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As a child in the 70's, I was sure that I would commute to work in a flying car when I grew up... like George Jetson.

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Promises were made! Every issue, it seemed, of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics for decades had a story about flying cars. None that folded into a cartoon briefcase, mind you, but flying cars all the way. We will fulfil those promises. God's will be done. Amen.

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I’ve managed to regularly complain about having to work for two whole hours... so we’re not totally off track from a Jetson future.

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"They pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work."

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You are a great writer. I like the tone here. The future I choose is peace, sovereignty, innovation, space travel and flying cars, for sure. I will probably be voting, to remove Trudeau, but I am not going to blame myself for how it will probably be another failure, no matter who I vote for. I hope people will get together and create the parallel system they want. It's a shame that there is so much hate towards Christians where I live. They could learn a lot of about how to build the parallel system they want from the Mennonites. But they seem to want to start from scratch. Unfortunately I can't join up with them because I don't trust their leader, who either works directly for Trudeau or never passed kindergarten. Hard to say. But I am happy to be friends with the local Mennonites!

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There is room in the world for more than one parallel system. I don't know all about Canada, though I have some very good friends in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and "British" Columbia (aka Coast Salish Columbia ;-). But it seems like there is room for more than one parallel system in Canada, too. I don't know two whom you refer, but he doesn't sound good. I know a bit about Trudeau, who is definitely doing terrible things. God bless you Renee. Amen.

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I’m sending this to one of my family members -- she’s the one who ultimately brought me to know Christ / Yeshua other than my own experience -- long story. But this was really powerful and I thank you for it.

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You are welcome. God bless you and your family. It is not always easy to come through the experiences we have, but God gives us strength when we need it most. I am deeply grateful to your family member for showing you the truth, the life, and the way. God bless her. All the glory to God. Amen.

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Feb 15Liked by Jim Davidson

Thought those were the HALO rings there for a minute. Never heard of ringworld. Looks like it is a fabricated ring with intermediary solar blockers to produce places of daylight and night.

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Yes, that's the idea. It was a long time ago. And Larry Niven always had the good stuff.

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Jan 30Liked by Jim Davidson

That's some interesting perspectives. So before we go balls-deep into this future, how might you go about what will basically make it a nonstarter: the money illusionists. Because it takes an act of war to achieve such unfettered and psychologicall disregard of the fact it's not possible in this lifetime with the shackles of finance. The Manhattan Project comes to mind. But it's hard to imagine people being that terrified of a great future to break one's perception of reality.

Nice piece Jim.

Thanks,

O. A. D.

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This thread looks to become promising! Splendid. I cannot tell you how long I've been waiting to see some meritorious discussion from someone with intelligence and the command of facts.

FA Hayek was a Nobel prize winning economist. I mention that to suggest that the man had limitations. My economics professor in college, the Marxist Vickery, was another Nobel winner, same field. But Hayek was involved in founding the Mont Pèlerin society with other free market luminaries, including Frank Knight and Ludwig von Mises. So I think he had some good intentions when he started writing "The Denationalisation of Money" in 1976. He clearly had the bit in his teeth, as it were, because he kept at it, with a second edition and then a third edition. I quoted extensively from the third edition, published 1990, in _The Indomitus Report_ back in the day. You can nab a free copy from my friends at the Mises Institute. https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-refined or if you prefer to buy it, they have convenient links to their bookseller site.

Now, I feel it key to mention that Maggie Thatcher and the other European Union grifters got at this idea from the wrong end, or deliberately ignored Hayek's actual message in pursuing the common currency nonsense that has so completely hamstrung the European economy in ever so many ways. But, the upshot of Hayek's argument was that competing currencies are able to better serve market needs. Some currencies would be redeemable for a particular commodity, such as gold or silver. Others would be linked to a basket of commodities, perhaps. Some would rely on the strength of whatever banking enterprise issued them. Something Hayek did not anticipate was the strength of certain kinds of cryptography and the possibility of a "trustless" currency system. To be very fair about it, neither did I.

