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Within about 10 minutes of posting the above picture of Aaron's toy whale next to the Yin Yang symbol on a Lost forum, with my explanation of Black vs White, I was banned from the forum.
This Yin Yang Whale is pulled out of Claire's bag by Kate in "What Kate Does"
Season 6, Episode 2, 10 minutes in.
Many of my posts were deleted on Lost forums that got too close to the truth. But I just found a lot of my old archived forum posts. As I come across these posts that got me banned from Lost forums, I will copy and paste them over here.
Now you will be able to read my infamous posts that the Lost producers don't want you to see!
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In regards to the producers saying in TV and magazine interviews that John is the smoke monster and the Man in Black, another forum member says...
"Are we really to believe the producers would give us the answer to such and intricate question in the first episode of the season, absolutely not."
Finally someone that understands this!
In fact, the "writers" and actors are always saying they can't answer questions, but for the past few months have been telling everyone that he is no longer playing John Locke, and suggesting that he may be playing the man in black. That should send up RED FLAGS to everyone! Why try so hard to keep information from leaking, and then spread THIS "spoiler" information, unless it is MIS-information.
Don't listen to anything that Damon and Carlton say! They will never give you any REAL spoilers about what is happening, everything they say is mis-information.
Jeremy was lucky the bullet bounced off his knife or buckle, and quickly took cover in a Shen door behind the pillar, as the "smoke monster" arrived.
Another forum member posts:
"I'm sorry you had to see that side of me"...this would lead us to believe Flocke/MIB is smokey."
He only wanted to lead BEN to think he was the "smoke monster". Why? Because if Ben knew he was only human, Ben might try to kill him. If Ben thinks he is an invincible monster that can't be killed, then Ben won't bother trying, and Jeremy can get back to business at hand.
From another forum member:
"ash circles and were scurrying when they found out Jacob had died....but hasn't smokey lived inside the temple walls?"
We also saw Kate walk ahead of the rest of them through the tunnel leading to the temple and walk right through to the other polarity reality. (flash sideways sfx) What polarity is the "smoke monster" and from which polarity is the ash?
Ben walked towards the opening the smoke monster left (and also came from) and the director made sure to show you Ben turning around to see that "John" then came out of the secret room from BEHIND him. It would be easy to skip special morphing effects but still have "John" walk out of the door right in front of Ben, right?
They are SHOWING you here, and in other scenes, that John is NOT the smoke monster.
If bullets really could bounce off of him, he wouldn't have had to run away and hide as he did! He could have stood there like superman.
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This plane wasn't big enough to make it from Sydney to LAX. They probably figured, they didn't need to do the entire bit over again, just the part where Jack tries to save Charlie and fails. But Jack spilled one of his bottles and wasn't as intoxicated as last time, so even though they took his pen and Cindy wouldn't give him anything, he managed to save Charlie anyway with his hands. Charlie seems as pissed having to go through it all over again as Eloise was when Desmond wouldn't do what he was supposed to. Or Jeremy when he tells Jack at the radio tower "Your not supposed to do this!"
Rose almost blew it when trying to cover for Desmond when she said they were sleeping.
Another important key piece of information from season one:
TOM: (to Michael) "Did the bullet bounce off your skull, or did the gun just jam on you?"
Michael couldn't die, just as the bullet bounced off of Jeremy in the statue.
Did this mean Michael was the smoke monster because he couldn't be killed? Of course not.
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In this season, we have already seen two slightly different versions of Kate hijacking the Taxi and heard two different versions of Ford leaving the Temple. One where he shoots someone on the way out, and one where he doesn't. The gun he uses is a different gun in the scene where he leaves and doesn't shoot anyone.
ALDO: So what's your strategy for bringing your boyfriend back - I hope you got one because he shot a guy on his way out.
And yet Ford did NOT shoot someone on the way out in the reality WE saw, so why would he say that he did?
LENNON: He swallowed it?
DOGEN: Yes.
And yet Jack did NOT swallow it. So why would he answer "YES" ?
In one reality, Dogen's hand is not healed, he wears a bandage on it. In another reality, Sayid's bullet wound is healing fast.
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The Loophole:
You can't kill one of them, and you can't tell someone else to kill them. That's the rules.
A loophole would be if you got someone ELSE to kill, because they really wanted to kill, the way "John" tricked Ben into wanting to kill Jacob.
Ben thought that Widmore changed the rules by telling Keamy to kill Alex, but it was actually Ben that told Keamy to kill Alex. And Keamy that wanted to do it, not Widmore.
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I have seen two different Jacobs so far, so just because one is dead, doesn't mean the other is.
The moment someone other than Hugo can see him, that will probably be the other Jacob.
Note: this ended up exactly how the producers showed it, with other characters besides Hugo being able to see the other Jacob at the campfire.
While John Locke exited the island at the antipode point in Tunisia, Jeremy Bentham stayed on the island and has been showing Claire how to sharpen axe blades, shoot guns, sew up wounds, etc. for the past 3 years.
In one Temple, they have Aaron. In the other Temple, they do not.
You need to pay attention to the flash-sideways sound effects of the plane crashing, or there is no way you can follow what is happening. They don't flash sideways EVERY time the scene changes from on island to off island, so it is real important you keep track of WHEN they play this sound effect, so you know which reality you are watching both on and off island.
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In one reality, Widmore fakes the crash, but in the other, he spends a lot of money to go down and acquire the black box of the real crash.
In ONE reality, Widmore put it there. But in another reality, it is NOT a fake, it is the real Oceanic with the real passengers.
Do remember that Daniel was crying and really upset, (not over complete strangers, but passengers he KNEW were on that plane) the pilot didn't have a wedding ring on, Jack told us he had pilot training, and Jack told Sun about why he isn't wearing a wedding ring and that it is in his sock drawer at home.
And do note that the Flash Sideways sound effects is of a plane going down.
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People who only watched each episode ONCE, in order, will NEVER understand what is going on.
For instance, of what did we care in season one that Charlie goes to Sydney to tell his brother that they got a gig to open up for MEAT COAT in LA?
But in season 6, we see Jack's son David with a poster of MEAT COAT on his wall, and listening to DRIVE SHAFT in his headphones when he tells Jack that Jack wouldn't know who they are.
You will note that the audio was scrambled so we couldn't actually hear it was Drive Shaft, but if it wasn't, there would have been NO REASON to scramble the audio to the viewer.
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When Claire mentioned being tortured, the other guy from the Temple said she wasn't remembering it right. (that other guy remembers it different, because it DID happen different in the other reality)
So while in ONE reality, she was burned there, in the other she wasn't.
Just as in ONE reality, Ben killed Jacob, but in the other, he didn't.
In one reality, Ben kept his promise to Alex, to keep it between them what Alex told Ben about the Principal's affair.
They don't put those "flash sideways" sounds in there for nothing.
Even in Season One, when Claire is attacked and has needles put in her, for which Jack thinks she is just making it up, because there are no needle marks on her, if you watch, you will see her shirt change from black to white, and only ONE version of her got stuck with the needles, not the other version of her. But her mind was able to experience what her other self was going through.
It makes perfect sense that she doesn't have that burn mark in one reality, just as she didn't have needle marks in one reality.
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Claire once again lets us know, by telling Jack, she has been with "John" since Jack left the island.
"John" tells Jack that John Locke's dead body needed to be brought to the island before he could take his form.
So then you tell me WHO Claire was with, if John Locke's body wasn't yet brought back to the island?
See the problem? See the CONTRADICTION in the show itself?
"John" is lying to Jack, his motive being, he LIKES that they think he is a smoke monster. That way, they will fear him and think they can't hurt or kill him, and thus not try to hurt or kill him.
