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Geological time spiral

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Just to warn the average reader this is probably going to read a lot like science fiction.  I don't really expect anyone to believe any of this, but at the same time I cannot completely disregard my observations because there is enough supporting evidence that I have come across during my lifetime to make this theory plausible. Bear in mind I used the words "theory" and "plausible".
 
For a moment, consider the idea that time is not merely linear, travelling from point A to point B, but rather turns as a steady spiral, much like the coil of a spring or the shell of a snail.  Unlike the diagram presented here, showing the various geological eras of Earth's history in a steadily rising and outward spiral - our "linear" time travels inward, reaching a finite "end point" beyond which nothing continues.  This point could be considered the end of time, the point which Meat Loaf cannot wait to reach after scoring.
 
Now, imagine if you will, that humanity has realized the end of time is imminent, and the advance of technology has reached a point where it can not only conclusively prove that there will be an end of time, it can also measure how much time is left before the end.  With such technology comes additional technology providing humanity with the means to travel through time via the fourth dimension, which permits crossing the bands of each loop in the time spiral.  These crossing "windows" would need to be similar to the "windows" the NASA space shuttle uses to reenter Earth's atmosphere and return to the planet's surface.  So it would not necessarily be possible for a time traveller to access any point in history at will, but rather only certain timelines that aligned with the one they currently occupied.
 
Knowing that time is about to end, and possessing the technology to travel backwards through time, humanity might choose to survive the coming armageddon by taking advantage of their time travel technology and jumping into the past.  Thus surviving their doom, they would also (with great probability) introduce a schism into the time line, branching off from the original with potentially catastrophic results.
 
Anyone who has seen the film Back to the Future Part II should be familiar with the concept of alternate timelines.  By travelling back in time and changing the course of history by interfering with a series of events as they played out, subsequent events will then change.  This idea was previously introduced by the short story A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, where a time travelller inadvertently steps on and kills a butterfly during a hunt to kill a Tyrranosaurus Rex, and in so doing returns to a completely different timeline than the one he had left.
 
Should a significant number of humans (significant being more than two or three) travel to a point of time in the distant past permanently, or even should they travel to different points along the timeline, there would be an unbelievably different series of events that would unfold from that point forward.  There would also be a significant increase in human population upon the planet, because I highly doubt that these time travelling humans would choose to sterilize themselves in order to reduce their impact upon the timeline.  Humans are way too ego-centric to make such a decision for themselves.
 
However, I am a great believer in fate.  As a great believer in fate I would state that certain events in the history of humankind upon the face of planet Earth are bound to repeat themselves, even in these alternate timelines.  Therefore I would propose that as this new timeline created by the time travellers approaches its own end, a new group (and significantly larger number) of time travellers would choose to avoid their fate by travelling back in time.  Due to this repeat event, the original problem (of a markedly different timeline being created by the time travellers) would be compounded by the new batch of time travellers, alongside perhaps some or all of the original time travellers from before who are now replicating themselves along this third newly created time line.
 
Before this gets far too messy to comprehend let me sum up:
 
Earth (Earth alpha, or original Earth timeline) approaches the "End of Time" and → human time travellers "cheat Death" by escaping to the past, which then creates → Earth¹ (first alternate timeline) with greater population than Earth and a completely different series of events of history, but still approaches the "End of Time" resulting in → more human time travellers who "cheat Death" by escaping to the past, including some or all of the original time travellers from Earth which creates → Earth² (second alternate timeline) with a greater population than Earth¹ including duplicate humans as a result of time travellers from Earth also present in the Earth² timeline.  The Earth² timeline also approaches the "End of Time" resulting in → even more human time travellers who "cheat Death" by escaping to the past, including some or all of the original time travellers from Earth and Earth¹ which creates → Earth³ (third alternate timeline) with a greater population than Earth² including duplicate and potentially triplicate humans from the Earth and Earth¹ timelines respectively.  And so on, and so forth, potentially to infinity.
 
Does your head hurt yet?  If not, keep reading.
 
