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originally posted by: cimmerius
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: Guyfriday
Building on your point the VW image perhaps infers you need to be CROSS EYED, or STRAIGHT EYED to see and process 2 images, rather than 2 eyes focussed to the same point to see 1 image?
That reminds me of the hidden image puzzles, where you have to gaze at a picture just right to see the message.
I’m wondering if any of this talk of visual processing could be related to the Black Eye Club.
Could damage or alteration to one eye allow a person to perceive these “special” images differently than the average person? Would it allow those people to see something only the "initiated" can see?
The brain combines the images from each eye into a unified visual experience. In the average person the input from each eye is much the same, so combining them is pretty seamless.
What would happen if the input from each eye was qualitatively different? How might the brain combine them?
How does the visual processing work in, say, a lizard, where the two eyes can operate independently and don’t have to point in the same direction?
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a) Both timestamp and Chan post number encode today, Aug 17th!
b) Aug 17th = 8/17 = Anagram of 187 = a Murder
No Jabs here either - As a Sovereign soul - I exempt myself
originally posted by: RookQueen
a reply to: carewemust
You know there is a part of me that thinks "you dumb sumbeeches" deserve whatever happens but then the other part of me thinks about how lonely my life will be which makes me so sad! I will literally have 1 friend and relative left at the end of this journey besides of course all of my friends on here that are scattered all over the world. This sucks big time!
The Taliban have captured the US military's biometric devices compromising crucial data of the US army and the local Afghans who played crucial roles during the war, a media report said on Wednesday.
The devices, known as HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, were seized last week during the Taliban's offensive, according to a Joint Special Operations Command official and three former US military personnel, all of whom worried that sensitive data they contain could be used by the Taliban, America's The Intercept reported.
These devices contain iris scans, fingerprints, and biological information. These data are used to access larger databases. However, it remains unclear that how much data has been compromised.
These devices also contain biometric data of those Afghans who helped the US during the war. Now, the Taliban might use these data to identify and target innocent Afghans.
It’s billed as “the most powerful tool ever developed for biometric identification,” and it could well be. L-1 Identity Solutions’ HIIDE is a rugged, portable device that can establish and then verify peoples’ identities using three separate biometrics - iris, fingerprint and facial recognition. It must be pretty impressive, as the US Department of Defense recently ordered ten million dollars worth of the suckers.
We are shifting from the military industrial complex to the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
A decidedly left-wing teacher at a Utah public high school was caught on video during class blasting former President Donald Trump, unvaccinated individuals, climate deniers, “dumb” parents — and even threatening to make life “a living hell” for students who speak against LBGTQ students.
www.theblaze.com...
Aeneas ... was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus). His father was a first cousin of King Priam of Troy (both being grandsons of Ilus, founder of Troy), making Aeneas a second cousin to Priam's children (such as Hector and Paris). He is ... mentioned in Homer's Iliad. Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is cast as an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome. Snorri Sturluson identifies him with the Norse god Vidarr of the Æsir.
Julius Cæsar and Augustus, traced their lineage to Ascanius and Aeneas, thus to the goddess Venus. Through the Julians, the Palemonids make this claim. The legendary kings of Britain – including King Arthur – trace their family through a grandson of Aeneas, Brutus.
Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa)... A marriage of sorts was arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno... Aeneas's mother Venus (the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite) realized that her son and his company needed a temporary respite to reinforce themselves for the journey to come. However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly. When Dido learned of this, she uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome, an enmity that would culminate in the Punic Wars. She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.
Latinus, king of the Latins, welcomed Aeneas's army of exiled Trojans and let them reorganize their lives in Latium. His daughter Lavinia had been promised to Turnus, king of the Rutuli, but Latinus received a prophecy that Lavinia would be betrothed to one from another land – namely, Aeneas.
Aphrodite gives him his name from the adjective... "terrible grief"... he has caused her by being born a mortal who will age and die... the meaning of Aeneas' name combines Greek ennos ("dweller") with demas ("body"), which becomes ennaios or "in-dweller"—i.e. as a god inhabiting a mortal body.
the birth of Aeneas is told in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite... Aphrodite has caused Zeus to fall in love with mortal women. In retaliation, Zeus puts desire in her heart for Anchises... When Aphrodite sees him she is smitten. She adorns herself as if for a wedding among the gods and appears before him. He is overcome by her beauty, believing that she is a goddess, but Aphrodite identifies herself as a Phrygian princess. After they make love, Aphrodite reveals her true identity to him and Anchises fears what might happen to him as a result of their liaison. Aphrodite assures him that he will be protected, and tells him that she will bear him a son to be called Aeneas. However, she warns him that he must never tell anyone that he has lain with a goddess. When Aeneas is born, Aphrodite takes him to the nymphs of Mount Ida, instructing them to raise the child to age five, then take him to Anchises.
After Aeneas's death, Venus asked Jupiter to make her son immortal. Jupiter agreed. The river god Numicus cleansed Aeneas of all his mortal parts and Venus anointed him with ambrosia and nectar, making him a god. Aeneas was recognized as the god Jupiter Indiges.
The De excidio Troiae of Dares Phrygius describes Aeneas as "auburn-haired, stocky, eloquent, courteous, prudent, pious, and charming".[28] There is also a brief physical description found in the 6th-century John Malalas' Chronographia: "Aeneas: short, fat, with a good chest, powerful, with a ruddy complexion, a broad face, a good nose, fair skin, bald on the forehead, a good beard, grey eyes."
Bruce Louden presents Aeneas as a "type": The sole virtuous individual (or family) spared from general destruction, following the mytheme of Utnapishtim, Baucis and Philemon, Noah, and Lot. Pseudo-Apollodorus in his Bibliotheca explains that "... the Greeks [spared] him alone, on account of his piety."
Vulcan gets his Cyclops workers to build a seven-layered shield
Aeneas marvels at the beautiful helmet, sword, and spear, and finally the ornate shield. On the shield, Vulcan has depicted the future of Rome, including important Roman myths