The General Discussion Thread

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Okay as an experiment here it is. Discuss your favourite generals here!

Well perhaps… Really this is simply the place to post news-items, fun-items or whatever takes your fancy. In short just post what you want here.

It’s just another wee experiment – comments welcome.

Squonk.

[Image: General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett (Stephen Fry)]

17,285 thoughts on “The General Discussion Thread

  1. Itsy

    Sqounk Allows Much.. Space.. Aurora…Cosmos……Climate…………………………And Much Else

    P.s Good to see ya Hereaboots

  2. Mark issues alarm similar to Trowbridge. Something seems afoot. Trowbridge; are you there?

  3. Trowbridge, if you read this, use a friend’s computer, or a library or cafe computer or something, let us know what happened…

    Ben, who’s Mark?

  4. Did you know there was a proposal to use nuclear bombs to excavate a second Panama Canal?

    “Report of the Atlantic–Pacific transoceanic canal study commission”, Congressional Record: proceedings & debates of the 90th Congress, second session (message from the President), Senate (Washington, DC, US: Congress), 1968-09-05, p. 25747,

    “The collection of data was substantially completed on Route 17 in Panama one of the routes considered for nuclear excavations… The Atomic Energy Commission has recently conducted the first two of the planned series of nuclear excavation experiments designed to determine the feasibility of nuclear excavation of a sea level canal.”

  5. “I say we lift and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure”.

    But they’d reckoned without Spunkmire.

  6. Clark; Is it just you and I now? Is it the mouthwash or deodorant? Traffic @ CM is quite brisk even as the thread ages and I’m not sure what your issue with his site might be.

    Starting to put the jigsaw together on human origins. It begins to make sense as I draw lines from dot-to-dot. It seems there are three main species with unknown number of sub species. Those who share our chromes protect us from competitors who don’t have our best interests at heart (Grays and Reptilian). We’re all still in the nursery. Not even in pre-school yet.

  7. Speaking of Nukes….http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.mahabsynop.htm

    Preparations for War

    Arjuna then leaves, aiming for the highest mountains to look for the celestial weapons they will need during the war. He meets the god Shiva who gives him powerful weapons. Arjuna then spends five years with his father the divine Indra learning to use the weapons fighting demons.

    Meanwhile Karna decides he too must acquire a celestial weapon, so for many months he serves a powerful brahmin, Parasurama, who hates warriors. As a reward, he bestows upon Karna, whom he takes to be a servant, a formula for the supreme weapon. But Karna reveals himself to be a warrior by an excess of bravery, as he does not cry out when a worm bores a hole into his thigh. Parasurama curses him so he will forget the secret formula at the moment he wishes for the weapon, and that will be the moment of his death.

    In the Medieval Puranas, Parasurama becomes one of the avatars of Vishnu, but there is no indication of that aspect in the epic.
    Karna later meets Indra (Arjuna’s divine father) in the disguise of a brahmin. Having sworn never to refuse a brahmin’s request, he agrees to surrender his divine covering of golden armor given him at birth. He tears off the armor from his skin, bleeding, and trades it for another mighty weapon, which will kill any being but can only be used once.

  8. Oh, and mythologies about giant humans exist throughout cultures. Nephilim, Titans, the epic of Gilgamesh. Where are the bones of these genetic experiments? Down the Portal I guess.

  9. Ben,

    There seems to be a temporary issue with the Akismet anti-spam system. If it can’t contact the spam database to clear a comment it automatically puts it into the mod queue until it can verify it.

  10. Yes if it can’t check something isn’t spam it assumes it could be and leaves it for a moderator to decide or it to regain contact with its remote spam database – whichever comes first.

  11. Ben, 4:29 pm

    Oh, and mythologies about giant humans exist throughout cultures […] Where are the bones of these genetic experiments?

    Well there have been plenty of smaller humans; just walk around the City Walls of York, and mind your head! Maybe the “giants” were merely what we think of as normal-sized.

  12. You haven’t read Gilgamesh have you Clark? It’s interesting that many of the former locations of these hybrids were were the most remote areas of the Earth. Rapa Nui and the pre-historic Colorado River zone to name two. If you were doing genetic experiments ongoing, you would protect your cultures from contamination I would think.

  13. And I’m not referring to the Maori when I talk about giants.

    Many myths have a foundation of facts.

