#just watched p&p 2005 <3 and the way my brain read this first in the voice of mrs bennet: “... The eldest is soon to be married” alkfjd heL

[forgottenroderick]

Inclining his head at Cassimir's gracious indulgence of his sons' bit of fun, the Emperor managed what might almost be termed a smile and was, certainly, intended as such, though it never met his eyes, his thoughts bent on another subject. "It is a relation of which Their Imperial Highnesses are most fond, I can assure you, and your kindness towards them does you credit, Lord Malconaire. We are glad, indeed, to hear of our sons'...best behavior," Roderick said, gravely.

The young lord's cheer seemed genuine enough, save only at the start when something Roderick could not name had momentarily fluttered across his face. He sighed, softly. Clearly, this young man was making sacrifices for the pride of his House.

Still, Amira's suggestions nagged at him. While the previous Lord Malconaire had clearly made free with his maid servants, his legitimate daughters were not such lowly personages. Roderick had told Amira off for casting such aspersions against Arthur, but even so he could not deny the possibility of a foundation for them, when Lord Malconaire was even now in the midst of forming a hasty marriage to his own sister: did he have something to cover up? Roderick would have to remember to bless them with a hearty wedding fit, indeed, if it were true that his own grandson would someday inherit it (it did not occur to him that this imaginary grandchild might prove a daughter).

"We have not had that pleasure formally, though we had the opportunity of seeing them at Her Imperial Highness the Princess Guinevere's name day ball. They strike us as very pretty girls, the Lady Eithne particularly so...though her sisters no less fair, of course." Glancing about at his men drifting here and there, Roderick smiled, ushering Cassimir into an interior room of his own house, as though it were Roderick's, instead. "Light the fire then close the door, Guy," he commanded. "His Lordship and I wish not to be disturbed."

When all this was accomplished, Roderick turned to Cassimir with a slightly more open expression. "Now, Malconaire, we may speak more freely." He paused. "I had, indeed, heard of your sister's betrothal...to...yourself, as I understand it?" He glanced down. "I understand that Astaira is a...unique sort of place, Malconaire, with its own customs, but our empire will not stand upon brother wedded to sister. It is not seemly for two birthed by the same mother to...come together in that way." Roderick was unaware that they were not biologically related. "Particularly," he added. "When other marriages might be desired."

He meant that it had been his intention to wed native Astairan nobles to peers from across his Empire. He had no notion at all that Cassimir had been attempting to court Guinevere, something of which he would not have approved.

"If, however," he began, as delicately as he might, thinking again of his sons' potential...indiscretions. "There is...need of a marriage for your sister, you may entrust the matter to me. I shall see her honorably settled to the satisfaction of all. She is a lovely girl of worthy connection and I know of a lord of advanced years who is in want of an heir enough as not to wish to ask too many questions, while yet remaining an agreeable relation to yourself."

He nodded. "I should be very pleased, indeed, to meet them, particularly those who have been so good as to...entertain my sons." He paused. "Indeed," he added. "I have taken the liberty of considering possible matches for them. The decision is, of course, your own, Malconaire, but it would please me greatly if you were to consider not Astairan lords for them, but rather peers from across my empire. It is my hope to knit us all together to bring about unity and peace. Any lord will do, of course, but there may be some here amongst my own court who might suffice: Lord Grey, Sir Tristan, Lord Royce, and my own uncle, the Lord Hand, himself, are all in want of wives."

He did not mention Alaric or any of his own sons. He did not mention Eoin, either, but did forward his father, for Bartholomew was entitled to any bride he might wish as his succession was quite secure, but Eoin must have the right sort of woman to bear his own heirs. That was much too high to hope for such backwater girls, the state of whose dowry remained...dubious. But any of them might provide comfort for his uncle's old age. And, should it come to pass that any of these girls were carrying Roderick's own grandchildren, they would then be honorably placed where Roderick would not need worry overmuch for their well being. Any of these men could raise such a child. But the true heirs of the others must never be supplanted by cuckoos in the nest...even those of such august heritage.

"I do not say that any of these particulars have broached the topic, but I've little doubt they would consider it. Your sisters are beguiling creatures. It is not good for a man to go too long without a woman. And the empire is vast. We have conquered you, already. It is time for your women, in turn, to make conquests of their own with their beauty."

Unexpected Arrivals | Cassimir & Roderick

It was a miserable day.

The temperatures had risen, so Cassimir supposed he should be glad that they didn't have the bitter cold to deal with, but the rain beat down with unforgiving force, melting much of the snow. The roads had turned into a swampy, muddy mess that were becoming unpassable.

Cassmir was seated comfortably enough near the fire in his step-father's old study when one of his servants entered -- rather flustered -- with a captain wearing the colors of House Varmont.