Claire was with "John" for the 3 years they were off the island! Years BEFORE John's body was brought back to the island! ONE version of John on the island teaching Claire how to sharpen axes and hunt, while ANOTHER version of John is off the island being killed by Ben.
Ever since LAST season, there has been tons of proof that show "John" can not be the "MIB" or the Smoke Monster.
Did you notice towards the end of the episode prior to this one, that "John" was very thirsty and took a drink of WATER from that green US army canteen? Or that Micheal pointed to Hugo where "John Locke" was, and didn't say anything about him being dead, or warning Hugo to stay away from him? Why wouldn't Micheal's spirit tell Hugo that it wasn't really "John Locke" but it was a smoke monster? Because he was NOT a smoke monster.
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Claire is only crazy on the dark side, and more normal on the light side.
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He made a DEAL with Ricardo and then when Ricardo wanted out of the deal, this "Man in Black" didn't hold him to it. Instead, he said that he understands that Jacob can make a convincing argument, and said that the offer would always stand, if he ever changed his mind.
Doesn't sound like very EVIL actions, when the other guy broke the agreement they had, does it?
Remember what Frank Lapidus said. When ever someone tells you they are "the good guys"...
In any war, the government of your own country will try to tell you that they are the good guys.
The government of which side tell's it's people it are the "bad guys"? NEITHER.
We have seen the same thing here in LOST. Everyone says THEY are the good guys.
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Sayid taught us in the previous episode that John can't tell if someone is lying to him. (He doesn't have special mind reading powers or anything) He couldn't tell that Sayid lied to him about killing Desmond.
Previous seasons have shown us that John knows when things are going to happen (like it will start to rain, seconds after he says it will) because he has lived through all of this before. Same as others like Eloise, Alex, Desmond, etc.
He knew everyone would not die on the sub, probably the same way he knew (while carving that stick recently) that they would just sit at their camp and wait, and Jack and company would come to them. Because that is always the way it happens.
The cheap homemade leg cuff, made from airplane wreckage by Illana and put around Ben's leg, always ends up breaking off at that exact moment too. Right at the moment he points down for Ben to look at it.
John didn't magically make it pop off, just as he didn't magically make it rain on command in previous seasons either.
Keep in mind this season started on Ground Hog Day.
John is like Bill Murray's character. Each time, he uses more knowledge of what he seen happen last time around, to use that to his advantage.
He also remembers each time the Smoke Monster appears too. Gee if one knew that, one could actually trick others into believing that he was the Smoke Monster.
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Daniel isn't going to be sad and cry about some strangers he doesn't know on a plane crash wreckage he sees on TV. He is crying, because part of his mind knows those people, but the other part doesn't. Just like Jack is confused at his appendix scar and when he had it removed, because part of his mind is linking to the other reality where he had it out on the island as an adult. People kept saying that when the flash forward showed him taking a shower and he didn't have that scar anymore, that it was a "production error" well, this season proved that it was NOT a production error. In fact, one of the characters this season shares the same last name as the Script Supervisor of the program, who keeps a large bible to make sure there are no continuity errors. And how anyone can suggest that it could be an ERROR or MISTAKE or OVERSIGHT that Hugo and Jame's shirts have been changing color and getting darker all season long, is just ABSURD.
In a news story, it was asked if they would ever consider publishing the continuity log book after the series is over, and the answer was no, because they want some mystery to remain.
Well, that PROVES they are not continuity errors! Because unless that book shows PROOF of intentional changing colors of shirts, or changing the turntable in the hatch, then why would publishing it reveal any mystery?
It would be a very BORING book to read, UNLESS... It gives every intentional change of every prop, costume, and everything else.
There have to be more than 2 realities/timelines, because we have photographic PROOF of Sun and Jin's wedding with Sun in THREE different dresses for her wedding. But keep in mind that we know some characters have been through this more than once, so you would have to add another 2 realities, at least, to each of the time loops, and that brings a lot more differences to account for.
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Why would the person in charge of costumes, get the same style shirt for James in 3 different colors? You always have more than one, in case one gets lost or damaged, but they would all be the SAME COLOR!
One of the characters on the series was even named AFTER the script supervisor (in charge of CONTINUITY) his name is Gregg Nations. No such production, in all of recorded history, has ever had this many production errors, and it is the job of Gregg Nations to make sure there AREN'T ANY continuity errors in LOST. If these were production errors, then he would have been fired years ago. He would also never be able to get another job in the industry ever again!
And you only seen the PICTURE evidence I posted. Every time they have shown the same scene more than once, the DIALOG has been different too!
Now that can NOT be a mistake, because the text on the scripts doesn't CHANGE by accident or by magic!
Also.. Say the script supervisor, who's job it is to watch every scene being filmed and make sure there are no continuity errors, misses one. And say the actors and crew and director all missed it too. Well now it goes to post production and the director usually supervises there too, and it could be caught there, and redone.
Watch the scene in Widmore's office this season with the scale painting again. Note EVERY LAMP in the room and EVERY ITEM on his desk! Things are moving and disappearing like CRAZY in that one short scene! Go watch it and be amazed! No one can make that many mistakes, there must be a dozen alone in that one scene! See how many you can count up!
If you want to go back and look at the best example of alternate realities being shown, probably the best example would be from season 5 where they show the exact same incident, played out in each reality:
5.05 THIS PLACE IS DEATH -
Sayid: And if I see you or him again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for all of us"
5.10 HE'S OUR YOU -
Sayid: And if I see you again, it'll be extremely unpleasant for us both"
In one reality, Sayid makes the threat to both Ben and Jack, in the other, he is only angry at Ben.
In 3.08, is the most obvious time, back when Desmond saw Charlie singing and playing on the street, knowing it was going to rain, then it rained, and Charlie didn't get to save Nadia, because Desmond was speaking to him.
In 3.21, when it starts to rain, Desmond isn't there to distract Charlie, so Charlie hears Nadia's call for help in the alley and saves her.
But since Desmond remembers he was there before and that it was going to rain, this means there is at least a third variation of this same scene, that was never shown to us, that Desmond remembers living through.
1.05 - Charlie tells Jack that he can't swim.
In a later episode, he tells Jack he is an excellent swimmer and wants to volunteer to swim down to the looking glass station.
Once again, we have been watching alternate realities all along. In one, Charlie doesn't know how to swim, in the other he does.
These are NOT production or continuity errors, they are written into the script that way.
Watch the scene with Kate getting into the airport Taxi in "LA X Part 2" and then watch the same event in the other reality in "What Kate Does" Note the differences.
Anytime they show you a scene you have already seen in a previous episode, you will want to compare them both back to back to see the differences.
The only reason they show a scene we already seen AGAIN, is to show how it happened in another reality.
Why else, with so little time left, would they waste valuable episode time showing us a scene we already saw in a previous episode?
In the scene of Hugo and John in the parking lot, Hugo's lines were about him parking in the handicap space, but the scene they showed, he wasn't in the handicap space.
This is one way of showing what happened in both realities, by only showing the scene once. The video shows one reality, and what they said, is what took place in the other reality.
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I explain this elsewhere in more detail, but there are two main realities in which one is slightly ahead in time from the other. Thus why people can only make decisions one way, because they can't link to the other half of their minds which give them better judgment (together), because that version of their minds are doing different events and tasks. They are out of sync. Someone is trying to get both sides back in sync.
On the dark side reality, everyone can only have the attitude: "don't tell me what I can't do!" and always just want to do the opposite of whatever anyone tells them. In the light side reality, the same people "don't have what it takes" and just go along with what anyone tells them and never argue.
