Today was an interesting synchronicity: right before I read your missive -- literally, immediately prior to opening your post on substack -- I wrote this comment to someone's note:
Great point. Clarke’s ouevre is not discussed quite enough these days (everyone is all Heinlein and Herbert-y, which is okay, but Clarke and Asimov need to be torn a couple of new ones, too). Arthur C. was on the same footing of bullshiteree as was Sagan, only he was a better writer, I suppose. The platitudes came fast and often, mostly at the expense of us savages, as you correctly point out. (I mean, could there be anything more ridiculous than “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”? What about good ol’ Evidence? What exactly is extraordinary evidence? etc., etc.,). Anyway, I haven’t bothered to look too deeply into Clarke’s very shady life (pederast, anyone?) but I imagine it was lock-step in with the demonic-eugenics agenda that was (and is) so au currant amongst the Powers That Would Be.
Then right near the start of your missive, there's ol' Carl with his "extraordinary". Such coincidences (not?) make me feel there is a convergence coming.
All the way back in 1989, I was given an offer of stock ownership at a space launch company that recruited me to do roughly the same things I had been doing at Space Services. Deke Slayton and David Hannah, Jr., were unwilling to consider the possibility of having me own even one single share, ever, so I left their company.
The company I joined turned out to have a complex relationship to many things, including marketing. So my direct supervisor, the vice president of operations, said in a meeting of the management and board of directors a month after I started working there, that I was the only director of marketing in the industry who was forbidden to do any marketing.
The president of the company had a relationship with one of the other board members. None of the officers or directors were women.
At one point there was a meeting of the board of advisors of a group that wanted to put together an internationalist socialist space university, in Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke was there. So was a friend of mine who worked on the space university project and on some free market space projects. Clarke had an estate there. Quite a large number of young boys were present in various attire on Clarke’s estate. I don’t think he had any female companionship.
In his novel Childhood’s End author Arthur C. Clarke makes it clear that he worships demons. I have found a few interesting things in some of his books. In his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise he gives an interesting description of a painting in a cave high on a mountainside which in non-fiction materials he corroborates as not being a fictitious depiction. The mural shows a number of figures, including a woman holding a hinged box to her ear, possibly a music box, possibly a cell phone, possibly a transistor radio. But the painting was thousands of years old at the time Clarke first looked at it, he wrote.
Asimov had a lot of useful ideas, too. He was also a very smart man. One of his most carefully elaborated ideas is the simple fact that empires outlive their usefulness. The longer the current empire lasts, the longer, deeper, and more profoundly impoverishing the subsequent dark age will be. And very few people want to ever do anything at all, even slightly, about these matters.
There is a great deal of complacency. I don’t know what to do about it. But I do point at it and yell from time to time. This behaviour on my part is meant to upset the mundanes. They need to become very upset.
Please keep shouting. Also, was your use of the word “mundanes” possibly a reference to Babylon 5? If so, then it is another sci-fi connection. Either way, thanks for the further comments on Clarke and Asimov. (“As a color: a shade of purple-gray.”)
It is the other way 'round. We in the science fiction fan community began having science fiction conventions to meet and talk about the books we like, and later, to show films, and still later, videos of science fiction we found engaging. We would call the people who were in the hotel for some other event "mundanes." This began decades ago and was firmly established in the 1970s. I knew that the publishing of science fiction was in trouble when a pear shaped fan (psf) berated me in an elevator at a science fiction convention in the 1990s about my enthusiasm for the word 'danes to refer to the members of the wedding reception crowd who were in the elevator with some of us hall costumed fen. But I didn't think it would be as bad as it got by the time Jerry Pournelle passed away shortly after the 2016 Worldcon.
Yes, J. Michael Straczynski was a fan (and iirc a secret master of fandom or smof) before he began work on Babylon 5. So, his reference to mundanes is necessarily derivative of the fan community usage and not the other way 'round. And I would know.
Hi JD: I wonder if you know which author wrote a short story about all world citizens being scared enough by world propaganda to clamor for a ride on the many spaceships blasting them into space. This was of course a bait and switch. I think it must have been written in the late sixties or seventies. Heinlein?
Sometimes I see that is what is being done now in an introverted way.
Yeah they ARE lying and their time is over Mark 1:15 our time to stand with Christ and His word and Father God's is now and I gladly stand with each of you to-day and always Glory to God!
They do the best job I have ever seen of going through all of the Biblical prophecies and spend a great deal of time and effort on a timeline that shows there was a small window of time that corresponds with the ministry of Jesus ending in the year 30. That window is, according to them, the only time the first coming could happen and lines up precisely with prophecy and verifiable historical events. There is only one other small window of synchrony that is coming now and will culminate in 2030; the 2,000 year anniversary of the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. It is in 3 parts totaling about 5.5 hours. Part 4 is due to be released in April.
I am with you!
