BTW, speaking of signs, I’ve just finished watching the one and only season of a TV show called “Pure Genius”, which aired from October 2016 to January 2017. The show was about a tech “genius” billionaire who opens a hospital in the San Francisco area and triumphs weekly, over impossible odds against successful patient outcomes, because he “doesn’t play by the rules”.
The show deservedly lasted only a single season and was full of every TV series trope ever - love triangles, relapses after success was seemingly assured, et cetera, but the predictive programming was off the charts:
Bracelets that allowed the hospital to know the location of anyone, staff or patient, with real time medical and biometric information being provided to a “control room” inside the hospital
a tick borne virus, previously unknown to the world, and the potential for “zoonotic spread” to humans from animals
multiple cases of the hospital inventing a cure for various issues and having the FDA testing “getting in the way” - the old “we don’t have time for that” trope
obligatory references to climate change, single sex couple adoption and other various causes celebres
and of course the main character himself, who clearly channelled Elon the Saviour while bouncing between which of the attractive female staffers would be his
I’m sure that someone with far more experience than I would find many more instances of predictive programming and blatant medical propaganda than I did. For instance, there is a strange obessession with the medical bracelets showing a twisted infinity logo that surely means something.
I don’t own a television, having abandoned my two dial (UHF and VHF) Zenith cathode ray tube in a move in 1999, but I do have a lot of shows saved for watching much later - and in most cases, the shows are far most interesting having watched them with the benefit of a decade or so of hindsight rather than when they debuted.
Anyway - the internet tells me that the show is available on all of the usual suspects and of course, like most American media, is available on the galaxy’s most resilient site, whatever that is. :) Have fun decoding!
LOL I wrote the above before watching the final episode. In this episode, they cure a cancer patient by INJECTING DNA NANOBOTS to find and isolate the cancer cells so that the drugs can be targetted to them. This aired in January 2017.
Of course, in real life we know that DNA nanobots don’t exist and even if they did, they couldn’t be targetted to specific proteins to elicit a response in the patient. Cuz that’s just crazy conspiracy theory.
"The use of these special names and places acts as a kind of spiritual or karmic challenge, especially when the secret rulers are trying to reveal things they’ve kept hidden."
I guess my question is "why?". Why would this "cryptocracy" want to "reveal things"? Pure hubris? Isn't a "cryptocracy" "rule by hidden means"? We know that the very idea of a hierarchy of humanity must involve hubris, and if I'm correct that the ultimate goal of these "cryptocrats" is immortality leading to replacement of the Creator, the cryptocrats have plenty of hubris.
Unless the signals provide a way to counteract the intentions of said group, I feel that trying to decrypt puzzles is a inefficient use of resources. If maybe by "decrypting" those signals, we can predict and prevent further extension of control by said "cryptocrats", that seems worthwhile. Otherwise, it seems like the Batman TV show when the villain carefully details his entire plan rather than simply shooting the heroes in the head.
You are absolutely right that there is no apparent reason to "decrypt" the "cryptocracy" rulers' symbolism unless that helps you to "predict and prevent further extension of control". That is exactly the reason to do so.
There is however another not so obvious reason also. It helps if you understand why the cryptocracy will not stay "hidden" and would "reveal things" if you understand the Rule of Karma.
Besides just pure ego, these sick individuals have a twisted belief system, the Rule of Karma. It is basically if I tell you I am going to cheat you and you let me get away with it, it is your fault. Of course they aren't going to tell you straight away they are going to cheat you. They are going to use symbolism to make it difficult for the unenlightened peasantry to understand. If the peasants don't understand that just proves the peasants' are ignorant and need the enlightened one's control. Then the Rule of Karma justifies the cryptocracy actions.
So you want to understand their symbolism to the extent non-twisted individuals can to both stop them and to take away their evil rationalizations that the peasants are so stupid, they get what they deserve and the enlightened ones are not only blameless, their actions are justified.
"It is basically if I tell you I am going to cheat you and you let me get away with it, it is your fault." This is a default Greek/Mediterranean mindset born of sea-traders. Part of the reason that I'm so interested in linguistics, is that it's pretty simple to figure out whether or not people are lying to you if you understand certain linguistic structures. These structures are quite simple compared to reason/logic, and it is the reason that — I believe —Jesus was murdered. Dogma notwithstanding, he was teaching people how to reframe arguments in ways that did not require domain expertise. That made him particularly dangerous (to a legalistic Empire and its minions). My father taught me quite early that I should take responsibility for being lied to, that if you let someone lie to you, it's your fault.
