Of the next five years of his life Yung never spoke. Once, when Ponter questioned him about them, he laughed an ugly laugh which showed his broken yellow teeth and said:. Yung was rich; he might have dwelt in a fine house, but he preferred to live among his own people in a little room across from the Seven Portals.
He celebrated all the feasts and festivals with the other Chinamen, and bowed down to the gods in the joss house. He explained this to Ponter one day by saying:. It was not because of the cheapness of Chinese labor that the Chinese bill was enacted. Who had printed centuries before Guttenberg was born, who had used anesthetics before chloroform was ever dreamed of. Who, in the new west, settled down and ate and drank and dressed as men had done in the days of the flood. Their terrible antiquity weighed upon us like a dead hand upon a living heart. Yung did not know much about English literature.
He liked the Bible, and he had picked up a copy of Hiawatha and was very fond of it. I suppose the artificialness of the poem appealed to his natural instinct and his training. Ponter was much disgusted with his taste, and one night he read the whole of Hamlet aloud to him, translating the archaic-phrases into doggerel Chinese as he read.
When he finished, Yung stared at him with a troubled look and said in Chinese:. If I were a young man I might try, but it is different. We cut our trees into shape, we bind our women into shape, we make our books into shape by rule. Your trees and women and books just grow, and yet they have shape.
I do not understand. Come, let us smoke, the Smoke is good. You are a terrible people! I have come as near losing all human feeling and all human kinship as ever a white man did, but you make me shudder, every one of you. You live right under the sun's face, but you cannot feel his fire. The breast of God heaves just over you, but you never know it. You ought to be a feeling, passionate people, but you are as heartless and devilish as your accursed stone gods that leer at you in your Pagodas. Your sages learn rites, rites, rites, like so many parrots.
They have forgotten how to think so long ago that they have forgotten they ever forgot. Your drama has outlived pathos, your science has outlived investigation, your poetry has outlived passion. Your very roses do not smell, they have forgotten how to give odor ages and ages ago. Your devilish gods have cursed you with immortality and you have outlived your souls. You are so old that you are born yellow and wrinkled and blind. You ought to have been buried centuries before Europe was civilized.
You ought to have been wrapped in your mort cloth ages before our swaddling clothes were made. You are dead things that move! Yung answered never a word, but smiled his hideous smile and went across to the Portals of Paradise, and lay down upon his mat, and drew long whiffs from his mouthpiece, slowly, solemnly, as though he were doing sacrifice to some god. He dreams of his own country, dreams of the sea and the mountains and forests and the slopes of sunny land. When he awakes there is not much of his dream left, only masses and masses of color that haunt him all day. Let them go through the rites and then send me home.
I must lie there while the flesh is yet on my bones. Let the funeral be grand. Let there be many mourners, and roast pigs, and rice and gin.
A SON OF THE CELESTIAL.
Let the gin bowls be of real China, and let the coffin be a costly one like the coffins of Liauchau, there is money enough. Let my pipe stay in my hand, and put me on the first ship that sails. Not long after that, Ponter arose from his mat one morning, and went over to waken Yung. But Yung would not waken any more. He had tasted his last ounce of the Smoke, and he lay with the mouthpiece in his mouth, and his fingers clutched about the bowl. Pouter sat down by him and said slowly:. But I liked you, Yung, as much as a man can like a stone thing.
You weren't a bad fellow, sir.
You knew more than any man I ever saw, more good and more evil. You could do a neater job with a knife and a piece of bone than any man in civilization, and you got away with more Smoke than any yaller man I ever saw. You were not a bad fellow Yung, but your heart has been dead these last six thousand years, and it was better for your carcass to follow suit.
He went out and got the finest lacqured coffin in 'Frisco and he put old Yung inside with a pound of rice and his pipe and a pound of the best opium in the market. Then he nailed him up singing: He took the body to the graveyard where the Chinamen went through the rites. Not the white ring of high cholesterol but a black ring. Maybe just maybe the black ring has something else to do with the jumps as well as the empath psychic healer. I never conformed or followed the rules.