Does string theory, or the theory of multiple dimensions start to make a bit more sense now?  It should.  Each variation of these events can be simply explained by time travelling.  Certain people and places will exist in multiple timelines, but not in all.  Certain events will take place in multiple timelines, but not in the same way, and not with the same results, with the exception of the "End of Time".  Also, unless these time travellers are able to return to their original timeline in order to warn their brethren of the mistake they are about to make by embarking upon their journey, there is no way to prevent history from repeating itself, in the future.  
 
Okay, that last sentence made my head hurt, but it's the best I can do with this limited vocabularly called English.
 
One congruency that I can assume exists across all timelines would be the Georgia Guidestones.  These mysterious stones appeared in Elbert County, Geogia, upon the request of a mysterious uknown person by the apparent pseudonym of R.C. Christian.
 
Most tellingly, in eight different languages the stones state the following:
  1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
  2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
  3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
  4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
  5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
  6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
  7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
  8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
  9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
  10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Assuming I were a time traveller and wished to avoid repeating my mistakes, yet I was unable to pass the message to the source of the problem, because that source was far into the future, this is the best possible idea I can think of - create a monument that will hopefully survive intact to reach the future in order to warn time travellers of their folly.

 

Disregarding my own advice: my personal views on the approaching End Times

The Mayan calendarI'm disregarding my personal advice, even I've long known that the internet can be the worst possible sort of forum for sharing anything about religion, dogmatic views, and so forth, because people feel free to be complete jackasses due to the anonymous nature of the forum.  I'm disregarding it because I've learned too much to not share, even though knowing that 99% of those who read this will either become deeply offended or otherwise blow it off.  I'm disregarding it because that 1% who find this information useful are well worth the likely troll swarm that I will soon be up against upon publishing this.

What also doesn't help is the vast amount of 2012 controversy that has reached epic proportions, spawning a disaster porno and various films, documentaries, books, websites and more, to the point that anyone even remotely interested in the subject will immediately be inundated with "We're all gonna die!" screams by those who have spent way too much time obsessing the subject.  I'm also of the opinion that the Mayans are being given way too much credit in terms of knowing exactly when the exact moment this End of Times is due to begin, the fateful date of December 21st, 2012, which only invites ridicule from those who have already been plagued by the Year 2000 Bug end of the world controversies that yielded no such thing, and countless other accounts by Doomsayers that, "The End is Nigh".

That said, please bear in mind that you are now reading a site that has been titled "Fated to End Sometime" since its inception back in ... 2004 I think.  I don't know for certain because the site has gone through transitions and a complete purging of old articles.  But since I have owned a blog it has been called Fated to End Sometime, because I've known at some point I would stop contributing to it, and the reason for this would most likely be something outside of my control.  Regardless it's a website that has known that it is doomed to end.  That doesn't mean there won't be a new beginning when this happens.  I just like to be up front about these things, and since I'm a cup-half-empty kind of person I tend to lean toward the less optimistic outlook.  I tend to get less rude awakenings that way.

Völundr the 'ruler of the elves' (vísi álfar)Also, for those of you who pay attention, you may have noticed that there are runes in the sword blade at the top, taken directly from the Norse Elder Futhark.  In Norwegian, these runes roughly translate to "Ragnarok Approaches" (I apologize in advance to anyone who speaks/reads Norwegian and finds fault in this translation - after all I used Google Translate which is known to be fallible).  The image of the sword blade is 1680 pixels wide, so if you are using a screen smaller than 21" you may not be able to see the entire thing, plus part of it is covered by the amber gemstone with another rune in it that one typically will not find in the Elder Futhark.  But that's another story.

My point is, I've been thinking about the End Times quite a bit over several years, and as the seasons do not change as expected, and trees begin flowering in Autumn when they normally only flower in Spring, and the hot summer seems much hotter than before, and the cold winter seems much colder than before, yet in both seasons less precipitation occurs than used to fall when we were children, when the clouds in the sky have been replaced by the trails of exhaust from jet airliners, and when birds and fish mysteriously fall from the sky or rise up from the bottom of the river, dead, for reasons nobody can explain, it is plain to see that something is not quite right.

When the North Pole is no longer true magnet north, this might help answer some of the above.  No matter how many officials or specialist try to claim that it is not a big deal, I am already in full understanding that there is more to come.  The Earth is just warming up.

