Theotus posted:

So I saw something today.

Right after work at around 5:10pm I leave my house to do a quick run to a corner store for beer and a nearby grocery store to grab cat litter on the way back home. Probably like a two and a half mile round trip. Nights are starting to get shorter around here now so it was still plenty bright out, didn't even need to have headlights on yet. The grocery store is within walking distance from my house, maybe like 10 blocks total. I'm idling at a stop light on my street, maybe six blocks straight shot from home. As I'm sitting at the red I notice almost directly at 12 o'clock just at the top of my windshield is a star. It's bright yellow in a completely cloudless sky and it seemed to be lazily meandering toward 6 o'clock.

This street light generally takes forever since it's on an intersection of one of the main roads in town so I had like 10-15 seconds to watch it. At first I thought it was a plane, so I was looking for secondary lights or something, but it was either too high up or too far away for me to pick any of that up. It was also moving way too slow.

Town has a local airport and you see a lot of air traffic from a nearby military base, and it's not far to the Seatac airport, but this thing wasn't heading in the direction of any of those places. Anyway, in the spirit of Birdcrew even though I just lurk, I thought, with intention "I see you."

Light turns green, I take my eyes off this thing for maybe a second and a half to watch the road as I crossed the intersection and when I looked back up it was gone. Nothing at all in the sky, no clouds, no other "stars," nothing. When I pulled into my driveway a minute or two later I scanned the whole sky I could see and there was just nothing out there.

So, having been trying to be more open to the idea in general and hoping to see something, I saw something.

Bilirubin posted:

and welcome

Theotus posted:

So I saw something today.

Right after work at around 5:10pm I leave my house to do a quick run to a corner store for beer and a nearby grocery store to grab cat litter on the way back home. Probably like a two and a half mile round trip. Nights are starting to get shorter around here now so it was still plenty bright out, didn't even need to have headlights on yet. The grocery store is within walking distance from my house, maybe like 10 blocks total. I'm idling at a stop light on my street, maybe six blocks straight shot from home. As I'm sitting at the red I notice almost directly at 12 o'clock just at the top of my windshield is a star. It's bright yellow in a completely cloudless sky and it seemed to be lazily meandering toward 6 o'clock.

This street light generally takes forever since it's on an intersection of one of the main roads in town so I had like 10-15 seconds to watch it. At first I thought it was a plane, so I was looking for secondary lights or something, but it was either too high up or too far away for me to pick any of that up. It was also moving way too slow.

Town has a local airport and you see a lot of air traffic from a nearby military base, and it's not far to the Seatac airport, but this thing wasn't heading in the direction of any of those places. Anyway, in the spirit of Birdcrew even though I just lurk, I thought, with intention "I see you."

Light turns green, I take my eyes off this thing for maybe a second and a half to watch the road as I crossed the intersection and when I looked back up it was gone. Nothing at all in the sky, no clouds, no other "stars," nothing. When I pulled into my driveway a minute or two later I scanned the whole sky I could see and there was just nothing out there.

So, having been trying to be more open to the idea in general and hoping to see something, I saw something.

Theotus posted:

Thank you. Nice to actually have content. I downloaded the noise tapes because of you guys. Haven't really delved into that whole thing yet, but it sounds wild.

Riot Bimbo posted:

even if it's about wacky woo poo poo, from their pov it's entirely about power and optics

like if aliens are here and visiting, and it's meat puppet aliens w/ all the evolutionary material trimmings, that still undermines power structures in a significant way. government legitimacy, economic legitimacy would be dead as gently caress, and power brokers would rather take the world down in a torrent of flames and gamma radiation than ever allow that.

if there's psychic/woo stuff then like yeah, having the media control channels disseminate info about that, even with hooks and caveats that would control the majority, suddenly dumps a ton of power into the hands of people they would, again, rather blow up the planet than share power with, so it's like... yeah there has to be people invested in keeping this box lid tightly shut even as it leaks

Sleekly posted:

randonautica

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.randonautica.app

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I want to be married to space

Theotus posted:

So I saw something today.

Right after work at around 5:10pm I leave my house to do a quick run to a corner store for beer and a nearby grocery store to grab cat litter on the way back home. Probably like a two and a half mile round trip. Nights are starting to get shorter around here now so it was still plenty bright out, didn't even need to have headlights on yet. The grocery store is within walking distance from my house, maybe like 10 blocks total. I'm idling at a stop light on my street, maybe six blocks straight shot from home. As I'm sitting at the red I notice almost directly at 12 o'clock just at the top of my windshield is a star. It's bright yellow in a completely cloudless sky and it seemed to be lazily meandering toward 6 o'clock.

This street light generally takes forever since it's on an intersection of one of the main roads in town so I had like 10-15 seconds to watch it. At first I thought it was a plane, so I was looking for secondary lights or something, but it was either too high up or too far away for me to pick any of that up. It was also moving way too slow.

