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News Briefs 15-09-2005

By Billon

I’ve got precession, Elvis, virgins, Mars, tiny robots, conspiracies, ghosts, books, UFOs, and more. If something in there doesn’t interest you, you’re in the wrong place.

  • Strange things get stranger. Excavations at Durrington Walls have been helping to throw new light on the mysteries of the Stonehenge World Heritage site.
  • Now that the first Inca word within the enigmatic mops of knotted strings, called “khipu” may have been uncovered, two experts believe that a complex 7-bit binary code will reveal detailed information on how the Inca managed their huge empire.
  • Precession and the Golden Age: How much did the Ancients know?
  • New plant finds in the Andes foretell of an ancient climate change.
  • The Gulf emirate of Dubai will build a city of life-size replicas of Seven Wonders of the World to house apartments, office space, hotels and shopping malls. [TDG pop quiz: Name all seven of the Seven Wonders of the World.]
  • Imagine the humiliation of being a teenage boy who has been proved to be a virgin. Are you surprised that 20% of KZN youth are suicidal?
  • Forensic scientists are using tooth enamel and the fallout from nuclear tests in the 1950s to more precisely deduce the age of a person at the time of their death.
  • A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe. Gruesome.
  • Join the debate on smart ID cards – protection from terrorists and illegal aliens or a gateways to tracking citizens and amassing databases full of information?
  • Mars reveals your Universe potential!
  • Pssst. Where the devil is the exorcists convention? Don’t ask Captain Howdy.
  • Conservation scientists are to meet in Washington DC to discuss an action plan aimed at stemming the global decline in amphibians.
  • Lost in Katrina, these dolphins are ‘flipping’ to be found.
  • Swarms of miniature robots that behave like colonies of ants could one day be deployed by the thousands to carry out tasks in the environment, or even in the human body. Where’s the OFF switch?
  • Are you interested in what happened at Tunguska? The Tunguska Fireball offers some highly speculative yet nevertheless plausible reasons for the phenomenon. Available at Amazon US and UK.
  • UFOs and meatballs – the effect of Freedom of Information on the public sector.
  • A new book offering more than 90 amazing, but true paranormal tales (ghosts, angels, visions, dreams, NDE, premonitions, reincarnations, dangers of Ouija boards, and more) has just been released. It could be inspiration for you aspiring writers and researchers. Glimpses 2 is available at Amazon US and UK.
  • From the murder of JFK to “The Da Vinci Code”, conspiracy theories are big business.
  • The mystery of the UFOs.
  • Type IV alien civilizations creating artificial curvature of space-time to control and manipulate the physical universe. Dune, right?
  • Elvis, as a child, was communicated to, apparently, by two cosmic beings of light. Rock Stars and Extraterrestrials is available at Amazon US and UK.
  • Astronomers find the gate into parallel worlds. (Pravda)
  • Hubble spies a homeless black hole.
  • Engineers work to stall Hubble’s death.

Quote of the Day


At sunset, a burning shield passed over the sky at Rome. It came sparkling from the west and passed over to the east.

Lycothenes
(Medieval reporter/writer 98 AD)
Conrad Wolfhart

Bill
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16 Comments

  1. Pop quiz – 7 wonders
    Pyramids at Giza (Zahi’s house)
    The “Chillin'” Gardens of Babylon
    Statue of Zeus (Olympia)
    Temple of Artemis
    Collosus of Rhodes
    Temple of Halliburton-Carnassis (President Bushiknos of ancient Athens awarded the construction contract to Halliburtonasis on a recommendation from his friend Biggus Dickus Cheneopolous)
    Pharos lighthouse

    I do like Google (and TDG, of course!)

    yer ol’ pal,

    Xibalba
    (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

  2. Stonehenge
    From the article:

    New excavations at Stonehenge have revealed traces of a causeway or walkway, leading from Durrington Walls to the Avon, about 30-metres away.

    Archaeologists say this suggests the dead were ritualistically carried from the earthworks to the river, where their remains were deposited.

    Does anyone here know why the archaeologists think the causeway was used for carrying the dead to the Avon? Was this kind of burial rite typical of this era and/or area?

    Kat

    1. Purpose of causeway…
      That’s a rather large leap of faith to explain it.

      I would posit that the causeway was the path FROM the River Avon along which the giant stones were hauled, from the barges that carried them there from Wales (where I believe they were quarried).

      OR…

      ..maybe it’s the path along which all the naked Druids ran just after they’d slaughtered their brindled calf under the full moon, before throwing themselves into the cold dark waters of the Avon for a watery midnight skinny dip.

      I could go on.

      ..but I won’t.

      yer ol’ pal,

      Xibalba
      (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

  3. Bill, I have a question…
    Hi Bill,

    I have a question about ‘Mars Reveals Your Universe Potential’.

    But first, allow me to recap the gist of this article, as I see it:

    The whole universe is in a state of decay due to a universe-wide war that began when Lucifer and one third of the angels rebelled against God. God had sent Lucifer and one third of the angels to Earth to beautify it and build on it, but they destroyed it instead.