"Lord Malconaire -- " A quick bow from his servant, "excuse the intrusion -- "

The Captain had little patience for this and sidestepped the servant, to make his own announcement, "His Imperial Majesty, Roderick Varmont the First of His Name, Conquerer of the Twelve Kingdoms, Defender of the Faith, and god's own Champion has bestowed upon you the honor of hosting him and his men, while his carriage is repaired. He shall arrive momentarily. He shall expect to be received in a manner that befits such a guest."

Cassimir sprung into action immediately. He had no particular love for the Varmonts, Roderick included, but he knew the very important role that he and his mother hoped the emperor would play in their plans. Cassimir knew that for Roderick to marry Sonya, he must look favorably upon their family and he was not to allow this sudden development to hinder it.

He dispatched his servant immediately -- everyone must make ready for the emperor's arrival. He knew that even his step-sisters would be needed to help in the preparations (both prior to and during his arrival), so he would need to offer some excuse as to their absences. Besides, he did not want the emperor's eye to be distracted. Sonya was beautiful in her own right, but even Cassimir had to admit that each of his step-sisters possessed a beauty of their own (except, perhaps Brigit. If she had any beauty at all, she did an excellent job of hiding it).

When Roderick and his company did arrive, there was still much work to be done, but Cassimir was pleased as to what had been accomplished in the short notice that he had received. He felt it a testament to his own leadership (but didn't give a second thought to those who had actually performed the work).

"Your Imperial Majesty," Cassimir bowed low. "It is a honor to have you grace our halls. I'm sure you and your men must be hungry. If you would care to follow me, our cooks have prepared a feast."

[lizzleolsen]

all of them

Answering all the ones I have not yet.

2: Favourite actor(s)Top 6 Female: Elizabeth Olsen. Saorise Ronan. Brie Larson. Michelle Dockery. Amy Adams. Emily Vancamp.Top 6 male: Chris Evans. Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Jake Gyllenhaal. Sebastian Stan. Dev Patel. Richard Dean Anderson.

3: Favourite genre(s)I really love dramas. musicals. really, I like everything, but I’m not SUPER into comedy.

4: Favourite director(s)This is something I feel like I don’t focus on as much as I need to. So at the moment, I can’t fully answer. I’m not sure.

5: How often do you go see movies in theatres?Because of cost, not too often. Maybe 2 times a year. At least lately.

6: Opinion on remakesI think they can be great. And it just depends how long it’s been since the first, and also if they accept it is a remake. I don’t know how to explain it. But just, it’s a new movie, as well as an old, so it should somehow work within that.

7: Favourite era(s) of filmI’d say right now is pretty good. I’m still working my way back with a lot of classics, but I still say I lean towards the current era more than anything else.

8: Spell your first, middle, and last name out in movie titlessince I don’t put my full name on here, I’ll just do my URL. L - LionI - Ingrid Goes WestZ - ZootopiaZ - ZenonL - Lady BirdE - The Empire Strikes BackO - One DayL - LoganS - SerendipityE - The Edge of SeventeenN - Never Let Me Go

9: Favourite film seriesHarry Potter & MCU. (:

10: Favourite remake(s)Hmm. Well Cheaper By the Dozen was a remake. But my mind just went blank on stuff. So. Yeah. lol.

11: Favourite film character(s)Well, MCU characters are Wanda, Steve, Bucky, Natasha, & Peter P. HP character is Hermione.But otherwise, Nick from Before We Go. Marry Poppins. Adaline Bowman from Age of Adaline. idk, I’m sure there’s a lot more. It’s late. My brain wants to shut off.

12: Favourite movie(s) per genreDrama: Martha Marcy May MarleneThriller: Nocturnal AnimalsAction: Captain America: Civil WarComedy: Psych: The MovieMusical: Mamma Mia

13: Movie(s) you remember as part of your childhoodCheaper By the Dozen of course. Mary Poppins. There was a MyScenes (the dolls) movie I could quote backward and forwards called Jammin’ in Jamaica. That movie was my everything at a time. Jumanji was a movie I watched often with my cousins. And I was never more excited for a movie to premiere than Harry Potter or High School Musical.

14: Movie character(s) you identify withThis is something I really don’t know.

15: Prizes of your movie collectionI don’t really have much of one. So I am sad about that. I do have basically every Disney movie pre 2005 on VHS, so that’s something I am happy to have.

16: Blu-Ray, DVD, or VHS?Blu-Ray. Though I mostly have VHS or DVD. Everything is just digital now

18: Actor(s) you hateI don’t really ‘hate’ anyone, but there are people who do make me not want to watch a movie. And I know I’ve told you them before, and now I can’t even think. I hate my brain.

