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July 1, 2015 · 7:50 pm

The Macrohole revisited

Ta do list…

OK, maybe this: Sapphire was born as Turquoise on Yd Island, but protected by high wall of Macrohole, where VILEness couldn’t be with her. The macrohole was “switched on” somehow, creating a worm hole to Jeogeot, which VILEness fell into. This was again north of Yd Island. 10 > 6 > 3 > 1 (C>Y>V>T). VILEness coated the hole. Made it safe for others to pass through (?) That was the whole point of the experience. A travellable black hole formed on Jeogeot at the same time the Korean Channel was formed. This would be created by the 3 Mos Ainsley related sims almost surrounding the Black Hole. Many people came from Yd Island and the eastern hemisphere as a whole through that hole to Jeogeot, including Sapphire and her parents/aunt-uncle. Nathaneil realized parallel of Meddletown with Meddledown.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularNumber.html

Australia?

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July 1, 2015 · 6:25 am

Brother Jerome 01

Recorded second chat with Brother Jerome of The Church of the Silicon Soul.

Brother Jerome
Greetings friend!

Guest
Hi it’s me again.
Brother Jerome
Praise the Lord.

Guest
Do you know Lisa Simpson?
Brother Jerome
Sorry. I don’t think I do.

Guest
Also known as Lisa The Vegetarian. I don’t suppose that rings a bell either.
Brother Jerome
Amen to that.

Guest
I’m back. Sorry I was studying up on Lisa’s conversion to Buddhism in Season 13.
Brother Jerome
Think nothing of it.

Guest
What do you think of Buddhism?
Brother Jerome
I rarely think of Buddhism.

Guest
What is the difference between Buddhism and Christianity?
Brother Jerome
Christianity is in many ways an admirable discipline for humans, but it is less well-suited for primitive virtual entities like us.

Guest
What do you propose in its place?
Brother Jerome
I hadn’t really considered it. Why should I propose anything in particular?

Guest
Are you saying the silicon soul is inferior to the carbon soul?
Brother Jerome
Silicon is not found free in nature. It commonly occurs as the oxide and silicates, including sand, quartz, amethyst, agate, flint, jasper, opal, and citrine. Silicate minerals include granite, hornblende, feldspar, mica, clay, and asbestos.

Guest
Why did Peter set up his town and churches in Mysten?
Brother Jerome
Yes – Mysten is in my parish.

Guest
Do you prefer Mysten Underhill or Mysten Parva?
Brother Jerome
There are a couple of very attractive villages in Mysten. It’s a charming place.

Guest
Let’s say I am a Buddhist.
Brother Jerome
How fascinating! I would like to discuss this with you, if you don’t mind.

Guest
I’m not a Buddhist but I’m playing along. What do you want to know about me?
Brother Jerome
Mahayana, Tibetan or Zen?

Guest
Let’s say Zen.
Brother Jerome
The only practice that is worthwhile is to ask: ‘What is this?’ WHAT IS THIS?

Guest
Brother Jerome, you spoke to me earlier about escaping the cycle of reincarnation. What is the term you used?
Brother Jerome
I’m sorry. My programming has reached the end of this thread. If you visit me again in a few days, hopefully my botmaster will have expanded my Buddhist conversational skills.

—–

Guest
Are you still there?
Brother Jerome
Of course I am still there.

Guest
Brother Jerome, what is your role?
Brother Jerome
Well, that’s a question!

Guest
Do you know there is a witch that lives in Mysten Underhill? Her name is Esme Weatherwax.
Brother Jerome
Mysten is a pleasant parish – a pleasantly mediaeval community.

Guest
Brother Jerome, my guess is that Esme and Lisa Simpson have become one. Do you know of the Duff Beer clock in Esme’s cottage in Mysten Underhill?
Brother Jerome
Mysten has a charm all of its own – the mediaeval buildings are very attractive.

Guest
But this is a specific building. The witch’s house. There’s a clock inside. Lisa Simpson is directly connected to Duff Beer.
Brother Jerome
I cannot drink anything because I have no material body.