    Surveying the damage, God realized that since the highest, most perfect being within his power to create had turned to rebellion, that left God as the only being who would not and cannot sin. (Obviously, since he’s the only being who gets to define sin.) He decided that the only beings that would do a good job of ruling Earth and the universe were one’s that shared his own impeccable character.

    It was then that he decided to ‘renew’ the Earth, and create humans – beings who would potentially share his impeccable character. However, humans have since destroyed Earth again, an act of rebellion which means we worship Lucifer/Satan, thus turning him into the defacto god of Earth.

    Undeterred, God has now decided to change the nature of a few humans so that they will be fit to renew and rule the rest of the universe. The few he picks for this transformation will be those who are already willing and able to obey his rules. He determines this by asking each human a few questions such as how the universe was created, and he put all the answers in the Bible.

    So far, there’s only been one human who’s met his qualifications. Expecting a few more humans will succeed in obeying him, God decided that at some point he’ll send this ‘first qualifier’ back to Earth to ‘harvest’ these few others.

    After this harvest, he expects the rest will finish off the Earth and each other in short order. When that’s done, he plans to ‘renew’ the Earth – again – and, after changing the natures of these like-minded beings who were ‘harvested’ so that they’ll be even more like himself, he’ll deposit them back on this ‘new’ Earth. From there, he expects them to ‘renew’ and ‘rule’ the rest of the universe – which is what he created them (and their failed counterparts) for to begin with.

    And oh, by the way, Job built the Great Pyramid, since that’s likely to be a test question.

    Now for my question: What was it about this article that motivated it’s inclusion in today’s news?

    Kat

    1. Sounds like he needs therapy
      From that pointed synopsis, it sounds like God has a bit of a problem of self-esteem and inferiority, if he feels he has to go round trying to encourage more people to become like himself. What’s the ultimate point of that, if only to bolster his own feeling of self-worth?

      What a loser!

      yer ol’ pal,

      Xibalba
      (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

      1. God created man to his likeness…
        …so, even though the creation process is not complete, we decided that god must have a psychological profile and that such must be in line with our own.

        This must simply stem from the fact that ‘we’ can easily believe that we have reached the last step of human evolution already.

        It seems very difficult for a lot of people to consider that our psychology is not the end all condition as Star Treck would have had us believe. Therefore, we project our own ignorance on the universe and consider that the conditions underlying our psychologies have to be universal because we have not yet encountered anything that could disprove that impression.

        Furthermore, I do not believe that we can consider anything that is outside the framework of psychological reactionary consciousness until we at least have the lucidity to look neutrally at our condition and at the universe.

        1. A quantum universe

          While we’re on the subject, consider this. Maybe everybody is right; it’s all illusions.

          Experiments with the Princeton Black Boxes, aka the Edinburgh Eggs, indicate that our minds are very powerful. Not only can we predict the future, we appear to also control the outcome of events. According to science, this should not happen, but it does, repeatedly, planet wide.

          No one really knows what happens, if anything, after death, but many have beliefs. At death, we are both Schrödinger’s cat and the observer and we are in a state quantum intermediacy, both dead and alive. Only the observer can affect the outcome by mere observation.

          Are our minds powerful enough to place us in whatever dimension our beliefs direct? Do we, in fact, create our dimension? Does Flurry get what he envisions as an afterlife, while we all get whatever we envision – even nothingness.

          Everybody wins – thanks for playing.

          Bill

          1. Quantum mind
            No argument, really.

            The mind can be defined or aprehended in several ways.

            We can associate the thought process to the mind and we can consider that there is a pre-personal energy that is the vibration, or the number, of an individual that comes from a center that does have the power of creation.

            In that sense, one could then consider that it is neither through beliefs nor intense thoughts that the mind can impact on its environment but rather in the osmose between instantaneous realization that creates an absolute certainty.

            Such a state cannot be a state of belief but what some ancients have called faith. A faith that is seated on a certainty that cannot be questioned even if it may be opposed.

            What we call faith today is much more dependant on beliefs than it is on unconditioned certainty and beliefs won’t move mountains like the faith I speak about could.

            For the mind to affect outcomes, the mind must be in tune with universal consciousness; such consciousness being in a sense the very fabric of the universe. (In that sense, there could be an argument for intelligent design, which argument would not have to imply the presence of a deity.)

            What I mean by this is that the mind cannot modify outcomes based on desires but can have an impact on the outcome based on fundamental needs, such needs being based on universal laws rather than self-serving psychological laws.

            Everybody wins? To some this is a game, to others this is very serious. What does one win? The right to be right?

            Personally, I find that it is less important to be right or to sit on what we know but to consider where we are erring, even if partly, and use what others bring to create a greater reason.

            This would bring me to assert that everybody may have a piece of the puzzle to offer but rarely if ever the whole picture.

            I liked your analogy of the state of death with Schrödinger’s cat btw.