So I've finally come to the conclusion that I may as well provide my personal ideas as to what will be next in the following months, as we enter 2012, pass into the chaos to follow in 2013, and begin to get used to things after the dust settles in 2013, to those who are interested in what I might have to say.

Älvalek, "Elf Play", (1866), painting by August MalmströmWhen this begins, we are going to start seeing some spectacular things.  We are going to think we are hallucinating, and as far as scientists and medical professionals are concerned, we will be.  The source of this will be the combination of our planet's shifting magnetic field as the north and south poles approach the equator and complete their reversal.  The reason it will affect us is because the magnetite attached to our pineal gland and found throughout our bones will change with the earth's magnetic field, and this will directly impact our perception of the world around us.

This is the part of this article where I start to go off "the deep end" so to speak.  But please bear in mind in our news reports, as the poles have already begun shifting, the dramatic increase of incidents of violence, especially where the violent crimes were committed by someone who was later not understanding how or why they committed the misdeed.  People on this planet are already affected, especially those in Egypt who have been suffering under the same regime for thirty years and are only now resorting to violent revolution in order to bring down those in power.

A vampire being staked by the townspeopleI have long believed in elves, fairies, dragons, werewolves, vampires, valkyries, gods and goddesses, magic (not just the sleight-of-hand kind, though they are related) and various other things that people profess to know are "NOT REAL".  I believe in angels and demons, the bogeyman, ghosts, aliens (although I'm not sure that they are really little green men from Mars), UFOs, Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and Champ, telepathy, telekinesis, out of body experiences, and much much more.

I keep an open mind.  I do not dismiss out of hand what other people dismiss because they can find no evidence for the above, or not enough concrete evidence to feel comfortable supporting these ideas.  They do not want to be thought crazy, or stupid, or both. I risk these things by publishing this statement, but at this point in the game I really don't care so much about what other people think of me, so I'm letting it ride.

This is not superstition, this is not hearsay, this is not how I was brought up.  This is the culmination of decades of information and personal experiences that cannot be easily explained.

Why can't we see these supernatural beings all the time?  It is my opinion that they are visible only to those who are able to see their frequency of vibration.  Similar to how a dog can perceive sounds that the human ear cannot, and yet very different, these beings are in our world enough to affect it, and enough to be seen in glimpses out of the corner of your eye.  They do not fully occupy our world, and are separated from it by what has been long called "the veil".

The dissolving of the Veil under the light of the full moonWith the changing magnetic fields and the shifting poles comes the dissolution of this veil, or at the very least our ability to see past it and perceive these otherworldly beings.  Simultaneously they will also be able to see us.  It can be assumed that many of these beings will not be friendly, and some will most likely be openly hostile, angry with how the humans have treated their Mother Earth.

This "veil" has been addressed multiple times in folklore and in fiction, and even in modern storytelling, including the recent films Hellboy II: The Golden Army and The Spiderwick Chronicles.  These films use artifacts or old-world devices to penetrate this hidden world, but there are other ways this might occur.  For those who immediately disregard these statements because it is merely fiction and therefore not true, I would like to point out that in many cases fiction contains nuggets of truth, nuggets that might be otherwise considered dangerous information if it were not shrouded in the form of a fictional tale.

For those who do not believe, this will undoubtedly be a rude awakening as things they simply do not believe in are suddenly found in abundance everywhere they turn.  

There will be chaos when the End Times approach, and not just because of our collapsing economies, the drastic earth changes resulting in cataclysmic events, the shifting magnetic poles and the threat of a planet-wide calamity caused by a severe solar storm striking and penetrating the Earth's weakened magnetic field.  When the veil dissolves, we will suddenly be exposed to another world long hidden from us; a dangerous world filled with beings who will undoubtedly despise humanity for all of its ills.

There is more to be written on this subject, for this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Can a virtual world be haunted?

I like to keep an open mind about things.  There are way too many things that are just simply dismissed out of hand without any sort of questioning.  Most people believe that monsters or demons don't exist.  They assume that there is no Santa Claus, nor an Easter Bunny, nor the Tooth Fairy.  And to be completely honest, I can see how the following story could be completely made up, along with the supporting video.  But there is a certain part of me that believes in the story of Ben, and would at the very least like to know if there was a real Ben, what his last name was and whether there are any supporting newspaper articles regarding his death.  Location details would be useful as well.

