Hey everybody, it’s that time of the year again to vote for your favorites. Here are the categories this year:
- Favorite new paper by Miles (any subject) from 2021.
- Favorite guest paper from 2021.
- “Favorite” COVID-related absurdity/fakery of 2021.*
So just leave your votes in comments below (be sure to clarify categories 1, 2 and 3) or you can use the “Contact” link above to e-mail to me your votes and/or quotes. Feel free to comment on why it was your favorite. Votes cast after Friday night December 31 at 11:59pm EST will not be counted! (Also votes for papers published in previous years but updated in 2021 will not be counted.)
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
(Note if this is your first time commenting here, your comment will automatically go to moderation. It might go to moderation even if it isn’t your first time. Yes you need to leave an email to comment but it doesn’t need to be a real email address.)
*Here is a website to job your memory: http://viralabsurdities.com but of course there are many, many more…
RESULTS UPDATE:
The results have been tallied for this year’s best of:
Papers by Miles:
1st place: Bad Conspiracy Theorists
2nd place: The Holy Grail
3rd place (3-way tie): An Art Lesson, Natalie Wood, Rome
Honorable mentions: Amelia Earhart and Martin Luther
Best Guest Paper:
1st place: The Global Business Network: 20
2nd place: Guy Fawkes: 11
3rd place: 1666: the Year the Bankers Burned London: 8
Honorable mention: Vaccine Deaths and Injuries
There was no consensus on people’s favorite absurdities from the year, but you can scan the comments to see what people thought. Here’s to another year of discovery and fellowship!!
Cutting Through the Fog 
Category 1 – So many to pick from! Rome
Category 2 – 1666: the Year the Bankers Burned London
Category 3 – The only species that watches and listens to propaganda is affected by
Convid. The remainder of the natural world carries on unaffected.
Thank you Josh for the forum, to the commenters for the varying viewpoints, and to Miles for the constant and bright light!
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Category 1
Curio.
I chose this one because you spoke in general terms and summed it up nicely, for me. The nature payback resonated with me. I enjoyed finding out more about you.
All the best to you.
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No problem, I should have doublechecked. Although I think it’s important to note that my vote moves The Holy Grail into clear #2. The people have spoken, and they want more Ancient Aliens!
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Oops, meant to reply to someone else. :p
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Favorite new paper by Miles (any subject) from 2021: The Nuremberg Trials Were Fake.
Apropos in the age of CONVID. People pissed off at the CONVID crimes are calling for Nuremberg II – but even if it did come to pass it would just be another fake.
Favorite guest paper from 2021: The Global Business Network
Outstanding expose’ of the Phoenician financial crime syndicate.
“Favorite” COVID-related absurdity/fakery of 2021:
Everything about CONVID is absurd, but the career mass murderer and Big Pharma snake oil salesman Fauci wins the gold medal. My skin literally crawls when I hear or see him.
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I am not up-to-date on the 2021 papers yet, and so I will only vote for the best Miles paper (of the ones that I have read): “The Nuremberg Trials were Fake”.
Biggest Covid absurdity: people lining up for repeated dosing with experimental injections manufactured by private companies with a criminal record and without liability.
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Best Miles Paper: The Holy Grail
Best Guest Paper: The Isra-bluff
Absurdity/Fakery: I agree with Maria… people lining up to be tested. I was just looking at the pictures and shaking my head. I can only hope the majority are crisis actors.
More on Miles papers: really though, not a bad one in the bunch. Another favorite is Heavy Petting. Also Amelia Earhardt, The Jesuits, so much to expose and lay straight. I enjoy all the science papers and re-read the old ones as I have the chance. Uranus is Emitting X-rays, Spokes of Saturn and Mercury in Retrograde were great eye-openers for me.
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Solar Emission of Gamma Rays – that’s the paper that has fueled my thought process like none other in 2021. And ever since I read it I wanted to know if it’s safe to assume if other celestial bodies are also capable of producing chemical elements by the very same process. Remarkable piece. Kudos for figuring that out, Miles.