The problem comes when one of them has already made a decision and took a path, and the other version wants to keep doing things differently, making it hard for the universe to course correct. Thus why our "time police" keep trying to get them to do things differently, only they really aren't allowed to tell them what to do, the characters have to WANT to do it themselves. That's the rules.
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Most any of them this season (other than ones like Ab Aeterno) which include the "whoosh" with the plane engine sound in it that separates light and dark realities.
Dr Linus is a perfect example, because in one reality he keeps his promise to Alex and in the other he doesn't. On one side he tries to blackmail the principal, and in the other side he went to speak to the school board instead. If you can't see that in the off island scenes in that episode, there were two completely different Bens and two completely different versions of the same story taking place, then what you saw most likely didn't make any sense at all to you.
In one, all he cares about is power, and in the other, he cares about others. He even TELLS US THIS via clues in his history lesson he teaches the students, which is really more of a clue for the viewer, than a history lesson for students.
When he writes ELBA on the chalkboard, it can be seen how it is written DIFFERENT in both realities.
Happily Ever After and Everybody Loves Hugo are a perfect matched set to see this in action too.
Because at the very end of the first one, you end up in the dark side reality, where you can see the sinister look in Desmond's face as he wants a list of the other passengers of the plane from his driver, and we KNOW it is because he wants to do to them what Charlie did to him!
But the next episode, each time we see him meeting one of the other passengers, it always occurs on the LIGHT side reality. (once again, each episode starts in the light side, REGARDLESS if the scene is on or off island, and each time you hear the Flash Sideways SFX, you toggle back and forth between light and dark realities.)
In Happily Ever After, almost the ENTIRE EPISODE is on the light side, and they never play the Flash Sideways SFX until the very end. THEN you hear the SFX and the scene is at the stadium.
In Everybody Loves Hugo, we hear the Flash Sideways SFX 9 times. When Desmond hits John with his car, guess which side that takes place in? The DARK side reality. Which makes perfect sense, because it is in that reality that in the last episode, we could read in Desmond's face that he was going to go and try to bring each of the passengers to a near death experience, even BEFORE we saw the next episode!
But then he DIDN'T do that at all, he ended up playing cupid instead! But that is because that is what he did on the LIGHT side.
Thus why you need to watch each episode twice, and the second time, use pen and paper to log the episode and MARK off the paragraphs to light and dark sides. Remember, each episode STARTS in the light side, and commercial breaks never count for any changes, when you come back from commercial, you are still on the same side you were before the break. Because there was no Flash Sideways SFX.
Again, ask yourself, WHY THE HELL DID THEY PUT THESE SOUND EFFECTS IN THESE EPISODES IF THEY WERE NOT SO IMPORTANT!
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It does start out where the Flash Sideways are heard between island and off island, so that the first two off island scenes are on the dark side. But After the on island scene where Ben says to Lapidus, "The island still got you in the end, didn't it?" there is a commercial break. When we come back from the commercial break we are OFF island again, but there was NO WHOOSH, so we are now seeing the FIRST time that episode of the OFF island scene in the LIGHT reality side.
This is where Ben promises to Alex that he will keep what she told him between them, and that a promise is a promise. Right after he says that, WHOOSH SFX, we are on the island in the DARK reality. Then there is another commercial break, and after the commercial, we are OFF island again, but this is still the DARK reality, there was no WHOOSH separating it. So when LIGHT Ben has Artzt break into the principal's emails for him, he is not breaking his promise to Alex, because this is the OTHER side, this is DARK side Ben.
In fact, the only OTHER scene that is OFF island that is LIGHT reality again, is when Ben tells Alex he didn't have anything to do with the principal's letter of recommendation for her. He also tells Artzt that he didn't do it. Ben is telling the truth.
Miles also had no way in hell enough time to dig up those diamonds if everything you see this episode on island was one linear reality. He had only 3 minutes. Also, in one reality, James threw the diamonds out LOOSE over the bodies before they were buried, it would take many long hours to find them.
This episode ONLY makes sense, when you separate the two LIGHT and DARK realities of BOTH on AND off island with the flash sideways. Any why else would the sound effects be there if they had no purpose? They wouldn't.
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The Flash Sideways SFX are very obvious in The Last Recruit, so really no reason for me to take the time to explain every scene, they are where they are. I will only mention ONE of them, because ONE of them was sort of faint, and some people might have missed it.
It is after James trips Sayid at the back door with the garden hose, is handcuffed and arrested. There is a Flash Sideways between that, and going back on island where Jack is talking to Claire. Of course, if you MISS that, then the rest of the episode will be off, you will think you are on the wrong sides, both on and off island.
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Yes he told Artzt he didn't do it, in the LIGHT side, but he DID do it in the DARK side.
I suspect in the ending we saw, which was the LIGHT side, he had gone to the school board (under more of the suggestion from John at the beginning of the story) and went through the LEGAL channels, and the school board came to some sort of a compromise in which he got to have his history club back, because if his blackmail effort didn't work, why and how did he get to have his history club back?
See?
One Ben doesn't seem very enthusiastic to dig that grave, but the other Ben is really into the digging and gets pretty deep. Yes, they showed them in that order, so one can think the hole just got deeper because more a period of time went by, but that is what they do with everything. If they showed the OTHER Ben digging a pretty good sized hole, and then later showed the Ben with a hole hardly two inches deep, then you would have a better time believing me, right? But they showed it in the order they did, so that it sort of almost makes sense as a THIRD story, by editing bits and pieces of the two stories together like that.
Picture it this way....
One side's motto is: "Don't tell me what I can't do!" and no matter what you try to tell that person, or how you try to convince them, they will always want to do the exact opposite, because that is all they can ever want to do.
The other side's motto is: "I don't have what it takes" and no matter what you tell that person, they will be agreeable and do whatever you tell them, without argument. Because that is all they can ever want to do.
There is no "freewill" or rational decision making so long as your brain or soul is split up Yin vs Yang, in slightly different times, so that the mind can never sync up and make a rational decision. Each part is stuck in the same situations, from minutes, to even days apart, so each half always wants to do the opposite decision in each of those same exact situations.
We saw John not being able to decide which color swatch to choose, whatever Hellen wants, that is what he wants. But we didn't get to see the other John. In that other reality, whatever Hellen wants, he would choose the exact opposite color, and wouldn't budge on that decision.
Most of this series, Jack has been a real stubborn ass, and always arguing and wanting to do things just to argue and be difficult. This season, we finally get to see the OTHER Jack, who can't make decisions, and just wants to do whatever Hugo tells him to do.
One would instantly guess that the goal of this story is to get both realities back in SYNC, so that the mind can view each situation and incident at exactly the same time, and people would be able to use BOTH their Yin and Yang to come to a more BALANCED way of decision making.
Yes, the producers have edited the two realities together, back and forth, to try and give you a rounded out view and actually create something that more resembles what reality would resemble if the problem this whole story is about, didn't happen.
Let's suppose you argue that the hole got deeper from one Ben, because time had gone by. But you can never explain how Miles could dig up and find all those loose strewn about diamonds in that grave, in only 3 minutes time.
THAT is the proof that what I say is correct. Because what I say, ends up having a way to make that FIT, whereas, saying my way is wrong, and things are just happening in one time line off island, and one time line on island, you have a BIG IMPOSSIBLE problem trying to explain how Miles got those diamonds.
Interesting too that they were in a sack, when we saw James thrown them in that grave all loose.
Seems that in the OTHER reality, James didn't throw them in loose like that, and that in the other reality, Ben and Illana had talked for a lot longer than 3 minutes, giving Miles enough time to dig and find that sack of diamonds.
And I can't repeat it enough.. But each time you hear the flash sideways SFX, if you mark each side LIGHT and DARK as they alternate, you see that things that would HAVE to be in opposite realities ARE!
