2024 Paris Olympics: A Demonic Introduction to the Games

[AlexB23]

You had television when you were a kid? That is neat.

Yeah. I am young. Will be 25 in the fall of this year. I had flat screen TV, bro, and a CRT TV in the spare room at my old house (well, my parents own them, and got rid of the CRT TV in 2016 or so when we moved to Wisconsin). In December 2022, I bought my own TV for the first time, an LG 43UN700T-B model. It is technically a 43 inch monitor, cos monitors have better colors compared to TVs, but is hooked up to a Roku streaming stick and a DVD player on my TV stand. I can watch classic DVDs on it.

 

[Pommer]

People tend to like Leonardo's Last Supper.

What exactly would we be blaming him for?

The second-though-the-fifth word of my one sentence post, should provide a clue.
Socratic arguments will only get one so far.

 

[Pommer]

How does that article do anything to back up your claim "that such a depiction of The Feast of the Gods, predates Christianity by about 800 years"? I don't see it. What image from around 800 BC is being referred to? The oldest images I see there are from around 500 BC but they aren't anything even remotely similar to the Olympics ceremony.

Perhaps I was too imprecise in my verbiage?

The written word can “depict” events, both real and only imagined…when the first 2D art of created of this story from Greek mythology was created, I do not know. Nor is it important to my point that Christians are mad because they are ignorant of their ignorance and choose to be mad over something that has absolutely nothing to do with the core beliefs around their religion, but only a “scene” that has been depicted hundreds of times, (Dali’s is sublime, BTW), depicted, in their Holy Book.

But it’s not about the Last Supper, yet still there’s this anger that wouldn’t have had a chance to fester, if people were better informed about the classics.

We gotta start teaching Greek and Latin again, in elementary schools, that’s all there is to it!

 

[Nithavela]

What made you decide to stop watching TV and movies a decade ago?

I prefer entertainment that I can interact with, like video games.

 

[Pommer]

Yeah. I am young. Will be 25 in the fall of this year. I had flat screen TV, bro, and a CRT TV in the spare room at my old house (well, my parents own them, and got rid of the CRT TV in 2016 or so when we moved to Wisconsin). In December 2022, I bought my own TV for the first time, an LG 43UN700T-B model. It is technically a 43 inch monitor, cos monitors have better colors compared to TVs, but is hooked up to a Roku streaming stick and a DVD player on my TV stand. I can watch classic DVDs on it.

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I had to physically get up, walk across the room to “change the channel”, and the “channel-changer” was a knob that made 14 clear and distinct “stops” that “tuned” the television electrics (vacuum tubes, baby!) to local (line-of-sight) broadcasters, if their tower was below the horizon, they didn’t “exist” for you!

Also, and depending on when (what year), you’d have to wait fifteen to 45 seconds for the thing to “warm up*” after turning it on, before you started to get images, though the sound took less time and was mostly always “there”.

*these vacuum tubes worked on and electric-gate principle and the anode has to actually, physically get hot enough to spray electrons to the cathode to feed the right “data” (electrons, really) through the rest of the electrics, the color TV’S that ran on vacuum tubes could heat a room quite nicely, and the amount of radiation that came blasting off of the phosphors wasn’t (probably) bad enough to “ruin your eyes”, though that was a common trope back-in-the-day

 

[AlexB23]

I had to physically get up, walk across the room to “change the channel”, and the “channel-changer” was a knob that made 14 clear and distinct “stops” that “tuned” the television electrics (vacuum tubes, baby!) to local (line-of-sight) broadcasters, if their tower was below the horizon, they didn’t “exist” for you!

Also, and depending on when, you’d have to wait fifteen to 45 seconds for the thing to “warm up*” after turning it on, before you started to get images, though the sound was mostly always “there”.

*these vacuum tubes worked on and electric-gate principle and the anode has to actually, physically get hot enough to spray electrons to the cathode to feed the right “data” (electrons, really) through the rest of the electrics, the color TV’S that ran on vacuum tubes could heat a room quite nicely, and the amount of radiation that came blasting off of the phosphors wasn’t (probably) bad enough to “ruin your eyes”, though that was a common trope back-in-the-day

Whew, that sounds like a lot of work. Vacuum tubes are fascinating technologies. Did you use UHF, or VHF stations mostly? Those CRT TVs would be perfect for watching 4:3 anime such as Yu Yu Hakusho or Hunter X Hunter (1999 version), so there would be no black bars on the sides of 16:9 flat screens, and the color of old anime would probably look better on a classic phosphor screen or maybe a more modern, but still classic plasma display.

