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News Briefs 17-04-2014

By red pill junkieon

Happy Zombie Jesus Day Easter!

Thanks, Susan & Robbie.

Quote of the Day:

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”

~Ram Dass

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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  1. Talking Coneheads
    The royal family engendered entire tribes of non-royal subjects (e.g., King Tut was father of the Rechabites), so the theory that the offspring of “squill-headed” people and non-dolichocephalic types would be infertile seems quite misguided.

    At the bottom of the page about the coneheads there is also an article titled: “Tests show mummy is King Tut’s father”.

    The article agrees with the Hawass team that DNA tests “prove” that Tut’s father was Akhenaten, however this conclusion is a non-sequitur. Last year, an excellent book was written on the controversy called The Shadow King by Jo Marchant. I highly recommend it for those who want to know the full story of the DNA testing and its analysis.

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-King-Bizarre-Afterlife/dp/0306821338

    I liked the book so much I even posted the following review on Amazon:

    Jo Marchant’s book is a tour de force of Tut scholarship. After all the controversy over the DNA testing of Tut and his close royal relations, an objective voice of reason has finally emerged. This book does not pull punches. Academic biases, especially concerning the KV55 mummy (the father of Tut according to the DNA results), are clearly identified and explained. Specifically, the author concludes that this mummy is most certainly NOT that of Akhenaten, no matter how badly the investigators might wish it to be. And if that were not enough, the author also offers fresh new insight by pointing out that the most significant evidence related to Tut’s death has been overlooked by all of the modern investigators. The mummy of Tut is missing its sternum and much of its ribs/chest, which indicates that Tut’s death was one of the most violent of any pharaoh. However, the violence to his body was not entirely unique among contemporary mummies. The mummy of the “Younger Lady” (Tut’s mother according to the DNA results) had a horribly shattered jaw, and the author cites the work of German Egyptologist Hermann Schlogl that it should be associated with Queen Nefertiti, and no matter how badly most other investigators would like to avoid that particular identification.

    1. We come from France!
      The reason I chose to include the conehead link, is because I suspect that inside Karen Hudes’s big haystack of crazy there may be a needle of truth.

      The idea that there was a different humanoid species who created an advanced sea-faring civilization in the past & went extinct –or almost, according to Hudes– is interesting, and worth keeping our mental ‘gray basket’.

  2. Not in Tyson’s Corner
    The remake of the Cosmos series definitely caught my attention, but it wasn’t what I hoped/expected. Neil deGrasse Tyson does capture Carl Sagan’s arrogance as a narrator, I grant it that much. He also comes across as extremely condescending. The whole production amounts to propaganda aimed at brainwashing grade school children into believing that scientists know best. Adults should be put off by it.

    1. Scientists know best
      I kind of disagree. There’s been times when Neil has admitted in the show that scientists don’t know everything & have been proven wrong in the past. What he DOES insist on is that Science is the best tool to understand Nature & Reality, and I’m sure we Grailers would take him to task in that assertion 😉

      There are some things I certainly don’t like a lot about the show –needless atheist propaganda for example– but I also understand Neil is doing this remake as a reaction to the anti-science sentiment reigning in the United States right now. He feels that by instilling in young minds a sense of wonder about Nature, he’ll help revert the process.

      I think he may be wrong. I think the anti-science sentiment is one of many symptoms indicating that the reign of the American empire is over; and maybe even the entire Western civilization as we understand it, is at an end.

      “An era can be said to be over, when its basic illusions are exhausted”

      ~Arthur Miller

      To me, the basic illusion that materialistic science can fit all the pieces together is the one that’s about to be exhausted.

      1. Science Damage Control
        Grad students in science and engineering in American universities are increasingly coming from other countries. Very few Americans are still willing to make the lifestyle sacrifice necessary to pursue a PhD in these fields. So, when the foreigners stop coming to American schools, then yes it’s probably over. Also, the American system is so averse to risk-taking and to the development of new theories that gaining a PhD is becoming pointless. A PhD dissertation is supposed to significantly advance knowledge or the state-of-the-art. Instead, it now involves only the refinement of existing theories and technologies.

        I was so turned off by the new Cosmos series that I didn’t make it past the first couple of episodes.

        I can recommend another attempt by mainstream scientists to counter the “lunatic fringe” (especially the ever popular Ancient Aliens series). The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved is tastefully done, even if they can’t really solve everything (haha) and the title itself is very much over-blown (if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em).

        http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe/episodes

        I enjoyed all the episodes except for the one titled “Heavenly Destruction”. It didn’t get into specific impact events or dating of impact events, so it was pretty much useless.

