THE COLLECTIVE
 
They came from the fields.  Men, women, children, mothers, fathers, the young, and the old.  Every able-bodied citizen.
 
Pre-dawn was creeping closer.  Soon the twin suns would bring the heat.
 
The agrogeologists and laborers filed out from under the tarp covered fields to return to the safety of their homes.  Thick walled, insulated, prefab identical structures.  All white and sparkling under the morning glow, like a sea of crystal salt poured over boxes all lined up in perfect order.
 
Systematically, one by one, washing off the muck of their labor in sun warmed, crystal clear water, piped from underground aqueducts.  Each home or group complex following the same order.  This is the beginning of the end of their day. 
 
Fresh fruits and vegetables are set out on platters and in bowls.  Individuals and families gather together in picnic style assemblage, laying their sitting mats on the cool floor.  Enjoying conversation of their current interests.  Sometimes they talk of older times, but not often - - as it disrupts the harmony of life as it is today.
 
Soon the sleep meditation will begin.  This is the morning respite.  A time of calmness, tranquility, and rest to relieve aching bodies from the labors they endured tending their fields of growing edibles.  The harvest is months away.  This is a critical time to ensure that plant growth is healthy and abundance assured.
 
Sleep will come.  This is the daily ritual.  The body and mind expect it.  The body responds to the internal Circadian Rhythms.  It is the way of this life, as the suns bake the outside, threatening, but not touching this inner peaceful sanctuary.
 
Later in the day, alarms will sound to awaken the homes of those at rest.  It is a new day, that starts when the suns have passed a safe distance from midday.  This is the time of personal responsibility and education through interactive video programs.  For soon, all will exit their dwellings, and begin the evening social exchanges and festivities.  Each home has a small courtyard in front, with a cooking grill.  There is no cooking within the house, where heat is forbidden.  Each family is responsible for cooking a portion of the feast.  The children and adults alike then visit and mingle among the neighboring homes, choosing delicacies and staples of food from each. 
 
The festivities wind down, with a short siesta following.  Then the workday begins again.
 
THIS IS THE COLLECTIVE.


(If it's not clear -- this is about a new start-up farming colony "collective" established on a new planet)

ANNEE

Good to see so many familiar faces!    

Just know I love you all...   even those I've done battle with on other fronts.

We have a common enemy you know....   THEM    call 'em what you want.    They got a nice little club, and we aren't in it.   

Happy Black Friday, everybody!    Please join me in not spending a penny today!  



My complements on a really nice user interface.

So, astronomers have discovered an extremely high energu particle fallingto Earth and hve named it after Amaratsu a Japanese Sun Goddess.

It's energy has been measured at 240 exa electron volts which is millions of times what the large hadron colider can achieve.  (Exa is 10 with 18 zeros following it)

‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth | Particle physics | The Guardian


it has come from a part of space with not much observable going on, outside the galaxy. What could produce such a massive energy? Its already estimated to be far larger than what could be created by a supernova for instance.

Just like to say a big HELLO to everyone from here in North East England.

Great to see so many familiar faces, and hopefully a few unfamiliar one's too.

This does have the feel of old-school ATS.

Busy, busy day today but I hope to drop in some time later tonight.
Hopefully with a few cold one's and a bit of a catch up.

To date this is one of the most convincing images out there. If it's CGI, it is really good, especially for 2011. 

Good to see some familiar names here. It will be fun to see how this sight evolved.

Wishing everyone and your loved ones, wherever you may be in the Universe, a Safe, Peaceful and Joyous Thanksgiving Celebration.

 

... And careful not to overcook the turkey! 

Hiya.  New to this place.  Are the locals friendly?

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing 60 years ago today.  
Anyone old enough on that day likely has similar memories.
Starting on that horrible day and for the next 3-4 days, the USA and much of the world face the horror in Dallas.

JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history

Ex-Secret Service agent reveals new JFK assassination detail

Where were you?
And who do you think dunnit?