So, for second increments, I would always gaze at the sun. Anyway, the sun was yellow growing up. Mars has TWO moons? There are worse ways to die. And I remember Mars having no moons, as well. Now it has Deimos and Phobos. Well, good for Mars, then, I guess. Have you guys been able to see the little dipper lately? This has been driving me crazy. I live in the country and have a beautiful starry sky no light pollution on clear nights. Then the little dipper will be upside down and pouring into the big dipper. It has been nowhere to be seen for me for at least the last month.
Anybody else seen the little dipper lately? But I have not been able to see it either. Sorry to hear that. Well, count me in on this subject too! Though I mentioned my dream about two moons previously, I hesitated to mention actual sky changes. I definitely have noticed differences in the sky. First off, I live within view of the ocean on the west coast California and up on a hill, so I have a very clear view of the entire Pacific Ocean and the setting sun and moon on the horizon. I have been noticing that the moon and sun have been setting much further in the north than I remember.
It confused me so I did some research to see if I was just nuts or if other people had noticed. So many other people have noticed! The Inuit people are the most trustworthy source in this discussion, I think, because they do live so far north and would notice a more drastic change than the rest of us.
Not only that, but they have been around long enough in that region through the generations to really notice the changes. I have spoken to several people who have noticed the moon seemed 90 degrees off from its prior position. Also, like others, I have no recollection of supermoons prior to the last few years. I also recall the sun being more yellow and less harsh.
Everything seemed to have more of a warm glow rather than a blinding cold colored white. Perhaps if the position or rotation of the earth had changed, the new ANGLE of sunlight rays would cause it to look different. This is probably nothing important, but it still struck me as an amusing contrast at the least: Brilliant observation, Closeted team-E! That one flew right past me. On another note — Rain and clouds… I distinctly remember that clouds used to clear after a big rainstorm.
Now, it seems like the relationship between clouds and rainfall is very different. While I am undecided on the whole chemtrails conspiracy, I noticed a few weeks ago that trails are appearing much more frequently in my neighborhood than they used to. The trails went from being an occasional sight to appearing multiple times per day every day. A few evenings ago, the sky looked like a bright sheet of royal blue poster board.
I was never able to interpret those, but they gave me some intense feeling like nostalgia. It looks like someone took a high-resolution picture and replace it with low-resolution one. And it has now started to show up in the mainstream media. This guy does a pretty convincing job of proving it is something real I actually thought he was trying to debunk it at first. Please give this video a view if you get time.
Now a few things 1. This could fit in the sky changes article 3. Any guess on the date of the footage?? This footage could truly fit into a couple of different topics. Just found the dates extremely interesting. Fiona, Your comment on the authors and books, made me laugh! I read some WIDE ranging topics , that are definitely not mainstream media fare. Fiona, Been watching this for a long time.
But when the Earth starts getting hit with more geomagnetic storms, an uptick, I should say, as we always are to a degree. I tend to see patterns of more synchronicity. We will be at a G3 level which are strong Geomagnetic storming levels the scale is G1-G5.
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Almost forgot, this link will show the scales a bit better. She said yes… I said… how c a n that be seen in a thunderstorm?
The lights did not appear close but up in the atmosphere and she just shrugged and said drones? I replied in a thunderstorm??? Until daylight savings time this past weekend, it had stayed dark well past 7am for weeks. Now with the time change its still 6: For me, there were no chemtrails in the sky growing up. I remember seeing them for the first time shortly after the turn of the century, in fact everyone around me at the time was pretty surprised by them and wondering what they were.
It was startling at first, then…. Once we figure out what ME is, anyway lol. In December a friend of mine wanted to sell me his telescope. I brought it home on December 8th and for the next couple weeks we used it mostly , to look at the moon. Both my daughter and I became very familiar with the Lunar surface. So much so, that she could sketch the Moons general appearance from memory.