  14. it’s rumored Buffalo Bill found a huge femur bone….the benefactors missed one.

    Disappearing peoples is not new. Three million Mayans still unaccounted for after their calendar countdown….as though they were waiting to leave. Portal? It seems cultures fascinated with the Pleiades dominate the disappearances.

  15. Big thanks to Squonk for his willingness to tolerate most extremes. It’s quite a huge burden both socially, legally and spiritually for any host. I don’t give Craig enough credit but he has an entourage in the wings so it is muted more.

    In past times civilized cultures had something called Cities of Refuge, wherein the unjustly persecuted, upon reaching the hallowed ground, were immune from attack from any.

    Squonk is a kind of City of Refuge. Thanks.

  16. Hi guys, I’m back.

    Had problems with my laptop, and with Comcast which apparently cut off my Wi-Fi network in order to upgrade its service.

    Thanks for your efforts. Really felt funny not to be able to use the computer for three days.

  17. Trowbridge, good to know you’re OK and back on-line. I still keep dial-up modems in the house so I can get on-line if the broadband fails. It’s not that I mind being off-line, it’s more the principle of the thing. The whole ethos of the Internet is that it should be available whenever local comms performance equals or exceeds two tin cans and a piece of string:

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149


  18. (c) Firefly cryptography. A random signal (mason jar
    full of fireflies) is used to encipher the transmitted
    signal by optical combining. At the receiving site,
    another jar of fireflies is used to decipher the
    message. Since the correlation between the transmitting
    and receiving firefly jars is essentially nil, the
    probability of successful decipherment is quite low,
    yielding a very low effective transmission rate.

  19. Weather patterns here continue to confound weather forecasters. I won’t be surprised if one is found hanging from a cell-tower.

    Planted pole bean and corn seed directly in soil to compare to effort and time in germinating. Corn popping up after only two weeks from stasis, whereas the slightly above freeze off of musk melon and cukes sprouted like roma tomatoes from seed and under heat mat with lights 24/7…..24% survival on those. I think it’s clear that seed straight into soil is best.

    If only cannabis seeds were so cheap and available.

  20. Some should tell me if my alliteration is annoying. I don’t know how I could break the pattern, as I grew it from seed, so there’s that….

  21. People seeking evidence for biblical history seem to push the envelope brian. We have many strange cultures we know little of.

  22. That’s for sure Ben

    I have Two books that reside by my bed Eternally, and when not sleeping well I grab one and flick open any page… Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, and Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Almost Everything

    I remember being Amazed at the Story / theory for early humans arrival in Australia, Which is reckoned to be at least 55.000 years ago, the thing i found most interesting was that some experts think that humans could not speak in order to communicate, to both Build ocean going vessels, and then make the voyage …
    Oh for a time machine 🙂

  23. Brian; My thing is to meditate at the Pacific shore to feel the Great OM( for lack of a better word). Small waves on the shore seem to speak words, but it is my subconscious, freely associating. When alone in the woods or the beach I feel a presence, as though someone interested in my destiny keeps me close. Narcissism? Maybe. But it is an unshakeable feeling; almost tangible.

  24. I first noticed the Presence at age 19 with 500 mics of pure L. Sometimes it was strong enough so that it almost felt like a breeze were flowing around my head, even though leaves on trees were not even rustling. It filled me with an overpowering feeling of being loved which made me love in return. I still feel it and it’s been over 40 years since I dropped. Not as profound of course, but I contrast it with my organized religious phase where such feelings were absent in spite of earnest searching and sacrifice.

  25. Oh….OT. I forgot about Carlos Castaneda, the so-called anthropologist who went to Mexico to do his PHd on…..? I don’t remember. But I do remember his unorthodox approach to objective reporting. 🙂

    However….the insights into the world of brujo magic is close to Mayan/Aztec Cosmology and Castaneda reveals a science that predates ours. Years before String Theory his interviewee Don Juan Matus talked about how everything is connected by strings of the World. The goal of every brujo is to escape this world through the magicians arts. Sometimes even whole groups of brujo/brujas enter the Eagle’s World together. Where did the Anasazis go?

  26. Clarke’s first law

    When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

    Clarke’s second law

    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

    Clarke’s third law

    ANY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.

