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Petey posted:has anyone here read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Damned Charles Fort! He's the grandfather of so much of modern weird reporting. I'm sure he's come up in the thread before? That reminds me, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Thunderstorm is the devil/UFO/ball lightning blowing up a church in England in the 1600s. And another favorite from Victorian times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack 
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Dec 14, 2021 01:49
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Petey posted:has anyone here read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Damned It's to my shame that I have not read any more of Fort than what I catch as excerpts in later works, but for those who don't know, he's literally the reason that Fortean stuff is called that. He stands on the cusp of the transition from spiritualism to modern ufology, kind of a John the Baptist character, prefiguring the first modern ufologists writing in the wake of the Kenneth Arnold sighting.
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Dec 14, 2021 01:52
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Petey posted:has anyone here read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Damned I'm in the process of starting a publishing company to publish small runs of limited edition handbound letterpress books and this one is on my list to do an edition of at some point.
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Dec 14, 2021 02:26
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RE: Sun doom Four days ago an article was published by researchers who saw the largest ever "superflare" emitted by a sun-like star, these quotes are taken from the CU boulder article quote:In the research, Namekata, Nostu and their colleagues used telescopes on the ground and in space to peer at EK Draconis, which looks like a young version of the sun. In April 2020, the team observed EK Draconis ejecting a cloud of scorching-hot plasma with a mass in the quadrillions of kilograms—more than 10 times bigger than the most powerful coronal mass ejection ever recorded from a sun-like star. quote:Such a superflare could also happen on Earth’s sun but not very often, maybe once every several thousand years. Still, it got Notsu’s team curious: Could a superflare also lead to an equally super coronal mass ejection? quote:Still, Notsu noted that huge mass ejections may have been much more common in the early years of the solar system. Gigantic coronal mass ejections, in other words, could have helped to shape planets like Earth and Mars into what they look like today.
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Dec 14, 2021 02:29
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Futanari Damacy posted:Watching the skies alone won't reveal everything because a lot of alien activity is occurring on another dimensional level, or at least not something that could be captured visually where we are now. think it would be way harder to watch the oceans than space tbh
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Dec 14, 2021 02:32
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apkallu#Uanna_(Oannes)_or_Adapa?quote:Apkallu (Akkadian) and Abgal (Sumerian:𒉣𒈨 ) are terms found in cuneiform inscriptions that in general mean either "wise" or "sage". 
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Dec 14, 2021 02:36
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What fate Amaroka?
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Dec 14, 2021 02:39
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Futanari Damacy posted:The biggest problem with Earth is that human society is organized enough to damage its ecosystem but seemingly not organized enough to stop processes it itself puts in place. "They Live" presents an interesting alternative, that aliens are deliberately letting/making us trash the planet to make it more hospitable to another kind of life. I don't buy it as a serious theory because we're not setting a stable temperature, we're initiating runaway processes and feedback loops that would make the planet inhospitable to anything. Earth as it is now is more desirable than making Venus 2 on purpose. If, however, you work on the assumption that the aliens feed off of human suffering it explains basically everything
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Dec 14, 2021 03:17
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Humans feed off human misery, aliens dont give a poo poo.
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Dec 14, 2021 03:24
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Dec 14, 2021 03:32
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Pontificating rear end posted:Humans feed off human misery, aliens dont give a poo poo. If your brain generates an energy field we aren't aware of, that energy could be harvestable in a way we're unable to imagine, and negative emotions might be the brain energy version of cocaine
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Dec 14, 2021 03:44
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Slavvy posted:If your brain generates an energy field we aren't aware of, that energy could be harvestable in a way we're unable to imagine, and negative emotions might be the brain energy version of cocaine The machine elves that constantly and invisibly surround me and harvest my emotions are gonna be partying like Nikki Sixx tonight
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Dec 14, 2021 03:49
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Slavvy posted:If your brain generates an energy field we aren't aware of, that energy could be harvestable in a way we're unable to imagine, and negative emotions might be the brain energy version of cocaine Ya but you could use money as an example of something that is harvestable and produces exciting brain chemicals such that it reinforces behavior which brings misery onto others
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Dec 14, 2021 03:51
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psychic entities minting endless mental shitcoins on blockchains of misery
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Dec 14, 2021 03:57
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goochtit posted:psychic entities minting endless mental shitcoins on blockchains of misery ah, the aliens are behind the george floyd NFTs
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Dec 14, 2021 03:58
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goochtit posted:psychic entities minting endless mental shitcoins on blockchains of misery this sounds like a really lovely prog rock song
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Dec 14, 2021 03:58
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Pontificating rear end posted:Ya but you could use money as an example of something that is harvestable and produces exciting brain chemicals such that it reinforces behavior which brings misery onto others I mean yeah we agree here, the systems that run the world are fundamentally dysfunctional leading to mass misery and capitalism is the driving engine behind it. I think that's a perfect mechanism for generating gigawatts of delicious misery. Wouldn't you want to encourage it as much as possible and try to steer things toward the worst possible outcomes, just like the wealthy do for cash? It's like a misery fractal. Azathoth posted:this sounds like a really lovely prog rock song It reads really well to this tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHcmnowjfrQ
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Dec 14, 2021 04:15
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Azathoth posted:this sounds like a really lovely prog rock song Pretty sure it's a track on Tarkus.
