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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i want to ramble about my interest |
| billowing |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2019, 3:15 am
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| Have heard sumpin about that too. Folks trying to find an entrance to another world via the arctic or Antarctic. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced some whacky books. Something was in the air back then. Some books (like the Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien) were presented as fi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i want to ramble about my interest |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 11:12 am
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| Have heard sumpin about that too. Folks trying to find an entrance to another world via the arctic or Antarctic. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced some whacky books. Something was in the air back then. Some books (like the Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien) were presented as fi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i want to ramble about my interest |
| billowing |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 10:04 am
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| The Nazis were into the "hallow Earth" notion. That novel must be where they got the idea from. The Nazis conducted an experiment on an island in German occupied Norway using telescopes to see the other side of the world by looking...straight up....into the night sky. The idea was that we... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i want to ramble about my interest |
| billowing |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 3:37 am
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| here's a page where i got a ton of info about the vril society: http://viewzone.com/vril22.html (the article in the link tells a brief summary of what the vril society was up to and their relationship with the nazis, and implies that the nazis got their aryan myth from the novel by Bulwer-Lytton and... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i want to ramble about my interest |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 2:46 am
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| billowing, You are a very interesting person. I notice you're a cat person, too! That's definitely a common interest of a lot of people here and you can make a lot of friends discussing pets and animals. thanks! yeah, asking someone in dwindling a conversation, if they want to see pics of my cat al... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i want to ramble about my interest |
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Posted: 07 Sep 2019, 2:43 am
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| Google Books leads me to "The Coming Race," a novel by Bulwer-Lytton ("It was a dark and stormy night"), written in the 1880s: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=vril+society yes, that's the book the whole seciety was based on. forgot the author earlier. i haven't read ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: hi |
| billowing |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2019, 7:37 am
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Stardust_Dragonfly wrote: Hello, nice to meet you! Your interests sound interesting- I would like to hear more about them. 
thanks! they are interesting  i might ramble about them somewhere on here sometime lol |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: hi |
| billowing |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2019, 7:35 am
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| Hi there! Thank you so much!! ! For the experience I have just had of being able to not know that today I would read something with "German secret society" in it and what was even for fascinating was the date range...now I'm obsessed lol..no, really..I am...and then Slavian...great word t... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i love wikipedia!! |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 11:08 pm
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| wow it's nice to hear that others share my pastime lol |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i love wikipedia!! |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 11:07 pm
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red_doghubb wrote: It's not always accurate or reliable. Anyone can post anything. Use it for a quick and dirty understanding of something but never as a primary resource. I've read some very dubious and/or quite entertaining wikipedia entries.
i agree but at least they cite their sources |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i love wikipedia!! |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 11:06 pm
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| I enjoy it too, I go on it all the time. Sometimes I learn some really fascinating things. :D For example, just last night I was up very late (as usual) reading and learning about the tragic life story of a comedian from the early 1900's named Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. He weighed 13 pounds... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: hi |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 1:18 pm
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AnonymousAnonymous wrote: Welcome to Wrong Planet!
thanks for the welcome! |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: hi |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 1:17 pm
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Zakatar wrote: Hi, Welcome to WP!
thanks! |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: i love wikipedia!! |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm
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| anyone else love researching their special interests on wikipedia? it's such an useful site, because it's pretty much credible, has a page for everything imaginable and every page has links to other related topics... i can spend hours digging through it. which brings up the awkward situation of when... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: How likely is it for a fully straight woman to become fully |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 12:32 pm
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| there's a cultural pressure to be heterosexual, like, you don't see homosexuals in media so the possibility of being anything but straight just doesn't occur to you, you might see and encounter homophobia, etc. and that causes a lot of homo-/bisexuals to get in straight relationships, until they dis... |
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Forum: LGBT Discussion Topic: How the hell do you tell if someone is male or female? |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2019, 12:21 pm
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| some people who are trans or are passionate about trans rights seem to be really sensitive about this kind of things, to the point where they oaint the walls full of demons. it must be hard living in a world that doesn't really accept you, but i think assuming malice right off the bat just makes lif... |
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