Thursday Roundup: Megan Fox Hunts "Mysteries and Myths" on TV; Plus, Two Weird Claims about Freemasonry

4/26/2018

Today, I have three quick stories to share. Regular readers will remember that actress Megan Fox is an Ancient Aliens super-fan and had expressed interest in either joining that show or hosting her own version of it. Well, the brain trust at the Travel Channel, recently added to the Discovery Networks’ roster of channels, have awarded Fox her own mystery-mongering show. According to a press release, the network has greenlit a new four-episode series called Mysteries and Myths with Megan Fox, in which Fox will travel the world in an attempt to rewrite history.

“We are as delighted to have her fresh and unbiased perspective on these events as we are to have Megan in our Travel Channel family,” the suit in charge of the corporate division housing the Travel Channel said, proving that division leader Henry Schleiff doesn’t know what “unbiased” means, and also implying by default that actual historical investigators are unfairly omitting bonkers ideas.

Fox seconded Schleiff’s slight by claiming that academics are suppressing the truth out of fear for their jobs.

“History only gives us a one-sided view of the truth,” she said in a prepared statement. “That’s something I know from personal experience. My own history has been rewritten by other people who had a vested interest in changing the narrative. I haven’t spent my entire life building a career in academia so I don’t have to worry about my reputation or being rebuked by my colleagues, which allows me to push back on the status quo. So much of our history needs to be re-examined.”

The tough talk about history being wrong, however, seems to be largely for show. The press release says that the series will cover topics of Greek mythology, including the Trojan War and the Amazons, and will employ archaeologists and undefined “experts” to ask whether Greek myths were real.

I am more concerned about the trend this represents.

We have been in a fallow period of the past five years, since the first wave of Ancient Aliens-fueled pseudohistory knockoffs burned itself out. But now, with celebrity-fueled programs like Zachary Quinto’s In Search Of and Megan Fox’s Mysteries and Myths revisiting the same material, I fear that if these shows succeed, we will see a return to a full-time cable schedule of “alternative facts,” this time more persuasively presented by celebrities, whose fame will garner greater attention to bad ideas.

Speaking of bad ideas, take a look at this chart that has been making the rounds on Facebook. It compares corporate iconography to Masonic and Satanic symbolism in order to imply that major corporations are participating in a conspiracy of evil. There isn’t much to say here—the symbols are largely geometric, and given the thousands of icons and logos used by America’s corporations, it is hardly a surprise that some would share similar shapes and colors.

But on that note, I wanted to share a bizarre passage I discovered in the autobiography of one of the founders of Theosophy, the psychic medium Emma Hardinge Britten, who wrote about her 1859 tour of Ohio, when she claimed to have been possessed by a “Fire Spirit” that predicted a blaze that burned down part of Columbus that year. Anyway, she had been invited to Columbus by some friends who introduced her to a fellow medium, a certain Dr. Fowler, a physician in that city—I haven’t been able to determine who he was (the more famous Dr. Fowler of the New York Circle was 7 at the time)—and this Dr. Fowler had some odd ideas. Here is Britten speaking:

During the evening Dr. Fowler, whose singular experiences formed a leading topic of conversation, not only avowed his belief in, and intercourse with, Elementary Spirits, but, he added, pointing to me, “that young lady is also aware of the existence of the Spirits of the elements, and will this night be controlled by one.” The Doctor at this point broke off into a long address in an unknown tongue, a phase to which it would seem he was frequently addicted. At the close of his singular outpouring, addressing me in our own tongue, he ordered me to translate what he had been saying to the company. Under a new but most powerful influence, I was made to give the translation of Dr. Fowler’s speech, which was to the effect that if the party then present would visit the mysterious ruins at Newark, a place a few miles distant, and hold a circle by moonlight, amongst the works attributed to the lost races, or “ Mound builders of America,” they should find an evidence that the unknown people who had founded those strange works were “freemasons.”

Whatever you do, do not tell Scott Wolter about this!

