FOTW May 16, 2020

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  • Kane1331
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    It wasn’t aliens it was the blondes and redheads our progenitors that survived the last cataclysm. Worldwide

    • Don K. Grimm
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      Like the once the Robert Sepehr talls about 😉
      He has alot of interesting alt, antropology videos. Like this this one.
      https://youtu.be/PX8asjQznBs

  • Fred Jones
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    WHO doc for me did not load – found this link as well for same doc (I think) , could be me, their server or whatever… https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/node/16974/pdf/9789241516839-eng.pdf

  • epeeb1
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    The WHO is still just a tool of the Communist Chinese Government ! Be Careful where they Take you!
    ED PEEBLES

    • davidwebster
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      The WHO was started by the Rockefeller group, Bill Gates spearheaded the formation of it. Get your facts right friend. >:^D

  • CadetCourtney
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    So there is an organization called Seeding Sovereignty that is trying to encourage performing artists to acknowledge the unceded land that they are performing on and it made me wonder if that’s the extreme answer to keeping ourselves out of smart cities. We get the unceded territories back to the decedent’s and ask for their help in return.

  • Johnathan Jones
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    A Prepper without Tesla technology is not living in the present or the future. What view of the future could you possibly believe must be.

    • uptellius
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      Have fun with those IGBTs in your motor controllers. ICE and biofuel is more cosmic ray tolerant, even early model computer engines might survive. Certainly carb engines running wood gasification.

      Also, had a friend’s tesla break for a week after an update that took out the screen. All the remote shutdown, tracking, updates, will that still be working?

  • NRG
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    “Most atrocities in human history have all been committed by individuals and agents of government who were “just following orders” or “just obeying the law.” The virus didn’t give any orders. It was the people who obeyed the commands of tyrants that crashed the economy and ruined the livelihoods of others.”

    Without students there is no teacher.

    • David Droescher
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      I would equate solar flares that originated from sunspots to be the equivalent of a Sprite or an elf for an Earthly comparison

    • Vinny
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      NRG,
      You are right. The people who exterminated the Jews in the camps all said they were just following orders.
      Ben Franklin once said, “Those who give up a tiny bit of their liberty
      deserve none.”

  • ahoban
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    The automation problem is overblown. It’s a far bigger problem for the third world, which makes its money on cheap labor than it is for us. Thanks to the coronavirus demolishing supply chains all over the world, and natural gas making energy basically free here, many of those supply chains are coming back to the US.

  • John Henderson
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    Watch carefully who Biden is getting as potential vice president.

  • Bigpicguy
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    I’d like to see an email template that we could all send to the government officials in the case they stop OTF..
    Great conversations & thanks for that. More on the white bearded man..

  • Bigpicguy
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    Btw.. think you could have them turn iswa back on?

  • Michael Durfee
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    There are a few episodes of the Twilight Zone that dramatize the catastrophe cycle at the civilization scale pretty well. This is in response to your reference of “Into the Night”. Rod Serling being the source.

    At the beginning of the episode entitled “Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, the residents of the community witness the arrival of an extra-terrestrial vehicle, but is misidentified as a meteor and activities resume. A young boy only by the name Tommy confesses about a story he read of an alien invasion that causes some of the disruptions that are being experienced in the neighborhood. Loss of power, telephones going down, cars inoperable, et cetera. Tommy adds that the aliens appear to be human but however are only scouts and the power outages are being purposefully induced to isolate the neighborhood. The hypothesis is written off as science fiction and efforts in trying to isolate the cause of disruptions slowly drift from natural phenomena to the residents themselves. When Les Goodman’s car starts by itself he is suspected. Don mentions that Steve had built a radio, which Charlie then claims no one has ever seen; implicitly associating him with conversing with aliens. When one of the residents, Pete Van Horn, returns after an investigation of disruptions one street over. Charlie, thinking he was an alien, shoots and kills him in the dark. Charlie tries to defend his blatant disregard, but none of the residents have any sympathy. The situation climaxes as the prior accusations of alien behavior resurface in a feedback loop of yelling. As the neighborhood’s power fluctuates on and off, the yelling perpetuates into rock throwing and gunfire. Way up on an overlooking ridgeline two men dressed in official looking space uniforms stand outside a flying saucer observing the chaos unfolding amongst the residents below. Tommy’s story of aliens disrupting Maple Street’s infrastructure turns out to be a reality. The man standing in front of a power console controlling the community’s power asks, “Understand the procedure now?” He adds, “Just stop a few of their machines, and radios, and telephones, and lawnmowers; throw them into darkness for a few hours and then sit back and watch the pattern.” “And this pattern is always the same?” Asks the onlooker standing beside the console. The console operator says, “With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find; and it’s themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch.” “Then I take it this place, this ‘Maple Street’ is not unique?” Asks the onlooker. “By no means. Their world is full of ‘Maple Streets’”, he asserts picking up his power console and climbs the ladder well into the craft. “And we’ll go from one to the other, and let them destroy themselves. One to the other, one to the other, one to the other.”

