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Octafish

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12. Richard Harris as English Bob
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 01:59 PM
Apr 2015

Last edited Sat Apr 11, 2015, 02:43 PM - Edit history (1)

English Bob: (at the barber's, discussing the assassination of President Garfield) Well there's a dignity in royalty, a majesty that precludes the likelihood of assassination. If you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen your hands would shake as though palsied.

Barber: Oh I wouldn't point no pistol at nobody sir.

English Bob: Well that's a wise policy, a wise policy. But if you did. I can assure you, if you did, that the sight of royalty would cause you to dismiss all thoughts of bloodshed and you would stand... how shall I put it? In awe. Now, a president... well I mean... (chuckles)



English Bob: Why not shoot a president?

We are what we think, perhaps because ours is what Jacques Vallee describes as an Associative Universe, where our thoughts call into being our reality. This is old hat to you, brand spanking new to most:



Dr. Jacques Vallee says we may live in an "Associative Universe," one in which our minds act as a rudder, guiding us toward destinations we have pre-considered. An astronomer and computer scientist by training, he was among the first to apply computers to analyzing the UFO phenomenon when an assistant to the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project BLUEBOOK fame and "swamp gas" notoriety.

Vallee describes the "Associative Universe" in detail in "Messengers of Deception," a study of UFO cults and people who manipulate followers and what it means to the greater society as a whole. He had been studying a contactee group called, iirc, "The Order of Melchizedek" for several months. On an unrelated matter, Vallee flew to L.A. for a conference and hopped aboard a cab. When he finally got to his room, he looked at his receipt for the cab ride and it was signed, iirc, John Melchizedek. Vallee looked in the phone book and he was the only Melchizedek in town.

The coincidence made him think that, perhaps the universe is organized along the lines of a series of information events. Time and space, rather than acting as a phonograph needle laid down at the beginning of track one and coursing through to the end of the side, may be a series of seemingly unconnected experiences woven together by our consciousness. Thus, our awareness serves to pick up the needle and put it down at different places on the album. A similar situation may exist in data storage systems, where key words help retrieve information faster than having to go through an entire pile of data to find the needle in the infohaystack. For us, our minds act as a sort of rudder, guiding us more often to the visualized destination.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120331033917/http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/UFO-info-age.html

This is an amazing universe. Perhaps important thoughts are like the clouds moving across the clear blue sky of the Universal Mind. Whenever possible, it really does make sense to visualize peace, justice, understanding and love. It could hasten the day when this becomes the kind of universe good people deserve.

An example of the Associative Universe in regards to Us the Entertained:



...or, as I prefer, We the People.

Peace to you, H2O Man. Hope you are well, my Brother in Spirit and in Life.

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Cell Phones & Siblings [View all] H2O Man Apr 2015 OP
Thanks for a thoughtful essay. nruthie Apr 2015 #1
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Right. H2O Man Apr 2015 #4
Hawking thinks it has because nothing he has found has called for one Warpy Apr 2015 #30
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Here's more about Chuang tzu and the butterfly dream. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2015 #8
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Good choice. H2O Man Apr 2015 #17
Richard Harris as English Bob Octafish Apr 2015 #12
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Nonsense. If i could radiate hate as energy over the internet AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 #13
Maybe you are. H2O Man Apr 2015 #18
Hope springs eternal. AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 #22
Internal, as well! H2O Man Apr 2015 #24
You always give me a lot to think about. democrank Apr 2015 #15
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