Thread by @strayhen

Bear with me on this thread. I sometimes space out and suddenly feel prompted to go on free association digs that oftentimes lead me towaed surprising possibilities. Let us begin. I'll start with screengrabs and then ask a question that popped into my mind. See what you think.

Yes, my prompt today out of the blue was 'white camel'. Not a clue why. I had set my phone aside to rest, but picked it back up and just typed that in search.

I usually just scroll till I feel prompted again to stop. Time to look at what that was.

So far I've got white camel and Perl programming. It's tempting to take over and just dig, but it's vital to ignore that and wait for the prompt. This may not have been the target. Just keep scrolling.

Still scrolling.

Still scrolling.

Still scrolling.

Scrolling takes patience, like feeling with path or tunnel entrance is the one the connects to the unknown destination.

I carefully backed out of that to see what comes next in the white camel search. This happened immediately. Aladdin? That felt vert strongly like where I needed to go.

What does Aladdin have to do with white camel that is so overrun with Disney algorithms? Time to fine tune the search a little.

Interesting 🤔

North Africa is pretty vague, but we're so saturated with Egyptian god symbolism that we can guess where the evil came from. Is this a tale of something that really happened? Anthropologists take stuff like this pretty seriously.

🤔 Why the lamp? Early 1700s when the tale was written down. Wasn't there some kind of world amnesia reset in the 1600s past or something? Magic lamp... wireless?

Look at all the lanterns. Funny, I've seen very old photos of American cities lit up with street lights supposedly before we had electricity. Do the really old Chinese tales remember this in legend? Wireless was supposedly worldwide.

And there's apparently more than one genie in the original, one good, one evil. Ive been asking for awhile who destroyed the free energy spires around the world.

See. Another genie.

I stopped here but my question is- Could this possibly be the leftover of a true story that once gripped our world? And why has it come to be so pulverized, marketed, and algorithmed? (Perl perhaps?) Maybe someone wanted this buried. Funny how fast I got to that with white camel.

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