    The episode entitled “The Obsolete Man” was another excellent civilization catastrophe analogy. Rod Serling introduces the theme and the main character like he always does, “You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future. Not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements. Technological advances and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the superstates that preceded it; it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” The dramatization is of Romney Wordsworth being thrown in front of a totalitarian inquisition being conducted by the ‘Chancellor’. Wordsworth is deemed obsolete due to being a librarian, as the State has eliminated books as an appropriate avenue for education. Also for believing in God. Being obsolete in this State is a multiple choice death sentence which will be televised (for educational purposes). Wordsworth chooses to be assassinated at midnight by a nature only known to the assassin. Wordsworth’s study is outfitted with cameras and during the final hour of his life the Chancellor is invited to be a witness to his death. The Chancellor is prophetic in the security of the state’s methods to deal with obsolete individuals, but he tries to leave Wordsworth’s study when he realizes a bomb is the method of execution. The door is locked. As the time creeps closer to midnight the Chancellor breaks down and begs Wordsworth to let him out of the study ‘in the name of God’. Wordsworth agrees and lets the Chancellor escape seconds before the bomb goes off. The Chancellor is deemed obsolete and replaced by the next person in line due to his cowardly acts being televised. In a last cowardly attempt to profess his innocence he tries to escape but is overwhelmed by the attendants of the inquisition. Rod then narrates the conclusion. “The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the state; the entity he worshiped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognise the worth, the dignity, the rights of man; that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under “M” for mankind.”

    I always wondered why the themes and ideas recur that are implied or dramatized in the storylines of big budget productions throughout the years. These themes and ideas also manifest in the technology in which our civilization utilizes, or strives to invent. Many people regard H.G. Wells as the father of science fiction literature, but I think many people overlook Edward Page Mitchell. You see Mitchell was the editor of the New York newspaper “The Sun” in 1897. All of Mitchell’s short stories he wrote throughout the 1870s and 1880s were published very shortly before the copyright laws became widely enforced. Stories that involve invisibility rendered by scientific means, time-travel, faster-than-light travel, thinking computers, cyborgs, matter transmission/teleportation, and mind transfer. Many of the themes we see in science fiction. Science fiction so often becomes science fact. Which is why having a book like the bible, explains at least in one way why we have recurring anxiety about civilization collapse.

    “No moral, no message, no prophetic tract. Just a simple statement of fact. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”

  • Allenvaughan
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    I was suspicious of this “COVID-19” Plandemic (at least that’s what I call it) back in February. And I just simply observed how people behaved-but especially the college-educated 20-and 30-year-olds simply jumped in line to begin wiping things down, then wearing their masks when those items became available. And I wondered, isn’t anybody “questioning with bolness” at what these so-called scientists were saying (the new religion of today), and where the intensifying crack down on free economic activity by the governments of the world would take us? I watched as the maleable-minded just got in line, while the red-necked and independent thinking people up here in the north Georgia mountains did not wear their masks, and were out into town every day. Very interesting, the dichotomy of behaviors, split right down between those indoctrinated by the academy, and those who aren’t.

    • Vinny
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      Excellent observation Allenvaughan

  • Vinny
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    Luke 21:26
    “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”

  • Vinny
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  • coffeecraver
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    Christian of IgeAgeFarmer is busy trying to get a Seed-Share program up and running: http://thevictoryseed.org/
    I realize he may be getting things wrong, like the “impending mini ice age”, but his motivation is noble and his direction would benefit even our community.

  • Don K. Grimm
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    OT I was thinking and wondering.
    In Plasma Cosmology.
    Is the earth build from the inside out?
    Not by accretion?
    Doesnt that support the “growing earth”?
    Like Tellus “growing from a Mercury” and then water added by however its added?
    No statement just a question.
    Dont know where else to ask.
    Kr/R

  • davidwebster
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    Good morning gentlemen.

    Here is what our congress is preparing to do with everyone!! Mandatory testing and businesses will be forced to help them or not be in business no more. It is sad if this actually passes. Politics is a ruse never was real and never will be. Only communities together can manage themselves without rulers!! We do not need large government control.. It is a bit too late for my comments and no they are not opinions.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6666/text?format=txt&r=2&s=1

  • LyonTheeves
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    RE creating good by sharing seeds without monetary exchange – Does this mean Ben will consider eliminating annual fees?

    • Tony R.
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      Ben gives the news free every day. The ability to comment here and get the other content should be worth the $2/month it costs you. Work should be compensated and you missed his point of the discussion.

  • LyonTheeves
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    I would argue that swapping seeds for fees would actually increase the sharing. Economic benefit creates more of what is needed–seed sharing. Sharing might make you feel better and help to drive down prices of those charging, but economic gain suits is a benefit to society, not a negative.

  • sibeguy
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    Once again completing with a reckless and ignorant discussion of social/political/economic topics from bunch of uninformed white guys. You talk about Biden having no reckoning for his sexual misdeeds, what about Trumps? There is unrefuted evidence of him being a sexual predator. Where is your outrage about what happened to Ahmuad Arbery in Georgia? Or is your outrage only at those who would disrupt the status quo?