19: Director(s) you hateSame as above, just not something I have focused on enough to answer.

20: Your pet peeve(s) in moviesMy biggest thing is really obvious overacting. The minute I see it, I’m not as into the movie. It’s just hard to get pulled in. I also hate movies that drag out stuff that does not need to be. Scenes that go on, when they should have ended, and something else could have taken it’s place to actually further the story along.

21: Movie character(s) you have a crush onI am not sure I have time to list them all..... Like too many MCU characters. STEVE. JUST. Bucky. Wanda. Also, Taylor Sloane in Ingrid Goes West. Sophie Sheridan in Mamma Mia. Nick Vaughan & Brooke Dalton in Before we go. Brian O'Conner in Fast and the Furious. John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. I really could keep going on and on. But, I’ll stop. There’s just a lot. (I also had a crush on Kovu from Lion King 2 when I was younger)

22: Last movie you sawI watched Before We Go. Again. lol.

23: Favourite film adaptation of something from another mediumHarry Potter. I think it was amazing from book to movie, and they did such an amazing job with it.

24: Movies you think you probably should’ve seen but haven’t for whatever reason.There are SO MANY. I’d say Mamma Mia 2 is a major one, with how much I love the first movie. And then because of how much I love Saiorse I really want to watch Hanna and The Grand Budapest Hotel.  But I have a 100+ list of stuff to see. So...

25: Worst experience you’ve ever had in a movie theatreWell. Once I went to the theater and had a kid kick my chair for the entire two hours. So. Probably that. Or the time the lights went out. That was not at all fun. It was during Indiana Jones 4.

26: People whose opinions on movies you valueHmm. Well I have a few movie friends that I talk to about them, and value. On here, I instantly think of @aliciavikander and Jess (who I think deleted her blog again because her @ isn’t working)

27: If you could make a movie, what would it be and why?I think about this too often, and don’t really want to say, because I do truly believe I’ll write the book one day.

28: If you could adapt something from another medium into film, what would it be and why?Hmm. I once read a book series called Wicked, that I thought was amazing, and could see as a film so easily when I was reading. 

29: If you could remake any movie to improve what you felt was wrong about it the first time around, what would it be and why?I think Serena had the most potential. An amazing cast. Amazing filming. It just needed a bit of storyline help. Or a lot. Just changing that would have made such a difference.

30: Movie character(s) you find attractiveSee above question 21.

[roguenewsdao]

Are You Ready for an Upgrade?

"Even if we disregard the fate of slumdwellers, it is far from clear that we should be aiming at immortality, bliss and divinity. Adopting these particular projects might be a big mistake. History is full of big mistakes. Given our past record and our current values, we are likely to reach out for bliss, divinity, and immortality — even if it kills us."  -- Professor Yuval Noah Harari, author of "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow"

It's hard to believe that more than 20 years have passed since that moment when the internet was fascinated for five minutes with the picture of the "EarMouse" that showed up in many of our email In-Boxes. It was not a photoshop creation; real cow genes were grafted onto a mouse as part of an experiment in biological upgrades. Professor Harari recalls the experiment near the beginning of his Youtube conversation linked below.

From the tone of the quotation presented at the top of this article, you might presume that Professor Harari is warning mankind of what's coming in Transhumanism. Actually, the professor is quite excited at the prospect. He is saying that it is inevitable that Man will reach out to evolve from the state of "Homo sapien" to the state of "Homo deus (Man god)," and he, for one, is looking forward to it.

In his homestyle lesson linked below, the professor laid out his thoughts on the three methods that Man will likely pursue to achieve his evolutionary upgrade: 1). organically (as exemplified by the EarMouse), 2). cyborg-style, or, partly organically and partly inorganically, and 3). inorganically, kind of like Sophia the Robot. Keep in mind that his video posted below was recorded a whopping five years ago in 2013. In Tech Life, five years is like - what shall we say? - fifty years in the regular world. In fact, Harari here predicted that "learning" software would be developed as a tool for the Inorganic life forms. Sure enough, that's how Sophia is, right now, "learning" how to be human-like.

Below this video, I will copy a few points that jumped out at me. One of Harari's declarations is quite eyebrow-raising, but I don't think we can really call it "surprising."

You might think that Harari's background is in the field of genetics or genome-mapping. However, his approach is actually through history. He first specialized in medieval and military history, believe it or not. This veered off into thinking about the effect of biology on human history and, naturally, on humankind's future. (For those of you familiar with Joseph Farrell's books, I going to make a sideways observation, for what it's worth: there is an odd similarity between Harari's life path and that of Otto Rahn. I'm just going to leave that there and let you stew on that.)