43 Comments

Gunn

4/26/2018 09:40:11 am

"Fox seconded Schleiff’s slight by claiming that academics are suppressing the truth out of fear for their jobs."

Considering that certain state officials in Minnesota carefully avoid the notion that Norsemen were here in this region before the French, I will have to agree with Fox on this one--at least pertaining to Minnesota.

I will attest to the fact that academic political correctness and bias is alive and well in Minnesota, through my own experiences with the Minnesota Historical Society and the Office of the State Archaeologist.

Anthropologist Alice Beck Kehoe pointed out years ago how many of her fellow academics are affected by peer pressure. She gives creedence to the concept of a genuine Kensington Runestone, one of the few professionals willing to do so.

Personally, I don't go for the Ancient Aliens stuff, though I might go for a pyromanic Fire Spirit. (Spirit of this, spirit of that.) I prefer a more solid footing, though...like the reality of Norsemen making multiple expeditions into this select region well before the era of Columbus. I believe this truth will eventually prevail over the current "academian-comedians" taking up office space here in Minnesota.

Dunior

4/26/2018 10:48:28 am

Some of your points about academia are valid but are only of a concern in many ways in pursuit of a masters or doctorate. If someone has a problem with academic archaeologists then there is another resource available that is neglected. There are several thousand archaeologists out there that work on contract jobs that have been doing this for many years. They are the so called "shovel bums." These people actually do all the fieldwork and are not concerned with fitting it into any paradigm on the scale of a University for example. If strange objects or sites were found they would tell you all about it with no hesitation. In your state for example there are people that will talk to you that do this for a living. If they saw more stone holes or something they may not interpret it the way you do but they would tell you about it.

Joe Scales

4/26/2018 11:30:47 am

Kehoe is actually an academic clinging to previously held views in a rather intellectually dishonest manner. Case in point, in her 2005 book The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically, she relied heavily upon Wolter's "science"; though it was never peer reviewed by scientific academic standards. When her advice to Wolter in regard to avoiding the Dan Brown/Templar rabbit hole went ignored, she obviously broke with him. Evidence of that can be found in her 2016 book Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages, when in regard to the Kensington Rune Stone she now relies upon Winchell's "science" (19th century science at that) and Dick Nielsen's rune work (or better put, hobby). She doesn't mention Wolter by name this time around, but does refer to a technician who did some work on the stone.

Jim

4/26/2018 11:50:13 am

Wait, what ? "Winchell's "science" (19th century science at that)"

"When he accompanied the Custer expedition to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874, Winchell prepared the first geological map of that area."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Horace_Winchell

4/26/2018 12:22:22 pm

DUNIOR: "If they saw more stone holes or something...."

"Something" was recently added to the mystery of the proposed "Norse Code-stone" I discovered a few years ago, which somewhat diminishes the reliance on stonehole knowledge, alone. This is from Facebook. (Sorry, no paragraphs):

