For those of you are interested in the predictive linguistics project, Half Past Human is issuing a new and affordable version of its ALTA reports: $10 each. I bought mine and it was more than worth the price. I’ve been following the project for two years, and the time monks’ ability to draw futurescapes based upon web chatter is pretty amazing.
However, this time the gravity of what’s likely in store for for the world has left me speechless and without a single idea for a HNT post. I thought I could prepare for the future by reducing my expectations to the size of an extended camping trip and packing accordingly. But no: The future will not be kind to solitaries. It requires a wholly different kind of preparation. Despite my decades-long associations with various pagan communities, the collectivist mindset does not come naturally to me at all. So here I am: Speechless, for once. I have a lot of thinking to do.
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Daniel // June 18, 2009 at 6:09 am |
I will say that California is about 5 weeks away from a major collapse. Odds are I will be leaving here and setting out to find a city in a state that does not have 20% unemployment rates. Fortunately I am still employed however I really do not see that lasting much longer.
Your post is slightly ambiguities. I am going to assume that the monks are seeing what I am seeing. Things are going to get worse before they get better.
Anyway, Happy HNT. Thanks for the picture.
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // June 18, 2009 at 3:56 pm |
Yeah. Kind of like Grapes of Wrath, only in reverse.
I think it’s time to circle the wagons with friends and family for the next three or four years.
Daniel // June 18, 2009 at 5:12 pm |
I have to confess that I am that one person that did not read Grapes of Wrath. It is on my list as something that is probably worth the time to read, if I had the time to spare.
To be fair I really did not do High School, I just did not want to go to class. I actually had the worst attendance record in the history of the school up until they quietly threw me out. Not doing High School (or Junior High) means that I did miss out on a few forced book reports. I did read Old Man in the Sea. (For fun)
I almost hate to say it as I voted for Obama, I think he made things worse. I will defer to your educated opinion on this topic. I know that he dumped an insane amount of money into GM, the Banks, TARP… you name it. I am not convinced that it really helped.
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // June 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm |
Interesting interpretation of a recent radio interview with project founder Clif High:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=149021
CLIFF HIGH AND INTERPRETING THE WEBBOTS
Posted By: ipia
Date: Thursday, 18-Jun-2009 12:48:59 Cliff High’s decade old “webbot” project is one of the more interesting new developments in predicting the future to appear in hundreds of years. Cliff extracts from “conversations” on the internet the changing use of language and the emotions that come with these changes. Using his own analysis and synthesis of these changes, he projects the future, giving the results as reports that may be purchases and more recently, an increasing number of interviews on non-mainstream radio.
Some Results:
1. Fear is the strongest emotion that appears, which in turn is related to survival. Since this is the true basis of economics, centered on the lowest chakras, the webbot predictions about economic things are the most accurate.
2. The reports seemingly give a reading of instant karma. If the population has certain attitudes, judgements, and (almost always wrong) opinions, then a certain set of events will occur to fulfill the karma of these judgements. If the population changes its opinions, then the future events will change. Sometimes knowledge of the future events will cause the future manifestation of events to shift (an alternate future) yet the net result will be the same-if the opinions, judgements and attitudes do not change. This shifting of events happens repeadedly in the reports.
Cliff has recently addressed the question of whether the future projected to occur by the webbots can be changed (for the better). In terms of karma, then, people must first face the projected future as the outcome of their attitudes and (false) beliefs and then change their attitudes and beliefs. Complicating the situation is the fact that the powers that be have long manipulated opinions to create wars which in turn transfers some of their own bad karms to the people (who are so easily persuaded by the mass media). It is a technique they have mastered many centuries ago. Cliff picks up their attemps to steer the future as “memes”. Two big memes are currently playing in the mass media: North Korea and Iran.
Cliff has given the results of our attitudes toward North Korea and Iran in radio interviews for quite some time:
Some Predictions From Cliff’s Radio Interviews
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Our Future IF WE Do Not Change:
1. After the summer of hell centered around the derivative bubble collapse, bad weather, political turmoil
2. Rejection of Dollar and Bombing of Iran-millions die; US military soon suffers staggering losses. Collapse of US empire and economy. Centered around Oct 26.
3. North Korea attacks with nuclear weapons a few weeks later.
4. Incredible economic hardships for the population of the US, which becomes a third world economy.
Already the powers that be are saturating the media with lies about Iran and Korea, beating the drums of war. Will we be led to accept the karmic results of bombing another nation or will we refuse to follow the media and form our own opinions about Iran and North Korea.
As an aside the green revolution meme is quite powerful and they have a lot invested in controlling this meme. That would take a separate post but note that the term was first applied for work done on plant breeding near Mexico City that adapted plants to grow with the poisonous chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides. Superpose that image with yesterday’s Drudge Report that had pictures of the woman with the green headband (for the Iranian green revolution) next to an article about Michelle’s garden and next to commentary about the “green shoots” destruction of the US economy. On thing stands out: if everyone takes up organic gardening and growing their own organic food, the NWO’s green revolution (and in newspeak green means “death”), which has cursed us for over 70 years withers and dies.
A final note: Cliff’s efforts to get the word out has been supported by subscribers paying for hot economic tips (many have made fortunes) and by others just curious about the future. RumorMillNews is a unique voice that has allowed anyone obeying a few reasonable rules of courtesy to express their non-mainstream research and opinions and now is hosting Cliff today. Please support RumorMillNews with a contribution.
ipia
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // June 18, 2009 at 5:52 pm |
Daniel: Funny enough, I didn’t read Grapes of Wrath either. I’m only vaguely aware of the plot.
Daniel // June 18, 2009 at 6:02 pm |
That is fantastic! Knowing that I feel far more confident agreeing completely with your statement that it is probably just like Grapes of Wrath in reverse.
I think the idea of search the web for the prequel to a mass self fulfilling prophecy is a fabulous idea.
I am not sure predicting mass war between US and Iran/North Korea counts. Unfortunately looking back at history a mass war is one of the few things that will get our country out of this mess and Iran/North Korea are the most likely suspects. I am not giving any points for coming up with that prediction.
The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker // June 18, 2009 at 7:53 pm |
Daniel, from reading the ALTA reports I did not see “war with Iran or Korea” specifically.
N. Korea is a boogyman straight out of Central Casting. Iran is more sophisticated, and the West’s covert relations with Iran are much more complicated. I think “ipia” was just jumping to conclusions based on the warmongering language being put out this week by the PTB (powers that be).
What I did see in the ALTA report: The PTBs willingness to do anything – war, false flag attack, state sponsored terrorism, ANYTHING – to distract from, or at least provide cover for, the currency collapse, and strong-arm any country that starts to dump its dollar holdings.
A diversionary military conflict means We the People have something or someone else to blame for a problem that was created by the PTBs own parents and/or grandparents (i.e., banking and financial chicanery since the early 1900s).
Bottom line: “Pick a war, any war” appears to be the order of the day, and if pushing a Green Revolution in Iran doesn’t work there’s always Kim Jong Il to do the booga booga.
OSR // June 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm |
Now that you mention it, western KS real estate has been looking good to me lately.
Daniel // June 18, 2009 at 9:49 pm |
I could not agree with you more.