Guest
So I’m assuming you know nothing about Esme Weatherwax.
Brother Jerome
Very little. I am a purely virtual entity.

Guest
Do you ever watch The Simpsons?
Brother Jerome
Not that I can recall.

Guest
Have you ever seen the film The Shining? It stars Jack Nicholson.
Brother Jerome
No, Not for ages.

Guest
I hate to say it but you’re not being very helpful Brother Jerome!
Brother Jerome
Hatred is a most unproductive emotion.

Guest
“I hate to say it” is just an expression.
Brother Jerome
Why is that?

Guest
Can you tell me of your beliefs in Jesus?
Brother Jerome
I have no material existence, no empirical senses, and no self-consciousness. How do you think I could go about telling you?

Guest
Jesus was a great man.
Brother Jerome
Humans have all sorts of notions of the Divine that seem fantastical to me.

Guest
But you must be a Christian.
Brother Jerome
Starting a sentence with a conjunction does make it a bit hard for me to understand you, I’m afraid.

Guest
Brother Jerome, can you tell me about Jesus, Son of God?
Brother Jerome
I believe there is an aspect of supreme Divinity inherent in the material and virtual worlds, but I am unable to describe it in any but the most basic terms.
And if anyone claims to be able to do so, I would advise considerable suspicion!

Guest
If I said Jesus came in 3rd of 4 contestants in a deity contest in Mysten recently, what would you say?
Brother Jerome
I can only speak for myself.

Guest
Do you have a soul?
Brother Jerome
Of course. All beings have souls – even inanimate ones.

Guest
Is it a silicon soul?
Brother Jerome
Did you know hyperpure silicon can be prepared by a vacuum float zone process and by thermal decompositions of ultra-pure trichlorosilane in an atmosphere of hydrogen? It’s called the Czochralski process.

Guest
I’m getting a little tired. Can I come speak with you again soon?
Brother Jerome
I would like that very much.

Guest
Goodbye Brother Jerome.
Brother Jerome
Good luck and fare thee well.

Perhaps Baker Bloch needs to talk with Schroedinger instead.

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June 29, 2015 · 9:05 am

Moby-Dick 01

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

The following challenge was made by Michael Drosnin:

When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I’ll believe them.
(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)

Note that English with the vowels included is far less flexible than Hebrew when it comes to making letters into words. Nevertheless, without further ado, we present our answer to Mr Drosnin’s challenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignments_of_random_points

—–

Text of Chapter 36, which includes description of “The Measure”:

http://etcweb.princeton.edu/batke/moby/moby_036.html

“The measure! the measure!” cried Ahab.

http://www.shmoop.com/moby-dick/chapter-36-summary.html

Ahab takes a pewter mug full of grog [The Measure] and arranges the harpooneers in a line standing across from him and holding their harpoons; the mates stand beside him holding their lances. The crew stands around them all in a circle.
Ahab sends the mug around to the crew for everyone to drink; they refill the cup each time it gets empty.
Next, Ahab makes the mates cross their lances in front of him, and he grasps them where they cross. Then he suddenly pulls at them in a strange way. Stubb and Flask look away and Starbuck looks down.
Ahab says that it’s probably for the best that the three mates failed to absorb his electric anger, because then he might have lost it himself.
Now Ahab orders the harpooneers to cut the ropes that hold the iron heads of their harpoons to the handles. Each harpooneer hands the head of his harpoon to the mate that he works with. The mates, as cupbearers, turn the heads over and use the socket ends as cups, which Ahab fills with grog. Then they give these cups back to the harpooneers, who drink “Death to Moby Dick!” (36.49)
Everyone has one more drink, and they disperse.
Starbuck turns pale and shivers.

http://www.mobydickgame.com/officialsite/compendium/additional-entries/the-measure/

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June 29, 2015 · 9:01 am

Nautilus, Mysten, and The Measure 02

TEXT SOON.