But I did become aware of the mathematics of public key cryptography in the early 1990s and began teaching it. Later, I became aware of the work of Doug Jackson in actually operating a digital currency, e-gold, that was fully redeemable for gold (or silver, or platinum, or palladium - by far the strongest part of the digital gold economy was gold). A very good friend, Pam Fayed, and her husband Jim, started a competitor, e-Bullion. I covered some of the aspects of that industry in my post here: https://l5news.substack.com/p/gold-economy-2004

Which brings us up to about 2007 when the fbi lied repeatedly and destroyed e-gold. Then they told a bunch more lies and destroyed the Liberty Dollar. By destroying e-gold they also destroyed 1MDC, the Private Venture Capital Stock Exchange, the Gold Casino, and several of the businesses I was operating at the time. Which led to a lot of conversations. Some of those conversations took place on the Agora at Anarplex internet relay chat. Some took place in other venues. We began talking about what has been called "the e-gold problem" which is that centralisation leads to exploitation. Put more thoroughly, having all their data on servers in the United States, their principals in the United States, and their gold in known storage vaulting services in London, Zurich, and Dubai, When Doug and Barry were arrested, the servers were seized and e-gold ground to a halt. Later some of the gold was seized, too, and eventually quite a bit of gold made it into the hands of the gooferment.

These conversations led to the discussion of Merkle trees, Hash Cash, DigiCash, and other projects. The problem with invention was handled by not naming the inventor. The white paper was released, commented upon in various places, and then the code was formed. I think you can still see some of that material from October 2008 to January 2009 on the original github or one of its mirrors. The genesis block was mined. The first million coins were mined. Satoshi left the scene.

Charlie Lee really liked the idea and released Litecoin. A bunch of other people got involved. Roger Ver and his friends worked up Bitcoin Cash. You can see a list at CoinMarketCap.com which alleges in its upper left corner that there are 2.2 million plus cryptocurrencies that can presently be identified, and they trade on about 703 exchanges that coinmarketcap bothers to look at. Near the height of the last crypto spring the total value of all currencies tracked was over $2 trillion. At the nadir of the most recent crypto winter, that fell to just under $1 trillion iirc. And it is now well over $1.6 trillion. Point being, free market money now exists.

It is fair to say that at 67.8% concentrated in BTC and ETH, it is not an entirely robust market. Nearly all the $2 trillion in circulation today is encompassed in the top 100 currencies. But there are jurisdictions around the world that embrace cryptos, there are people who code smart contracts built on them, and some of my good friends in the cypher punk community are involved in various of these. NEAR would be one to watch, I think. But, of course, "this is not investment advice" and "past performance won't mean anything in the future" and yada yada warden.

So, that, my friend, is a partial answer. The technology for lifting the shackles exists. It has existed since 2009. Right around 2016 a group of people in the deep states (gchq, cia, fbi, mossad, etc.) began panicking just a bit. They went ahead and got some of their people involved in some of the code teams. I think they did a pretty good job of making 2017 a legendary mess for transaction fees and settlement costs. But things were not so badly forked. So I suspect that the decentralised finance world will persist.

There are a lot of reasons to think that "the shackles of finance" were deeply involved in the recent years of global authoritarian weirdness. In 2019 Deutsche Bank failed, again. I recall that being in the Springtime. Then there was a lock up of interbank lending in the late Summer and early Autumn. So things happened. You can choose to believe whatever you wish to believe about the Wuhan events, about the subsequent lockdowns, how the Cantillon effect was most beneficial to those not subject to the elimination of their freedom of movement and commerce, and the sundry results of the vaxxajab local, corporate, regional, and in some places national mandates. But I would say that the people who think they run the world have been doing a lot of panicking and running around and trying to get to their seats in a game of musical chairs in which most of the available seats have suddenly found new owners. It's probably not a good metaphor so leave it be.