For the original story line, feel free to visit Creepy + Pasta, and here's a link to Jadusable's Youtube page.  I'll also embed the supporting videos below to minimize the surfing around.

Someone by the name of Inunah posted a story in regards to how he came to acquire an unusual Nintendo64 game cartridge, and the unsettling events that soon followed.  Whether Inunah is the original author is not entirely clear.  Inunah describes going to a yard sale and acquiring an undecorated Nintendo 64 cartridge with Majora written on it in magic marker.  The creepy old homeowner running the yard sale gives it to the author for free, and as he is leaving calls him Ben, which Inunah initially chalks up to senility or him transposing Ben for "then" and mishearing him.

Firing up the game he finds a saved game titled "BEN" which is at a point where the game has almost been completed.  Inunah creates a new game and saves it as "Link" and proceeds to play, noticing some odd glitches here and there, most notably that some of the game characters call him "BEN" instead of "Link" on occasion.  He assumes this is a glitch, and attempts to correct it by deleting the "BEN" save game file.  His file is still present, but the name "Link" is also deleted from in-game speech as he proceeds through the game.

Inunah then takes advantage of a known glitch with the game allowing for an extra "day" of play, and the game starts operating extremely abnormally, with theme music playing backwards, in-game characters appearing where they shouldn't, and the repeat appearance of the characters "Skull Boy", "the Happy Mask Seller" and a statue of Link that follows him around the game world.  Attempts to use Link's ocarina usually result in Link spontaneously combusting and falling dead, followed by a message "You've met with a horrible fate, haven't you?" which repeats throughout the rest of the videos.

Additional messages appear that are not part of the original game.  Saved game files are deleted, and others are restored (including the "BEN" save game that the author deleted) and still others are created such as "DROWNED" and most recently (and disturbing to me) "MATT".

The latest video uploaded to YouTube today includes a summary added by someone claiming to be Jadusable's (the username of the Youtube account) roommate in college, and that his roommate had gone back home with his parents due to being deeply disturbed by his experiences with this game.  Instructions were left with the roommate to upload this video, and on September 15th he has been instructed to upload a file named TheTruth.txt which will likely reveal whether this entire story is true, or a preemptive strike for the approaching Halloween season.  Either way, I appreciate what has been shared so far.

If you can't say something nice, you probably shouldn't say anything at all

 

 

"I will bet my last penny that the person giving this tour is not even a native of New Orleans. This guy speaks toooooo fast and is not a good story- teller. I'm from New Orleans and have always found it amazing how many of the residents of the French Quarter are not even native to New Orleans. And the ones telling the stories are usually quite new to the area. Don't believe these ridiculous stories. It's just to make money." - RedLikeWine

For a period of roughly five years I led tours covering haunted sites of the city of New Orleans.  The above video is one of seven-nine stops I tended to visit for the duration of the store, depending on the path I happened to take through the historic French Quarter with my tour group.  It was a lot of fun, both for me and my tour group, and I was given a lot of freedom in terms of how I delivered my tour presentation, and that I could choose to dress in period clothing or as something spooky - it was almost like celebrating Halloween every night of the year.

One of the hazards of the job were the local citizens of New Orleans.  Drunks from Bourbon Street were a bit of a problem, but the local citizens believed that tourists had invaded their fair city (which heavily depended upon and promoted tourism in order to keep operating the majority of its local businesses) and therefore took their spite out on passing tours and tour guides.

The above quote is a good example of that.  I had thought upon leaving New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that I would no longer have to put up with such foolishness, but apparently that just wasn't meant to be.  However, I managed to get RedLikeWine to retract her comment with the following reply:

At least 16 other commentors here disagree with you on the quality of my storytelling, but I suppose it's not possible to make everyone happy. No I am not native, and I never claimed to be, but after 7 years of living there I still consider New Orleans to be more my home than the home I grew up in, even though I have not been able to return since hurricane Katrina because I have a family to provide for.