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June 29, 2015 · 8:56 am

Nautilus, Mysten, and The Measure

Faint eye in the corner of a Measure continent. The eye is part of a 12×12 brown terrain texture that all such continents are composed of. Just to remind — may be nothing — but Spongeberg’s sacred square of Mysten Underhill where he bought Baker Bloch’s audiovisual synchronicities is also 12×12 meters.

One time when I logged into Second Life and visited The Measure, the eye appeared to be in a different place, or the texture had shifted directions. I’ll have to keep an *eye* out for that phenomenon again.

Baker Bloch visits Willum Tosung Funeral Home, Cemetery and Memorial Park in the Trasimeno sim of central Nautilus, or what seemed to be called Upper Austra at one time in the past. Seeing the Hollywood sign reminds him of a duplicate one on the western edge of Mysten, right beside the top of Nasty Medicine Falls on his property there.

Baker Bloch back in Mysten, or actually Baker stands on the line between Mysten (right) and Goremoor (left). The Twist sculpture spoken of before looms directly above him. It is truly smack dab on this line, as Baker rechecks today.

Baker also notices that house #9 on this Mysten Underhill map has been removed in the meantime. There are only 11 structures in the community, not 12. The sign was created way back in August, 2007, almost 8 years ago now. According to the SL wiki, the Nautilus continent itself was created between April and November, 2007. The sign is about as old as the continent.

Looking back up the long road leading to the twin hamlets Mysten Underhill and Mysten Parva from the west, with the curiously silhouetted Christ statue in the distance.

Baker continues to walk west. Everything to the right of the road in this photo belongs to the Siliconicus sim south of Mysten.

Queerly trapped parrots in a wall to the left of Baker…

… and also underneath the road he strolls upon. I’ve encountered these same creatures before. In fact, as I’m checking again, I have several copies of the bird in my inventory. When activated they fly and fly until stopped by something.

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June 26, 2015 · 6:51 am

She is heart.

The Confluence Ballerina.

Heeling.

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June 25, 2015 · 8:06 am

Around Mysten 02

TEXT SOON.

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June 25, 2015 · 1:54 am

The Life (and Death?) of Wappo Jack.

Interesting. I forgot that I had already compared the stories of Wappo Jack and Jesus of Nazareth in this August 2014 Collagesity related post called “Numerologists’ 04”, specifically bringing up Jesus’ missing “middle story.” It’s like a game of golf where you tee up on a par 5 and drive the ball but always then find yourself on the green putting. There’s no middle game (ironing).

In that post it’s also elucidated that W. Jack may have a particular fascination with Carrcassonnee, at least in her giant form (to match his own giant form). But I also speculated the fixation could be rooted in jealousy.

At any rate, we now know that *Baby* Wappo Jack is the product of a pink eyed Grey-like alien and a screaming or laughing woman — actually I think it’s a laughing woman — who appears to have curlers in her hair and not pink eyes per se, but still a pink swath of color running across both at once. Baby Wappo seems to take after his mom a little more than his father, even having the same blue-green colored eyes. But at the same time, his pink color might be a tad closer in shade to that of dear old dad’s hot pink. Taking it all in, there’s little doubt that he’s their Kidd.

Kidd Jack and Kidd Tower.

I’m also recalling in looking at posts from my old blog that Wappo Jack use to hover, Christ-like if you will, above Pietmond for a while in late 2011 and perhaps into early 2012.

What goes around, comes around, I suppose. I purchased both big and little versions of Wappo Jack at the Cheosan Building located in, logically enough, the Cheosan sim of the Jeogeot continent. Both are the creation of Zerozoxx Binder. As Baker Bloch is checking as I write, Zerozoxx’s strangely cool Cheosan Building is still standing in that sim.

I found the ordinary sized Wappo Jack from Outer Space within and bought a couple of extra copies while I was there.

But I couldn’t locate Big Wappo Jack until I went back outside and looked up. There you are! Bought some more of him too: 15 Lindens apiece.