One might say that I am blessed to be born in '99, cos I saw the tail end of CRTs, the flat screen era (my parents cheaped out, and got a Westinghouse 37 inch LCD in ~2005 instead of the plasma displays that I learned about later and saw nature documentaries on at my grandparents' house, though LCDs had better efficiency), the boom in satellite TV in the late 2000s, and finally the streaming era in the 2010s.

 

[AlexB23]

I prefer entertainment that I can interact with, like video games.

Awesome. What is your favorite video game? I do not play video games, but I did enjoy Mario Kart Wii in the 2000s, and I do go to the $15 arcade in my town every once in a while to play the 1980s-2000s classics. If I had a more modern console, I would probably play some Zelda or Final Fantasy, or some space game such as Elite Dangerous (my friend showed me those last two games).

 

[rockytopva]

Summing the whole ordeal up with one word...

Yikes!

 

[Pommer]

Whew, that sounds like a lot of work. Vacuum tubes are fascinating technologies. Did you use UHF, or VHF stations mostly? Those CRT TVs would be perfect for watching 4:3 anime such as Yu Yu Hakusho or Hunter X Hunter (1999 version), so there would be no black bars on the sides of 16:9 flat screens, and the color of old anime would probably look better on a classic phosphor screen or maybe a more modern, but still classic plasma display.

One might say that I am blessed to be born in '99, cos I saw the tail end of CRTs, the flat screen era (my parents cheaped out, and got a Westinghouse 37 inch LCD in ~2005 instead of the plasma displays that I learned about later and saw nature documentaries on at my grandparents' house, though LCDs had better efficiency), the boom in satellite TV in the late 2000s, and finally the streaming era in the 2010s.

Ike was my “President” so all we had were VFH stations until about 1968, when the UFH band was being implemented, and older televisions needed a “converter“ (a simple, non-electric (later on), rectifier, that instead of the “rabbit ears” antenna used a circular antenna about 8 inches in diameter, and had very limited range of motions. Tuning in a UFH station was an art unto itself, the use of foil to help “boost the signal” had it’s uses but didn’t really do much more than keep the kid who was trying to watch Batman on ABC from becoming bored before finding the “sweet spot”.

The phone in your pocket is much more powerful than the computers to allowed us to go to the Moon.
Conquering fire, then electricity (mostly), are fine, but over to CERN, they’re looking at what might happen if we “conquered” gravity, exciting times!

 

[FireDragon76]

I was telling my wife that I didn't really see the DaVinci Last Supper as the scene depicted, but I can understand how it was interpreted that way. Regardless, the "message" was still loud and clear: "Christians step aside" and don't tell us to eat cake.

Many people may be unaware that the general format of the Last Supper pre-existed before Christianity. The idea of having ritual meals was present all over the Mediterranean. The Greeks called it the Sumposion, where we get the term symposium, and it was present in many mystery religions as a central rite.

So Jesus didn't invent anything new in sitting down at a common table, taking bread and wine and sharing them with his disciples. What he did that was unique was the significance he assigned to them.

 

[AlexB23]

Ike was my “President” so all we had were VFH stations until about 1968, when the UFH band was being implemented, and older televisions needed a “converter“ (a simple, non-electric (later on), rectifier, that instead of the “rabbit ears” antenna used a circular antenna about 8 inches in diameter, and had very limited range of motions. Tuning in a UFH station was an art unto itself, the use of foil to help “boost the signal” had it’s uses but didn’t really do much more than keep the kid who was trying to watch Batman on ABC from becoming bored before finding the “sweet spot”.

The phone in your pocket is much more powerful than the computers to allowed us to go to the Moon.
Conquering fire, then electricity (mostly), are fine, but over to CERN, they’re looking at what might happen if we “conquered” gravity, exciting times!

