBlE6jNDNX1V4Je1Vekafw=w400-h322" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span class="text Rev-17-1" id="en-AKJV-30977">"Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: </span><span class="text Rev-17-2" id="en-AKJV-30978">with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication."</span></i></span></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz4g8AVdAOOVc0a8wxo3EfBH3JiE6yTrDhEVPzM6BAczRqTZtAwOaAyJSzc7sml7zeKeQrfh2u-OhjyJIEWGeFO_hujKJcn468NiqvoNY14FJ6hyR8F4JIXxooOuEXKe4M0HC_Dc4ekh4CEOvBcNWsNlqx79UhXEIe2USC-6E6YV5E-BAmx630uA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="963" data-original-width="1018" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz4g8AVdAOOVc0a8wxo3EfBH3JiE6yTrDhEVPzM6BAczRqTZtAwOaAyJSzc7sml7zeKeQrfh2u-OhjyJIEWGeFO_hujKJcn468NiqvoNY14FJ6hyR8F4JIXxooOuEXKe4M0HC_Dc4ekh4CEOvBcNWsNlqx79UhXEIe2USC-6E6YV5E-BAmx630uA=w400-h378" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote><i>"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns..."</i></blockquote></span></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhESrqbR5PFvDnp5yVilf0TpOCLyUwd3Vhwn4-JOS2dBAKgFyDVfhYyhPX2sAdMgy6zDZPQGXrKIk1lfRuvULZZQUhe84rXksZFStz8Et8bKt4Tn1b-RhO4QND9HeOnuBQ1AvBEU36fud6gMxWwIeeufW1JcZXOHGPCwIL_N4Jj_rG66tcyiXbxMA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="849" data-original-width="842" height="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhESrqbR5PFvDnp5yVilf0TpOCLyUwd3Vhwn4-JOS2dBAKgFyDVfhYyhPX2sAdMgy6zDZPQGXrKIk1lfRuvULZZQUhe84rXksZFStz8Et8bKt4Tn1b-RhO4QND9HeOnuBQ1AvBEU36fud6gMxWwIeeufW1JcZXOHGPCwIL_N4Jj_rG66tcyiXbxMA=w462-h465" width="462" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"...And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,</i></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls..."</i></span></div></span></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJrFDnLtRO4lOvCn0VtWRjVDI-0djKefqNYbvFjaU7VtyC9DsTgMC8KxNqcvAQnzk7cV-m2GLK-Ztl4otamqEbweIO2WvaTkDY1Oq9OuHh67rZLuRlB2pzuNd9fjuqsph80l3E3DcRm-jlgJDOkS7XY727dE8UCuERpDR9N7fP57mbF0f9-6kl9Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="577" data-original-width="792" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJrFDnLtRO4lOvCn0VtWRjVDI-0djKefqNYbvFjaU7VtyC9DsTgMC8KxNqcvAQnzk7cV-m2GLK-Ztl4otamqEbweIO2WvaTkDY1Oq9OuHh67rZLuRlB2pzuNd9fjuqsph80l3E3DcRm-jlgJDOkS7XY727dE8UCuERpDR9N7fP57mbF0f9-6kl9Q=w607-h442" width="607" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote><i> "...having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication..."</i></blockquote></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpGdB-8ex6hnA-dH28B9DHcwEbF-aJKbhiJMo6VEbgiZ__g8DWu7uTBAzErgvA1g1gaz8xVBXBGYsgXGi_zxGa7AvdpgdTRWpFZqoksjwx3-xlDBiVWxxT6rK4UxXBjozWagMqFw1CNsUtKMSSjYiEgxzl36FXNrpAUDEmdqGtsRO0a3fcXkN2tQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="665" data-original-width="557" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpGdB-8ex6hnA-dH28B9DHcwEbF-aJKbhiJMo6VEbgiZ__g8DWu7uTBAzErgvA1g1gaz8xVBXBGYsgXGi_zxGa7AvdpgdTRWpFZqoksjwx3-xlDBiVWxxT6rK4UxXBjozWagMqFw1CNsUtKMSSjYiEgxzl36FXNrpAUDEmdqGtsRO0a3fcXkN2tQ=w536-h640" width="536" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="background-color: white;">"Upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."</i></span></div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1G0Wsm_mjza3gaL5wtB2sptgP91RhmaNDW1ZYn1wJIe9x203FMDGsXqpzqo8-hsIG8NhOTY2Zw3ZeYwTdYZEyHqjybpSZuU3rYQUdGAvGAmRV4Ad8l90V7Vn4CHw6bap7OJpYPwt3mVwZXscCtYld2PLo_dThPTC7SQHN9YhBKL08QA-DbV8-wg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="806" data-original-width="686" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1G0Wsm_mjza3gaL5wtB2sptgP91RhmaNDW1ZYn1wJIe9x203FMDGsXqpzqo8-hsIG8NhOTY2Zw3ZeYwTdYZEyHqjybpSZuU3rYQUdGAvGAmRV4Ad8l90V7Vn4CHw6bap7OJpYPwt3mVwZXscCtYld2PLo_dThPTC7SQHN9YhBKL08QA-DbV8-wg=w544-h640" width="544" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote><i>"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."</i></blockquote></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Don't we all, my friend. Don't we all.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4pG5S8wD0fHxKAPra3Nv0P5KPksC9czSmDFdcD3_bIAFYrzUO_DzFBO1UMYaqVFBMDaO0HY1NGnWDlxdJtMS4ldO7AV5J_wt7fxweGxMUY-V8KzpBl0m9e-qRj2uMJwQcOHKLtFLi7R2qlALyXMFAnJ-5iO9P_okdCEpu8L5medjcmbubygy3Cg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1040" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4pG5S8wD0fHxKAPra3Nv0P5KPksC9czSmDFdcD3_bIAFYrzUO_DzFBO1UMYaqVFBMDaO0HY1NGnWDlxdJtMS4ldO7AV5J_wt7fxweGxMUY-V8KzpBl0m9e-qRj2uMJwQcOHKLtFLi7R2qlALyXMFAnJ-5iO9P_okdCEpu8L5medjcmbubygy3Cg=w400-h217" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-kerning: none;">Usher performing at Halftime Show.</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> Note 12 squares aligning with zodiac.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">He "ushered" something in, alright.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8x0zm0iJU9nYr8-1QXu5O3luptx3iklhAO6EGp3q6QVGR6tMil8hPeCRAysN0nzX2-GhgRRiOsuISMlbM7A2XLWvMihrTvZeQJvDUCy0wSuRDPc0Ce8zugwljr29A3bMtIsHPr_fbVpPckuKfbZ4_vtlSnhvV3praDXTrwrVij9H1dR-AjpYjpA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="747" data-original-width="775" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8x0zm0iJU9nYr8-1QXu5O3luptx3iklhAO6EGp3q6QVGR6tMil8hPeCRAysN0nzX2-GhgRRiOsuISMlbM7A2XLWvMihrTvZeQJvDUCy0wSuRDPc0Ce8zugwljr29A3bMtIsHPr_fbVpPckuKfbZ4_vtlSnhvV3praDXTrwrVij9H1dR-AjpYjpA=w400-h386" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Uncredited guest appearances by Sauron...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPZ1I7IX0gC4idsQyU-U22fPTgLieI7q6IzwIHq1aDvEUmRiedLAx7yO_vgZmKYYlChv8DaGxVWw84PS3KZsTV6knaiPYr7et7b8_4KDZ5zzQ9nLZSMfbxs4YIkSXADbzvXRrhWgp06yq5I98iMMKsvH3zix0KtN8neY7Qmr-ujTIydcOlWBzRhw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="730" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPZ1I7IX0gC4idsQyU-U22fPTgLieI7q6IzwIHq1aDvEUmRiedLAx7yO_vgZmKYYlChv8DaGxVWw84PS3KZsTV6knaiPYr7et7b8_4KDZ5zzQ9nLZSMfbxs4YIkSXADbzvXRrhWgp06yq5I98iMMKsvH3zix0KtN8neY7Qmr-ujTIydcOlWBzRhw=w435-h640" width="435" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">...and the Sun trump of Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiApOy2ewxRGBirHXjDjOKSfu50WalLGx5Siv0a3-vFlB7ONUZttzkVcl597z3MO749w5Jnc1jt4-4nd-meLz7DHsBkEtRLc-tzVlvsVeqqlUdi56ehp2xYg253cYtcyJxLYZWFZUKdYX9CFXXkHzNueMqS44cvX8NlPYtE9WIfoFPABJ3jIHVx0Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="334" data-original-width="580" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiApOy2ewxRGBirHXjDjOKSfu50WalLGx5Siv0a3-vFlB7ONUZttzkVcl597z3MO749w5Jnc1jt4-4nd-meLz7DHsBkEtRLc-tzVlvsVeqqlUdi56ehp2xYg253cYtcyJxLYZWFZUKdYX9CFXXkHzNueMqS44cvX8NlPYtE9WIfoFPABJ3jIHVx0Q=w594-h341" width="594" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After watching Usher's performance, I am convinced the symbolism is pointing to the same exact activities the old beast was referring to in the Sun card.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quite convinced indeed. The whole event reeked of it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiffjaNgklU27ZnBjDu7KkKMnPLgp5K9wvsPi0HudUqib1fwK-gDWDbxgbAr9OfgV2CbshVxvPS0wrKnPyRxO0rnVfwNj94lwyI_tHcpVBGme2_9p0PY3-flq2yDqfcatPLOXGE43v9AJGdOC4roKqIxQV3K7QxGkZjtGIaWw6pP_Twn4khaFjxnQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1190" height="561" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiffjaNgklU27ZnBjDu7KkKMnPLgp5K9wvsPi0HudUqib1fwK-gDWDbxgbAr9OfgV2CbshVxvPS0wrKnPyRxO0rnVfwNj94lwyI_tHcpVBGme2_9p0PY3-flq2yDqfcatPLOXGE43v9AJGdOC4roKqIxQV3K7QxGkZjtGIaWw6pP_Twn4khaFjxnQ=w575-h561" width="575" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Speaking of Thoth, this took place earlier on Sunday.</span></div></div></div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguMUkwYnspCxtyH-rsJksXzAIu1jfkDDhZepMhNEPSL1km1CooHp-uBnnMIkv-0iTjx5Zx--BhXQw7iubzbFMCHSyilFb8HcTy9oekAuQCdqGaql8BKbE6AJ_pC7al5IJnWmvYry6EkRmT6C9zvZgzZdff8V1dRCce8Kn_ZofLacCrVRCWsFaktg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="844" data-original-width="670" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguMUkwYnspCxtyH-rsJksXzAIu1jfkDDhZepMhNEPSL1km1CooHp-uBnnMIkv-0iTjx5Zx--BhXQw7iubzbFMCHSyilFb8HcTy9oekAuQCdqGaql8BKbE6AJ_pC7al5IJnWmvYry6EkRmT6C9zvZgzZdff8V1dRCce8Kn_ZofLacCrVRCWsFaktg=w509-h640" width="509" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Kansas City arrowhead aligns with the symbol of Min, the priapic god of fertility.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjYj03W5TNW8xx49-k802SFzlMgavUOHID9coZMWTffECrDz9wUvx28pxY5WPKLhCM_gwdromAGuxb5BWa-2ANGtAbt0RzpM4r_1xU4qrnRqWPWr-J1DKWzHDGWZRYQYCRIIoBpUIrJ2gNG46VP7I2FJm9SziruuUZfrarIw6YnIMQcZsHAsl9rw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="629" data-original-width="592" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjYj03W5TNW8xx49-k802SFzlMgavUOHID9coZMWTffECrDz9wUvx28pxY5WPKLhCM_gwdromAGuxb5BWa-2ANGtAbt0RzpM4r_1xU4qrnRqWPWr-J1DKWzHDGWZRYQYCRIIoBpUIrJ2gNG46VP7I2FJm9SziruuUZfrarIw6YnIMQcZsHAsl9rw=w578-h614" width="578" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Min was the companion of Qatesh, whose priests were all transgendered temple prostitutes called the <i>Qadeshim</i>, meaning "the Sacred Feminine."</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWHfgGCz2hGobAtDcPASTQTArRiiUqK7RiC-PrvGe87pQ2Cgcq4Sy2t6D-OiqyeifO4D0ZczvXH3-PY06Zv_hMmASoa_7Do6_hztsH5qWJ_A8r9lHHplVMPKKJ0_0KL29UQ6NRCefto0auznm55dwX9SjsfOj76Wse0eKHFR3GUyCcqDec9jc_ng" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWHfgGCz2hGobAtDcPASTQTArRiiUqK7RiC-PrvGe87pQ2Cgcq4Sy2t6D-OiqyeifO4D0ZczvXH3-PY06Zv_hMmASoa_7Do6_hztsH5qWJ_A8r9lHHplVMPKKJ0_0KL29UQ6NRCefto0auznm55dwX9SjsfOj76Wse0eKHFR3GUyCcqDec9jc_ng=w592-h311" width="592" /></span></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some have speculated Qatesh was herself transgender.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1P7TShRdTSW-bvO6GKOXcBZPTexc1JEV5JHcuQVC_pT7zRBw4ODiQq_3E6qoNSEfNX59N8_llhlRkJ4qxqQ9bVFFEj6OBk_WjgfVM1-44wZxIrFpMMTJAGJf6hsqPkLARoZR6lt8w-3l1xntD0gzXOIBJHCbvBJePSF6YDt6k3P_Gig8F8VWHgw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="403" data-original-width="467" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1P7TShRdTSW-bvO6GKOXcBZPTexc1JEV5JHcuQVC_pT7zRBw4ODiQq_3E6qoNSEfNX59N8_llhlRkJ4qxqQ9bVFFEj6OBk_WjgfVM1-44wZxIrFpMMTJAGJf6hsqPkLARoZR6lt8w-3l1xntD0gzXOIBJHCbvBJePSF6YDt6k3P_Gig8F8VWHgw=w596-h515" width="596" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Speaking of Killing of the Divine King, Osiris was slain by Set on the 17th day of Aethyr (the day of the lamentations of Isis and Nephthys).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXkb9Rd4u9VqRaZ-qzGIrTgnZpdFmlkoUDItOL2SbbS2i1S-DCUToBoNuFVUpl8asnLGFnMRrKYjv802xquwslYjKkky9G8PkFe3tNHX1Hsl4D0qFdnpvYiUqoahn2egkpsgWerPtOEaJlaKWwq0lUMbF0ckytpokF424yn6UdOKV60QcGAfQtJQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="760" data-original-width="618" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXkb9Rd4u9VqRaZ-qzGIrTgnZpdFmlkoUDItOL2SbbS2i1S-DCUToBoNuFVUpl8asnLGFnMRrKYjv802xquwslYjKkky9G8PkFe3tNHX1Hsl4D0qFdnpvYiUqoahn2egkpsgWerPtOEaJlaKWwq0lUMbF0ckytpokF424yn6UdOKV60QcGAfQtJQ=w520-h640" width="520" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 16, 19); color: #0d1013; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The pig was sacred to Set.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVLGEhd1IoilEdNUbCHJGu7MtFWEUaJsKzLHzqGXRex9DkFVFcXfzzsjmEX0jcaFGwOaZAfoU2mVbnzGFXZLM-CerotWQP1Qlx466SEXTtc3shfT67rIUrPajTjrcacFjKk5e3-vm6Xd29JlsKRRV2qrBFE6P2iUyKEl63o-7fQsF5t7HDxCp_Ng" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="261" data-original-width="745" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVLGEhd1IoilEdNUbCHJGu7MtFWEUaJsKzLHzqGXRex9DkFVFcXfzzsjmEX0jcaFGwOaZAfoU2mVbnzGFXZLM-CerotWQP1Qlx466SEXTtc3shfT67rIUrPajTjrcacFjKk5e3-vm6Xd29JlsKRRV2qrBFE6P2iUyKEl63o-7fQsF5t7HDxCp_Ng=w569-h199" width="569" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">How many yards?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYVUvUYt3IG7PPe7H9xWRFsOq-utB1ZsqEHjphWqkiSmEbGtddJ4w2m3kUVxMEX_pAtm6kjCSZZbJQ_ZNdKvKO0Qm5_Jr8NbZxvMBvt4mSpjhkXbIs__Xly6d_rEPihMuL2Uibg0hcDCWkUrIbljmTb2uT3smYEO61TmpG0tBObQhzfAoSrI9JtQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYVUvUYt3IG7PPe7H9xWRFsOq-utB1ZsqEHjphWqkiSmEbGtddJ4w2m3kUVxMEX_pAtm6kjCSZZbJQ_ZNdKvKO0Qm5_Jr8NbZxvMBvt4mSpjhkXbIs__Xly6d_rEPihMuL2Uibg0hcDCWkUrIbljmTb2uT3smYEO61TmpG0tBObQhzfAoSrI9JtQ=w347-h640" width="347" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Suckle the Sacred Testicle of Victory, brave gladiator! Let it fill you with the seed of future triumphs!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLwTBber0MXuVTDp04KlP8WOmB7ZpmududApKNo0w69mZAOkFBDIQvrR_atULP-Axj0LVRqwnzga6UHrGV5hPt3AKM9yx11VKe_zQXSOVAaCd7w5ijKRJr8IrgNSLyimqD37LU1msHu7_GvgwEibUbji99UrkmMu8d-qLy2hXABgIcTKvDrC0HWQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="871" data-original-width="634" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLwTBber0MXuVTDp04KlP8WOmB7ZpmududApKNo0w69mZAOkFBDIQvrR_atULP-Axj0LVRqwnzga6UHrGV5hPt3AKM9yx11VKe_zQXSOVAaCd7w5ijKRJr8IrgNSLyimqD37LU1msHu7_GvgwEibUbji99UrkmMu8d-qLy2hXABgIcTKvDrC0HWQ=w467-h640" width="467" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">Nice outfit, but...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi75EgwzElhKrHyyRl_kKMb3HqcH6G3c4ID0AaDpnm4rMYqBcsnk2vbDZpOilTBl0PK6ZgUPfbgidq00lvHatgVait4XpaW8DU4yfwyahXhjMIVji8VVnBDFLOlu6jQI3yn1aRkNYY_CELR-LSxnuegcsyo6JP-Ns7ZTPdzqDu1kKB6OMVvbrajyw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="326" data-original-width="576" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi75EgwzElhKrHyyRl_kKMb3HqcH6G3c4ID0AaDpnm4rMYqBcsnk2vbDZpOilTBl0PK6ZgUPfbgidq00lvHatgVait4XpaW8DU4yfwyahXhjMIVji8VVnBDFLOlu6jQI3yn1aRkNYY_CELR-LSxnuegcsyo6JP-Ns7ZTPdzqDu1kKB6OMVvbrajyw=w592-h335" width="592" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In more ways than one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjchdLoc17smFnIm_erCGypwLB18f5EWSaUwAMqx0pS_WZev3LEszrAMs7D88wkrNvpmMhnk_yBIPG0Gp8y82ocgq-RHV0h3TAV1IjosULnZeR_J_N5o8S9pOEmUBL3qEShsHWuuV0jSuPyNqJ6PjRQbXGGshdYtpItuBhSrKKqE8x4Ah0gdP_Zww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="485" data-original-width="325" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjchdLoc17smFnIm_erCGypwLB18f5EWSaUwAMqx0pS_WZev3LEszrAMs7D88wkrNvpmMhnk_yBIPG0Gp8y82ocgq-RHV0h3TAV1IjosULnZeR_J_N5o8S9pOEmUBL3qEShsHWuuV0jSuPyNqJ6PjRQbXGGshdYtpItuBhSrKKqE8x4Ah0gdP_Zww=w429-h640" width="429" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br />Finger-lickin' good, TayTay!</span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /> </span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-84502140137579859442024-02-09T21:38:00.001-05:002024-02-09T21:38:47.784-05:00You Make My Memes Come True<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="586" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUChYLq_ZEC7wKJH7v4qhpfnpnf0d7_vO78sV6ExGqTu1WM3IAmXGdiBCBUC46SzielolWvaWMw5SeQY9XbRWSeahAxhvoc6wtsRJGx8TNrLvh5ZkJs3ijRXF6MRZzUZLl36DXm30fhqtoPIcEAvzzXLrYC4ixXLYfdP7chW9gHhQBzm1Y-BraEg/w517-h400/memes-apple00002.jpg" width="517" /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been remiss in my memely duties, so let's not waste any time getting the larfs and boffo yuks rolling...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1170" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheA902_GjoB1X0G0Zfc4g3ZLEHF1-2sCj1DQyQbpttEflwRMi5jJtAl4kqCWgMvFJNufsOc1dYqtkQzV8yBANg_N7Z7EsZ9Jrp4wG7yX8fmru-ebSjsxikRlugMfFdJnqyKG_eh36jAYGZg2GoWiNxn-_5mEmueQ-x1Fu8Btoxi_CYkb052emaXg/w400-h360/memes-apple00001.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="685" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxmJUZtz8FIaCT-ES5xalremMPm__yIn0guhnxsLwO0b5hh9_FX1xvnmOazStyNuUxcq8z6b50Pv46ku8Y6oqBVpENcH70JIzVefvy5auplbrmwVMSaa3TDlb3tHN0yvZJT3xH_vjx6XsMdTxpNY-JGChW0i5nKTgEDJtxNpTW6fC3IGg610nGaw/w429-h566/memes-apple00003.jpg" width="429" /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>TAYLOR HAM 'N' (FROZEN) EGGS</u></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="680" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfJRt2OoIdv2skifcbOPz72NswRBUALl2-zk1vtg8ju3UOD_48wQfjzWUYirVBG7EyfLGD49UQmByWNDZ3KTlnbY-dJXPrnpgrN_KZhF9HZB-uaCEuvrul91ZoLBSpgpmFetmCoN3bVeXfnxEHPNbNfri20DhyphenhyphenFQnjuVu4nvuoWJI1XHAfWfM6g/w400-h355/memes-taylor00003.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Napoleon Dynamite is a better dancer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-family: verdana;">CRITTERS TITTER</span></u></b></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span><span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="434" height="487" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5V7H8KmECk-I4GkCwGtJdrE8XvyO_bo14M7tgbueKB7EhP5RfsG4OZ390JlhG9wyUMtNZ2-LTwiRQGwRQZo7gD7E-cSbihCH5SOR6tFQ0JkuPY8VIRzdpOg5W_Rletp0WWN3N-NK89-uwmvgSEoopGxG1LfXyFnfLJwacjZK-KMzGEmkf-N4IfA/w415-h487/memes-anim00001.jpg" width="415" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="455" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FwEf_20OfPlofoLZY4_TKSlIrGpmNd80bHx2-PvmKsSUmc2fBGJC57t6P7xKLVq-IiRsksRG9_z-v18ELG7Ol05yo1vKuZecf5kaYn55TV0cEF36XcK0CtehhTZEC3SNyRpq3mKmGcwIH-xCaF0N8WR3Ujv2vyUVAKI4Uq9QCX7HlNbc7Hd7TQ/w395-h400/memes-anim00002.jpg" width="395" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><u><span style="font-family: verdana;">SO HUNGRY, SO ANGRY</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpl4lzvhRuRgZkY2EZTplYCBmz5rjd-opcM_3kFej-5htKF38zsr_s_1LnnhCBYAuz7uN-5g_up_00vOV-v8Iv3mKjngeGYG2HLOYEhnIkrfAGzUMmSytoww4WHqvQ99uh5nFO7WBTiBNEzCxXI6OCTE5_SH3gf7Z4pHkbCH_I7aQvNGw_O5zbw/s590/memes-food00008.jpg" style="display: block; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfU4ENgFTkWIwusq-68bgrRGy-_G-92J_5r6g5qXJyIAXRSsMhyphenhyphenfVyqayIbL8ifq8QTvBGoVWPZ31i7yHWWIvyqHujSRvILjeZ5x7IJY0Pn7jGOoDbhZig3-GaJE1EbvlZFHwPH6aUVh1AljbbLHtOlGoJwX0r02F8QGa2yZJ98J-ntK4ABaABkA/s600/memes-food00010.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'll let it go from my cold, dead fingers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="892" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARq8YOzrYsCFDLQfSHlkbn4Tq2dJdAtQJPfXH-zaBSA1OFU1T53HZ7jHlMnktg8xOYFpTqJb2XsJG43YJrOrmNuRES9-i0acIghu3ZjrTzWeT3_hu2WKUeseNCj0kUGyt6Pc0PPoY4ERET0VnK9OZuUM5OYj_FhUAhtfEfjXlW7WDHBebnbUKdg/w483-h310/memes-food00011.jpg" width="483" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hate this country sometimes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="719" height="543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcP4_L1Xv5rDBVOck7UUtNIF39_p0UTafngoe-zDHNB5_XRcrE8Fi3aDFYo02hXnyUYanl-uEMv0KaF4yI6ZsrOhm51jBb_-XmR2UXi1Pq1fkLiXLKFQDyW-h5fuFRtw8RlWku_TcqWpd0_Yb5Lcub_Rxs8hY96YYHjyZZ9WrAG252fGzMyySsw/w550-h543/memes-food00012.jpg" width="550" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="542" height="567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI_B6GE8iEECUdR-HiXx9-vj05mq3Als5cbpB7zQjCNe9fmErdwPjUM5Jk6Cvwe-hIuutW1aDS2VamzdEZVMrxzMp4I5ITacNQMCVHG-Qmn__-3-2XdSyPqXEGZ_jNZI4acOQ5pkpvp3oKqJd_67X52WtTuxhRWPl_9FZGHrAQzb2fPoU0-1oS0w/w521-h567/memes-pop00006.jpeg" width="521" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-family: verdana;">RANDOM NONSENSE</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfWY93M3MFGiwcgnOzFm050-gxC-nnJjbtZyn2Wy1qcPYr4fxynR5HbvsEXrcD-FhQaZ0hL0QQTN5juxSflsltrkt6LK0Rpyi_QCowwxzP1uiBu9fTuiA7tDTy65PYk3FT2AovUS4eH6yUuDXHOWYIpQ2j_R-LwPxVhyphenhyphenhwSP14kg5jkCu0ByOdw/s520/memes-random00001.jpg" style="display: block; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"I've never felt better in my entire life."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="672" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKwCDZ08Cb_BkQxFSv4QPNCjwT0GB4KsIEd_htyfb9FhXds5Rdsu29t_gwnCHK1Qn-htS2d3cfK_2Blc8j1KMK0BXX2pk5LAlZQTv04RY8YiROiwDmAPbuJ37WissOh02Da2Jr-oPbA9WGaBq6oA1qTLtNrLuAhirbW7AyHxIFXcUGmX24SPioA/s600/memes-vak00004.jpg" width="600" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>I WANNA KNOW WHAT WOKE IS</u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>WHO NEEDS JORDAN PETERSON?</u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="622" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaphPY-HuBLQAMm7e3ZmEm-IF3fXrCAJUwbdog9R-7IdgQE-v0BnrG4k7qpGmvSAZvtD7lSPZkUEndalRn4bxcDq4WmHjarWOEawqjUHkrHxZrQQtXjXlMLW5CHfmsKCLvDBdT5RNsOi3m550z5FYimgRUWCBBS-wxBgn_3MxVRgLX64bR_jTM-w/w545-h525/memes-ymen00002.jpg" width="545" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="1319" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaw84sffYZ0TwMad5-4a02602kuzfyQiqHWUTXakiViJ8Q6LUH0zT6he48kZGv-SUMFR_rE2IqQEkolN5BSCgwUZL4_5jQM197BhbQM71zcRQRF7vkxGVAnOKSqo0_RICBoYCBa6CJXdiiMa-BUFNNv97KtQyDNsxapyiClKXC95gm9oZUP20wEg/w372-h640/memes-ymen00001.jpg" width="372" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-43842215413125086172024-02-05T19:50:00.000-05:002024-02-05T19:50:01.750-05:00Secret Sun Video Mystery Hour: American Gladio<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q2dW75RsM-Y?si=YaShzI6cz5VUYyN7" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">This month we have Dana of the must-watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@rottingjewels" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rotting Jewels YouTube channel.</a> Dana is a frighteningly meticulous researcher and is looking into the nexus of spookery and culture creation that will be very familiar to longtime Secret Sun readers. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dig in.<br /></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-20833236306591578962024-02-01T11:42:00.019-05:002024-02-02T11:24:01.591-05:00KingKill '24: The Great Eclipse of America Ritual <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9clUBb_OITr0ahQTU61bOYFbhW7ssVniPOEjkx1lsxXQzJWwb9aiCCeDEfjQBQp7tpVHchbXkeslOQHJBhxRcuFi2h6ujf8ViVYtaHA_QYOptQpkR5NLzrQdi_rZJQbiheN3N7j-yq9n3_AvpGO5N1i-IgMsYhGvXV2nh9n8dZXfRF2kal3yng/s682/eclipse_202400016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="627" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9clUBb_OITr0ahQTU61bOYFbhW7ssVniPOEjkx1lsxXQzJWwb9aiCCeDEfjQBQp7tpVHchbXkeslOQHJBhxRcuFi2h6ujf8ViVYtaHA_QYOptQpkR5NLzrQdi_rZJQbiheN3N7j-yq9n3_AvpGO5N1i-IgMsYhGvXV2nh9n8dZXfRF2kal3yng/w467-h509/eclipse_202400016.jpg" width="467" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You'd be hard-pressed to find any prognosticator of any kind who doesn't foresee some major trouble for America - and the world - on the 2024 horizon.</b> The seeds of chaos have not only been planted, they're already starting to sprout.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So where does the "Great American Eclipse" fit in?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Well, a patron directed me to <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/is-it-just-a-coincidence-that-the-great-american-eclipse-of-2024-will-enter-the-u-s-at-eagle-pass-texas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this article</a>, from the Economic Collapse blog.</b> It deals with an ominous ecliptic conjunction that would have had ancient soothsayers hiding under the bed, quaking in fear.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>All of which is to say that intersecting eclipses across the same country within a seven-year period is as heavy as it gets.</b> And of course this comes at a time when its ruling superstructure is as sick, evil, venal and incompetent as any cabal ever to grab the reigns of what once a nation but is now just another degenerate empire.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But maybe not for too much longer. Read this:<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXnGwiUcz3y6Aov8IPqDe2HqrcUHht-RX_R1jwfO5QMnl0qASYN6MoVqKZfsHk8ymCdK7h9CF_-En11nsaFLHC7zUd5IvpYfcVzCpFLbLcKFyaYXjyd1s4hbHIKPJ-gYsEauhXut8midNuoft7WLH5Q3ovmFUE8Ztju9dnSByTHLs80lSJDtRRRA/s1010/eclipse_202400001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1010" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXnGwiUcz3y6Aov8IPqDe2HqrcUHht-RX_R1jwfO5QMnl0qASYN6MoVqKZfsHk8ymCdK7h9CF_-En11nsaFLHC7zUd5IvpYfcVzCpFLbLcKFyaYXjyd1s4hbHIKPJ-gYsEauhXut8midNuoft7WLH5Q3ovmFUE8Ztju9dnSByTHLs80lSJDtRRRA/w586-h368/eclipse_202400001.jpg" width="586" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>On April 8th, 2024 the entire world will be watching as the Great American Eclipse travels across America.</b> Prior to this historic event, the last total solar eclipse visible from the U.S. was the Great American Eclipse of 2017, and there will not be another total solar eclipse visible from our country until 2044.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGJUyMeUxBDmvMzjBSi1AIEcEieejT-Z22p76cHPTqQWa-jRdE8jIVLpbwgFclK5bSnfoEKBEOkdApVN1Jbqo7jj9_vf0l1Ao29ZVNMJ4L9x7eICIj2OYvsKogdLLs3PIOeX2ZlH5sE4AK3nZ2fcEwNPp40QNKx_JG0oHigcRgW3uLnJZZZTcjg/s660/eclipse_202400003.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="660" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGJUyMeUxBDmvMzjBSi1AIEcEieejT-Z22p76cHPTqQWa-jRdE8jIVLpbwgFclK5bSnfoEKBEOkdApVN1Jbqo7jj9_vf0l1Ao29ZVNMJ4L9x7eICIj2OYvsKogdLLs3PIOeX2ZlH5sE4AK3nZ2fcEwNPp40QNKx_JG0oHigcRgW3uLnJZZZTcjg/w400-h268/eclipse_202400003.jpg" width="400" /></i></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>(The Eclipse) is just a little bit more than two months away, and amazingly the very first city that the path of the eclipse crosses over when it enters the U.S. is Eagle Pass, Texas.</b> </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>There are more than 19,000 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States, and out of all of them Eagle Pass is the very first that the eclipse will touch. </i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Since these eclipses are all figured out far ahead of time - and the Federal government is provably and objectively ruled over by sorcerers - it's safe to say that the manufactured "migrant" crisis didn't end up at that particular location by happenstance. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Which is all the more curious given the (controlled-opposition) Congress's (strictly-performative) impeachment of the hapless flak-catcher, Alejandro Mayorkas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>It's also why I can't help but get a Wicker Man writ-large feeling out of the past four years.</b> Biden is definitely not a virgin (a virgin <i>deflowerer</i>, perhaps) but no sane person honestly sees him as anything but a fool and a "King for a Day" (or an occultic Lord of Misrule). So the question then becomes why exactly was he installed in office?</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Let's look at another alignment:</span></b></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gVPNrfos6ovVYNc7S1S31nivuQ7PceVQxUK6e_VPFH1Wvd6SE-T9vmFmjduVS1Kvg-JPFSyGgO64IIZ5XIX1-wFTHhyphenhyphenpr2KsvVJ_P2SHw3Oo9hWW1oA6FtEFGV6GIYqKesoggEneE0ulkuFAJFw2D9B-1jvJhChR0o3g_aUtrA2WH3nrM1XEvw/s312/eclipse_202400006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="312" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gVPNrfos6ovVYNc7S1S31nivuQ7PceVQxUK6e_VPFH1Wvd6SE-T9vmFmjduVS1Kvg-JPFSyGgO64IIZ5XIX1-wFTHhyphenhyphenpr2KsvVJ_P2SHw3Oo9hWW1oA6FtEFGV6GIYqKesoggEneE0ulkuFAJFw2D9B-1jvJhChR0o3g_aUtrA2WH3nrM1XEvw/w400-h259/eclipse_202400006.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">By this point, everyone realizes that the Biden Administration is absolutely nothing but a cat's paw for the Obama Administration. That's not even up for debate amongst honest, intelligent people.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And seeing that Obama was the <b>44th</b> president, it can't help but tickle our synchro spidey-senses when we see that the Great Eclipse of the American Imperium will pass over Omen, Texas at 1:<b>44</b> PM.