np a little help

[Otto]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: cj hurtt
> To: pynchon list
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 8:31 PM
> Subject: np a little help
>
> i've been put in charge of researching my family tree, and was
> wondering if any of you know of any good online resources...
> save me a trip to ireland. offlist replies would be best i guess.
> thank you.

Websurfing is/can be a strange thing:

I remembered this:
http://www.plix.com/~users/ncallahan/home/Pynchon.html
William Pynchon - Founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, Leader, Scholar and
Writer
- Teil der genealogischen Site von Nora Callahan.

... but the site is gone, so I did a google-search on Nora Callahan and
found this:
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wod/nora01.html , a "Letter to the editor about
political prisoners in the drug war" from this site:
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/_home.html ,
which sent me to this:

The Gods of Eden
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/eden.html
"Here are some documents relating to the thesis put forward by William
Bramley in The Gods of Eden that the basic cause of war, genocide and
conflict in history is not a viciousness innate in the human species (or
even in the male part of it) but rather is the less-than-benevolent
interference in human affairs by extraterrestrials (members of a race which
had its origin other than on Earth). These ETs allegedly assume, when it
suits their purposes, the forms of angels. But far from being angelic, they
regard humans as their property and the Earth as an exploitable resource
(somewhat like multinational corporations - is there a connection?)."

and:
"After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John
Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: '... Do you not think an Angel rides in the
Whirlwind and directs this Storm?' ... [Bush:] This work continues. This
story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this
storm. - George W. Bush, Inaugural Address, 2001-01-20 CE"

I see it more the other way round: multis have taken the "place" religions
and ideologies had in former times in shaping our reality, we shouldn't
blame the ET's but look for economic reasons even for wars that are "sold"
to us as religious or ideological warfare.

A review:
http://personalwebs.myriad.net/ratman/edenrvw.htm
"For a long time, I've searched for someone that could combine all the
conspiracy theories for a Theory Of Everything - a Unified Conspiracy
Theory, as it were. But, everybody left something off - until now. William
Bramley's The Gods Of Eden manages to take every conspiracy you've ever
heard in your life and tie it in to a Machiavellian plot from outer space.
He is amazing. This book is the UFO believer's answer to Shadow Of A
Forgotten Ancestor; Bramley set out to see why our species has been engaged
in warfare for so much of its history. Needless to say, he arrived at a
slightly different answer than Sagan and Druyen did. Bramley has discovered
a Brotherhood with tentacles that have reached across both space and time to
keep mankind at its own throat so that we are a good, docile slave race.
Their minions, sometimes willing, sometimes unwilling, are the Freemasons,
all major world religions, (especially Christianity - Bramley seems to have
a special axe to grind against Christianity), government in general and
intelligence organizations in particular, and, of course, the world banking
community. This last bit worries me a tad, because it borders on some of the
Nazi propaganda about Jewish control of the world banking system, but
Bramley manages to steer clear of overt anti-semitism. Of course, if you're
going to have a Unified Conspiracy Theory, it's got to include the
conspiracies of the far right fringe, as well, so he manages to tiptoe
around some of their more odious pronouncements. In fact, he explains how
the Brotherhood has always encouraged inter-religious squabbling, and that
every time there is religious warfare, it is part of the Brotherhood's
master plan. Any time humans oppress each other, Bramley asserts, they're
following the orders of the alien Brotherhood to keep ourselves down,
waiting for the day when they can take us back again. This is the book to
have to explain things, if you don't want to listen to conventional wisdom.
This man is going to be MIB-bait for some time."

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In my humble opinion no need for paranoia. What makes this story weak is the
lacking of a motive, a real reason for "Them" to do so. Distances are so far
and if a race has managed to develop real space travel it sure doesn't need
some kind of slave race anymore.

Otto