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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 86.137.12.110
Posted on Monday, July 27, 2020 - 04:35 pm:   

This interview is incredible. I want to hug him.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-queerness-of-it-all-an-interview-with-je ffrey-kripal/
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Monday, July 27, 2020 - 04:37 pm:   

I have to say, "Start New Thread" is like boring to the centre of the earth now. District 9 was down there and everything.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.249.184.239
Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 12:21 pm:   

What do we think of this? It feels like the quietest disclosure ever to me.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-u fo-harry-reid-navy.amp.html
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 01:25 pm:   

Lots in there. It usually ends up back at subjective experiences that are hard to communicate to other people. Whether they're subjective or not, perhaps some people can have comfort from knowing that everyone is occasionally bewildered by something in our lives.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 04:35 pm:   

Yesterday I downloaded a phone app allowing you to hear live police and radio ham calls. Yesterday in about ten minutes I heard three gun crimes and a sexual assault in New York, and today I heard an old man describing holding his dying friend in Vietnam and seven other friends dying, being forced to go there and fight then coming home to being called "baby killer". He was only getting in touch for advice about making the gun he killed hia friend's killer with legal because of the memories attached, but it ended up in this speech I'll never forget and got to hear because I only switched it on while I was washing up.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 04:39 pm:   

Oh, and it happened live, I just caught it. There were about thirty people listening in.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 08:26 pm:   

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cia.gov/libra ry/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwicy8j-9PLqAhXE UBUIHb0MDCgQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw3klOW1AE1FDVlHsccONWQu
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Saturday, August 01, 2020 - 04:49 pm:   

I REALLY don't want to be that guy... but I can't help it, my antenna goes up when I hear details of these police scanner apps. Something just doesn't gel in my mind. I find it very difficult to believe that one can simply tune in, and instantly hear drama the likes of which TV can't compete. It doesn't ring true to me.

And then there's this from an article (from the Independent) about their popularity:

"Police radio scanners, such as 5-0 Radio, work **because of the efforts of volunteers** with radio scanners **who provide the app with feeds** of law enforcement conversations. The apps then collate those feeds and packages them in an interface that the average person can use with greater ease."

... So apparently it's not "real time" listening-in, it's collated and fed by "volunteers" - this is more in line with what I was thinking: people are sifting the best stuff and providing it to the app. It has to be - it only makes sense that way!

So one IS hearing REAL events from police scanners... but they're edited together from different places and times for their dramatic value, I gather.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2020 - 12:51 am:   

Wow, this is a report from Film 86 by Barry Norman on Independent cinemas. It takes a very odd turn 1 minute in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKYfohYGIoQ
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2020 - 08:57 am:   

I say Craig before saying a word try one of the phone scan apps because a HUGE amount of it is boring and unintelligible. The place I got that amazing story from was a bunch of people interested in radio talking about guns then one of them recounting a story. It soon got more mundane. Listening to police radios has been around forever.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2020 - 11:42 am:   

And this - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/books/barbara-ehrenreich s-living-with-a-wild-god.amp.html

In the sixties I had a dream about being pursued by dolls. When they tried to catch me in the street I ran back to my nan's house only to find the door being opened by a skeleton. I fainted and was taken inside and put on a table and surrounded by both dolls ans skeleton. I had never heard of aliens or seen any in films at this point. The woman in this interview believes in an energy field in which beings live that want things from us, energy or whatever. What if they appear to us with what we have available in our imaginations? This author suggests in reality they have no form, but take forms to appear to us.
I know it sounds nuts.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2020 - 11:49 am:   

Proto, that interview is incredible!!! Just shows how easily such things were accepted back then. They barely blink at it.
Thanks for sharing it.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2020 - 01:26 pm:   

And today, thinking of all this, I put on Sparky and the Magic Piano for my son because I heard something like it yesterday and well...it fits. A kid hearing this weird voice that helps him create, then just leaves him. It just felt significant somehow...
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2020 - 11:22 pm:   

Yeah, Film 86 turned into Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World in a completely smooth way. I do love how accepting they are of it. Perhaps everyone was just simply calmer back then too.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2020 - 11:24 pm:   

I do wonder how that man's business associates reacted at the time to his public talk of spirits. It sounds like there could be a film in that. Field of Dreams?
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, August 14, 2020 - 06:43 pm:   

Been to Filey for a couple of days, took in Scarborough. Found some vaults under the old market, full of books and records but also a woman through a window doing a tarot reading for someone. Made me want to cheer. It felt so damned intimate. I hate when people say the cards aren't magic, they just made you more intuitive. Duh - there's a difference?
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, August 14, 2020 - 06:44 pm:   

Also in Filey went for a dusk walk along the deserted beach. For the second time in as many years the cliffs felt alive, and angry.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, August 14, 2020 - 07:04 pm:   

Also in Filey went for a dusk walk along the deserted beach. For the second time in as many years the cliffs felt alive, and angry.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 11:58 am:   

Runs hand across the back of the sofa, closes eyes.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 12:52 pm:   

I think reality and the meaning of life might be impossible to articulate in human terms.

Lies on side, takes a breath.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 06:23 pm:   

Dinner smells good even though I can't tell what it is.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 10:45 am:   

Looks out...sunny but cold. Like Autumn, though the whole year has been.
Last night I learn about a Jane Roberts who claims to have channeled the cosmos via a being called Seth. I go up to bed reading a quote by her, "The voice in your mind is not you." I go into the bedroom and in the dark my wife says loud and clear, "Are you good, or do you just think you are good?" She rolls over, breathing heavy. She is/was asleep.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 185.13.190.25
Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 05:46 pm:   

https://youtu.be/K6RuJ65DvJ0
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2020 - 09:11 am:   

Rainy morning. I'm trying to have silence today. You hear more.
While emptying the dishwasher this morning it struck me an artist isn't an artist if he doesn't have spiritual development (for himself as well as others) fuelling what he is doing. The art is a step, not the goal. I think without this the art will feel and be empty.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2020 - 10:52 am:   

I check this hourly, I've realised, if not more. I can't stop.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Monday, August 24, 2020 - 08:14 pm:   

Wilson.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 05:20 pm:   

The Night Shift story on here terrified me.
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/haunted?selected=PPY5726728217
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 09:17 pm:   

I should listen to it again. I remember it making me realise how old London was. Oddly, it was easier to grasp than how old the universe was.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 109.151.241.144
Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 - 03:05 pm:   

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Tony (Tony)
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Posted From: 92.29.158.3
Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 03:01 pm:   

This helped me today. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNt2KoNw0ck

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