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Big T
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 		ThisIsMyMilwaukee posted on their own YouTube Video!
Not sure if I was the first one to post this
Perhaps interaction is going to heat up again? TIMM posted on their own YouTube video "21 hours ago"

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Small portions of TIMM were shot in Grand Rapids for tax purposes and because of seasonally appropriate levels of Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragment activity. The remainder was filmed on location in beautiful Milwaukee. Thanks for commenting.


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seasonally appropriate levels of Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragment activity


GoDSEED fragment activity is higher or lower based on season, I see. Further, Grand Rapids either has consistently lower frag activity -- not surprising as the GoDSEED is buried directly beneath Milwaukee -- or is better equipped to deal with it.

Considering Grand Rapids, Milwaukee's closest neighbor, is across a large body of water, but far-off Wichita is across the "desert" and implied to be more "removed" from the other cities' societies and more remote and inaccessible and dangerous (due to both frag activity and high rebel presence in the "desert"), it's further possible that water is a heavy deterrent to the GoDSEED fragments in some way (recalling also the flooded tunnel in the TIMM slideshow).

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it's further possible that water is a heavy deterrent to the GoDSEED fragments in some way (recalling also the flooded tunnel in the TIMM slideshow).


Also consider that a ReBreather is something you would use underwater and that the MTC "Swam right past our call".

Sounds very plausible.

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 		This makes Lipps Leroux's statement in the description of the Facebook group Young Professionals of Milwaukee make more sense:
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And just in case you haven't seen it, I worked on our city's new advertising campaign with the MTC:

ThisIsMyMilwaukee.com

Check it out, and pass it along to friends who haven't seen it! (Esp. our friends over in Grand Rapids, LOL.)


That's a "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, we know this isn't actually Milwaukee in the video"...so now the New York setting of the video is being explained away by saying that that's actually Grand Rapids.

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 		Re: ThisIsMyMilwaukee posted on their own YouTube Video!
Not sure if I was the first one to post this
Big T wrote:
Perhaps interaction is going to heat up again? TIMM posted on their own YouTube video "21 hours ago"

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Small portions of TIMM were shot in Grand Rapids for tax purposes and because of seasonally appropriate levels of Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragment activity. The remainder was filmed on location in beautiful Milwaukee. Thanks for commenting.


and another ...

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It's true -- the Jagoda Museum Center is known throughout Active America! And even those haughty big-city types in Decatur enjoy the world-famous taste of the Milwaukee Ham-Burger. Thanks for your kind words.


1 hour ago.

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 		Re: ThisIsMyMilwaukee posted on their own YouTube Video!
Not sure if I was the first one to post this
Rakne wrote:
Big T wrote:
Perhaps interaction is going to heat up again? TIMM posted on their own YouTube video "21 hours ago"

Quote:
Small portions of TIMM were shot in Grand Rapids for tax purposes and because of seasonally appropriate levels of Go.D.S.E.E.D. fragment activity. The remainder was filmed on location in beautiful Milwaukee. Thanks for commenting.


and another ...

Quote:
It's true -- the Jagoda Museum Center is known throughout Active America! And even those haughty big-city types in Decatur enjoy the world-famous taste of the Milwaukee Ham-Burger. Thanks for your kind words.


1 hour ago.


"active america"? he made that sound like a proper noun.

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chateauRat002a
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 		A friend of mine wanted to post about his thoughts on fennel/vermouth/tequila, without creating an account. I don't agree with it, but here it is:

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Comrades. Please permit yourselves a momentary suspension of strictly linear logic. My main thrust is that there is an absinthe connection at the root of things. But I should begin with evidence.

A) Florence Fennel. Florence Fennel, according to wikipedia, is part of the holy trinity for absinthe. Another of this holy trinity is grande wormwood. Which brings us to
B) Vermouth. Again, according to wikipedia, the modern German word for vermouth also means wormwood.

So what do these connections tell us? Hell if I know. But I strongly suspect we should look to absinthe for more answers. Possibly that third member of the holy trinity of botanicals is that missing third member of the group that we need (green anise).


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EnsO wrote:
another_pilot_dwn wrote:
@EnsO~ I think that it's odd that they would throw those out, like they were made for display only. It seemed like they have nothing vested in the kids, maybe they are considered expendable as well? "here's our children's area!" No children, toys in corner, drawings that would make a child psyhc curl their toes... It gives me the heebie jeebies. Maybe those were drawn during the troubles and their aren't any children left.

Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that maybe their life is plant based and they were emulating us... what if all life was? What if something cataclysmic happened and in this reality we are all pod people now, and the "godseeds" that the Milwaukeeans speak of are the humans that are left? So we would all be pod people as well not knowing we were because we emulated being human to the point that we believe we are now? That would explain the family tree thing right?


i think this is a great theory, Pilot. very similar to my own thoughts on the scenario. i like your thinking that the Go.D.S.E.E.D. could be the remaining humans. makes sense and also gives this a very Planet of the Apes feel...


Didn't Blackstar create the Go.D.S.E.E.D., though? How could they be the humans? I like the idea that the TIMM people aren't really human, but it doesn't seem like the Go.D.S.E.E.D. is, either - and how do you get fragments of people, anyway? I'm thinking it might be the rebels who are the humans, Blackstar are the body snatchers, and the Go.D.S.E.E.D. was some failed experiment of theirs - one that could have used humans, maybe children?

Anyway, if the Go.D.S.E.E.D. was human, how could people survive buried underground, and why would water hurt the fragments? And then there's the connection with fennel, which is apparently evil to the TIMM/Blackstar people - do we know the rebel relationship with fennel? I'm assuming the fennel is linked pretty directly to the Go.D.S.E.E.D., given that one of the drawings of the fennel has it with a big mouth full of teeth - but don't plants like water?

Just thinking out loud, I guess... >>

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Comrades. Please permit yourselves a momentary suspension of strictly linear logic. My main thrust is that there is an absinthe connection at the root of things. But I should begin with evidence.

A) Florence Fennel. Florence Fennel, according to wikipedia, is part of the holy trinity for absinthe. Another of this holy trinity is grande wormwood. Which brings us to
B) Vermouth. Again, according to wikipedia, the modern German word for vermouth also means wormwood.

So what do these connections tell us? Hell if I know. But I strongly suspect we should look to absinthe for more answers. Possibly that third member of the holy trinity of botanicals is that missing third member of the group that we need (green anise).


Actually, this might not be far off. There's a section in Revelations that tells of a meteor named Wormwood that poisons the world's oceans:

Revelations 8:10 - 8:11, King James Version wrote:

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.


Thing is, "Chernobyl" means "wormwood". So there's a lot of stuff bandied about regarding this bit of the Bible, and nuclear holocaust.

Wikipedia has this to say about the absinthe Holy Trinity:

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The principal botanicals are grande wormwood, green anise, and florence fennel, which are often called "the holy trinity."[15] Many other herbs may be used as well, such as petite wormwood (Artemisia pontica or Roman wormwood), hyssop, melissa, star anise, angelica, sweet flag, dittany, coriander, veronica, juniper, and nutmeg.


Also, HI. I'm new. I've been following for quite a while, though! Hope I can be helpful.[/quote]

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chateauRat002a wrote:
A friend of mine wanted to post about his thoughts on fennel/vermouth/tequila, without creating an account. I don't agree with it, but here it is:

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Comrades. Please permit yourselves a momentary suspension of strictly linear logic. My main thrust is that there is an absinthe connection at the root of things. But I should begin with evidence.

A) Florence Fennel. Florence Fennel, according to wikipedia, is part of the holy trinity for absinthe. Another of this holy trinity is grande wormwood. Which brings us to
B) Vermouth. Again, according to wikipedia, the modern German word for vermouth also means wormwood.

So what do these connections tell us? Hell if I know. But I strongly suspect we should look to absinthe for more answers. Possibly that third member of the holy trinity of botanicals is that missing third member of the group that we need (green anise).


It did become legal to make absinthe in the US pretty recently (last year or two, I think.) I guess it's possible this whole thing is a campaign for a new brand of absinthe. Maybe it's a new Miller product. Wink

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 		Additionally, they buried G.o.D.S.E.E.D. in an EMERALD coffin.

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 		Hey, so I've been following this for a while given that I live in Milwaukee and this stuff interests me to no end. I was just reading through this thread, and around page 20 someone mentions the bar in the video that the young couple goes to.

OOG, it is named "Quartino" and is addressed at

11 Bleecker St
New York, NY 10012

However, in game Quati is removed. Now, since I've started getting into this I've been thinking super hard about "The Way Into the Doleful City" table here, and when I read that Quati was removed from the restaurant name I realized that Quati are the letters in this table!

Also, it looks like the restaurant in game has an exclamation point at the end, although I'm looking at a low quality version so I really can't tell. So the restaurant name in game looks like ___R__NO! This table also has numerous entries of "NO" with a "!" in a separate cell, as well as an entry with a question mark ("NO?").

Given the connection, these must be related in some way. As is already known, this table gives the energy level of Muons with respect to depth, and also that the title of this table is from Dante's Inferno. So this sounds like it has to do with the location of the tomb somehow, given that we are discussing depth here in both instances (with the graph and with the Inferno reference).

Now, I've attempted to google information on this topic (Muon energy with respect to depth) and there are numerous scientific papers on the subject, but I can't figure out generally what it means or what is actually being studied (usually it's Muon energy with respect to depth through a given material, which changes in different studies - I've seen water and rock, that I remember). I've also checked out the graphs in the studies and they don't look like the one offered in this image, on the next page, so I'm not sure if they're related, but they could be somehow.

I apologize if any of this has been posted before, but I just made the connection and thought it has to be significant in some way.

Does anyone have any more info on this table?

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 		Wow, so I have no idea if this is relevant, but a quati/coati is a type of animal.

[img=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/CoatiNosara.jpg]

Meh, I can't see how there would be any connection, but might as well provide it in case anyone else does.[/img]

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Lazar wrote:

Does anyone have any more info on this table?


I highly recommend reading the entire thread about the M:ARH booklet:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27148

That chart/graph combo has been beat on mercilessly by the folks in that thread. Some going as far as enlisting the help of professional mathematicians. Very Happy

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samspade wrote:
chateauRat002a wrote:
A friend of mine wanted to post about his thoughts on fennel/vermouth/tequila, without creating an account. I don't agree with it, but here it is:

Quote:
Comrades. Please permit yourselves a momentary suspension of strictly linear logic. My main thrust is that there is an absinthe connection at the root of things. But I should begin with evidence.

A) Florence Fennel. Florence Fennel, according to wikipedia, is part of the holy trinity for absinthe. Another of this holy trinity is grande wormwood. Which brings us to
B) Vermouth. Again, according to wikipedia, the modern German word for vermouth also means wormwood.

So what do these connections tell us? Hell if I know. But I strongly suspect we should look to absinthe for more answers. Possibly that third member of the holy trinity of botanicals is that missing third member of the group that we need (green anise).


It did become legal to make absinthe in the US pretty recently (last year or two, I think.) I guess it's possible this whole thing is a campaign for a new brand of absinthe. Maybe it's a new Miller product. Wink



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