I too was taught that by my Dad. Calling out liars in the corporate world led to some very interesting, and not always pleasant, experiences.
WRT your Jesus comment, I have always thought people under appreciated the full implications of the following which was from our other Farther “John 8:32-36 New King James Version
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you,whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”
Clearly, in addition to your comment about teaching linguistics ju jitsu, Jesus’ role was to set people free via truth-telling. If one’s goal is to keep people enslaved and the truth shall set them free, Jesus’ role in teaching the truth, in addition to his role in teaching you to discern the truth yourself, must not be allowed. I am not saying this very well, but for both speaking the truth and for teaching people to understand how others lie to them, Jesus had to be removed. Both are anathemas to bondage.
Maybe an analogy is something like it is one thing to give someone food and it is another thing to teach them to feed themselves. WRT truth, Jesus did both. That made him doubly dangerous.
One of the things I love about SubStack is that you can edit your comments. This is great, especially if you've posted something with a phone, and later figure out that what you saw is not what you got...
Interesting read, Peter. I do believe that it is important to note that Hoffman is incorrect in his assertion that Barstow was the terminus of Route 66. As a native Californian you probably know as well as I, that Route 66 followed what today is Interstate 15 south from Barstow down the pass to Ontario where it continues west as Interstate 10. Route 66 ended in Santa Monica near Ocean Ave and Santa Monica Blvd, not that far from the Rand Corporation HQ. (which I find much more curious than the symbolism of the Mojave Desert)
So what’s my point? If Hoffman is wrong about “Barstow”, it calls into question the information of the rest of his piece. Anyone with access to the internet can easily find this information even if they are not familiar with the SoCal area. So now, am I to go and verify all the other facts he offered, just accept it as a simple oversight or dismiss the entire article out of hand. Sadly the later is probably where I end up, because someone I respect encouraged me to think critically.
Peace, my friend. You are appreciated more than you know.
I picked up on it, but I wanted to be true to the source. I'm currently living in Santa Monica, and am familiar. I haven't researched it, but maybe that's where it first ended... dunno... If you look at RAND from space (on Google Maps) and include Main Street, it is the Eye of Horus. My basic attitude towards all the information I consume is that some of it may not work out, but that's why metadata and patterns become essential. My advice, take what you like, leave the rest...
BTW, speaking of signs, I’ve just finished watching the one and only season of a TV show called “Pure Genius”, which aired from October 2016 to January 2017. The show was about a tech “genius” billionaire who opens a hospital in the San Francisco area and triumphs weekly, over impossible odds against successful patient outcomes, because he “doesn’t play by the rules”.
The show deservedly lasted only a single season and was full of every TV series trope ever - love triangles, relapses after success was seemingly assured, et cetera, but the predictive programming was off the charts:
Bracelets that allowed the hospital to know the location of anyone, staff or patient, with real time medical and biometric information being provided to a “control room” inside the hospital
a tick borne virus, previously unknown to the world, and the potential for “zoonotic spread” to humans from animals
multiple cases of the hospital inventing a cure for various issues and having the FDA testing “getting in the way” - the old “we don’t have time for that” trope
obligatory references to climate change, single sex couple adoption and other various causes celebres
and of course the main character himself, who clearly channelled Elon the Saviour while bouncing between which of the attractive female staffers would be his
I’m sure that someone with far more experience than I would find many more instances of predictive programming and blatant medical propaganda than I did. For instance, there is a strange obessession with the medical bracelets showing a twisted infinity logo that surely means something.
I don’t own a television, having abandoned my two dial (UHF and VHF) Zenith cathode ray tube in a move in 1999, but I do have a lot of shows saved for watching much later - and in most cases, the shows are far most interesting having watched them with the benefit of a decade or so of hindsight rather than when they debuted.
Anyway - the internet tells me that the show is available on all of the usual suspects and of course, like most American media, is available on the galaxy’s most resilient site, whatever that is. :) Have fun decoding!
LOL I wrote the above before watching the final episode. In this episode, they cure a cancer patient by INJECTING DNA NANOBOTS to find and isolate the cancer cells so that the drugs can be targetted to them. This aired in January 2017.
Of course, in real life we know that DNA nanobots don’t exist and even if they did, they couldn’t be targetted to specific proteins to elicit a response in the patient. Cuz that’s just crazy conspiracy theory.
"The use of these special names and places acts as a kind of spiritual or karmic challenge, especially when the secret rulers are trying to reveal things they’ve kept hidden."
