Jack Londonīs Prediction of Bioterror in 2013 | |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | from amazon.com: "The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison lifeand long stretches in a straitjacketby withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack Londons friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the authors most complex and original works. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Earths leaders are no differant than school yard bullies If you line all the leaders up, itīs just a handful compared to the human population. Why then canīt we take back our world and stop these bullies from destroying it along with all of us? Because we let them, thatīs why. A world without violence would be a wonderful place to live. Weīd only have to worry about taking care of each other and Iīd sooner do that than hurt or kill someone. If I was to hurt someone by accident, Iīd feel terrible. Iīm a former US Marine myself and I never killed but I woke up and said no more. I donīt want to be a part of this. I think it was when I saw my friends get blown up. I think it was when I got all these holes in my body and almost lost my life. Iīm sorry it took so long |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you get rid of them there is always someone ready to jump right into their place....somebody who could well be worse. Look around you, how many "would be" tyrants do you come across every single day, how many people when given half a chance would be the most ruthless and odious people when given unlimited power. Oh sure they would dress up their selfish agendaīs with all sorts of high-minded bullshit - but the end result would be the same. The subjugation of the masses by an ego driven maniac. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | >>Look around you, how many "would be" tyrants do you come across every single day, how many people when given half a chance would be the most ruthless and odious people when given unlimited power. Oh sure they would dress up their selfish agendaīs with all sorts of high-minded bullshit - but the end result would be the same. The subjugation of the masses by an ego driven maniac.<< how very true |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "YOUNG MEN: The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier. The good soldier never tries to distinguish right from wrong. He never thinks; never reasons; he only obeys. If he is ordered to fire on his fellow citizens, on his friends, on his neighbors, on his relatives, he obeys without hesitation. If he is ordered to fire down a crowded street when the poor are clamoring for bread, he obeys and see the grey hairs of age stained with red and the life tide gushing from the breasts of women, feeling neither remorse nor sympathy. If he is ordered off as a firing squad to execute a hero or benefactor, he fires without hesitation, though he knows the bullet will pierce the noblest heart that ever beat in human breast. "A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldierit is a depth beneath which we cannot go." Jack London |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25692 United States 01/17/2006 05:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SAN FRANCISCO / Jack London's lens on 1906 quake / Author's photos, never seen by public, get centennial show. [link to www.sfgate.com] |
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TheSignsofTheTime User ID: 12612625 United States 06/21/2013 09:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So, this is indeed true: [link to www.scribd.com] See page 34: "It was in the summer of 2013 that the Plague came. I was twenty-seven years old, and well do I remember it. Wireless despatches"Hare-Lip spat loudly his disgust, and Granser hastened to makeamends."We talked through the air in those days, thousands andthousands of miles. And the word came of a strange disease that had broken out in New York. There were seventeenmillions of people living then in that noblest city of America.Nobody thought anything about the news. It was only a small thing. There had been only a few deaths. It seemed, though,that they had died very quickly, and that one of the first signs othe disease was the turning red of the face and all the body.Within twenty-four hours came the report of the first case inChicago. And on the same day, it was made public that London, the greatest city in the world, next to Chicago, had been secretly fighting the plague for two weeks and censoringthe news despatchesthat is, not permitting the word to goforth to the rest of the world that London had the plague." The book refers to it as the "Red Plague". And low and behold, World War Z also comes out on the summer solstice with a story line built around a biological epidemic. Very curious timing. I also read this week that the Black Plague was dated as the year 1347. That is indeed the year of the European outbreak: [link to en.wikipedia.org] What is an Aha here is that 1347 is exactly 666 years ago. Do the math. It is true. I guess the conclusion for me here is that we have been amply warned and that 2013 feels like a trigger year for a biological event of some kind. It might be worth having on hand a family supply of rubber gloves, hydrogen peroxide and N95 masks. Other ideas? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28341878 United Kingdom 06/28/2013 09:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | really cool read op like a precurser for The Stand and very eerie What else did Jack London write? [I think he wrote 'The Call of the Wild.' I am going to read Scarlet Plague, I didn't realise he was a sc-fi author./quote] It seems amazing, like Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35419375 Estonia 08/22/2013 06:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | maybe thats related to this cycle: [link to www.papalencyclicals.net] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 45569349 Brazil 08/22/2013 09:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So, this is indeed true: Quoting: TheSignsofTheTime 12612625 [link to www.scribd.com] See page 34: "It was in the summer of 2013 that the Plague came. We have exactly one month now until the official end of the "summer of 2013" |