A story that changed my life, never gets old to revisit, and should be standard reading for every man, young and old.
Take five minutes and read this, you will not regret it.

IRON AND THE SOUL
by Henry Rollins
🧵 I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.

Completely.

When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn’t run home crying, wondering why.

Technically Speaking: from Vedic Chariots to War Toyotas

Improvised, non-standard, and expeditiously modified light mobility tactical vehicles in battle across history; The Technical.

A thread.🧵 Since man invented wheel, we have been using it to find more effective ways to wage war.

Shortly afterwards, we fixed wheels to an axle andcart. Not long after, an animal train was yoked...

Naturally this lead to the development of a mobile projectile launching platform.
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661 Blocks

The transporting, storing, and rebuilding of the Temple of Dendur, blockbuster tactics, an architectural megafirm, and dirty money.

A brief 🧵 on temple logistics. The previous installment of this series on Dendur explored the lobbying efforts of the world to save ancient Egyptian monuments, the gift of one of them to America, and the peculiar connections of it all to Jackie-O (QT).

This is a brief description of its Transatlantic voyage.

https://twitter.com/massexpedition/status/1749142182076768579

Deadlines, Dams, Drones, Detention Centers, the Derby, and a Debutante

How the Temple of Dendur ended up on the island of Manhattan, with a focus on Jacqueline Kennedy

A continuation of the Dendur series..
🧵 Previously we discussed damming of Nile at Aswan; not only a modern marvel of engineering but also a humanitarian crisis, due to large amounts of villages, antiquities, ruins, and cultural resources that would be lost underwater forever.

Now we discuss origins of their rescue..

https://twitter.com/massexpedition/status/1738402409678872707

2023 - 𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂' 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙷𝚒𝚝𝚜

Cars, conflict, & chronicles

A 🧵of year's most well-received posts, with a few honorable mentions, thrown in

Mostly doing this for future reference, but also earnestly hope you find something you may enjoy reading/haven't seen, yet.. January:

"Social Imagineering" thought experiment and history revolving around concept of Disney replacing Franklin on the $100 bill
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https://twitter.com/massexpedition/status/1617653015812636672

Nile Be Dammed

Hydro-terraforming, the lost Labyrinth of Egypt, extreme engineering, Cold War Geopolitics, the Ziggurat of Ur, and the flooding of tens of thousands of years of history.

A thread about the Aswan Dams.🧵

Part of the #DendurNovember series. For thousands of years, man attempted to harness the Nile near Aswan

It's geographic location makes it not only a critical node on the renowned waterway, but a hub for holy sites and unparalleled structures from human history, and of course the Temple of Dendur.

Coptics and Spread of Christ in Rome

What inscriptions and the historical record suggests about Dendur, Coptic Christianity, Martyrs, the Nicene Creed, King Charles, ISIS and the Trinity

A slightly more theological 🧵for #DendurNovember series; still contextually significant. Resurrection of the Body

While different, the resurrection aspects of Isis/Osiris and other mystery cults vaguely resemble the fundamental element of Christianity..

It is noteworthy, then, that Dendur was a Coptic Christian Church for majority of first millennium, erecting crosses, and modifying the structure to suit the worship of Christ

"Civil War"

Why make this film? What is the story about? What is the underlying theme? Who are the "sides"?

A rough analysis of the recently released trailer.

What do you think?

https://twitter.com/A24/status/1734936219711394284

First of all, here is the trailer if you have not seen it. Much to unpack. Here are some things that stood out, to me while I sipped my coffee and contemplated

Two Pillars

Dendur, Freemasonry, 9/11, Architecture, Duality, Disneyland, and Judas Priest

A study of the symbolism of the history and architectural design of the temple of Dendur, focusing primarily on the two pillars of the entry way.