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_sDNX2rmsvWs8xhGXv8G7InZ0j0gAuBDPrdFPH8elUAVFpLrndKiRYUSVQukb9bFit1sGP7KVkNtuxj1SLiFiDOPztjBm_HGgOpzcJvx5SlLLLstUHl91GNZuuJBncMsqn5A-UDfWZwEYwsEB9xci5wQU6NWNyCunK4HT-kk5Cug7RoN4-Q3ig/s433/eclipse_202400007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="433" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_sDNX2rmsvWs8xhGXv8G7InZ0j0gAuBDPrdFPH8elUAVFpLrndKiRYUSVQukb9bFit1sGP7KVkNtuxj1SLiFiDOPztjBm_HGgOpzcJvx5SlLLLstUHl91GNZuuJBncMsqn5A-UDfWZwEYwsEB9xci5wQU6NWNyCunK4HT-kk5Cug7RoN4-Q3ig/w400-h395/eclipse_202400007.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>As if "Omen" weren't enough, there's also "Whitehouse" right next door.</b> And next door to that, there's Tyler. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">What's the significance of that?</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>Tyler (also spelled Tiler) is the name of the office of outer guard of a Masonic Lodge.</b> Masonic lodges may meet in rooms in taverns and other public meeting places, and all Lodges appoint a Tyler to guard the door from the outside against ineligible masons or malicious or curious people, to check the eligibility of latecomers, and to ensure that candidates for ceremonies in the Lodge are properly prepared.</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p></blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wow. If this doesn't put us smack-dab in the florid fever-swamps of the late James Shelby Downard, I don't exactly know what would.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0DS3yU2nF-xc9dtKvsgpEVK3HRHK8Kl3W-HWysOX0BI8_1L9Re1o7x0yoGX2YSlkLc-FbQQcInHI0ZD35b9R8AH-WWMAiBsOzcGzzTKM_AkgpBZpM-5On3PAnIsRS_cNTvC510fL2Tp_a_T7aA6OyGGyiygGTvWpsaZWV1phZ-ON35Cy7vKLarA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="654" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0DS3yU2nF-xc9dtKvsgpEVK3HRHK8Kl3W-HWysOX0BI8_1L9Re1o7x0yoGX2YSlkLc-FbQQcInHI0ZD35b9R8AH-WWMAiBsOzcGzzTKM_AkgpBZpM-5On3PAnIsRS_cNTvC510fL2Tp_a_T7aA6OyGGyiygGTvWpsaZWV1phZ-ON35Cy7vKLarA=w262-h400" width="262" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">From Downard's epic screed, King-Kill 33º:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-style: italic;"></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Mystical toponomy incorporates word wizardry (onomatology) and the Masonic science of symbolism</b><i>.</i></span> </span></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><i>In considering my data it would be helpful to consider a dictum of Einsteinian physics: "Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted by the specific physical relations obtaining between them." </i></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>My study of place names imbued with sorcerous significance necessarily includes lines of latitude and longitude and the divisions of degrees in geography and cartography (minutes and seconds). </i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">That would all be good, unclean Freemish fun, had JFK's assassination not led directly to the calamitous Viet Nam catastrophe (and its countless crimes against humanity) and the permanent installation of a divide-and-rule Gladio protocol to be inflicted on the Homeland by LBJ's shadow cabinet of sorcerers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Which brings us to yet another ill omen...</span></p><p><b><u><span style="font-family: verdana;">PEACE, ECLIPSED</span></u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6u2FobJSdiXLWjjSzEiF0TXU9el2lIyWwDF1BTQBYHpXnq8L1pwj5qCzPlMrBURTugTI3DbQESoRUJGdEBC1tQWafRJBmRhJX1AMVgnnxILKFcy4DSR_slXbvfaj9nIW1GBKVHKmOlTrmgUR_2VbJyANWmMbzVJ75fSAfziRbpFanZFtjCrGxg/s720/eclipse_202400010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="720" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6u2FobJSdiXLWjjSzEiF0TXU9el2lIyWwDF1BTQBYHpXnq8L1pwj5qCzPlMrBURTugTI3DbQESoRUJGdEBC1tQWafRJBmRhJX1AMVgnnxILKFcy4DSR_slXbvfaj9nIW1GBKVHKmOlTrmgUR_2VbJyANWmMbzVJ75fSAfziRbpFanZFtjCrGxg/w584-h323/eclipse_202400010.jpg" width="584" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A You Tuber had pointed out that the path of the 2017 Great Eclipse of the American Imperium passed over not one, not three, but SEVEN different Salems. Again, it's hard to imagine a more troubling portent, given that Salem is derived from the Hebrew word for "peace." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I would also argue this could also be seen as a doubly-grave omen for Israel, and might well portend that seven powerful armies will rise against it in response to its war on Gaza. And it may even all end up on the Plains of Megiddo. Wouldn't that be ironic?</span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgysSZmhRJwOMcksLkQcP_VplaMlkhyphenhyphensYgiW8-b2XU7QNbDype5U9lilfaJhjsx3oAKs4IC6UdagznBROiWXsEakEwFe1WV78wiguB0_8HDfKUK9I0LFncHg6txfP9-2zOgUYIsj-Nf38tdtVYn6ktslgZzah1ly2EnqOeIGfNKDxy0L2m8X6IRDg/s479/eclipse_202400011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="477" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgysSZmhRJwOMcksLkQcP_VplaMlkhyphenhyphensYgiW8-b2XU7QNbDype5U9lilfaJhjsx3oAKs4IC6UdagznBROiWXsEakEwFe1WV78wiguB0_8HDfKUK9I0LFncHg6txfP9-2zOgUYIsj-Nf38tdtVYn6ktslgZzah1ly2EnqOeIGfNKDxy0L2m8X6IRDg/w319-h320/eclipse_202400011.jpg" width="319" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But even if that eventuality does come to pass, it will surely be overshadowed by the new global conflagration we're already well-immersed in.</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've been telling you that World War III officially started nearly two years ago, and the corporate media finally seems to be waking up to that fact. However, only a small handful (so far) are waking up to is how ill-prepared the Regime is for such a conflict, thanks to the country-killing spellcraft of globalization and "out-sourcing."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In other words, no one seems to think we have the industrial wherewithal to fight a war with countries who've been using our money to make <i>real</i> weapons to use against us. (What was it that Lenin said about a capitalist and rope again?)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">See, a sulfurous admixture of Sammy Glick-styled showmanship and Elon-grade techno-autism are all fine and good when you're bombing the shit out of defenseless and impoverished countries for 30-plus years, but it's probably not going to impress the rapidly-expanding BRICS bloc, which is not-coincidently nailing down its allies at strategic chokepoints along crucial shipping lanes. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And thanks to the rapid spread of cheap, easily-manufactured drones and missiles, the American Imperium is suddenly staring down the same barrel that its European forebears did when the natives got their hands on firearms. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But it gets even worse. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You see, after a extremely shaky start in Ukraine, the Russians have discovered the West's great Achilles Heel: <i>impatience</i>. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Corporate culture, sci-fi stupidity and the (now-ended) age of technological breakthroughs conditioned Americans (especially) to expect instant results in everything. And that aforementioned 30+ year bipartisan project of bombing poor people and stealing all their shit seems to have distorted the West's concept of how warfare really works. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Wonder weapons" certainly have their place and uses - assuming they actually work - but are only as good as the people using them. And from stem to stern, the militaries of the West seem to be filled with Woke idiots (at the top) and social washouts (in the ranks), totally unprepared for a drawn-out slog with a peer military.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>So, who cares? </b>This isn't Jane's Defense Weekly, right? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, the point of this is when nations face these kinds of stark realities, the witchcraft <u>always</u> kicks in. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEFIgc-djHQuqBNLdKFigVO81ydqLkecUg9j3sP8Ya9LIRsKPj4v6zU_WZ9lzrKvRZIFTS9Lo3NY7SFkJS6JLETihMbFd_2jfjvv7Tl_5ut-OALC_DcP3JXNP690F_k5HJYSHJLWgtUGAR2oNDht-u-_pfdnexJZ7STepmNos_0ha0WDbxsLHSw/s502/eclipse_202400009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="433" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEFIgc-djHQuqBNLdKFigVO81ydqLkecUg9j3sP8Ya9LIRsKPj4v6zU_WZ9lzrKvRZIFTS9Lo3NY7SFkJS6JLETihMbFd_2jfjvv7Tl_5ut-OALC_DcP3JXNP690F_k5HJYSHJLWgtUGAR2oNDht-u-_pfdnexJZ7STepmNos_0ha0WDbxsLHSw/s320/eclipse_202400009.jpg" width="276" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u><b>MAKANDA FOREVER</b></u></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">According to some, the paths of Eclipsed America 2017 and Eclipsed America 2024 are set to cross at a rather-obscure location.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Makanda is a village in Jackson County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 547, down from 561 in 2010. </i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>And here's the Big Tell: </b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>In the early 20th Century, (Makanda) used the slogan "Star of Egypt."</i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of course.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I probably don't need to remind you that the Star of Egypt is Sirius, AKA the Dog Star, AKA the Blue Star, AKA the Astrum Argentum, AKA the Masonic Blazing Star.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That all connects quite snugly with the <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/search/label/Stairway%20to%20Sirius" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stairway to Sirius symbolism</a> wielded by Obama and his (fake) opponent all the way back during the 2008 Presidential Selection.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgn_6soIVSLbj8WRDYlm0wOEAZbJk-6U00HnZM6HRAW_Iku3e9K8QJtuvWkyTRozCoHHfDeqhkQtSVOhZ5AR5xh0bkI3n8BegQ6Y_uo3yTNea_87WF8Mq5P7pEP4jN463eNNYCG5oKg69oFD4m_gq91QJ3Gt-HH4h_50EA7GsqfNyUc2GdJZHDGOPlsDQ=s844" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="844" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgn_6soIVSLbj8WRDYlm0wOEAZbJk-6U00HnZM6HRAW_Iku3e9K8QJtuvWkyTRozCoHHfDeqhkQtSVOhZ5AR5xh0bkI3n8BegQ6Y_uo3yTNea_87WF8Mq5P7pEP4jN463eNNYCG5oKg69oFD4m_gq91QJ3Gt-HH4h_50EA7GsqfNyUc2GdJZHDGOPlsDQ=w400-h283" width="400" /></span></a></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Which brings us to Apep AKA Apophis, the cosmic, sun-devouring serpent defeated by Ra and Set - the <i>Great Ra-Set</i>, if you will.</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>In ancient Egypt, Apep, the serpent of chaos and death, opposed Ra, the sun god, and was always trying to reach Ra’s skyboat to devour the sundisc — but in the end, Ra was always able to fight him off, and the sun would come back.</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNynfUip96U59pS5NHVGKNsK4GjS1MKTQGNPc_nOSf4sWamGqrkfIj5gXg3kCZNdedaAxYC37rd576pGmqBGQOUcdhoX1D-75SkKN8S0NuIh3MHmSCp9tE8LlC3tleuFlNWZthNHSssE95XANQALAQxnXogsOGBjb4bqZhJ3YEAnSzGmziDq54BTJuVA=s576" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="576" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNynfUip96U59pS5NHVGKNsK4GjS1MKTQGNPc_nOSf4sWamGqrkfIj5gXg3kCZNdedaAxYC37rd576pGmqBGQOUcdhoX1D-75SkKN8S0NuIh3MHmSCp9tE8LlC3tleuFlNWZthNHSssE95XANQALAQxnXogsOGBjb4bqZhJ3YEAnSzGmziDq54BTJuVA=w493-h319" width="493" /></span></a></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Remembering that all of these myths are stellar in nature, Ra takes the form of a hare (Lepus), formerly associated with Set</b> (Set got demoted after the Hyksos left Egypt). All of which dredges up that <i>Wicker Man</i> resonance we mentioned before.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQaPiOQj_7mXAcazfXhN8PIpepfIgHDLPaaFZgkDGa0TaqOtX8ZPlk_31tQEb4p5bTOE3xvbsaop8IQarBP7VNN_pdmdCpK9waX4F_9wQ_ntQVKTi3osKz3xPkfkPOIgCRMVtTR0YWsuX20Y9w5TMsAsSvrgo9j6rZIxu-qQVpTNkFlWBYzMpYIGq0jw=s512" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQaPiOQj_7mXAcazfXhN8PIpepfIgHDLPaaFZgkDGa0TaqOtX8ZPlk_31tQEb4p5bTOE3xvbsaop8IQarBP7VNN_pdmdCpK9waX4F_9wQ_ntQVKTi3osKz3xPkfkPOIgCRMVtTR0YWsuX20Y9w5TMsAsSvrgo9j6rZIxu-qQVpTNkFlWBYzMpYIGq0jw=w368-h400" width="368" /></a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lepus the Hare beheads Apophis (the Southern Galactic Plane) before he reaches Osiris (Orion) and the Path of Ra's Solar Bark (the Ecliptic, or Zodiac). Note that the Ecliptic "beheads" Taurus, reminding us of how Horus beheaded Isis and gave her a cow's head instead.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And Sirius watches over it all, inscrutably and eternally.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtR5495M8_RPnlZnuPXTqFbZuA-D5tOpUzPDtDUKlqushyphenhyphen6Dvpw_hEIC5RdB5IXart8RgkjppV_nPMVqexjVZiB7yx3TApyYbM7QInr9sYCh7W7pc7sDEDj-MouBvxKwfsApvHvilS9YVRUL-o9NLXx5RbUHUML5uksU7Vm5CDYpUzccyjBuxMQA/s693/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-01%20at%2010.22.06%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="693" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtR5495M8_RPnlZnuPXTqFbZuA-D5tOpUzPDtDUKlqushyphenhyphen6Dvpw_hEIC5RdB5IXart8RgkjppV_nPMVqexjVZiB7yx3TApyYbM7QInr9sYCh7W7pc7sDEDj-MouBvxKwfsApvHvilS9YVRUL-o9NLXx5RbUHUML5uksU7Vm5CDYpUzccyjBuxMQA/w576-h545/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-01%20at%2010.22.06%20AM.png" width="576" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This in turn coincides with the alleged Apophis asteroid the Freems at NASA (AKA Now Adore Satan, Assholes) are allegedly so worried about lately.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>THE CRUELEST MONTH</u></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9i0Neocz1foqNeoLy_b5vg3vV7NmLSRShJh7LXdk-ILXy_h7WHLi_RrkEmf_Cu-aa0Tm8drs7lehhyphenhyphenX8ThFy7n2Dr-oPkKXY_rwIQjbA9CRcBVfcY1EUxBB0XuP6nillpXU8fnwPEQ3AhLELpMX5drwvZHo782l_ub-WS46uvvgFfUaoVGBfHA/s451/eclipse_202400008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="451" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9i0Neocz1foqNeoLy_b5vg3vV7NmLSRShJh7LXdk-ILXy_h7WHLi_RrkEmf_Cu-aa0Tm8drs7lehhyphenhyphenX8ThFy7n2Dr-oPkKXY_rwIQjbA9CRcBVfcY1EUxBB0XuP6nillpXU8fnwPEQ3AhLELpMX5drwvZHo782l_ub-WS46uvvgFfUaoVGBfHA/w400-h355/eclipse_202400008.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As if all this weren't enough, the Great Eclipse of America is due to pass by in April, which TS Eliot labeled the "cruelest month" in his apocalyptic poem, "The Wasteland." </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>That brings back the Great Ra-Set of Lepus:</b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Caesar would likely have known that in the Classical Greek tradition, hares were sacred to Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Meanwhile, Aphrodite’s son Eros was often depicted carrying a hare, as a symbol of unquenchable desire.</i></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoPfBoRy-891QzxjKY-_t_6uQ3m-YAdx0kyB9UwnJ87vLmeGRgJrG12Rhy5KIx2j76csCxjuOx3f_O95EAbh4HcWVED1XA26ljgFKrxv3EPvzhootf_lmIzg-MTiufbSKiwEQ4IyBO__1WhjbvVmQ-cwOgL2oLVcU3o_FMAyz74-rTl6i57gGBmw/s446/eclipse_202400004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="432" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoPfBoRy-891QzxjKY-_t_6uQ3m-YAdx0kyB9UwnJ87vLmeGRgJrG12Rhy5KIx2j76csCxjuOx3f_O95EAbh4HcWVED1XA26ljgFKrxv3EPvzhootf_lmIzg-MTiufbSKiwEQ4IyBO__1WhjbvVmQ-cwOgL2oLVcU3o_FMAyz74-rTl6i57gGBmw/s320/eclipse_202400004.jpg" width="310" /></a></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But more importantly, the eclipse comes a week before the Lyrids.</b> </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We've talked about these meteor showers before, when the European wing of the worldwide Sorcerarchy <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2019/04/drunk-on-blood-of-saints.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">made a burnt offering of Notre Dame</a> to celebrate the start of them. Even Trump marked them with his ritualistic bombing of Damascus.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Initiated understand the <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2024/01/this-is-not-drill-age-of-revelation-is.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">significance</a> of Notre Dame, which you see hints of when you read up on Lyra:</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>In Greek mythology, Lyra represents the lyre of Orpheus. Orpheus's music was said to be so great that even inanimate objects such as rocks could be charmed. Joining Jason and the Argonauts, his music was able to quell the voices of the dangerous Sirens, who sang tempting songs to the Argonauts.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> What else is Lyra known for?</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNC-K64bjNFndnWVmrcf7gI9-8_yDKnPqljuJcwGM-_5JTEJy9x3PM9xMCOekXnjzlLzCpH1BdC4KZexF2XmUbpX72HuXonpNzXcI0CH0YWu8RMwFWpYHi0P6JDvKo0TInZtUNHOiefGxi70p5fFW81GSC5rmeQr4knwGrSdCIFPmlXh_JSRGFQ/s480/eclipse_202400005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNC-K64bjNFndnWVmrcf7gI9-8_yDKnPqljuJcwGM-_5JTEJy9x3PM9xMCOekXnjzlLzCpH1BdC4KZexF2XmUbpX72HuXonpNzXcI0CH0YWu8RMwFWpYHi0P6JDvKo0TInZtUNHOiefGxi70p5fFW81GSC5rmeQr4knwGrSdCIFPmlXh_JSRGFQ/s320/eclipse_202400005.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnUcWnz9ibzR7bA0cSsTJlIhSnIDPSUGcav2bxcYcM-uUuli1-VQCzMrXmKhBw6uiHmrUkEsYe7U_aFbyuoQfn90bIYTaKYgLd5hp99Exs1Gk5SD2jg22NgtX8V_wscNFUO49/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-04-15+at+4.31.15+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnUcWnz9ibzR7bA0cSsTJlIhSnIDPSUGcav2bxcYcM-uUuli1-VQCzMrXmKhBw6uiHmrUkEsYe7U_aFbyuoQfn90bIYTaKYgLd5hp99Exs1Gk5SD2jg22NgtX8V_wscNFUO49/w583-h292/Screen+Shot+2018-04-15+at+4.31.15+AM.png" width="583" /></a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>As some of you may remember, Lyra is <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-great-seal-decoded-finally.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">openly and inarguably commemorated</a> in the Presidential Seal, which itself is an adaptation of the Great Seal.</b> This isn't speculation or conjecture, it's all in the public record as being placed there by John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So let's return to another famous President hailing from Norfolk County, Massachusetts. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take it away, Mr. Downard:</span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>The "science of names" word wizardry forms only one segment of the science of symbolism used by Masons.</b> The JFK assassination encounters this science in a decisive way and contains a veritable nightmare of symbol-complexes having to do with violence, perversion, conspiracy, death and degradation.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>These elements are important not only as cause-and-effect in the murder of a president but in the ensuing reaction of the people of America and the world.</i></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So, what does all this portend for an Irish Catholic President of more recent vintage?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nothing good, I fear.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>RULE OF THE FOOL</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Babylon is the ultimate spiritual spawning-ground for the Sorcerarchy,</b> and the eternal touchstone for all their gods, beliefs, actions, and spellcraft. No educated person disagrees with that. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So what did Babylonian soothsayers think about eclipses?</span></div><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>According to Babylonian scholars, eclipses could foretell the death of the king. The conditions for an omen to be considered as such were not simple. For instance, according to a famous astronomical work known by its initial words, “Enūma Anu Enlil” – “When (the gods) Anu and Enlil” – if Jupiter was visible during the eclipse, the king was safe. </i></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Well, OK. What if Jupiter was NOT visible? </b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That, as the kids all say, gets a bit more complicated.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Q_-bIpG2sGhtH6HAnLc8c6RKRTo1kj4apUNkH2aYsY2PDwaq97WSsEM0-PxNHU5kbw-xv9DS6UsVwkdRbWAJXH5eUKVrE4MqDGPrHNDizGH5mJfGKxOJAzvQpuNiU_mERYl1r2kWefFXtGkYbLIPqfYBGtcB8_azTUgu-_iWSVREoc6aL5s1vA/s630/eclipse_202400013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="630" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Q_-bIpG2sGhtH6HAnLc8c6RKRTo1kj4apUNkH2aYsY2PDwaq97WSsEM0-PxNHU5kbw-xv9DS6UsVwkdRbWAJXH5eUKVrE4MqDGPrHNDizGH5mJfGKxOJAzvQpuNiU_mERYl1r2kWefFXtGkYbLIPqfYBGtcB8_azTUgu-_iWSVREoc6aL5s1vA/w400-h394/eclipse_202400013.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's where the Substitute King Ritual comes into play:</span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><i><b>The substitute king ritual was an ancient Mesopotamian religious rite of human sacrifice,</b> documented most clearly in Assyria, which was performed to safeguard the king from danger perceived to come from evil omens.</i></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>These omens were generally thought to arise from certain astronomical events such as eclipses. </b></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><i>Once a substitute was chosen he would be taken to the palace where he was washed, anointed, and given wine and food. He was dressed in the king's robes and decorated with the royal diadem and other crown jewels then placed upon the throne.</i></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh, dear. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Best include the health and safety of ol' Joey-boy in your bedtime prayers tonight, kids.</b> What comes after will surely be much worse.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MiDqxze0XsXf5B352BAMQhFfgeLGB0b6pykbt0ekY5_WIunXSV7AikKqL_3-9GsAGcX1acqBhpBm9kSbmVXIQN73r4wayRB0si24ugIuah5qsO0kZFhLBjppQGlfgdZ9JJSDn2XlT4QR7w9Om_MEQ-zm7YkLOcQLj3Tke5GxjjFs06vcnzGsBw/s944/17bcf69399d04f391f095daf1721f2d7142e59a920972f21fb9a2afa585fbb48_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="629" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MiDqxze0XsXf5B352BAMQhFfgeLGB0b6pykbt0ekY5_WIunXSV7AikKqL_3-9GsAGcX1acqBhpBm9kSbmVXIQN73r4wayRB0si24ugIuah5qsO0kZFhLBjppQGlfgdZ9JJSDn2XlT4QR7w9Om_MEQ-zm7YkLOcQLj3Tke5GxjjFs06vcnzGsBw/w266-h400/17bcf69399d04f391f095daf1721f2d7142e59a920972f21fb9a2afa585fbb48_1.jpg" width="266" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This next part of the spell calls to mind (ostensibly-unfounded) rumors and memes that Jill Biden was the Biden's babysitter and started banging Joe on the sly when she was just 15:</span></div><p></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><i><b>Extant ritual tablets also state that a "girl" or "virgin" was chosen to serve as his "queen" and seated by his side.</b> The substitute was also given a statuette to present to the gods of the underworld.<span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></i></span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Which leads one to wonder if these rumors weren't the work of 4Chan autists or Roger Stone's ratfuckers, but were seeded into the public mind for later, more <i>ritualistic</i> purposes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Just a thought. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"></span></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimFUQiIjDbLI4gN9-lfsk1Or9JqblAbJ7UTUdlqLZtNcxud3-3CJ2ODjVvNCdGxNifOPbbyn40gmKqGKN80MIuPxelnOXwvOTnjGU7dRegPJaZSMvjnYeocpdDZwn-gfAtjnOCTqUL3ff_6ow9lyEeC5A7wFeBlyZMUyv4xC8hpVvS10-jA1-Dw/s468/eclipse_202400014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="442" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimFUQiIjDbLI4gN9-lfsk1Or9JqblAbJ7UTUdlqLZtNcxud3-3CJ2ODjVvNCdGxNifOPbbyn40gmKqGKN80MIuPxelnOXwvOTnjGU7dRegPJaZSMvjnYeocpdDZwn-gfAtjnOCTqUL3ff_6ow9lyEeC5A7wFeBlyZMUyv4xC8hpVvS10-jA1-Dw/w378-h400/eclipse_202400014.jpg" width="378" /></span></a></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Or maybe a bit more, when you start to read up on the Babylonian Puppet-King sacrificial ritual:</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><i><b>During the course of the ritual the (real) king symbolically abdicates his throne and a substitute is placed there </b>in his stead for a period of up to 100 days.</i></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>Though he possessed no real power, the substitute king would live and <u>hold court at the palace</u></b> and enjoy the wealth and prestige of the king. Simultaneously the real king would go into hiding, accessible only to his closest advisors. </i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><i>Throughout the ritual many exorcistic rites were performed in order to transfer the danger arising from the evil omens from the real king onto the substitute.</i></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>At the end of this time the substitute is put to death and the real king, having successfully transferred his doomed fate onto the scapegoat, returns to his throne. </b></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p></blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants? You could almost imagine a scenario where good ol' Barry returns to the White House after his sorcerers cancel the elections and impose martial law, with the help of all those "migrants" from Eagle Pass, where the Great Eclipse of America will first touch our shores?</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><i>Almost</i> imagine, mind you.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhjiY12Yhb1K0avupAxqyOKoHPRKfNufg7ShfogITLOE5y3apTDuGajJ14pAhF8qCYRKDT3HJHRsWGF_yJ5ifkUAsaYkDoRPk_LikEMyZSeZhKJsQBWAeMeHAuefIkQaXY3xF_YOQgnJz1wXTL_hLBTieetaK8gXImgV6jyaQt0duCy8S35xJ-w/s792/eclipse_202400015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="792" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhjiY12Yhb1K0avupAxqyOKoHPRKfNufg7ShfogITLOE5y3apTDuGajJ14pAhF8qCYRKDT3HJHRsWGF_yJ5ifkUAsaYkDoRPk_LikEMyZSeZhKJsQBWAeMeHAuefIkQaXY3xF_YOQgnJz1wXTL_hLBTieetaK8gXImgV6jyaQt0duCy8S35xJ-w/w546-h304/eclipse_202400015.jpg" width="546" /></a></span></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Or maybe a bit more than imagination:</b> this story went wide on Twitter whilst I was doing research for this post:</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>BREAKING VIDEO: Top White House Cyber Official tells O’Keefe in Disguise “they can't say it publicly” the White House wants to replace Kamala Harris and Confirms President mental decline: “Biden is definitely slowing down.”</b></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“I'm just telling you what I've heard… they’re really concerned about it” <b>…“I think they need to get rid of him or her.”</b></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“But no one in modern history has ever said, like, ‘We're not going to renominate the president for a second term.’”</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hope everyone who still thinks that the Regime is bursting with Braniacs and Lex Luthors watches this video. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And I also hope everyone watches in shock as this thirsty idiot spills state secrets to a laughably-disguised James O'Keefe, who is one of the current top enemies of the state. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">More: </span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><i>Charlie Kraiger, a Cybersecurity policy analyst and Foreign affairs Desk Officer in the Executive Office at the White House, tells O’Keefe “I had a meeting with Michelle Obama </i></span><i>…. Someone asked her, ‘Will you ever run for office?’ And she said, ‘No’ Empathically.” She was like, ‘I've seen all this shit my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me.’</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Worry not, fans <strike>of functional idiots who sucked their way to power</strike>: Joe might well go, but the Fool Queen doesn't seem to be going anywhere.</span></p><blockquote><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"@KamalaHarris hemorrhages black staff. She can't keep black staff. They quit on her en masse”</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>“She will be the vice president nominee. There was a debate about removing her from the ticket, but sadly they didn’t, she's not popular, but you can’t remove the first black lady to be vice president from the Goddamn presidential ticket. Like what kind of message are you going to send to like African-American voters… </i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, considering African-American voters don't seem to like Kamala much either, you can't help but wonder if there's another constituency that wants to make sure she stays in her, um, position. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But whoever could that be? </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUoKTMPtHOht0poFufIX8Fg4MOI-aIlNn2cr4rh7Xp1-arnmzSyb-scGndaPC7LQXSiRjDDRMFN28GFQAok_alDt8qaYHdD8B1CZKX__gU7atMOsbNDhBdE7Wj80GmPE1mfc9ouxQ2ab5YGIeTCNmyfNHHmq7aefH1nSzbdpFTrRyseBsjPSpqQ/s452/eclipse_202400018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="452" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUoKTMPtHOht0poFufIX8Fg4MOI-aIlNn2cr4rh7Xp1-arnmzSyb-scGndaPC7LQXSiRjDDRMFN28GFQAok_alDt8qaYHdD8B1CZKX__gU7atMOsbNDhBdE7Wj80GmPE1mfc9ouxQ2ab5YGIeTCNmyfNHHmq7aefH1nSzbdpFTrRyseBsjPSpqQ/w400-h391/eclipse_202400018.jpg" width="400" /></i></a> <i style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLBTjAowygpjW1MVMJGREIvyAvgWLmBIL-mKB2tVPuYVYfiBUMVfMOh9xwSGbtlj6D9eDyQy_8UeKsgpZRwzfIIV7BHvQ9Hrp50T244Uf9xqy8lZDvFdNqrJBx-MbNgxAmc5krl4mOR_fI80JhzJdXuAeQc0KXpaejuTEutSNrjjp59Hi6CBQ1Q/s497/eclipse_202400017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="425" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLBTjAowygpjW1MVMJGREIvyAvgWLmBIL-mKB2tVPuYVYfiBUMVfMOh9xwSGbtlj6D9eDyQy_8UeKsgpZRwzfIIV7BHvQ9Hrp50T244Uf9xqy8lZDvFdNqrJBx-MbNgxAmc5krl4mOR_fI80JhzJdXuAeQc0KXpaejuTEutSNrjjp59Hi6CBQ1Q/w381-h445/eclipse_202400017.jpg" width="381" /></a></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I guess we'll never know.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFMZpNkwns7591i_noUidnw5iSah6c6yVS62aqzKKOMdKHMRDgnpdB8qQqw-PXsJMC3WASmIBVMntnFxFP_D1M_AuQBRQXEOzp068FGxgzSHVXVj8fm3lXvnR5phTGk9DRugwkP5mzk61P5hVh6r02nZ4d1bfuPqFsxbuyDhHtDYfVf0iY9Ab_g/s587/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%2011.21.17%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="587" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFMZpNkwns7591i_noUidnw5iSah6c6yVS62aqzKKOMdKHMRDgnpdB8qQqw-PXsJMC3WASmIBVMntnFxFP_D1M_AuQBRQXEOzp068FGxgzSHVXVj8fm3lXvnR5phTGk9DRugwkP5mzk61P5hVh6r02nZ4d1bfuPqFsxbuyDhHtDYfVf0iY9Ab_g/w592-h494/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%2011.21.17%20AM.png" width="592" /></a></span></div><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">UPDATE: Well, well, well.</span></span></span><p></p><div><br /></div></span></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-14968701055408076122024-01-27T16:26:00.000-05:002024-01-27T16:26:57.551-05:00Secret Sun Shines on Grimerica<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1493" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAXTnAk2grE4uh2HX-oXKN989bXttLMQMnABNz0snpcKov3u6Dw6XypXLCiSQxEbNYcZCLT8yorjhXD4DG5J93dJ8Sgec0763R6YDi2FyItTKXNENuEMBV24QAyF6E59NUv9eSgGRdIZOLqjZpM7gHNyB7dGRjvBOzrSS3gPvx49gbaXI9JA8tSw=w422-h297" width="422" /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Darren and Graham were kind enough to invite me back on Grimerica</b> for a talk on the Fourth Turning, the Regime's existential crisis, the sick joke that is the WEF, and the collapse of the Entertainment-Media-Industrial Complex and so much more.</span></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1kvJpvlVRjmKE?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Click here to listen.</span></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-59333380996471805712024-01-22T19:40:00.019-05:002024-01-23T01:03:37.087-05:00True Detective, Season Four: I Want (You) to Believe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CF95IQAjlFU4MWoO_fpBDhqig6PDVdNc8mHPKoMFoUf_lX8Z-_Oe3vqf6a97NK8Owm_ZPv9p6fu07pz7BqWlbTHkYrjSgqzpFTBHW_EUJARKsCTZUHZyz1fITwU_Gc8_uQxrtbvlBQT9ocNOryusuOdVbRGsILtzJMFHZ2i4K6vTiq8V-N_lfQ/s621/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-22%20at%207.47.53%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="621" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3CF95IQAjlFU4MWoO_fpBDhqig6PDVdNc8mHPKoMFoUf_lX8Z-_Oe3vqf6a97NK8Owm_ZPv9p6fu07pz7BqWlbTHkYrjSgqzpFTBHW_EUJARKsCTZUHZyz1fITwU_Gc8_uQxrtbvlBQT9ocNOryusuOdVbRGsILtzJMFHZ2i4K6vTiq8V-N_lfQ/w518-h342/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-22%20at%207.47.53%20PM.png" width="518" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>True Detective: Night Country</i> has been airing on HBO MAX</b> (or whatever the hell it's called anymore) and doesn't seem to be setting the couch potato world ablaze... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3GWHZR_0ss2eBLFw-p-JdX9QSRAJa_X9zkPvFmj-16Zegdn6oTfEv_EGHSQ7M6KUbmIuL5Q2gfPB16gdYauoSIu7L2IzSZE-dwvZ7bFuxu0bba6bn-qXIFNx-afwKOfy4IqPuv0-QFcmCrVd4-gC5AV6lTLUFMXNIr6q6lBNzBSDC1EKYtc0Hcg/s481/true-detective-xf00008.jpeg" style="font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a name='more'></a></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3GWHZR_0ss2eBLFw-p-JdX9QSRAJa_X9zkPvFmj-16Zegdn6oTfEv_EGHSQ7M6KUbmIuL5Q2gfPB16gdYauoSIu7L2IzSZE-dwvZ7bFuxu0bba6bn-qXIFNx-afwKOfy4IqPuv0-QFcmCrVd4-gC5AV6lTLUFMXNIr6q6lBNzBSDC1EKYtc0Hcg/s481/true-detective-xf00008.jpeg" style="font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="481" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3GWHZR_0ss2eBLFw-p-JdX9QSRAJa_X9zkPvFmj-16Zegdn6oTfEv_EGHSQ7M6KUbmIuL5Q2gfPB16gdYauoSIu7L2IzSZE-dwvZ7bFuxu0bba6bn-qXIFNx-afwKOfy4IqPuv0-QFcmCrVd4-gC5AV6lTLUFMXNIr6q6lBNzBSDC1EKYtc0Hcg/w400-h396/true-detective-xf00008.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>...but it seems to be getting <i>True Detective</i> and <i>X-File</i>s fans all riled up,</b> since it's pretty much a pastiche of old TXF plots.</span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Jodie Foster-led fourth season of the crime drama has been praised for its spine-chilling Alaskan-set story, and, naturally, the performances of its Oscar-winning lead and her costars. However, that is only half the story, as some fans feel that it has strayed too far from its roots, leaning more towards supernatural elements reminiscent of The X-Files rather than maintaining the gritty realism of its predecessors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Among the first 250 reviews to hit Rotten Tomatoes, one viewer commented, "It's like they've crossed over into X-Files territory, with actual ghosts." </div></i></span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span></span><i>Mashable</i> called the parallels in the first TD:NC episode with this XF ep:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Here's the set-up in "Ice," Season 1, episode 8 of The X-Files.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><blockquote><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Everyone's favourite hot FBI agents who regularly dabble in the unexplainable find themselves with a humdinger of case on their desk. This time, the truth is way out there, in Icy Cape, Alaska, at a research facility 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The members of the Arctic Ice Core Project, responsible for drilling into the ice sheets to extract cylinders of ice for climate analysis (kind of like the scientists in True Detective), have been found strewn about the halls, brutally killed.</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>A bloody lone survivor has left a message. "We're not who we are," he broadcasts. "It goes no further than this. It stops right here, right now."</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> What exactly did the team extract in those ice cores? And what's affecting the members of the investigation team one by one?</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The episode shares a lot with True Detective's first episode, including the remoteness of the location, scientists scrambling to unpack the mystery of the outpost's fate, and the self-recorded videos of the team goofing around before their untimely demise. </i></span></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Which is all fine and good, only "Ice" is pretty much a low-budget rewrite of <i>The Thing</i> AKA <i>The Thing from Another World</i> AKA <i>Who Goes There?</i></b> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A fact which the writer seems to have gleaned from a quick Wikipedia run. So good on her, I guess.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But let's go a little deeper...</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="237" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9obO-B0gDkM" width="385" youtube-src-id="9obO-B0gDkM"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="320" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yn1GPzbEsAU" width="524" youtube-src-id="yn1GPzbEsAU"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I pointed out the rather startling visual similarity between the <i>True Detective</i> trailer and the criminally-undervalued <i>The X-Files: I Want to Believe</i> <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/07/true-detective-taxi-driver-and-signals.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">last June</a>. The setting, direction, and cinematography seemed nearly identical, right down to the blue/green color filters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Secret Sun - always ahead of the curve. For all the good it does me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9rX_CmIhcCB_K4kaKgiJIHZPLv9y_VUZANKTyrFKC9_Q_PZ5oojxjB1KxcSI62BAnZl0hzSxKupS-X8YdjKCy7ZaWgZKiKSrn7In4hkgmebn2BQgbduO6sb1JuCntqKCtypjE4T-xXWaVmfnhBq3WnqAavQvPQPAnsPgV2NOYMeUY5Wv-XvRXS5CHjvA5/s715/true-detective-xf00016.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="715" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9rX_CmIhcCB_K4kaKgiJIHZPLv9y_VUZANKTyrFKC9_Q_PZ5oojxjB1KxcSI62BAnZl0hzSxKupS-X8YdjKCy7ZaWgZKiKSrn7In4hkgmebn2BQgbduO6sb1JuCntqKCtypjE4T-xXWaVmfnhBq3WnqAavQvPQPAnsPgV2NOYMeUY5Wv-XvRXS5CHjvA5/w400-h290/true-detective-xf00016.jpg" width="400" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="584" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-5YnWTjswfE36ylfpB5C_Pr6MEeDwmF4oX4wJsOWe0oiZl08O57YiAW0XPfjqv59pY1WghZkc0k-8AmacTGQNaATanGUm28FtMR0vpdbLiabaSv-Ekw0prrx25KUCwpqtiJziVJv_NCLrTiebJt9F7iucnQqvbKAqOgDtVUFO1u-mjx-9eFNnjT6a3xHN/w400-h397/true-detective-xf00015.jpeg" width="400" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As it happens, you even have the same plot device in both - a grisly discovery of mutilated bodies buried in the snow and ice. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Not exactly a <i>trope</i>, if you will.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="932" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNb05YF9Lph7tpJ2O02D6hwGuvSrzQm01QZ3boB_rXzQ-PTAjVCmlQonbEnD0a8luFp5YBupcHOythkZwuUsm6uAmI2FA6NnBg4mqJgMWnieMIkJyaAS4_zHwEo3DpF47cQSPOMNdSlw3KDrjfQSH0Va577Q6uMzP4jTYo39hi6dcwZWn4iXq6s9zDRPPm/w625-h341/true-detective-xf00017.jpeg" width="625" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj23RVFMDHIKq98taH1n-MePzJCr1HCRKRH3xfWdcYlICOTo73clpJ4NLBTIXHKoA9Abza_QZUPjUM_Rm_Zg24UJPhedvA52dMbiIWbkkD4bnE130T7zcOYeaWfgBR1zUgPQqjXH0jijhx05VXfkTp4GYSTPeYufSRblAfP6nmvJKS45_JrHrtSk0jjfzcP/s576/true-detective-xf00021.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="576" height="415" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj23RVFMDHIKq98taH1n-MePzJCr1HCRKRH3xfWdcYlICOTo73clpJ4NLBTIXHKoA9Abza_QZUPjUM_Rm_Zg24UJPhedvA52dMbiIWbkkD4bnE130T7zcOYeaWfgBR1zUgPQqjXH0jijhx05VXfkTp4GYSTPeYufSRblAfP6nmvJKS45_JrHrtSk0jjfzcP/w624-h415/true-detective-xf00021.jpg" width="624" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As you can see the shots and the setups are highly similar, so much that you probably wouldn't know they were from different films had I not told you. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't blame director Issa Lopez for lifting so much of Carter's style here - whatever else one might say about <i>I Want to Believe</i>, you can't say it's not brilliantly directed and filmed. But it would be nice to hear her cop to it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioWQSM1JBxPJXGBVZwJXgeG99OUYcUxBzOewBH7ikxIOYyPCM3HJh4a7qtz5jUAg6P0QQ8G1ba4P80ps3hiDXSgv37pYKsF90MyeRB8zg3CRI4rjusHKmM1Hwbrk74sVQDa8-i_WXM0YCxiKOeUEr7Tm1Fl4FajsnmMT0Br1OGxo4QWo2rliG6m1MUM7GO/w400-h400/true-detective-xf00009.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" width="400" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="576" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJmoy0Q0okPCywv_Lg2K12xXvYPkpFjKFS3rJNA_syEv83LaMOJb4E-iL3Yw66847p9B0dFzpyLPyEhdNIl-OIv4bmIOmJDj2ket_Qw0bRNJRkZWNiI6v_5aNmuFdaviWppiH0wb8ftVZFU5573ThkIwcCGc9T0zqTw927bk1uNY1j8tv8PMqm4Jf8fnXx/w400-h363/true-detective-xf00020.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We even have the same plotline where said grisly discover comes about through finding the victims, their faces frozen and their mouths agape in pain and horror.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="543" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3y4BfHhS4z3r6jf5Oo4B1uE35XLhoBRM1unZAByfe1OeeTJtyrWtdxRRlSCE3bFVE3KP2FqQ7CHP27tZG1nxDgEXOOQPl4caPQURv9R2BOD-PezHyA1FVq5yJyucX0bqljihN-Dgw4sl_b3FX_P35UIOSk7jLhPKQDxmpEXzzzUDl65rG34r2kMigld8g/w400-h371/true-detective-xf00012.jpeg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="576" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpR12j79SBA-WSWO7d5V1oibFcvb6oZKBQybHt_ZydEd9Z7RRAwKpaPxDwmTqcfiwbbs418hpst7KtzEaoZmdfeCDY2iMCyM_-hJgNfQGCF_67In_QkwRjSDWC_dUrBHxe9N3KZbPN_L7X5GTopnSMe89UWMUPaiOFvlkSMQ5XvMvoNW2kaQdMKMoabg9l/w400-h298/true-detective-xf00022.jpg" width="400" /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And we have the same plot-point where the remains are pulled out of the snowy earth in a giant block of ice and placed in a facility to thaw.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPoBWpV8jaFEKkg1Mk1F0pjS1JZnfObnBbqx-TNutkgtxsjybAZBD8oH1s63DRD5-Kr9fLONKuSNZ13Umj11QCa3eGcVWIRbEq5suD_jUpuobUx_AZkcNktT1DCYcbi2Y_JM_4MVNoXZeW5az74-lOZ_SFViDOCeqIyHnqxulggR2OWTOS0gutLPc1mfuu/w400-h267/true-detective-xf00026.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" width="400" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9tR3PgwTMp5psjCKyGhxCQ2Kg6DK1V7JPPBuGAQLrkVDPkpF5lqpxWiOBkwWzSdAPZnTqyXLOQSJnzRwhOkixYLaeOv3UDt_0_dx_6uGQUtQNYuAwu_yVZ59bwS1aGD6S7BQdeQ-gpiSE0sTbI8H3QqrBkQdM6qKc61WB3sIzoQX3z0XUNkrrmQzWTOq/w330-h400/true-detective-xf00023.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" width="330" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We even have a severed forearm to compare. Again, not exactly a common trope out there. It feels like a <i>tribute</i>, truth be told.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1137" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDDB1655_zOQ-ub4pkyqUqNcmfAeLBUkXKbuVHORuAzJfoUVoQMK8zfRUQoSpA2TigKAPBrYXa_D2KEH4utZZ6HL6iiZ8fklO2drHpiTgewD3_HZOF9H4f47Xq9QVADkZH0M4ed2OL5kfWX9aOB1oUmJrk3wGdLVmHhlFPwUg-OtfLLbXgmCee4_PQ6gAV/w492-h318/true-detective-xf00006.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" width="492" /><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="694" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHr3w7i90yMNTnUgch_v6LoUc5btwPYzL1oVYBvyTHQEKILah-M41epQshqZWRvkUPYwjh9aRrfnoNTixoe81V5PxRVuOmqitiumnrHhVmfXfApUy-0QAcA_qr4t_xDX5SZWv2tV3IKfcR5QpxZ6Xu7MrNtf_G__aImuB_bGh9xLEIIulxPMVIVVvvJby/w494-h390/true-detective-xf00003.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="494" /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But wait! There's more! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Even the concept of the "corpsicle" comes straight out of The X-Files as well. It's right there in the 2010 comic miniseries, <i>The X-Files: 30 Days of Night.</i> Which also takes place during winter in Alaska. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Go figure!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyUa1Sbh-JwiYubWHP0muOuXWaj0NU5jKKLT_frrHm1c4onEgNjS2n40Jb6YdAcoUrxHp2n6jO_Ku3O5x6uexkF4HzqMR_HKPlxD3cgDPbbXW_DSvKXE_tFEjYdcE5aowHelJWg9blIxDOx4Kd_pYwj_3OSiMos-pFwGq2tMIFvqYcXCPPu6S8YPi0Rvdy/s600/true-detective-xf00002.jpeg" width="600" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>They even use the term "human popsicle."</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That said, "corpsicle" is snazzier name, so you have to give <i>True Detective</i> props for that.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="515" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8FOWVBZqWxlNAxzTYUdvlAG3-G6h5MyGDVHPtzR72ZAvsyk4AmJE1dIma9LxTMbavrq81VuVy4qJiFDLRBngABuyvht3naRrLmo8Byr5V-xWekWYXYZ1XnQw1hLL_5BhjkuPSyKX4osz0x7_rzatnbJIZxx3nJQMUQNqpebiijhAmU8Q02hdvkU25D43/w400-h370/true-detective-xf00010.jpg" width="400" /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The <i>30 Days of Night</i> story even has a victim who is hideously maimed but it is somehow still alive!</b> Wild! Shocking! Improbable!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Seriously, what are the odds that the <i>True Detective</i> team didn't study on this comic series rather closely, my friends? Pretty damn slim, I'd say.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="727" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQw5p_Cw35XDsNSdyP2L8Ckznqg1GPD44ofLIGdVTALWPmR6IzdZPmXWza35X7aGL1j_k1E_TfeeZ2uVClSMc-8fe1-6G871viSBh-LlFQOW45u7OmNXpiNKHaYGTLShKVsTDiXxKamjo_Af58m0xRXDAvFj0Jtg__pITjtMfujHs_8gaCuorYFN3Uypw6/w400-h388/true-detective-xf00004.jpeg" style="text-align: left;" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Back to <i>True Detective</i> - like <i>I Want to Believe</i>, there's even a Connolly. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, a <i>Connelly</i>. And it's a character, not an actor. But still. Stop being so churlish.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="475" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezOI4wTQwNudej-zmbJqSmtp6kk1B5j6SwKSwG45G-5KznuVOr9MzuJrQuJ09vR8j_1DwQ77U5pqV0Y45pIMSVAioawu8Ci-9vN1yYj4gR6cnKW-q6tfUhZFfopywtFNRxrSgaWXysZiX4t3MZxwABl4Zac7jMYLPhn1E-A6BRXbqcabY9B56yKXf_B8h/w400-h267/true-detective-xf00024.jpeg" width="400" /><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="576" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXBwddet-DmD5a31iQdQMfGY21VGIJSaXGsrmw0C9RZWshMbMHGCaN_jEiKdy10zwETtlB82sYs7pcK1bb5CqJ2meBZU7rwZxWLVrC10GlzhDc0bFiwWOu3LZ37O8LG3kVkFiToEIAhXOg4DcclQ-jqe4uPp2ckLKcyzTSHJWO-e-BJaFwOEs6i4DdBOCe/w400-h295/true-detective-xf00025.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Moreover, Jodie Foster's character ("Liz Danvers") even ends up in bed with Connelly (nicknamed "Daddy Connelly") just as Dana Scully (originally inspired by Foster's depiction of Clarice Starling) ends up in bed with Daddy Connolly.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>OK, it's <i>Father</i> Joe, played by Billy Connolly.</b> And the context is very different. But still, that screencap has both characters sitting on a bed. Stop being such a nitpicker.<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioyphEs90YNJHjbIKMArrCjnThuyQgh4_k4g8-GJ4A1geeXZBI0hJ5oFjJVjy1KNtumaZt5whISUUw3b3-emzEGtntOL9TTbcJD5Q9qAvN2Xv1Noi4U9zQtZB_CcGdQ3x_cM1xRsJ-U--qIkJ3mb_O3ItbqgydqcjnG_XWyRQLkKchwZVMKQSz3w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="496" data-original-width="681" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioyphEs90YNJHjbIKMArrCjnThuyQgh4_k4g8-GJ4A1geeXZBI0hJ5oFjJVjy1KNtumaZt5whISUUw3b3-emzEGtntOL9TTbcJD5Q9qAvN2Xv1Noi4U9zQtZB_CcGdQ3x_cM1xRsJ-U--qIkJ3mb_O3ItbqgydqcjnG_XWyRQLkKchwZVMKQSz3w=w400-h291" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>True Detective</i> even has Liz Danvers pining for a lost child, </b>just a Scully pines for William in <i>I Want to Believe.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>REMEMBER WHERE YOU ARE</u></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />OK, so what's the big deal? Just more evidence that Hollywood has become a wasteland of remakes and ripoffs. That's no newsflash these days. Why do we care?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Well, I guess I forgot you're on The Secret Sun, didn't you?</b> So you KNOW what's barreling towards you at the speed of sound...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="413" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj894E0_Y8ccE-E7EXbb__1890HXNFjjSqxjLILFZ6HzN-ePCKissc7F-INDHurJH5V4q3SR0vW2ku9Fk1wM5iVxmt62DQU1DXx7p7sPzgiSpWtLenDWnTtUysmbKwcPSaOgapV2Q_Adi8JpTEEZiWZRFBm5A2JAfL-4CLHbwe9Mo93fGfXvRnBvNS7LepS/w559-h640/true-detective-xf00011.jpeg" width="559" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Oh, yeah. After <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/07/true-detective-taxi-driver-and-signals.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">what I wrote last June</a>, this was absolutely inevitable.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's the context for the drop:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white; color: #202020; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></i></b></span></p><blockquote><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white; color: #202020; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Bury a Friend" by Billie Eilish: </b>Billie Eilish's "Bury a Friend" is the opening theme in True Detective season 4's episode 2.</span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white; color: #202020; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Song to the Siren (Take 7)" by Tim Buckley:</b> In True Detective: Night Country's opening arc, Navarro visits Rose's home to learn more about her visions of Travis. Before opening up to Navarro about her supernatural connection with Travis, Rose plays Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren (Take 7)" in her room.</span></i></span></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white; color: #202020; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So in other words, the song is playing while we hear about this Rose woman's supernatural visions. About <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/11/astroworld-there-will-be-giants-on.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a <i>Travis</i></a>, no less.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">When will you believe already? Now's as good a time as any to start.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Note that Billie Elishabeth's mom appeared on an episode of <i>The X-Files</i> about - you guessed it - a lost child).<br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uoZAh9FYijs?si=83D8x1HFrUxM2IJO&start=477" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"Daddy Connelly" couldn't be played by a more resonant actor in the context of Fraserology.</b> OK, he could, but Christopher Eccleston is way up there. Press play on this vid and see if you hear a familiar voice.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is from <u>Cracker</u>, starring Hagrid himself, Robbie Coltrane. This series made names of a number of up-and-comers, including Eccleston, Susan Lynch, Robert Carlyle and Samantha Morton.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But there's even more...</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <img height="366" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/tKR1AOJjQsH8hcy9c41XIjCx5QTOoVfdLmO7q47cgSxizMhxqB8mozB5YTi8wXCLUTPSOFaq9GJrBS9plos8DfgYM5OounigoTlR-nvtKlhAHMMAxfcnHy5QbIetUJk5lW2__JqbXgQ3Kc18DujLV76pDg=w400-h366" width="400" /><br /><img height="374" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/hGUlPkkxkpEwXIsqzDQcQBdi4QucSz8z0r4ccMAyyilT8FpWYA0CHAOu7RzY7odsW2cJRBwAlh6xW6f9OqnYaRa4h2DB8y0eULQCxkyjOzZBifnDw2kg4ghzNL1FuW6maoKQxW0C2xSXujpAZgxvWzy-vQ=w400-h374" width="400" /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eccleston was the star of the show in an episode of <i>The Leftovers</i> called "It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World." It had a very Jeff Buckley-adjacent subplot as well as a storyline centered on a "Frasier cult."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-86a564d3-7fff-ee78-563b-18a3467753a6"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img height="508px;" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/jnUGReboK_bSV7qh_ZgRpyTO44CeK2QQ9FXeMoXgQv7rzS1GAkQfXncWZhG_VakU5MCggW7AB0hdMQb8OqGTwpwQs6Srl4EvqwivFET0giaXAl1ZATdanmK2GtmTlQKnpRTIrf-LAkO7VrIJH2nevh8vqA=s2048" width="437px;" /><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">More importantly, it aired about 76 hours before Chris Cornell (who intimately linked the Sibyl and her Shepherd Boy, of course) died in Detroit.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">What a week that was. Future historians will see it as a turning point.</span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlDd0ONO0sTDMETeLmyQt4e5yC_3VXZJ6AkupmAjprXC6vwmMMfwCWV-JRZBjyh37N6EqDgn_O6tXd5OwH9pT8rWDI_a1HIU12rHHxXL3Cby8gJHVwM5dtWyrLFrox0KWed4o1CPDhLB8bsEjAtiu6MSM20dA3Taa6gK5hIsahAjj3qsVixssqA/s480/the-leftovers-frasier1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="480" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlDd0ONO0sTDMETeLmyQt4e5yC_3VXZJ6AkupmAjprXC6vwmMMfwCWV-JRZBjyh37N6EqDgn_O6tXd5OwH9pT8rWDI_a1HIU12rHHxXL3Cby8gJHVwM5dtWyrLFrox0KWed4o1CPDhLB8bsEjAtiu6MSM20dA3Taa6gK5hIsahAjj3qsVixssqA/w400-h223/the-leftovers-frasier1.gif" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyhow, the Frasier cult in question was a sex-orgy club dedicated to the real-life Frasier the Lion, who lived to be a ripe old age. One of Frasier's fictional offsprings ends the episode by mauling a murderer who claimed to be God.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img height="263" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/FF33v7ZSdDj9nL_8pQOgCkH0Wa9rCt9-C-ACMIv0JTy4J0uw595wRfznCz9lIhyrBYiqGOP6doVmwJDD1-0XXWA80xXzj91mntMsqr0s-BRjge1l7F4HtyEE-A646eKioEVrW5PfYdXn-dkCObcrCVryAA=w400-h263" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And here's the logo for the hotel where the Horned Christ swam to the Siren, so to speak. At the end of West Elizabeth Street, if you'd like to make a pilgrimage.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stop by the Siren Hotel while you're there. And the Fox (Mulder) Theater.