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After watching the movie Eyes Wide Shut, I was left wondering what this movie was all about. Stanley Kubrick, the producer, was a genius and a very meticulous man when it came to making movies. After being advised of the symbolism this movie possessed, I decided to do my own digging on Youtube about some of its meanings. I am not going to get into what I did or didn't hear about the movie, as it is all speculation...since Kubrick died 5 days after editing the movie is no longer here to confirm or deny these speculations.

But, what I found evenly as fascinating, was right below the videos regarding the messages about the said movie above, were videos exposing Disney's messages in their works. Some of the images shown in cartoons were quite frankly, disgusting....especially for a target audience of young children. In one frame, they showed a woman with her breast exposed. Reportedly, their mission was to charge young children sexually, and encourage them to disobey their parents in the future.

Subliminal message, they explained, works on a subconscious level. On the conscious level, our brains can only process so much data and information. So, watching these cartoons, the conscious mind normally does not pick up on these images/messages. However, they inform that the subconscious can process millions more times the amount of data the conscious mind can. In essence, the messaging is stored in our subconscious....thus, they explain the mind-control project we are all be subjected to.

To confirm this statement about the subconscious processing immense more data than the conscious mind, I once heard from a hypnotist, he said, he could hypnotize somebody well into their adult years and have them recall the eye color of everyone of their friends at their third birthday party.

Video link/s to the famous Mandelbrot Set - To Some of the Highest Levels of Detail Ever Recorded! (i.e the most Iterations)...

The Mandelbrot Set was discovered (mathematically) by Benoit Mandelbrot, (in 1980).



To Infinity, and Beyond? (At the Microscopic Level)?

This would seem to suggest Infinity is possible in the reverse direction (Think Zeno's Paradox). It is all a matter of scale. To think in this way; is to understand how the Big Bang could have come from an Infinitely Small Singularity. In fact, all of the Cosmological Evidence (background radiation) would seem to point toward the veracity of this statement.......

To Infinity, and Beyond? (At the Macroscopic Level)?

Consider this, now, from the Reverse Point of View: Since the MS is Infinite in one direction; then why not the other way around? Likewise, this would seem to suggest that the Universe is Infinite at Vast Scales; which the human mind cannot process; and indeed fits the Mathematical Definition of Genuine Infinity....(there are various interpretations of this).......

Here the Argand Plane is used:

The x-axis (horizontal) represents the Real Numbers;
(as in a Cartesian standard graph)

The y-axis (vertical) represents the Imaginary Numbers;
(designated the iy axis);

where i = (-1)^1/2 = {the square root of (-1)}

Therefore, any Complex Number z can be written in the form:

z = a + ib

For any point (a,ib) on the Complex Plane.

The Real part of the Complex Number z is written:

Re(z) = a

The Imaginary part of the Complex Number z is written:

Im(z) = b



The iterative function f(z) For the Mandelbrot Set is:

f(z) = z^2 + C (for any complex constant C)

On the Argand plane (x, iy) axis.

(Start with z = 0)

Fractals at ANY level of magnification will produce self-similar but NOT Identical Patterns (generated by the information contained in the Original Set)....

Everything in Nature is Fractal; (The classic example would be a snowflake) - they are all indeed different, yet superficially the same; due to their self-similarity. Other examples would include leaves on a tree, and forks of lightning....

The Universe itself, is Fractal/Chaotic

This is why (mathematically) these Fractal Sets are very significant and important to study...

The Mandelbrot Set is probably the most famous fractal set; although there are many others (depending on the mathematical parameters chosen, and, of course, the initial function)...

These are the Link/s (below):










There are higher levels of Magnification (Iterations) available, like this one:



The final image, here, is Magnified to 10^4004 (10 to the power of 4004). That is to say, a phenominally Large Number.

Or in other words, the number 10, with 4004 zeros after it! - (or 400,000 Iterations).

Only to get to a "typical" MS motif at the end......(Completely Mind Blowing!)


And two 3D ones for Enthusiasts:

(These are usually based on a 4D form of Complex Numbers called Quaternions)

I really recommend this one..




And...



The math is further explained, here (for those interested in more detail)...