Who is Klaus Schwab – a guest paper that disclosed a modern-day fascist leader for what he actually is. I find it important as it dives deeply into a subject we’re still witnessing. It deals with the hoaxing as it is rolling out in reality, fronted by Schwab and others. Important to realize and analyze Tyrants’ MO in real time.
Favorite Covid related absurdity – single drivers in their vehicles wearing masks while at it. It simply baffles my mind trying to figure out reasoning behind it, but has also worked as a mood uplifter as it brought so many moments of sincere laughter with it.
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To all lurkers if you want to vote but don’t want to do it here just email me
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Favourite Miles: Mental Health and Men are pigs project. This paper needs to be read by all the young men and women alike, I feel. We need to get together, stay together and RESIST goddamit!
Favourite Guest: 1666 by Donny Ahzmond. Donny’s papers just continue to get better and better, more mindblowing and enjoyable then the last one! Keep em’ coming.
Most absurd covid absurdity: Second doses and boosters. The general population prove that they are morons by showing their inability to read and understand the meaning of the word “vaccine” from any dictionary, as well as making it plain as daylight that they are spineless cowards and yes men, to the point of allowing their kids to get jabbed with poison shots, thinking it a blessing.
Happy holidays Josh, Miles and all other CTTFers! Stay safe by avoiding the covidiots and cultivate sanity by returning to the past in any way you can, as Miles recommends.
Don’t get jabbed. Resist, resist, resist. Stay righteous and courageous.
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Favorite new paper by Miles: The Holy Grail (Rome is a close second)
Favorite guest paper from 2021: The Global Business Network (1666 a close second)
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1) The #1 paper for me is The Holy Grail.
There’s a lot I’d like to add to the article, but one thing that stands out is a book I found while searching the internet for more on the idea of aquatic humans. It’s called “Deep: Freediving and Renegade Science” and there’s an hour-long talk from the author on youtube, with the title “Humanity and the Deep Ocean | James Nestor”. The most interesting part had to do with people trying to communicate with whales while free diving, and military experiments communicating with dolphins. The experiments were suddenly scrapped, leading me to wonder if they found dolphins were capable of high levels of communication. Of course if news of this got out it might lead people to wonder if dolphins could claim ownership of the oceans, which would be unthinkable to tptb.
But back to aquatic humans. In the relatively new sport of free diving, people now can hold their breath over 12 minutes (about the same as dolphins), and dive as much as 700 feet below sea level with no equipment. Going deep underwater triggers some kind of change in the human body that slows the heart rate, sometimes as low as 7 beats per minute. Also humans, like migratory animals, have an internal compass. Some cultures still exist where people can always tell which way is north, even when blindfolded. These cultures don’t even have words for “left” and “right” because they can always say “north” and “south” instead. Also humans are capable of echo-location, and there are blind people who use it in their daily lives, to ride their bikes, etc. Pretty crazy stuff.
And then there’s the whole ancient aliens angle, like what if the Noah’s Ark story was really about the trip from Titan to Earth? But anyway.
2) Favorite guest paper is John Wayne Gacy, especially the stuff about CLOWNS. That was very eye-opening.
3) My favorite thing about Covid is how I don’t have to even waste time researching the science of it. These people always lie about everything so I don’t even bother with them anymore. That 30-fact Covid Crib Sheet was pretty helpful though, it gave me something to share with other people.
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Sorry this comment got lost in the spam folder…
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No problem, I should have double checked. Although I think it’s important to note that my vote moves The Holy Grail into clear #2. The people have spoken, and they want more Ancient Aliens!
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Dude Miles has provided physical, mechanical explanations for several of the phenomena you’ve just described. The charge field answers many questions.
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Favorite Miles Paper of 2021: The Holy Grail
Favorite Guest Paper of 2021: Global Business Network
Favorite” COVID-related absurdity/fakery of 2021: pass
Im not a fan of choosing my favorite Miles paper because I value them all.