Which brings me to another set of important points. God lives. Jesus lives. Mother Mary lives. The saints and the angels live. These are important points because a great many people have succumbed to the propaganda and deceit of the demon worshippers, by which I mean the freemasons, by which I mean the globalists. A reckoning comes. And many things which were regarded as stable and long term are going to be upended, thrown down, and destroyed. It won't be the first time that God has "taken a hand" in human affairs, and it certainly won't be the last.

The problem with shackles is, they won't hold water. The problem with an iron fist grabbing at a torrent of sand is the same. The sand keeps slipping through. We are many. They are few.

And these words shall then become

Like Oppression's thundered doom

Ringing through each heart and brain,

Heard again—again—again—

"Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number—

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you—

Ye are many—they are few."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822

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Jan 30Liked by Jim Davidson

Wicked! And thanks for your amazingly expeditious package. Might I marinate on this a minute and so forth. Have a conference call tomorrow morning.

Much appreciated

nite nite.

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Welp, I haven't forgotten you Jim, although reading through only a third of your interesting, fascinating repetiteur I'm perplexed to say the least. I'm still catching up. And require skimming through the book recommendations. 🙏

Have nice evening.

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I loved the first of the Ringworld books, and I got the second for Christmas :-)

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There are many Ringworld books.

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One down, many to go.

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"With longevity, and suspended animation, and ambition, and the technologies we already understand, we can reach the stars. Where, as I’ve mentioned, there are tens of thousands of exoplanets within a few hundred light years."

Just so long as we don't get "ice on our minds." (I am assuming you've read the Heorot trilogy.)

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You would make a mistaken assumption. No, I am a fan of Theodore Sturgeon. Ninety percent of everything published is garbage, he once said. I think he was optimistic. But I am aware of a great many theoretical difficulties with suspended animation tech. One of the things I have questioned for some time is whether the bodies frozen in Alcor's care would be re-occupied by the same souls if the bodies were successfully restored to full vigour. I don't know if that's so. The film "The Fifth Element" has some suggestions about how that might work with a different sort of restoration technology.

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"You would make a mistaken assumption."

—Since you mentioned Pournelle and Niven, I figured it was a safe-ish bet. (They are co-authors of the Heorot books.)

"One of the things I have questioned for some time is whether the bodies frozen in Alcor's care would be re-occupied by the same souls if the bodies were successfully restored to full vigour."

—I have wondered that about many similar technologies and ideas. A soul, for example, is not going to want to stay cooped up in a cryonic chamber for 500 years. Then again, maybe that soul would just re-occupy when it is time—doing a bunch of other stuff in the meantime.

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Oh, I think I remember reading one or two of those. Something about a strange ecology with deadly lizards. Early "empire of man" stories iirc But I don't remember the ice on the mind stuff being very detailed.

It's a really interesting question, how important is this earthly realm? It's obviously important enough that quite a few souls are here. And I believe mankind has previously spread from this area of the galaxy to quite some distance. There are artefacts from 150,000 years ago that strongly suggest a previous high tech civilisation. So within ten or twenty thousand light years there are people just like us biologically. Culturally, not so much.

So when a soul is done here, it goes into the heavenly realm. The waiting area of purgatory or the other hot place are two locations, and heaven is a third. Would one want to come back, if one were in heaven, to spend more time in a body like we have here? I don't know. I suppose the answers would be different in various instances, and that "it depends" is the key to the inquiry. It would depend on what it is that soul needs to do here. Opening the Milky Way to human settlement would seem like a fairly big set of tasks.

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Jan 23·edited Jan 23Liked by Jim Davidson

"strange ecology with deadly lizards"

Yep. Grendels. I am on the third book in the series now. I like.

"There are artefacts from 150,000 years ago that strongly suggest a previous high tech civilisation."