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGyaENgSSE51ZbP9UfHqvUD-AVBxEJ9Fw504mIkJbsCp1q-KuZ6EOq-vR6jXKNl_kz_WwwmWJYq9Ttqz3R62akmqNXGkJyD21obVgwCW_aAQXw85ua6fWuqEL-SrVy81pVCxJPTUv1yAti1Pz-4oUAsRXP1uhSNGtj6iZa7F2EkCTuiSH7CTDr4wziN1L/s877/true-detective-xf00007.jpeg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="877" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGyaENgSSE51ZbP9UfHqvUD-AVBxEJ9Fw504mIkJbsCp1q-KuZ6EOq-vR6jXKNl_kz_WwwmWJYq9Ttqz3R62akmqNXGkJyD21obVgwCW_aAQXw85ua6fWuqEL-SrVy81pVCxJPTUv1yAti1Pz-4oUAsRXP1uhSNGtj6iZa7F2EkCTuiSH7CTDr4wziN1L/w400-h173/true-detective-xf00007.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do note the leads in the new <i>True Detective</i> are Liz, <a href="https://youtu.be/9yapze5PaFs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Evangeline</a> and Rose (a name very familiar to the initiates). For future reference, I mean.</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTHYmSU-TtLVwPxAiv1Bmxd4ptM3j-7vPa7fANE4Qbp-g5tSMsR1bM6hVmtiDyn1gNwzpKy5P7P9MRfvUOelzg5_Q5S7eZNykGcqsv1ZwyOnV9xPhDt9PSO2Fii_nvJMI0r74MU_5yz672pljYr96U1ygrR4AL65gkHjj5EyBJQ4iG-sh1bKIHSShlsBF/s432/true-detective-xf00027.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="432" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzTHYmSU-TtLVwPxAiv1Bmxd4ptM3j-7vPa7fANE4Qbp-g5tSMsR1bM6hVmtiDyn1gNwzpKy5P7P9MRfvUOelzg5_Q5S7eZNykGcqsv1ZwyOnV9xPhDt9PSO2Fii_nvJMI0r74MU_5yz672pljYr96U1ygrR4AL65gkHjj5EyBJQ4iG-sh1bKIHSShlsBF/w400-h292/true-detective-xf00027.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Speaking of the initiates, there's even a polar bear subplot, of which men shall know nothing...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); 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autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nJVU6sc5otE?si=GCyrGeR37ijTOu1i" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold); white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Absolutely <u>epic</u> livestreams are the bread and butter of <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Secret Sun Institute of Advanced Synchromysticism,</a> </strong><span style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold); white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">and 2024 is looking to be the biggest and bad-assest year yet...</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here are just some of the upcoming topics we'll be diving into, in no particular order:</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pkAztth9PpY" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Under the Silver Lake and the Hollywood Apocalypse:</strong> Training the telescope on an woefully under-appreciated cult film and the many tales it tells out of school.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAEhhHzil8w" width="396" youtube-src-id="aAEhhHzil8w"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Jokers, Jugalos and Evil Clowns:</strong> A deep dive into the funhouse nightmare worlds of clowns, jesters, jokers (and the Nephilim theory).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J9rvV9AP-Nw" width="413" youtube-src-id="J9rvV9AP-Nw"></iframe></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);"><br /></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis - Keel, Rashcke and Vallee: </strong>A deep dive into the presence of our elusive companions and the men who've sounded the alarm about them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DGAlsyMYc1U" width="466" youtube-src-id="DGAlsyMYc1U"></iframe><br /><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Jung for Beginners:</strong> A primer on the life and works of the famed Swiss psychiatrist and mystic. Bring your Red Books!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z-x-wNiN4Hk" width="436" youtube-src-id="z-x-wNiN4Hk"></iframe><br /><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Jean Cocteau and the European Esoteric Underground:</strong> The famed Frenchman was almost as strange and interesting as the band that took his name.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ceLSYUVx9w4" width="461" youtube-src-id="ceLSYUVx9w4"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Jack Kirby, Space Age Nostradamus:</strong> Speaking of which, the King of Comics’ birthday is the day before the Sibyl’s. So you know things are going to get wild. It’s written in the stars!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hYno3q7R9gY" width="411" youtube-src-id="hYno3q7R9gY"></iframe></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">
Hollywood Hellmouth: Real and Otherwise:</strong> This will most likely be aired in October. A look at the dark side, the darker side and the REALLY dark sides of the early days of our American Babylon.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MvuQU38iZD4" width="446" youtube-src-id="MvuQU38iZD4"></iframe></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">
The Process Church of the Final Judgment:</strong> I’m working on getting a guest on board for this one. Someone who’s been doing some VERY deep diving into this rabbit hellhole. Stay tuned…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7vyCMvvrdm8" width="447" youtube-src-id="7vyCMvvrdm8"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Space is an Altar:</strong> Ripping the lid off NASA’s magic box of nonsense, as well as the new wave of spacely sorcerers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AkIqFK3KoZ4" width="431" youtube-src-id="AkIqFK3KoZ4"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Exorcising the Exorcist: </strong>One of the greatest works of cinema ever made, and quite possibly one of the most disturbing. And I’m not talking about what unfolds onscreen…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ltRxTc9gO0E" width="447" youtube-src-id="ltRxTc9gO0E"></iframe><br /><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Alan Moore’s Lovecraft Trilogy:</strong> A two-part series on the magnum opus from the Magic Man of Northampton - and his valedictory farewell to the world of comics.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Which will be followed by...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="290" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GlqI1yot8SA" width="442" youtube-src-id="GlqI1yot8SA"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><strong style="font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-bold);">Shimmer Me Timbers - Stalker, Annihilation and Color Out of Space:</strong> A look at three different films from three different filmmakers, all telling the same essentially story of a natural world in upheaval. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Or perhaps even an uprising…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>There's a lot more in store in '24,</b> including new episodes of The Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour. Don’t forget that requests and suggestions are always welcome.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Come join us for the scholarship, stay with us for the fellowship. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Click here to enroll.</b></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tPQL8ick34ooNuGjjYiLCFChsIjGL3SZBdJj3rWTS_Mcqv088xJEBvbBq2doH1liqEp3zaaDf62Dle4qyY3Q1UwZkqC5m8H5HdnLoaSrysIYfRgpLIJ6khRqWHj-khXfc56xH2Tjz2Tcw2S405JA-PYaiWoZuhTiwZxz8LpO9zQORd_3cBI3tA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="518" data-original-width="820" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tPQL8ick34ooNuGjjYiLCFChsIjGL3SZBdJj3rWTS_Mcqv088xJEBvbBq2doH1liqEp3zaaDf62Dle4qyY3Q1UwZkqC5m8H5HdnLoaSrysIYfRgpLIJ6khRqWHj-khXfc56xH2Tjz2Tcw2S405JA-PYaiWoZuhTiwZxz8LpO9zQORd_3cBI3tA=w594-h375" width="594" /></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Up right now as we speak is a mind-shredding, three-and-a-half hour presentation of some of the Sibyl's most shocking prophecies. I <u>guarantee</u> it will change the way you see the world.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-variation-settings: var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWidth-regular),var(--global-fontVariationSettings-fontWeight-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Click here for more information.</span></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-37403169150278957162024-01-15T12:14:00.000-05:002024-01-15T12:14:01.486-05:00This is Not a Drill: The Age of Revelation is Here and Now. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tPQL8ick34ooNuGjjYiLCFChsIjGL3SZBdJj3rWTS_Mcqv088xJEBvbBq2doH1liqEp3zaaDf62Dle4qyY3Q1UwZkqC5m8H5HdnLoaSrysIYfRgpLIJ6khRqWHj-khXfc56xH2Tjz2Tcw2S405JA-PYaiWoZuhTiwZxz8LpO9zQORd_3cBI3tA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="518" data-original-width="820" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tPQL8ick34ooNuGjjYiLCFChsIjGL3SZBdJj3rWTS_Mcqv088xJEBvbBq2doH1liqEp3zaaDf62Dle4qyY3Q1UwZkqC5m8H5HdnLoaSrysIYfRgpLIJ6khRqWHj-khXfc56xH2Tjz2Tcw2S405JA-PYaiWoZuhTiwZxz8LpO9zQORd_3cBI3tA=w594-h375" width="594" /></span></a><br /><i>"Reality is that which, when you stop</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>believing in it, doesn't go away."</i> - PKD</div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Why are you here, reading this? What are you looking for?</b> What do you want from this life? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do you want <u>proof</u> that powers far beyond human reckoning are at work in the world - right now, as we speak - or are you just frittering your life away with trivial nonsense? </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I've been saying for the past several years, someone or something is going to extreme lengths - nearly <i>absurd</i> in their absolute overkill - to send you a message. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">And I do mean <u>YOU</u>. I mean <i>all of us.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Are you going to continue to waste precious time or are you going to put aside your entrained illusions, pick up the phone and take the call?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>If it's the latter, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here.</a> </b>There's a new, three and a half-hour presentation of irrefutable prophecy waiting for you to dive into, and that's just the start of it.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-59661370100747462352024-01-09T21:26:00.001-05:002024-01-09T21:26:13.645-05:0079 Varieties of Apocalypse<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4x4_RO7juIhD7v4bBfEqLF9sgjMJv99zl2VS_zMSmFc4HEUaHg0iXa5jOWDpt3CqJosUkz3aJBUpU4cjnCMO-0u_bqVzumweTi0eRgtEofykpn-0xTdx_QmuM6ZhbuYkdd76V4BUo9Ig-zXQXIjfepj87Wk4VAV94q1jLUxbyNYQR0UzsF-zO6g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="801" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4x4_RO7juIhD7v4bBfEqLF9sgjMJv99zl2VS_zMSmFc4HEUaHg0iXa5jOWDpt3CqJosUkz3aJBUpU4cjnCMO-0u_bqVzumweTi0eRgtEofykpn-0xTdx_QmuM6ZhbuYkdd76V4BUo9Ig-zXQXIjfepj87Wk4VAV94q1jLUxbyNYQR0UzsF-zO6g=w300-h400" width="300" /></a><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>We looked quite a bit at 1983 last year, and this year I want to return in force to 1979,</b> which was a mind-numbing 45 years ago now. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><b>We've talked quite a bit about 1979 <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">at the Secret Sun Patreon</a>, </b>but there is still a lot more to unpack and uncover. Which is why I'm reposting <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-spirits-of-79-apocalypse-then-and.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this piece from January of 2022 as a refresher. </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>I will point out that this was a month before Russia invaded Ukraine, </b>which is a 1979 throwback if I've ever seen one. One of the benefits of getting older is being able to sniff out these cycles when they come back around, as they always do. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">One of the many things I am grateful for.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnUlPJkZkTbNlo2ThdDXIzwCzm38XFTZz1606DjEmSXkHUw-471Xg5WfpdlUeU-WFwrzqJ8qIv4vFA9nD5kg0mqGjG9tRauflwZ91ir7iixjbHTxwGjR8zPUp59DR3w8qIIemkqcvpABXa4o90u49twvsmOPhf2ZM31FyT2d2Ol25RqRUCo8M=s532" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="532" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnUlPJkZkTbNlo2ThdDXIzwCzm38XFTZz1606DjEmSXkHUw-471Xg5WfpdlUeU-WFwrzqJ8qIv4vFA9nD5kg0mqGjG9tRauflwZ91ir7iixjbHTxwGjR8zPUp59DR3w8qIIemkqcvpABXa4o90u49twvsmOPhf2ZM31FyT2d2Ol25RqRUCo8M=w540-h369" width="540" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>I can't exactly say why, but the way 2022 is shaping up reminds me a lot of 1979. </b>It's more a feeling than anything else, but it's almost like you can sense the gaskets on the ship of state starting to blow in the same way you got back then. 1979 was a much darker and more violent year than anything a lot of people born afterwards might remember, but there are a lot of themes that seem to be repeating.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Where '79 resonates with today is not only the onrushing Cold War v2.0, but also the same general feeling of exhaustion and systemic collapse. The American Empire was on very shaky ground back then, and was facing a series of crises of a scope unseen since the Second World War. Some of the equilibrium was restored by the mid-Eighties, but in hindsight it seems the problems were simply put off rather than solved.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Since I'm about to embark on an absolute 1979 jamboree, I thought it would be a fine idea to serve up a general overview of the epochal year, as a primer for younger readers and a refresher for geezers like me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Considering 1979 gave rise to so many genres - hardcore punk, synth pop, industrial, postpunk, NWOBHM, hip hop - that went on to exert outsized influence on the culture at large, this overview here is meant to illustrate a foundational Secret Sun maxim. That being that nothing comes from nothing: intense art emerges during intense times, weirdness during weird times, and darkness during dark times.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">And 1979 was most definitely intense, weird and dark.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kakFDUeoJKM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>It's tempting to equate Jimmy Carter with the present husk in the Oval Office but the two really couldn't be less alike. </b>Biden is a fraudulent bullshitter and corrupt hack who learned from older Senatorial sleazebags how to manipulate the system for his personal enrichment. Carter was a moderately-conservative Southern Democrat and sincere Christian, who ran as an outsider and promised to clean Washington up in the wake of the Watergate scandal. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Predictably, the Deep State responded to Carter's challenge in ways not entirely dissimilar to the treatment they gave Trump forty years later. Or Nixon himself, for that matter.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Carter had his defenders, but he couldn't withstand the onslaught of sabotage and subversion the permanent government constantly dumped on his Administration. For instance, Carter's so-called "Malaise Speech" sounds perfectly reasonable and rational today, but it got roasted and relentlessly thrown up in his face because he had the temerity to go after the special interests who were - and still are - sucking the marrow out of America's bones.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ev6IJOlROto" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Someone should really do Carter's charts, because it's almost as if he got hit by a perfect storm of shit luck. </b>For starters, the oil crisis of the mid-70s had come roaring back and the Cold War began getting rather hot. Throw in events like the core meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant - which occurred not two weeks after a similar event was portrayed in the movie<i> The China Syndrome</i> - and it's not hard to imagine the stars themselves were aligned against the man.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>That impression was compounded in May when the worst aviation accident in American history - AA Flight 191</b> - killed over 250 people in Chicago. That numerology there is itching my brain, I might add.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A8bC1DEYbI4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>But what really broke Carter's presidency was the Iranian Revolution,</b> which saw US client Shah Reza Pahlavi overthrown and replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini. That was all bad enough, but it went to Hell in a handbasket when a mob stormed the US Embassy in Teheran and kicked off a long and humiliating hostage crisis. At least we got <i>Nightline</i> out of the whole mess. Also, <i>Argo</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Where Biden <i>does</i> resemble Carter is in the disastrous Afghanistan pullout and the recent botched color revolution in Kazakhstan (the clusterfark there has done nothing to assuage my suspicions that George Soros - the supreme color revolutionary mastermind - is either dead or incapacitated). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Similarly, Carter would send in a Delta Force team in April 1980 to rescue the hostages, but they ran into a sandstorm and it all ended in catastrophe. That's the kind of fubar that goes down when you just <i>know</i> the gods have turned against you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i8vnNeH7sec" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>In one of those great historic ironies, Viet Nam went to war with both China and their murderous clients the Khmer Rouge</b> in 1979, not even five years after the US had been bombing the living crap out of them. It would only be after the Viet Cong had kicked the tar out of Pol Pot and his blood-drenched cronies that the grisly truth about Cambodia's killing fields would finally come out.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">We should <u>never</u> gotten involved in France's bullshit colonial war. 1979 - and the Vietnamese themselves - proved the Domino Theory wrong. The Viet Nam War was the worst mistake our corrupt and decadent elites ever made, IMO.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y-zi2OgO0IE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Another prolifically-murderous dictator - and Western client - named Idi Amin Dada</b> would be deposed in a series of military actions between Uganda and its neighbors. After Amin was sent packing, the world would discover just how ruthless and genocidal the man who bizarrely imagined himself as the King of Scotland actually was.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g3u5CxS3j5M" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Meanwhile, the government of Rhodesia (so named for Cecil Rhodes) was overthrown </b>by a revolutionary junta, who renamed the country Zimbabwe and installed Robert Mugabe as dictator. Mugabe and his cronies lived large during the Cold War, but the country lapsed into decline soon after its end. The onetime "Breadbasket of Africa" became a basketcase, but Mugabe wouldn't be overthrown until 2017.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/61qRycxnMkY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>The Sandinistas came to power in 1979, </b>with the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza. Carter was content to let the previous regime fall, but Reagan's NatSec team made taking the FSLN down one of its first orders of business. The Reagan/Bush crew eventually got them out of there for a while, but the Sandinistas eventually regained power. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">In between was the Iran-Contra debacle, but that's a story for another day.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLUktJbp2Ug" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Saddam Hussein would seize the reins of power in Iraq, </b>just in time to act as a bulwark for the West against Iran. After having hundreds of his fellow Ba'ath Party members executed, Saddam would go on to enjoy the patronage and largesse of the Reagan Administration. But the Bush gang went after Saddam in the early 90s and then finally took him out in 2003, leading to a disastrous US occupation of the ancient sands of Babylon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fktEkUfd6Z0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Political violence and terrorism were endemic in the Middle East</b> and one of the more notorious events was the siege at Mecca, when a group of militants took control of the Grand Mosque. Lots of blood was spilled to resolve that particular situation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Lots of blood was spilled in 1979 in general, truth be told.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A2P4jtLQyu4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Carter's one foreign policy triumph - ostensibly, at least - were the Camp David Accords, </b>which established a cease fire between Israel and Egypt, and was signed by the respective countries leaders at the White House. The truce would be kept in place with billions of tax dollars and the two countries remained the largest recipients of US foreign aid for a very long time to come. Unfortunately, Anwar Sadat wouldn't be around to enjoy the bounty; he was assassinated two years later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lScFQLhc_FM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>The Troubles in Northern Island were heating up that year,</b> and spreading across the Irish Sea with a series of major bombings in Britain. The Irish Republican Army also scored a major scalp in '79 with the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/adih-yIc8kc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>The Troubles and a series of crippling strikes brought down the Labour Government in '79, and brought ol' Pearly Thatcher to power with a Tory landslide.</b> Thatcher and her cabinet went after the trade unions and set about cutting the cord on a whole host of fading British industries, resulting in a major recession and riots, as well as very deep economic pain all across the industrial heartland. The economy eventually recovered, however, and Thatcher stayed in power until deposed by a palace coup in 1990.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xJs7udS-fZ4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">The Soviet Union decided to take a crack at cracking the Graveyard of Empires egg, and it pretty much went the way it always has. But their invasion of Afghanistan, along with the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions, put a lot of wind in Cold Warrior sails. Carter was always much more of a foreign policy hawk than he was given credit for, but he went for the quiet walk-big stick approach. That most definitely fell out of fashion in '79 and Carter's successor would pursue a much different strategy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PqE6WnIc8Rw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">The Religious Right began their rise in 1979, with the formation of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. The movement was never nearly as powerful as the media painted them (note they did absolutely nothing to slow the secularization of the country or the coarsening of the culture) and they got next to nothing from the Reagan White House as far as their wishlists were concerned, but a lot of churches were planted and a lot of preachers got very, very rich during the gravy days. As did hairspray manufacturers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tqsC8ALx59k" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">At the same time, Pope John Paul II became one of the most powerful men in the world as he explicitly positioned the Church against the Soviet Union, in defiance of pro-Soviet factions within the Vatican such as the Jesuits and Liberation Theologists. JP2 seized the moment and went on tour like a rock star in 1979, appearing before massive crowds all across the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">It's important to remember that both the Vatican and the Religious Right enlisted as Cold Warriors in good standing in 1979, giving the ratcheting tensions between the superpowers a distinctively apocalyptic flavor and intensity.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/grDRmKbClaw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>The Religious Right were in part spurred on by the social conservative backlash against the gay rights movement,</b> which was highly visible thanks in part to the Dionysian Mysteries of Disco. The so-called "White Night" riots - inspired by the preposterously lenient sentence given San Francisco Supervisor Dan White for the premeditated shooting deaths of fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone - probably didn't do much to quell said backlash. </span><span style="font-family: Raleway;">(White would later commit suicide after his release from prison). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PntgiGbnwNg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>The overall grim mood of 1979 only deepened when several fans were trampled to death</b> while scrambling for good seats at a general-admission Who concert in Cincinnati. The tour was The Who's first following the death of original drummer Keith Moon, who'd OD'd on a drug he'd been prescribed to alleviate withdrawal from alcohol abuse. He was replaced by Kenny Jones, formerly of The Faces.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Ironically, The Who were enjoying a very good year up until that time, with the release of the biopic <i>The Kids Are Alright</i> and a movie version of their 1973 rock opera <i>Quadrophenia.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fQsZ_aeOSnE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">The practice of putting missing children on milk cartons would kick off following the 1979 disappearance of New York City schoolboy Etan Patz. It was later discovered Patz was kidnapped and murdered by a convicted sex criminal, who'd be sentenced to life for the crime in 2017. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gAacZoIJUN0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Strangely enough, 1979 and 2017 were linked together in another way: both featured total solar eclipses that were visible from the continental United States. </b>In fact, the 1979 was the only one of its type until 2017. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">And Secret Sun readers certainly can't forget what all went down in 2017. In that light, I should also mention that the Cocteau Twins first formed in 1979. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Because when else could they have?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><u><span style="font-family: Raleway;">WHICH BRINGS US TO THE SECRET SUNNY BITS</span></u></div><div><u><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></u></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>Weirdness was all over the place in 1979. </b>The 70s occult revival was tapering off in the greater culture, but was still going strong in the underground. Punk and postpunk bands, as well as alternative and underground cartoonists and filmmakers, were bringing occult themes and symbolism into their work. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">The conspiracy underground was still in full force, spurred on by developments surrounding the JFK assassination investigation, not to mention Vietnam and Watergate. Ever the early adapters, your more extreme conspiracy theorists made full use of amateur radio, photocopiers and mimeographs in those pre-USENET dark ages.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ed38mUDe3FA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>UFOlogy had peaked in the wake of <i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i> and was on the wane again by 1979. </b>Even so, a number of highly weird UFO documentaries were released that year, films that blurred the boundaries between nuts-n-bolts UFOlogy and the Occult such as <i>UFOs are Real, UFOs: It Has Begin, Attack from Outer Space, The Bermuda Triangle </i>and <i>UFO Syndrome. </i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><i>In Search Of, </i>which originally grew out of an ancient astronaut documentary, was still going strong in '79, covering<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074007/episodes?year=1979&ref_=tt_eps_yr_1979" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> a whole range of occult and paranormal topics.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jycSK1l02kA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>1979 also saw the publication of Jacques Vallee's landmark manifesto, <i>Messengers of Deception. </i></b>'79 was not a particular banner year for UFOlogy, but the book's deeper streams of paranormality and the supernatural most certainly fit right in with the apocalyptic tenor of the times. Most especially with all the proto-new Age California cultism Vallee covers, which was a very big thing back then and would get a lot bigger in the Eighties.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><i>Messengers of Deception</i> also introduced the Heaven's Gate cult to a wider audience, at least in the world of UFOlogy. With news cycles what they were the mass disappearances of Gaters that had become such a major news story in the mid-70s were ancient history by '79. No one realized it at the time but the Gate would quietly grow and eventually become a much bigger story nearly two decades later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lt8ZyIzoePw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">I guess Vallee's work on the Gate got Hollywood's attention, since a pilot for a series based on Gate leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles was produced in 1979. The pilot went unsold and was released as a TV movie three years later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWK8ZYVyer2VeinOuJ7VWOMPN0PhXkBwGvI4qHc-q4bjWJnlje_uHpogDM6AlQ41GdDenxFw4qySdeLbkHa7eV2fM0HhUVT31vWQBpUMTampA87YuhB9hTAdrVDMN90Qs6Kf70sA/s542/Screen+Shot+2021-04-25+at+5.27.47+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="542" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWK8ZYVyer2VeinOuJ7VWOMPN0PhXkBwGvI4qHc-q4bjWJnlje_uHpogDM6AlQ41GdDenxFw4qySdeLbkHa7eV2fM0HhUVT31vWQBpUMTampA87YuhB9hTAdrVDMN90Qs6Kf70sA/w400-h264/Screen+Shot+2021-04-25+at+5.27.47+PM.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>1979 was also a landmark year, Secret Sun-wise, since Andrija Puharich's Council of Nine operation took control of the Esalen Institute. </b>Control came in the form of a young and voluptuous British channeler named Jenny O'Connor, who Institute cofounder Dick Price seemed to fall under the spell of. Price had previously been involved with Osho's cult - already well-known for their free love doctrines - so it's not unreasonable to assume that maybe Price's interest in O'Connor wasn't strictly limited to her psychic powers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">I should add that the first <i>Star Trek</i> movie also premiered in 1979, not coincidentally.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/77AK28a8g2o" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b><i>Serial</i> squeaked over the line for a March 1980 release, but it's as good a document of 1979 as any.</b> The CIA cults and sex clubs that sprung up at the beginning of the decade were very popular in a lot of upper-income enclaves like Marin, and the film documents all the Esalen-born thought contagions that would soon gel and quickly evolve into the New Age movement. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">By the end of the follow decade the New Age would go mainstream, and eventually become so ubiquitous and totalizing no one even notices it anymore.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2Qm0VSkXKAY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>It's hard to believe today, but this MKULTRA expose aired on (pre-Disney) ABC.</b> You still had at least a nominally free press in the 1970s, so you'd regularly see reports on programs like <i>20/20</i> or <i>60 Minutes</i> that would get you put on a watchlist - if not thrown into prison - today. Same thing with the movies and (from time to time) TV dramas.</span></div><div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ovJRBKtrV2Q" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><u><span style="font-family: Raleway;">INTERNUTSIES</span></u></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>We saw how <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/07/1983-year-that-broke-reality.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1983 was Year Zero of the postmodern dystopia,</a> with the introduction of a standard Internet protocol,</b> the first commercially-available cellular telephone and the first Macintosh computer. So you shouldn't be surprised that 1979 was also a crucial year for the development of the Panopticon, with the introduction of the first electronic bulletin board service (CompuServe), not to mention an early prototype of USENET.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VQubQhN4R1c" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><b>AT&T was <i>the</i> telecommunications company at the time and was working on systems of its own,</b> such as the ill-fated "Viewtron."</span></div><div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Viewtron was AT&T's third attempt at a telephone-based information system that fed data to a terminal in the user's home. (The first was EIS, from 1979; the second, a CBS joint-venture test on a similar system). Viewtron was the next generation. This film gives an overview of the systems available internationally as well as profiling the features of Viewtron. Viewtron ran on your television, navigated via Sceptre terminal and fed via modem. </span></i></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Raleway;">It used a teletext graphical interface with basic, early multicolor 'paint' type graphics — on the NAPLPS standard (North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax). The system was test-marketed in Florida by Viewtron, a company formed by the collaboration of AT&T and Knight-Ridder. It rolled out 4 years after EIS, in 1983. It offered many more services than EIS (which was limited to the phone book, Dr. Joyce Brothers' column, weather, headlines, and sports scores), including online shopping and games.</span></i></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Ideas and plans for the Internet go back a very, very long way: Jules Verne conceived an uncannily prescient version of it back in 1895, complete with online retail. In fact, absolutely nothing of real value - not even a scrap - has been invented or conceived by Big Tech in a very, very long time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">Which is why our nascent technocratic dictatorship is ultimately going to fail, and fail spectacularly. Hubris is their sin, and Nemesis is coming for them all like an absolute motherfucker. You'd best stay clear, because it's going to get very, very ugly. Doubt it not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;">With that cheery thought in mind, be sure to stay tuned. We are going to be setting off on a 1979 deep dive the likes of which has never been seen before. Put on your dancing shoes.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><br /></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true." rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="855" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDPNsOEm5sIAhApO9x0Bo3bSdY0lKgSfV-bTi5WDf481CJYZ5pGnvFTvTlsb9odOur8ErD-HcRr2l1Zcrg7lNiQf8U3EV4c4exmCPKzBUOUX6Cz1jvVvx1_ZXGeTyNBSyUvjNfhQ/w400-h296/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+6.07.25+PM.png" width="400" /></span></a></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Raleway;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Raleway;"></span></p></div></span></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Raleway;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true"></a></b></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: Raleway; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true">The Secret Sun Institute of Advanced Synchromysticism</a> </b>is waiting for you to take the next step in your synchro-journey. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Come level up.</span> </span></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-87169087414623220732024-01-06T16:29:00.001-05:002024-01-06T17:29:02.292-05:00Prophecy to the MAX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="317" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vlkJ5AMFK9U" width="526" youtube-src-id="vlkJ5AMFK9U"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>2024 is the year it all begins to fall apart,</b> and here's a perfect example of how the Empire will eventually collapse. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><b>I've been warning people that our complex systems cannot survive the institutional stupidity and overall loss of expertise</b> that is the direct, permanent and irreversible result of the insane social engineering inflicted on the entire world through (not by, mind you) totalitarian cult-freaks in positions of power. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">And he we are. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Another example of me hating being right.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="294" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vaONLEa8LFE" width="480" youtube-src-id="vaONLEa8LFE"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>From CNN:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote><i>Shortly after takeoff, a panel, including a window, popped off, passenger Kyle Rinker told CNN. “It was really abrupt. Just got to altitude, and the window/wall just popped off. A whooshing sound and all the oxygen masks deployed instantly and everyone got those on”</i></blockquote></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Boeing - which has been completely infiltrated and taken over by extremist DEI cultists - is inarguably paying the price for their childish, utopian delusions:</span></div><span style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote><i>Between March 2017 and March 2019, the global fleet of 387 aircraft operated 500,000 flights and experienced two fatal crashes, having a fatal accident rate of four accidents per million flights, whereas the previous Boeing 737 generations averaged 0.2 fatal accidents per million flights.</i></blockquote></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Like Lockheed's ridiculous lemon - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/not-a-straight-shooter-dod-review-cites-fleet-of-faults-in-f-35-program/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the F-35</a> - it's very much starting to look like the 737-MAX will be the sad and dismal legacy of a once-admired organization:</span></div><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings">Boeing 737 MAX groundings</a> have had a deep financial effect on the aviation industry and a significant effect on the national economy of the United States.</b> No airline took delivery of the MAX during the groundings. Boeing slowed MAX production to 42 aircraft per month until in January 2020, when they halted until the airplane is reapproved by regulators. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Boeing has suffered directly through increased costs, loss of sales and revenue, loss of reputation, victims litigation, client compensation, decreased credit rating and lowered stock value. In January 2020, the company estimated a loss of $18.4 billion for 2019, and it reported 183 canceled MAX orders for the year.</i></div></blockquote></span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><b>This insanity is not being driven by human beings.</b> We are looking at a truly demonic delusion, almost certainly the spellcraft of hostile ultraterrestrials/ interdimensionals. Demons of the air, if you like.</p><p>Every organization that takes the DEI (Divide et Impera) poison pill greatly suffers and/or self-destructs because of it. Even the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/21/blackrock-esg-trillion-losses-larry-fink/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">almighty Blackrock</a>.</p><p>Why, it's almost like how the elite cabal called "The Syndicate" went to their ultimate destruction because of their alliance with similar entities, isn't it? </p></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="298" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4DY_93Q-LvU" width="504" youtube-src-id="4DY_93Q-LvU"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Which brings us to the fact that Boeing's latest self-sabotage eerily mirrors a classic Mytharc two-parter in The X-Files:</b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />• Alaska Airlines 737 *Max* had an exit door break off and depressurize the cabin over the Pacific Northwest. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">•</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">X-Files episode "Max" (1997) depicted the same situation and was filmed in the Pacific Northwest. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">•</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Both the real and the fictional planes were new aircraft.<br /><br />And because The X-Files is the oracular counterpart to a certain someone, let's look at the passenger who filmed the footage from the disaster...<br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb0wuAuUsTjgqofTqJzLQDdLa3VHR7JoC28vc7edHllnb6ChcJjKg5GjoAGEMWmMQA8Ue2PgrieK2BqqrUyXNF4kaeTUqfZ_74QgGK8AoAMPwB9ntRslNhCX5v8qIO6tqxSC9hEsfNGeFf4zj50LCTUfoYHQknjilpDz-ubyg25G5L133AUQWCsA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="600" data-original-width="658" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb0wuAuUsTjgqofTqJzLQDdLa3VHR7JoC28vc7edHllnb6ChcJjKg5GjoAGEMWmMQA8Ue2PgrieK2BqqrUyXNF4kaeTUqfZ_74QgGK8AoAMPwB9ntRslNhCX5v8qIO6tqxSC9hEsfNGeFf4zj50LCTUfoYHQknjilpDz-ubyg25G5L133AUQWCsA=w594-h542" width="594" /></a><br /><br />Footage from inside the cabin was provided to media by Elizabeth Le, who calls herself "Strawberrvy" on Instagram. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNg4456oMF4udq2fqkR8TuX9cOKedYX6FkzLiOcL1XfSgFHCC3PSz-JGG0qF2OpzM9EAirDj1lpcnpFdOweqV7CyPh5rnBMDGDEhJalAd80E_HnWwXuR4Sd_GKbE5_BK9MkXquPjI0_54m2Up0olfWjTzBN4bT0KUI31YjXs9bQjekquuZEvjuw/s600/OIP-1.jpg" style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNg4456oMF4udq2fqkR8TuX9cOKedYX6FkzLiOcL1XfSgFHCC3PSz-JGG0qF2OpzM9EAirDj1lpcnpFdOweqV7CyPh5rnBMDGDEhJalAd80E_HnWwXuR4Sd_GKbE5_BK9MkXquPjI0_54m2Up0olfWjTzBN4bT0KUI31YjXs9bQjekquuZEvjuw/w348-h449/OIP-1.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Elizabeth/Strawberrvy = "Elizabeth Fraser" </b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">We are living in the world Philip K Dick prophesied, even if many of the details vary. Prophecy is an inexact science. But the underlying themes are terrifyingly on target.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Happily, we have the Sibyl and the prophetic texts men call The X-Files. They are <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-more-do-you-need.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">deeply and intimately connected</a> in ways you can hardly imagine. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sometimes I wish I could tell you differently. So does my wife. So does my accountant. But you know the old saying: in for a penny-penny, in for a pound.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-77816502549452505302023-12-31T18:03:00.004-05:002024-01-01T11:25:02.727-05:00Hell is for Heroes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4VSdms8bR7wEygh2WNfpBrWlJsOTGOIh6940HFK8KLzqf6Kq2lBlrZzJGvuF2cpcEOCDT4C95xxoWDmhck-MpNcmdA7_cjvjhc_apWxkoblQA3yvACoTBpGeJM9Ya-ECtDon0-xcXfo13S_ZghThbzXUMRJ2mNZvJiPi_p-sTendHNQnxXnYT6g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="665" data-original-width="619" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4VSdms8bR7wEygh2WNfpBrWlJsOTGOIh6940HFK8KLzqf6Kq2lBlrZzJGvuF2cpcEOCDT4C95xxoWDmhck-MpNcmdA7_cjvjhc_apWxkoblQA3yvACoTBpGeJM9Ya-ECtDon0-xcXfo13S_ZghThbzXUMRJ2mNZvJiPi_p-sTendHNQnxXnYT6g=w451-h485" width="451" /></a><br /><i>Short answer: Yes. <br />Long answer: Hell yes.</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I began to warn the world <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/02/twilight-of-spandex-idols.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nearly three years ago</a> that the superheroes were on their way to a well-earned - and long overdue - final death. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>Knowing all too well how it takes these kind of things to cycle out, I realized it would take some time. Projects in production needed to be released - and totally bellyflop at the box office - before anyone believed me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And now Judgment Day has finally arrived.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqfyhS1Jmn66Qc7SaQRNelgxZo5VFcNNow3IzHOXQLdoFaT0Ir1bAK1z61S6vKxSpU6ACKDbdcbHQtiqjBcEayQ0FOJbJCGtiqnIdjlw0VVQVjWifrg7-xWkx-BWqNHQf_-gL7G63qvZzFq4DIISsG7i9NGoPCdgDDje-frgG_b1DaFlTPSdwig/s585/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-31%20at%205.10.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="585" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqfyhS1Jmn66Qc7SaQRNelgxZo5VFcNNow3IzHOXQLdoFaT0Ir1bAK1z61S6vKxSpU6ACKDbdcbHQtiqjBcEayQ0FOJbJCGtiqnIdjlw0VVQVjWifrg7-xWkx-BWqNHQf_-gL7G63qvZzFq4DIISsG7i9NGoPCdgDDje-frgG_b1DaFlTPSdwig/w430-h333/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-31%20at%205.10.45%20PM.png" width="430" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Of course I had the inside track, having freelanced for Marvel in its various iterations since the mid-90s. And I really knew the final bed had been shat once my phone stopped ringing. There just wasn't any work to be done - no one is buying this stuff anymore. It's been over for a while. It's just taken time for the corpse to stop twitching.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I revisited the topic <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/08/superheroes-enter-their-super-death.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2022/11/our-gods-wore-spandex-last-supper-for.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, long before the Grim Reaper came to take his toll. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">How insanely terrible is the situation? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">How completely and utterly dead is not only the superhero genre but all geek culture genres? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>This</i> is how terrible it is:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W3xk_rBmrMo" width="482" youtube-src-id="W3xk_rBmrMo"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Believe me, Toys R' Us was utterly annihilated on a fraction of the unsold stock</b> this YouTuber has documented at close-out stores of last resort like Ollie's. As someone who cut his teeth in the action figure business, let me tell you: "apocalyptic" is far too mild a term to describe this disaster. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is utter <i>desolation</i>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This worthless, patronizing Woke crap - which Disney and Marvel were betting their entire futures on - is hated not only by middle-aged babymen on Twitter and YouTube, but it's hated by literally <i>everyone</i>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Worse than hated, actually - it's <i>ignored</i>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Never mind what NPC and conspiratainment-junkies might tell you, based about their feeble grasp of box office sorcery: this is the <u>real</u> final death. Toys and merch are where the real gravy is made; it's how marginally-profitable films continued to get produced. Without this revenue stream, there is only despair and oblivion. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Still don't believe me?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjeQzBv__9Me5hQMuf-vda9VD6iroyczTw0fR5m3B_UoiZTejmnegppp279_FM9JaDHt3EBAkQ0HSTHrudpEbPLtZn7kjvN0wRofwxLcC3UMeYYCUdKvvfPxa6-XfsEqgmerKac_SoPkVoU5dvOED6iFhvI-74zOU7a9afRIaRJPcMfn21zjgEAQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="631" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjeQzBv__9Me5hQMuf-vda9VD6iroyczTw0fR5m3B_UoiZTejmnegppp279_FM9JaDHt3EBAkQ0HSTHrudpEbPLtZn7kjvN0wRofwxLcC3UMeYYCUdKvvfPxa6-XfsEqgmerKac_SoPkVoU5dvOED6iFhvI-74zOU7a9afRIaRJPcMfn21zjgEAQ" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Wall Street does.</b> I'm old enough to remember when it would be a catastrophe if Disney's stock price dipped under 100. So are a few things in my fridge. And yet even with inflation, here we are.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's over. So, so, so over.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But don't despair - there literally <u>never</u> needs to be another comic book published or superhero or sci-fi movie made again. </b>There's a century's worth of material already made and ready to be explored if you so desire. Nothing more -- zip, zero, zilch -- needs to be said. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Moreover, nothing new of any value whatsoever ever <i>will</i> be said. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's all been done and no one will ever do anything better than what's come before. Certainly not the feeble, hate-filled freaks who stink up the writers' rooms and editorial offices these days. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And with infantilized young adults not having children - and the children that are coming up seem to be mostly illiterate and uneducable, according to exasperated teachers on TikTok - no one will ever say anything worth hearing, reading or watching about these ancient IPs ever again. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I mean <u>EVER</u>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But be of good cheer, Pilgrims.</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The stories have all been told and told well, over and again. Celebrate the past works, the great creators and creations, and enjoy the grim fate that awaits the despoilers of the old gods. It will be a strain of <i>schedenfreude</i> of a level never before witnessed.</span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiogQY3Sv0QtUXh3fuft7mxHPmUUOOD60IUsoaqCND2tGtVAKAgOl6qSFMpRRtOSz0bmGBaHxA7LZCxnRKhl3nwTfWaN-94GEaQUddtTopOPavBbehYqGiwTGnnbg_cMDx7jxEzhXqveMt3Jzcz1SP1bHZALaVzHnJMsfII5O2zw5vhnONy8KPdFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span><img data-original-height="913" data-original-width="614" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiogQY3Sv0QtUXh3fuft7mxHPmUUOOD60IUsoaqCND2tGtVAKAgOl6qSFMpRRtOSz0bmGBaHxA7LZCxnRKhl3nwTfWaN-94GEaQUddtTopOPavBbehYqGiwTGnnbg_cMDx7jxEzhXqveMt3Jzcz1SP1bHZALaVzHnJMsfII5O2zw5vhnONy8KPdFQ=w268-h400" width="268" /></span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>In the meantime, check out this epic discussion with my man Recluse on The Spandex Files: The Death, Rebirth and Re-Death of Superheroes. </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's a rave-up of a rare kind, straight up.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/95500323" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN</span></b></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>While I do shovel dirt on the supergods' spandex caskets, I also celebrate what has come before and the warm memories we'll always have in our hearts.</b> I'll be forever grateful to the <u>real</u> heroes -- the creators who made wonderful stories for lonely, messed-up kids to be inspired by -- as well as the truly great people I worked with at the House of Ideas.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/95500323" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN</span></b></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's the skinny on the book itself:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></b></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Spandex Files</a></b><b> </b>is 280 action-packed (and lavishly illustrated) pages of information and edutainment, filled with the chills, spills and laughs you've come to expect from your pal here at The Secret Sun! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/09/are-you-ready-for-spandex-files.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out these preview pages</a> and then <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here to check The Spandex Files out on Amazon!</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Also available in <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canada</a>, the <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UK</a>, in <a href="https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Germany</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">France</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spain</a>, in <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Japan</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CHL4DQMC">Australia</a> and other major sellers as well!</span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-70791488461098605832023-12-27T14:26:00.009-05:002023-12-27T14:26:55.003-05:00The Year Behind, The Year Ahead<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Klap1_MLQ8?si=7tAl4Lk_kwRlEKie" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Just partook in a very lively and info-packed livestream with Aeon Byte.</b> The theme was a look back on 2023 and a look forward to 2024 and beyond. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Buckle up.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><b>Here's the pitch from the Aeon Byte home office:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Gird your loins and hold on to your eggnog because Gordon White and Chris Knowles grace the Virtual Alexandria. Ready for a Gnostic and Magic take on the high weirdness of 2023, and what cosmic, archonic, and egregorial forces will manifest in 2024? </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>What socio-political forces will do their best to worsen society, and what can you do about it? You better be because it’s the end of the world, and I feel fine. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Worry not: the inner journey has never been this easy.</i></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); color: #060606;"><span><b>Hey, got an Amazon gift card burning a hole in your pocket?