They refer to people who wait in lines to buy the first I Phones and I Pads as "early adopters". They are seen as fools by many since most likely the price will come way down and the design will be streamlined and worked out in later incarnations. Of course some news people like to consider themselves "ahead of the learning curve". Take that episode with Homer Simpson last night. What he learned as "Mr. X" from gossip and imuendo turned out to be the gospel truth in almost all cases. With such a corrupt town as Springfield, it's kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. Even if you're a bad shot you'll most likely hit something. Of course then Homer upped the stakes and began making stuff up entirely. But now he had an early problem because some UFO alien creatures didn't like the truths he had unearthed. So they banished him to an island and put a double or "duffelganger" in his place. Some Romulans say the song "No Reply" by the Beatles is about a duffleganger". Of course sometimes knowing the future ahead of everyone else carried a curse. Do you remember that Star Trek episode where Bones went insane and "leaped back into the past" into the 1930's. And Spock was dispatched to track him down. And Spock was an early "adapter" adapting a vacuum tube age to building an electronic device, where they learn the future. It seems this do gooder woman who had befriended them later hooked up with President Roosevelt and due to her influence Roosevelt negotiated a peace treaty with Hitler, which he broke, and today we're all speaking German. Of course because of this Bones had to restrain himself and allow her to be run over by a car and killed. We've all heard about the Rapture. But in the Bible a lot of questions lie unanswered. For instance there is a line that one translator has "Two men will be in a bed. One will be taken, the other left behind". Does this mean perhaps that gay men could be Saved? Gene Scott would taunt you with this proposition. We don't know where the person "taken" is taken away to "gehena" and destroyed, as other parables, such as the wheat and tares imply, or are they taken to a better place, or perhaps somewhere intedermanate like an island alluded to on that Simpson's episode. Are aliens really watching our every move, monitoring our actions like a gardener overseeing his plants just looking for that first weed that is a threat to take over? What we also can't be clear about is whether a body will be left behind? Will that gay man wake up next to a corpse and figure that AIDS must have gotten his bed partner? And finally there is the duffelganger option where the people in society don't even suspect that something has happened. Like at twenty to five on October 9th. of this year perhaps millions of souls could be swapped out with duffelgangers and nobody suspects. Certainly there were enough movies made in decades gone by about space aliens placing things in people's necks that control them. Some would say, "Well if such a thing were to happen it would be instantly discovered". Not necessarily. Stephen King writes that when really weird things DO happen to a person he does everything he conceivably can with his mind to try and rationalize or explain away what is happening, assuring himself that he's not really going mad. The "early adopter" leads a perilous life in this world.
There was a 7.7 earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia yesterday that might just be an aftershock of the December 2004 9.1 earthquake that set off that tidal wave. They had a tidal wave watch up for just two hours then cancled it. If you look in Wolframalpha.com for earthquakes, you see the three biggest ones this year occurred along the Pacific rim. There was the one in Chile, and the two that occurred just in the past few days. Bible freaks would tell you there is some kind of trend here. My feeling is perhaps our shaker on Sunday will be "It" for a while and we can relax.
Many people are becomming concerned about the progressive militarization of local Police departments. They buy all this surplus military gear like rocket launchers and granades and M 16's and according to Thom Hartman many of the recruits charged with using this cache of weapons don't have any experiance to draw on except for their experiance in the military. I can't imagine it's as bad as Hartmann says. But just remember, you early adopters, that today's jest and exaguration is tomorrow's reality. That's an unnearving thought. Also of course since they have suspended the posse comotadus law in place since after the Civil War, that now the military can turn its guns on its native citizens. Now they want Obama to sign a law that gives the military the right to arrest anybody and detain them indefinitely, for five reasons, but of the five the most frightful is "or any other reason the President deems proper". That all depends who the President is. In former times Christians on the right recoiled at such roomers. Now they just might welcome them. In the past few days they are apparently tightening regulations on when the United States can get into a nuclear exchange with another nation. Apparently is the other nation has no weapons, we won't attack them- - unless they happen to be Iran or North Korea, and in that case you're on your own.
Many ideas for postings I haven't pursued. I was intending to do a Flash Forward of October 9th. of this year where people black out (I had in mind on Easter) and they have visions of October 9th. and they realize these visions all have in common - and that is people missing. I also plan to do a posting on "What 1986 was really like" sometime before the next ice age. But don't expect that one any time soon. Some people whether I invision an extra terrestrial world where like on Star Trek there was a master race that "seeded" nineteen humanoid races that spread throughout the universe. Nothing in the ETI history of myself or Mark would suggest that such a comonality or "starting point for civilization" existed back in the past. Neither myself nor Mark would rule out the probability that MOST of the races "out there" are NOT humanoid but take other bizzare forms that haven't been talked about "by the guides" so to speak. Of course just earlier today I thought I'd review the racial origens and mixes of various peoples. Suffice it to say that it's all based on halves, quarters, and eighths and the like. This is because the divisions as we discuss them are (apparently) dissimilar enough that mixes of races have to be specially genetically bred in a test tube. Also I've thought of describing "Life in the sixth dimension" otherwise known as hyper-space or the psychic dimension. I'd like to do this one. Unfortunately I'm just lacking in information in this department. OK. Tread carefully.
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