It's an intriguing possibility. Whether it means we are just much older than we realize, and we've gotten advanced before…or that we came from elsewhere, I don't know. I am open to either possibility.

"Would one want to come back, if one were in heaven, to spend more time in a body like we have here?"

—The explanation I usually hear is that this is a testing ground. A place to experience creation and work things out, in the absence of the advantages we have when we are not incarnated. So we want the test. Or so the explanation goes. Once again, I am open to any possibility actually being true. I don't know.

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I go over my views on where we come from (Earth, 480,000 years ago) and where we've gotten to (out into the galaxy about 20,000 light years) in my essay here:

https://l5news.substack.com/p/making-technology-anti-fragile

Our souls are not material and don't originate in the earthly realm. Our souls come from God.

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Great article.

What about other sentient species in the galaxy?

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Dec 30, 2023Liked by Jim Davidson

That was quite an exciting ride, anything that stretches the mind beyond the fixtures and fittings of our over regulated existence has my full attention.

As you've pointed out the systems we currently have in place are designed to supress us and any innovation that distracts from 'their' science, their technology, their agenda, I like to imagine what could have been. Money, resources and talent have been squandered just to keep their bloated pockets and political evils afloat.

What a wonderful script for hope and endless possibilities, thank you.

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You're welcome. All the glory to God. God loves us and wants us to be happy. Amen.

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Have you looked into any of the Future Map of America, Future map of the world? Thoughts?

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Jesus Christ is dead.

Flying Cars are dead.

Aviation is dead.

I propose the end of Aviation & the End of Oil

I propose a global network of Hypersonic Zero Emission Trains based on my Invention plus the Inventions I have not filed yet.

I propose free energy based on Water.

Free Education.

And Interstellar Space travel.

https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/the-invention-the-illuminati-does

Carbon Footprint? My Arse.

Carbon Tax? My Arse.

Carbon Digital ID? I fucking shove it up their Arses and push it up to their throat with a red hot Iron Rod.

We create a Zero Emission World and we pay no taxes.

Going from New York to LA will be faster than you go to the Airport by taxi now.

All transportation of goods and people will be done at Hypersonic speed with ABSOLUTE ZERO EMISSIONS FOREVER... beat that.

https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/the-future-according-to-fritz-freud

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A potentially habitable planet at the NEAREST star? That can't be a coincidence…

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Well, Sol is the nearest star. It is only 93 million miles away. -)

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The nearest other star. 🤣

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SPACE

The Final Frontier

that is of Course

the SPACE between Human Ears!

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It is always a pleasure in this life to meet someone with individual received authority about the Word of God. I am deeply grateful to Jesus for sending you to help us with our work. If you are serious about providing for the poor, as I am, you should know about the opportunities to work in community shelters, especially at meal times, as I have been doing for many years. There are also many places to contribute your excess possessions. For my own part I have strong guidance to work through the charity of St. Vincent de Paul about which you might choose to learn more here: https://www.crs.org/about/mission-statement

Socialism is communism. Communism is from the freemasons, who paid their brother freemason Karl Marx to write about it for them. And the freemasons are with the devil. So have a care where you tread, in this life. Do not halt between two opinions. Choose this day who ye will serve. Many who do what you claim in your profile name are using the words of Jesus for political purposes. The devil also quotes scripture.

Often I'm inclined to offer a blessing to people who post comments on this 'stack, but I have been directed not to do so in your case. God's will be done. Amen.

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You are a real testimony to how darkly evil the spiritual forces we battle have become. I looked for the word "zombie" in all of my posts, a thing Substack makes easy. I was surprised to find the word in my "Morpheus Proposal" - referring to the name of the band "Rob Zombie" which is part of the sound track list I included for good measure, when I wrote the essay in 2003.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.

Jesus taught his followers to be armed to defend our flocks from demon worshipping wolves like you. It is good you don't volunteer to help the poor at community shelters, they don't need to be in the presence of evil. May God have mercy on your soul.

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