Im choosing The Holy Grail because somehow I can send that one to more people without being conceived as being to crazy.
People like it when I tell them Dan Bown was not right but…
Plus it fends of people who might try to accuse me of: you think the planet’s run by lizards!
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Natalie Wood
Who is Klaus Schwab?
The dancing nurses in the White House at Christmas; also, they chose the worst, most obnoxious song.
I enjoy all the papers and have many runners-up:
1. All of the more personal/spiritual papers (I couldn’t pick just one), The Jesuits, A New Teddy Roosevelt, Rome.
2. Global Business Network (horrifying!), 1666: The Year the Bankers Burned London, Vaccine Deaths & Injuries.
Thank you so much Miles, Josh and all contributors! I am glad I found you.
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My favorite from Miles : our buildings are all wrong
Favorite from guest : guy fakes ex aequo with 1666 burning london
most hated covid absurdity: forcing children to suffocate themselves with disgusting pieces of disgusting plastic made in Wuhan by a company called Crown.
Un grand grand merci a Miles pour nous avoir encore éclairés en 2021…
Un grand merci aux guest writers pour leur contribution
Et merci a tous ceux qui rendent Cutting si vivant
Bonne fin d’année à tous
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Heavy petting
Who is Klaus Schwab
The Stockholm syndrome goes universal
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‘Heavy Petting.’ Runner up, ‘Some things you may not know about the Derek Chauvin Trial.’
‘18 Reasons I Won’t be Getting a Vaccine.’ By Christian Elliot
CDC flu & corona data wherein it appears to me they just delayed and/or hid the regular annual flu data.
My favorite writing by Miles is when he speaks of the Muse, or how it’s not too late, even for the bad guys, to turn around; that the bad guys badness and going for money and the lies is its own punishment, whereas sticking to the right, the good and the true is its own reward, and healthier and you can manage to survive anyway. This message as sometimes openly stated, but implicit in all the posts.
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ok, I still don’t have any time at all, but, if the ballots are still open, I’ll go for…:
“An Art Lesson”, because as an artist, it’ll probably be the most memorable for me – and also about Miles personally, some interesting aspects could be gleamed there.
& 3. sry, I would need to leaf through the lists – so, I abstain.
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Somehow the comment system has cut out the enumeration “1.” & “2.”
WTF?!
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Ok, left it late because there’s so much material this year, an impressive output from Miles.
So, 1 Bad Conspiracy Theorists – with the delightful prospect of mass karma for our oppressors.
2 India: the real crisis.
The naming of the ‘variants’. Truly pathetic, and compounded by the anagrams showing the ruler’s contempt for their chattel.
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It is almost impossible to pick a fav from Miles because there are so many categories, of which, half the papers are candidates, lol.
Best Miles: I’ll go for “The Holy Grail”. My favorite category is probably the spiritual papers, however, this paper has an aura of completeness/’magnum opus’ or something. And a kind of outreach beyond the perimeter of all other papers. It picked itself in my head.
Best Guest: “Vaccine Deaths and Injuries” by Josh.
Favorite absurdity/fakery: I simply can’t pick. The planet Earth is one big absurd show of fakery at this point.
I just want to make some honorable mentions for Best Miles. I could have picked any of those:
-“Heavy Petting”. This was literally spiritual charge in the surreal hellish desert of early 2021. Along with “Fish in a Barrel” they kept me sane and hopeful during that difficult time.
-“Mental Health and the Men-are-Pigs Project”. Many things concerning mental health and sexual politics/relations were explained just by reading this single paper.
-“You Just Bought a Half Billion Deadly Vaccines.” I saved this for last. Can’t call it “favorite”, but I think this is the most powerful paper of 2021. Simple, raw, direct energy exploding on the head of the reader. It’s ending felt like an gun going off inside my head. This is THE CALL. May it be heeded in the near future.
P.S. Hope the ballots aren’t closed!
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I enjoyed An Art Lesson, because I learned something new I wouldn’t have discovered on my own. The paper on John Wayne Gacy was a great guest written article. The papers on celebrity deaths are entertaining as they usually confirm suspicions that I’ve had. If you’ve been paying attention, most Hollywood stories don’t add up.
As far as COVID, I’m tired of thinking about it.
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Time to get this in under the wire:
Amelia Earhart. I relish every paper in this genre, and this one did not disappoint. Fast-moving, witty, and definitive. Nails it.
Global Business Network. Detail rich and fascinating. Names the names. A penetrating look into how the global financial elite craft the narrative. Utterly confirms my long held belief that our rulers spare no expense in hiring talent to advance their agendas.
Was the Vaccine Just Approved? Nope. This article was very helpful for me at the time as my resistance to the scamdemic/plandemic was wobbling under the relentless full-spectrum propaganda onslaught and pressure from those near me.
Honorable mention. I really enjoyed the Howard Hughs expose. It coincided with my reading of James Ellroy’s “The Cold Six Thousand” in which Hughs’ efforts to purchase Las Vegas hotel/casinos in the mid-60s contribute to the plot. The corruption, fraud, and deception are mind-boggling.
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Holy Grail/Saturn/Original Blood (Blue)
1a) Global Business Network 1b) 1666 London Fire 1c) Guy Fawkes (3-way tie)
Mixing of the jabs
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Best Miles paper: Just a Quick Note
Best guest paper: The Global Business Network
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Favorite Miles paper: The Epistemology of Science
Favorites guest paper: The Global Business Network
COVID absurdity: People wearing masks while driving alone….just what do they really think they are accomplishing ?
Runners up: Miles papers
Burning Man and Modern Art, The Real Divisions and Heavy Petting
Guest papers:
1666: The Year the Bankers Burned London
Vaccine Adverse Side Effects
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late i know but important nonetheless
1) The 3-body Problem Re-fudged. Eloquent and backed up by 9x other papers linked that blow it all apart. i hated to have to chose because all Miles’ papers stand on their own and i had 6x other papers a close second
2) Magnetic levitation and the Halbach Array
explained mechanically.
3)Vaccine Deaths and Injuries. Just humbling
Thank you Miles (and guest writers) for taking my life in this new direction
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Josh could you pause the vote count I have a lot of votes but can’t get them to you due to the blackout here or call me if my phone is not dead
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Miles, I just read and enjoyed your paper on the Epistemology of Science. I have reached the same conclusions about Modernism. My thesis is that the Protestant “reformation” represents the great break with tradition in favor of modernism. The groundwork was set by the abandonment of Plato in favor of Aristotle in the 13th century. Plato got it mostly right with the Allegory of the Cave. However this allegory was too cerebral for your average working family man or woman. A new myth encompassing Ethos and Pathos to balance of Logos was required: Augustine’s Trinity. Now, no average working family’s going to put a Plato’s cave diorama on its lawn in the dead of winter, but it will display a baby-in-the-manger diorama, symbolizing mother, father, rebirth, and surrounded by wise men. I believe however that Augustine and the church fathers erred at some point in failing to anticipate the modern literalist mindset. This error unfortunately created a thousand year shelf life on Augustine’s neoPlatonic mental operating system, leading again to the Protestant break. My current thesis is that the father/son/holy spirit formulation was a patriarchal error; Father/mother/son is a better anthromorphism of the classical trinity, thus apotheosizing the family and ensuring the survival of the classical tradition. My question to you is, do you see any merit in these theses? Have you ever considered tackling Augustine, Plato, and the trinity in a paper? Thanks, Kyle E. Wisconsin USA
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Miles: The Jesuits
Guest: Guy Fawkes
Covid: A Letter From Spartacus
So many are great–difficult to choose.
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Another great year for more incredible papers from Miles and guests, and once again difficult to choose.
Heavy Petting
The Global Business Network
Covid mental gymnastics, regarding +/ – tests
Thank you Miles, and Josh for keeping CTTF up, and all the commenters here.
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I seem to be a couple hours past the deadline, but I will add my vote anyway:
Return on investment for discussion of life philosophy. Runner-up Rome for arguing the Aeneid is ancient propaganda.
Vannevar Bush because of personal interest. Runner-up Global Business Network which was probably the most important guest paper.
Hundreds of people lining up to receive booster shots in Toronto. A pharmacist talking about how giving covid vaccines is the best part of his day because of how enthusiastic people are, but sometimes they need to be more respectful of the fact that the pharmacists cannot just give them a dose when they walk in.
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Too late to vote but I’ll just say I liked build.pdf, however I failed to see a general rule of thumb for determining whether a material blocks or channels charge. For example, Miles claims both metal and wool channel charge, but they are at odds both electrically and thermally.
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Hi everybody, I’m totally swamped. Could somebody please do me a favor and go through the comments to count the votes?
Miles sent me votes he received via e-mail from people who didn’t feel like leaving a comment here, so add these to the tally please:
Art Lesson 3
Jon Benet 2
Nat Wood 2
Bad Conspiracy 2
Rome 1
Amelia 2
Patton 1
OKC 1
Luther 3
Gacy 1
UT Tower 2
Laci 2
Roses 1
GBN 2
Guy Fawkes 3
1666 3
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one more for Holy Grail and GBN.
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Shredded from text copied at 6AM EST 2nd Jan. Includes late votes and the votes posted by Josh above.
— New paper by Miles 2021:
Bad Conspiracy Theorists (9)
The Holy Grail (8)
An Art Lesson (6)
Rome (6)
Natalie Wood (6)
The Jesuits (4)
The Nuremberg Trials Were Fake (4)
Amelia Earhart faked her Death (4)
Martin Luther (4)
George Bernard Shaw (4)
Heavy petting (3)
Patton (3)
The Epistemology of Science (3)
Our buildings are all wrong (3)
The Greatest Crime Against Humanity (2)
Return on investment (2)
The January 6th Riots (2)
Jon Benet (2)
The Oklahoma City Bombing was a False Flag (2)
UT Tower (2)
Laci (2)
Roses (2)
Bad Conspiracy Theorists / Our Buildings are all Wrong / Heavy Petting
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Curio
The Girl with the Pearl Earring is Fake
A New Teddy Roosevelt
The leaders of Post-war Europe Were Also Jewish
Fake Race Wars
Mental Health and Men are pigs project
Just a Quick Note
All of the more personal/spiritual papers
Why Mercury in Retrograde Is a Real Thing
Solar Emission of Gamma Rays
The 3-body Problem Re-fudged
Magnetic levitation and the Halbach Array
explained mechanically
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— Guest paper:
Global Business Network (23)
Guy Fawkes (12)
– 1666: the Year the Bankers Burned London (6)
Who is Klaus Schwab? (5)
Vaccine Deaths and Injuries (5)
John Wayne Gacy: Another Clown Psyop (3)
Letters from Spartacus (3)
India: The Real Crisis By Hanuman Bhakt (2)
18 reasons I won’t be getting a vaccine (2)
Vaccine Adverse Events by Josh
Esalen Institute
Vampires
Unwinding the 2020 Death Count
The Isra-bluff
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Thank you!!
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@Josh
Here is the tally for the guest papers of 2021 (comments + Miles’ comments):
22 votes: The Global Business Network
12 votes: Guy Fawkes
7 votes: 1666: the Year the Bankers Burned London
6 votes: Vaccine Deaths and Injuries
3: votes: Who is Klaus Schwab?
2 votes: A Letter from Spartacus
India: The Real Crisis
18 Reasons I Won’t be Getting a Vaccine
1 vote: The Esalen Institute
Unwinding the 2020 US Death Count
The Isra-bluff
The Halbach Array
PS. I didn’t count Mihai M, who was 2 minutes late.
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I was waiting for the one on the UT tower. I was really glad that Miles covered it. It’s hard not to vote for others, though. An Art Lesson explained a lot that I wasn’t privy to before. And so well written, as well.
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Happy new year! This is my first post here, and I thought I’ll do something useful as an introduction. I went through all the comments and also added Josh’s count and Miles’ addition below that. It was a bit difficult, I have to say, because some posts were all over the place without a real ranking. If a poster didn’t explicitely state that they couldn’t really decide, I’ve chosen the first paper that was mentioned for each category, e.g. if three papers from Miles were mentioned and then 2 papers from guest writers, I chose the first one for category #1 and the third one for category #2. So it isn’t perfect but it’s the best I could do. I didn’t include posts that were written in January.
I also didn’t inlcude these two posts:
https://cuttingthroughthefog.com/2021/12/23/best-of-2021/comment-page-1/#comment-172641
https://cuttingthroughthefog.com/2021/12/23/best-of-2021/comment-page-1/#comment-172647
Gerard Nordskoven’s post was all over the place. Should I include Rome because it’s mentioned first, or Luther because it takes the cake or The Holy Grail (“so count twice”). Robert Newton’s pick for the guest paper is included, but the choice for category #1 was too vague.
Category #1:
Bad Conspiracy Theorists: 10
The Holy Grail: 7
An Art Lesson: 6
Natalie Wood: 6
Rome: 6
Amelia Earhart faked her Death: 4
Martin Luther: 4
The Jesuits: 3
The Nuremberg Trials were Faked: 3
Patton Faked his Death: 3
The Greatest Crime Against Humanity: 2
George Bernard Shaw: 2
The January 6 Riots were Fake: 2
The Epistemology of Science: 2
JonBenet Ramsey: Case Solved: 2
Our Buildings are all Wrong: 2
Laci Peterson: another Men-are-Pigs Project: 2
The Oklahoma City Bombing was a False Flag: 2
The University of Texas Tower Shooting was Faked: 2
Heavy Petting: 2
Why Mercury in Retrograde is a Real Thing: 1
The Girl with a Pearl Earring is Fake: 1
Return on Investment: 1
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Theft was an Inside Job: 1
A New Teddy Roosevelt: 1
Fake Race Wars: 1
Solar Emission of Gamma Rays: 1
Mental Health and the Men-are-Pigs Project: 1
Just a Quick Note: 1
The Leaders of Post-war Europe were also Jewish: 1
More Major Clues in the War of the Roses: 1
Category #2:
The Global Business Network: 20
Guy Fawkes: 11
1666: the Year the Bankers Burned London: 8
Josh’s Vaccine Paper: 6
Who is Klaus Schwab?: 4
John Wayne Gacy: Another Clown Psyop: 3
A Letter from Spartacus: 2
18 Reasons I Won’t be Getting a Vaccine: 2
India: The Real Crisis: 2
The Esalen Institute: 1
Unwinding the 2020 US Death Count: 1
The Isra-bluff: 1
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Awesome, thank you! And welcome to the forum!!
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Hi you missed mine out:
1) The 3-body Problem Re-fudged. Eloquent and backed up by 9x other papers linked that blow it all apart. i hated to have to chose because all Miles’ papers stand on their own and i had 6x other papers a close second
2) Magnetic levitation and the Halbach Array
explained mechanically.