Bob Voyles
March 27 at 3:28pm
I want to take some time to point out that something remarkable has happened here on this Kensington Rune Stone International Supporters Club site. When I first came to this group at the beginning of this year, I announced up-front that my main goal was to gain support for a strange rock I found in 2015, which I call the Norse Code-stone. Just recently here on this website, Erik Torpegaard provided information that I believe establishes this proposed Code-stone as a "Compass on the Prairie." After much further study of Erik's website, it seems likely that he is correct about the Code-stone being a compass on the ground on this spot near Appleton, MN…which also seems to bear a latitude, or parallel, "for land to explore," if you will, to the East. So, I now believe that the Code-stone was, in part, meant to establish "a fix-point on the horizon." As Erik's studies appear to show, this also may indicate a "special amplitude on a selected latitude," which may be because they were within ten miles of the 45th parallel. However, it looks like part of this fix-point on the horizon also established a special meridian in this case, too, which is the longitudinal line running north. Where does this line go northward, but to a watery visual from the ridge, showing where the Pomme de Terre River discharges into the MN River. What's the importance here? This river reaches the farthest northward of any rivers in the MN River watershed. So, what I'm saying here is that I still believe the Code-stone is indicating something is buried in association with a possible attempted land-claim, but that, also, Erik is spot-on about the Code-stone also being, in essence, a medieval Norse compass. I believe Erik's work, at etimage.com
, is very history-based and science-based. Because of this, I feel that the Code-stone should now be viewed from this new perspective, as well as from the previous and singular perspective whereby most of the "proof" was out of necessity being assigned to medieval Norse stoneholes in rocks. Maybe Erik's input from his website will be more meaningful in the minds of those interested in this subject than stoneholes in rocks, since his findings are, again, more history and science based. I'm hoping some future researchers and interested persons may now see a more "scientific" explanation for this odd three-hole rock and the nearby apparent stonehole encoding. According to Erik's website, if I'm reading it right, the Code-stone is the result of a stationary sun measurement taken using a bearing-dial or "sun-compass," and the reading was transferred to the Code-stone via the stoneholes, in a pattern. It appears that the Code-stone, then, is effectively revealing a fix-point on the horizon, in the way of this compass-work, which I think includes showing a latitudinal significance to Eastward, and a meridian significance northward. Hopefully, the Norse Code-stone may now be considered and assessed from a scientific point of view, rather than from only a speculative point of view based on medieval stonehole knowledge. It now appears that the Code-stone has more to communicate than I first thought, since it apparently served more than one purpose. I still firmly believe that a prime purpose was to conceal and then reveal something buried in the ground. In addition to the now-obvious medieval-era compass work, the modern technology of metal detectors shows that something made of iron or steel is buried at the site...probably connected to either surveying and mapping, or a land-claim--or maybe even both. A public thanks, again, Erik, and also to this KRS website, for this new, collateral confirmation about the Norse Code-stone's probable upcoming importance to history, both locally and nationally.

For more information about the Code-stone and a photo:

http://www.norwegianamerican.com/opinion/in-defense-of-the-kensington-runestone-a-code-stone/

Satan

4/26/2018 12:43:23 pm

Jesus Christ you seem to be infested by a spirit of laziness.

Bob Voyles
March 27 at 3:28pm

I want to take some time to point out that something remarkable has happened here on this Kensington Rune Stone International Supporters Club site. When I first came to this group at the beginning of this year, I announced up-front that my main goal was to gain support for a strange rock I found in 2015, which I call the Norse Code-stone. Just recently here on this website, Erik Torpegaard provided information that I believe establishes this proposed Code-stone as a "Compass on the Prairie."

After much further study of Erik's website, it seems likely that he is correct about the Code-stone being a compass on the ground on this spot near Appleton, MN…which also seems to bear a latitude, or parallel, "for land to explore," if you will, to the East. So, I now believe that the Code-stone was, in part, meant to establish "a fix-point on the horizon." As Erik's studies appear to show, this also may indicate a "special amplitude on a selected latitude," which may be because they were within ten miles of the 45th parallel. However, it looks like part of this fix-point on the horizon also established a special meridian in this case, too, which is the longitudinal line running north. Where does this line go northward, but to a watery visual from the ridge, showing where the Pomme de Terre River discharges into the MN River. What's the importance here? This river reaches the farthest northward of any rivers in the MN River watershed.

So, what I'm saying here is that I still believe the Code-stone is indicating something is buried in association with a possible attempted land-claim, but that, also, Erik is spot-on about the Code-stone also being, in essence, a medieval Norse compass. I believe Erik's work, at etimage.com
, is very history-based and science-based. Because of this, I feel that the Code-stone should now be viewed from this new perspective, as well as from the previous and singular perspective whereby most of the "proof" was out of necessity being assigned to medieval Norse stoneholes in rocks. Maybe Erik's input from his website will be more meaningful in the minds of those interested in this subject than stoneholes in rocks, since his findings are, again, more history and science based. I'm hoping some future researchers and interested persons may now see a more "scientific" explanation for this odd three-hole rock and the nearby apparent stonehole encoding.