We really need to start this part of the site off with some Patty vids for those new to Cryptozology.
So this is the most recent stabilized HD footage of Patty I could find.
What's people's opinion on Patty after all these years? Was it just a guy in an ape suit or was it an unkown homind?

Nice to join a like minded community and to see some familar names I recognize. 
What a neat and tidy little site you guys have made
I promise not steal anyones tin-foil hat and will make my own this time...

We get our salt off the east coast of Japan, and I really think their is something wrong with the sea salt for the last several years. I'm really concerned about all the tiny ( don't know the science word for it ) tiny particles of plastic that we might be digesting by using this sea salt.

What do you folks think?

I tap myself with trains that connect the world with our body and minds. Long ago the beautiful mind loved kissing and taping trains. She was so unique in her way to connect souls.

Apart from love she found connections from minds to make new minds. Some people call that mine over matter. She calls it minds of love. 

16 years ago the track had a disconnect, she ended up moving her mind into the field of sight. Her green glowing eyes made beautiful contact with new lands, lands of time. 

Her mind drifted into worlds of the unknown love she once had back on earth. She is now bracing time for this new world. Her thoughts were off the chart. 

As she turned around to change time, he once again showed up at her doorstep…

 The moral of this it that the world changes all the time but there is always someone for everyone!

The Historicity of The Kingdom of Israel

Quote:The study does not purport to prove that the United Monarchy of the Israelites described in the Bible was a historical reality. But it shows that the kingdom’s existence and involvement in major construction at Gezer cannot be ruled out, the authors say.

While some archaeologists praised the team’s efforts, others dismissed the study as irrelevant.

Much research in the last four decades has shown that ancient remains scattered around Israel and once attributed to David and Solomon were in fact dated to about a century after the supposed time of their reign – meaning there was no concrete evidence supporting the historicity of their kingdom.

However, some archaeologists have pushed back against this paradigm, unearthing in recent years impressive 10th century B.C.E. remains at different sites, particularly in central and southern Israel, and averring that these may be evidence that David and Solomon’s kingdom did exist after all.

Quote:
Yadin interpreted these standardized Iron Age structures as the hallmark of a strong, centralized state that stretched across the land. The archaeologist promptly assigned them to Solomon, based on the biblical verse that this king built Megiddo, Gezer and Hazor (1 Kings 9:15). The Bible doubles down on this claim specifically for Gezer, saying that Solomon rebuilt it after an unnamed pharaoh set it on fire, and then gifted it to a daughter he gave in marriage to the Israelite king (1 Kings 9:16).

Quote:Accordingly, Finkelstein and others have since assigned these structures to the Omride dynasty, which ruled over the northern Kingdom of Israel (as opposed to its smaller, southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Judah) in the first half of the ninth century B.C.E.


If the city gates were only built a century after the theoretical time of the purported United Monarchy of David and Solomon, then nothing was left to shore up the historicity of the United Monarchy. If David and Solomon did exist, they may have been merely local chieftains ruling over a tiny Jerusalem and little more, according to the scholars in this camp.

Thank you so much for inviting me to the after party. 

Me likey.

Hmm, it seems my posting in Your Message: is going straight to my signature...
What am I doing wrong?

Happy to be here amongst old friends and new acquaintances.

I come in peace with offerings of cookies and lemonade, and a musical interlude…




 

Hi to everyone here. I hope this site takes off and grows. I can't offer much except membership and traffic but every little helps. That's the reason for this post really!

On ATS I just write little rhymes and make the odd comment.  I'm sure I'm not a popular fellow there but it takes all sorts to build a community. I'll find a niche here somewhere!

About me.

I'm just an old guy with seven grandkids. I have a nineteen year old grandson living with me. He has been with me for over four years. It's been a long shift! I had to move home to take care of him. His mum couldn't cope.
I don't have a mobile phone as it made me too accessible and without it I have found some freedom. I just use the laptop and my landline.
I'm a guitar player. I write songs and stuff, that's how I ended up writing little rhymes on ATS.

Sorry about the uninteresting intro but I just wanted to post something on the site. I have a few little poems almost finished so I'll post them on here rather than on ATS. That's just a heads up lol.

