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originally posted by: Kantzveldt
a reply to: sapien82
Pictish was just Brythonic without any Latin elements it tends to be considered these days.
a reply to: boozo
Brotherman...oh dear.
really gave me pause for thought from a more personal perspective and seems relevant to what you say above even though the consideration of the article was voluntarily sharing and "downloading" of our "minds". I don't, as such, have a problem with sharing, inviting someone into my "mind", I can see distinct advantages, it'd make my life so much easier. What troubled me, a thought that they have introduced to me via this article, is that I, or rather my "mind", could be copied, reproduced in actuality, stolen even and sent off to start a despotic regime in some jungle enclave somewhere with a little tweaking
Studies show that we accept our lack of free will when it suits us not to take responsibility, but claim free will when we want to punish the actions of others. Free will is an idea that has transformed into a semantic device losing it's initial or intended meaning, and hijacked as a means of constraint and control. There has always been that concern too with Valis.
Like they say in math class, "would you show your work"?
Your opinion of the FL folks seems quite different than most
others.
originally posted by: tetra50
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
KPB:
With all due respect:
Like they say in math class, "would you show your work"?
Your opinion of the FL folks seems quite different than most
others.
This is a very long thread. Some of us, including, necessarily the author, have been here, years. And no, I think most of us who were here from the beginning reached the exact same conclusion she did, with all due respect. If you've read the thread, it would be quite obvious, from a contiguous perspective.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. George Orwell made this clear in his novel 1984. But another way to control the minds of people is to control their perceptions. If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do. Comprehension follows perception. How do you get them to see the reality you see? After all, it is only one reality out of many. Images are a basic constituent: pictures. This is why the power of TV to influence young minds is so staggeringly vast. Words and pictures are synchronized. The possibility of total control of the viewer exists, especially the young viewer. TV viewing is a kind of sleep-learning. An EEG of a person watching TV shows that after about half an hour the brain decides that nothing is happening, and it goes into a hypnoidal twilight state, emitting alpha waves. This is because there is such little eye motion. In addition, much of the information is graphic and therefore passes into the right hemisphere of the brain, rather than being processed by the left, where the conscious personality is located. Recent experiments indicate that much of what we see on the TV screen is received on a subliminal basis. We only imagine that we consciously see what is there. The bulk of the messages elude our attention; literally, after a few hours of TV watching, we do not know what we have seen. Our memories are spurious, like our memories of dreams; the blank are filled in retrospectively. And falsified. We have participated unknowingly in the creation of a spurious reality, and then we have obligingly fed it to ourselves. We have colluded in our own doom.
From Direne's account on June 16th:
Dear HerbertAshe,
My name is Karadne and I am the administrator of the FL site.
Please, be advised that ad hominem attacks are not allowed, neither tolerated, nor accepted. You can freely express your views on the contents of our site, whatever those views may be. However, personal opinions on people, insults, and gossips do not fall within the freedom of speech and will be prosecuted using all legal means available.
I also want you to know that your personal details have been collected should we need to take further legal actions.
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
So let me get this straight, this quote from Kantz:
"We know for sure it wasn't a marketing stunt, any reference to an International Game can be taken as cryptic disinformation, the only information they hinted at and this seemed to be the principle reason for the return of 'Direne' was in terms of an experiment to take place somewhere in the Middle East, the general concerns of which were investigating the potential of opening a portal to the other side as it were in interdimensional terms, developing the capability to pass though barriers of time and space and perhaps kidnapping the odd alien along the way.
This correlates with their general theme of mirroring and so no surprises that they have mirrored the countdown, you count down to a certain point and then the consequences reflect in reverse over time from a point of happening. It's likely they will give some indication of how their experiment went, but perhaps they're busy fending off the interdimensional Demonic hordes at the moment..."
That this is your opinion as to what FL is doing at this exact time in
the middle east as a result of their timer counting down?
If I had said, hey what's with the counter? You would
have come back with that?
Kev
originally posted by: lostgirl
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
Oh, please! It doesn't have anything to do with anyone's "social skills"!
Yours are just fine, imo!!
I was just pointing out the 'stuff' that people who have been 'involved' from the start of the thread are aware of - by virtue of their experiences 'here'...
Don't want to go off topic, but I'm kind of dying to know about the ripped "holes in space/time" and the "critters" that you saw...
Maybe just a brief description?
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: abeverage
Ahh ok , cool thanks for that info.
I have to say I am quite happy that the person replied to me and quite quickly I may add.
It seems as though they are not a group who are unreachable or are unwilling to share their knowledge!