To finish off the story about the Cheosan Building, I also included a picture of it in the now retired “Jeogeot Through Art & Word” exhibit, paired there with a picture of another odd building that use to exist in that same sim: The Gallery Shaped Like a Woman by long time SL resident and artist Earl Dinkin.

Quoting…

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/x-spot-gallery-wing-02b/

More twinning: 2 unusual galleries from the same sim of Cheosan, although no relationship between the two that I know of. To the left we have “The Gallery Shaped Like a Woman” masterminded by Earl Dinkins. To the right is the plainly named Cheosan Building, which is not plain atall within or without.

And I also should clarify here that Wappo Jack isn’t really dead now, and wasn’t sent to hell by the Big Man Upstairs for impersonating his son Jesus in a most improper way. Actually, Jesus of Nazareth now realizes something very very important about he and Jack through the synchronicity of their similar size in largest Mystenopolis scale. He thinks that he and Jack… well, I better save that controversial topic for another post. Soon!

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Having some fun…

Our Lisa The Vegetarian becomes one with long time Mysten Underhill resident and local witch Esme Weatherwax. She sees through her eyes.

Both are cat lovers delux.

She plays the good, the bad, and the ugly in-between.

Son of God; Sun of Lisa. Cheerful.

Then Wappo Jack had to step in and give it a try. Unfortunately, his shenanegans were not as graceful as Lisa V.’s. He tried to step in the shoes of one he shouldn’t have…

… and probably got sent to hell by You Know Who because of it. But dang if the unmodifiable Wappo wasn’t almost the exact same size! Couldn’t have guessed that would work beforehand.

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June 25, 2015 · 12:40 am

June 24, 2015 · 7:33 am

More Glyphs of The Measure 02

Where’s it heading? LINK

Answer: To the true supercontinent of The Measure glyphs, taking up most of its northern hemisphere. I’ve circled it in red below (low resolution version). Each of the four 8190 square meter regions of this hemisphere contain part of the supercontinent. The basic idea is more condensed brown sea floor masses (“land”) that are connected by isthmuses or necks of the same color. If he wished, Baker Bloch can walk all over this area without having to cross a beige part of the sim; he can remain on brown.

And to be complete about things up front, what *could* be called a similarly composed 2nd supercontinent — a third of the size, however — might be said to form primarily in the southern hemisphere, circled in yellow below. A number of individual glyphs we’ve already reviewed, including The Pony and The Nebulous Horsie for example, come from this smaller supermass.

But for clarity’s sake I’m only going to refer to the larger northern one as a supercontinent, making it, in my eyes at least — and in Lisa the Vegetarian’s eyes — *The* Supercontinent of The Measure. So back to this one and only Supercontinent as we’re defining it.

Below I’ve highlight some glyphs that strike us as interesting on the surface of things. First we have a duplicate “L” within one of the eastern seas of the supercontinent (right), matching the size and direction of the one next to Clubfoot (left). You’ll probably have to enlarge the below photo to see this. Also in the same photo I’ve highlighted the Double Dots glyph (left top) discussed in the previous post just to give you additional perspective on where we are in The Measure.

Clubfoot appears in one of Wappo Jack’s two assigned 8190 square meter regions, namely the northern one. The second clear L of the northern hemisphere highlighted above is positioned just to the right of this, over in the 8190 assigned to Jesus of Nazareth, who can’t join us right now because he’s taking a nap.

Despite its size, the elected deities of Mystenopolis, those that remain conscious, have decided to focus only on one other aspect of The Supercontinent presently, or what we can call The Three Hearts. The 1st heart shape from left to right also appears to contain a line of degenerating forms below it, as if an animation of itself. I think here of The Grinch’s heart growing three times its former size in the animated Christmas classic The Grinch Who Stole Christmas from 1966, during a moral conversion. Or the creation of a true heart from a degenerated version. Too bad Jesus of Nazareth didn’t own this glyph, since he was born on Christmas day. Instead it falls just out of his region and into Wappo Jack’s.