          1. Hudes
            Hudes looks an awful lot like a new installment of a slowly incubating psyop that will eventually “out” the ET’s for the purpose of vilifying them as the sole commanders of all that is nasty and illegal in the world, and that would certainly include the rotten international financial system. I remain convinced after scanning the major media shows of late that Werner Von Braun was absolutely correct in predicting that the ET’s (our own black op high tech masquerading as such) will be blamed for what is actually a megalomaniacal New World Order and that the predominant meme will be that there is nothing we paltry homo sapiens can do about it.

          2. Earth to ET: “Give Us a King to Ruler Over Us”
            For me it boils down to the question of whether the Earth is inherently conducive to stable civilization or not?

            If not, then the most reasonable form of government is probably the so-called “kingship model”, in which a small ruling elite keeps the population firmly in check and ensures its own survival through a world-wide Mafioso network. If some or even most of the Earth gets wiped out, then the system can still regenerate from what little is left. Up until the last century, this is how the world functioned. It’s a shock even to myself to concede it.

            If we are entering a stable period, then there is at least the potential for some other (more humane) model of self-sustaining civilization. However, it doesn’t look like we are capable of making the transition on our own. How ironic it would be for humanity to destroy itself from within once the threat from without has ended!

    2. Couldn’t take Sagan Can’t Take Tyson
      I couldn’t bring myself to watch N.D Tyson, having hated what he did when he was on the ruined science show, Nova. His excuse for the problems with the first show, that he was just reading a script that he didn’t write, was shamefully irresponsible.

      I hate science programs centered around the host’s personality, it is inevitably condescending. It also enters the host’s limits, and unfounded assumptions into the show, as it did the original Cosmos. Ann Druyan’s participation (not to mention the odious Seth Macfarlane’s) isn’t likely to distance the show from her known ideological advocacy. The ghost of Sagan is bound to haunt it, and that’s not a good thing as his fan boys insist.

      1. Morgan, the Sagan Alternative
        I really enjoy Morgan Freeman as a narrator of “Through the Wormhole” and “Beyond the Wormhole” series. But, that’s probably because he’s just an amazing actor and human being and not a scientist.

  3. Baby Bump
    [quote=]Saturn has given birth to a new moon –good thing she already had a ring on it…[/quote]

    I see what you did there…

    [quote=]Prof Murray said: “Peggy is trying to make its own way in the world. If it escapes, it has to get past some much larger predecessors and if it avoids them it may still get hit by a meteoric bombardment.[/quote]

    Damn older brothers always stealing your toys 😛

    [quote=]”Babies are safer in the womb but they have to leave sometime – and the paradox is that to get to safety Peggy has to pass between other much larger objects.”[/quote]

    Once she makes it to the first tit she’ll be set for a while.

  5. If Consciousness Isn’t a Physical Entity
    If consciousness isn’t a physical entity, as I’ve come to believe it probably isn’t, then physicists and other scientists who want to pretend it is will come up with something that they call “consciousness” and pretend to have captured it but it won’t really be consciousness. It is likely to be an entirely imaginary entity like the aether that they’ll pretend to have captured and measured but it won’t be there. I suspect that they’ll be able to pretend that they’ve nailed the problem for longer than that confidently measured entity, aether, was held to be there because the necessary discrepancies won’t be observed to lead them away from that illusion.

    1. Oh, and that 4 quark thing
      Whenever they come up with some groovy new thing out of CERN my first question is what use is it and the second one is how much it cost. We’re destroying the biological basis of life and the intellectual basis of an egalitarian democratic culture and we’re spending billions of dollars so the Lords of Creation can take a bit more of the onion skin off of what might be an infinitely regressing onion. I’m more impressed with some science that might keep us from destroying ourselves.

      1. “If we are entering a stable
        “If we are entering a stable period, then there is at least the potential for some other (more humane) model of self-sustaining civilization. However, it doesn’t look like we are capable of making the transition on our own. How ironic it would be for humanity to destroy itself from within once the threat from without has ended!”

        Look at the major chaotic events of the past 20 years beginning with the false flagged Murrah Building bombing – they were nearly all staged by a backstage cabal intent on presenting humanity in precisely the light you mention. It is an illusion – a self fulfilling prophecy. Manipulators from the top of the money power pyramid are intent on portraying the civilization as violent and out of control, but this is largely falsely engineered and staged. Professional agitation has become epidemic.

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