Today was an interesting synchronicity: right before I read your missive -- literally, immediately prior to opening your post on substack -- I wrote this comment to someone's note:
Great point. Clarke’s ouevre is not discussed quite enough these days (everyone is all Heinlein and Herbert-y, which is okay, but Clarke and Asimov need to be torn a couple of new ones, too). Arthur C. was on the same footing of bullshiteree as was Sagan, only he was a better writer, I suppose. The platitudes came fast and often, mostly at the expense of us savages, as you correctly point out. (I mean, could there be anything more ridiculous than “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”? What about good ol’ Evidence? What exactly is extraordinary evidence? etc., etc.,). Anyway, I haven’t bothered to look too deeply into Clarke’s very shady life (pederast, anyone?) but I imagine it was lock-step in with the demonic-eugenics agenda that was (and is) so au currant amongst the Powers That Would Be.
Then right near the start of your missive, there's ol' Carl with his "extraordinary". Such coincidences (not?) make me feel there is a convergence coming.
All best to you and yours and Happy New Year.
All the way back in 1989, I was given an offer of stock ownership at a space launch company that recruited me to do roughly the same things I had been doing at Space Services. Deke Slayton and David Hannah, Jr., were unwilling to consider the possibility of having me own even one single share, ever, so I left their company.
The company I joined turned out to have a complex relationship to many things, including marketing. So my direct supervisor, the vice president of operations, said in a meeting of the management and board of directors a month after I started working there, that I was the only director of marketing in the industry who was forbidden to do any marketing.
The president of the company had a relationship with one of the other board members. None of the officers or directors were women.
At one point there was a meeting of the board of advisors of a group that wanted to put together an internationalist socialist space university, in Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke was there. So was a friend of mine who worked on the space university project and on some free market space projects. Clarke had an estate there. Quite a large number of young boys were present in various attire on Clarke’s estate. I don’t think he had any female companionship.
In his novel Childhood’s End author Arthur C. Clarke makes it clear that he worships demons. I have found a few interesting things in some of his books. In his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise he gives an interesting description of a painting in a cave high on a mountainside which in non-fiction materials he corroborates as not being a fictitious depiction. The mural shows a number of figures, including a woman holding a hinged box to her ear, possibly a music box, possibly a cell phone, possibly a transistor radio. But the painting was thousands of years old at the time Clarke first looked at it, he wrote.
Asimov had a lot of useful ideas, too. He was also a very smart man. One of his most carefully elaborated ideas is the simple fact that empires outlive their usefulness. The longer the current empire lasts, the longer, deeper, and more profoundly impoverishing the subsequent dark age will be. And very few people want to ever do anything at all, even slightly, about these matters.
There is a great deal of complacency. I don’t know what to do about it. But I do point at it and yell from time to time. This behaviour on my part is meant to upset the mundanes. They need to become very upset.
Prosperous people don’t rebel.
Please keep shouting. Also, was your use of the word “mundanes” possibly a reference to Babylon 5? If so, then it is another sci-fi connection. Either way, thanks for the further comments on Clarke and Asimov. (“As a color: a shade of purple-gray.”)
It is the other way 'round. We in the science fiction fan community began having science fiction conventions to meet and talk about the books we like, and later, to show films, and still later, videos of science fiction we found engaging. We would call the people who were in the hotel for some other event "mundanes." This began decades ago and was firmly established in the 1970s. I knew that the publishing of science fiction was in trouble when a pear shaped fan (psf) berated me in an elevator at a science fiction convention in the 1990s about my enthusiasm for the word 'danes to refer to the members of the wedding reception crowd who were in the elevator with some of us hall costumed fen. But I didn't think it would be as bad as it got by the time Jerry Pournelle passed away shortly after the 2016 Worldcon.
Yes, J. Michael Straczynski was a fan (and iirc a secret master of fandom or smof) before he began work on Babylon 5. So, his reference to mundanes is necessarily derivative of the fan community usage and not the other way 'round. And I would know.
Hi JD: I wonder if you know which author wrote a short story about all world citizens being scared enough by world propaganda to clamor for a ride on the many spaceships blasting them into space. This was of course a bait and switch. I think it must have been written in the late sixties or seventies. Heinlein?
Sometimes I see that is what is being done now in an introverted way.
Yeah they ARE lying and their time is over Mark 1:15 our time to stand with Christ and His word and Father God's is now and I gladly stand with each of you to-day and always Glory to God!
Great points! Thank you for sharing them!
You’re welcome. Any time.
A fascinating topic. Great post!
Thank you for your kind words and for reading my stuff.
I like how you don’t merely “wish” for good, you PRAY for good. I’m right there with you, grateful for your work.
Inverted, not introverted. Sorry.
Excellent post.
Have you watched the Messiah 2030 videos on YouTube?
https://youtu.be/4AG_nJNcTjM?si=NHJhV1t4hEnxZ_7y
They do the best job I have ever seen of going through all of the Biblical prophecies and spend a great deal of time and effort on a timeline that shows there was a small window of time that corresponds with the ministry of Jesus ending in the year 30. That window is, according to them, the only time the first coming could happen and lines up precisely with prophecy and verifiable historical events. There is only one other small window of synchrony that is coming now and will culminate in 2030; the 2,000 year anniversary of the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. It is in 3 parts totaling about 5.5 hours. Part 4 is due to be released in April.
Highly recommended.
Cheese!