According to Erik's website, if I'm reading it right, the Code-stone is the result of a stationary sun measurement taken using a bearing-dial or "sun-compass," and the reading was transferred to the Code-stone via the stoneholes, in a pattern. It appears that the Code-stone, then, is effectively revealing a fix-point on the horizon, in the way of this compass-work, which I think includes showing a latitudinal significance to Eastward, and a meridian significance northward. Hopefully, the Norse Code-stone may now be considered and assessed from a scientific point of view, rather than from only a speculative point of view based on medieval stonehole knowledge. It now appears that the Code-stone has more to communicate than I first thought, since it apparently served more than one purpose.

I still firmly believe that a prime purpose was to conceal and then reveal something buried in the ground. In addition to the now-obvious medieval-era compass work, the modern technology of metal detectors shows that something made of iron or steel is buried at the site...probably connected to either surveying and mapping, or a land-claim--or maybe even both. A public thanks, again, Erik, and also to this KRS website, for this new, collateral confirmation about the Norse Code-stone's probable upcoming importance to history, both locally and nationally.

For more information about the Code-stone and a photo:

http://www.norwegianamerican.com/opinion/in-defense-of-the-kensington-runestone-a-code-stone/

4/26/2018 01:10:21 pm

So, you are saying that if you put three holes in a line, on a rock, they will point to a specific measurable direction ? You just blew my mind !!!

4/26/2018 01:16:58 pm

Even though Winchell's master's degree in Geology wasn't "honorary", here's another hoax he fell for:

https://websites.godaddy.com/blob/65151a46-8ee3-453c-83d3-7b1077c69c9e/downloads/1bjjr6obu_569241.pdf?9c852de9

Doc Rock

4/26/2018 01:26:46 pm

Dunior,

I helped to work my way thru grad school by working as a shovel bum (crew member and later crew chief) off and on for several years. Later I was PI on several Phase 1 contract surveys. As you pointed out, there are a hell of a lot of these folks moving massive amounts of earth. Then there are many other non-academic archaeologists working for historic sites, the National Park Service, state parks, Native American tribes, and even the military.

Then there are the academics who have tenure and hold full professorships who are to some extent untouchable. A lot of them have an attitude of I will research and write about whatever I want and the hell with what others think. Others have pretty bitter hatred of other colleagues, so would happily take on a fringe topic, if they thought it had some actual basis in reality, just to rub it in the faces of those they don't like who were skeptical.

Then there are the tenure hungry young guns, some of whom will take a shot at marginal research topics, if they think they have some basis in reality, because of the good publicity it may generate.

The notion that archaeology is a homogenous field of like-minded people all of whom blindly adhere to some orthodoxy and can be pressured into concealing the truth is quite silly. There is no smoke filled backroom with a dozen archaeologists sitting there deciding what is or isn't the truth and how to go about revealing it. Hell, put a dozen archaeologists in a room and they can't even decide if Lewis Binford was a god or a heretic who should have been burned at the stake.

Machala

4/26/2018 04:59:58 pm

Joe Scales,
Thank you for that link about Newton Horace Winchell. Very informative - not only about the man, but the era in archeology and the intellectual mindset of his contemporaries.
I enjoyed the article.

4/26/2018 08:47:48 pm

Oh, don't thank me Machala. Thank Richard Nielsen; and the good folks keeping his links alive:

https://richardnielsen.org/files

A testament to Wolter's mendacity.

4/26/2018 11:25:48 am

The old, "nobody is buying what I am selling so it must be a conspiracy" theory.

Mike Morgan

4/26/2018 02:03:22 pm

It is beyond comprehension why Professor Kehoe is often trotted out as being an ardent supporter of the authenticity of the KRS by a certain pre-columbian Templar/Norse, KRS leaving, stone-hole making, expeditionary party incursion into the American heartland advocate.