If you got this far, thanks for reading!

It seems I have arrived on an unexplored island after a shipwreck. Also, seeing a few familiar names around the tracks is fantastic.

She has written a very challenging book for mainstream theoretical physics.
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/87...ics-Astray

And is in general more a critical person apparently but I totally like that.

Quote:The central strand of Lost in Math is an argument that (some) theoretical physicists and philosophers of science have lost the track of where science ends and philosophy begins. This is potentially damaging. This is not to say that physicists ought not value philosophy, do philosophy, or engage with philosophers. In fact, we theoretical physicists could use philosophers' help in thoroughly understanding the subtle boundary between philosophical assumptions, mathematics, and scientific reasoning at the foundations of physics. Hossenfelder argues that one mechanism by which (some) physicists' delusions developed is through the mathematical formalization of aesthetic ideals over the past several decades. Particular ideals of beauty have become entrenched and even elevated in some circles to constituting solid scientific criteria—able to justify rather than merely to guide scientific work, even in the absence of observational evidence.

HORIZON – A LOVE STORY

Have you ever looked out, over a landscape or body of water, losing yourself in the horizon?  Does it draw you to it like a gateway to a magical realm?  Perhaps it is the thoughts and feelings of other lost souls calling you to join them.

He stood there, on the shore, just on the rise of the sand where the waves of the ocean reached up, but didn’t yet touch at this time of day.

He wore rumpled cargo shorts, and a plaid shirt, only partially buttoned, letting the lower part of his shirt flap in the breeze.  He was well built and tan.  His hair was brownish, but streaked by the sun – telling tales that he came out here often.

His gaze is transfixed on that far-away place at the edge of the world, where dreams meet lost dreams, along with dreams that could have been, but never became. 

Is it coincidence that two damaged souls stand on the same shore, at the same time, a short distance apart, both gazing out at the same horizon? 

She stood back a ways, very much aware of his manly presence, yet lost in her own thoughts of a life, well planned -- gone astray.  She wonders if his and her thoughts, feelings, and pain will find each other, out there – out there, in the magic.  She believes in the magic.

Does he feel it?  Does he sense it?  So many have stood, as he stands now, letting their emotions of love, fear, disappointment, and loneliness drift over time and space to the far off horizon.

They that came, before, experienced the magic in their time by its enchantment.  Now it’s our time, we must recognize it, embrace it, learn from it, use it in moving forward - - to keep the magic alive. 

I shift my gaze from the horizon to where he stands.  My fear of rejection attempts to climb its way to the surface, but the magic is stronger.  I take a step forward in his direction.  I still feel hesitant, but I keep going.

I pick up a shell from the sand.  As I am a writer, I always carry writing material with me.  I take out a sharpie.  I write my name and phone number on the shell.

I’m now standing beside him, both of us focused on the horizon.

I say to him: “Do you think they’re out there, our thoughts, our desires, our pain?  Do you think they find each other in the magic of the horizon? 

He turns, looks soulfully into my eyes, as I intently meet his. 

I reach down taking hold of his hand, placing the shell into it.

Looking back into his eyes I say: “Believe in the magic”.

Then I turn and walk away, believing with all my heart, the magic will follow.

For this thread I will demonstrating the you can apply a Nostradamus prophecy as broadly as a horoscope.

Regardless of why he truly wrote them. Whether inquisition commentary or not, a prophet he is not. Makes me want to stare at bowl of water and fake channel a bunch of vague bullshit too.

So I picked some of the most used ones, and a few others, to tear apart. 

Quote:From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.

Quote:The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.

Quote:The scourges passed the world shrinks,
For a long time peace and populated lands:
One will travel safely by air, land, sea and wave,
Then the wars stirred up anew.

Quote:They will think they have seen the Sun at night
When they will see the pig half-man:
Noise, song, battle, fighting in the sky perceived,
And one will hear brute beasts talking.

Quote:At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

I'm going to try stuff on this thread, if it works, I'll post how I did it.