    The only thing you are correct about is we are in a time of major social change! This virus is bringing the failures of our systems to the forefront. It’s showing the disfunction of our government and political system. It’s showing the fundamental flaws in capitalism. There is no denying it…and it creates the opportunity to address the real issues. Are we seeing the end of central government? I hope so! Then we can leave third world states/leaders like Georgia and Kentucky/McConnell to deal with their own issues! I heard a great quote a few weeks back…”tradition is following the rules of dead people.” It’s time to break free from conservative viewpoints that don’t actually want change, that see the world through their privileged lens.

    How wonderful you hide FTOW behind the veil of supporters…if you didn’t I wonder if you’d be anything more than an unknown Alex Jones or David Icke!

    • Don K. Grimm
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      Could you maybe provide some evidence on the “unrefuted evidence of him being a sexual predator”. Would love to read about it. Kind Regards /Don

    • Don K. Grimm
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      And how is it showing the “the fundamental flaws in capitalism” ? What would be better then capitalism? Are we not here on FOTW listen to these “white guys” just chating freely about whatever?

    • Don K. Grimm
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      FOTW is supposed to be the place for free thought and ideas. Maybe gay froggs and lizard people should be behind a paywall.

    • Don K. Grimm
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      Looking back through old comment of yours on other FOTW episodes. Why are you even listening to this show? Do you like it? You are paying for it.

    • Michael Durfee
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      Man I don’t know about everyone else, but after reading sibeguy’s latest post, I feel much more prepaired and informed about the whole political/governmental/social circumstance. Keep up these enlightening anecdotes and all these problems are just going to melt away.

  • Don K. Grimm
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    And how is it showing the “the fundamental flaws in capitalism” ? What would be better then capitalism? Are we not here on FOTW listen to these “white guys” just chating freely about whatever?

    • Don K. Grimm
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      That was a duplicate :p

  • cveteslava ivanova
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    In Greece people don’t work from 1 to 5 in the afternoon

  • Fire302
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    Thank you guys.

  • sativarg
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    Dear community,
    RE: Double helix of masonry—researchers uncover the secret of Italian renaissance domes | School of Engineering and Applied Science — https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/18/double-helix-masonry-researchers-uncover-secret-italian-renaissance-domes
    and I see a sunflower… What was the inspiration then…?
    === ===
    For Adriaenssens, the project advances two significant questions. “How can mankind construct such a large and beautiful structure without any formwork—mechanically, what’s the innovation?” she asked. Secondly, “What can we learn?” Is there some “forgotten technology that we can use today?”
    === ===
    Nature is wise and Humanity would be wise to learn from Her… In my opinion.
    All around us are the lessons we can learn if we simply stay quiet and humble enough enough to observe. In the description of the dome I see the sun flower and half a dozen forms from God. Word and Will and Truth sacred; the Master Mason and Creator incarnate. As Nature is the Breath of that creator incarnated running through us and all around us. When we make our daily choices; when we succeed and when we fail… we participate in that creation… see?
    blessings
    then?
    Bless Earth as you would be blessed?
    Bless Nature with your attention and respect and we all may learn what there is to learn; lessons that could see us all achieving our greatest potentials here in Earth and beyond?
    thank you for seeing with me the wisdom of Sister Earth and Mother Nature a dome inspired and beautiful.
    blessings
    chuck
    A blind and blessed Harper in Earth, Sol, Milky Way… Universe, Multiverse… etc.

  • Caroline5765
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    Thank you for the upload.
    Seed saving is a great thing. I shared seeds with 3 neighbors who are making efforts to grow their own foods. It has been the way for many years yes. We swap things we have that we raise or make.
    Petersons Guide to Edible Wild Plants is a great guide to have.
    I am making efforts to reduce the grass in my yard by planting edible plants and trees for me and my bees…. and the neighbors who come to pick when there is plenty.
    Tony remember when we discussed freeze dried foods I had been doing for 5 years 4 years ago? Maybe her name was Geneva(?)…. yep I am still at it. Growing tumeric, freeze drying it, grounding it up, putting it in 00 vegetablecapsules for the neighbor who has had 3 back surgeries cannot be more rewarding.
    Trump slowly exposes the corruption but his primary concern is the American people. Many venues are using this virus to gain their agenda, like so-called Dems trying to collapse their states; but at the core the basic human needs do not change, food, water, shelter, and a sense of security; playing on the last one is what they are doing with the virus. Enough of that action.
    Keeping your immunity up is key because no one is ready to be bitten by a mosquito or tick that carries the same disasters as the virus, and positivity is a stronger immunity builder than any allopathic or homeopathic input. I truly believe they work in synergy with the aforementioned.
    Anyway, thank you again for the upload and interesting topics as always gentlemen. Kind regards.

  • WILDEYETUNA
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    I am a fly on the wall … the best of days to you all for such a good agenda and interesting comments.

  • Bigpicguy
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    THE BBC HAS A VIDEO ASKING IF THE MOON IS UPSIDE DOWN… https://youtu.be/XHzzRbw0lgI
    PLEASE COMMENT ON THIS BEN…

  • Michael
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    Ben I like your theory of the aliens liking us. I so have believed that most of my life. For in all there is light an dark. it must be so among the star people. so some must care for us or we’d have been over run long ago.

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