In other words, I can watch an episode, without paying attention to the flash sideways, and GUESS which scene is taking place in which reality. Then when I watch the episode again, the sides I guessed each would be on, MATCH UP PERFECTLY to the sides divided by the flash sideways sfx. In EVERY episode this season.
So to say that is coincidence is just crazy. I obviously discovered something that is consistent, to the point I can predict it, and then double check with pen and paper, and it comes out EXACTLY as it should, each time.
When such an experiment can be repeated over and over again with 100% same results, then scientists tend to stop considering it a "theory" and safely start to consider it a "fact".
Here is the problem with REAL LIFE...
No matter what one finds to be a fact with rational logical reasoning, if an authority figure tells the masses it is wrong and gives a lie as the official story, then MOST people will believe the lie.
There were always a small minority of people like me, that disagreed with authority figures throughout time. Big respectable authority figures like these...
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
(Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
(Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
(David Sarnoff's associates, in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920's)
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
(New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
(Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
(Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)
In our own lifetimes, we were told that butter was not good for us, and that margarine with hydrogenated oils were much healthier! Chocolate was not good for us either, and now it is sold in every health food store!
Now they tell you sugar is bad, and that Aspartame and Sucralose (not sucrose, check spelling difference) are completely safe and much healthier than Sugar.
The authority figures (writers/producers) will tell you something, such as something was really just a "production error" while I will tell you it most certainly was NOT a production error and why it would be IMPOSSIBLE for it to be so, and yet who will most people believe?
Me, or the producers and writers of the show?
Because people tend not to THINK or REASON, they just care about what the "authority figure" said, and then just take it on blind faith!
People are trained from school on wards, not to THINK, but to react in the way that gives the best reward. Be it better grades in school for selecting the answers and responses the "teachers" will give a higher grade for, rather than the answer that makes the most sense and results in a failing grade or paper.
I retained my ability to think and reason. Thus why I can easily figure out what is going on in Lost better than most people, because I don't let anything the producers or writers say, influence what my own eyes and ears show me.
In fact, since they are so secretive in filming episodes and letting information out, when they DO volunteer any information, a wise person always questions the MOTIVE of WHY would they volunteer such information or spoiler!
Most likely, because it is FALSE information meant to deceive and throw you farther away from the truth.
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You replied to Guest
Thank you.
It makes you wonder why I was suddenly, without reason or cause, prevented from posting these same theories on that other site you found, doesn't it?
Nothing assures you are on the right track to the truth better than suddenly being prevented from speaking it.
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Lindelof is recently quoted on this website saying: "There might, possibly, be some questions that we, as storytellers, will answer in the body of the show that might not be appearing in the finale."
This I knew years ago. Because that is how I already have many answers that most people don't. I have always said that all the MAJOR spoilers are back in the previous seasons and episodes. If you don't like spoilers, then do NOT go back and watch any former episodes.
A magician can make the illusion of having an object appear or disappear right in front of your eyes.
And the reason most magicians will never show you the same trick again, or more than twice tops, is because once you know what is going to happen, the NEXT time you watch the trick, you are looking elsewhere and will see how it is done.
Every episode of LOST has a similar effect, in that your attention is directed in one place, while all sorts of other things are being revealed that are not picked up by your conscious mind the first time you watch them. You MUST watch any episode more than once, or you are missing MOST of the information contained in it.
The "writers" have said that they intend to go into hiding after the series is over. This is not something you say or feel you need to do, unless you have INTENT to make the viewers angry. Because if you FEAR the viewers are going to be angry, then you can choose NOT to end the series in that way.
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Someone suggested I edit together only scenes from each side and produce two completely different stories from them, putting each side only in it's own story, however, they don't SHOW everything from each side, so it isn't possible to do this, unless one had access to the other footage that was never aired or released. The show was set up to give enough clues so that we can FIGURE OUT what happens in those scenes, even if they are never shown.
For example, the scene where Hugo parks his Yellow Hummer in the handicap parking space, because the sign said "Reserved" and they told him they were going to reserve a spot for him to park.
We never got to SEE that scene to date, but we KNOW it happened in the other reality. That is also why John can't get his remote controlled ramp to smash into Hugo's car, because that isn't how it happened, and the cars were not in those positions on the other side. The universe course corrects by not allowing that ramp to hit Hugo's vehicle.
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Why such an elaborate large wooden stairway built going up to the Ajira on the island? Wouldn't a simple rope ladder have sufficed?
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Kate said "I don't want to be Eve."
She also did NOT say "I don't want to end up LIKE Eve." she said she didn't want to BE Eve, implying that she already was.
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These two are not the "Adam and Eve" skeletons. The clothes on the Adam and Eve skeletons are not that old, and Adam and Eve were not laid side by side.
When you walk through the Shen door at the Temple, you come out in the reality in which the bodies are side by side, a lighthouse exists and Shannon's inhaler was found at the cave. (because in that side she DID live at the "rape caves" and they DID find her inhaler)
They never show if Jack puts the rocks back, or if he kept them.
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The light can be seen when Ben and John each turn the wheel.
Another thing to keep in mind, the hole was not widened and the wheel not yet attached when the well was filled in.
Yet we have seen the wheel attached and operational.
Either someone digs back down there again and completes the project, or in one reality it gets built, and in another reality it does not get built.
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If John was the smoke monster, why didn't he turn into the smoke monster instead of being beaten to death by Jack?
And why does John's dead human body remain at the bottom of that cliff?
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The "man in black" told Jacob he wanted to kill him, Jacob already knew this and told him "well when you do, I'll BE RIGHT HERE." (at the statue) so he KNEW where Jacob was.
"John" did NOT know where Jacob was, and needed Richard to show him. Even as they got to the statue, he says: "Well, it's a wonderful foot, Richard, but what does it have to do with Jacob?" When Richard tells him, you can tell in his face he was surprised to learn of this fact. A fact that "the man in black" would know.
Ben says: "and clearly it hasn't told you where Jacob is, or YOU WOULDN'T NEED RICHARD TO SHOW YOU"
Excellent point, Ben.
When Ben tells him that "the smoke monster" told him to follow and do what John says, "John" was again very surprised to learn of this fact. You also see the look of surprise in his face as he looks down in the hole after Ben just dealt with the smoke monster. If John was the smoke monster, then he would know these things and not be surprised by them.
"the smoke monster" or "Alex", told Ben it was known Ben wanted to kill John, but that he better NOT and better do as John says.
Why would the smoke monster tell Ben not to kill John unless he CAN be killed. And would the smoke monster need to tell Ben not to kill the smoke monster that he wouldn't be able to kill?
Now that Ben thinks "John" is the all powerful smoke monster, Ben has got it out of his mind to try and kill him, and we can go on with the task at hand.
The rule is no other can kill one of their own. Thus why "the man in black" was not able to kill Jacob. And if he is going to pretend to be John, just to go to see Jacob, that would be cheating. And if he was going to cheat, he could just have killed Jacob many years ago.
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There really never was any story being told here at all. Had we seen the finale of the TV series 6 years ago, it wouldn't have mattered.
This was like going through life and just observing things around you every day. Not really a story, but you can tell stories about certain events you have witnessed.
Lost wasn't a story being told, but you can MAKE stories from all the events witnessed from it.
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7-27-2009
Damon Lindelof says the final season will address the origin of the food drop from Season 2.
Jun 2 2009
Carlton Cuse and Damen Lindelof drop hints about how ABC hit drama will end
Among the mysteries unraveled in the very last episode will be the significance of the four-toed statue, and what the Smoke Monster really is.
Says Cuse: "The end of the show will be a combination of trying to answer mysteries the audience still cares about, such as the statue and the Smoke Monster.
11-19-2009
Lindelof: "I can't believe we're going to be able to end the show on our own terms. And there are no excuses. We get to do the ending on our own terms, and hopefully people will like it."
"The questions that count will be answered.”
"All I can say is that we've spent the last five years answering the question, 'Were you guys making it up as you go along?' 'Do you know what you're doing?' It's a great comfort to know that in about six months people will stop asking us that question. They'll go 'Wow, you really had a plan.'"
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This episode was not "two and a half hours"
The final episode ended up being only 1 hour and 42 minutes long when I edited the commercial breaks out.
That leaves 48 minutes of commercials!
That's longer than an entire episode of Lost which is usually 40 minutes.
They could have aired another entire episode in that same time period, with some answers, and still have 8 long minutes left over to play commercials.
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Splodge replied to you
Why are most of your comments removed?
Where are you LZ-128, I'd like to hear your take on the ending?
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posting this for no other reason than to preserve it in cyberspace--this is in El Paso, August, 1984, spysgrandson in loving embrace with his spirit mother, the artist, Zoe Perkins, whose journey here ended 13 years ago, but I have a polaroid pic...and a memory...
This is a picture I took last summer at the Evanston Grand Prix. It's for my challenge group, theme "my favorite pastime." The rider with his hands up is not me, unfortunately (my race was later in the day and it's difficult to race and take pictures at the same time...which is not to say that I won my race...and it's not to say that I never ride and shoot: www.flickr.com/photos/55959716@N08/6706219597/ ).
...posting this set to bring the mood on my stream slowly back to the lovely summerish mood which prevailed since this morning...
Favorirte doors from Greece and Mallorca are grouped this time together, hopefully brightening up again a little the surrounding :)
...have been wanting for quite some time to reprocess and collect some of my favorite doors together and since today was a day completely devoted to working on pictures and on the pc it was a good chance to do it.
Just posting for posterity this plaque documenting the building of the MV Puyallup. Here's a photo from my 2021-06-14 Trip on Edmonds-Kingston. Album link is flic.kr/s/aHsmW2gRpF .
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Posting the previous photo reminded me of this shot taken on a walk along Offa's Dyke Path near Oswestry. It is on the course of the Tanat Valley Light Railway on its Nant Mawr Branch. There is a society hoping to restore and run trains on the line which connects to the Cambrian Railway project but, as ever, it's a case of number of volunteers and the amounts of time they can invest and the amount of money that is available.
Again some old posting, reprocessed and reloaded after the Flickr system corrupted (no longer viewable) the originals!
To see more views, of Tolverne, please click "here"!
Many thousands of troops, tanks and equipment were shipped from specially constructed embarkation points in Cornwall to the beaches of Normandy as part of the Allied invasion of mainland Europe. In Cornwall, embarkation points for the D-Day Normandy landings were sited in and around Falmouth at locations such as Turnaware Point and Tolverne; at Trebah in the Helford estuary and Barn Pool, Mount Edgcumbe, near Plymouth. During June 1944 thousands of American troops, armour, equipment and supplies were ferried from these locations to the battlefields of northern France. The embarkation points were generally inconspicuous features, consisting of a concrete apron, known as a ‘hard’, which sloped down towards the water. Hards were constructed in two parts; in solid concrete above the high water mark, and in flexible concrete matting (concrete slabs hinged with steel hooks) to the lowest limit of the tide. Beyond the hard lay a series of steel-framed moorings known as dolphins. Tolverne Cottage, also known as Smugglers, is a small 500 year old cottage in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated within the civil parish of Philleigh, on the Roseland Peninsula on the River Fal, between Truro and St Mawes, north of King Harry Ferry. Smugglers has always been a part of the historic Tregothnan estate, and was tenanted by the Newman family from 1934 until 2010 when Mr and Mrs Newman retired. Now a prosperous water based business has been re-established at the historic site. The Pugh family set up Kernow Charters in Mylor in 2008 as a skippered yacht charter company specialising in family days out and the company has now expanded to a small fleet offering motorboat charters and bareboat charters at Smugglers in Tolverne. A hub for maritime activities for centuries including a critical role in the build-up to the D-Day landings of 1944, Smugglers has been part of the communications focal point of the Fal area many centuries. The cottage was originally built as a ferryman’s home in the 15th century and will now return to its roots with the Pugh family overseeing boating activities. The yachtsman’s haven will offer managed and serviced moorings, shore side access boatyard customers, car parking, storage, and new facilities to the boating community.
Random postings of photos I have taken over the last few years. Explore the photo set to find other work by the artist or of the same theme or event.
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Posting three more old photos that were taken by my father many years ago, all taken before 1944.
I don't have the date that this photo was taken. All I know is that it was taken before 1944.
Vera Kathleen Bassindale (nee Neal), 1914 -1998
Tom Carden Bassindale, 1907 - 1976
They were married on 4th June 1938.
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For the best part of the last year, I have been posting shots of Kent churches on Twitter, to break up the torrent of horrible news relating to COVID, Brexit and our Dear Leader, and in doing so, I have discovered many churches I visited at the start of the project, needed to redone.
Goudhurst, is, apparently, the highest point in Kent, or so Jools tells me. I will just check that with Wikki: Hmm, it seems not. That is Betsom's Hill north of the M25 near to the border with London. Goudhurst is not even in the top ten.
I can confirm we approached the village along a long hill from a river valley, finally climbing up the narrow high street, getting round the parked cars and finding a space nearly big enough for the car near to the church.
On the other side of the road from the church, a series of very Kent houses and buildings, all decorated with pegtiles, in the Kent fashion, and to the south, the imposing structure of The Star and Eagle Hotel.
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Seen from afar Goudhurst is Kent's answer to Rye - a small hilltop village over which broods the lovely church. Its west tower, dating from the seventeenth century, is rather low, but the honey-coloured sandstone is particularly beautiful here. We enter the church through the tower, and are impressed by the way in which the width and height of the nave and its aisles combine to make such a noble structure. There are two remarkably fine wooden effigies dating from the sixteenth century, carved and painted and set into a purpose-built bay window. Nearby, in the south chapel, the walls are crammed with monuments and there are three brasses, one of which is covered by a stone canopy - not particularly grand but unexpected and functional.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Goudhurst
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GOUDHURST
LIES the next parish southward from Marden. The northern part of it, as far southward as the stream formerly called Risebridge river, which flows from Bedgebury to Hope mill, and a smaller part likewise on the other side of it, adjoining to the rivulet called the Bewle westward, is in the hundred of Marden, and lower division of the lath of Scray; the rest of the parish southward of the first-mentioned stream, is in the hundred of West, alias Little Barnefield, and lath of Aylesford, comprehending the whole of that hundred. So much of this parish as is within the borough of Faircrouch, is in the hundred of Cranbrook; as much as is in the boroughs of Pattenden, Lilsden, Combwell, and Chingley or Bromley, is in the same hundred of West, alias Little Barnefield; and the residue is in the hundred of Marden. It lies wholly within the district of the Weald, and in the division of West Kent.
The borsholders of the boroughs of Highamden, Pattenden, and Hilsden, in this parish, are chosen at the court-leet holden for the manor of East Farleigh, and the inhabitants owe no service but to that manor; only a constable for the hundred of West Barnefield may be chosen out of such parts of them as lay within it for that hundred. The manor of Maidstone likewise extends into this parish, over lands as far southward as Rise-bridge.
