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Green

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A colour most are familiar with, and one we are surrounded by in the natural world. In the man-made one, however, it has a different purpose.

Soylent Green – a fictional ‘product’ in the film of that name, where it was the food available after society has shafted itself. The twist being that soylent green was humans being fed back to humans unknowingly. Since we’ve had reports of human remains being found in macdonalds, is it so far-fetched to think they do? Maybe that’s what it stood for with the yellow and red colour scheme, a different coding system using colours. See my article Seeing Red.

The Green agenda, people are now all too familiar with this term. Net zero, taxes, restrictions, and all the other hoo-ha that is being thrown in. Again, the word green being used to denote ‘nature’ but in fact the opposite is what gets proposed. A bait and switch, expecting grass, but you end up with AstroTurf.

Green screens in moviemaking to deceive the eyes and mind, a magical illusion you knowingly take part in. But can we tell when it is not so knowingly?

Green matrix background – when they show you ‘the code’. A glimpse into how the simulated construct appears behind the scenes, as never-ending streams and lines of green symbols. An intricate web of tiny green screens, creating an overall illusion, that the electric signals in your brain then pick up and projects – creating what we then know as a three dimensional ‘reality’. Or something like that.

Green of Oz – the emerald city and the green curtain that hid the truth. But it is said in the original stories, that the city wasn’t emerald at all, but the visitors were made to wear green glasses when they arrived, so that it only appeared as green and sparkly. A more manual version of that matrix code perhaps.

Green pops up in mythology here and there too, for the colour of skin. Reminding me of the strange children to appear from a cave in Cornwall that had green skin, mentioned in Appearing From Nowhere. In Hinduism, the Goddess Matangi is represented as emerald green in colour, the Egyptian God Osiris is known to be green in many depictions too, to signify rebirth and growth they say. The Green Man myth from the British Isles along the similar vein. And for a more modern idea, we have The Incredible Hulk, not quite the same, and with quite a different backstory, but kind of fits when you realise how fantastical the ancient stories were, he might just fit quite well.

They say you get green with envy too (as well as anger as above with the Hulk) – that having its roots in Greek mythology and finding new footing with Shakespear’s Othello. And with symbolism and numerology being quite significant these days, maybe chromatics are important too. How they affect us, our mood, thoughts, feelings and ideas. So, there may just be more to green and other colours, than meets the eye…

(c) K Wicks

Appearing From Nowhere

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Green children in Cornwall – quite a strange story from the 1100’s of two children that just turned up in village called Woolpit in Cornwall, who had green skin. One of them passed away, but the girl grew up and learnt English and told of where she had come from. Saying they had been taking care of their sheep and followed them into a cavern, where they then heard bells and followed the noise. Coming out of a hole into bright sunlight and became disorientated and lost. Then being found by the villagers and the hole they had emerged from being referred to as the wolf-pit by them (but that was the name of the village at some point). Interesting because she said they didn’t have a sun where she came from, only green light similar to dusk. Makes me think of tales of the vapour canopy and of different light, and period of extended darkness or different lighting and atmosphere. And ideas and stories of lands being underneath us, above us or not as far away as we think, are rife all over the world. The green skin aspect made me think of another character too (after being reminded by my other half), the wicked witch of the west from the Wizard of Oz. I hadn’t realised the author had written of the Land of Oz as a real place, and described it being sealed off and hidden from view by the sixth book, it was the film that turned it into a dream sequence. And of course, the Emerald City being a big green symbol to work your way towards. But with a continuous reminder of red in the shoes. The Matrix too focused on green as being the ‘background’ to everything, and as we know we use a green screen to project what we want in movie land, so maybe there is more to green than meets the eye. And of course, a flash of red in that film.

Another tale of something appearing from nowhere, but a bit more random and sketchy. After seeing this, I really did wonder about splits in dimensions. Mexican lamppost – this is a very grainy vid from nearly 20 years ago I believe, and can easily be debunked, but still gives me the heeby jeebies.

The man from Taured – in Japan in July 1954 was the curious case of a man who appeared at Tokyo Airport with a passport saying he was from Taured. On a map he showed the location as between France and Spain when questioned further as no-one had heard of it. Surprised to find the area called Andorra, he maintained that was where he was from. After being arrested and detained in a hotel and all his documents confiscated, he promptly disappeared. As did the documents apparently.

I guess these all can be put in a file of unsolved mysteries or chalked up to hearsay, but just as we apparently have people appearing from nowhere now and again, we also get people who just disappear. And although it seems we have plenty of nefarious characters and types in our realm who are capable of such things, it leads me to wonder how many of them are extraordinary, and more out of place than we know.

(c) K Wicks

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Homemade chocolates

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Went for making more orange cream filled chocolates as its been a while. Thought it might be nice to make the filling green this time. It looked a bit like snot while mixing the filling 🤣, but I decided on it being apple coloured instead, yes, definitely apple. But tastes like orange.

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