From her latest book,"Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages":

"Altogether, the geologists' studies of the stone, in 1910 and 2000, the affidavits from Winchell's interviews, the resolution of alleged errors in the inscription language, and the unique historical circumstances in Scandinavia in 1362, correlate physical, linguistic, and historical data all weighing the probability of authenticity and finding it plausible." (Kehoe 2005)

"... probability of authenticity and finding it plausible." PLAUSIBLE!!!!

NOT the ringing endorsement that supporter wants others to believe she gives it.

4/26/2018 03:26:57 pm

That she even fell for Wolter's bungling in the first place is troubling for her credibility. Wolter's basic "scientific" argument begins with comparing the KRS, after it had been treated with god knows what over a hundred years, to two hundred year old tombstones hundreds of miles away with a different geological makeup. He concludes from his comparisons that the carving on the KRS is at least two hundred years old. Further in invalidating this methodology is Wolter's insistence that the KRS was buried upon conception, for which he has no facts nor evidence. He simply clings to this, as Winchell did before him, to explain how the runes carved in calcite could remain legible. This is not science, and given the fact that weathering occurs underground as well, it's not correct either. So now his logic enters the equation... or illogic... and as he declares that as it is either a hoax or authentic, it can't be a hoax because no one was around Kensington Minnesota two hundred years before its discovery to perpetrate the hoax. So as it must be authentic, the date carved on the stone must be correct.

Seriously. This is how he gets there, and Kehoe bought it; at least in 2005. The obvious flaws in both science and logic you would hope would have been noticed by anyone with even a bachelor's degree, let alone a doctorate degree.

Americanegro

4/26/2018 04:31:20 pm

If someone doesn't immediately recognize our Scott as an idiot they are ipso facto suspect.

The idea of a buried "land claim" is to steal from George Will again, risible. It's buried.

4/26/2018 05:12:19 pm

Mike Morgan,
Your " certain pre-columbian Templar/Norse, KRS leaving, stone-hole making, expeditionary party incursion into the American heartland advocate " is, when he chooses to be, a very good actor. This may explain Kehoe's 'willing suspension of disbelief' in giving some vague credibility to Wolter's IMPLAUSIBILITY !

4/27/2018 11:50:55 am

Yeah, when Kehoe first came across Wolter, that was well before he became a television personality pushing nonsense upon an unsuspecting public who might have tuned into the History Channel expecting actual history. Her 2005 book (where she spoke highly of Wolter) also came out before Wolter gave a draft of one of his own books to Kehoe for comment when she implored upon him to dump the Dan Brown nonsense; a plea which he ignored (https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wolter/Alice+Kehoe.pdf <<<< and lots of really good stuff here).

After his Holy Grail Debacle aired in September of 2009 as a launching pad for his America Unearthed show, check out Kehoe's tweet that followed a few months later:

https://twitter.com/AnthroDr/status/10206250285

Then of course she omits mentioning Wolter within the text of her more recent book touching upon the KRS.

Mike M.

4/28/2018 11:42:10 pm

Minnesota archaeologists have good reasons to avoid the Runestone issue, and they have nothing to do with nefarious conspiracies or unfair bias, and certainly not fear of losing their job. Every archaeological study of the Runestone narrative, at least half a dozen that I count, has been brought to a sorry and negative conclusion. Besides, there are thousands of recorded prehistoric archaeological sites in Minnesota, but not one recognized as Norse. And a medieval Norse site would be remarkably easy to see for anyone with a modicum of archaeological field experience. As for the “mooring stones,” “holestones” or whatever you like to call them, they’re a dead issue. How many times do archaeologists have to document their nineteenth century origin? Looking for medieval Norse in Minnesota is like trying to find Paul Bunyan.

4/26/2018 10:39:23 am

Newark has some elements to its story that are fishy to say the least. The mithraic statue in a box found in a grave there and much more.Maybe that is what the passage you found is referring to. I have been reading about that lately as a coincidence. I don't think its too much of a stretch for a Freemason to put some iconography into a logo but the interpretations that people come up with do go overboard sometimes. The people involved in forming the Theosophical Society also have some suspicious backgrounds.

