" All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Congrats on making it to stage one.


Originally posted by julugu
reply to post by Eighty59
Good! You are not wrong. Here is the link: www.nndb.com...
"Parsons was a bit of a wunderkind in two key areas — the occult and rocket science. Parsons legitimate claim to fame was in the latter field. He was by all accounts a brilliant chemist, who made major breakthroughs in designing the chemical composition of liquid rocket fuels.
And from Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org...): "Jack Parsons died on June 17, 1952 in an explosion of fulminate of mercury at his home laboratory which is generally regarded as accidental."
In June of 1952, while working in his garage/lab in Pasadena, Jack Parsons, chemist for the Caltech Rocket Propulsion program, mixed cordite and fulminate of mercury. The resulting explosion killed him and tore apart his house. Initially investigators had a hard time believing an experienced chemist would make such a careless mistake.
The most convincing explanation that anyone ever came up for his death was that Parsons had been reading the works of Aleister Crowley and attempted to create the "homunculus," a tiny man/demon that granted magical powers. Crowley's homunculus recipe called for a cordite/mercury mix and apparently Parsons followed it without thinking.

Originally posted by yourrolemodel
reply to post by skjalddis
I just watched video number three. Kinda sounds like a suicide note to me. That would explain why he died before his five months were up. Cancer isn't pleasant and many people choose to do themselves in.
) I have to confess that I only read a small part of the Illuminatus trilogy, I had to take it back to the library and some selfish git
nicked it before I could get it out again, I'll get around to buying it at some point... Originally posted by yourrolemodel
reply to post by yankeerose
The OP never said his client was the man who made the video. Maybe there are three characters there, the OP, the client and the maker of the video.