However, we ended up not buying the thing and on Dec. I went inside and without saying anything about what I wanted them to see, I had my wife and daughter come outside. I was careful not to point anything out to them. I decided NOT to ask my friends and neighbors because it makes me sound delusional to try and articulate my observations. I DID mention it to a close friend and he poo-pooed the notion then asked if my years as a kickboxer may have caught up with me in the form of Pugilista Dementia. Maybe for MY brain…but surely my wife and daughter have a clear and unblemished view.
Thank you for reading. M When you look at any object thru astronomical telescope it gets flipped. From Sky and Telescope:. The view in Newtonian reflectors is also inverted, or rotated at an angle depending on the eyepiece angle with respect to vertical. Straight-through finder scopes also invert the field of view. Using a star chart is difficult; you have to read it from the back, or do the mental gymnastics to flip the image in the eyepiece left to right to match the chart. Porro prisms classical erecting prisms provide correct images while allowing viewing straight through the scope. They do not work with Newtonian reflectors, however.
I have telescopes and scopes and not one of them inverts the moon as it would be rather useless even a basic astro scope one. Hell i even can get decent images via binoculars on the moon, maybe not as high a quality but.. And i am sure the moon has flipped, will flip again at some point. I have only observed the moon with the naked eye.
It has flipped, or I should say rotated, without a doubt. More than what is scientifically possible, which is a little bit of tilt in either direction. I have the dark spots memorized. I remember what it used to always be. In the past year, it has rotated up to degrees, but It keeps changing. Sorry for such a lengthy comment.
There are a plethora of YouTube videos by people insisting that the moon is different. I have not recognized our moon in recent years, and have been paying extra attention to it since coming to this site a few months ago and finding others who feel the same. I realized that when my man is there, I can also see the rabbit that some here have been missing. The face out there online usually outlined so folks can see it is ghoulish.
My man in the moon looks friendly and amused. It has what you might call a Mona Lisa smile. I started sketching it that night. The sky has been cloudy here since then. The sun is too bright white and intense instead of warm and yellow. I burn much easier now. Now a few are pretty much always visible. The eastern sky at dawn during the last week of October had Venus, Jupiter, and Mars in a planetary trio any grouping of three planets within a 5 degree circle. The last one was , next one is You could also see Mercury below them in the same line, if the sky was clear enough.
They lined up so perfectly and were incredibly bright, my first thought was of a beacon sorry if this is too speculative and conspiracy theory-ish. After seeing the planetary trio one morning I was intrigued enough to seek out the above info, then wake up before dawn each day to look again. I am curious, as always. Do any of the other posters on here seem to sleep deeper , when there is no moon?? Not sure where to put this question , so here goes. Since , no matter what time I go to bed I wake up within 2 minutes either side of midnight , and then again within 2 minutes or so either side of 3 am.
I get up at am. This happens every night , for the last five or so years. I usually get up , look out my window at the sky, and then go back to bed. Not like I have been asleep , I do dream. And I do get deep sleep. Mike H, I have chronic insomnia that comes in frequent cycles. I fall asleep then wake between midnight and 3. Hey Mike, my sleep patterns have changed drastically since September, maybe around discovering ME.
Anthony, Exactly, not sure if has to do with gravity, and tides or what. Thanks for the reply, Mike H. I thought people might be interested in this. Another strange photo above Wales. To me , it looks like Emania sp.? Kind of held off on posting this. I know others have. I wracked my brain trying to remember when I first started noticing the orientation and perspective change. The best I could do was I just do not remember the moon being , as large and horizontal.
I have watched the sky my whole life. Taken college level astronomy classes, and things just look so different too me. The moons path seems so off also. Higher , then lower than it used to be. Even the face craters , landscape look different. Also , I always thought it was me, but I never remember seeing the moon in daytime as much as we do now. I should preface this post, I have said before, I tie everything to dates , I mean everything.
My gut says From what I know of you, through many conversations there, that seems like an anomaly in itself. It works part of the time, but not always. What if a glitch in the programming becomes more obvious with anomalies — like dual memories, or not being able to recall when a major memory first seemed out-of-place in this reality?
