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News Briefs 11-04-2005

Why is Monday’s news late, I hear you ask? I don’t know. I’m missing a whole day, I have no idea what happened to it. One minute it’s morning, the next it’s late evening. It’s another case of missing time on the Daily Grail. I may have unwittingly become a part of Bill’s black ops project. Perhaps I shouldn’t have gone near that glowing light in the faerie ring …

Quote of the Day:

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry Thoreau

  1. wooden it be luverly….
    if Cardinal Francis Arinze was elected pope.
    He’s probably got as much chance as I have.
    When you remember that this is the church that recently said that women in Africa should be happy to contract AIDs from their positive husbands rather than use a contraceptive device I somehow think the Vatican is not ready for a black pope.

    I loved the interview on angel hair.It would be good to know for sure what it is.

    I think Bill is probably near the end of his black ops stuff now after what they have done to him.
    Poor little darling.

    Thanks Rick,

    S.

  2. Crop Circles
    Sadly there are so many pranksters out there that we may never know if there is a deeper meaning behind this phenomena. It has already become a marketing tool for some companies to advertise their latest product!
    Most of the geometric concepts of crop circles would be lost on the general population anyway so they would have to dumb them down for us.

    It wont be long before there is a large “M” on the surface of the moon, visible only for those fast food eating telescope owners.

    In the mean time I’ll just sit here and admire my collection of crop circle wheat I purchased on e-bay 😉

    H.

    1. People don’t want to know abo
      People don’t want to know about the evidence, they really don’t. I was sitting in the local pub the other night reading Freddy Silva’s Secrets in the Fields, absolutely entranced by what he has to say. A group of friends came in and sat down with me, all wanting to know what I was reading. One guy was interested in crop circles and had an open mind, but the others … they rolled their eyes. When I tried to convince them of what distinguishes a genuine crop circle from a hoax — electromagnetism, the lay of the crops, mathematics, geometry, mythology, symbolism — they did not want to hear it. The evidence could dance on their nose singing “I am the evidence”, and they’d still ignore it. It’s frustrating. I had the same problem at work. No one takes it seriously. All they see is the big pattern in the crop and assume that is all there is to a crop circle, that anyone could make such a pattern. I don’t know whether it’s uncomfortable for them to admit that many crop circles are genuine, or if they just don’t care. I think it’s apathy. People have their lives and don’t want to step out of their comfort zone, no more no less. It’s much easier to mock people who take crop circles seriously. It’s easier for them to be sucked in by fools like Doug & Dave, rather than seriously consider the anomalous evidence that can not be hoaxed — the geometry, symbolism, electromagnetism, acoustics, etc.

      One good thing about hoaxes — it’s given us a measuring stick. We can compare a genuine circle with a hoax, and spot the differences right away. The way the crop is flattened, electromagnetic properties, the geometrical layout of the circle, the symbolism … so much distinguishes a genuine crop circle from a hoax. Yet no one wants to know about it, they’re much happier mocking those who take the issue seriously. Okay, enough of my ranting. I’m going to finish Freddy Silva’s book (and finish a review of Unseen Forces by Ed Kovacs that is long overdue for TDG).

      By the way, is the crop circle wheat you purchased the real deal? Just once in my life, I’d love to visit a genuine crop circle that has all the classic properties. It’s possibly higher on my list of things to do than visiting the Gizeh Pyramids of Egypt! 😉

      Rick

      1. The way I hear it
        Rick, is that a lot of the truly wonderful crop circles are manmade.
        For the first time in my life I totally believed in a mysterious element makeing the crop circles after watching a video with Colin Andrews in it.
        I chanced upon another video with Andrews in it made about 10 years later and there was a very embarrassed man.
        I am still taken with the microwave effect on the stalks of grain where they are bent.
        And I also saw the balls of light over the fields as some circles were made.
        But I also know now that there is a large element of forgery involved.
        If anyone knows the real truth please let me know.
        And yes I would love to walk into a real crop circle if there is such a thing.
        I think Colette posted something recently about the charlatans in the alternative world.

        shadows

        1. Colin Andrews
          Ah, the Colin Andrews interview. He was ambushed by the media, and said things he later regretted. You can’t trust the British media, they set him up. It’s true he stated that 80% of crop circles are man-made … but that still leaves 20% that are real mysteries! And that’s enough for me to be excited about. There are crop circles, such as the Julia Set, that simply can not have been made by hoaxsters. It’s been proven that those who claim to have hoaxed certain crop circles clearly lack the mathematical and esoterical knowledge encoded in the crop circles. It’s also impossible for them to fake the electromagnetic anomalies (such as tv cameras and phones malfunctioning inside a circle), and they certainly can’t levitate so that the crop remains unbroken and perfectly bent! It’s also been proven that many hoaxsters were paid big money — by whom, is the big question. The military? Government? It’s true big business has commissioned a few crop circles, but they constitute barely 1% of the total number of man-made crop circles. Someone doesn’t want us to know the truth, that much is clear, and the idiocy of mankind is making their obfuscation easier.