Btw, I'm Not trying to show off here, I just find the Mandelbrot Set (and Fractals, in general) to be F..king Amazing!.......


***TRIGGER WARNING**** Use Extreme Caution if you have Epilepsy, or are otherwise susceptible.....

Watch and be amazed

We get transmissions through a biological transmitter...our brain.

Through time, our creators made a deal with a universal confederation.

....giving us a soul and us the right to use our free will.


and to take it one step further...

What happens if this contract is running out, as our new model replacements begin to move in.


Perhaps a war between good and evil will ensue.

The good....the universal confederation
The evil...our creators who no longer need us.



Who would be the best to manipulate a mass of people, know us better than we know ourselves.....
But, there is love out there...but we must freely accept it and be it.

Perhaps with our freewill, we are judged to whether or not we are worthy of a soul.

If the light we see from the sun is 8 minutes old, that means the sun we see in our present time is not real?

What else may not be real?

Maybe some fake news. lol


Anyway, happy Saturday night you all.

that is taking over the Northeast

Humans are not newcomers when it comes to messing around with nature. While we haven't created Frankenstein's monster yet, what we do transforms the natural world.

One recent example is the creation of the coywolf — a hybrid of the coyote and the wolf that is also known as the Eastern coyote. According to a new article from The Economist, their population seems to have reached more than a million.

These animals have a completely new genetic makeup: Their genes are about one-quarter wolf DNA and two-thirds coyote DNA; the rest is from domesticated dogs. A 2013 study suggests this dog DNA is mostly from a few specific breeds, including German Shepherds and Doberman Pincers.

Human activity likely played a role in the species' creation. As humans cut down wolves' forest homes and hunted down their populations, the lack of available partners for wolves led them to search elsewhere for mates, leading them to coyotes and dogs.

Scientists think this intermixing began with wild wolves in southern Ontario about a century or two ago.

The coywolves' success is astounding scientists. According to The Economist:

The animal’s range has encompassed America’s entire north-east, urban areas included, for at least a decade, and is continuing to expand in the south-east following coywolves’ arrival there half a century ago. This is astonishing. Purebred coyotes never managed to establish themselves east of the prairies. Wolves were killed off in eastern forests long ago. But by combining their DNA, the two have given rise to an animal that is able to spread into a vast and otherwise uninhabitable territory.

Here's the coyote, which traditionally maxes out at 75 pounds and has pointier features, and readily populates cities:



And this is what a wolf looks like. Wolves are usually bigger, weighing in at about 100 pounds, and prefer more wild habitats.



While the grey wolf and the coyote are each other's closest living relatives, the two animals separated evolutionarily 1 to 2 million years ago.

Usually hybrids — even between two closely related species — don't survive as well as their parent species, but the coywolves seem to be an exception. They've only really emerged in force during the last few decades, but they seem to have a few advantages over their parent species.

According to The New York Times' Moises Velazquez-Manoff: "[The coywolf] can be as much as 40 percent larger than the Western coyote, with powerful wolf-like jaws; it has also inherited the wolf's more social nature, which allows for pack hunting."

According to The Economist: "With larger jaws, more muscle and faster legs, individual coywolves can take down small deer. A pack of them can even kill a moose."

These animals are even better fitted to our changing world than we thought, and their proliferation has been more "rapid, pervasive, and transformational than once thought," according to The Economist. The genetic combination of the two animals seems especially well suited to the northern habitat. The wolf genes allow the coyote to take down bigger prey, while the coyote genes let them adapt to cities and other populated areas.

The wolves even follow railroads into cities, making themselves scarce during the day — adopting a nocturnal schedule. They even look both ways before crossing the highway.


Randy Droniuk caught this coywolf lounging in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Another reason the animals are so successful could be their wider diet, according to The Economist:

While reading Manly P. Hall’s book, The Philosophy of Astrology (1943), he makes a very interesting statement. In reference to the light given off from the stars, “Has it ever occurred to you that these light rays may be carrying with them some kind of moral or intellectual energy?” I know if you do an internet search on Manly P. Hall, not everything you will find about him will be good. But, I do also know that if you want people to not listen to somebody, you need to shoot down their credibility. So, whether or not Manly P. Hall is a good person or not, this statement he made opened my eyes to some potentials or even realities. When he first wrote this book in 1943, there is no doubt that the idea of light being intelligent would be absurd, or outright ludicrous. But today….