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When reading about Dendur, the texts describe approaching from Nile through a great pylon, or bekken, a gate called “the Luminous Mountain Horizon,” and represented in hieroglyphs as two mountain peaks between which the sun is seen rising

Lost to time was also a walled courtyard

Death Cults

Fire / Water + Ritual Sacrifice across time

In addition to more well-known deities, Temple of Dendur was dedicated to two brothers

The only dedication of its kind makes Dendur stand alone as an atypical monument in this regard

Who were they? And what did it mean? Divine Drowning

The brothers Pediese, “whom-goddess-Isis-gave” and Pahor, “The Horus/Falcon” drowned in Nile River

Little is mentioned of how they drowned, but drowning itself was considered a divine death.. the dead had been singled out by Hapy, god of Nile, to join his realm

Pax Romana

Contrary to intuition, The Temple of Dendur (and many other temples in Egypt) was actually a Roman Temple

Many overlook the breadth of the Roman Empire, spanning across and Egypt, Africa, and the known world for centuries

A contemplation on Roman and Ptolemaic Egypt ανταλλαγή

Prior to Roman occupation, Egypt also experienced significant cultural exchange from Alexander's conquest, founding of Alexandria, and subsequent establishment of the Greco-Ptolemaic empire in 330's BC

Alexandria was intended to be link between Greece and Nile valley

Nile South, and Below Dunes

By the nineteenth century, any areas near Memphis and Giza had been well documented. Extremity, prospect of uncovering wondrous ruins & wild riches, and fame beckoned many South, into Nubia.

These travelers up the Nile navigated several cataracts: This will be a journey South on the nineteenth century Nile, towards Aswan, as depicted by François Gau in his "Antiquités de la Nubie, ou, Monumens inédits des bords du Nil," and John Lews Burckhardt's 'Travels in Nubia' (Burckhardt is pictured, no picture available for Gau)

I find it incredibly fascinating that a year before embarking on this journey, Burckhardt was part of the expedition that uncovered the rock city of Petra, in the nearby Levant.

Obelisks & Jesuits

For the past two millennia, the sand swept dunes of the Nubian desert have beckoned archaeologists, Egyptologists, cartographers, and mystic adventurers to explore the far reaches of the Nile.

Buried under the sand lay undiscovered mysteries... While Heliopolis (now Cairo/Giza) has always been at the core of Egypt's prominence — especially after discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen — Southern destinations of Nubia and Memphis were premiere destinations for those seeking to uncover the mysteries of Egypt.

"into the caves," A few thoughts on Glenwood Caverns including fun facts, the Biden family, mafia history, overreaching lobbyists, mining operations, the 2020 election, Bud Light, and a body in the ladies room

The Caverns are in the news as of late, due to a heavily armed and armored man being found dead before the park opened, with a cryptic phrase written on the wall that read,

"I am not a killer, I just want to get into the caves,"

Before analyzing the oddities of this situation, and to promote positivity on the timeline, let's consider the unique facts associated with the Glenwood Caverns and town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado... Then we can look into some of the strange coincidences.

First, we can prime knowledge and awareness with this award-winning PBS Documentary on the Caverns themselves.

A brief thread will follow🧵
A few noteworthy facts about Glenwood Springs and Caverns:

• One of first cities in world to have hydroelectric power, "1902 water right for 1250 CFS.  That’s the biggest, oldest water right on the river.”

• 7th city to be powered entirely by renewable energy

• Longest life expectancy for poor folks at 83.4 years

• Still much undiscovered area within the cave

• Located at the confluence of the Roaring Fork River and the Colorado River

• Traditional Nuuchiu tuvupu (The People's Land) of the Subuagan and Parianuche tribes

• 54 unique species live in cave, pseudoscorpions, anti-cancer bacteria

• Teddy Roosevelt spent a summer in Glenwood for the springs, deliberating on and ultimately deciding to establish 230,000,000 acres of public land (parks / forest systems)

•Home of the jail Ted Bundy famously escaped from in 1977

• Diamond Jack Alterie of the North Side Gang; Like Hot Springs Arkansas, this spring town was a Mafia hot spot! In 1929, Leland “Jack” Varain, who later went by the name Diamond Jack Alterie, operated in Glenwood Springs. His criminal record included kidnapping, homicide, burglary, and more. In 1932, he is said to have shot two innocent salesmen through a closed hotel room door. One of the salesmen died as a result of the wound. A judge fined Jack $1,250 and asked him to leave the state.