Just some idle thoughts, but your comment was a surprise — a break in the pattern, if you will — and raised new-ish questions. Fiona, Great post , I will be really looking into that link. This really just becomes more and more interesting. This one really bothers me. But I know you understand. Fiona, sorry about that last post please delete if you can.
Tried earlier, and lost a post with a lot of ideas. Oh well, I will try again LOL! I like the site layout, just trying to get used to it. That article makes a lot of sense. Except for what ever reason John D. So I might propose an idea. When we meaning us on this site notice a ME, maybe we are close to a doorway, vortices or portal. Tinnitus, could come into play here also, a form of hearing frequencies connected to a wall, or barrier, near one of these gateways or do I say it , Stargate? This post is missing some of the things I wanted to get out initially in the original post , but I will just assume in some timeline your reading it.
Probably shaking your head, hopefully not hitting it on your desk. You see, it actually meshes with one of my leading and hotly disputed long-term theories from ghost hunting: Worse — for those who like convenient explanations, anyway — I doubt that all of those phenomena are actually caused by what we call ghosts.
And, what if, at those time-space locations, the portals or whatever ghost hunters detect with EMF meters etc. I am very excited about this possibility. Is it possible that being near one or more of those portals correlates with a higher incidence of the Mandela Effect? The good news is: Boy-oh-boy, do I know a lot of people who are around haunted places regularly, and sometimes on a daily basis.
And what if tinnitus or variations in it was another way of detecting those time-space access points, just as EMF seems to be? And, going further down the sci-fi path: This could be anything from more people passing through them more readily, to more memories activated as we sense the nearby, familiar reality, to… well, I could be writing this all day.
This will sound crazy-as-a-loon to some, but — for me — this is like finding another major piece of a challenging jigsaw puzzle, and seeing that it fits. Fiona, you have NO idea how much I have to say on this topic.
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Fiona, Those of us who remember alternate memories could be missing some of the span of time in current reality to compensate for the limited memory space or say neurons that we possess,same as you have to delete some files in a flash drive to accommodate fresh data. What Lorenzo Maccone says is,that you have to lose memory trail to achieve the holy grail of all human endeavor,that is, to decrease entropy. Suppose we have,say,about 5yrs sum total of alternate memories of all kinds,then assuming that we have lost 5yrs of our timeline somewhen in our life,we can expect 5yrs of entropy decrease,implying that we should be looking 5yrs younger.
A mathematical brain teaser that needs more working over. I immediately thought of the experiments with aged individuals, placing them in an environment that mimicked the world of their prime: And, as I understand it, their biological ages seemed to reverse… only slightly, but it was significant, anyway.
So, is it possible that fully recovering earlier memories — not discarded, but perhaps filed elsewhere — and putting more recent memories on the mental external hard drive, could effect this kind of change? The experiment was more of a cosmetic dressing,a botox injection,the physics of the thing is spontaneous and averse to simulation.
After all arrow of time is nothing but sequence of events. Look up Maccone,you might get your own varied thoughts. I think they would require erasure of the second memory. However, even if those results were achieved, how do we describe those memories: This is an interesting topic, but more of an adjunct to the Mandela Effect, or at least something we can delve into, later. The only thing he knew is that he decided to lease on a month to month because no one lasted longer than 2 or 3 months. Fiona, I have read, and re-read your post about 20 times in the last day.
Crazy-as-a-loon or not , that makes at least two of us. I have almost no doubt that this may in fact be true. Mike H, when you say the moon was too horizontal, are you referring to the shadow on the moon cutting a horizontal line across it? If so, I noticed that last night too. I checked a couple websites last night, and they showed the phase of the moon more or less correct, but they showed the shadow mostly vertical, and last night it was horizontal. FJ, That is exactly what I am talking about.
I just do not remember the horizontal phases? I remember the vertical phases, I have watched those my whole life. It just looks so foreign anymore. Last night was really noticeable to me. I always have this nagging feeling that I am in the wrong place. In my above posts ,just to clarify as if I am ANY good at that , lol , I am talking about my memory being fuzzy or blurry. The only thing I can compare it too is anistesia. The 19th it was horizontal, with the bottom of the moon in shadow. Last night it was vertical again, with the left of the moon in shadow.