  27. “Shamans and shamanic practices are rarely found in Pueblo society. True shamans usually belong to nomadic cultures. Shamans seek visions for healing, warfare, finding game, predicting the future, etc. Shamans may be marked from an early age by physical deformities, epileptic seizures, and/or hallucinations.They use intoxicants, hypnotic chanting, prolonged dancing, or pain to reach the spirit world and communicate with spirits on behalf of their people. There is evidence that ancestral Pueblos occasionally sought visions– seeds of the hallucinogenic Datura plant were recovered from a kiva at Mesa Verde, and some pottery vessels imitate Datura seed pods– but vision quests are not now considered part of traditional Pueblo culture.

    By contrast, Pueblo religious specialists draw wisdom from inherited traditions rather than from ecstatic visions. They are often chosen by family lineage. Their power comes from their responsibility for ceremonies, their initiation into religious societies, and their possession of secret knowledge.They are expected to be exemplary members of the community. Pueblo priests bring rain through ceremony and prayer. Like shamans, they are thought to have a special level of communication with the spirits and deities through their profession and personal character.

    Spirit beings called Kachinas (or Katsinas) are important within all modern Pueblo villages. Kachinas are ancestor spirits who bring rain, and who appear as masked dancers in Pueblo villages during the summer. The earliest trace of kachina imagery in rock art appears in west Texas, southern New Mexico, and central Arizona. However, the archaeological record indicates that the concept of kachinas came relatively late into the Pueblo world. There is no evidence of them at communities in Colorado and Utah during the 1200s and before.”

    http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc/who_were_the_anasazi.html#who

    Fuck me. Why does it seem humans get dumber rather than smarter after eons?

  28. BTW; Datura was the prime means of disturbing the reality of the subject in the Castaneda series. It was variously called Kannickanik or Jimson Weed and is prevalent throughout the Southwest US. At one point Don Juan made a paste of the root and smeared it over his subject who subsequently experienced the effect of flying great distances in short periods (astral body stuff). Hyperbolic, but pregnant with symbolism and the synchronicity I adore.

  29. Squonk; Love the true freedom of the linguistic palette. No reprobation for wild and lunar escapades into the netherworlds of aberrant thought.

    It’s like my dream of flying over the Cascades as a Bald Eagle, a fat one smoldering in my beak…one day at a time.

  30. While I’m taking advantage, let me say something to my sons…..

    Find your essence and immerse yourself in same.

    You only need one true friend who pledges to unfailingly tell you the truth.

    Find reasons to love yourself.

    If you like food, become a chef.

    If you become a chef, make it organic.

    For you is wishes for happiness, and for that happiness, there must be a search for knowledge.

    That is all. Carry on.

  31. Cheers For the link Ben

    Much to pour through in there.

    The Shamans remind me of the Sheer Physical powers of some peoples…namely the Tibetan, and Shaolin Monks. amazing superhuman feats using Chi energy ( Ki in Japan ) I’m certain that Reiki Healing Originated in Tibet too. I haven’t practiced Reiki for a while now.. it sure works though

    Yes Clarke’s Laws How correct Eh… Re the Third Law

    You may also have Heard of the Kardashev Scale .. The Very first Level of which We have yet to reach –

    The Kardashev Scale –

    Type Level of Energy Control

    I ) Absolute control over a planet’s energy.

    II ) Domination of stellar energy (e.g., Dyson’s sphere).

    III ) Galactic civilization where several stars are controlled.

    IV ) Space-time manipulation

    I’m Level ( V ) 🙂

  32. Brian; Speaking of energy control have you considered the Van Allen Belt? Some see it as a living thing which pulsates as needed to thwart radiation. It’s as though someone who understands how things work has an answer.

    I figured you for level 5 but aren’t there 10 levels? 🙂

  33. I say all this with some humility toward any deity laying claim to the consequences of causality just to save my worthless fucking ass !!! 🙂

  34. I haven’t Seen that new Van Allen belt news Ben…but the Belts crop up all ze time with the “Cant travel Through them” Brigade.. I fell deeply that the Earth Breathes.. in a few ways. Cheers for the Link

    Level X is rubbish Ben… Them fuckers gather up ENTIRE Universe’s and play Strange Ball games… My head kept getting all Dizzy. Lol

    And no you aint worthless, Nor is Clark or Any of our friends ..

    I came across a cool project over you’re ( Neck of the woods ) as we say hereabouts… May be worth supporting ..if ya feel inclined

    Gangsta Gardener Fights Food Deserts

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvHRA951ps

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