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Dec 14, 2021 04:18
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Futanari Damacy has issued a correction as of 03:32 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dec 14, 2021 04:21
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Slavvy posted:If your brain generates an energy field we aren't aware of, that energy could be harvestable in a way we're unable to imagine, and negative emotions might be the brain energy version of cocaine This being the actual 40k universe would explain so much.
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Dec 14, 2021 05:38
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D-Pad posted:This being the actual 40k universe would explain so much. Everyone leave the loving emperor alone then lol
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Dec 14, 2021 07:28
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Absolutely not. We need to get that man parenting classes stat.
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Dec 14, 2021 08:06
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you all motherfuckers like ghosts and poo poo? watch Last Night in Soho, beautiful film, delightful lead
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Dec 14, 2021 09:00
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Dec 14, 2021 12:11
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Did Chaos Magick Break Reality? What the hell is going on? Coronavirus, societal collapse, monoliths, aliens, what more do I need to say? Did William S. Burroughs actually achieve his goal of breaking reality? Let me explain. William S. Burroughs was a member of Peter J. Carroll’s magickal organization, The Illuminates of Thanateros. They practiced chaos magick, a system of magick that denies all fixed models of reality. Basically they are encouraged to believe in whatever reality they want. Burroughs was also an author who often used the cut-up method to write his novels, a technique that involves cutting up newspapers and magazines, putting the clippings in a hat, and then randomly pulling them out to create sentences. Burroughs believed the cut-up method was a form of chaos magick that destabilized language, which he claimed was the main control mechanism of reality. Burroughs’ goal was to utterly destroy and dismantle all control systems and he thought his cut-ups could help him achieve this. https://preview.redd.it/t8vs6iipdw561.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=47f50bf4b8defd8e57d1cf2375b20cfdb5e1fbdc Burroughs’ cut-ups sometimes seemed to predict the future. They also seemed to generate synchronicities, one of them being the 23 enigma, which has since been popularized by the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23. It seems randomness can help one get closer to the transcendental. To understand this idea better, think about how people flip a coin to decide someone’s fate. Or how people randomly pull out tarot cards to communicate with spirits. Burroughs was in contact with Robert Anton Wilson, and Burroughs told him about the 23 enigma. Wilson started seeing the number everywhere too, and this inspired him to incorporate the idea into his most famous book series, The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Ironically, the Discordian Society is a group of people who “worship” the goddess of chaos, Eris. It has been described as complex joke disguised as a religion or a complex religion disguised as a joke. They also deny the knowability of objective truth. https://preview.redd.it/ejwteyfsdw561.png?width=391&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cb90ffc7f41fafb29f92754498c58d2aa3f4e9b Wilson was in contact with Kerry Thornley, and when they started talking, Wilson fell in love with the idea of the Discordian Society and the Illuminati because he saw it as a way to bring the left-wing and right-wing together. And so he wrote three books about it. Wilson and Thornley would also initiate Operation Mindfuck, which was basically their attempt to enlighten the masses by spreading so many fake conspiracies and disinformation, people’s brains would essentially short circuit, causing their rigid belief systems to dissolve. However, Thornley started to believe the Illuminati was real after strange things started happening to him. The FBI questioned him about being a double for Lee Harvey Oswald during the assassination of JFK. At first he denied this, but eventually he came to believe he really was. https://preview.redd.it/gp4njnrudw561.png?width=311&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d529518eed438d9762a29b97544fc925c43f86b Coincidentally, Thornley befriended Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, wrote a book about him defecting to the Soviet Union called Idle Warriors, unknowingly lived down the street from him, and unknowingly lived in his old work place which was turned into an apartment. The coincidences go on and on. And they get stranger. But anyways, Thornley started believing Wilson, or at least a clone of Wilson, was his CIA handler and that he and Oswald were a product of MKUltra and a Nazi breeding experiment. https://preview.redd.it/t77ia7uwdw561.png?width=494&format=png&auto=webp&s=728fbcd70f518b54d2cce5603c6111f946e39d81 Wilson and Burroughs were also friends with Joseph Matheny, the creator of Ong’s Hat, the first alternate reality game. An ARG is a game that uses the real world as a platform and transmedia storytelling. They can be so immersive, some people have no idea they’re playing a game. Matheny spread a rumor about an interdimensional portal existing somewhere in New Jersey, and people who believed the story was real, traveled from all over just to try and find it. Oddly enough, many people reported strange synchronicities in the area it was said to be located. On one occasion, Matheny was confronted by the Navy asking him why all these anomalies were popping up. Oddly enough, US spies are now using alternate reality games to study human behavior. Some conspiracy theorists also claim AI is creating ARGs to manipulate people’s beliefs. U.S. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (For Work, They Swear) | WIRED There is also an obscure group of Discordians who play an ARG called r/TheGame23. These people believe life is literally a game and the universe is like a cosmic ARG. They claim the stories we believe are real create reality. They choose to deny all narratives and write their own. https://preview.redd.it/03ujqglzdw561.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c138d1c489c892c37cb4d81f8e4c5c1e411f41e But either way you look at it, it seems we are moving towards the dissolution of consensus reality. There is no true narrative. No one agrees on anything anymore. Someone standing right next to you might live in an alternate universe. And it all started with chaos magick. So was the emergence of chaos magick a symptom of the coming Age of Aquarius? Some say the Mother Goddess will make herself known again during the Aquarian Age. Well then, I find it interesting that chaos is associated with Yin, or the feminine principle. Perhaps all the craziness we are living through is simply a part of a natural cycle. If that’s the case, the only way to stay sane will be to embrace the change. Thanks for reading. 
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Dec 14, 2021 15:02
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It is fun to think of the scientific "laws of nature" as a malleable force in conflict with complete randomness, two primal forces that ebb and flow throughout time leading us to ages of reason and mysticism in crashing waves
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Dec 14, 2021 15:21
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Nothing is real - to map out the universe as anything other than the will of Zorpho of the Dread Planet Gorgonax 7 is a gross injustice to his dark powers.
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Dec 14, 2021 15:33
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On the one hand I'd be delighted if reality was that malleable, on the other it would mean Noel Edmunds was right all along and that would really chap my rear end
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Dec 14, 2021 15:44
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Rudeboy Detective posted:Nothing is real - to map out the universe as anything other than the will of Zorpho of the Dread Planet Gorgonax 7 is a gross injustice to his dark powers. If he was so powerful we'd just call him Zorpho and not have to put a qualifier of the Dread planet.
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Dec 14, 2021 17:47
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i prefer zorpho of the nice planet
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Dec 14, 2021 17:51
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Dec 14, 2021 18:24
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charles fort was a protogoon who spent all day posting at the library he wouldve loved this thread so much i better not nostalgise more than that it will bring up my pain water
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Dec 14, 2021 18:27
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https://twitter.com/dwpasulka/status/1470797112703135744?s=21
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Dec 14, 2021 18:30
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:It is fun to think of the scientific "laws of nature" as a malleable force in conflict with complete randomness, two primal forces that ebb and flow throughout time leading us to ages of reason and mysticism in crashing waves well all praise ahura mazda. angra mainyu fuckers leave
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Dec 14, 2021 19:08
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Wired still exists?
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Dec 14, 2021 19:16
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whoa
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Dec 14, 2021 19:20
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neutral milf hotel posted:I just want the peanutties reading this thread that I believe in you, and will help you transform the planet into fully automated luxury space communism
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Dec 14, 2021 19:32
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neutral milf hotel posted:I just want the peanutties reading this thread that I believe in you, and will help you transform the planet into fully automated luxury space communism The peanutties aren't bringing space communism though They're the "there is a coming cataclysm and it's gonna suck and we can't save you all but we can maybe give you telepathy I guess" ones
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Dec 14, 2021 19:34
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Bilirubin posted:gonna modify this first impression somewhat. Its also like basic mindfulness exercises. Haven't seen anything in this so far that would actively harm anyone other than suggesting in a poker game to encourage "telepathic cheating" would love for all this to be complete bullshit but everyone who thinks they intuitive or whatever assumes its calmness and oneness that does it, but then when the birds actually comes it turns out you just had to try really REALLY hard, like pants making GBS threads hard and you break through. the collective HGNnnn at the reveal would own
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Dec 14, 2021 19:36
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