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June 10, 2020
Gap Between Rich And Poor: 8th Wonder Of The World
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PARIS—At a press conference Tuesday, the World Heritage Committee officially recognized the Gap Between Rich and Poor as the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” describing the global wealth divide as the “most colossal and enduring of mankind’s creations.”
“Of all the epic structures the human race has devised, none is more staggering or imposing than the Gap Between Rich and Poor,” committee chairman Henri Jean-Baptiste said. “It is a tremendous, millennia-old expanse that fills us with both wonder and humility.”
“And thanks to careful maintenance through the ages, this massive relic survives intact, instilling in each new generation a sense of awe,” Jean- Baptiste added.
The vast chasm of wealth, which stretches across most of the inhabited world, attracts millions of stunned observers each year, many of whom have found its immensity too overwhelming even to contemplate. By far the largest man-made structure on Earth, it is readily visible from locations as far-flung as Eastern Europe, China, Africa, and Brazil, as well as all 50 U.S. states.
“The original Seven Wonders of the World pale in comparison to this,” said World Heritage Committee member Edwin MacAlister, standing in front of a striking photograph of the Gap Between Rich and Poor taken from above Mexico City. “It is an astounding feat of human engineering that eclipses the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, and perhaps even the Great Racial Divide.”
According to anthropologists, untold millions of slaves and serfs toiled their whole lives to complete the gap. Records indicate the work likely began around 10,000 years ago, when the world’s first landed elites convinced their subjects that construction of such a monument was the will of a divine authority, a belief still widely held today.
Though historians have repeatedly disproved such claims, theories still persist among many that the Gap Between Rich and Poor was built by the Jews.
“When I stare out across its astounding breadth, I’m often moved to tears,” said Johannesburg resident Grace Ngubane, 31, whose home is situated on one of the widest sections of the gap. “The scale is staggering—it makes you feel really, really small.”
“Insignificant, even,” she continued.
While numerous individuals have tried to cross the Gap Between Rich and Poor, evidence suggests that only a small fraction have ever succeeded and many have died in the attempt.
Its official recognition as the Eighth Wonder of the World marks the culmination of a dramatic turnaround from just 50 years ago, when popular movements called for the gap’s closure. However, due to a small group of dedicated politicians and industry leaders, vigorous preservation efforts were begun around 1980 to restore—and greatly expand—the age-old structure.
“It’s breathtaking,” said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a longtime champion and benefactor of the rift’s conservation. “After all we’ve been through in recent years, there’s no greater privilege than watching it grow bigger and bigger each day. There may be a few naysayers who worry that if it gets any wider, the whole thing will collapse upon itself and take millions of people down with it, but I for one am willing to take that chance.”
Added Blankfein, “Besides, something tells me I’d probably make it out okay.”
–LINK to original article in THE ONION.
HUMAN STUPIDITY
Quotations from the book by Robert A. Heinlein “Time Enough for Love”…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love
June 9, 2020
METAPHYSICALLY MEDITATIONAL
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I am fascinated with the metaphysically meditational graphic photo-manipulations of Tasmanian artist Cameron Gray. (http://parablevisions.com/)
June 8, 2020
THE INQUISITION LIVES
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The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis (inquiry on heretical perversity), was the “fight against heretics” by several institutions within the justice system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy. Inquisition practices were used also on offences against canon law other than heresy. Before 1100, the Catholic Church had already suppressed heresy, usually through a system of ecclesiastical proscription or imprisonment, but without using torture and seldom resorting to executions. Such punishments had a number of ecclesiastical opponents, although some countries punished heresy with the death penalty.
In the 12th century, to counter the spread of Catharism, prosecution of heretics by secular governments became more frequent. The Church charged councils composed of bishops and archbishops with establishing inquisitions (see Episcopal Inquisition). The first Inquisition was established in Languedoc (south of France) in 1184. In the 13th century, Pope Gregory IX (reigned 1227–1241) assigned the duty of carrying out inquisitions to the Dominican Order. They used inquisitorial procedures, a legal practice common at that time. They judged heresy alone, using the local authorities to establish a tribunal and to prosecute heretics. After 1200, a Grand Inquisitor headed each Inquisition. Grand Inquisitions persisted until the mid 19th century. — (Wikipedia.org)
June 7, 2020
EARTH CRUST DISPLACEMENT
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I recently read the revolutionary book ATLANTIS BENEATH THE ICE, written by Rand and Rose Flem-Ath. The book is about a world-wide legend of a lost civilization. More importantly it reveals the scientific reality of repeated global cataclysms caused by sudden shifts in the crust of Earth. Forget about asteroids — Atlantis, and most of the life forms on Earth, have been wiped out – repeatedly – by a “natural” event that happens over and over again: Earth Crust Displacement. Students of the book Alien Interview will want to read this book. — Lawrence R. Spencer
Albert Einstein spent the last few years of his life corresponding with Charles Hapgood’s on the subject of Earth Crust Displacement. They examined ancient yet highly accurate world maps, including the Piri Reis map of 1513, and show how the earth’s crust shifted in 9600 BCE, dragging Atlantis into the polar zone where it now lies beneath miles of Antarctic ice.
Included in the book is rare material from the archives of Charles Hapgood, Albert Einstein, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Flem-Aths explain how an earth crust displacement could happen again in the future, coincident with high solar activity. With new scientific, genetic, and linguistic evidence in support of Antarctica as the location of long-lost Atlantis, this updated edition convincingly shows that Atlantis was not swallowed by the sea but was entombed beneath miles of polar ice.
In this completely revised and expanded edition of When the Sky Fell, Rand and Rose Flem-Ath show that 12,000 years ago vast areas of Antarctica were free from ice and home to the kingdom of Atlantis, a proposition that also elegantly solves the mysteries of ice ages and mass extinctions, the simultaneous worldwide rise of agriculture, and the source of devastating prehistoric climate change.
From the Cherokee, Haida, and Okanagan of North America to the earliest records of Egypt, Iran, Mexico, and Japan, they reveal that ancient myths of floods, lost island paradises, and visits from advanced godlike peoples from all corners of the globe all point to the same worldwide catastrophe that resulted in Atlantis’s demise. The authors explain how the remaining Atlanteans, amid massive earthquakes and epic floods, evacuated and spread throughout the world.
READ THE BOOK —
GREATEST BLESSING
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( Painting: “Death of A Cyborg” )
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LISTEN TO A SEGMENT OF THE AUDIOBOOK VERSION OF “1001 Things To Do While You’re Dead”
1001 ThingsTo Do While You’re Dead, read by Kendra Hoffman
ETERNAL OPPONENT
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THE FUTURE THAT NEVER WAS
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Here’s the retro-futuristic trailer by the brilliant graphic artist Bradley W. Schenck: “Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual”. The Thrilling Tales web site hosts lightly interactive, densely illustrated stories from Retropolis – the world of the Future That Never Was. The stories can be viewed in their entirety on the web site (with a few nifty web-only features) for free – but they can also be purchased as full color printed books that you can read on the porch, or in the passenger seat (please!) of your flying car.
The first story to appear on the Thrilling Tales web site is “Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves” – Part one of “The Toaster With TWO BRAINS”.
SEE IT HERE: http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/
THIS SITE HAS EARNED THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF APPROVAL FROM
THE ORDER OF OMEGA TIME TRAVEL CULT
