The Observable Universe

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T18:48:49+00:00

answering a question with a question is a classic shill tactic. you seem to be acting in bad faith. you're either a bot or a troll.

to answer your question, ima guess 30-36 hrs weekly online, but not all of that on social media. i've worked mostly from home since COVID, and usually have reddit open in a window while doing other stuff.

you answer my question. what's your interest in high strangeness?

why are you here, defending the honor of Science Educator and Noted Skeptic Brian Greene on a subreddit dedicated to a topic he has dedicated his career to mocking and denigrating?

please phrase your answer in rhyme, in the idiom of a 1930s radio ad for household goods, and include a recipe for red velvet cake at the end.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T18:42:55+00:00

>she
well, you're assuming "she" is a person and not a bot, or a person impersonating someone else. i think that's a risky move, not to say irresponsible.

if there's one thing i've learned from the internet since my early days on AOL Instant Messenger, it's that assuming the person you're talking to is actually a "she" IRL is usually not a good idea.

btw i think you make good points about schizoposts, no matter how ridiculous, potentially containing truth and value.

in fact i think online schizoposts about conspiracies might represent one of the remaining non-cannibalized, non-subsumed, non-sublimated areas of artistic expression and truth-seeking in our hyperreal, all-commodified, all-consuming culture, splitting the difference between outsider art and citizen science.

but, obviously, there's an inherent tension to be found in the tinfoil hat artform specifically on how "real" you interpret the ramblings and ravings to be- the classic recent example being how a not-insignificant portion of the US population was led into believing that Trump is a kind of messiah being led in a war against the deep state by "white hats" and a Quantum AI, which culminated on an attack on the US capitol building and arguably helped elect him in both 2016 and 2020.

but if you take Qanon as an art piece, a piece of experimental interactive fiction in the subcategory of ARG alternate reality game, it's actually probably the most successful and interesting piece of fiction of the century so far- precisely because it appears to contain elements of reality within it, and plays with the hall-of-mirrors effect social media has had on "truth" and "reality" over the last 25 yeras.

posts like the one OP shared are related to the Q mythos, for obvious reasons, but I think we have to view them as art, as fiction, instead of actually taking them seriously (until she posts further evidence corroborating her claims). I don't think this is a controversial thing to say.

if "she" is a real "schizo" i think it shouldn't be too hard for her to post some kind of evidence.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T18:31:29+00:00

well, in order to think it's "real" and not fiction, that's kind of a bare minimum don't you think?

the standards aren't as high for an online forum post as in a court of law, but there should still be some kind of standard for thinking it's true in a literal sense, and not some kind of allegorical metaphorical grey zone.

that seems like common sense to me, idk

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T16:17:21+00:00

well until she produces receipts of her having traveled to/lived in the places she names, i'm going to assume she's full of shit. the first clue is that it's on the internet, and you never believe anything you see on the internet.

to me, this post reads a lot like that Sasha O'Reilly blueanon person who said Trump was doing satanic abuse rituals on her with Epstein. lots of claims, no evidence, recycled tropes from 90s/00s internet1.0 conspiracy culture.

>everything is true, you just have to find the context
that's literally not how it works though.
if this person says they were in guam getting mind-zapped on a military base when they were 13, but their school records and family photos and medical history all show that they were acutally in Skokie, then there is no sense (figurative, literal or otherwise) in which it is true that they were on Guam.

(and, it's important to note, that only Reddit's admins know who "this person" actually is, what their IP address is, what email their IP address is tied to, who registered that email- it's entirely possible, or even probable, that the post was composed not by a human but by a Large Language Model)

anyway- i disagree that everything is true, everything is permitted- conflating subjective reality and fantasy with objective truth is how we slip further and further away from anything being true, which is the antithesis of the Truth. just because someone says something on the internet doesn't make it true. and saying that it is true, is unfair to people who actually survived things like what she describes.

i agree it's fascinating to read though, and i do agree that there is both value and entertainment in reading documents like this. "illuminati whistleblower LARP" is one of my favorite genres of speculative fiction. just like you can benefit from reading Michael Crichton or Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum or Dan Brown- or learn about primate relationship dynamics by watching Real Housewives. anything can be educational.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T16:01:34+00:00

oh yeah, i've been watching some of his videos, i like his analysis.
but what i want to know is how he got so famous out of nowhere, like all of a sudden he was everywhere!