</b></span></span></span></span><span> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>I'm here to help. Here's a couple great ways to give yourself the gift of knowledge and wile away the dreary post-holiday blahs.</span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiogQY3Sv0QtUXh3fuft7mxHPmUUOOD60IUsoaqCND2tGtVAKAgOl6qSFMpRRtOSz0bmGBaHxA7LZCxnRKhl3nwTfWaN-94GEaQUddtTopOPavBbehYqGiwTGnnbg_cMDx7jxEzhXqveMt3Jzcz1SP1bHZALaVzHnJMsfII5O2zw5vhnONy8KPdFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="913" data-original-width="614" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiogQY3Sv0QtUXh3fuft7mxHPmUUOOD60IUsoaqCND2tGtVAKAgOl6qSFMpRRtOSz0bmGBaHxA7LZCxnRKhl3nwTfWaN-94GEaQUddtTopOPavBbehYqGiwTGnnbg_cMDx7jxEzhXqveMt3Jzcz1SP1bHZALaVzHnJMsfII5O2zw5vhnONy8KPdFQ=w268-h400" width="268" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Spandex Files</a></b><b> </b>is 280 action-packed (and lavishly illustrated) pages of information and edutainment, filled with the chills, spills and laughs you've come to expect from your pal here at The Secret Sun! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/09/are-you-ready-for-spandex-files.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out these preview pages</a> and then <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here to check The Spandex Files out on Amazon!</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Also available in <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canada</a>, the <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UK</a>, in <a href="https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Germany</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">France</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spain</a>, in <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0CHL4DQMC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Japan</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CHL4DQMC">Australia</a> and other major sellers as well!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span></span><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="417" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiKuHwDp0arUJsEP3K2S9cdeRfaeGXllJ0YxIhBA5dWKlfNcipzE-N65ig5sCtfRdd1kX9uweH76gSB50rLf_JxL_v_ECIV1BkOiHgSrEbpyPcMhTWUFSNK7VvVEK5v-nOt4Y4z_k4zFgwCPDlFOVtfEjs-Ws4cQJ8rgRJxe2484uWd_Z6KoU=w264-h400" width="264" /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></div><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>And also don't forget that The Endless American Midnight is finally available on Kindle. </b>A lot of folks have asked me to do so and I'm happy to say that their ship has finally come in. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You can get it <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJBK4F9N" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here in the US</a>,</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJBK4F9N" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here in the UK</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJBK4F9N" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>here in Canada</b></a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJBK4F9N">here for Australia</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJBK4F9N" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here for Germany.</a> </span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: white; color: #060606;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>If you're a hard copy kind of reader, check out revised and expanded paperback<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PJQHXN5" rel="nofollow" style="caret-color: rgb(6, 6, 6);" target="_blank"> edition of <i>The Endless American Midnight.</i></a></b></span></span></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); color: #060606;"><span>Features</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060606;"> 100+ pages of additional articles, new photography, new cover art, a revised layout and re-edited text.</span></span></div></blockquote></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-10899780522795244092023-12-23T12:36:00.002-05:002023-12-23T12:36:58.566-05:00And Now for Something Completely Different...<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIeFrLkggvetPKtqUMyg57dptG6t9PVig07p8VbZI_XTAHtipARzLOKdikF8sWd-cBW7XB-p-K14qRD2lkYRGsakQTAxNBsoRd3tAcieIdcX1OR6RQaNfjPq_-XaNdl6nYnfJKVpYj3utFuV0yp3hHMfUUQCs25rxahf1Y3ve_bpxXGg7G1QCpGA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="639" data-original-width="484" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIeFrLkggvetPKtqUMyg57dptG6t9PVig07p8VbZI_XTAHtipARzLOKdikF8sWd-cBW7XB-p-K14qRD2lkYRGsakQTAxNBsoRd3tAcieIdcX1OR6RQaNfjPq_-XaNdl6nYnfJKVpYj3utFuV0yp3hHMfUUQCs25rxahf1Y3ve_bpxXGg7G1QCpGA=w379-h500" width="379" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You know, when podcasters want to talk the Bible and Christian Metaphysics, my name is always the last on their lists.</b> I can't blame anyone for that, mind you. I wouldn't risk having a mystical loose cannon like myself around either. I never know what I might say.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><b>Luckily, Jasun Horsley was kind enough to invite me on to his Children of Job podcast and talk on any number of Godly topics.</b> It was a rollicking good time, since I studied Christianity for years ("my Jesus books," as my wife used to call them). I always enjoy when I'm given the rare opportunity to let my old Methodist-boy mojo flow.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Here's Jasun's synopsis:</b></span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>Free Christmas Jobcast with Chris Knowles of <a href="https://linktr.ee/secretsunblog">The Secret Sun</a>, on Chris’ Christian upbringing, Jasun’s socialist background, the myth of Patriarchy, the end of the Antichrist System, watching the train wreck of modernity, death of a thousand cuts, the common ground of Christian community, after the collapse, Revelation and demons, a host of spiritual viruses, metaphysical evil, Apocalypse as good news, the devil vs. human nature, cycles of decline, death and nature, reincarnation. </i></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>Jesus’s mission, bringing the kingdom of God to Satan’s kingdom, faith, trust, & patience, the heresy of less is more, chronic fatigue and the purgatory of health, the orientation of the body and the soul, acknowledging the wisdom of the ancestors, suffering as the cure for narcissm, dissing Darwinism, back to Job, the transhumanist folly, accepting impurity, grace under fire.</i></blockquote></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://childrenofjob.substack.com/p/jobcast-9-the-great-unveiling?r=1djz1l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Click here to hear the whole show.</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>And <a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2023/12/merry-chrisknowlesmas.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">check out my Chrisknowlesmas playlist</a> at the Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll blog!</b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" style="caret-color: rgb(36, 30, 18); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="855" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDPNsOEm5sIAhApO9x0Bo3bSdY0lKgSfV-bTi5WDf481CJYZ5pGnvFTvTlsb9odOur8ErD-HcRr2l1Zcrg7lNiQf8U3EV4c4exmCPKzBUOUX6Cz1jvVvx1_ZXGeTyNBSyUvjNfhQ/w320-h237/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+6.07.25+PM.png" width="320" /></span></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>click on the Moon for details</i></div></i></span><p></p></div><div style="background-color: white;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><b>Don't forget to<a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701&fan_landing=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> click on that Moon there</a> to enroll for the 2024 winter semester at the SSI. </b>For as little as three dollars a month you can join in the most immersive and elaborate database of Synchromysticism anywhere in the world. </span>And it's growing by the day. </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You know the old saying: "Come for the scholarship, stay for the fellowship."</b></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-15754275689446710552023-12-21T18:10:00.001-05:002023-12-21T18:10:20.785-05:00"A Portal to the Next Dimension"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkre4Ojd7mmsn5PXQd-fnTtM6I0mYdsSAuHz_964TQTrdj4j7SFrsWGmJJB4v7bE0ZSCJkEeRqtkH4SGs5Qno96scwVbzOPgbS6ROU11UrbYKwRotR1IbdO2TmzqtUPhny6weK2ZGNUKqzzXWKv_ZPfh09X5bFctylzt-hlCUuE6veVj1StwxZEg/s656/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%204.30.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="656" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkre4Ojd7mmsn5PXQd-fnTtM6I0mYdsSAuHz_964TQTrdj4j7SFrsWGmJJB4v7bE0ZSCJkEeRqtkH4SGs5Qno96scwVbzOPgbS6ROU11UrbYKwRotR1IbdO2TmzqtUPhny6weK2ZGNUKqzzXWKv_ZPfh09X5bFctylzt-hlCUuE6veVj1StwxZEg/w400-h334/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%204.30.08%20PM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Well, it happened again.</b> What happened again? you may be wondering. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why, <i>hardcore synchronicity</i> happened again, my friends. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Let's back it up <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/12/civil-war-or-sibyl-war.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">to last Friday</a> and the post on the Civil War trailer:</b></span><p></p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAgHBeFP7zcq3Vs7epcBXALfJk3Wpd4dFtzapb1V4eK5ktVzHNTzu6Ums1VHpo580XuHw5CZxhXfsuLkOur8I2wRu-Y6TdYwI-flXdExVTT_Fyk1_UcOBHyDwPb9U23pQdQG3ag/s1600/SHIMMIE.png"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAgHBeFP7zcq3Vs7epcBXALfJk3Wpd4dFtzapb1V4eK5ktVzHNTzu6Ums1VHpo580XuHw5CZxhXfsuLkOur8I2wRu-Y6TdYwI-flXdExVTT_Fyk1_UcOBHyDwPb9U23pQdQG3ag/s400/SHIMMIE.png" width="400" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtmc4gKHKE03Fh-8R-zf-bkr4MiT-ab-6bruLlBYqAMJU7AizFH9QiJ19AXiVm_6yIsOooBj_pNbKBsdljAIm3dfjol4PCwlQ7j8BPaHoJQeU7z4O_RTBIQbu_0SHxu3bUtPF5iwlXMkFbHSt2IkHMdfuIc86KJfpx9yvDXKyWTdrWR0KqJ7DgQ/s600/R-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="600" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtmc4gKHKE03Fh-8R-zf-bkr4MiT-ab-6bruLlBYqAMJU7AizFH9QiJ19AXiVm_6yIsOooBj_pNbKBsdljAIm3dfjol4PCwlQ7j8BPaHoJQeU7z4O_RTBIQbu_0SHxu3bUtPF5iwlXMkFbHSt2IkHMdfuIc86KJfpx9yvDXKyWTdrWR0KqJ7DgQ/w400-h364/R-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>There's also the alien contagion which Garland called "The Shimmer." It's a nebulous cloud of prismatic light, just like the ones you can easily find on any number of Cocteau Twins record covers and music videos.</i></span></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wgv08gsexfc?si=bE7_apajNcXCyJrl" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <br /><i>(Just one of many examples)</i></span></p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJMcKphhyphenhyphengW9ddOOshY_slQkYmru_eJCQffOZqj1OKtX49UwE3-4FieS5rQXc1FlR_2vlyvZFVPSIxuH6NxSWJCeTRU2GMFZxfYx9EWAW7Ad7x2I6NzpOyfYtcVWe1bNXLa82AJw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.46.58+PM.png"><i><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJMcKphhyphenhyphengW9ddOOshY_slQkYmru_eJCQffOZqj1OKtX49UwE3-4FieS5rQXc1FlR_2vlyvZFVPSIxuH6NxSWJCeTRU2GMFZxfYx9EWAW7Ad7x2I6NzpOyfYtcVWe1bNXLa82AJw/w542-h264/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.46.58+PM.png" width="542" /></i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMVlD8VooeX-V0owRXJQ8wJjCKkecmB-r_2qsd069MCG_WZqwW5_ZLqub2L7SHl2630uhznshkyzmeEX3iYkfSCFkZMgp2X7svPPOq-jja1x4GmCeFYlzlPymf25r4XmkOdIpbg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.52.41+PM.png"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMVlD8VooeX-V0owRXJQ8wJjCKkecmB-r_2qsd069MCG_WZqwW5_ZLqub2L7SHl2630uhznshkyzmeEX3iYkfSCFkZMgp2X7svPPOq-jja1x4GmCeFYlzlPymf25r4XmkOdIpbg/w534-h395/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.52.41+PM.png" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">And as some of you may remember, Garland filmed the Shimmer scenes in the <u>same exact location</u> that the Cocteau Twins' "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop" video was filmed. I have an extremely hard time chalking that up to coincidence.</div></i></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>With me, so far? Good.</b><br /><br />Now, let's look at this story from the BBC, brought to my attention by Reader Heather:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Residents across the UK have been amazed by rare sights in the sky on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>Looking like a "portal to the next dimension" or possibly a spaceship,</b> the <b>shimmering</b> colours of nacreous cloud were spotted. One of the highest clouds in our atmosphere, they are often referred to as <b>"mother-of-pearl,"</b> and are rarely spotted in the UK because of the exceptional conditions needed.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Nacreous cloud form in very cold conditions over polar regions and within the stratosphere, around 12-19 miles high, far above our normal clouds.</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">FFS: enough Secret Sun keywords there for you? Honestly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>And where exactly in the UK were these rare clouds being spotted?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why, you knew it already:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEtlaYw4WhsarVRtiKVOP35GLBNSy3uGZZFoa8Cg7505sBcRp9XsBYVvSEvdwV8B_dbcHEm_T08uZ1kBJsl9sDrY-Iu_xySLxP_DKV3guuGUJpqOfbFYHUfJPpnZtbi8HmykqJputtAZ0_iQ-fu0TKTWS3NBYIM0sXuH7VewgnYW6j23HWE2-xg/s564/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-20%20at%209.18.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="468" height="627" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEtlaYw4WhsarVRtiKVOP35GLBNSy3uGZZFoa8Cg7505sBcRp9XsBYVvSEvdwV8B_dbcHEm_T08uZ1kBJsl9sDrY-Iu_xySLxP_DKV3guuGUJpqOfbFYHUfJPpnZtbi8HmykqJputtAZ0_iQ-fu0TKTWS3NBYIM0sXuH7VewgnYW6j23HWE2-xg/w521-h627/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-20%20at%209.18.21%20PM.jpeg" width="521" /></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>BBC Weather Watcher SazzyJ "spotted this cloud iridescence from our garden in Edinburgh late afternoon. We'd never seen anything like it before." </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"A portal to the next dimension" said Weather Watcher SkyWatcher.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Occasionally cold polar air, locked in place by strong winds high up in the atmosphere - called the polar vortex - weakens and allows this colder air to sink south to our latitude.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Formed in air that is around -80C, tiny ice crystals refract sunlight, giving the cloud pearly colours - the reason why it is also called mother-of-pearl.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Nacreous clouds are mostly seen a couple of hours either side of sunset or sunrise and, being so high, they are still lit by sunlight which makes them appear even brighter in our evening sky.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Because of the height and temperature needed this cloud is also known as Polar Stratospheric Cloud.</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>So, basically the skies over Scotland (and the Midlands)</b> turned into a giant Cocteau Twins record cover. No, seriously:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFGYw4gEhcc1Vua2KWhYv-I9X7SL1Yd5t9UwWflBdTfo8TBcO3hZtoavb_PM2lI1aYNeoCz84ShbVeSjWK6fk3-gXP_5GVxI8sBoYLwj3YCHgR7eYyrUGOoI1h6flUDk6llN-7SIDYQcC4TiyIM4z3Qd9atwCipDjI9WvhiHge57oV8NWtOG7Uw/s1080/412565778_10230545313552200_2496619022429151412_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="1080" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpFGYw4gEhcc1Vua2KWhYv-I9X7SL1Yd5t9UwWflBdTfo8TBcO3hZtoavb_PM2lI1aYNeoCz84ShbVeSjWK6fk3-gXP_5GVxI8sBoYLwj3YCHgR7eYyrUGOoI1h6flUDk6llN-7SIDYQcC4TiyIM4z3Qd9atwCipDjI9WvhiHge57oV8NWtOG7Uw/s320/412565778_10230545313552200_2496619022429151412_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHODEyIyUq4nFafJQJl8h9c1LyaTU2_40gnzJWZa05TmNOarAP_gJS5tOBvFCYXnxzDOmuHeLZqJ4j0NF9IEgmdhVDkufVmk2hYY-rhYZ57Z1jm7Iq4kbebsSw8b2KIpdepNr18S2wNfINOqeOXtGE7tltBj6Y9AEwpxBK8FPtGr18-Dt2Sij89Q/s472/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%204.33.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="472" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHODEyIyUq4nFafJQJl8h9c1LyaTU2_40gnzJWZa05TmNOarAP_gJS5tOBvFCYXnxzDOmuHeLZqJ4j0NF9IEgmdhVDkufVmk2hYY-rhYZ57Z1jm7Iq4kbebsSw8b2KIpdepNr18S2wNfINOqeOXtGE7tltBj6Y9AEwpxBK8FPtGr18-Dt2Sij89Q/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-21%20at%204.33.19%20PM.jpeg" width="320" /></a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QXRHczy0yjJoPv_Nf2h-QnMRuPAFGUV-zSjhDGldUpxbHkL6tke5Uk2WiGpcU7xDmkNFTelDqCw5c-VxapSrLFDnOLDQ_JKtaq5Iy_dGH3rKrmYf8Emg7sUw-DREvH9mAzTcGiro8flXht4gnw3okJ6qVU4Tdd8qRuMfteAX8vo2breNxby1Hw/s600/R-184971-1400015897-6616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QXRHczy0yjJoPv_Nf2h-QnMRuPAFGUV-zSjhDGldUpxbHkL6tke5Uk2WiGpcU7xDmkNFTelDqCw5c-VxapSrLFDnOLDQ_JKtaq5Iy_dGH3rKrmYf8Emg7sUw-DREvH9mAzTcGiro8flXht4gnw3okJ6qVU4Tdd8qRuMfteAX8vo2breNxby1Hw/s320/R-184971-1400015897-6616.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">See what I mean?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23toJ959YiLlDEqe4TNm0PekDRDOg_-kZ5_mdEezdnL0oiPnBtc0Zaisu6NPHh2CIc0quqvVMsLYah5CBbOLxpYuP36w9rpyFn8OmHZtub9-xZyAxF2Be7RrAxTFnzuUJSTQ9XABtIaQ7GDBWf4hLMwRW7P2M-qyeEDBq9g9cbzf90DNfd685-Q/s744/_132098861_2b2e88d3-2f37-41d2-b14f-04646e74375d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="744" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi23toJ959YiLlDEqe4TNm0PekDRDOg_-kZ5_mdEezdnL0oiPnBtc0Zaisu6NPHh2CIc0quqvVMsLYah5CBbOLxpYuP36w9rpyFn8OmHZtub9-xZyAxF2Be7RrAxTFnzuUJSTQ9XABtIaQ7GDBWf4hLMwRW7P2M-qyeEDBq9g9cbzf90DNfd685-Q/s320/_132098861_2b2e88d3-2f37-41d2-b14f-04646e74375d.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>There were these oddly-geometric UFO-looking clouds as well.</b> Remember that Our Lady hails from an area some consider <a href="https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/falkirk-triangle-ufo-hot-spot-26419860" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the UFO Capital of the World</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Speaking of portals to the next dimension, I mean.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3MA86sX6KDHth7_-E8uX33ETw6VqGVR_EK4s9lt9ko-PxIgj2rykjBjIbwBn-jrlwkpdC-BTo1a0oCpPVJHxMzB3EYmTgJPwtQYpCodGHW4i4DJ6QEQFgKnFRegmToN7tYKzgjFoC3A7JMwq27BGjyqQS4RmPe-KUhep2z7P4ft5tlCOr2h2Xg/s640/GB5gim1WwAA9zT5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3MA86sX6KDHth7_-E8uX33ETw6VqGVR_EK4s9lt9ko-PxIgj2rykjBjIbwBn-jrlwkpdC-BTo1a0oCpPVJHxMzB3EYmTgJPwtQYpCodGHW4i4DJ6QEQFgKnFRegmToN7tYKzgjFoC3A7JMwq27BGjyqQS4RmPe-KUhep2z7P4ft5tlCOr2h2Xg/s320/GB5gim1WwAA9zT5.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And a follower from Ireland sent this shot of deep purple skies, probably <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/12/apocalypse-like-sugar-volcano-suns.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">due to the Iceland volcano</a> we looked at the other day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FN1fTs15jD4?si=q5bIrcuRRTKjsY5I" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And don't forget Our Lady is associated with shimmering skies right to this very day.<br /><br /><b>So if you're working on your New Year's Resolutions, I have a good one for you to add: </b></span><i style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BELIEVE.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-15047814482664418572023-12-19T18:23:00.002-05:002023-12-20T19:36:01.252-05:00Apocalypse Like Sugar: Volcano Suns<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVwA929ZS-9PP8E8yH5hmi3VfiMIms0DIOppjLEgV4ffyamFr8cQW_t2pEaisGKBzJpc25ooqenoDm1cpXTw7a_KCioNZ_g4LUOsMGC3hZhzyTxtXZllp_tK7AYhuM5YmOk5saHZ2av0gQJivPtWygc1QRZCQOG0EQUmBfqJbUy2S3bettbjLCBg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="399" data-original-width="437" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVwA929ZS-9PP8E8yH5hmi3VfiMIms0DIOppjLEgV4ffyamFr8cQW_t2pEaisGKBzJpc25ooqenoDm1cpXTw7a_KCioNZ_g4LUOsMGC3hZhzyTxtXZllp_tK7AYhuM5YmOk5saHZ2av0gQJivPtWygc1QRZCQOG0EQUmBfqJbUy2S3bettbjLCBg=w400-h365" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Synchronicities happen all the time - it's how the Reality apparatus works.</b> The question then becomes exactly how significant those syncs are, and how they play into larger symbolic narratives. </span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>So when a major volcano erupts - and that eruption is drenched in familiar symbolism - is that just a self-contained synchronicity or a portent? Meaning, is it a sign of more momentous events to come?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To answer that question, let's look at the news:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>An earthquake swarm began on the Reykjanes peninsula on the night of October 24, 2023</b> just north of the town of <b>Grindavík</b>. On October 27, the land in the area began to rise, indicating a magma intrusion in the earth below. </i></span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvNfVVZqhL6YGF6YVbrOm-eusZT-qNtaRp4H4WvJGg6lkEwSrcDe0Lq94qWTGwBZcNJ_onKy9K3BHsW6tvSB3pT_uvk2Gbw56gVnj8DpqHjuKIty7mpBcHbi5uHJSwmUeYovYcDeKi4vo3QdlT7e6eZaH8P55Mm7ucGNlOMEg5JiTB5IKcme1vQ/s478/iceland00003.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="478" height="527" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvNfVVZqhL6YGF6YVbrOm-eusZT-qNtaRp4H4WvJGg6lkEwSrcDe0Lq94qWTGwBZcNJ_onKy9K3BHsW6tvSB3pT_uvk2Gbw56gVnj8DpqHjuKIty7mpBcHbi5uHJSwmUeYovYcDeKi4vo3QdlT7e6eZaH8P55Mm7ucGNlOMEg5JiTB5IKcme1vQ/w541-h527/iceland00003.png" width="541" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>OK, well, volcanos are going off all the time.</b> Why do we care about this one? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, for one, the significance here is the threat posed to Svartsengi power plant and the populated areas around it:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>Current data and measurements indicate that another eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula is still a possibility. Given the possible location of an eruption, there is a real danger posed to operations at Svartsengi, which is the main supplier of electricity and water to the Reykjanes peninsula. </i></blockquote></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Let's hope for the best.</b> While we do, let's look again at when this all started:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><blockquote><i>An earthquake swarm began on the Reykjanes peninsula on the night of <b>October 24, 2023 just north of the town of Grindavík. </b></i></blockquote></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ahh, <i>there</i> we go. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Where</i> we go, you may be asking. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, let's start with the date this all began, October 24th. What's that the 40th anniversary of?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwSrr1Nv6qD9J9kZOwraRNk-bOAGEfuwcSuZa4VfARna-oSYMUQ75FMrZzL7r0LORCp1xW6qVLPek6vJEriPC66LSV26waAXmHrmYOsPwgJ6t4PHsXv1iGE9kwt8xZ7jFJtDKQ0Zsq0m6nqTO592JnxY2ZcFYu6PyDaVv6C9y-4eUDOcoOTLAUg/s696/head-over-heels00001.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="431" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwSrr1Nv6qD9J9kZOwraRNk-bOAGEfuwcSuZa4VfARna-oSYMUQ75FMrZzL7r0LORCp1xW6qVLPek6vJEriPC66LSV26waAXmHrmYOsPwgJ6t4PHsXv1iGE9kwt8xZ7jFJtDKQ0Zsq0m6nqTO592JnxY2ZcFYu6PyDaVv6C9y-4eUDOcoOTLAUg/w396-h640/head-over-heels00001.png" width="396" /></span></a></div></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, what's the significance of that?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2018/09/apocalypse-like-sugar.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">we looked at this a ways back.</a> Head Over Heels is extremely significant for many reasons, but for our purposes it's the album that features "Sugar Hiccup."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: center;">As a rule, I recommend you avoid the lyrics sites when it comes to Sibyl-scrying, but these particular lyrics are generally accepted as accurate.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <i style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQz3Bk15Xa2hjme7oQQR6atPLgagP3oRTBtHiuAn2X5dlIhjXFz0Y2MwnnWwGkmE_OzcX4ywTDt-uV4IYGXL1MPGletiCx48wZJuiyN_Swb_p04mryWbaJQBxakkJfUvgv1aIpQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-09-11+at+6.21.41+PM.png"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQz3Bk15Xa2hjme7oQQR6atPLgagP3oRTBtHiuAn2X5dlIhjXFz0Y2MwnnWwGkmE_OzcX4ywTDt-uV4IYGXL1MPGletiCx48wZJuiyN_Swb_p04mryWbaJQBxakkJfUvgv1aIpQ/w534-h287/Screen+Shot+2018-09-11+at+6.21.41+PM.png" width="534" /></a></b></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Now, "hiccup" is a term often used by geologists to describe an earthquake, but "sugar" is the part of the equation</b> that's always puzzled me.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So let's break it down:</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5c6y-wWxluPnU1NrYstrHtsITVvARhehdNB8puG1BzxS0-f07aayCChhwUvvhRq-afg7fVvdqY7jZqUfjSmZfXt8bPRmRgSte2ZxTnlHSUMh3w2_iakwRtdc0x1hdWSdUY_lJmw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-09-08+at+3.18.31+PM.png"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5c6y-wWxluPnU1NrYstrHtsITVvARhehdNB8puG1BzxS0-f07aayCChhwUvvhRq-afg7fVvdqY7jZqUfjSmZfXt8bPRmRgSte2ZxTnlHSUMh3w2_iakwRtdc0x1hdWSdUY_lJmw/w562-h285/Screen+Shot+2018-09-08+at+3.18.31+PM.png" width="562" /></a></b></span><br /> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>So sugar comes from the Persian word for grit or gravel.</b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So what about gravel?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIyckMeUOl72X8D5ql2RgcL5eOCaBmWMykt-wng1RTbAUjiMNLFJ76IAkwPde-6LMzhmhct9cVNCzlvuEkexnEYeAVQPrRIcz2jRONvIth_j9tY2-YewjTahqpy735Q8uW0057A/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-09-08+at+3.20.02+PM.png" style="font-style: italic;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><img border="0" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIyckMeUOl72X8D5ql2RgcL5eOCaBmWMykt-wng1RTbAUjiMNLFJ76IAkwPde-6LMzhmhct9cVNCzlvuEkexnEYeAVQPrRIcz2jRONvIth_j9tY2-YewjTahqpy735Q8uW0057A/w590-h371/Screen+Shot+2018-09-08+at+3.20.02+PM.png" width="590" /></b></span></a><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">So gravel comes from the old Celtic languages term for "grind."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Grind. OK.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>So what's the significance of "grind" in our analysis of this latest volcanic event?</b></div></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZTIatSQCXHeGXwm3j7BLkbPteE9-Isjsjl6YC9etBSeIQ_nNp1IjwK-nKmnMQG9ICDdGPK_17cimXiMAeAzTXnL9DDccrtv40JwQuxgxG68QLm3rmESx0-32q70NbyTY5BrqeCCf4XBylGVTGy5CDXFRlKq9bpitguQis7ajht1aiTsjRAkR-aQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="361" data-original-width="376" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZTIatSQCXHeGXwm3j7BLkbPteE9-Isjsjl6YC9etBSeIQ_nNp1IjwK-nKmnMQG9ICDdGPK_17cimXiMAeAzTXnL9DDccrtv40JwQuxgxG68QLm3rmESx0-32q70NbyTY5BrqeCCf4XBylGVTGy5CDXFRlKq9bpitguQis7ajht1aiTsjRAkR-aQ=w594-h570" width="594" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's the significance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>So sugar-> gravel -> grind -> Grindavik.