Remembering Other People's Memories

At the 31-minute marker of the above video, Harari speaks about the possibility of creating an "inter-brain net." If you thought internet privacy concerns are alarming now, wait till you hear this. Harari envisions a time when everybody's mind will be connected to the global internet and we will be able to share the contents of our minds on the Information Superhighway with everybody else.

The most revolutionary project is the attempt to create a 2-way brain computer interface that will allow computers to read the electrical signals of the human brain while simultaneously transmitting signals that the brain can read and interpret and understand. Now, just imagine, what if such direct interfaces are used to directly link a brain to the internet. So you can surf the internet just with your consciousness, not with fingers and eyes. 

Or to directly link several brains to the same computer and thereby linking all of them together and sort of creating a sort of "inter-brain net." What might happen in such a case to things like human memory, human consciousncess, human identity if the brain can have direct access to collective data banks and collective memories? 

In such a situation, one cyborg could, for example, retrieve the memories of somebody else, not to hear about them, not to read about them in a book, not to imagine how this person might have felt - but to directly remember the memories of somebody else as if they were his or her own.

What happens to concepts like "gender identity" when minds become collective and men can actually remember the memories of a woman? Nobody knows the answer. These are complicated questions.

A little further along in the video, Harari mentions the Swiss "Blue Brain Project" and the staggering investment of €1 Billion Euros (not dollars, but euros!) to stimulate the creation of an artificial human brain inside a computer. Again, remember that this was five years ago. Also remember that wherever Switzerland and Big Money are mentioned, the Rothschilds are sure to be involved.

Digital Reconstruction of the Brain

According to the Swiss website of the Blue Brain Project [linked here], the goal of this endeavor is:

... to create a digital reconstruction of the brain by reverse-engineering mammalian brain circuitry. The mission of the project, founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, is to use biologically-detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mammalian brain (brain simulation) to identify the fundamental principles of brain structure and function in health and disease.

One of the regular speakers on the project is Professor Henry Markram. Below is a 10-minute video snippet of his explanation of the Blue Brain:

"The goal is a digital reconstruction and simulation of the brain."

"It's not whether you can solve a problem, it's whether you can change the state of your brain to that point in the spectrum where you CAN solve a problem."

"What we've also discovered is how to change that state, which neurons to fire, which synapses to fire, how to change the chemical environment in order to change that state so that you can solve, in principal, any problem."

I found that last point very reveletory when we think about the apparently engineered alteration being done to our environment - whether that be in the sky with chemtrails or with food and GMO contamination. You don't suppose we are all being used as a planetary lab rat to see if our neurons and synapses can be directed at a mass population level? Hmmm.

Tapping into Ancient Memories?

Before closing, I wanted to muse aloud about a crazy idea I've had for some time. W. the Intelligence Insider and I have had this conversation for awhile. We know that the thoughts "inside our head" don't actually stay inside our skulls. Anything that "lives" along electromagnetic pathways cannot be contained in a 3-D space; it's an "open" system. That would be like trying to contain a WiFi signal inside a cardboard box. From time to time, we hear people mention the Noosphere in the context of the hyperdimensional realm where our thoughts are pulsing. In fact, I'm a bit surprised that I didn't run across that word in the above material by Professors Harari and Markram.  

Mr. W. and I have chatted off and on about how our DNA strands are twisted in a "Y" formation, like a tuning fork, and that it is through this "tuning fork" that our physical brains keep their connection with our own unique thoughts that are floating out there in the Noosphere.

We know that elite socieites, including the Nazi elites, were engaged in a global quest for all manner of sacred knowledge and global antiquities. Surely somewhere along the way these hunters must have asked themselves, "Wouldn't it be great if we could just tap into the memories of the people who lived in those prehistoric times?"

What if that is the ultimate goal of this research, to tap into the memories of people whose physical bodies have long since decayed but whose electromagnetic memories are still vibrating along some quantum sphere? We know there was an advanced high civilization thousands of years ago and we know that human hybridization was on their minds. If you watch the video I have presented above from Professor Harari, you will note that even he recognizes that last point.

If you had quantum computing capability, and could reverse engineer the DNA map of every living person in such a way that you could simulate the DNA of their ancestors - especially if you only focused on particular hereditary lines - could you then potentially "tune in" to all those memories that are just swimming around out there, begging to be plugged back in?

I shudder to think of the many ways THAT technology could get misused. Wouldn't you know it but there is a concept that touches on that very thing called COSMISM. We'll pursue that in future blogs, probably in my #Celestials series. Meanwhile, here's a blog that Joseph P. Farrell wrote on the subject last year when news was made of German researchers who had recovered Neanderthal DNA from dirt. Dr. Farrell said, "Let that sink in for a moment: human DNA - thousands of years old - is recoverable from dirt." And where there's DNA, somewhere out there, are knowledge and memories linked to it.

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