Spiritual Rules are tough. They tend to require discipline and also can create cognitive dissonance. This video discusses some of these issues…
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November 4, 2014
Sonic Attacks in Modern American Cinema
tinnitus
Have you ever heard of tinnitus? It’s a strange “ringing” sensation in one’s ears. People usually get it after getting a knock on the head, overloaded by noise, or during an extreme headache such as a migraine.
Please note, the rest of this article may be disturbing to some readers.
It’s easy to tell if someone is experiencing tinnitus. All one has to do is simply turn the lights down low or off, and be in a quiet room. If one has tinnitus, a ringing sound will seem to come out of no-where. It can almost seem to come from within someone’s own head.
Now, if one listens closely to this sound. It tends to have a definite tone, a type of frequency or “white noise” almost musical characteristic. It is very unpleasant. Yet we have heard this sound before…
If any American walks into a modern movie theater that is showing traditional First Run blockbusters and big studio productions, he or she will notice a type of fatigue after the film. This is more than just the flashing lights and loud booming sounds. Pay close attention to the films you watch…especially the ones that seem to fatigue the viewer at the end of the film. Over 80% of the films sampled in the last 2 years have had actual sonic attacks inside the films.
These Sonic Attacks are almost identical to tinnitus. The occurrences of these attacks are so common even across genres that it is almost obvious. But let’s spell it out in more detail.
The Best of Me – Romantic Drama – 2014 – Sonic attack after the main male character is blown from his Oil Rig
If I Stay – Young Adult / Drama – 2014 – Sonic attack during the scene where the main character is waking up after a car crash…only to realize that she is extremely hurt.
The Giver – Drama – 2014 – This film in particular is of special interest. The sonic attacks are much more subtle than the standard tinnitus sound in the above mentioned films…yet the attacks are far more frequent. Almost every scene where Jeff Bridges’ character delivers a “memory” includes a type of sonic attack. But what is specifically intriguing is how the city’s primary leader, played by Glen Close, gives the main character instructions that he is not allowed to take any medications for pain.
Man of Steel – Sci-Fi /Action – 2013 – Several Sonic attacks, especially during Superman’s childhood, strangely enough after the “Oil Rig” explosion scene, (noticing a pattern here yet?) and several occurrences of sonic attacks during “helmet” scenes concerning the enemy characters being “overloaded” by sensory information
Divergent – Young Adult / Action – 2013 – When the main character is boxing, she gets badly injured and there is a short sonic attack. To the viewer it seems minor and is almost expected since she got hit. (NOTE: why are sounds which are often attributed to severe headaches being used in Mass Media entertainment?)
Avengers – Sci-Fi /Action – 2012 – During the scene where Iron Man, falls from the sky and is disoriented and almost comatose (or dead), a sonic attack occurs. This is only broken by a secondary sonic attack of screaming by the Hulk.
The Hulk – Sci-Fi/ Action – 2009 – This film is so riddled with sonic attacks it is almost beyond mentioning. The scene that should be paid extra attention to is the “University Skirmish” with the soldiers vs. the Hulk. In this scene trucks with large SPEAKERS pointed at the Hulk are used to attack the Hulk. If there is another film which more blatantly uses sound weaponization than please leave a comment below. We’d like to know.
Concluding thoughts:
1. Perhaps filmmakers are noticing better box-office profits for films that have sonic attacks as part of their audio tracks. This could be a product of American audiences’ propensity for self-punishment. Being sonically punished in groups could be a sort of bonding experience for young adults and adults.
2. Everything included in a film costs money. So nothing is done on accident.
3. This could be part of a bigger picture. People who are most resistant to sonic attacks tend to be people who are the least susceptible to headaches. This group can be further split into two categories: A. People who can’t hear very well and especially have trouble hearing nuances and subtle sounds in music and films. B. People who can hear normally, but whom have adapted to sonic attacks in modern life. Could these sonic attacks in Modern American Cinema be part of a bigger initiative for the conditioning of the American Populace? If this is so, what will the end result of this conditioning be?
-Tyler
November 7, 2013
From Concentrate and From Concentration
Think of the word, “Concentration” and the phrase, “from Concentrate”
“This juice is from concentrate.”
“I need to concentrate on my homework.”
Words are important in our society because they convey levels of meaning with minimal effort and cost.
When we think, we think. Some people think hard. Other people think about nothing.
But when we concentrate…everyone concentrates the same way. There is a focusing of the eyes. Perhaps a slight furrowing of brow takes place.
What is truly happening when people concentrate on a subject?
Some might say that chemicals are being excreted by the brain…and that’s true.
Others might say that the body becomes tense, and that could be true as well.
But if it has to do with chemicals and tenseness, then why isn’t the act called, ex-something or synth-something. Concentration is already a word for something.
And that word means compression.
When one concentrates, he or she compresses her focus. She compresses the surface area of which shall be affected by her energy.
When an archer concentrates and examines a target from far away, everything outside of the target area goes out of focus. It is much like a predator lion stalking its prey. It zooms in on what is wants to see.
So there is compression in the first sense, narrowing the focus, onto something either mentally or physically tangible.
But there is another level to concentration. And this is what I think is not talked about in great enough detail.