While thinking about the possible validity of such an idea as light having intelligence, it occurred to me that it is very possible. Our modern day remote controls send intelligent signals to our tvs and whatever else. Fiber optics is light based with information/intelligent signals. What about how the energy of light produces electricity with solar panels, or even how plants respond to sunlight. I find it interesting that one of the most powerful secret societies is named the Illuminati. In addition, what about the bible when it speaks of Light. Without light, we would all be blind.

It is well known that our brains give off energy; however, can it receive energy…intelligent energy that has effects on us? The best way of validating that is when we have cloudy days and people feel a little down vs. a sunny day and feeling a little more happy.

If we are effected by external energies, and/or light, can we be manipulated by it? It is said that HARP has the ability to create the feelings of happiness and sadness in wholes of societies. Also, is God really light? Since the stars/suns are producing light….would it be more correct to ask, is God the universe? Was the idea of wearing tinfoil hats so crazy after all? Are our lives really predestined in accordance to the position of the universal energies?

Harvey producing over 4' of rain in places in Texas and now Irma sustaining 180 mile an hour winds with gust over 200 mph. Not to mention, warmer ocean waters.


What do you think? Is this proof of global warming?


Not to mention, the hurricane season is just starting.

I have not even given this a lot of thought and I do not even know if there is a point to this. I think perhaps it is just to stimulate possible postulating. I just started a new book and only on chapter one. It has to do with physics and its link to Eastern Mysticism. The little bit I have read has gotten me thinking a bit. I was fascinated to hear that mathematics is a language of nature, only thing with symbols. Also how our spoken language is only a guide of sorts to efficiently understand one another. It would take way to long to describe every aspect of a tree, or a person. Not to mention, it would be impossible...so we use tree or person to describe that object. This is all we are taught to care about and understand. But what is a person? ...or a tree for that matter. Both are made up of matter and both have this mysterious energy force connected to them.

Okay, this is just about as far as I got with my thinking...lol.

But,

I left the best for last. At least to me it is, there was a saying I read in the book.

"The map is not the territory."

It is like we are taught how to identify and read the map, but we never go seeking for the territory.




...thus, we are being dumbed down.

What is reality? Is it strictly the world based on sense-experience as perceived through the medium of the physical senses? How justified is this claim? Socially-accepted concepts of sense-experience reality arise when there is common agreement by society on the interpretation of sense-experience phenomena. Such interpretations may result in the postulation of the so-called scientific laws of nature. Yet, these interpretations are just “interpretations”. One never knows when some brilliant person will come along and show that some aspect of our present socially-accepted interpretation of sense-experience phenomena is no longer valid and propose some other interpretation in its place. This indeed is the history of science in which several scientific laws and theories have undergone modification or even rejection in some cases. When can we ever say that we know things as they are? Or perhaps more importantly, can we really know things as they are? What really is the criterion for reality?

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Do you feel like some people you know enjoy arguing just for the sake of arguing?

Negatives
Here’s what’s not so great about the Argumentative Personality:
Habitual ‘argument stokers’ can drive you crazy, especially when you live or work with them; it’s hard to have a conflict-free conversation with them, even about trivial matters.
Many, if not most, of them have strong narcissistic tendencies; in other words, they are very self-absorbed.
They have little, or hardly any, insight into how their behaviours impact others.
When they come across people whose views differ from their own, they feel threatened, and go on the defensive.
They are chronic blamers: others, or the world, are always at fault.

Positives
There are minimal good points about the Argumentative Personality:
Being consistently at the mercy of an Argumentative Personality can help build motivation to stand up for yourself.
We can learn debate techniques from those who passionately defend their views.

How do I deal with the Argumentative Personality?
It takes lots of energy to defend yourself and maintain self-esteem when you have to deal with a person that sees you as the source of wrongdoing. Here are some suggestions on how to maintain your sanity when working or living with an argumentative person: