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So about a month ago I started playing an "ARG" involving an organization called the SVV, or Sodalitas Vulturis Volantis. I started to notice some strange things about their interests and brought this up to the "Chancellor" or leader of the "ARG". Soon I was expelled from the game. So I used some web vulnerabilities and got access to some of their backend files, which eventually led me to an e-mail trail.
It is now one of the 88 constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. The constellation was also known as Vultur volans (the flying vulture) to the Romans, not to be confused with Vultur cadens which was their name for Lyra.
It is often held to represent the eagle who held Zeus's/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Aquila is also associated with the eagle who kidnapped Ganymede, a son of one of the kings of Troy (associated with Aquarius), to Mount Olympus to serve as cup-bearer to the gods.
(Altair) is the brightest star in this constellation and one of the closest naked-eye stars to Earth at a distance of 17 light-years. Its name comes from the Arabic phrase "al-nasr al-tair", meaning "the flying eagle". Altair has a magnitude of 0.76.
(Alshain) is a yellow-hued star of magnitude 3.7, 45 light-years from Earth. Its name comes from the Arabic phrase "shahin-i tarazu", meaning "the balance"; this name referred to Altair, Alshain, and Tarazed.
(Tarazed) is an orange-hued giant star of magnitude 2.7, 460 light-years from Earth. Its name, like that of Alshain, comes from the Arabic for "the balance", "shahin-i tarazu".
In classical Greek mythology, Aquila was identified as Αετός Δίας (Aetos Dios), the eagle that carried the thunderbolts of Zeus and was sent by him to carry the shepherd boy Ganymede, whom he desired, to Mount Olympus; the constellation of Aquarius is sometimes identified with Ganymede.
In Hinduism, the constellation Aquila is identified with the half-eagle half-human deity Garuda.
In ancient Egypt, it is possible that Aquila was seen as the falcon of Horus.
[Ganymedes] was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore
the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer,
for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.
— Homer, Iliad, Book XX, lines 233-235.
The myth was a model for the Greek social custom of paiderastía, the socially acceptable erotic relationship between an adult male and an adolescent male. The Latin form of the name was Catamitus (and also "Ganymedes"), from which the English word "catamite" is derived.
originally posted by: CreationBro
a reply to: ketsuko
Or an e.m. device installed in someones mattress. I'm sure that could effect sleep patterns.
I have "acquired" new information that makes anything anyone has ever read so far look like child's play. When I said paradigms will be shattered, I meant it. The problem is, I don't believe that I can publish it on ATS. I'm in contact with a few people now and will hopefully figure out how to release the information. THIS IS BIG
A philosophical zombie or p-zombie in the philosophy of mind and perception is a hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.[1] For example, if a philosophical zombie was poked with a sharp object it would not feel any pain sensation, yet could behave exactly as if it does feel pain (it may say "ouch", recoil from the stimulus, and say that it is in pain)
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: CreationBro
a reply to: ketsuko
Or an e.m. device installed in someones mattress. I'm sure that could effect sleep patterns.
That would be less likely; however, cell phones are known to be able to give off electromagnetic waves that alter the brain.
How many cell zombies are there, and cell addiction is a thing. It is linked to spiritual emptiness among other things which would leave a person open to spiritual attack.
40% of the population is addicted to their cell. And a lot of people have a real phobia of being without their cell.