To be a licensed tour guide in New Orleans requires a 70% correct score on the most difficult exam I have ever taken. The exam extensively covers New Orleans history. Unlicensed tour guides face severe fines and/or arrest, consequently few are foolish enough to operate without one. As a licensed tour guide, why would I falsify the history that I studied? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

"Don't believe these ridiculous stories. It's just to make money." Some listeners who take these tours strongly believe in ghosts & paranormal activity; things that the vast majority of people claim are just a bunch of superstitious nonsense. To date nobody has successfully proven the existence of ghosts, but can you prove that they do not exist? Those who do not believe still enjoy these tours because they get to learn about New Orlean's past in an entertaining fashion.

 "I'm from New Orleans and have always found it amazing how many of the residents of the French Quarter are not even native to New Orleans." If you are familiar with the history of your hometown, you should know that New Orleans is called a "melting pot" because the French Quarter has historically been home to people of various cultures from all over the world. Because New Orleans is a major port city this is still true today. This melting pot is what attracts people to New Orleans.

Upon visiting RedLikeWine's profile I noticed her About Me section contained this quote "Hope to make lots of new friends here:-)" which prompted me to post a comment on the page stating "You may want to consider changing your tactics."  Shortly afterward RedLikeWine's offending comment was removed from the video.

Since I'm not one to just let things go like that, I quickly copied and pasted her comment back into the comment feed for those who might otherwise be curious about my reply.  As far as I'm concerned, if someone is foolish enough to make themselves look like an idiot in a virtual environment that I have created, I have the right to keep a record of it for all who visit to see.

I suppose it would be nice some day if these idiots would stop trying to build themselves up by trying to point out the shortcomings (and failing in the process) of other people.  I only hope that she does not have offspring who will learn to perpetuate such behavior.

Moebanshee's Lair - Hurricane Katrina

At the end of last year I received an interesting e-mail message from the host of the Moebanshee's Lair internet radio show.  She had found me in this video when researching the LaLaurie mansion and invited me to be a guest on her show.  

During the broadcast we discussed my experiences during and following Hurricane Katrina while Brigitte listened to the show while chatting on the radio website with other listeners. We were invited back to the show to discuss our experiences in greater detail on April 6th, and the above link is a podcast of the show itself.  It's roughly two hours in duration, with music breaks every thirty minutes.

You can listen to Moebanshee's Lair every Tuesday evening from 10pm-Midnight EST at http://www.gameconradio.com, and you can also listen to podcasts of her shows here. Below is the podcast from this same internet radio show about the LaLaurie Mansion, otherwise known as the most haunted building in the city of New Orleans. We were invited to participate in the Hurricane Katrina show immediately following this one:

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fil's desktop

The main image is Frank Frazetta's cover art for the paperback publication of John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies.  The rest, you may be familiar with.

Ubuntu has gotten MUCH more user-friendly since I started using it years ago...

Ghostbusters for the PC

I so can't wait for this one...it's about freakin time they released this.  Also, for those of you who are not in the know, apparently doing the voice acting for this game was so much fun for Dan Akroyyd and the rest, that there is now a plan to make Ghostbusters 3 (the movie).  Sweet....

Republican Zombies?

A friend of mine pointed out that in our society, it seems that any time there is a Republican President in office, there seems to be an inordinate number of zombie films playing at the box office.

However, he pointed out that when a Democrat President is in office, vampire films dominate the box office instead.

Seeing as how we just elected a Democrat as President and there is currently a vampire flick at the movie theaters (Twilight), there will soon be a prequel to the Underworld series, and there was also Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead released this summer - perhaps Hollywood has a better perspective of the political climate in the US than the rest of us.  Or perhaps I'm just smoking crack.

But seriously - when you think about it - don't the Republicans just want us to be zombies and not think for ourselves?  And don't the Democrats seem like vampires with the way they tax everyone?  Food for thought.

The flying Dutchman

July 11, 1881

George, Prince of Wales (later King George V), as a 16-year-old naval cadet on the HMS Inconstant off the Australian coast, wrote in his log book: At 4:00 AM the 'Flying Dutchman' crossed our bows, a strange red light as of a phantom ship aglow. Thirteen persons altogether saw her, but whether it was van Dam of the 'Flying Dutchman', or something else, remains unknown.

 


The Flying Dutchman

   The Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship Google Videos

According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never go home, but must sail "the seven seas" forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes glowing with ghostly light. If she is hailed by another ship, her crew will often try to send messages to land, to people long since dead. Versions of the story are numerous.

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