As far as memories being fuzzy, for me all of is hard to recollect. And even then, the associated memories are very fuzzy. I have no idea what to make of it…but it makes me nervous that I could basically lose a year. Perhaps my primary consciousness was spending time elsewhere, but I have no memories to support that either. Every year since then has really just accelerated my noticing of changes.
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Your bring up of that year , does not surprise me at all. For me I knew from the geography , initially , something was not right, or I was going to get committed. Same stages everyone goes through here. And eventually, you end up here. Mike H, The stages you listed are quite accurate. I spent a lot of time in stage 2, too much time doubting myself.
It should be filled with lots of memories, as one of my children was born in late Some of my childhood memories are very clear, but some years are just gone from my memory. However, forgetting most of a more recent year is making me rethink that. I remember and wish i didnt.. Martin, That makes me think: If there is a function to make us forget alternate realities, what if an error caused memories from this timeline to be erased, while we kept the alternate memories that should have been erased?
FJ, Or maybe traumatic events or what we perceive as traumatic , are enough to trigger a defense type mechanism fight-flight response , to cause us to slide over to a different reality? Mike H, That makes sense and ties in nicely with what I was thinking. A protective mechanism of the brain…we already know the brain can forget traumatic events, so taking it a step further maybe it can remove our consciousness from a threatening situation.
If that is true, can we learn to control it? Orbital dynamics are irrelevant to this: I say that, and yet my memory of a horizontally-traveling vertical terminator line persists perhaps Dali knew something? My primary interests are astrophysics w. I must be suffering a rather massive brain fart on this one which would actually be kind of a relief… , and if so, then my bad. The night well, morning, technically before that, we had been talking about it, and he had then recalled it firmly as a vertical line traveling horizontally.
Well, I got that chance the next night. One or both of us switched. This is interesting stuff. I found this question posed online: One person is insisting that the only place to see a horizontal terminal line is near the equator, at the Equinox. For example, a gibbous Moon corresponds to a crescent Earth, a new Moon corresponds to a full Earth, etc. Here is a paper written about the moon tilt illusion where the moon appears to be lit from an impossible angle, facing away from the sun. The math is too technical for me, but perhaps someone else will understand better: I find it frustrating to spend hours researching, only to walk away more confused than when I started!
Perhaps one of you can shed some light no pun intended on this topic. I have never seen the moon like that.
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I am so glad you mentioned this. Must remember to document any odd moon movements I am lucky as i live in the same place for 40 years so i am used to a lot of regular occurances.. I have noticed more moons during the day but that could be i didnt notice them it was more of a U shape than a C shape.. Martin, I think we are saying the same thing.
And I understand what you mean, by using the C and U. He would be looking straight down or up. This moon happens every month , according to all the information I can find. They are subtle changes, but no less still a lot of changes. Also, I have noticed the moon during the daytime much more than I have in the past.
The only explanation that makes sense to me is that my position in the universe has changed. Which i have a memory of, not satellite. Thursday morning early I was up and saw the moon set, but it set in a dramatically different spot than it usually does this time of year. Did anyone else notice? As I recall, the moon orbits at approx. Light speed in vacuo is , miles per second, hence 0. I had noted this some time in the past 2 years, but had simply assumed as usual that I had somehow completely misremembered.
I know, weird right? It is the center mass of our solar system. I remember being younger and seeing a face on the moon. I used to be amazed at the fact that it seemed to follow you no matter where you went. Just looks like craters or random dark spots. Also, the Big and Little Dipper are moved, sometimes out of sight. Does anyone else remember the man on the moon? And Super Moon and Blood Moon never existed in my reality till now.. I had read some of the post on this thread a while ago, and I checked on the moon and I can see the rabbit. But I can blame that on Global Warming.