E.P. Grondine

4/27/2018 01:22:21 pm

What "mithraic statue found in a box"?

4/27/2018 03:38:41 pm

My mistake. It was found ten miles south of Newark. I read another bogus article that said it was found in Newark. "In November of 1860, David Wyrick of Newark, Ohio found an inscribed stone in a burial mound about 10 miles south of Newark. The stone is inscribed on all sides with a condensed version of the Ten Commandments or Decalogue, in a peculiar form of post-Exilic square Hebrew letters. The robed and bearded figure on the front is identified as Moses in letters fanning over his head."

I think Wolter had an episode that mentions this as well.

4/27/2018 04:45:07 pm

It was yer mom's box, Chief.

4/28/2018 01:25:17 am

Hi Dunoir -

Ah - The infamous Decalogue Stone, "found" in Ohio's largest stone mound, now on display in Coshcoton. A professor over at Dennison was a big believer in its authenticity, and they used to hold conferences to debate it. I seem to remember seeing at the Coshocton museum an old piece on the hooked X that substantially preceded Wolter, of which I think he made no mention. But the conference proceedings were not at that museum when I checked back.

Someday I'll have to find the time to get over to the Dennison University Library and try to see if I can find that piece there.

4/26/2018 10:45:50 am

Wolter seems to be on a :
"Lets Make Scott Relevant Again"
campaign of interviews geared at promoting his new book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKYpB-_GjW4

Lets skip to the desert first,
- At the 34;10 mark, one of the hosts ask Wolter if Jesus was the great grandson of Cleopatra. Walter agrees this is likely.
Blah, blah, blah to around the 46 minute mark where he says:
If Cleopatra was a descendant of Jesus (say what ?) wouldn't that mean that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had descendants ?

- Lots of Zodiac nonsense, John the Baptist was the last Grand Master from the age of Aries who passed the torch to the Templar/Mason Jesus at the onset of the age of Pisces. (The Fisher King)
Akhenaten, who was an initiated Grand Master Mason, and King Tut changed the Egyptian religion at the onset of Aries.

- We were all hugely fortunate to be here to see the new age (Aquarius) ushered in in 2012. Thus we begin the age of femininity (paraphrasing) and Goddess worship.
The Pope who was installed in 2012, is a Freemason and will be the last Pope.Because, prophesy, and Pisces is over man.

-Wolter has 32 Masonic degrees and has been "Knighted as a Templar Knight" (6:20 mark)

Lots, lots more nonsense.

4/26/2018 12:31:08 pm

It's well known, and any high ranking Freemason will confirm this, that the Zodiac Killer is a direct descendant of the Jesus Family.

Try not to look at Megan Fox's unusual thumbs.

4/26/2018 12:40:10 pm

Quote from the youtube comments;

"At the 10th degree of freemasonry, the flat earth is revealed to you"

4/27/2018 05:08:24 pm

Freemasonry basically has 3 or 4 ranks; for example, there is no "25th degree". You can run through all the ranks in a year or less. Wolter becoming a Mason is not an accomplishment. Someone should ask him which lodge he's a member of.

If he gets to 33rd Degree Zodiac Killer, then I'm interested.

4/26/2018 11:14:16 am

I blame PBS... for trying to make television educational in the first place.

Henry

4/26/2018 01:37:40 pm

Jason Colavito is mad that no one will put him on tv.

Other Henry

4/26/2018 01:53:24 pm

Jason is mad because Graham Hancock won’t notice him.

Another Henry

4/26/2018 01:59:59 pm

Jason is mad because he claims to be a bestselling author who no one will publish.

Americanogo

4/26/2018 07:41:31 pm

I'm mad that you're a pedophile.