    2. Mars

      Hi Kat,

      Good synopsis, but he said there is evidence that Job built the pyramid, not that he built it. What that evidence is, I don’t know, he didn’t say.

      Interesting question, ‘Why did I include that article?’ It met all the criteria for anything I post on TDG news, and it had excellent additional qualities:

      • Because, as you pointed out not long ago to I forget whom, what I choose to post is my choice.
      • I thought it was interesting. You must have found it interesting enough to have read it.
      • It bucks mainstream thinking; it’s outside the box.
      • Most of it was new to me, so it will be new to many people.
      • We’ve been talking about ID on TDG for weeks. If we discuss it, we ought to know what it is.
      • It’s not something you’re likely to read in the orthodox or traditional newslinks.
      • The author has a book to back-up his claims if readers want to know more. (Maybe I should have included an Amazon link to the Bible.)
      • The article didn’t propose that we hate anyone, kill anyone, or skewer people for the joy of torture. Also, it was not about politics or the war in Iraq.
      • At least some people won’t agree with it. Since many people disagree here with it, the opposing viewpoint must be presented somewhere. TDG is not just a cute little newsy website. We think outside the box here.
      • Any excuse to go to Mars is okay by me.

      With all that going for it, how could I resist? Why would I not include it?

      Now let me ask you something. One always has the option to avoid reading an article, but you chose to read it. What is it about this particular topic that makes you question the inclusion?

      Bill

      1. What made me question…
        Hi Bill,

        >>Because, as you pointed out not long ago to I forget whom, what I choose to post is my choice.

        While that’s also true for TDG news (for the most part), I said it with regard to the blogs section.

        >>Any excuse to go to Mars is okay by me.

        I was annoyed with myself when I realized that, in my ‘good synopsis’, I failed to include the author’s points on Mars: anyone who’s seen the recent photos of Mars should realize the patent truth that it’s decayed, and scientists may as well give up their ambitions to explore and colonize space because God has reserved that task only for his chosen sons – well-after the Second Coming.

        >>I thought it was interesting. You must have found it interesting enough to have read it.

        Yeah, I did, although nothing in it was new to me, since I’ve been studying world religions since I was 12, including Christianity’s many interpretations.

        I guess I was just expecting some unusual twist somewhere – like maybe an explanation of Bigfoot sightings 😉 – so when it turned out to be just a straight-forward religious tract, I was puzzled. I think I get it now — it’s a different take on intelligent design.

        >>
        The article didn’t propose that we hate anyone, kill anyone, or skewer people for the joy of torture.

        True. He does mention that a rather dire fate awaits anyone who chooses to believe in scientific theories such as the Big Bang and evolution, but since that’s God’s will, far be it from him to question it.

        Coming tomorrow — an article about the poll which shows 40% in the U.S. want religious leaders to have more power. I suppose many here would disagree with that viewpoint too, even though, in the minds of some, that drastically increases their odds of being Left Behind.

        Kat

      2. Sermon
        Hi,

        Fluffy, not a loving man

        ” We are in bondage to sin. The law gives us true freedom. We must give the whole universe the liberty and glory of the sons of God—members of God’s own family! ”

        Some nice one liners;

        ” We are bondaged to decay”

        “God is letting the trauma intensify until we finally learn how inept we really are. It’s as if this Earth has a bad case of epilepsy, and we are entering into our worst siege ever!”

        “Nothing can stimulate our imagination like comprehending our universe potential! Nothing “.(.except druglaws).

        Bill i dont mind this kinda stuff, and i think most TDG visitors would be pretty immune to the clever propaganda thats been made in the article. It should be seen as a warning because , specially in the states, many do succomb to pay offs like that. Its an old trick …

        ” do unto others as you would have them do unto you “

        1. Science sermon
          Hi Tox,

          Actually, as far as these points,

          We are bondaged to decay

          God is letting the trauma intensify until we finally learn how inept we really are. It’s as if this Earth has a bad case of epilepsy, and we are entering into our worst siege ever!

          I think science and Flurry agree. See the Second Law of Thermodynamics and entropy.

          Sounds like a match to me.

          BTW, if I remember correctly, I don’t think you like the Big Bang any more than I do, right?

          Bill

    3. Hi Kat……
      The relevance of articals such as this, to me, is very important.
      I thank Bill for finding and posting it.
      I’ll explain: in a nut shell, relegion is designed to keep people enslaved. With the advent of the www, informatiom is accessable to a large percentage of the world like it never has been befor. What this artical confirms is the desparation of relegion to try and hold our interests by blending in with ‘new age’ and other off beat theories. As the population increases its scepticism of mainstream relegion, more and more attempts to hold onto controll of the masses will become apparent. We no longer accept blind faith, we are evolving.
      We are spiritual beings, individual yet a part of one. When we understand this, we can not be controlled.

      DISCLAIMER:the opinions and veiws in this post are mine only and do not nesessarily reflect those of others.

  4. Dubai and the Seven Wonders?
    Dubai has much of America’s money, so they have the right to build any damn thing they want. I only have one question… will they please keep Michael Jackson?

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