A real treat to see one of these in my garden, a few times in one day, and actually saw one again this morning. The buddleia is doing a very good job this year, catering for plenty of bees, butterflies, moth, hoverflies, beetles and various other small insects. Got a few good pics and fottage of it flying around, but they aren’t easy!
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A further look at the way our digital prison is trying to encircle us. Covered already in previous articles, but as it continues, so does the observation of it.
This is an updated look, seen as things are still moving along at quite a pace. New staffless shops being revealed, robots in place of people in factories, robotic dogs shown marching in formation, some with weapons loaded on them. You know, all totally normal for a harmonious ordinary functioning society. But today I have read through a few comments of the reality for some starting to hit home, women in particular after a certain move by a certain social media company a few weeks ago in the states. Showing people what the consequences are of sharing very personal information online, and giving rise to finally understanding that ‘private messages’ are only so to a point. Imagine someone being able to eavesdrop on every conversation you have ever had, and were ever going to have, omnipotence of a godly nature hanging over you. Many are close to it, as they share most of their lives online, publicly and privately, but when it’s all online, maybe there is no difference in the two.
With microphones in telephones and TV’s, they don’t even need to bug people’s homes anymore. We invited the devil in ourselves, paid for it, gave our time to it, and still do. The saying ‘you have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide’ is apt here, or would have been if the game was fair. Alas, it isn’t. Or they would have cracked down and stopped all the nefarious online activities that flourished as they were given free reign. Now being used as a weapon against normality to monitor everyone, while still not curbing anything.
The latest move bringing charges in a home abortion case, using messages between a mother and daughter to prove something. Women have rightly pricked up their ears on this and have started to think it through. Whether the girl was right or wrong isn’t the issue, it’s about privacy. Why people had apps to monitor their cycle is beyond me, I didn’t even like having a calorie app for a day for the idea that it was then recorded somewhere. By who? For what? No need. Population, pregnancy and the future of humanity have featured in many a storyline and I wonder sometimes if it’s a head up, speculated upon in They Tell Us.
But it really does seem as though they want to know what you think, what you eat, what you feel, where you go, when you travel, where you travel, who you talk to, what you say. They have access to most of that with lots of people, freely given to them on a daily basis, and that wouldn’t be an issue ordinarily. Like people said, ‘I’m very boring, why would they want to monitor me?’. And that is right, and monitoring all by itself wasn’t important, yet the overall point of what it leads to was for me. Why do they want all that info? In my mind, it would lead to being able to control those things. And here we are. Because while it wasn’t so much an issue before, now it is. Because they want to decide things about you and for you (and those around you), based on that monitoring.
There is also a big push and lots of restructuring going on around medicine. They want that all online too. Monitored appointments, checked and reviewed, doctors and patients alike will feel the scrutiny. This is where the idea that they are implanting digital tracers in people would come into play. They could monitor your heartbeat, circulation, location, intake of calories etc all from an internal sensor. They keep saying they want to integrate people with their phones, and they are already a beacon on us. Once fully integrated, we will be the data. They make no secret of that being a goal. To augment humans and machine to create something weird and seemingly not necessary. But as history and the present shows us, just because we can, does not mean we should…
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It all starts with an idea…
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It was quite a lovely sunrise.
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A white cosmos opened today 😍
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It turns out, there have been many instances of cities in the sky, or fata morgana as they have been named. I only knew on one in China a few years back, but seems there have been others. Charles Fort collected a number of tales as below and detailed in his book New Lands.
In October of 1796 a mirage of a walled town had been seen distinctly for half an hour at Yougal in Ireland. Again upon March 9th 1797 in Yougal had been seen a mirage of a walled town.
In June of 1801 a mirage of an unknown city, It was seen for more than an hour. A representation of mansions surrounded by shrubbery, with forests behind.
October 10th 1881 that at Rugenwalde, Pomerania now Poland and Germany the mirage of a village had been seen in the sky, Snow covered roofs from which hung icicles.