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All of which leads me to believe this eruption might be a sign and not just another earth-burp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><u>THERE'S ALWAYS A TELL</u></div></span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQz3Bk15Xa2hjme7oQQR6atPLgagP3oRTBtHiuAn2X5dlIhjXFz0Y2MwnnWwGkmE_OzcX4ywTDt-uV4IYGXL1MPGletiCx48wZJuiyN_Swb_p04mryWbaJQBxakkJfUvgv1aIpQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-09-11+at+6.21.41+PM.png"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQz3Bk15Xa2hjme7oQQR6atPLgagP3oRTBtHiuAn2X5dlIhjXFz0Y2MwnnWwGkmE_OzcX4ywTDt-uV4IYGXL1MPGletiCx48wZJuiyN_Swb_p04mryWbaJQBxakkJfUvgv1aIpQ/w580-h314/Screen+Shot+2018-09-11+at+6.21.41+PM.png" width="580" /></a></b></span><br /><b> </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now, the "Earth toss and tumble" is unambiguously referring to an earthquake, whatever the Sibyl was consciously processing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But the "Heavens curtsy and bow" is more ambiguous.</b> That is until you think about it visually. And then it seems like she is making a poetic description of a volcanic cloud.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">See here:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHLR-5N31ikz1qpjzOnsibiZ4ggl_yQC6wQ1qxb_6nKS-7Uh1gz_-5wnFvJGSk0wwVT3jJttbUnpDsiAc5H7KJu9rIk2vos5_pKK_c9BPDAGI0GkFftO9WOu2fLJ4GY9ZiVpuGNg/s1600/volcano%253Dcurtsy.png"><img border="0" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHLR-5N31ikz1qpjzOnsibiZ4ggl_yQC6wQ1qxb_6nKS-7Uh1gz_-5wnFvJGSk0wwVT3jJttbUnpDsiAc5H7KJu9rIk2vos5_pKK_c9BPDAGI0GkFftO9WOu2fLJ4GY9ZiVpuGNg/w400-h319/volcano%253Dcurtsy.png" width="400" /></a></b></span><b><br /></b><b> </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>Heavens curtsy...</b></span><br /><b> </b><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyULZC7Y_vA3cm7E5EjIpe7pcLvpNrPZTtXw1Lj35-iRVWAyXHWyjykxLaTRiSlQrq7T0nu9BkxsBWVVjxDAc782smdR4Sr51j9h0SdZT2bXm_8wblL1UjyHmZcJZuSuin0p3BdQ/s1600/hqdefault+copy.jpg"><img border="0" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyULZC7Y_vA3cm7E5EjIpe7pcLvpNrPZTtXw1Lj35-iRVWAyXHWyjykxLaTRiSlQrq7T0nu9BkxsBWVVjxDAc782smdR4Sr51j9h0SdZT2bXm_8wblL1UjyHmZcJZuSuin0p3BdQ/w400-h343/hqdefault+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />...curtsy...</b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58TXPnyoUZvLQFN_uKkFLY4AhUkdqCiS2qHR3TrckQORkAE3Howu9u8u4jXdfjKJDFl3GT0losdTBrvQmXzaH5dShnRIQ9gUiESpDpsXs_f59D8x3Hv4HsgorLdfjRL0q-Rl5Tw/s1600/-1.jpeg"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58TXPnyoUZvLQFN_uKkFLY4AhUkdqCiS2qHR3TrckQORkAE3Howu9u8u4jXdfjKJDFl3GT0losdTBrvQmXzaH5dShnRIQ9gUiESpDpsXs_f59D8x3Hv4HsgorLdfjRL0q-Rl5Tw/w400-h266/-1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>...and bow.</b></span><b><br /></b><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzo8uWBrqU1_TBminI4uF0e1tT7wZGe-Dt_QutmFqjbH_n16QzAt7xrAuMxKkpDf0oazSFBsQAW3AuBlNJYkm9Wv5ovyzgkgR1wmGnlHK18un0h70w1ii_nrotnyJMZjRwLsIXCg/s1600/th+copy.jpg"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzo8uWBrqU1_TBminI4uF0e1tT7wZGe-Dt_QutmFqjbH_n16QzAt7xrAuMxKkpDf0oazSFBsQAW3AuBlNJYkm9Wv5ovyzgkgR1wmGnlHK18un0h70w1ii_nrotnyJMZjRwLsIXCg/w400-h201/th+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span><b><br /></b><br /><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>...bow. </b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">Not particularly decisive on its own, but more so in the context of the rest of it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b><u>NIGHTS, I SWIM IN THE BLUE LAGOON</u></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGj3yWCMSAsih1nrOJmrLVZGGMuttLBwIqflU2ULXuC9Dj9AbLtOlbNsh6vBT4rAV86PpvcFXpYVclvSkbmOv0qOzKKQjJwlhVS9mckjIP5QXvF31A6YTZ9Id6p1QXtYNVYk_6lTGWVqpj1NYmhtCH2BaF5WIZyfC5LXduLEqkrInZtq2ayTvyA/s450/iceland00001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGj3yWCMSAsih1nrOJmrLVZGGMuttLBwIqflU2ULXuC9Dj9AbLtOlbNsh6vBT4rAV86PpvcFXpYVclvSkbmOv0qOzKKQjJwlhVS9mckjIP5QXvF31A6YTZ9Id6p1QXtYNVYk_6lTGWVqpj1NYmhtCH2BaF5WIZyfC5LXduLEqkrInZtq2ayTvyA/w400-h400/iceland00001.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT88gGaxCHxL6140iFjpRjTd-D3YrhYcP4IrlEg1IXF6SUH-dkaysU7CcrqRPmR7_zeob-SwvjySSO-Tudo_AAs3IlNK2y_e-PRG07d_4jLhos-yl1uNXL5b_Qi_lfEZPKXgbTy8lR2dJhwKCyQWWTF2FDordo-x5sA-bUrF5vBF1mn5mScZqQew/s537/iceland00004.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="471" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT88gGaxCHxL6140iFjpRjTd-D3YrhYcP4IrlEg1IXF6SUH-dkaysU7CcrqRPmR7_zeob-SwvjySSO-Tudo_AAs3IlNK2y_e-PRG07d_4jLhos-yl1uNXL5b_Qi_lfEZPKXgbTy8lR2dJhwKCyQWWTF2FDordo-x5sA-bUrF5vBF1mn5mScZqQew/w398-h453/iceland00004.jpeg" width="398" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Grindavik is not only known for its volcano, but for the hot springs of the Blue Lagoon:</b></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The eruption is just a few kilometres from Iceland’s most popular tourist attraction, the Blue Lagoon wellness complex and hotels. It had partially reopened on Sunday, despite ongoing volcanic activity in the local area: the decision to reopen was made “in close collaboration with the authorities”, it said on its website at the time.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Blue Lagoon is now closed. Its website advises: “we have temporarily closed our facilities in Svartsengi. All guests with confirmed bookings in the upcoming days will be contacted.”</i></span></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The synchronicity here is rather staggering when you consider the cover art of the previous Cocteau Twins release to Head Over Heels... </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg70Jkg2gxkkTuS0vF7IIhIvZFqPyE9C8joBiM6edWBHtVBka3BFwcM6Ky1FcSJuboKIvF_OEVUc34LtgBFgj_HMuWsxlvaVcQn1dQvKGVIJUyTP9ICeVeB_9RI6SxwGTd-wLOGKOE-1JSR8FoMwrur75b_e4gzR3t31NIbrajgxorl8PTQT48dNA/s503/iceland00002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="502" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg70Jkg2gxkkTuS0vF7IIhIvZFqPyE9C8joBiM6edWBHtVBka3BFwcM6Ky1FcSJuboKIvF_OEVUc34LtgBFgj_HMuWsxlvaVcQn1dQvKGVIJUyTP9ICeVeB_9RI6SxwGTd-wLOGKOE-1JSR8FoMwrur75b_e4gzR3t31NIbrajgxorl8PTQT48dNA/w399-h400/iceland00002.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">... which depicts a woman in a very similar setting (some say Switzerland, others say Denmark).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So what about Iceland, then?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDAr3ecoQMMFSTNliPXZLVdfUoTv6ApdMiTcguyXJWD1pVWX9LDGJ4W9xpDDnGPNXdacjGDBKStb7pnMDEkRpqiFrPbdfRlRaQaxykeKjLZSRxFcc7z5xgA85Zu-5rHbuq8AklA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-09-06+at+8.22.25+PM.png"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDAr3ecoQMMFSTNliPXZLVdfUoTv6ApdMiTcguyXJWD1pVWX9LDGJ4W9xpDDnGPNXdacjGDBKStb7pnMDEkRpqiFrPbdfRlRaQaxykeKjLZSRxFcc7z5xgA85Zu-5rHbuq8AklA/w492-h231/Screen+Shot+2018-09-06+at+8.22.25+PM.png" width="492" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Sibyl is connected to Iceland through expatriate John Grant, her friend and sometimes collaborator.</b> She also performed a version of the Icelandic national hymn at the Blacks Club in 2018, an event that rife with <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2018/09/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">apocalyptic and oracular synchroncity</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DLT8i3zfCZY" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's a stunning rendition of the hymn. Sadly "The Willow Song" doesn't seem to be "Willow's Song," which I'd have killed to have heard the Sibyl coo.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>THAT TROUBLING PROPHECY AGAIN</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzDdWWMcPubV_cZJpXzBZIhnror8CscJK08ghlkQlQeebWOZ6IC_87IGCDzyupwBuH7lW2OcmNbMCb0AyYT0iF7TJiloeZQ0OmP9O_XZ6P1PpmKltTjxcO2vdPEcntMNtWiJLii1LDVy7XmtRLRXyzgNCOgliOUYU9SXsxsDyZ8b2usHq2nu0fQ/s503/head-over-heels00002.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="317" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzDdWWMcPubV_cZJpXzBZIhnror8CscJK08ghlkQlQeebWOZ6IC_87IGCDzyupwBuH7lW2OcmNbMCb0AyYT0iF7TJiloeZQ0OmP9O_XZ6P1PpmKltTjxcO2vdPEcntMNtWiJLii1LDVy7XmtRLRXyzgNCOgliOUYU9SXsxsDyZ8b2usHq2nu0fQ/w404-h640/head-over-heels00002.png" width="404" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So there's some kind of nasty flu virus raging through my area lately - I've been sick with it nearly a month, and I hadn't gotten the flu since 2001 (and I didn't get anything all through the Covid years). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Which brings us to "Five-Ten Fiftyfold," the terrifyingly unambiguous prophecy of a population being halved by an airborne respiratory virus.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Wheezing and sneezing</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Tenfold it blew apart</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>It halved them in half</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>And went gushing gust wind</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Five ten fiftyfold</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Five ten fiftyfold</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Five ten fiftyfold</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Five ten fiftyfold</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Five ten fiftyfold</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">If Nostradamus - as opposed to <i>notre dame</i> - wrote those same words, you'd never hear the end of it. But it's even more terrifying than it appears on the face of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT5jNbkahJNCdySieJOBXvVjpREHKksU82kObXIXsJdMlDaNQxz1hXmBx7wAudTiDj4cRN6-FhHM-DUaXPY277M8Xywuqff-Gf-4NRc8kluu_fCkTIpPJPXABJjYbflLg6dgKGAloRkka7ltn6UVmaXdwvmiz7_Lwl7ulOe7qKF4W4eDc8NiEOBg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="460" data-original-width="449" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT5jNbkahJNCdySieJOBXvVjpREHKksU82kObXIXsJdMlDaNQxz1hXmBx7wAudTiDj4cRN6-FhHM-DUaXPY277M8Xywuqff-Gf-4NRc8kluu_fCkTIpPJPXABJjYbflLg6dgKGAloRkka7ltn6UVmaXdwvmiz7_Lwl7ulOe7qKF4W4eDc8NiEOBg=w548-h562" width="548" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We found out that the Feds had started messing around with weaponizing viruses again in 2017. <b>Ten</b> were cleared for study - <b>five</b> bird flu strains and <b>five</b> MERS or coronaviruses.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Now, think about that title again.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">FIVE - TEN - FIFTY - <i>FOLD</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fold as in fall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The virus I'm afraid this prophecy is about isn't a coronavirus, it's the bird virus H5N1. "Five-ten" in this context doesn't just refer to the weaponized viruses, but also a play on "5-N," as in H5N1.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I hope to God I'm wrong. But this doesn't comfort me...</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2t7YnUjsWlo_pBg31ph4ybf68P_ZSUkxrdKGUA-LyNNvTvRxXEKeB3edNJcd3MfDo9yPe5ADQWcGuC8fHXlToStjpEEO2bAYxhxs3SFkQf_eR8ScytVa7Qnii8nofxmf-LC7O/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-04-17+at+6.45.35+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="546" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2t7YnUjsWlo_pBg31ph4ybf68P_ZSUkxrdKGUA-LyNNvTvRxXEKeB3edNJcd3MfDo9yPe5ADQWcGuC8fHXlToStjpEEO2bAYxhxs3SFkQf_eR8ScytVa7Qnii8nofxmf-LC7O/w480-h606/Screen+Shot+2018-04-17+at+6.45.35+AM.png" width="480" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Now, why do I suspect H5N1?</b> Because of another part of the prophecy:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Wheezing and sneezing, <br />Tenfold it blew apart</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>When gushing gust winds, <br />Turned just up north</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">H5N1 was first isolated on a farm in Scotland, "just up north" of where this song and the album it's on was recorded.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Now, prophecy has many purposes but it often serves as a warning - a way to avert a disaster or misfortune.</b> That's the entire purpose behind this work for me: trying to decode all these messages and prevent these things from coming to pass. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's a lot of work to be done. Do we have a lot of time to do it?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I think we'll get the answer to that question in 2024.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454022.post-2079165014742953962023-12-15T01:52:00.025-05:002023-12-15T11:31:47.270-05:00Civil War... or SIBYL War?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXY7G4dOfv3eqPPyFpmpIhxYdrixJ458TFunEUk_uwoTSOwfyJFAvF6SkUwjyGM4Z8qNCBa6E35pXj4GfxEtL1hWqTvLOUyhmz2ycxF6QVK2NisHdY8w9Ov7WJ4gzjsSUDoTxaqVFeeCR3ipbsvKlqBmL8idE5RgZnettnH-iZH273palAK9pzdQ/s640/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-15%20at%2011.25.10%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXY7G4dOfv3eqPPyFpmpIhxYdrixJ458TFunEUk_uwoTSOwfyJFAvF6SkUwjyGM4Z8qNCBa6E35pXj4GfxEtL1hWqTvLOUyhmz2ycxF6QVK2NisHdY8w9Ov7WJ4gzjsSUDoTxaqVFeeCR3ipbsvKlqBmL8idE5RgZnettnH-iZH273palAK9pzdQ/w528-h528/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-15%20at%2011.25.10%20AM.png" width="528" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>You probably heard the trailer for Alex Garland's latest apocalypse-fest Civil War dropped on Wednesday.</b> It's made quite a splash, for obvious reasons. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">What do you say we get into some of the less-obvious ones?</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0mNMDnCFYQM1JvoseOLh6HGgHTto_wB56JURiltEp8IqMxlFxMRR2_SkMWnjaYOoPS43k5OpHjNF-jymnYyt99nxrOxBdeCPFuqBOUQVghoT7mlgGLJFp-B4n6ozKYwNEGsEUW5TSL3FHXF17TKwbSpzLzwmgTfnpqPSO4QvRCdQgelppolRbOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img data-original-height="363" data-original-width="504" height="407" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0mNMDnCFYQM1JvoseOLh6HGgHTto_wB56JURiltEp8IqMxlFxMRR2_SkMWnjaYOoPS43k5OpHjNF-jymnYyt99nxrOxBdeCPFuqBOUQVghoT7mlgGLJFp-B4n6ozKYwNEGsEUW5TSL3FHXF17TKwbSpzLzwmgTfnpqPSO4QvRCdQgelppolRbOQ=w566-h407" width="566" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Before we get into it, let me just let you know that we're going for the <u>deepest</u> dive on Eyes Wide Shut</b> this weekend at The Secret Sun Institute, so if you've been on the fence about enrolling, this is a good time to dive in.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Click here for more information.</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="305" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aDyQxtg0V2w" width="596" youtube-src-id="aDyQxtg0V2w"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>LITMUS TEST</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQGGSE1WigB1HIjeTgiPpJgdeCmszCydQdz6eatrCilqZmvnXufUunz_rduvBdEpPbbVpKFnLHmlCVcdWNzZitjWWnpFdRdiv-mbuQ7CswzdC0Ne7sdmDI1DsHfSQB9vpePrtk5LYjHRGzT103i974ThbrQe5WlrvNw_mvutlpSJpS__9owENH-A/s527/civil-war00005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="412" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQGGSE1WigB1HIjeTgiPpJgdeCmszCydQdz6eatrCilqZmvnXufUunz_rduvBdEpPbbVpKFnLHmlCVcdWNzZitjWWnpFdRdiv-mbuQ7CswzdC0Ne7sdmDI1DsHfSQB9vpePrtk5LYjHRGzT103i974ThbrQe5WlrvNw_mvutlpSJpS__9owENH-A/w312-h400/civil-war00005.jpg" width="312" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I've watched the trailer a few times and haven't detected any obvious partisan bias or Woke brainwash - which I can sniff out immediately these days - but that hasn't stopped the usual suspects from crying foul. It's understandable, given the subject matter and these hyper-polarized times. But I do wonder if there's a bit of premature kneejerking afoot. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From Newsweek:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p></div><p></p><blockquote style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>When the trailer was shared on social media on Wednesday, a number of people veered away from critiquing the film to instead share their belief it contained a bold message of what Americans will be facing in the near future.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Using this theory, many have tied Civil War to the new Netflix film Leave the World Behind, which is partially produced by former President Barack Obama's Higher Ground and follows two families forced to work together amid a nationwide blackout. As the threat grows, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their places in the collapsing world.</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEHilXxXQuqscbBd00fTwM7i4g-j-S-cMPVbkhqYVvdM0kGQb5s5OZgj2aFd2WihmarVPtV4PygaHUj6IHYQ3Yhbf-H4CuSUEETbSQFhidFn0bYjNtOlHwR8kjn7FIKKcN6xzoYJJ5ZA605STqQkr_nHecphHyuYvKzS3XoDY0jrQM9f7oV9Um9w/s486/civil-war00004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="415" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEHilXxXQuqscbBd00fTwM7i4g-j-S-cMPVbkhqYVvdM0kGQb5s5OZgj2aFd2WihmarVPtV4PygaHUj6IHYQ3Yhbf-H4CuSUEETbSQFhidFn0bYjNtOlHwR8kjn7FIKKcN6xzoYJJ5ZA605STqQkr_nHecphHyuYvKzS3XoDY0jrQM9f7oV9Um9w/w341-h400/civil-war00004.jpg" width="341" /></a> </span></p><blockquote style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Taking to X, formerly Twitter, conservative political commentator Jack Posobiec shared the trailer, adding the caption: "A new 'Civil War' Movie is coming out ahead of 2024. This is Predictive Programming."</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Predictive programming" is a conspiracy theory that the government, or other forces in power, use fiction (whether books, movies or some other medium) to make a population accept future events that have been planned by people in power.</i></span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For all I know the film itself will be a total Obamoid globo-wankfest, but I just don't see that in the trailer. There's also that fact that the rebels are the "California-Texas Alliance," something everyone's been scratching their heads over. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But maybe that's intentional - Garland may not want to get lost in contemporary partisan weeds, which are always subject to change. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Plus, it's gotta be said that Texas and California aren't really all that different once you get out of the hoity-toity liberal urban enclaves, which would immediately melt like butter once any real fighting ever started anyway. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So let's wait and see.</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbTxIsg3ygtkjmAv82Wwm7p0PhkTrKIAgco5mWcz7suO2xX9OePPCdYLfyl9BmwoMnuACGlD9b0p0-eHfhCwJpgf_aTvN8-Si12ZUClPwHFY0hEJcJcb8P9KL2b79Ld4UOpO94ANvfmpax4e16lw2k2QpWgMZzpW7JjKVwu2XJpLCo2kmgY_hNg/s674/civil-war00001.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="461" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbTxIsg3ygtkjmAv82Wwm7p0PhkTrKIAgco5mWcz7suO2xX9OePPCdYLfyl9BmwoMnuACGlD9b0p0-eHfhCwJpgf_aTvN8-Si12ZUClPwHFY0hEJcJcb8P9KL2b79Ld4UOpO94ANvfmpax4e16lw2k2QpWgMZzpW7JjKVwu2XJpLCo2kmgY_hNg/w306-h447/civil-war00001.jpeg" width="306" /></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDSJ-D2ujoxQOhAV1POkjX1PYygABHW9Dy9OdAEjR_d16PROx26CtZaquDS1z-zNSPyTaiz6W_2Px_Lg1DzZrWec-JAVOudhgHswPQm4VgkU1ycm8ZNcBnXJmAHUAeI2lIhnD82PGC3hXhz5mdAjVPBF6E9csVr8gLUH1DEUS4kEG5oyyUv9cvA/s459/civil-war00006.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="361" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDSJ-D2ujoxQOhAV1POkjX1PYygABHW9Dy9OdAEjR_d16PROx26CtZaquDS1z-zNSPyTaiz6W_2Px_Lg1DzZrWec-JAVOudhgHswPQm4VgkU1ycm8ZNcBnXJmAHUAeI2lIhnD82PGC3hXhz5mdAjVPBF6E9csVr8gLUH1DEUS4kEG5oyyUv9cvA/w315-h400/civil-war00006.png" width="315" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Liberal outlets seem to have been a bit bemused about it all, but also excited in their usual weird and neurotic ways. Today's Hollywood exists solely to reinforce and perpetuate their beliefs and lifestyles, so they'd have no reason to believe that Civil War wouldn't be an orgy of Kulak-bashing like The Purge films are. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But again, let's wait and see. Garland's talked about quitting the picture racket, so maybe he intends to do something that's actually subversive before he gets out of the Hollywood madhouse.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Plus, who gives a crap about political nonsense when there's scrying to be done?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-family: verdana;">THE ENGLISH SYBIL WAR</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Very little has been released about the film, but just based on what we've learned I can tell you that the Sibyl-force is strong with this one. Just a passing glance at some of the key players will tell you that. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A no-brainer, to start with...</span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN54FH1wApk7jqpqkOVcKUhg2wHphfqyJmybt2bXxBFHBXnJi6dPhvshzhJUTSLqFKP-MiBDmILrMJ9dVIfphlQlGxDmVud-enHkZRTtvDfy6c6JMAluO5dFtN0H-UTJ1EvcmqQ-xM4J_KOSywT2pWDGaHmxVhFH2JgTwN9RRmSGwtKVbWupx19g/s474/R-2280686-1274169810.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="305" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN54FH1wApk7jqpqkOVcKUhg2wHphfqyJmybt2bXxBFHBXnJi6dPhvshzhJUTSLqFKP-MiBDmILrMJ9dVIfphlQlGxDmVud-enHkZRTtvDfy6c6JMAluO5dFtN0H-UTJ1EvcmqQ-xM4J_KOSywT2pWDGaHmxVhFH2JgTwN9RRmSGwtKVbWupx19g/w344-h534/R-2280686-1274169810.jpg" width="344" /></span></a></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">OK, Alex Garland? I mean, <i>come on. </i>And that's just the very start of it.</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdsrBKgTNBtmGMt_b0GQF4lcQTEon6RXtzl88sRiAbIA6YZ_yS1GJO-rvcv7um4YUHixcDrR-Rm4i1QEqbCHyVUtaoP-C9IuGusMqLmCOSV8FzBSjTYsWg7trZDZZSgiGnMZ16pdL6l2bXCItKF5qeFFMpuVRYruekUNhFM8fWbbojHKOvTfKlQ/s498/Kirsten%20Dunst%20as%20The%20Siren.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="307" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdsrBKgTNBtmGMt_b0GQF4lcQTEon6RXtzl88sRiAbIA6YZ_yS1GJO-rvcv7um4YUHixcDrR-Rm4i1QEqbCHyVUtaoP-C9IuGusMqLmCOSV8FzBSjTYsWg7trZDZZSgiGnMZ16pdL6l2bXCItKF5qeFFMpuVRYruekUNhFM8fWbbojHKOvTfKlQ/w394-h640/Kirsten%20Dunst%20as%20The%20Siren.png" width="394" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>We've looked quite a bit at Kirsten Dunst in the Fraserological underground.</b> She's definitely a High Frequency Frasenator (meaning someone who shares an unusual number of syncs with the Sibyl), but one whose Fraseliness is more of a second-degree nature (ie., having a number of once- or twice-removed Frase-syncs). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGVjKpd-IeaCRnh05H7uqtX9mKdKYH-8MgnhQDd-ui9wg9N1x1KE_BhgEwdYDbCZj9M8XPj5m_PnY32SswuM3Oo9BKpUy79TZZPG9qqjPFlLljC3Iy5sEAphR8VvdyHXSH0Ci4Zo2ymRMRPcl1hZhC7XA9SS-J_NbcUK1cBglNcczHzZSybXr2Sw/s639/Kirsten%20Dunst%20Mermaid%20On%20Becoming%20a%20God%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="639" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGVjKpd-IeaCRnh05H7uqtX9mKdKYH-8MgnhQDd-ui9wg9N1x1KE_BhgEwdYDbCZj9M8XPj5m_PnY32SswuM3Oo9BKpUy79TZZPG9qqjPFlLljC3Iy5sEAphR8VvdyHXSH0Ci4Zo2ymRMRPcl1hZhC7XA9SS-J_NbcUK1cBglNcczHzZSybXr2Sw/w400-h248/Kirsten%20Dunst%20Mermaid%20On%20Becoming%20a%20God%202019.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Siren stuff sure is interesting, too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZUxEZqpTSHQWorCjJ-venjBg8tso6_IgQ2sLSlZo5BemwVj0uwu0Or_z4F_LFIidEAYcN9xOiGogKph6mF1B5eX7MVyp2rZZurBu20tTyai6Ih3aYkYVSzrs9QXPl5ONWR_hmOfa0gl2fhiRXzV-W5cTP6l28bDRI3FdhuDrWS0zgmen0t5CBQ/s640/Kirsten%20Dunst%20Midnight%20Special.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZUxEZqpTSHQWorCjJ-venjBg8tso6_IgQ2sLSlZo5BemwVj0uwu0Or_z4F_LFIidEAYcN9xOiGogKph6mF1B5eX7MVyp2rZZurBu20tTyai6Ih3aYkYVSzrs9QXPl5ONWR_hmOfa0gl2fhiRXzV-W5cTP6l28bDRI3FdhuDrWS0zgmen0t5CBQ/w400-h266/Kirsten%20Dunst%20Midnight%20Special.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Equally interesting is the role Kirsten played as the mother of an ultraterrestrial hybrid (or something) in <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/05/synchrocinema-seminar-midnight-special.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the must-see Midnight Special</a>, not unlike the role the Sibyl sang in The Millennium Dome Show, or the role Gillizabeth Anderfrase played on The X-Files.<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfxLcuQsfXH1tw-qm8vk2Prp5KdJPU13CeaIW0FKoD2t2J1ow7CUa1QYtr-BUZHI93e6sMMpPXPn1lyXuIdB7MNfe7biYTRJmOv5FtCPAjyuqLjpYdRNwK_isYEGVCCeR5VLTT1YVtFRQNTy_BQ8EUNsHS4BzWX1994JOhG_YYW524fPg29iGRw/s818/supernova-IL00004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="696" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfxLcuQsfXH1tw-qm8vk2Prp5KdJPU13CeaIW0FKoD2t2J1ow7CUa1QYtr-BUZHI93e6sMMpPXPn1lyXuIdB7MNfe7biYTRJmOv5FtCPAjyuqLjpYdRNwK_isYEGVCCeR5VLTT1YVtFRQNTy_BQ8EUNsHS4BzWX1994JOhG_YYW524fPg29iGRw/w340-h400/supernova-IL00004.jpg" width="340" /></span></a><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="784" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmgccXtzVxqd_nJTA7DpbRZrtxVE4RXIdwFzt_DnwFdKv17lm6fY0gbaFE9JhLldknuIsvDFeMIaUboa_gOM2Bv38s2kiNwUlS-RDanZUAc3fY2_IunLVz4poEPID8Gch2CO2o9jNBxiyYTMjR7tMBAb5bjsekhJBkgZ6ymy2pyIcYXz7tb1TnJg/w339-h371/supernova-IL00003.jpg" width="339" /> <br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For my money, Kirsten's greatest claim to Fraserly fame is her starring role in The Outer Limits* episode "Music of the Spheres," a story that essentially encapsulates my basic thesis about the Sibyl. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meaning that some unimaginably powerful and unknowable outside force - most likely from the Heavens - is speaking through the Sibyl's music as to communicate with us on some higher or deeper level of consciousness, in order that we may avoid some looming catastrophe that threatens our very existence. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That's the whole point of all this madness, in case you were wondering.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The proof for the Hypostasis of the Sibyl is overwhelming to the point of absolute overkill.</b> There's nothing that even comes close. I need you to understand that.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qYIdmy5vlkI?si=Nafl0Z2LCf2IxAZq" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I spelled it all out in <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/10/apocalypse-synching-sign-sign.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a post on October 6th</a>, which I hope you appreciate the immense significance of.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2020/10/laugh-while-you-still-can.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Everything</i> about the Sibyl</a> is immensely significant at this point in the timeline.