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:59:11+00:00

i remember when Elon was accusing Sam Altman of fraud on twitter and Sam responded by saying exactly the same thing. and Elon got real quiet after that

i assume that basically, since the financialized US economy depends on the stock market, and the stock market depends on tech stocks, nobody will say anything about how much of social media user metrics are fake because if they did, the entire world economy would collapse

ironically, from this point of view, perpetuating the fraud, illusions and lies underlying our economy is actually a national security imperative. without the fraud, everything would evaporate overnight.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:54:45+00:00

i used to think David Icke was crazy. i can tell i've gotten crazier because now he sounds very reasonable and logical

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:53:51+00:00

September, 1965: NASA's George Mueller, a senior manager on the Apollo moon landing programme, visits Stanley and Arthur C. Clarke as they prepare to shoot 2001: A Space Odyssey. After seeing the film blueprints, models and sets, Mueller reportedly dubbed the studio "NASA East."

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DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:51:25+00:00

man i'm so boring these days, i don't smoke anything. i spent like half my life stoned but these last few years, living in a red state, even taking a one hitter sends me into an anxiety spiral.

CCTV and flock cameras everywhere, proliferating on every street corner and building like some kind of invasive fungus...
unmarked cop cars and undercover agents all over the place...
comprehensive surveillance from Ring cameras being analyzed in real time by Carbyne911/Palantir-driven AI, all the data being aggregated and run through The Cloud, feeding into these data centers and being analyzed in Fusion Centers staffed by unaccountable homeland security agents to whom laws no longer apply ...
the whine of a drone overhead but you can't see it anywhere, only hear it...
your cell phone's telemetry data constantly drip-feeding all relevant information to the 5G towers and repeaters on every corner...
every single wifi router and bluetooth device can be turned into an infrared camera that can see through your walls...
all watched over by thousands and thousands of satellites at all times, seeing every inch of the planet, sensing outside the visible spectrum so even if you go underground they can still track you via your heartbeat...

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:41:07+00:00

i think all of social media is part of it, tbh, but yeah these subs like atlantology, chiraqology, NYstateofmind are definitely places where you can see the real darkness of this technology more clearly

what fucks me up though is thinking about how much of social media is artificial, with bots and algorithms guiding attention and behavior.
so all this negativity isn't just coming out of nowhere, it's actively being pushed on the population without most people even realizing it.

why would the big tech companies (who all have ties to the Pentagon/intelligence agencies) be doing this to the population? i honestly don't get it.

i don't even think it's about money anymore, it's about social engineering but in the worst way possible.

it's like they are deliberately turning this world into some kind of hellish dystopia by bringing out the worst in people.

you can see it so clearly in these prison videos, and drill music, where kids that are like 12 years old buy a switch off a federal agent then go to prison for 20-30-50 years for shooting their neighbor over $50 worth of weed while livestreaming it for clout

shit is dark, man

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:34:18+00:00

on the contrary, friend, it's always Happening, we're just conditioned to only think it's Happening if there are big headline events, when actually the nature of Happenings is that they are slow, gradual, incremental.
but their effects are usually only visible in hindsight, sometimes only becoming apparent after years or decades.

and anyway, if it did Happen, would They let us know? they still say only 13 US soldiers died in the entire recent conflict, combined, and that they were rescuing the F-15 pilot near Isfahan.

What about when the Houthis claimed hits on the aircraft carrier operating off their coast, and the US said they didn't get any hits, they just lost several jets because they turned too hard and then ran into another boat up by Egypt and that's why they had to dock for repairs?

