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Wow, this thread...just...wow...
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Bigfoot believers and Bigfoot skeptics are both plumb crazy. Each spends more than one minute per year thinking about Bigfoot. |
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Jurassic Park is a Michael Crichton novel which was made into a movie. It had nothing to do with concentration camps, and everything to do with exploring the question of pushing a scientific concept into reality without fully thinking it through. Crichton was a physician who , before medical school, had studied biological anthropology. His first novel, The Andromeda Strain was written in his final year of medical school.
My guess is you're not familiar with The Andromeda Strain. Crichton used his scientific background to write compelling science fiction based on abstract scientific concepts wherein he used them to explore the human condition, and the popular culture of his day. Jurassic Park was just an updated version of his earlier amusement park-gone-wrong novel, Westworld, where instead of androids rebelling it was dinosaurs. Less time looking at movies and more time reading books is a good idea. |
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Are there any safe movies, or movies which debunk "Surviving 2023"
Anygood? 3/5, 4/5, 2/5? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/they_live ... good advice that "he might not" take |
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I planted my potatoes and tied my pinto beans this afternoon. It was still a little brisk but getting in the garden, putting my hands in the soil was just what the doctor ordered. He should get out into nature and try growing a few things. Really focuses the mind, makes you forget all this end of the world nonsense about videos and floods and whatnot.
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I love this world, but not for its answers. (Mary Oliver) Quand il dit "cuic" le moineau croit tout dire. (When he's tweeted the sparrow thinks he's said it all. (Jules Renard) |
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I just got an invitation on Facebook to join the Illuminati. Pretty exciting.
Just want to check with Gilius that it's legit before I sign up. $50 million and a free house is not to be sniffed at. (Though if they're giving me $50M I imagine I can just buy my own house.) "Hello are you interested in joining the Illuminati brotherhood for riches and fame and success in life. This is an open invitation for anyone who want to join this illuminati Brotherhood. Join now .new members are rewarded with $50million USD and a free house in any country of your choice WhatsApp agent on+234<number redacted for sooper secrecy>" |
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gilius seems to have disappeared since not any of us watched his poor video and didn't engage in "constructive" criticism.
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Actually, you're usually pre-selected by the Illuminati. One day you come home and discover a mysterious block of cheese in your refrigerator. Congealed within the cheese is your sooper seekreht membership ring, and skeleton key. The key will unlock every door on earth. Engraved inside your ring is your Swiss Bank Account number where you can access your $50 million. And that's $50 every month.
Sure, we're going to expect you to do nefarious things, but you'll love our dental plan. ![]() |
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I wonder how many 33rd degree Freemasons will survive Covid-19?
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Most likely just as many as the rest of us.
![]() A couple of years back the town I lived had an open house day for organizations that you generally could not visit spontaneously. Churches, craft breweries, historic houses and the like. So I visited the local masonic temple. It turned out that someone I knew rather remotely was a member. I got the grand tour. As I said to my wife when I got home, the whole thing seemed like a silly exercise of purportedly grown men behaving like a bunch of boys. Club house, no girls, secret initiation ceremonies, and etc. Of course, that may be just a front and they really do run the World and all. But, if they do, they don't run it very well. ![]() |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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Ah, but did they show you the secret Camel and Car dance?
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I think those are the Grangers.
Seriously (well, not very, but maybe a little), given the Grange's mystical agrarian hoo-hah I'm a little surprised the conspiracy theorists haven't lumped them in with the rest. I mean really. Remember the Children of the Corn? Meet the parents! Time to give the old Grange a little popular boost. Once upon a time they had the best group health plan around! |
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That is evidence of ignorance of science that makes looking at your video a waste of time, gilius.
There is no evidence that whatever you mean by "extreme weather storms and global flooding" started exactly 22 years ago. The climate science is that we have had over a century of global warming that is explained by the CO2 that we have emitted. That warming would always cause more extreme weather events. Is extreme weather caused by global warming?
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NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter (another observation) (and Abell 520) Electric comets still do not exist! |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter (another observation) (and Abell 520) Electric comets still do not exist! |
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I'm betting on some junior evil technician in the Freemasons getting a couple of wires crossed, causing the infernal weather machine to run backwards, and when they switch it on it accidentally fixes climate change.
The result is that the Freemasons are universally lauded as the saviours of mankind and in a Scrooge-like epiphany they abandon their evil ways and instead, with profound irony, are elevated by popular acclaim to be World Leaders in Perpetuity, ushering in a thousand years of peace and harmony. So everybody gets what they want and we all live happily ever after. |
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Okay, I'll play: What weird series of imagined overconnections led you from the character name "Major Salt" to "flooding"?
Lead us through it. Baby steps, please. Remember this stuff only appears to make sense to you, so if you just give us hints and expect us to join the dots, that won't work as our dots don't join the way yours do. |
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My video provides the basis for the global flood, and so when "Oceania" begins forming in 2023 (see earlier screenshot I posted from the early movie 1984) it will essentially be an extension of the salt-water sea as per Waterworld (1995). And we also know that an inhospitable desert will form in the Middle East (leaving only "salt" and "citadels" to the west).
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Just checking: you know that "Oceania" in 1984 is not some imagined future continent, right? It's a name for a collection of present day countries. When Orwell wrote 1984, in 1947, he initially called it "1948" but his publisher made him change the title as it would soon be out of date. It's not set in the distant future. It's not even set in 2023. And there won't be any new continents in 2023.
So, if I may paraphrase, you just decided that "Major Salt" means flooding because the sea is salty and you reckon some places that don't flood will become dry salt flats, except they will all be underwater like Waterworld. Dry, underwater desert salt flats. Got it. You know what else is salty? Nuts. |
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In the year 2525
If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find Looks like it might have been brought forward a bit. |
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Possibly only to 2523. I mean, so far the OP's portents of doom only mention the "23" part. Maybe he has to watch all those movies over again and concentrate really hard to spot the clues about which century the Freemasons will strike. Or maybe those clues aren't in the movies. They might be in books the movies are based on. Or in TV shows that spin off the movies. Or hidden in the comments on review sites. He's the only one who can recognise what's a clue and what isn't so it looks like he might be busy for a while. Couple of centuries, I wouldn't be surprised.
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What exactly do you think genuine screenshots from movies are evidence of, other than that movie makers make movies? And why?
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We've already covered that throughout the previous pages of this topic:
*Entertainment industry controlled by the oligarchs as is everything else, including banking, technology and even the calendar system, etc. *The most expensive multi-million dollar productions - with guidance from the elite based on "the pyramid" (or capitalist control system) - are made for propaganda purposes that provide legacy for the elite for a future "new world" that will look back at the "old world" as being idiots and the elite as Gods. *Propaganda reveals details of future planned crimes against humanity and cultural changes, as per Simpsons/911, etc. *One such vanity project covered by the corpus of Hollywood movies is the 2023 ebola + global flood - includes many other themes/details as covered by my Surviving 2023 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGHuFTvXC-k *Propaganda is not only confined to movies - but also in videogames, comic books, LP covers, advertisements, news articles, cartoons, radio, religions... everything that the elite has control over by proxy. Again, if the evidence doesn't tell you the truth then you need to keep looking at it till it does. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even money can contain propaganda: lighthouse + seawall being indicative of citadels on water as per the movie Blade Runner 2049 (2017). ![]() |
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