I guess my question is "why?". Why would this "cryptocracy" want to "reveal things"? Pure hubris? Isn't a "cryptocracy" "rule by hidden means"? We know that the very idea of a hierarchy of humanity must involve hubris, and if I'm correct that the ultimate goal of these "cryptocrats" is immortality leading to replacement of the Creator, the cryptocrats have plenty of hubris.
Unless the signals provide a way to counteract the intentions of said group, I feel that trying to decrypt puzzles is a inefficient use of resources. If maybe by "decrypting" those signals, we can predict and prevent further extension of control by said "cryptocrats", that seems worthwhile. Otherwise, it seems like the Batman TV show when the villain carefully details his entire plan rather than simply shooting the heroes in the head.
You are absolutely right that there is no apparent reason to "decrypt" the "cryptocracy" rulers' symbolism unless that helps you to "predict and prevent further extension of control". That is exactly the reason to do so.
There is however another not so obvious reason also. It helps if you understand why the cryptocracy will not stay "hidden" and would "reveal things" if you understand the Rule of Karma.
Besides just pure ego, these sick individuals have a twisted belief system, the Rule of Karma. It is basically if I tell you I am going to cheat you and you let me get away with it, it is your fault. Of course they aren't going to tell you straight away they are going to cheat you. They are going to use symbolism to make it difficult for the unenlightened peasantry to understand. If the peasants don't understand that just proves the peasants' are ignorant and need the enlightened one's control. Then the Rule of Karma justifies the cryptocracy actions.
So you want to understand their symbolism to the extent non-twisted individuals can to both stop them and to take away their evil rationalizations that the peasants are so stupid, they get what they deserve and the enlightened ones are not only blameless, their actions are justified.
"It is basically if I tell you I am going to cheat you and you let me get away with it, it is your fault." This is a default Greek/Mediterranean mindset born of sea-traders. Part of the reason that I'm so interested in linguistics, is that it's pretty simple to figure out whether or not people are lying to you if you understand certain linguistic structures. These structures are quite simple compared to reason/logic, and it is the reason that — I believe —Jesus was murdered. Dogma notwithstanding, he was teaching people how to reframe arguments in ways that did not require domain expertise. That made him particularly dangerous (to a legalistic Empire and its minions). My father taught me quite early that I should take responsibility for being lied to, that if you let someone lie to you, it's your fault.
I too was taught that by my Dad. Calling out liars in the corporate world led to some very interesting, and not always pleasant, experiences.
WRT your Jesus comment, I have always thought people under appreciated the full implications of the following which was from our other Farther “John 8:32-36 New King James Version
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you,whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”
Clearly, in addition to your comment about teaching linguistics ju jitsu, Jesus’ role was to set people free via truth-telling. If one’s goal is to keep people enslaved and the truth shall set them free, Jesus’ role in teaching the truth, in addition to his role in teaching you to discern the truth yourself, must not be allowed. I am not saying this very well, but for both speaking the truth and for teaching people to understand how others lie to them, Jesus had to be removed. Both are anathemas to bondage.
Maybe an analogy is something like it is one thing to give someone food and it is another thing to teach them to feed themselves. WRT truth, Jesus did both. That made him doubly dangerous.
sorry "no" reason
One of the things I love about SubStack is that you can edit your comments. This is great, especially if you've posted something with a phone, and later figure out that what you saw is not what you got...
Interesting read, Peter. I do believe that it is important to note that Hoffman is incorrect in his assertion that Barstow was the terminus of Route 66. As a native Californian you probably know as well as I, that Route 66 followed what today is Interstate 15 south from Barstow down the pass to Ontario where it continues west as Interstate 10. Route 66 ended in Santa Monica near Ocean Ave and Santa Monica Blvd, not that far from the Rand Corporation HQ. (which I find much more curious than the symbolism of the Mojave Desert)
So what’s my point? If Hoffman is wrong about “Barstow”, it calls into question the information of the rest of his piece. Anyone with access to the internet can easily find this information even if they are not familiar with the SoCal area. So now, am I to go and verify all the other facts he offered, just accept it as a simple oversight or dismiss the entire article out of hand. Sadly the later is probably where I end up, because someone I respect encouraged me to think critically.
Peace, my friend. You are appreciated more than you know.
I picked up on it, but I wanted to be true to the source. I'm currently living in Santa Monica, and am familiar. I haven't researched it, but maybe that's where it first ended... dunno... If you look at RAND from space (on Google Maps) and include Main Street, it is the Eye of Horus. My basic attitude towards all the information I consume is that some of it may not work out, but that's why metadata and patterns become essential. My advice, take what you like, leave the rest...