          Yes, there are hoaxes, but don’t give up on the genuine crop circles, Shadows. Whoever or whatever is making them deserves our attention.

          The truth is out there …

          Mystery can not be faked.

          1. Crop Circle Saturation
            You would think that whomever was creating the conservative 20% of circles would either increase the complexity of the designs to guarantee there authenticity or put them in such a place that it would be impossible for humans to create them before being spotted by the particular landowner, on the front lawn of the whitehouse property for example. It is done in secret and designed to only reach a particular type of interested person. The difficulty is determining which ones are the real ones and then deciphering the link if any to other circles. Do some circles in a particular area carry an overall meaning or are they all separate entities?

            I think mystery can be faked Ric but it has to be done extremely elaborately in order to dupe the public. Some religeons base themselves on these so called mysteries to gain authenticity

          2. You would think that whomever
            You would think that whomever was creating the conservative 20% of circles would either increase the complexity of the designs to guarantee there authenticity

            Oh, but the Circle Makers (the mysterious ones, not the Doug & Daves) have been doing exactly that! Unfortunately, the idea of hoaxes was firmly planted in the public’s mind a decade ago, and the increasing complexities of the crop circles, and the message this conveys, has largely been ignored by the masses. Thankfully, people such as Freddy Silva, Gerald Hawkins, Colin Andrews, Tony Delgado and many others have been keeping track of the evolution of crop circles. It truly is an evolution, from simple designs several decades ago to complex geometry to 4-D physics in recent years.

            You really should read some literature on the subject, I can not recommend Freddy Silva’s Secrets In The Fields enough. Also look for work by Gerald Hawkins, a Boston astro-physicist who has also done extensive and groundbreaking work on the geometries of Stonehenge.

          3. you are keeping me broke Rick.
            I have ordered 2 copies of Silva’s book, one for my son’s birthday.Every time you mention a book Rick I have to read it and I am about 10 years behind in my reading compared to you.

            I have seen the Julia Set.Yes,stunningly beautiful,and I looked at the pic for ages trying to work out how it was made, and I couldn’t.
            Silva says about the sound causing the circles.That blows me away.
            The unproven (to us) theorems are too amazing to believe.
            I have always said that when we make contact it will not be in a form we are ready to recognise or maybe even able to recognise.

            Thanks for bringing this up Rick, one of my favourite things in the world, the beautiful crop circles.

            shadows

          4. Well said
            I am just now opening my eyes to the phenomena and need to be educated. I will take your recommendation and get Freddy’s book. I am still waiting for my Neil Gaiman copy you suggested a few weks ago.
            Do you have a library at your house 😉
            Keep up the good work mate!
            H.

          5. Books books books!
            I have a modest library, not as big as I’d like. I love giving away books, rather than just lending them (unless it’s a special edition or an expensive book, in which case my ego wins!). One day I’ll live in a big mansion and I will invite the public to peruse my esoteric and eccentric collection of books. 😉

            I’m not reading much fiction these days. I don’t know if I’m getting older and fussier, or if I’m just getting older and fussier. I want to write my own fiction, which may explain why I read more non-fiction these days. I’m a lot fussier with the fiction I do read. In my youth (har, I’m only 31!) I read every novel I could get my hands on — now I struggle to read a fiction novel a month. I wonder why this is? I’ve noticed some other authors and wannabee writers are the same way, Neil Gaiman being one. I guess I can recognise good fiction from bad, and I want to rewrite what the author has written.

            My dream is to marry a librarian or a publisher. 😀

            Definitely read American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Shadows and Haplo. It’s a great book. A little dark and disturbing in places, but it’s fun trying to guess the various gods and mythological figures.

            And most definitely read Freddy Silva’s Secrets In The Fields. You can get a taste for his book at his website. I remember watching a documentary on crop circles a few months ago, and Freddy struck me as a very reasonable, balanced man, which is why I bought his book the moment I saw it in the Theosophical Society bookshop here in Melbourne. The evidence he presents is compelling, and even if crop circles are all man-made — considering the geometry and mathematics and symbolism involved, they’d rival the Great Pyramids of Gizeh in their accomplishment, they are simply stunning.

            Now excuse me, I have a book to read …. 😉

            “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” – Philip Pullman

      1. Hi AAiek
        How the devil are you mate? We have temporarily halted any big question stuff for the moment. It only confuses the issue, which was my point to start with. It is a truce, for the moment…

        I replied to your enquiry back on my original blog, give it a read and get back to me there.

        Hope you are well.

        H.

  3. Huygens
    You got the ice pebble thing backwards – according to the article, the pebble, forming part of a beach, was hit by Huygens during our unprovoked attack on Titan.

    The conditions there looking so similar to an earthly scene (just shifted downward in temperature by a lot) have me thinking. Probably somewhere, scientists made up of mostly molten rock are discussing the improbability of life based on liquid water. Too cold, the biological processes would be too slow.

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