Wow, folks using foil to get UHF sounds funny. What a time to be alive, where phones are more powerful compared to supercomputers of 50 years ago, or even a mere 30 years ago. 1950s and 1960s must have been a rough time for you guys. I know that there was a Batman movie in the 1960s, but also some TV shows as well. Also, hopefully, we get a moon landing again in the 2020s with the Artemis Project.

Hopefully, we can get warp drive by 2063, as Star Trek predicted.

Anyways, it is getting late here brother, but I do like classic technologies (not to make you sound old). My friend collects classic radios and has some vintage tech.

 

[Pommer]

One might say that I am blessed to be born in '99, cos I saw the tail end of CRTs

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”—Prophet Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt

I watched a 20 year old riding an electronic skate board through Costco’s parking lot yesterday, while I was happy that this exists for him, the joy of ruining my sister’s steel-wheeled roller skates to fashion my own skateboard also made an appearance.

It’s a wonderful world, if you let it be.
let it be.

 

[AlexB23]

Summing the whole ordeal up with one word...

Yikes!

Agreed. Yikes on trikes, my brother. I have to get some rest now, but this thread might blow up by tomorrow morning.

 

[Pommer]

Many people may be unaware that the general format of the Last Supper pre-existed before Christianity. The idea of having ritual meals was present all over the Mediterranean. The Greeks called it the Sumposion, where we get the term symposium, and it was present in many mystery religions as a central rite.

So Jesus didn't invent anything new in sitting down at a common table, taking bread and wine and sharing them with his disciples. What he did that was unique was the significance he assigned to them.

Assuming that people will accept these truths is noble and optimistic of you, well done!
While, I, too hold on to such a hope, I’m going to try as pleasant a time as I can while this burns itself out.

 

[AlexB23]

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”—Prophet Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt

I watched a 20 year old riding an electronic skate board through Costco’s parking lot yesterday, while I was happy that this exists for him, the joy of ruining my sister’s steel-wheeled roller skates to fashion my own skateboard also made an appearance.

It’s a wonderful world, if you let it be.
let it be.

That is a good set of rules by Douglas Adams (a great author by the way of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy). Generative AI was invented in my 20s, so it is exciting stuff. Also, it is cool that you made your own skateboard.

Also, those electric skateboards I have a problem with. On the bike/walking path, guys go by at 25 mph on these things, without slowing down. There should be a speed limit of 15 mph.

 

[Pommer]

Also, it is cool that you made your own skateboard.

Truth be told, it was more of an “attempt” at a skateboard, but the ruination of the roller skates was a total success!

 

[AlexB23]

Truth be told, it was more of an “attempt” at a skateboard, but the ruination of the roller skates was a total success!

There are probably plenty of DIY videos on YouTube, or books at the library that could help one build a skateboard. Mission: Successful Failure

Reminds me of Apollo 13, a successful failure:

Apollo 13: The Successful Failure - NASA

On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred

www.nasa.gov

I need more hobbies myself, but that is for another day. Good night, brother.

 

[truthpls]

Correct. Or, one could say the woke LGTV spirit (love of immorality) combined with the spirit of greed (love of money), perverting the Olympics itself. This is some serious end times stuff, brother. I am glad that God revealed to me in 2022-2024 that it is bad for me to ever be with a guy.

He revealed that to mankind thousands of years ago. Also, it was revealed that in the end times the world would again sink into darkness even deeper than ever before.

 

[Pommer]

There are probably plenty of DIY videos on YouTube, or books at the library that could help one build a skateboard. Mission: Successful Failure

Wow, you really cannot imagine that any of that never existed for us, back then, can you? (Not that’s that’s a “fault”, but all we had was rumor and “some kid in Florida…”. Invention and innovation are always all around us, but back then it might take a week to a year for a “trend” to develop.

Reminds me of Apollo 13, a successful failure:

Apollo 13: The Successful Failure - NASA

On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred

www.nasa.gov

I need more hobbies myself, but that is for another day. Good night, brother.

I, myself, awaken nearly everyday before 6AM HST*, here in the Steel City, and take great pride that I still have the discipline necessary to accomplish this.

*Honolulu Standard Time

 

[Apple Sky]

Does anyone remember the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics in London, that predicted covid 19 ?

We have to look at these opening ceremony's as predictions that these Satanic cults have planned for humanity in the future.

Join the dots, and you will be forewarned which is to be forearmed.

Blessings