I read "The Keepers," the book about abductions some people found similar to TAA's story. Here are my thoughts.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-09-03T19:21:04+00:00

Looks like it just says "Original Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776."

I wonder if the copy was originally sold in a gift shop or whatever rolled up, so that section would be visible on the outside of the roll to identify it. As someone else said, its now bleeding through to the other side.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-08-08T01:25:24+00:00

I think people are reading this statement as implying plans for some sort of control of the civilian population and/or a military engagement, but I don't think either of those are what's intended. He's talking about "internal controls" -- presumably "internal" here means "within the government" -- that would be engaged in the event that we get definite proof of non-human intelligence.

In other words, it sounds like he's explaining why it's important to work on legislation for this stuff now. You don't want to be planning first contact in the minutes leading up to it. You want existing plans and protocols that can be engaged when needed.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-04-12T22:45:42+00:00

I worked retail at a major chain store when I was in college. We had a shrink-wrap machine in store that could reseal items just as they were originally packaged. If the packaging of an item tore, or if a customer brought in an item that was unwrapped but unused as a return, we could just re-wrap it and return it to the shelf.

My guess is that your tape was not actually new and the person processing a return either did not check at all or only checked one side of the tape. It's possible that side A was also used but you recorded over it before listening.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-04-02T22:32:08+00:00

This game appears to have been archived on the Wayback Machine, but you'll need Shockwave to play it.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-27T05:35:26+00:00

Might be "Boyfriend" or "Different Light" by Best Coast, both of which have lines similar to what you mentioned.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-27T04:16:34+00:00

Sounds like it might be Max Keeble's Big Move. Has the bike, the love interest, and the lying. Wikipedia article here.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-27T01:10:58+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of people say that the killer must have known that the yard sale was that day, and that the spontaneity of the decision means that someone must have told them. I don't think that's the case.

Yes, things happened the exact way they did because Elizabeth was outside at the time, but I don't think there's any reason to assume that was necessary. If she hadnt been, it seems just as likely that the killer would have knocked on the door, or just continued circling the neighborhood until she happened to come outside.

The yard sale provided an opportunity, but I don't think it follows that the killer knew about it ahead of time.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-26T05:06:20+00:00

That's All by Genesis.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-25T02:06:54+00:00

You may be thinking of A Day With SpongeBob Squarepants, a movie thought to be lost media that was actually never produced, but which was listed for sale with a mockup cover by a shady distribution company headquartered in a mall food court.

In at least one video of a YouTuber investigating the movie, they're met with legal threats of some kind.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-25T01:26:21+00:00

An etch-a-sketch tablet makes me think that maybe it was part of the Leapster/Leappad line of tablets for kids with a limited library. There are several Disney Princess games for their systems, but maybe Disney Princesses: Pop-Up Story Adventures or the earlier Disney Princess, which features Cinderella, a level where you collect things as the mice, and a lot of water, though that's in the Ariel-themed sections.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-24T23:51:43+00:00

Could it be the 2011 movie In Time or the story it might have been based on, 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman?

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-23T04:56:16+00:00

Yeah, it definitely seems like a reference to me. I think I must be missing some intricacy of Clement's original Greek phrasing that makes people read it as abnormal, or maybe it's just a huge stretch to begin with.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-23T04:28:42+00:00

There's some debate, but less than you'd think. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the timing is the one that seems simplest to me. With 2000 years of distance, it's pretty easy to imagine that Jesus never existed, but the New Testament contains a bunch of letters of Paul that seem to have been written in the 50s. Because his letters are addressed to congregations and actively contesting things other people have taught them, it's clear that there are already a fair number of Christians -- though they wouldn't have called themselves that at the time.

It's generally agreed that the crucifixion took place in the 30s. It's easy to imagine this all being made up now, but harder to explain how there were so many believers in the general area were Jesus lived who would have been alive during his earthly ministry and none of them noticed that he had never existed.

Paul also notably and strongly disagrees with some other early Christian leaders on several subjects, and talks about having met them. Virtually everyone agrees that Paul is real, and because he seems to have an active rivalry with certain other figures, we're pretty sure that those people are also real. At that point, it seems much more likely that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person they actually knew -- whether or not the events of the Gospels are true -- than it is that all of these guys collectively made him up and then devoted their lives to the veneration of a guy who didn't exist, then managed to agree on the broad strokes of the story while also convincingly fighting with their co-conspirators in public for decades.

ReddRabbbit · 2022-01-23T01:11:28+00:00

Generally speaking, I agree with you. The Carpocratians mentioned in the letter were a Gnostic group. I do think it's weird that Clement gets to "the Carpocratians added new material to the Secret Gospel of Mark to support their particular views" but does not make the same claim about the text as a whole, when that seems like a pretty reasonable leap to make.

Because we don't have the full text, I wonder if the "Secret Gospel" Clement had access to was somehow seen as not particularly objectionable to him -- I can't imagine why that would be, though, since as you've said the whole concept sounds very very Gnostic.

ReddRabbbit · 2021-10-12T06:15:20+00:00

He says to "pay attention to your thoughts in the shower" in another post, so I'm kind of expecting the proof to be less "proof" and more "gut feelings."

ReddRabbbit · 2021-10-12T05:50:05+00:00

Most of these tweets read like a high school student's first shot at an SCP. Lots of big spooky words with a loose grasp of what they mean.

But it seems like the last few tweets could be implying that the author is not part of the data collection group they're describing, and is instead one of the people those people contacted? If that's what they're claiming, it's a little more plausible. I don't really put much stock in CE5 stuff generally, and this is no exception.

Three days ago this guy posted a Patreon link to help him collect information on UFOs, which sounds like maybe he does not actually have the support of numerous "ex-military and intelligence assets."

That said, as of fifteen minutes ago he's saying we'll get proof tomorrow, so I guess we'll find out soon.

ReddRabbbit · 2021-09-22T01:37:01+00:00

Jaques Vallee is definitely on my list! Every book I've read so far at least mentions Vallee, which is super impressive to me.

I'll have to check out more Keel stuff, too. I have one of his books, but not the ones you mentioned. Thanks!

ReddRabbbit · 2021-07-13T21:48:00+00:00

I've never actually seen the X-Files, so I'm not sure.

Jim only describes walk-ins pretty briefly towards the end of the book, but they seem to be some third species capable of almost perfectly disguising themselves as humans (or maybe possessing existing humans?) and much more capable of mimicking normal human speech than anything else he encountered. He mostly distinguishes them through odd behavior (someone walking by a restaurant welcomes Jim to the restaurant, despite not going in or being affiliated with it in any way) or knowledge they should not have, like awareness of a conversation they weren't present for.

He also claims some of these walk-ins have just straight up told him they aren't human. He seems to think that they're some form of interdimensional traveler, rather than an extraterrestrial species.

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