•The caves are a perfect 52 degrees year round

•The caves were Closed for 80 years of the 20th century

•Glenwood Hot Springs Resort is the home of the world's largest mineral hot springs pool

•The hot springs and sulfuric acid formed the caves

Buy your kids their first car.

A rebuttal to Dave Ramsey's notion that buying your child a car will set child up for a life of unrealistic expectations is peak boomer rhetoric akin to kicking them out of house at 18 and/or blowing inheritance on lush twilight years, and ultimately contrary to his fundamental principle of living debt free.

Here's why🧵:
Time.

In order to accomplish purchasing a first car with cash, parents must drive the child to work themselves (or they could get lucky and walk/carpool), eating into both parent/child's precious TIME.

While time spent together is valuable, this takes away from the finite pool.

That Magnetic Field Is Now Real

Have you noticed an uptick in erratic behavior on planes?

How TMFINR plane lady video coincided with and (albeit inadvertently) overshadowed the quiet activation of 5G C-Band Spectrum rollout near airports, and holistic effects of EMF..

🧵 You may have seen video of a Texas woman on board an American Airlines flight at DFW Intl Airport on 2 July.

She has an episode and claims that a being she interacted with on plane "is not real"

Was this drunk antics, or something deeper?

Origin Video:

Fire, Smoke, Water, and Air

Why is East Coast (and parts of Canada) immersed in a haze of smoke?

A simple answer is wildfires; most things are not simple.

Contemplations on origin, timing, history, AI/Machine Learning, the government, divinity, neurotech, and effects of fire🧵 New York (and Eastern US) has been enveloped into orange smog.

Wildfires are the cause, but this is no ordinary blaze... Is it?

In this eerie, dystopian scene resembling science fiction, thick clouds have shrouded Eastern coastline.

What happened, here?

For first time in our nation's history, families like mine who've fought in every major conflict since 1776 are told our services are no longer required, because we are of European descent.

Where does this lead?

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Who is @GenCQBrownJr, the man driving this extreme initiative? For the unaware, the General that has been tapped by President has proposed to restrict

I enjoyed learning about the unique depiction of "Christ in the House of His Parents" and took a few quick notes/quotes on it and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; a 🧵

'Christ in the House of His Parents' by John Everett Millais, 1849-185; Oil on canvas - Tate Britain, London Jesus has cut his hand on an exposed nail, symbolizing the stigmata and foreshadowing Jesus's crucifixion. Some of the blood has fallen onto his foot. As Jesus's grandmother, Anne, removes the nail with a pair of pincers, his concerned mother, Mary, offers her cheek for a kiss.

For ages, men have had fire in their eyes

When they approach, wrongdoers must run, or do what they can

No one wants to be defeated; when playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare

They'll kick you and beat you, and tell you it's fair
So beat it, when you wanna be bad





WaPo reports Daniel Penny was a Marine Corps Infantry Unit Leader; a Sergeant.

One does not attain that level without
extreme moral scrutiny.

In urban warzone of New York City, he was first to fight for right and freedom.

Now he will keep his honor clean.

Semper Fidelis.

The answer to most traffic situations is to simply drive faster.

Stream-of-consciousness about congested streets, fast driving, and impact of global immigration while I sip my morning cup of go-fast ☕️🧵

For starters, imagine if passing lane was clear:

https://twitter.com/faustianwigger/status/1630320951911936001/video/1

Instead of leveraging cutting edge technology, common sense, and creating actual "smart cities" (is this actually a term to facilitate your enslavement?)

The solution in 2023 is restricting speed on common thoroughfares to 20mph

Let's ask ChatGPT AI how it could help alleviate:

https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1646435112840581121