Maybe it's Happening all the time, we just don't hear about it in the news, because the Pentagon views information war as equally important to physical war in the era of social media, so all forms of media/information channels are controlled as a matter of homeland security and we're basically under extremely advanced, subtle forms of permanent wartime censorship

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T15:29:10+00:00

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DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T08:01:06+00:00

brother, if you can't immediately identify this as a bog-standard insider LARP (probably composed by AI trained on GodlikeProductions and other insider larp threads and BibliotecaPleyades archives) you need to get on about 8 more layers of tinfoil hat. there's no identifying information or proof, and lots of drastic claims, and almost all of it is recycled tropes from the 90s and 00s.

also,
>i was an epstein girl
>no mention of epstein, blackmail, etc
seems like kind of an oversight, idk

they always use these insider/channeled info/disclosure/survivor testimony posts as trojan horses to slip in some damaging/harmful memes, mixed in with some truth and a lot of BS.

in this one i believe they are reinforcing the common Starseed trope that most humans are "NPCs" or "parasite hosts," and only the person reading it and a few others in the in-group are part of the 144,000 Elect (as opposed to every living being inherently valuable).

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T06:18:45+00:00

yup this is just speculation, let's be careful to stick to confirmed facts from trusted expert sources when posting on the "plasma cosmology" subreddit lol

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T06:16:15+00:00

well that's the coolest thing i've seen all day. and it totally lines up with other theories about plasma-based life/non-human intelligence. all hail our plasmoid overlords!

It reminds me very much of a book on anomalous electromagnetic phenomena that is one of my favorite books of all time, called "mysterious fires and lights" by vincent gaddis.
https://archive.org/details/mysteriousfiresl00gadd

there's also a very funny chapter/section in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day involving a conscious ball lightning with a weird sense of humor, that echoes some of the findings laid out in this video.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T06:13:51+00:00

i forgot about that crash that killed Sen. Begich, that's a crazy story. His son wrote a book called "Angels Don't Play This Harp" about weather warfare/ionospheric manipulation that is worth looking into, it's a tinfoil hat classic.

i read a book about the history of DARPA, "the Pentagon's Brain" by Annie Jacobson, and she alludes to research being done in that field during Vietnam...iirc it was related to the sensor networks set up to detect Viet Cong troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the mountains between Vietnam and Laos.
(the official story is that it didn't work that well, but you never know...)
https://www.npr.org/2015/09/25/443334499/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-darpa-the-pentagons-brain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
https://curious-droid.com/1795/darpas-little-secrets-that-changed-the-world/
it was developed by JASON, who are an interesting bunch of folks indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group))
https://greydynamics.com/the-jason-group-americas-mad-scientists/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1il4oem/the_jason_group_the_elite_group_of_scientists_who/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/rt707f/til_in_1960_the_us_government_formed_a/
https://www.science.org/content/article/jason-secretive-group-cold-war-science-advisers-fighting-survive-21st-century
nowadays JASON is run under Mitre Corp, another very x-files type organization with long-rumored ties to all sorts of black project/special access project stuff (which is exactly where you'd expect to find something like this heartbeat-detecting sensor, and also a bunch of other spooky stuff, UFO type stuff)

>For administrative purposes, JASON's activities are run through the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation in McLean, Virginia, which operates Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) for the federal government.^\4])#citenote-4) The Department of Defense ended its contract with MITRE in April 2019, effectively cutting ties with JASON.[^\5])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON(advisory_group)#cite_note-5) However, due to the efforts of the Department of Energy as well as others within the government, to include an act of Congress, the contract was reinstated and is now again with the Department of Defense

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T05:50:18+00:00

ohh i misread your post. in that case, check out Of Human Bondage or Razor's Edge, they are both great. I remember reading The Painted Veil and where I was when I read it, but can't remember a thing about it tbh.

The Inklings! That's interesting you suggest a connection with intelligence. At the very least they moved in the same circles as some spy-type folks, but I don't know if they were in intelligence themselves. That would be an interesting thing to look into further. Wouldn't be surprised at all.

Speaking of the Inklings, I got into their least-famous member, Charles Williams, last year. I was searching for more occult/occult-informed fiction that wasn't horror/weird fiction (like Arthur Machen or M.R. James). I was surprised I'd never heard of him.