I thought that was odd and mentioned that I could see it. And when its Waxing Crescent is hard to see if at all. My mum taught my family to look at the sky every time we went outdoors. As a result, we developed an appreciation for clouds, sunrises, sunsets, and the night sky. You can see the Moon in the daytime because it is big and brightly lit by the Sun. The surface of the Moon is about as reflective as an asphalt road—rather dark but not totally black.
When you look at the Moon, you are seeing the light which reflects off it. This is not nearly as bright as the Sun, but it is up to , times as bright as the brightest nighttime star. During the day, the brightness of the sky washes out the light from the stars: However, the region of the sky containing the Moon is much brighter, so you can see it. You can also sometimes see Venus during the day if the conditions are right and you know exactly where to look, but anything dimmer is lost. It might be useful to think of the Sun as a large light bulb, and the moon as a large mirror.
This is the situation when the moon is out at night. However, there are also situations where we can see both the light bulb and the mirror, and this is what is happening when we see the moon during the day. You can explore this for yourself with a light and a hand mirror.
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Depending on which way you face away from the light or sideways to the light you can see either just the mirror, or both the light and the mirror. From the questions at http: Ok, I have waited long enough on this one. I have never heard of the supermoon or blood moon , until the last few years. I would say I swear I have never heard this term until I came here. Is this a cultural or regional name?? I am really curious on this. This is a fascinating topic! Conspiracy theorists and UFO enthusiasts have had a field day with the timing of those moons in The supermoon is a new one to me, but I heard about the rabbit in the moon in my teens, and we learned about the blood moon in one of my high school science classes back in the early 90s.
There is also a movie by the same name, and if I remember right the blood moon is mentioned in the fourth dark tower novel from as well. Supermoon was new to me, I believe, I chalked it up to a new term going around on social media to sensationalize perigee. Blood moon was also a new term to me. Similar to man in the moon?? I never wear sunglasses, but now I am almost forced to because the sun seems overwhelmingly bright.
My parents also claim that nobody ever got sunburned when they were kids, even though they spent most of the day outside. Over the summer, the clouds began to look different to me. As you can tell from these posts, this fascinates me. Yes, the sun was different. On the change of sky — something would have to be added, or taken away? I only vaguely recall the moon being smaller, though. Today I learned that there are lava tubes on the moon that are so vast that they could hold cities. Scientists are saying they could be potential sites for future colonization of the moon.
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What really gets me, is that no one still want to spell that noone by the way is mentioning that! Science is always evolving and new theories steadily raise questions about old theories. A recent very off-topic example: People used to think vegetable oil was always healthier than lard. A lot about how our moon was formed has been speculation that loosely fit our understanding of astrophysics.
With this new data, theories will be altered. I understand your point, and I agree that new discoveries will and should lead us to reexamine theories and beliefs about our universe. At the very least, I would expect to read something like: The apparent lack of these conversations is what makes me think this could possibly be: Seeding information to get us used to the idea of lunar colonies or something of that nature c. Like I said I am no expert on space, physics, etc, so take all of this with the necessary grain of salt. Thanks for letting me share my thoughts. So far, it is working better than the previous one.
FJ, I appreciate your more detailed explanation. Your A, B, and C theories could take us down that conspiracy path. The Mandela Effect part — a Moon that replaced the recent one, in this reality — does fit our conversations. That would explain some of the marked differences people see when they look at the night and even day skies.
It may be that no one was looking, before. Or that they worried about sounding mad, and more-or-less kept their conclusions to themselves. In the holodeck theory: In the multiverse theory: Maybe, but it seems like a big leap again, no pun intended to go from a few celebrities reappearing, and even some smaller land masses shifting position, to an entire moon being replaced.
Okay, the geology, etc. But, to get back to the core issue: If we focus on that aspect of this — not those who knew about it and may have been concealing it, etc. Thank you for the reply Fiona. It is messing with me so bad, I am confusing dinnertime! Location in the sky of the moon setting feels different. I wish I had more details, but I am not a sky-tracker, just a casual stargazer. This change seems to have happened in the past 3 years. Something also just seems different about Orion.
I know Intensity changes but it just seems different.