When one concentrates, it does not happen inside the mind. It is throughout the entire body…and most especially in the head/face area.
The muscles in the face tighten, the brow furrows and then the brain…which resembles finely fitted tectonic plates above an irregular planet…becomes squeezed.
Our physical brains become compressed during the act of concentration.
But what is the product of this concentration?
For juices it is simple. If you squeeze berries or fruits. You get delicious juices. Some manufacturers makes juices, “from concentrate” so they squeeze a great deal of fruits together and freeze it in order to preserve the stuff. It’s not as fresh and fresh juice. It’s from concentrate.
But what about people? What do we make?
Well, from the picture above, it looks like there’s little cute organelles or perhaps sub-units in the brain. Some of them even have names, pituitary gland, pineal gland and so on. And if you look at their locations, well, those locations look pretty darn close to geometric compression points within the brain.
That’s just another way of saying, if you squeeze the brain in a semi-uniform way…the brain is going to put pressure at certain points more often than other points. It’s kind of like how when you crumple a piece of paper as hard or as densely as you can, it almost always squeezes into a spherical shape.
So maybe our brains make chemicals when they concentrate.
Chemicals.
How dull.
-Tyler
June 29, 2013
Radiometer Preliminary Research
Radiometer in Freezer
This is preliminary research on potential applications for Radiometer-based technology. Here’s a little background information on the Crookes Radiometer that you might not hear anywhere else:
Many websites and books say that the Radiometer is a “measuring device” and that is absolutely true. The movement of the vanes in the radiometer definitely correlate to the amount of heat inside the radiometer bulb. What these sites don’t mention, is that the radiometer is also generating movement. This movement is rotational.
As you already know, rotational movement is the same type of movement that power generators and motors use in order to carry out their function.
Therefore the radiometer is a closed system that could potentially be used to generate rotational movement if the vanes were configured to a static base instead of resting on top of a pin.
More information on the pin and energy generation potential of the radiometer will be discussed at the end of this article.
The preliminary research that was done a few months ago on the radiometer just for fun is viewable at THIS LINK to our YouTube Page. In the video some temperatures are discussed, but they are not accurate.
After doing some research today, it was found that a radiometer will spin:
CLOCKWISE – 91 degrees Fahrenheit or 32 degrees Celsius [ The WHITE sides of the vanes will spin clockwise toward the black sides of the vanes ] == CLOCKWISE rotation occurs when an energy (heat) transferable material is touching the glass, (such as a human hand) and that material is at least 91 degrees Fahrenheit or 32 degrees Celsius.
COUNTER-CLOCKWISE – 40 degrees Fahrenheit or 4 degrees Celsius [ The BLACK sides of the vanes will spin counter-clockwise toward the white sides of the vanes] == COUNTER-CLOCKWISE rotation when a cold energy (heat) transferable material is touching the glass, (in this case, a bag of broccoli and mushrooms from the freezer was used) this material needs to be at a maximum of 40 degrees Fahrenheit or 4 degrees Celsius.
The reason why the radiometer spins is due to an upset in the equilibrium sustained by the radiometer inside temperature and the temperature of whatever is touching the outside of the radiometer glass. The reason for this is because the radiometer does not simply measure light energy. In fact, the radiometer will spin counter-clockwise in absolute darkness if the ambient temperature is cold enough.
To make this more clear, the radiometer is spinning because of its configuration. The alternating white and black colors of the vanes create a path for energy to flow. Heat, as you already know, is directly linked to color. If that doesn’t make sense to you then read THIS article real quick.
White color reflects light, that’s true. But white is also a “hotter” color than red or black. That’s because of where it lands of the electromagnetic spectrum, this is important because there’s more to color than simply aesthetics. Color actually serves a function. By alternating from white to black and so forth, the radiometer creates a “snake eating its tail” of sorts. The closed system of the radiometer has no where to send the heat from a 91 degrees Fahrenheit source…so the radiometer is forced to spin its vanes in order to maintain equilibrium. The heat is drawn toward the black sides of the vanes and then it is sent out from the other side toward another black side.
The interesting aspect of this entire process is how the radiometer spins counter-clockwise when it is cold. This is because the cold object or air is upsetting the equilibrium of the radiometer. But this time it is colder outside the radiometer than it is inside the radiometer. So in a sense, the radiometer has to “generate” heat in order to maintain equilibrium. An analogy would be how a human shivers when out in the cold. The movement generates heat. An analogous process is happening inside the radiometer. The lack of heat outside cools the radiometer’s slightly out-of-synch internal pressure. The movement of the radiometer creates friction and in-turn creates heat. This helps the radiometer attempt to return to equilibrium. NOTE: The radiometer will continue spinning as long as it is out of equilibrium with its neighboring external ambient temperature. Therefore a properly configured radiometer could run indefinitely in a cold region such as a freezer, or a cold climate such as the polar ice caps.
As promised earlier, the radiometer can be adapted as a form of energy production. The research and experimentation that needs to take place is as follows:
1. Can the pin of the radiometer be made into a static spinning transversal?
2. If the transversal is tied into a motor, could the radiometer generate sufficient energy to make the glass and metal of the unit worthwhile?
These questions will be answered after further investigation into this interesting piece of technology.
Thank you for reading.
-Tyler