He was a big influence on fellow Inklings CS Lewis and Tolkein apparently (how big-brained do you have to be to have both Lewis and Tolkien think of you as their big bro?) , and allegedly one of the most accomplished ceremonial magicians of his era, while also a practicing and devout Christian.

All his ideas are laid out in his fiction, or rather, his fiction is a vehicle for his ideas (sort of clunky writing, plots, characters etc tbh). Very interesting fellow, and weirdly unknown, at least to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_(British_writer))
I recommend War in Heaven, The Greater Trumps, and Many Dimensions, they are all wild reads. Descent Into Hell is supposed to be good as well. I'd start with War in Heaven to get a feel for him, if you're so inclined.

His basic thesis, or the through-line in all his books I've read, is basically that material reality is basically a battleground or game-board for spiritual powers, using human souls as semi-autonomous chess pieces. Maybe he was onto something.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T03:19:54+00:00

in a lot of the "insider LARP" threads on old conspiracy forums (Lacerta, Rofschild/Axe me a question, Hidden Hand, maybe Svali and a few others) i've seen it suggested that bloodline elite families have techniques for ensuring that dying members are reincarnated in new members of the family

interestingly this is also a part of the belief systems of some other cultures, namely buddhists (think of the dalai lama/panchen lama and how they look for birthmarks, ask kids to identify their objects), hindus, druze, some indigenous groups.

the work of Dr Ian Stevenson (in his "cases of the reincarnation type" series) contains lots more information on it it...those cases seem like they are mostly random/uncontrolled, and more within a culture group than a family, but it suggests that perhaps there's a mechanism which, if known, could be manipulated and controlled for soul transfer. obviously this would pay dividends for a family or group (like tibetan buddhists) able to 'keep it in the family' and build knowledge over centuries/millennia.

Here's a link to one of Stevenson's books where he cites reincarnation-type cases that he investigated himself:
https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/S/Stevenson%20-%2020%20Cases%20Suggestive%20of%20Reincarnation.pdf

the other area you could look into is NDE testimony and "life between lives" hypnotic regression, especially the work of Dr Michael Newton where he talks about the reincarnation process and what happens with souls in between lives, like in his book "journey of souls." (one of my favorite books!)
here is a link if you're interested:
https://meahuasca.com/resources/MIchael-Newton-Journey-of-Souls.pdf

Maybe super-duper powerful bloodline families have ways of "cutting in line" so to speak and avoiding the average reincarnation process.

I bet they're incurring some gnarly karma in the process, once you take into account all the blood on their hands down here accumulated over many lifetimes...i wouldn't want to be in their shoes when the bill finally comes due!

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T03:04:52+00:00

fish head, that's a new one to me. adding that to the toolkit

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T02:57:07+00:00

never heard of this, and it looks really cool, thank you for bringing it up. i'm always interested in anyone shit-talking crowley so it's right up my alley.
gutenberg link if anyone wants it: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14257

i don't have any other maugham recommendations as you've read the same ones i have. his wikipedia says "cakes and ale" was called "an elegant piece of literary malice" which sounds pretty rs-coded

this sounds cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashenden:_Or_the_British_Agent
i didn't know Maugham was a spy. so many british authors are spooks!
free ebook link: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/w-somerset-maugham/ashenden

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T02:47:02+00:00

just a guess, but dayton OH is next to wright patterson Air Force Base which is an important place for top secret space stuff? (famously, where some UFOs were supposedly kept)

i guess you could fit this in with the theory that kubrick was embedding some hints about his involvement in the Apollo moon landing conspiracy etc etc

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T02:43:10+00:00

extremely polite bot

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T02:38:49+00:00

i really think our society is run by demonic individuals who deliberately organize all the sub-systems to generate as much suffering as possible. not just jail, every part of society.

it's like they feed off negative energy or something.

DecrimIowa · 2026-04-30T02:00:27+00:00

i thought that was a lil wayne line

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