Cesar

4/26/2018 04:20:01 pm

In Isis Unveiled (1877), published when Blavatsky still was influenced by the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, which Emma Hardinge Britten was a member, she (Blavatsky) quote one article of the Kansas City Times about US mounds:

“It is the opinion of the scientific gentlemen who are making these discoveries that these bones are the remains of a prehistoric race of men. They do not resemble the present existing race of Indians, nor are the mounds constructed upon any pattern or model known to have been in use by any race of men now in existence in America. The bodies are discovered in a sitting posture in the mounds, and among the bones are found stone weapons, such as flint knives, flint scrapers, and all of them different in shape to the arrow-heads, war-hatchets, and other stone tools and weapons known to have been in use by the aboriginal Indians of this land when discovered by the whites.”

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-09.htm

T. Allen Greenfield, Emma Hardinge Britten and the Origins of OTO.
https://hermetic.com/sabazius/britten

Huh? What?

4/26/2018 04:34:12 pm

So you're posting to tell us you have no point to make?

NKENT805

3/13/2020 04:51:11 pm

DNA on the Mound remains proves otherwise. In the 1870’s the Native Americans had stopped building and creating countless things, and found themselves in a Zombie Apocalypse of the European hordes invading their world., who brought disease, death, destruction, desolation, and dispossession of everything Native America had ever known. European Americans need to face the fact that they lied and tried to fabricate a false history for themselves for years!

Doc K

4/26/2018 09:15:03 pm

How convoluted Biblical scholarship is - parallel to the pseudo-historians.

The Bible parallels the contrived nature of pseudo-history.

Get real.

americanegro

4/27/2018 02:23:44 am

No one cares what you think about the Bible dude. Why? Because you sound like a store robbing meth addict.

Make a point, won't you?

Riley V link

4/27/2018 12:58:28 pm

Both Quinto and Fox are hot. I will watch both shows on mute, and listen to music on my headphones.

4/27/2018 01:26:55 pm

Hi Jason -

Did you see my earlier note to you on Benjamin Barton?

While there were a number of precursors to Theosophy, from what I made out the synthesis seems to have been formed in Augustsus and Alice LePlongeon's salon in New York City

4/27/2018 04:49:20 pm

You know, Chief, you can email Jason directly instead of posting here to confirm that he's reading your posts, right? No one cares about Mr. Plunger or Mr. Kiesselburger. Snuff it, won't you?

4/28/2018 01:38:43 am

Dear Dickwad,

Their names were Richard Kieninger and Augustus and Alice LePlogeon, and while some people desperately hope that "no one cares", there are people who do care deeply.

5/4/2018 07:59:56 pm

Again with the pottymouth.

4/29/2018 01:40:59 am

I have...never actually seen that symbol used for Android ANYTHING before. Not saying 100% that it hasn't been, but I've never seen it, and I've been dealing with Android pretty much since its inception. So I can't tell you why it might have been created that way. I can, however, tell you that the Apple app store logo has nothing whatever to do with the Freemasonry symbol. the Apple app logo was designed to promote their then-slogan, which I can't remember the exact phrasing of, but that hinged on freedom of creative expression--thus the brush, pencil, and ruler, arranged quite simply as an "A" for "Apple." One might as well accuse the letter itself of being a Masonic symbol, which is ridiculously stupid.

The guess I would hazard as to the origins of the purported Android icon, assuming it's actually theirs--and it might be, just because I've never seen it doesn't mean it isn't--is that the Apple app icon came first, and the Android icon was mimicking it, and selected a protractor as another of the "tools of creativity." Which...is not that far off from why the divider is in the Masonic logo, since it was indicating the trade of Masonry, after all.

The Gmail logo is an M on top of an envelope, and the GPS logo is a stylized map pin. The Facebook logo really doesn't look anything like the other, aside from being blue, and really, let's talk about how many blue logos there are out there. Or circles. The Google Play button is based on the pretty much universal "play" symbol dating back at least as far as the 1980s for playing tapes and VCRs. Guess DVR must be Satanic. The Chrome logo is based on some weird doohickey that the original was that was like a bastardized Simon Says, and I have no idea what it was supposed to be, but a little too obviously high-tech to be "Satanic."