3)Vaccine Deaths and Injuries. Just humbling
Thanks
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Wow, not what I expected. 31 of my papers got a vote, which tells us how tastes vary, I guess. And I never would have guessed Bad Conspiracy would take it. I think it benefitted from coming late, and also I assume because readers liked me bashing the Phoenicians unmercifully. Fair enough. As far as entertainment value goes, I would say Natalie Wood and Amelia Earhart were the best, along with Patton and Jon Benet. As far as historical importance goes, I might lead with Luther, then War of the Roses, which I am surprised got only one vote. Maybe in England they are more interested to know the wives of Henry VIII weren’t really killed. Or maybe not. It was another very interesting year for us all, not least for me, who was as surprised by these papers as much as anyone else. I never had any idea I would write any of them, until I did. I started 2021 as I start 2022: with zero plans for the future. Not an effing clue. So if you find life surpassing strange, just imagine how I feel, being the actual mouth of the Muse. I have to tell you it gives me a vague but powerful frisson, all but ruining me for a normal existence. In the real world I feel like a lost bear cub wandering down Fifth Avenue at rush hour.
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As a Tonalist landscape painter, I wanted to say I loved “An Art Lesson.” After reading your PDF, I pulled down my “A History of American Tonalism” by David Adams Cleveland (yes, sounds like one of the Family members, doesn’t he?), and he says the exact same thing about viewing actual art vs. images of such and so-called “connoisseurs”: “Such an appreciation and understanding and—dare I say it, level of connoisseurship is sorely lacking among today’s collectors, who, in many cases, have become overly dependent on digital images of artwork—quickly summoned and just as quickly dismissed—rather than long sessions of sweet, silent thought given over to contemplating actual artworks, and so fathoming their infinite complexity and the hard-won skills and singular visions of their creators.”
I just about leapt out of my chair when I read that. All painters know this to be true about photos of their works, no matter how they try to photograph and adjust them via photoshop, etc.
And the above quote is taken from the context that these collectors and gallery owners understand very little about tone and how to judge a work for its poetic qualities, rather than all the bravura of the dash and splash techniques. Many of Whistler’s works took years to complete. It is far better to include the soul, rather than some overt style that panders to the masses. Those like Gerhartz have clearly lost their souls in an effort to please clueless collectors who know nothing about what makes art—art. I also find it disturbing that Gerhartz, who claims to have saved his soul via Christianity (of which I follow—though not the Institutional controlled forms), has truly lost or sold his soul to the market. Would he not be happier if he just painted works that were true to the soul, and not contrary to it? I think we were designed to reflect greatness, not pander to the lowest denominator.
I also love this from Cleveland: “Use of subtle color tones comprised of various greens, purples, blues, and grays that are harmonious, tranquil, restful, quiet, and easy on the eye: The most obvious artistic strategy of the Tonalists, as the name implies, was the use of a subtle range of similar color tones on the scale between red and blue and yellow to produce a sensation that is quiet, cool, and conducive to reverie. These restricted earth and sky tones, with admixtures of grays and blacks, sometimes verging on monochrome, have the salutatory effect, like black and white photography, of highlighting or dramatizing the basic components of the composition, and so emphasizing the abstract and symbolic quality of natural forms.”
Thank you for including this “Lesson.” Look forward to more lessons. And love all the other papers too.
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It’s difficult to choose a favourite essay by Miles Mathis or from the superb papers by guest authors when most are excellent and thought provoking. I’m grateful Miles and friends are online to help us ‘cut through the fog’ of lies . I pray those entities who are behind the chicanery will repent of their insanely destructive chicanery, and help good souls to make the world better.
This essay might help the misguided see the light:
Click to access sangreal.pdf
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I’m watching this guy’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7bB51x1MDU) live broadcast with a Romanian trucker. A guy stole them something and the trucker said to a nearby police officer that they are robbing them, and the cop said: “I don’t give a shit, go back to your truck”. He also said that the cops seized their food on stalls, and they threatened one of them with arrest, but he didn’t back off – he said “arrest me”, they didn’t do anything. I’ve noticed the cops are using various scare tactics – they succeeded (at least partially) in Toronto. It seems the right-wing organizers etc. possibly hijacked the movement and are controlling it also by saying to people to not respond with violence if the cops get violent. I don’t agree with this. The trucker also said the cops look frightened. There should be even more people in Ottawa every day, all day to support and protect them. A young military guy in plain clothes said he’s here because he has to be here, he won’t fight against his citizens.
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