THE PARISH OF GOUDHURST is very pleasantly situated, being interspersed on every side with frequent hill and dale. The trees in it are oak, of a large size, and in great plenty throughout it, as well in the woods, as broad hedge-rows and shaves round the fields. The lands are in general very fertile; the soil, like the adjoining parishes, is mostly a deep stiff clay; being heavy tillage land, but it has the advantage of a great deal of rich marle at different places, and in some few parts sand, with which the roads are in general covered; and in the grounds near Finchcocks, there is a gravel-pit, which is the only one, I believe, in this part of the county. There is much more pasture than arable land in it, the former being mostly fatting lands, bullocks fatted on them weighing in general from 120 to 130 stone. It is well watered with several streams in different parts of it, all which uniting with the Teis, flow in one channel, along the western side of this parish, towards the Medway. The eastern and southern parts of it are much covered with thick coppice wood, mostly of oak. The turnpike road from Maidstone over Cocksheath through Marden, leads through the upper part of this parish southward, dividing into two branches at Winchethill; that to the left goes on to Comborne, and leaving the town of Goudhurst a little to the right, joins the Cranbrooke road a little beyond it. That to the right, having taken into it a branch of the Woodgate road from Tunbridge, near Broadford-bridge, goes on to the town of Goudhurst, and thence eastward to Cranbrooke and Tenterden; and the great high road from Lamberhurst through Stonecrouch to Hawkhurst, and into Sussex, south-east, goes along the southern bounds of this parish.
The parish is about eight miles long and four broad. There are about three hundred houses in it, and somewhat more than five inhabitants to a house. It is very healthy; sixty years of age being esteemed, if not the prime, at least the middle age of life; the inhabitants of these parts being in great measure untainted with the vices and dissipation too frequently practised above the hill.
There are two heaths or commons here; the one called Pyles-health, and the other Killdown, in West Barnefield hundred.
THE TOWN, or village of Goudhurst, stands in the hundred of Marden, about half a mile within the lower or southern bounds of it, on an hill, commanding an extensive view of the country all around it. It is not paved, but is built on the sides of five different roads which unite at a large pond in the middle of it. The houses are mostly large, antient and well-timbered, like the rest of those in this neighbourhood, one of them, called Brickwall, belongs to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bathurst. Within memory there were many clothiers here, but there are none now. There is some little of the woolstapling business yet carried on.
On the summit of the hill, on which the town stands, is the church, a conspicuous object to the neighbouring country, and near it was the marketplace, which was pulled down about the year 1650, and the present small one built lower down, at the broad place in the town near the pond. The market was held on a Wednesday weekly, for cattle, provisions, &c. till within memory; it is now entirely disused, there is a fair held yearly in the town, upon the day of the assumption of our lady, being August 26, for cattle, hardware, toys, &c. This market and fair were granted in the year of king Richard II. to Joane, widow of Roger de Bedgebury, the possessors of which estate claim at this time the privilege of holding them, by a yearly rent to the manor of Marden.
At the hamlet of Stonecrouch is a post-office of very considerable account, its district extending to Goudhurst, Cranbrooke, Tenterden, Winchelsea, Rye, and Hastings, and all the intermediate and adjoining places, to which letters are directed by this Stonecrouch bag.
ALMOST adjoining to the town eastward, on the road leading to Tenterden, there is A HAMLET, called LITTLE GOUDHURST, in which there is an antient seat, called TAYWELL, which for many generations was possessed by a family of the name of Lake, who bore for their arms, Sable, a bend between six crosscroslets, fitchee, argent. In the north isle of this church, under which is a vault, in which this family lie buried, there is a marble, on which is a descent of them. The last of them, Thomas Lake, esq. barrister-at-law, resided here, but dying without issue male, his daughters and coheirs became possessed of it; one of whom married Maximilian Gott, esq. and the other Thomas Hussey, esq. whose son Edward Hussey, esq. of Scotney, now possesses the entire see of this estate, which is demised for a long term of years to Mr. Olive, who has almost rebuilt it, and resides in it.
AT A SMALL DISTANCE southward from the abovementioned seat, is another, called TRIGGS, which was for several descents the residence of the Stringers, a family of good account in the different parts of this county. John Stringer, esq. son of Edward Stringer, of Biddenden, by Phillis his wife, daughter of George Holland, gent. resided here in king Charles I.'s reign, and married Susanna, daughter of Stephen Streeter, of Goudhurst, by whom he had Stephen, of Goudhurst; John, gent. of Ashford, who left a daughter and heir Mary, married to Anthony Irby, esq. Edward and Thomas, both of Goudhurst; the latter left two sons. Thomas and Edward, and a daughter Catherine, who married William Belcher, M. D. by whom the had Stringer Belcher, and other children. The Stringers bore for their arms, Per chevron, or, and sable, in chief two eagles displayed of the second, in the base a fleur de lis of the first.
Stephen Stringer, the eldest son of John, resided at Triggs in the reign of king Charles II. and was succeeded in it by his second son Stephen Stringer, esq. who kept his shrievalty here in the 6th year of queen Anne. He died without male issue, leaving by Jane his wife, daughter of John Austen, esq. of Broadford, four daughters his coheirs, Jane, married to Thomas Weston, of Cranbrooke; Hannah to William Monk, of Buckingham. in Sussex, whose eldest daughter and coheir married Thomas Knight, esq. of Godmersham; Elizabeth married Edward Bathurst, esq. of Finchcocks, and Anne married John Kirril, esq. of Sevenoke. (fn. 1) This seat was afterwards alienated to Francis Austen, esq. of Sevenoke, whose son Francis Mottley Austen, esq. of Sevenoke, is the present owner of it.
THE MANOR OF MARDEN claims over the greatest part of this parish; part of it, being the dens beforementioned, are within the manor of East Farleigh, and the remaining part, called Wincehurst-den, is within the manor of Gillingham, near Chatham. Although that part of this parish which lies within the hundred of West Barnefield, being the most southern part of it, contains those places which are of, by far, the greatest note in it, yet, for the sake of regularity in my description, I shall begin with those in the hundred of Marden, partly already described, and having finished that, proceed next to the hundred of West Barnefield, and the matters worthy of notice in it.
BOKINFOLD is a manor of large extent, situated in the hundred of Marden, having formerly a large park and demesnes belonging to it, which extended into the parishes of Brenchley, Horsemonden, Yalding, Marden, and Goudhurst, the house of it being situated in that of Yalding, in the description of which parish the reader will find an ample account of the former state and possessors of it. (fn. 2) It will, therefore, be sufficient to mention here, in addition to it, that the whole of this manor coming at length into the possession of Sir Alexander Colepeper. He in the 3d year of queen Elizabeth levied a fine of it, and three years afterwards alienated that part of this manor, and all the demesnes of it which lay in Brenchley, Horsemonden, Yalding, and Marden, to Roger Revell, as has been mentioned under the parish of Yalding, and THE REMAINDER OF IT in this parish, held of the manor of Marden, to Sharpeigh, whose descendant Stephen Sharpeigh passed that part of it away in 1582, to Richard Reynolds, whose son and heir John Reynolds, about the 41st year of queen Elizabeth, conveyed it to Richard Eliot, and he, about the year 1601, alienated it to Thomas Girdler, who the next year sold it to John Reynolds, and he, in the 5th year of king James, transmitted it to John Beale, who, about 1609, passed it away to John Harleston, of Ickham, and he settled it by will on Richard Harleston, who in like manner devised it to his kinsman Richard Bishop, and he, soon after the death of king Charles I. sold it to Mr. Stephen Stringer, of Triggs, in Goudhurst, whose son, of the same name, was sheriff anno 6 queen Anne, and left five daughters his coheirs, of whom Elizabeth, the third, married Edward Bathurst, esq. of Finchcocks, and on the division of their inheritance, he, in her right, became possessed of this manor. He died in 1772, upon which this estate came to his son, the Rev. Thomas Bathurst, rector of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, the present owner of it. A court baron is regularly held for this manor.