On June 29th 1882 over lake Orsa in Sweden, representations of steam ships had been seen in the sky, and an island covered with vegetation.
March 12th 1890 at 4pm in the sky of Ashland, Ohio was seen a representation of a large unknown city.
Early in June 1897 in the Yukon in Alaska, A city had been seen in the sky, The description of this city is that it looked like some immense city from the ancient past.
On Feb 17th 1901 it is said Indians of Alaska had told of the occasional appearance of city, appearing suspended in the sky, description by visitors to this area, we could see plainly houses, well defined streets, here and there rose tall spires over huge buildings, which appeared to be ancient mosques and cathedrals. More like an ancient European city.
August 2nd 1908 at Ballyconneely on the coast of Ireland, was seen a phantom city, of different sized houses, in different styles of architecture, visible for over 3 hours.
And in 2015 there was a sighting and video footage in China of one.
Hard to know for sure what is going on up there, but interesting none-the-less.
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I have seven various short stories available to read for free, I thought it might be nice to link them all in one post so if you find yourself with a bit of time to fill and fancy a creepy read, see below.
Full book links available as well if you decide you may want to read more, although most of them are now shared here for free 🙂
There is also a newer short story available, which isn’t in a collection yet but you can also read for free here – In the Mountain
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It’s now been going
For quite some time
The continuing farce
A pantomime
A pure afront
We can’t ignore
They’ve taken so much
Yet still want more
To put in their box
That they have created
Pushing towards
What they have fated
Keeping distractions
On tap thick and fast
Changing the present
Rewriting the past
So that we won’t know
What did come before
It turns into myth
And a faded folklore
But through the darkness
A sliver of light
The bold and the brave
Step forward to fight
For a future worth saving
Not in part but in whole
It’s not just in mind
But deep in our soul
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Something is coming…
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I was bound to get round to an article of this nature eventually. I have been mulling over myths, monsters and legends for over 30 years now. And although having previously accepted that these things were fantasy and fictional, rational thought and more research has now made me rethink that presumption. I’ll mention a few and how they fit into today’s landscape for me.
Giants and titans – we have had stories and tales of giants for our entire history. The book of Genesis mentions them, all old stories and legends have them at some point, and we even have modern tales of them. But what if they were real? Giant trees and other huge animals show there has been a time before of a greater size than now. Jack and the beanstalk spring to mind here. There have been whispers and stories of a land above ours, as well as below, so could it be that they were or are on land, just not the one we inhabit?
Olympics, gods and competition – they say we are made in gods image and compete to be the best. But what if we aren’t the best that’s ever been. We just try to emulate and replicate it as best we know how. We try to be the strongest, fastest, jump the highest, but only a much smaller scale than once was. Maybe.
Leviathan, mermaids, cracken – monsters and mysteries of the oceans have always been with us as long as we have been seafaring I should imagine. But where did they start? Did we have gigantic ‘monsters’ lurking in the depths of the seas? Could it be that from those strange times and great upheavals of the past there were things different from us as we know ourselves now. But maybe we were different back then too.
Vampires – it’s no secret we have historical references throughout most cultures to blood sacrifices or drinking blood. But is there any truth in it? There’s talk of young blood rejuvenating older people in mainstream articles now, so it’s not something they are trying to hide. All the movies and books of that nature had to be prepping us for something didn’t they?
Odin, Middle earth, Ragnarök – this one is interesting to me as it seems to overlap with the giants, and involves an end of days event which hold some weight to our current path in time. They have a land in their legends called Niflheim during a period called the Great Void (there is the word ‘great’ again, possibly a marker as I suspect in my previous article, There’s nothing great about it. But the word is awfully close to Nephilim, a giant race from Enoch’s time and a cross between the fallen angels and humankind. Funny how it starts to weave in to other things, or you realise where those other legends and tales may have come from.
We often dwell in the past, and for certain things, I think it is necessary and can help you to understand where we are and where this is all going…
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