Thursday, January 12, 2023

Quack Back


Second week. Second episode on Badlands Media. Six Badlands shows made the top fifty shows on the Rumble leaderboard yesterday, and I think our show was one of them. 

I didn't know what our show we be about. Patrick is leaving that up to me. Earlier in the day I heard his with J.B. White, where J.B. began asking Patrick about his theories on transmissible disease. They were talking about cancer. I picked up that thread and talked about my "amateur" knowledge of cancer gained from research I did in the past, punctuated by my personal experience with my father during his last days. 

We spoke at length about Royal Rife, who asserted  in the 1930s he had cured cancer using a radio frequency generating device. I discussed how the microscope that Rife supposedly invented violated the laws of classical physics, at least at first glance, but that I was very much open to the idea that he had figured out a clever way to circumvent what would essentially a fundamental principle of optics. 

We will no doubt come back to this topic. Next week probably something more fun. I knew we would do a cancer episode at one point, and now we have gotten it out of the way. It was a good contrast to the first week, where I was the "physics expert." In this case, Patrick and I were on equal footing as amateurs.

I mentioned to Patrick something I had explored a couple years ago on this blog, namely my fantasy of developing a Netflix series based on the life of Dr. Rife, one that leaves it up to the viewer to make the judgment about his work, in microscopy, microbiology, and cancer treatment. 

"I would call it Quack," I said. You have to own it. You have to lean into it. 

Next week, maybe we talk about movies.

Friday, January 6, 2023

The Heart that Keeps Beating

 Right before finding out that my old college friend took his life, I had been listening to this video by an Orthodox monk who lives in Scotland at the Mull Monastery. Recommended viewing if you need to find peace at the moment.



There Will Be an Era of Peace

We just have to get to the other side.  

Watching this video this morning by favorite Catholic priest, the exorcist Chad Ripperger, who is speaking at my favorite Catholic parish, St. Mary's of Pine Bluff.  Lots of good stuff about the evil in the Church right now. It's a long video, but easy listening and flies right by.  

It's like listening to a spiritual version of everything I've been saying about physics being corrupted, and over exactly the same time frame. Imagine that. He even mentions the ritual at the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which I mentioned in my talk about CERN.



We are currently in the "fifth stage of modernism", the Draconian Phase, according to Father Ripperger. Good news is all the new clergy are hard orthodox. "The demons know they are losing control." 

Loved the discussion of the virtue of circumspection.


For the record here are the Four Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Just Yesterday Morning

 Everything feels like a big swirling chaos in the world all of a sudden. We were watching the football game on Monday Night when we saw the live incident of the player who collapsed and died on the field from cardiac arrest, and had to be resuscitated. It was as if the world was waiting for something like this to set up a fire storm.

The next day, yesterday, I woke up and saw that I had email. I recognized the name as the wife of one of my college friends from Oregon. I had met her ten years ago when I stayed with them outside Reno, during my time of wandering, and had kept up with them over the years.

She was writing me to deliver bad news. My friend, whom I have known since 1985, had taken his own life the previous summer. She apologized for not having notified me, which I found poignant. These are the things one finds out from Christmas cards. 

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

In Which I Become a Streamer

Here we go. A new chapter in my life opens. My debut on Badlands Media. Enjoy.


The Rainbow Angle

 The rains have come in waves. On New Year's Day I went out walking in the late afternoon and found this appearing over the park. I had been thinking about rainbows a lot because I have thinking about natural philosophy, and how the physics light in the most accessible to our understanding in many ways, and the rainbow is the best example. I thought I could get the whole rainbow in the frame. I realized that the laws of physics prohibited it. The field of vision of the lens was smaller than the rainbow angle. I'm ok with that.




Sunday, January 1, 2023

Soak

 A hard soaking rain for the New Year. The Eighth Day of Christmas. Eight maids  a-milking. The Magic Cow brought more presents, with festive rainbow wrapping and gold ribbon.