In 1641 the archbishop collated Richard Amhurst, clerk, to the free chapels of Bockinfold and Newsted annexed, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury, then vacant and of his patronage. (fn. 3)
COMBORNE is an estate, situated in the northernmost part of this parish, adjoining to Winchet-hill, in the hundred of Marden likewise; which place of Winchet-hill was antiently the original seat in this county, of the family of Roberts, of Glassenbury.
An ancestor of this family, William Rookherst, a gentleman of Scotland, left his native country, and came into England in the 3d year of king Henry I. and had afterwards the surname of Roberts, having purchased lands at Winchet-hill, on which he built himself a mansion, calling it Rookherst, after himself. This place came afterwards to be called Ladiesden Rokehurst, alias Curtesden, and continued the residence of this family till the reign of king Richard II. when Stephen Roberts, alias Rookherst, marrying Joane, the daughter and heir of William Tilley, of Glassenbury, removed thither, and the remains of their residence here are so totally effaced, as to be known only by the family evidences, and the report of the neighbourhood.
But their estate at Winchet-hill continued several generations afterwards in their descendants, till it was at length alienated to one of the family of Maplesden, of Marden, in whose descendants this estate, together with that of Comborne adjoining, continued down to Edward Maplesden; esq. of the Middle Temple, who died in 1755, s. p. and intestate. Upon which they descended to Alexander Courthope, esq. of Horsemonden, the son of his sister Catherine, and to Charles Booth, esq. the grandson of his sister Anne, as his coheirs in gavelkind, and on a partition of those estates between them, Winchet-hill was allotted to Charles Booth, esq. afterwards Sir Charles Booth, of Harrietsham-place, who died possessed of it, s. p. in 1795, and his devisees, for the purposes of his will, are now in the possession of it; but Comborne was allotted to Alexander Courthope, esq. since deceased, whose nephew John Cole, esq. now possesses it.
FINCHCOCKS is a feat in this parish, situated within the hundred of Marden, in that angle of it which extends south-westward below Hope mill, and is likewise within that manor. It was formerly of note for being the mansion of a family of the same surname, who were possessed of it as early as the 40th year of Henry III. They were succeeded in it by the family of Horden, of Horden, who became proprietors of it by purchase in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, one of whom was Edward Horden, esq. clerk of the green cloth to king Edward VI. queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth, who had, for some considerable service to the crown, the augmentation of a regal diadem, added to his paternal coat by queen Elizabeth. He left two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth, married to Mr. Paul Bathurst, of Bathurst-street, in Nordiam, and Mary to Mr. Delves, of Fletchings, who had Horden for his share of the inheritance, as the other had this of Finchcocks. He was descended from Laurence Bathurst, of Canterbury, who held lands there and in Cranbrooke, whose son of the same name, left three sons, of whom Edward, the eldest, was of Staplehurst, and was ancestor of the Bathursts, of Franks, in this county, now extinct, (fn. 4) of the earls Bathurst, and those of Clarenden-park, in Wiltshire, and Lydney, in Gloucestershire; Robert Bathurst, the second, was of Horsemonden; and John, the third son, was ancestor of the Bathursts, of Ockham, in Hampshire. Robert Bathurst, of Horsemonden above-mentioned, by his first wife had John, from whom came the Bathursts, of Lechlade, in Gloucestershire, and baronets; and Paul, who was of Nordiam, and afterwards possessor of Finchcocks, from whose great-grandson William, who was a merchant in London, descended the Bathursts, of Edmonton, in Middlesex. By his second wife he had John, who was of Goudhurst, ancestor of the Bathursts, of Richmond, in Yorkshire. In the descendants of Paul Bathurst before-mentioned, this seat continued down to Thomas Bathurst, esq. who by his will devised this seat and estate to his nephew Edward, only son of his younger brother William, of Wilmington, who leaving his residence there on having this seat devised to him, removed hither, and rebuilt this seat, at a great expence, in a most stately manner. He resided here till his death in 1772, having been twice married, and leaving several children by each of his wives. By his first wife Elizabeth, third daughter and coheir of Stephen Stringer, esq. of Triggs, he had three sons, Edward, who left a daughter Dorothy, now unmarried, and John and Thomas, both fellows of All Souls college, in Oxford, the latter of whom is now rector of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire. Before his death he conveyed this seat and estate by sale to his son by his second wife, Mr. Charles Bathurst, who on his decease in 1767, s. p. devised it by will to his brother, the Rev. Mr. Richard Bathurst, now of Rochester, the present possessor of it. This branch of the family of Bathurst. bore for their arms the same coat as those of Franks, in this county, and those of Cirencester, Lydney, and Clarendon, viz. Sable, two bars, ermine, in chief three crosses pattee, or, with a crescent for difference; but with a different crest, viz. Party per fess, and pale, a demi wolf argent, and sable, holding a regal crown, or; which I take to be that borne by Edward Horden, whose heir Paul Bathurst, their ancestor, married, and whose coat of arms they likewise quartered with their own.
¶AT NO GREAT DISTANCE from Finchcocks, in the same hundred, lies a capital messuage, called RISEDEN, alias GATEHOUSE, which formerly belonged to a family named Sabbe, one of whom, Simon Sabbe, sold it, before the middle of the last century, to Mr. Robert Bathurst, from whom it descended down, with an adjoining estate, called TRILLINGHERST, to another Robert Bathurst, who died in 1731, and lies buried in this church, whose daughter Mary sold them both to Sir Horace Mann, bart. the present possessor of them.
Posting a few more from last month's Lapland trip... female and juvenile. Seen through the window of a cafe with an incredible range of feeding stations, so many birds all in one place.
Posting this so that Rosy can see how beautiful and non-fierce Nicholas looks. He was looking up at a treat that my Mom had in her hand. He was covered in rainbows from some crystal things and a stained glass piece in the window...but the photos with the good rainbows were a little blown out.
I'm posting this as just a short intro to the newest addition to my camera bag: the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM for Canon.
If I had to sum this lens up in only one word it would be: impressive.
This shot was taken right after opening it, and straight out of the box I was impressed by it's weight, feel, look, and build quality. I'm proud to tell people I spent about a grand on an aftermarket lens, and I'm not afraid to say it's a Sigma either. I don't care much for their other lenses, but what Sigma has in store for the near future can only be up to these standards (I'd hope).
But don't take my word for it, view this image at 100% and FIND something to complain about. There was VERY minimal editing done to this image, and it was shot at f/1.6... and wide open at f/1.4 it's just as sharp (I've already used it for a wedding and couldn't be happier with the wide open shots) As you can see, stopping it down only slightly makes for TACK sharpness, and still makes for impressive out-of-focus areas, or "bokeh". As you can see, every single eyelash is identifiable, and then by the time we get the top top of my hair, we already have smooth and creamy bokeh.
I did not buy this lens because I couldn't afford the Canon 35L lens. I bought the Sigma because the Canon version is much less impressive, notably softer -especially wide open, focuses worse and slower... and the Sigma just has better glass inside it, and gives a cleaner image. And I'm positive once I get the USB adapter to "fine tune" my lens, it will be the main lens I use. Apparently Sigma has software that allow you to choose "closer focus priority" to avoid back-focusing, and you can loosen the play in your focus ring, adjust AF speed, and a few other things. My only SLIGHT complaint was how slow the focusing was manually, but I'm positive once it's adjusted I'll have no issues.
I recommend this lens to anyone who's looking for a top-performing 35mm full frame fast lens. But let it be known, one of my dream lenses will always still be the Voigtlander 35/1.2, and if Canon ever made a 35mm f/1.0L USM, I'd pay 3 grand for it immediately.