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1vkDPCkBdvYumj_5gKUfkxhQylB5GXBWaugL2fNeEdrb6uv70jXwkzprka0x25aJ4CK2mgKFHFqs6YrfqknC8m8YlqI57OFt2I4SK6Ao6FxVFY_G7nBO88-7ybfPcBOV95ca7MfzMOdZhcsv9CGstd_y87ZKAnp-G0bX0zjnzKUyW0UEkxh4NZ4hHCw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="484" data-original-width="742" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1vkDPCkBdvYumj_5gKUfkxhQylB5GXBWaugL2fNeEdrb6uv70jXwkzprka0x25aJ4CK2mgKFHFqs6YrfqknC8m8YlqI57OFt2I4SK6Ao6FxVFY_G7nBO88-7ybfPcBOV95ca7MfzMOdZhcsv9CGstd_y87ZKAnp-G0bX0zjnzKUyW0UEkxh4NZ4hHCw=w548-h358" width="548" /></a></div><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;">Kirsten's costar Cailee Spaeney is a major candidate for Ultra High-Frequency Frasenator, though for reasons we will not speak of right now. But do note she played the lost daughter (or Persephone, if you prefer) of Fairuza Balk's character in The Craft: Legacy, along with David Duchovny, inevitably. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And also make note that Cailee was made up to essentially look like Elizabeth Fraser Junior in the film.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Bonus factoid: Cailee first rose to public notice as a singer.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-b_k6twB94efubtNY1hVeSSbQJLK8tkZY71eIdzSv6JsNGKD3bqkex31M24jTCJLjtRGj_aSKjjmVqNyPTQ0Zq_2AORYmdIgGxWFXEew6idU9NY0ENj-yRoVy84DHjRAwk1Rdow/s344/balk.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="344" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-b_k6twB94efubtNY1hVeSSbQJLK8tkZY71eIdzSv6JsNGKD3bqkex31M24jTCJLjtRGj_aSKjjmVqNyPTQ0Zq_2AORYmdIgGxWFXEew6idU9NY0ENj-yRoVy84DHjRAwk1Rdow/w400-h251/balk.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It should go without saying that Fairuza Balk is a serious Cocteau Twins fan as well. "The Spangle Maker" is especially appropriate in context.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8RAwTxQNWwI4WEPI5PcszC9j-BYoEXgtfWBO-xWnTDrHOAtccDhU4T6AVscr-Qf6tujZCmwTtzHatCg5L6osMPrmxoubMRRb7bLQxgKdKCYKJ1blGCWEBDHKLvH9DC__9Mcp0TZcdyUV3kQk8FwVWmDSLAk_eaSCBH6FfqV0UmEEFXIxy_Rth7FTjdQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="467" data-original-width="786" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8RAwTxQNWwI4WEPI5PcszC9j-BYoEXgtfWBO-xWnTDrHOAtccDhU4T6AVscr-Qf6tujZCmwTtzHatCg5L6osMPrmxoubMRRb7bLQxgKdKCYKJ1blGCWEBDHKLvH9DC__9Mcp0TZcdyUV3kQk8FwVWmDSLAk_eaSCBH6FfqV0UmEEFXIxy_Rth7FTjdQ=w538-h319" width="538" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then there's this mind-shredding enigma: Cailee wearing a see-through top that eerily resembles the ritual markings that big-screen sibyl Samantha Morton was daubed with in her breakthrough role in Cracker.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A story for another time, but hard to write off as coincidence.</div></div></span></div></span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgccdAgKL3SzV0R_UMbhRTL028yN8bABqUSIzsZFVjtikQMmhFLFOmL2HlbPtFLj4Euwk8_e8e3PDIL8uX__3gNfqPR9Bb2JVsGg7KzykldGT8T347aA0_CbeJxy_kr65VPiZuVdYKpeTFViPrR8Liw_YR6fycsu22Ijz58PieP8pxD6QwY_KRTig/s402/sibyl%20war00001.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="402" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgccdAgKL3SzV0R_UMbhRTL028yN8bABqUSIzsZFVjtikQMmhFLFOmL2HlbPtFLj4Euwk8_e8e3PDIL8uX__3gNfqPR9Bb2JVsGg7KzykldGT8T347aA0_CbeJxy_kr65VPiZuVdYKpeTFViPrR8Liw_YR6fycsu22Ijz58PieP8pxD6QwY_KRTig/w456-h334/sibyl%20war00001.png" width="456" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Civil War has Nick Offermann as the President. He starred in Devs - a discussion in and of itself - and also as a gay strawberry farmer in The Last of Us, alongside Bella Ramsey as "Ellie." </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNg4456oMF4udq2fqkR8TuX9cOKedYX6FkzLiOcL1XfSgFHCC3PSz-JGG0qF2OpzM9EAirDj1lpcnpFdOweqV7CyPh5rnBMDGDEhJalAd80E_HnWwXuR4Sd_GKbE5_BK9MkXquPjI0_54m2Up0olfWjTzBN4bT0KUI31YjXs9bQjekquuZEvjuw/s613/OIP-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="474" height="601" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNg4456oMF4udq2fqkR8TuX9cOKedYX6FkzLiOcL1XfSgFHCC3PSz-JGG0qF2OpzM9EAirDj1lpcnpFdOweqV7CyPh5rnBMDGDEhJalAd80E_HnWwXuR4Sd_GKbE5_BK9MkXquPjI0_54m2Up0olfWjTzBN4bT0KUI31YjXs9bQjekquuZEvjuw/w464-h601/OIP-1.jpg" width="464" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div>We see strawberries pop up a lot in this work, of course.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bella Ramsey also costarred with Samantha Morton (in Two for Joy, which has a drowning subplot), and also played the young Matilda in the highly-Frasejacent Netflix folk-horror miniseries, Requiem.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another story for another time.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>DON'T NEED YOUR SIBYL WAR</u></b></div></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCTSnr32dTzHhC7Y5_pAt7SXCNe-c3VTwjA6noGIlAVtkptLxlUylqNoqZo0_nsOKQ3NN6CH6WAafwp5Xwe-KVBQ5k1bXLKswZ7l50JR8Tx66nId8sWAkdGmEhyh7mxHY8I6Q5vY5kM96heKHt_95kLusl_FvA_S6tND4p8l5BQt75I5XH8nmKzQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="477" data-original-width="471" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCTSnr32dTzHhC7Y5_pAt7SXCNe-c3VTwjA6noGIlAVtkptLxlUylqNoqZo0_nsOKQ3NN6CH6WAafwp5Xwe-KVBQ5k1bXLKswZ7l50JR8Tx66nId8sWAkdGmEhyh7mxHY8I6Q5vY5kM96heKHt_95kLusl_FvA_S6tND4p8l5BQt75I5XH8nmKzQ=w395-h400" width="395" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgSZ01kY06SFLTORUiGIeelciTCZ1iu0-9ZrCIrEypcVAi-2IY6E22a44gkIUxAqlMZOJkqtWRSJKYnvNuY0gW5zzgcUh7IXZmLjqx-0AoXPS0WYFguChaYlARqUKWxgqn-Ik2g/s480/hqdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgSZ01kY06SFLTORUiGIeelciTCZ1iu0-9ZrCIrEypcVAi-2IY6E22a44gkIUxAqlMZOJkqtWRSJKYnvNuY0gW5zzgcUh7IXZmLjqx-0AoXPS0WYFguChaYlARqUKWxgqn-Ik2g/w400-h300/hqdefault.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>We in the Sibyllist community strongly suspect that Alex Garland is a Crypto-Fraserfarian, or "Crypto-Frase" for short.</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meaning one who is dedicated to Our Lady, but works clandestinely or unconsciously on her behalf. Whatever the case may be, the Sibyl-syncs with this cat never stop coming.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>But let's get back to the topic at hand:</b></span></p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>It was announced in January 2022 that Alex Garland would write and direct the film for A24, with Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny cast to star.</i></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>In a May interview with The Daily Telegraph, Garland described the film as a companion piece to Men,</b> and stated it is "set at an indeterminate point in the future – just far enough ahead for me to add a conceit – and serves as a sci-fi allegory for our currently polarised predicament".</i></span></span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUGMGUBmCDixI_sbCW8tFAuInQsbJLAURExYCWQYcQLajTzIvo0hB7j-duX7NimK2OVD_Jait_th10wyBGs-qAOyGcRUlmidsw60u-7oloH48PVW6gQ4vPl2uvOsH70NVVHSaNixIP-ic9cCKwofP17uEw-I-tO8Lv0OBBGnkRRtn2eC6ynNz2cCMe_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><img data-original-height="923" data-original-width="602" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUGMGUBmCDixI_sbCW8tFAuInQsbJLAURExYCWQYcQLajTzIvo0hB7j-duX7NimK2OVD_Jait_th10wyBGs-qAOyGcRUlmidsw60u-7oloH48PVW6gQ4vPl2uvOsH70NVVHSaNixIP-ic9cCKwofP17uEw-I-tO8Lv0OBBGnkRRtn2eC6ynNz2cCMe_w=w419-h640" width="419" /></span></a><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>I wrote about Men - starring Jess Buckley, of all people - last year in the post "</b><span style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2022/02/alex-garlands-goes-full-frase-with.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alex Garlands Goes Full-Frase with Category 6 SynchroStorm</a>."</b> You can read it for yourself, but Garland claiming that Civil War is a companion piece to Men leads me to believe that Civil War too will be filled with high-test Sibylology.<br /><br />It's also possible that Garland is being directed by these same forces and that Civil War may be a cautionary tale for us all. I will be updating on this as more information comes to light.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>THE SMOKING GARLAND</u></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="265" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CSNalp9shWc" width="512" youtube-src-id="CSNalp9shWc"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Any argument as to Alex Garland's sibyl-service must focus on Annihilation,</b> starring Ne Plus Ultra-High Frequency Frasenator, Natalie Portman. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Or as I like to call her, "Natalizabeth Portfrase." </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Men shall know nothing of this mind-crushing synergy for now, but you WILL believe on the day that particular truth becomes known. I'll bet everything I own on it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Either way, Annihilation is enough for now.</b> Let's start with Stalker, the 1979 Russian film that's the inspiration for Garland's sci-fi masterpiece...</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFO3du4N5vsIqYLfbji70cAOHBb9CLCKV9ETfOqflIzp9sOjTXuNE5JnbTgKO9E3FVDQQhWtfGG7Qizeppb5QJIIhLz39NDWFfw9EfdE1GverOG5IAQgYX39z278Vw0b-kutH9hV3WoHpL0ZaRhLH_vNgnabISq0kBM80HqWnjUvJdYD-MScu6H2e/s500/Cocteau%20twins%20Head%20Over%20Heels%20album%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="500" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFO3du4N5vsIqYLfbji70cAOHBb9CLCKV9ETfOqflIzp9sOjTXuNE5JnbTgKO9E3FVDQQhWtfGG7Qizeppb5QJIIhLz39NDWFfw9EfdE1GverOG5IAQgYX39z278Vw0b-kutH9hV3WoHpL0ZaRhLH_vNgnabISq0kBM80HqWnjUvJdYD-MScu6H2e/w400-h395/Cocteau%20twins%20Head%20Over%20Heels%20album%20cover.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh45DZLACz4714meSpLOrfu3RV-NbMCLyADVcbvTp5G4JwxRUOXEQauLBT1H274DTJUv7TpO8PbDUJzBC1f2R5wVH5g1FrTYTyrVcPGnKVcFrL0eyU2Imf365_d4ZD1ePOV0XV98ck8n8BH3IrveUaWxzw_KmVjlWvCAvei_FJ_aMgLzVLBhdqyvg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="138" data-original-width="602" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh45DZLACz4714meSpLOrfu3RV-NbMCLyADVcbvTp5G4JwxRUOXEQauLBT1H274DTJUv7TpO8PbDUJzBC1f2R5wVH5g1FrTYTyrVcPGnKVcFrL0eyU2Imf365_d4ZD1ePOV0XV98ck8n8BH3IrveUaWxzw_KmVjlWvCAvei_FJ_aMgLzVLBhdqyvg=w620-h142" width="620" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>... because it was also the inspiration for the record cover of Head Over Heels,</b> which recently celebrated its 40th birthday. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The mind reels with the possibilities.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAgHBeFP7zcq3Vs7epcBXALfJk3Wpd4dFtzapb1V4eK5ktVzHNTzu6Ums1VHpo580XuHw5CZxhXfsuLkOur8I2wRu-Y6TdYwI-flXdExVTT_Fyk1_UcOBHyDwPb9U23pQdQG3ag/s1600/SHIMMIE.png"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilAgHBeFP7zcq3Vs7epcBXALfJk3Wpd4dFtzapb1V4eK5ktVzHNTzu6Ums1VHpo580XuHw5CZxhXfsuLkOur8I2wRu-Y6TdYwI-flXdExVTT_Fyk1_UcOBHyDwPb9U23pQdQG3ag/s400/SHIMMIE.png" width="400" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtmc4gKHKE03Fh-8R-zf-bkr4MiT-ab-6bruLlBYqAMJU7AizFH9QiJ19AXiVm_6yIsOooBj_pNbKBsdljAIm3dfjol4PCwlQ7j8BPaHoJQeU7z4O_RTBIQbu_0SHxu3bUtPF5iwlXMkFbHSt2IkHMdfuIc86KJfpx9yvDXKyWTdrWR0KqJ7DgQ/s600/R-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="600" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtmc4gKHKE03Fh-8R-zf-bkr4MiT-ab-6bruLlBYqAMJU7AizFH9QiJ19AXiVm_6yIsOooBj_pNbKBsdljAIm3dfjol4PCwlQ7j8BPaHoJQeU7z4O_RTBIQbu_0SHxu3bUtPF5iwlXMkFbHSt2IkHMdfuIc86KJfpx9yvDXKyWTdrWR0KqJ7DgQ/w400-h364/R-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There's also the alien contagion which Garland called "The Shimmer." It's a nebulous cloud of prismatic light, just like the ones you can easily find on any number of Cocteau Twins record covers and music videos.</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEc6O6VMHFLgAJjf3iSR1jY8OHKvGSORq_RJx9kw5YduOCeAFnwpLWniA1ApyfsThOxFZ0FNKD5R-ZJCocLteYX2zkqTmUdUWLKdToK99qlqd5WRZDkOlwoyplohJTUL2LvpP4w/s422/Screen+Shot+2020-07-28+at+10.45.41+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEc6O6VMHFLgAJjf3iSR1jY8OHKvGSORq_RJx9kw5YduOCeAFnwpLWniA1ApyfsThOxFZ0FNKD5R-ZJCocLteYX2zkqTmUdUWLKdToK99qlqd5WRZDkOlwoyplohJTUL2LvpP4w/w418-h640/Screen+Shot+2020-07-28+at+10.45.41+AM.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And "Shimmer" (or "shimmering") is probably the most common adjective used to describe the Cocteau Twins.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJMcKphhyphenhyphengW9ddOOshY_slQkYmru_eJCQffOZqj1OKtX49UwE3-4FieS5rQXc1FlR_2vlyvZFVPSIxuH6NxSWJCeTRU2GMFZxfYx9EWAW7Ad7x2I6NzpOyfYtcVWe1bNXLa82AJw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.46.58+PM.png"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJMcKphhyphenhyphengW9ddOOshY_slQkYmru_eJCQffOZqj1OKtX49UwE3-4FieS5rQXc1FlR_2vlyvZFVPSIxuH6NxSWJCeTRU2GMFZxfYx9EWAW7Ad7x2I6NzpOyfYtcVWe1bNXLa82AJw/w542-h264/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.46.58+PM.png" width="542" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMVlD8VooeX-V0owRXJQ8wJjCKkecmB-r_2qsd069MCG_WZqwW5_ZLqub2L7SHl2630uhznshkyzmeEX3iYkfSCFkZMgp2X7svPPOq-jja1x4GmCeFYlzlPymf25r4XmkOdIpbg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.52.41+PM.png"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMVlD8VooeX-V0owRXJQ8wJjCKkecmB-r_2qsd069MCG_WZqwW5_ZLqub2L7SHl2630uhznshkyzmeEX3iYkfSCFkZMgp2X7svPPOq-jja1x4GmCeFYlzlPymf25r4XmkOdIpbg/w534-h395/Screen+Shot+2019-07-21+at+12.52.41+PM.png" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">And as some of you may remember, Garland filmed the Shimmer scenes in the <u>same exact location</u> that the Cocteau Twins' "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop" video was filmed.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I have an extremely hard time chalking that up to coincidence.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>CIVIL SYNC</u></b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDxZkankpGz8CAzCI7V5PUVSXTCsJfcoLejAfdyywr2LGAl1a8xDpQQOINLnlCvIgZgVjH1U1SOHNUUJbWjiyPA3uU7ybQ0yorpCNebvJMt5p-7PakMiuEddDkcyn1HBLFz8IlP2cg1V-Bhquw6YmWN8eNpUrnTyfhAKq_lBUrOGBk6SDRTrTYQ/s708/civil-war00003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="474" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDxZkankpGz8CAzCI7V5PUVSXTCsJfcoLejAfdyywr2LGAl1a8xDpQQOINLnlCvIgZgVjH1U1SOHNUUJbWjiyPA3uU7ybQ0yorpCNebvJMt5p-7PakMiuEddDkcyn1HBLFz8IlP2cg1V-Bhquw6YmWN8eNpUrnTyfhAKq_lBUrOGBk6SDRTrTYQ/w428-h640/civil-war00003.jpg" width="428" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In a fascinating sync, another Scot - writer Mark Millar - has been making headlines for the civil war he's declared on the social-justice warriors who single-handledly motherfucked the entire comic book direct market to death.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Actually, Millar didn't declare that war. It's been raging for several years, but only one side has been fighting it - the SJW side, backed to the hilt by all those delicious Soros and Blackrock ESG/DEI megadollars - and the normal/sane person side has been getting absolutely <i>slaughtered</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do note Millar hails from Coatbridge, a mere half-hour's drive from Grangemouth, hometown of the Cocteau Twins. Must be something in the water there. Or beer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Also note that Civil War was Millar's big break into comics superstardom. </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmnX0KkazlbkK8RBp9-5VXRNtLA6_MQzFHQKJ6_Sl-pwuoswfDGvi-7EkZ863oUxS-w82j2L981MPfDc6RkQHB7WXTu1LlbDXT8w4Bd9CI5wfnIWtecAl8_duLfXNlhLAMsAx1U5QGMBzZmdZk4lwBHwQctDK6BT15YpukdNaZ1-8Y1wCu4cW4Q/s509/civil-war00008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="479" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmnX0KkazlbkK8RBp9-5VXRNtLA6_MQzFHQKJ6_Sl-pwuoswfDGvi-7EkZ863oUxS-w82j2L981MPfDc6RkQHB7WXTu1LlbDXT8w4Bd9CI5wfnIWtecAl8_duLfXNlhLAMsAx1U5QGMBzZmdZk4lwBHwQctDK6BT15YpukdNaZ1-8Y1wCu4cW4Q/w403-h429/civil-war00008.jpeg" width="403" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit25bmoSZ8UguW0J0IK6FEG273zk68fGRbtmWAA-NGVesyB7PInw4aSU6Rt9N6oa0KINIzAralZFJMBr1wiYurv51PJ8xr3BugxVuZ5rNT80PahzONmFjAcwsU6uV4JXh-9vYbheUWhrLfbHh8nDxTfe1-tSLdA68h-eNiVz0q0MgG80hKLfPomw/s585/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%208.19.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="389" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit25bmoSZ8UguW0J0IK6FEG273zk68fGRbtmWAA-NGVesyB7PInw4aSU6Rt9N6oa0KINIzAralZFJMBr1wiYurv51PJ8xr3BugxVuZ5rNT80PahzONmFjAcwsU6uV4JXh-9vYbheUWhrLfbHh8nDxTfe1-tSLdA68h-eNiVz0q0MgG80hKLfPomw/w426-h640/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%208.19.02%20PM.png" width="426" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Mark Millar has also been getting into trouble with one of the most evil and insane people ever to work in the comics business.</b> That's not my opinion, mind you - I never met the guy. That's the opinion of people who've worked with him. At least based on what I've heard through the grapevine</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">, going back to the 1980s</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do note that both opposing generals in this Civil War are named Mark, which derived from Mars AKA the Roman god of war. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apropos, wouldn't you say? The gods are ever with us.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRcPx0Gx8xHvuy667_tpaO976jfo1kIJs5YcWcUH6wbLROzNr6eKWxoKq8LbGrtxezV2VjXeGwf8_l86brXh-Gq8JVgLJxl4jUNESJ1RJ2UeuaN0h0BrNLWT8lQMQEAoGQkGIv9j6QuDMcvLouvtGfWkjXZvEYSPZ83tvyQ2j7E96r5jETYZxABw/s1600/civil-war00002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="1600" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRcPx0Gx8xHvuy667_tpaO976jfo1kIJs5YcWcUH6wbLROzNr6eKWxoKq8LbGrtxezV2VjXeGwf8_l86brXh-Gq8JVgLJxl4jUNESJ1RJ2UeuaN0h0BrNLWT8lQMQEAoGQkGIv9j6QuDMcvLouvtGfWkjXZvEYSPZ83tvyQ2j7E96r5jETYZxABw/w519-h508/civil-war00002.jpg" width="519" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Oddly enough, your humble host did a lot of artwork for the Captain America: Civil War quasi-adaption, including this piece here. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Another lifetime ago.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>IT NEVER LETS UP, SO STOP RESISTING</u></b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRgS1jJk2ciBRpTe_z72vYbfZc5jIYqV8EtadkzCQvV1L_K8s2QNzP3gQ44uRMh-9BCHI-KIClmctZmG_s5V64O7Xv0ti_FPeDS_0iTwiYSyw3RwUn_-IIQIWgEuvkagNujarHog/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-12-16+at+11.34.48+AM.png"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRgS1jJk2ciBRpTe_z72vYbfZc5jIYqV8EtadkzCQvV1L_K8s2QNzP3gQ44uRMh-9BCHI-KIClmctZmG_s5V64O7Xv0ti_FPeDS_0iTwiYSyw3RwUn_-IIQIWgEuvkagNujarHog/s400/Screen+Shot+2018-12-16+at+11.34.48+AM.png" width="400" /></span></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQDuhJCLgCUWgRr9ppiFFj_dRq-g4CisN7I-n4roFgL6IhIWdhcFqlZQOrno6r5_HNrFbNP8d0dNYITpv0IKGhComGncKjgLGV5mzWeAcISGk8rZqR2s247-1NRlv7NHzm1_Dkg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-26+at+11.10.57+AM.png"><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQDuhJCLgCUWgRr9ppiFFj_dRq-g4CisN7I-n4roFgL6IhIWdhcFqlZQOrno6r5_HNrFbNP8d0dNYITpv0IKGhComGncKjgLGV5mzWeAcISGk8rZqR2s247-1NRlv7NHzm1_Dkg/w400-h289/Screen+Shot+2018-11-26+at+11.10.57+AM.png" width="400" /></span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is the primary venue for all this funnybook infighting,</b> and it probably wouldn't be had Elon Musk - the world's richest man, they say - not bought the social network and fired all the mentally-sick MAPs and sexually-confused bluehairs who were ratfucking anyone a micron to the right of Pol Pot all the livelong day. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I myself was shadowbanned for years, so I can speak with some authority to this.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And do remember that the Sibyl's celestial harmonies have insinuated themselves right into the very heart of House Musktreides, through Elon's babymama Lady Gressica.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Just stop resisting, OK?</b> It doesn't make you look cool. It just makes you look obstinate.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI8koCHhyEhlbC3ooOenDX0DVABey0sBfbwK72xqWplSCu5P80y8m-QHrKfFnO0a3U32Y7reFCC-bOr_kPk4SqBqdW_yIwDMDS7MAeOSDahYzqoZiXBbgCMVU_0hoT4Cv_QRn4c8HRH6xNLkIRpK8TZimbrkgnZ5253TIoX5vtqVVbJ6mSwKk=s719" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="719" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI8koCHhyEhlbC3ooOenDX0DVABey0sBfbwK72xqWplSCu5P80y8m-QHrKfFnO0a3U32Y7reFCC-bOr_kPk4SqBqdW_yIwDMDS7MAeOSDahYzqoZiXBbgCMVU_0hoT4Cv_QRn4c8HRH6xNLkIRpK8TZimbrkgnZ5253TIoX5vtqVVbJ6mSwKk=w432-h317" width="432" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI0VSYFsici6Mg8-benH5KfodJDg-amVMl36BwMxeLSfaIqrGdN-WN6RzEeJZvgA4x96WLyPXVVNUmQclstAf5G2uoBUVPNjom3rsaGc8IV10rk4GEjZL_tzAGkk9ikQ11BPLtkEEAI8heCNIPejd8OV-oIZE0JSxWAHjTqWy9wiMpDJqxrO4=s472" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="472" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI0VSYFsici6Mg8-benH5KfodJDg-amVMl36BwMxeLSfaIqrGdN-WN6RzEeJZvgA4x96WLyPXVVNUmQclstAf5G2uoBUVPNjom3rsaGc8IV10rk4GEjZL_tzAGkk9ikQ11BPLtkEEAI8heCNIPejd8OV-oIZE0JSxWAHjTqWy9wiMpDJqxrO4=w400-h380" width="400" /></i></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lest we forget that World War Three started mere hours after Our Lady and her consort announced their Sun's Signature auguries.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8eiLaJbYHQrwJU4HVaqUKcxJUxEUJjj-ea0neYVjnUpO47KB-TzBW6A7kfR4-GBNTIaZboJ-sGexjoWo85Ovats00l9-2tJD7vz8666xcYhKCkmRsX_HiiVnFdlg4SqNi1C-6OLK_Lvdw56ypfWryNgjhPHATBi6vEo4L8n4LyiZhXSb5ADbe9w/s434/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-30%20at%2011.20.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="434" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8eiLaJbYHQrwJU4HVaqUKcxJUxEUJjj-ea0neYVjnUpO47KB-TzBW6A7kfR4-GBNTIaZboJ-sGexjoWo85Ovats00l9-2tJD7vz8666xcYhKCkmRsX_HiiVnFdlg4SqNi1C-6OLK_Lvdw56ypfWryNgjhPHATBi6vEo4L8n4LyiZhXSb5ADbe9w/w400-h370/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-30%20at%2011.20.14%20PM.jpeg" width="400" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpmg9V-eYHeE1fxTXBGIUl0ncNFgYuKrEnYSBNndK2R5O4u6IgJqcJ8Lj7H3wrcAUsARAh-W3ltVC2rE_Ea4oorIGRvce2DyThRYeK1yFAM7E_HWDgxY65JtsBAf_4nl1PXpA96Pd9fTlFENwbvlSUJmybqv0_yfdbXNJjSBNnAQGG38jj2ghYQ/s474/th.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpmg9V-eYHeE1fxTXBGIUl0ncNFgYuKrEnYSBNndK2R5O4u6IgJqcJ8Lj7H3wrcAUsARAh-W3ltVC2rE_Ea4oorIGRvce2DyThRYeK1yFAM7E_HWDgxY65JtsBAf_4nl1PXpA96Pd9fTlFENwbvlSUJmybqv0_yfdbXNJjSBNnAQGG38jj2ghYQ/w400-h266/th.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">More recently, Our Lady was immortalized in the Heavens, hours before some of the worst flooding New York City (AKA Nova Babalonia) has ever seen. Not a promising augur for this Neo-Neo-Babalon of ours.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>SPEAKING OF ASTEROIDS...</u></b></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SXi0VeRNMdDFF6CyRfzOxKuukAgdDqJ2xsK850YUJvumc-nAlv9EJJOFcjHrnzEMeG-D1q2u7XuN5z03WH4_d-LvurNdFEPsdEJc9NCEskWA2Nqyn_Oe9ZJUs5m-yaHkyMsNyzNTDxUPDe3yLpG703ktYktj7KL3S_bp9EXdJdF9QsSmcS7kDQ/s686/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%208.42.13%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SXi0VeRNMdDFF6CyRfzOxKuukAgdDqJ2xsK850YUJvumc-nAlv9EJJOFcjHrnzEMeG-D1q2u7XuN5z03WH4_d-LvurNdFEPsdEJc9NCEskWA2Nqyn_Oe9ZJUs5m-yaHkyMsNyzNTDxUPDe3yLpG703ktYktj7KL3S_bp9EXdJdF9QsSmcS7kDQ/w386-h640/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-14%20at%208.42.13%20PM.png" width="386" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Betelgeuse (AKA Beetlejuice) was recently occulted by a passing asteroid, which was a big deal to astronomy nerds. Some expect Betelgeuse to go supernova, which absolutely would be a HUGE deal to elite stellar sorcerers. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hard to imagine anything much huger, actually.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="474" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4sgzBptXLhWlsagAVVFpg6gYUiJH44deb_LHt0dB0N3iFsHSk8YdcOK3cojBgVGB-oWmDKjYRspt8moSTv0FaFAqMHIt_HHIvE0R5OtUk3V7Sp3GooAqbccSb9ZxhEtMkqtBDsHr2LI9OSHsC2STFd8RyxwBZpZcfa-G9gIeIaLmMdGH9cN-_A/w456-h456/OIP-2.jpg" width="456" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion and is the ruffian's blow to the shoulder in Masonic lore. Orion is arguably the most important constellation to certain esoteric and occult orders, and is locked in his own eternal civil war, with Taurus, the Bull.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_1m-cr4tdT_XbQ2NiYYAVhEAbeNx6aivO_wNCAAa5vQc0_eF6nDRLB668FaePxW3xE2dEEOztx-u4FW2WUEe03HEmcaraK70aPQG0CGhqsAGxdd19_PXEXOOA5XuTHbM1bdvHpj8CNx8HXt2s0aGK8f7-WRNwIHY4JNYfHNAwjdi_Lg97TCPuWQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="416" data-original-width="347" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_1m-cr4tdT_XbQ2NiYYAVhEAbeNx6aivO_wNCAAa5vQc0_eF6nDRLB668FaePxW3xE2dEEOztx-u4FW2WUEe03HEmcaraK70aPQG0CGhqsAGxdd19_PXEXOOA5XuTHbM1bdvHpj8CNx8HXt2s0aGK8f7-WRNwIHY4JNYfHNAwjdi_Lg97TCPuWQ=w333-h400" width="333" /></a></div></i></span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The occultation of Betelgeuse took place on the 11th, and at 11 AM today (three days later, corresponding to the three stars of Orion's Belt) a runaway bull magically appeared on the tracks at Newark (New Ark - "New Covenant") Penn Station. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I don't know if you've ever been to Newark Penn Station but there aren't a lot of cow pastures around. It's a grim concrete nightmare, one of the most thoroughly urbanized areas in the country.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So how did that bull get there? They say he escaped from a slaughterhouse or something, but no one seems to know where exactly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A real mystery, alright. If I were one of those crazy conspiracy theorists I'd say it was part of some ritual connected to the occultation. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crazy conspiracy theorists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>BENEDICTION</u></b></span></p></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq549NBxF-CNBoatJYIXlJEmfFQel6WMXcBMJ5eZqMlUamh-unOQ_cMo11PomZgS74OZ9an6yiRPaMLIPvjwgT7IRn8Ilcqagk5XVT5TWP0VE7i6RalOaRiQz0w0AfBitrcl7lTD8SrHisaRrtRpMRi0X6XNDUhEndjYHzSKS-leuT_rBdGVzX8Q/s680/supernova-redux00002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="501" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq549NBxF-CNBoatJYIXlJEmfFQel6WMXcBMJ5eZqMlUamh-unOQ_cMo11PomZgS74OZ9an6yiRPaMLIPvjwgT7IRn8Ilcqagk5XVT5TWP0VE7i6RalOaRiQz0w0AfBitrcl7lTD8SrHisaRrtRpMRi0X6XNDUhEndjYHzSKS-leuT_rBdGVzX8Q/w335-h454/supernova-redux00002.jpg" width="335" /></a></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. </i><i>I go to prepare a place for you."</i> John 14:2<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Do not forsake Sophia, and she will protect you;<br /> Love her, and she will watch over you.<br />The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.<br /> Though it cost all you have, get understanding.<br />Cherish her, and she will exalt you;<br /> Embrace her, and she will honor you.<br /> She will give you a garland to grace your head<br /> and present you with a glorious crown.”</i><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Proverbs 4:6-9<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">* I should note that the Sibyl was born less than three weeks before the original Outer Limits first aired. That episode was about an alien that came to Earth via radio waves.</span></blockquote></span></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com