Town has a local airport and you see a lot of air traffic from a nearby military base, and it's not far to the Seatac airport, but this thing wasn't heading in the direction of any of those places. Anyway, in the spirit of Birdcrew even though I just lurk, I thought, with intention "I see you."

Light turns green, I take my eyes off this thing for maybe a second and a half to watch the road as I crossed the intersection and when I looked back up it was gone. Nothing at all in the sky, no clouds, no other "stars," nothing. When I pulled into my driveway a minute or two later I scanned the whole sky I could see and there was just nothing out there.

So, having been trying to be more open to the idea in general and hoping to see something, I saw something.

Fly Ricky posted:

Thanks! No idea if it’s complete bunk, but in my single use anecdotal sample it surprisingly came up with something rather symbolic related to my intention.

Theotus posted:

So I saw something today.

Right after work at around 5:10pm I leave my house to do a quick run to a corner store for beer and a nearby grocery store to grab cat litter on the way back home. Probably like a two and a half mile round trip. Nights are starting to get shorter around here now so it was still plenty bright out, didn't even need to have headlights on yet. The grocery store is within walking distance from my house, maybe like 10 blocks total. I'm idling at a stop light on my street, maybe six blocks straight shot from home. As I'm sitting at the red I notice almost directly at 12 o'clock just at the top of my windshield is a star. It's bright yellow in a completely cloudless sky and it seemed to be lazily meandering toward 6 o'clock.

This street light generally takes forever since it's on an intersection of one of the main roads in town so I had like 10-15 seconds to watch it. At first I thought it was a plane, so I was looking for secondary lights or something, but it was either too high up or too far away for me to pick any of that up. It was also moving way too slow.

Town has a local airport and you see a lot of air traffic from a nearby military base, and it's not far to the Seatac airport, but this thing wasn't heading in the direction of any of those places. Anyway, in the spirit of Birdcrew even though I just lurk, I thought, with intention "I see you."

Light turns green, I take my eyes off this thing for maybe a second and a half to watch the road as I crossed the intersection and when I looked back up it was gone. Nothing at all in the sky, no clouds, no other "stars," nothing. When I pulled into my driveway a minute or two later I scanned the whole sky I could see and there was just nothing out there.

So, having been trying to be more open to the idea in general and hoping to see something, I saw something.

Riot Bimbo posted:

I'm in that area, where were you relative to seatac? approximates are more than fine and you don't gotta get into it if you don't wanna; I'm just a few miles from seatac and usual air traffic deffo follows a few set paths; though boeing field is the bigger nuisance for me~

Sleekly posted:

randonautica

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.randonautica.app

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

More Lue's clues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EMP71LF1JE&t=1s


he namedrops remote viewing and psychic stuff again so I'm of no doubt Lue believes in the interconnected stuff

endocriminologist posted:

Rime posted:

I have been screaming this from the rooftops everywhere, but anyone interested should immediately pick up a copy of David Graebers magnum opus: "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity". I am on my second run through of the audiobook version in a month and the cases he makes are so brutally compelling. It is CSPAM as gently caress.

endocriminologist posted:

endocriminologist posted:

Rime posted:

I have been screaming this from the rooftops everywhere, but anyone interested should immediately pick up a copy of David Graebers magnum opus: "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity". I am on my second run through of the audiobook version in a month and the cases he makes are so brutally compelling. It is CSPAM as gently caress.

Synopsis of it: All of human history as it is presented to us has been carefully curated to support the status quo of power structures as they developed in the west within the past 400 years. Specifically rigidly hierarchical consumer-capitalist class systems with little mobility or legitimate freedom for individuals within them.

Everything you think you know about human history, from Gobleki Tepe, to the First Nations of North America, to the Egyptians, to the Inca, right up to the middle ages, has been at best deliberately misrepresented and at worst outright fabricated to serve as foundational propaganda for our civilization. A civilization wherein, for the first time in human history, elites have absolute inviolable control over the lives of everyone below them. It is also a civilization visibly unwinding, as historically these societies have always collapsed far sooner than their non-hierarchical counterparts.

Seriously, pick it up right the gently caress now, it is breathtaking.

endocriminologist posted:

Slavvy posted:

Where my brain goes after that is: if you had the classic spaceship landing on the whitehouse lawn scenario, and the UAP's are psionically active in some way, what would happen to the fabric of reality when everyone wakes up to an all-channels blitz about the aliens being real and here? Maybe this is the reaction Lue et al are concerned about - not PR or public opinion or political stability, but reality itself being altered by billions of people's minds being blown at the same time.

Barry Foster posted:

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/12/17/the-dawn-of-everything-gets-human-history-wrong/

what do you make of the critiques here? I'm defo gonna get the softback when it comes out in June, but wound up reading this in the meantime (I know it's weird to read criticism before the text itself!)

