08-25-2024, 01:07 AM
Some of you may remember me from ATS if that's where many are coming from. I had many tens of thousands of posts back there, even if it was usually just my failing to take anything seriously that drove me to leave most comments and contribute just a little with a lot of sarcasm and stupidity; that's just who I am. I am a Greek-American guy who was schooled in Greece, France, Spain, and the US and then I returned to Greece for college where I got multiple degrees and advanced degrees, something I wouldn't even recommend young people do any longer, college these days is just a waste of a whole lot of money and you will be brainwashed and receive an education that people my age were getting at 10 and 12 years old.
I am an expert pianist and harpist and have played since I was 3 1/2 and have played in bars and cruise ships all over the world.
By both hobby and profession, I am an avid linguist, philologist, translator, etymologist, and polyglot. I adore language, I love grammar, and I speak Greek, English and French fluently as well as Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, and Ancient Greek. I can understand almost everything in Catalan, Aragonese, Galicia, Aranese, Asturian, Occitan, Provençal, Savoyard, Griko, Calabria Greek, Lombard, Piedmontese, Limousine, Venetan, Tuscan, Romanian, Friulian, Corsican, Pontic, Tsakonian, Cretan, Thrakian, and a few others. I can't speak them or write them, but I know enough to understand these languages when I read them.
My aunt was a well known expert in medieval dialects of several languages, their middle versions and literature, and she was perfectly fluent in their modern tongues, speaking about 15 when she died and working on her 16th. Her work has been published many times.
On the other side of my family, our claim to fame is having the famous BETZ family who are known for finding the alien like Betz sphere in the forests around their property, the Betz Castle.
Another claim to fame, my family lives in Patmos castle in Greece and cares for the cave in which St. John the Theologian wrote Revelations, the last book of the Bible.
My final claim to fame is that a 23 And Me test that was taken in my family led us to the discovery that much of my family isn't really my family. Just three years ago, we learned that in reality, I come from my great-grandfather, the murderer, and my grandfather, the serial killer. He was executed some time back and nothing interesting or "neat" has come from it as I imagined it would have, were I ever in such a situation. Just heartache, probably because of who his favorite victims were.
Something interesting about me is that I have loved ghost stories my whole life, as well as tales of aliens or paranormal mysteries. I would always come back to the conclusion, upon contemplation though, that everything was certainly a case of mistaken identity or people simply having a need for attention. That is until one night outside of my home in Phoenix, I walked outside and was met by about 30 or 40 brilliant glowing orbs of every color imaginable. They danced around like a fairy would and even circled me in seeming interest. After about two minutes, they stopped flitting back and forth and just froze for a second before they all went perfectly straight up into the sky and disappeared amongst the stars. We don't even have FIREFLIES here so I know it wasn't mistaken identity and anyways, I had never seen such brilliant colors or lights. I obviously had the same experience that many people in the past have had who called the phenomenon the Willow'th'Wisps. I don't know if they were alien, or magic, or interdimensional, but they were there with my naked eye and they were not normal. I never thought I would have a paranormal experience of my own, but it took that experience for my entire way of thinking to change and the possibilities that actually experiencing something like that myself brought a perspective into my world that would not have been possible without seeing it myself. And of course, I had one of the experiences that are IMPOSSIBLE to communicate and that nobody believes. That is a really crappy fact about experiencing such a rare and seldom experienced phenomenon, but it was an incredibly unmistakeable phenomenon too without anything even close to a natural explanation. So it was great for me, and depressingly impossible to convince others of for me. But it has opened my mind to things that were strictly science-fiction before that night; a night when everything changed.
I guess that is all! I doubt there was anything much in this introduction anyone gives a rats bottom about. But here I am again, just so you know.
I am an expert pianist and harpist and have played since I was 3 1/2 and have played in bars and cruise ships all over the world.
By both hobby and profession, I am an avid linguist, philologist, translator, etymologist, and polyglot. I adore language, I love grammar, and I speak Greek, English and French fluently as well as Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, and Ancient Greek. I can understand almost everything in Catalan, Aragonese, Galicia, Aranese, Asturian, Occitan, Provençal, Savoyard, Griko, Calabria Greek, Lombard, Piedmontese, Limousine, Venetan, Tuscan, Romanian, Friulian, Corsican, Pontic, Tsakonian, Cretan, Thrakian, and a few others. I can't speak them or write them, but I know enough to understand these languages when I read them.
My aunt was a well known expert in medieval dialects of several languages, their middle versions and literature, and she was perfectly fluent in their modern tongues, speaking about 15 when she died and working on her 16th. Her work has been published many times.
On the other side of my family, our claim to fame is having the famous BETZ family who are known for finding the alien like Betz sphere in the forests around their property, the Betz Castle.
Another claim to fame, my family lives in Patmos castle in Greece and cares for the cave in which St. John the Theologian wrote Revelations, the last book of the Bible.
My final claim to fame is that a 23 And Me test that was taken in my family led us to the discovery that much of my family isn't really my family. Just three years ago, we learned that in reality, I come from my great-grandfather, the murderer, and my grandfather, the serial killer. He was executed some time back and nothing interesting or "neat" has come from it as I imagined it would have, were I ever in such a situation. Just heartache, probably because of who his favorite victims were.
Something interesting about me is that I have loved ghost stories my whole life, as well as tales of aliens or paranormal mysteries. I would always come back to the conclusion, upon contemplation though, that everything was certainly a case of mistaken identity or people simply having a need for attention. That is until one night outside of my home in Phoenix, I walked outside and was met by about 30 or 40 brilliant glowing orbs of every color imaginable. They danced around like a fairy would and even circled me in seeming interest. After about two minutes, they stopped flitting back and forth and just froze for a second before they all went perfectly straight up into the sky and disappeared amongst the stars. We don't even have FIREFLIES here so I know it wasn't mistaken identity and anyways, I had never seen such brilliant colors or lights. I obviously had the same experience that many people in the past have had who called the phenomenon the Willow'th'Wisps. I don't know if they were alien, or magic, or interdimensional, but they were there with my naked eye and they were not normal. I never thought I would have a paranormal experience of my own, but it took that experience for my entire way of thinking to change and the possibilities that actually experiencing something like that myself brought a perspective into my world that would not have been possible without seeing it myself. And of course, I had one of the experiences that are IMPOSSIBLE to communicate and that nobody believes. That is a really crappy fact about experiencing such a rare and seldom experienced phenomenon, but it was an incredibly unmistakeable phenomenon too without anything even close to a natural explanation. So it was great for me, and depressingly impossible to convince others of for me. But it has opened my mind to things that were strictly science-fiction before that night; a night when everything changed.
I guess that is all! I doubt there was anything much in this introduction anyone gives a rats bottom about. But here I am again, just so you know.