EDIT here's a full version of the first review - the full version makes its points a lot more clearly/better

https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything/

endocriminologist posted:

endocriminologist posted:

D-Pad posted:

For the randonautica stuff it's important to mention what your intention was because that's where the really weird part comes in. When it frequently sends you to somewhere that is spot on for your intention.

Check this out:
https://twitter.com/Debriefmedia/status/1496515262128046085?t=21NeZO8HPfCpYRuxC3SZNA&s=19

Ok so a study of one but the anecdotal data is as big as UAPs so maybe something really is there. What is super interesting to me is that there is zero evolutionary reason for such a thing to be pre-programmed in a human brain. So why is it there? The only answers I can come up with (assuming this study holds up) involve things I don't necessarily believe in.

quote:

I decided to do an attractor (an attractor is a point determined from a cluster of QRNG points) chain (a chain is simply setting an attractor, traveling to it, and setting a new attractor from that location, traveling to that one, repeat as many times as you like) from a radius of 1000m from my then apartment.

I set off to the first point and there wasn't much of note there. It was under an overpass with train tracks and there was a mural there with an Indian chief and a train. I set my next location.

Bright colors, rainbows, butterflies, and owls (the significance of this, if you choose to ascribe it, is the frequency with which rainbows, butterflies, and especially owls turn up during randonauting as reported on the sub and in chats; but to me it's too tenuous to ascribe more meaning than is due) murals dot the path on my walk to the next location. I arrive at the actual point.

Bumpkiss! Nothing of note really whatsoever. The point itself couldn't be reach as it was behind a tall fence, nothing of interest was near the point nor did any interesting events unfold (also a possibility). I set my next point.

I'm taken to a strange little section of the city, not much traveled by foot given its locale. I'm across the street from the point and spot a cup tucked in a warped fence, as if the fence were cupholder. I thought it random and interesting and snapped a picture (I have to dig it up so not including here out of laziness, I promise it's not that interesting). But the point itself was across the street and there at the point I saw a restaurant called Restaurant. Very curiously the restaurant shared a building with a tire shop on its left and a car wash on its right. The large windows were dark, though it was daytime, and the interior unilluminated so I couldn't see inside. Naturally I had to go in, needing to resist my trepidation to do so. I resolved to get a water, it was a hot day, and went inside.

The inside was dark and there were long buffet tables with empty trays. There was no one behind the counter. It was empty save for two women seated across from each other in the middle of the restaurant at a circular table having a conversation in Spanish (I'm fluent). The one on the left had a red patterned skirt, she appeared to be in her 40s and, curiously for her age, she had a labret piercing. The other woman was quite simple and nothing about her stood out, she was of a similar age to the other woman. Now the women there on the left, appearing to me like something of a witch, addressed me:

"You cut your hair!"

And I had, in fact, cut my hair. Just the day before. So this really took me by surprise. It seemed impossible that she would not only know this but say it as the first words from her lips, with a familiarity that was, of course, unwarranted. I responded with the same confusion I felt:

"How do you know that?"

She said, "Your hair was so long! And now you've cut it!"

And this, too, was true. I had, until a year and a half prior, donned waist-length long hair, which I cut after five years for a corporate position. I wondered if I knew her, or if she knew me, and I simply did not recognize her.

"Yes, I cut it a while ago now. But I did also have a haircut yesterday."

She looked at me curiously, "No, you must've just cut it. I saw you earlier this week!"

I was sweating from the heat and humidity outside, although the restaurant was cool enough. I went to the cooler behind her and grabbed a water before joining them at the table. We kept talking and trying to figure this thing out.

It so happened, we discovered during this brief conversation, that I was the spitting image of a young man they knew, who worked in the area and visited them regularly. It took them so long to realize I was not him, about five minutes, and they remained puzzled although seemingly nonplussed and jovial. Eventually they agreed I was not, in fact, this other person. All they said was, "You are just like him. Exactly like him. But his eyes are lighter," which they could now tell, being sat near me.

I paid for the water, thanked them, and left.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

So this is a recurrence sort of thing and your consciousness is returning to the source, taking with it the nice moments to enrich the collective us

e:
I mean to say, if there's any semblance of a reality to nonlocality why would it not be conceivable that our atoms are paired and born from a centralized consciousness
like our lives are just little instances broken off from the source and periodically reconnected like a 5g signal syncing

Barry Foster posted:

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/12/17/the-dawn-of-everything-gets-human-history-wrong/

what do you make of the critiques here? I'm defo gonna get the softback when it comes out in June, but wound up reading this in the meantime (I know it's weird to read criticism before the text itself!)

EDIT here's a full version of the first review - the full version makes its points a lot more clearly/better

https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything/

The Protagonist posted:

yea for sure man for sure






























it could also still be blind chaos, terminal, fleeting and meaningless