UPDATE AS OF OCTOBER 2013: After shooting many, many shows/concerts and weddings with the Sigma -I can't wait to replace it with the new Canon 35mm f1.4 L Mark II. The Sigma may be "sharp" and have several ED-correcting elements, but the vignetting is so awful that I'm literally not getting an even exposure edge-to-edge; which brings up huge problems when shooting film (especially slide film), shooting wide open, shooting in high-contrast situations.... etc... basically any time a quality lens is needed, this thing lets me down with the vignetting. I blame the bulbous and extremely convex front element, however I don't really know why the vignetting is so bad. There' have been multiple occurrences where it's made me lose a shot and unable to fully recover corner detail in my shadow areas, or it's caused the center of my image to be overexposed by a couple stops. (Yes, a COUPLE)
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Posting three snaps from in the yard yesterday.Our Krazee girl Suki decided the trash pan was a good place to have a nap:))
I think it would make a good poster for the plight of so many throw away animals in our society today..."I am not trash..."
many old stamps the oldest being Christmas 1980 also 1991, 1993, 1996, 2000 and a couple not from Christmas time. Oh and definitives from Wales & Northern Ireland. I did lots more envelopes than this, many with the 4 from 1980 and the 8p + 8p + 2x17.5p 1980
And since this photo I've used an Andy Goldsworthy from 2003 [apparently, according to my local post office, they were not very popular] and a Glastonbury Thorn from 1986
I am posting this photo just as a record of having seen this Bobolink yesterday, 16 June 2017. With a lot of luck, maybe I can get a better shot eventually - with a lot of patience, too! These birds are rarely seen, so it is nice to get any kind of photo. I did fairly well a year ago, luckily.
"Perched on a grass stem or displaying in flight over a field, breeding male Bobolinks are striking. No other North American bird has a white back and black underparts (some have described this look as wearing a tuxedo backwards).
Added to this are the male’s rich, straw-colored patch on the head and his bubbling, virtuosic song. As summer ends he molts into a buff and brown female-like plumage. Though they’re still fairly common in grasslands, Bobolink numbers are declining." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bobolink/id
"The Bobolink inhabits Canada's grassland and agricultural areas from the interior of British Columbia to the east coast. Relative to 1970 levels, this species has shown a large decrease across most of its range, with the exception of the Prairie Potholes Bird Conservation Region where populations have changed little. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada assessed the Bobolink as Threatened in 2010 (COSEWIC 2010d). This species has been identified as a priority for conservation and/or stewardship in one or more Bird Conservation Region Strategies in Canada."
www.ec.gc.ca/soc-sbc/oiseau-bird-eng.aspx?sY=2014&sL=...
Yesterday morning, I decided to join friends for a botany walk in North Weaselhead. We saw a good variety of species, including a few quite special ones, such as Striped Coralroot (orchid) and Indian Breadroot. Thanks for a great walk, Barry! We also saw a tiny Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
After going for coffee with a couple of the botany people (thanks so much, Peter!), I went home for lunch and then decided to drive SW of the city, in the hope of maybe seeing a Great Gray Owl and/or a Bobolink. No luck with an owl, but, with a lot of patience, I did finally see a Bobolink. I only had very distant views, so managed to get only photos to post for my records. I did better a year ago, but it is early still.
It was so nice to bump into Bonnie and her neighbour, Russel(l), on my drive. They mentioned a road that I had never been on before and I decided to give it a try. Such a beautiful road, though I had no idea where I was the whole time. When I got home and checked on Google, I was surprised to see just where I had driven.
Stagecoach Road ~MP 152
On the evening of Monday August 20, 2018, and into the morning of the next day, a storm system moved across southern Wisconsin, dropping as much as 15.3 inches of rain in western Dane County.
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad's Prairie Subdivision follows Black Earth Creek between Middleton and Arena, a distance of about 19 miles, including 13 crossings. With the major flooding of the creek and low-lying areas, WSOR sustained massive damage to the line, including dozens of washouts and several landslides.
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Finally, I have finished posting photos taken on the Distinguished Gentlemans Drive 2025! Apologies to any owner/driver that I may have missed. I have several photos taken after all the cars departed for their final location, and my daughter and I took a few photos along the back roads on the way back to the city.
Not sure what time I will have in the next week or two for editing and posting photos. Today, 10 October 2025, I had to replace my 12-year-old computer that had WIndows 10 on it. It was time to buy a new one that has WIndows 11. Support for Windows 10 users comes to an end on 14 (?) October. I definitely am not looking forward to this huge change and will be SO relieved when it is all sorted out and running smoothly. I have quite a bit of backing up to external drives to do first.
These photos were taken on 28 September 2025, when my daughter and I drove SW of the city for a very special reason. It was the day for the fifth annual Distinguished Gentleman's Drive! We went last year for the very first time and I've really been looking forward to this year's event. These special drives are held in cities around the world. As well as enjoying seeing the 37 beautiful old cars and trucks that were taking part, we also saw several Red-tailed Hawks and old barns/homestead in the area. I have added a link to the 2024 event in a comment box below.
Driving for men's health:
"The Distinguished Gentleman's Drive is dedicated to raising funds and awareness for men's health. Specifically, we and Movember are working together to combat prostate cancer and mental health impacting men all around the world. The funds we raise build vital programs and fund life-saving research, as we encourage those close to us to take care of themselves, the same way we care for our cars."
Growing up in Birmingham, England, till I was 22, (but then leaving to live overseas in a few countries), I spent time around old things, mainly old steam trains, steam rollers, steam tractors, etc.. My father was always a passionate photographer. He took so many photos of me (and my brother), but also of the old trains and so on. After he died in 1976 at the age of 69, and then my mother in 1998 and my brother a few years after that, amazing, long-time friends in England went through all my parents and brother's belongings and shipped a lot of special things to me here in Canada. Amongst them were my father's old cameras and even a few of mine starting from when I was around 11 years old, if not earlier. Several old photo albums and many loose photos and slides were also so gratefully received by me. Lots of photos of the old steam trains, steam tractors, and other things. A huge number of photos were donated (by my friends) to various Museums, Midlands Archive place, etc..
So, I have grown up with a real interest in old things. The chance to see and photograph a group of beautiful classic cars could not be missed. I had wanted to do this for a few years, but the larger old car shows seem to be huge, with far too many people for my liking. This special event was much smaller and so relaxed and enjoyable, though we only had about 15 minutes in which to take our photos before the cars left for their final destination.
Posting a Monorail Monday shot from the west coast today. Feels weird. I really like though that in Disneyland, people can still ride up front, as opposed to WDW where that will probably never happen again. Thanks for looking', and have a great day!!
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Since posting this it has emerged that the vaulting seen here above the rose window has partially collapsed but thankfully the rose itself is safe.
The interior of one of the most famous cathedrals anywhere, Notre Dame de Paris. It is a stunning example of early French Gothic and dates largely from the latter half of the 12th century (apparent in the austerity of the interior) whilst the exterior betrays more the embellishment of the following century.
The cathedral was badly neglected during the Revoultion and needed a thorough restoration in the mid 19th century under the guidance of Viollet le Duc, to whom must be credited much of the cathedral's present appearance.
Unfortunately my shots of the gloomy interior weren't too successful!
I have uploaded a few more regardless to augment my set in the aftermath of the devastating fire at the cathedral on April 15th 2019.
Posting for the Monday Photo Challenge Group. We were to shoot something at 7 o'clock. I am at work at 7 PM and don't leave until after 7 Am, so I shot my desk. It is cleaner in this picture than it usually is! Not very exciting, I'm afraid.
Posting from this series after a long time..
Early morning at Kolkata's famous wasteland - Dhapa, situated in the eastern periphery of the city. You can get to see the dumping hillock at the far end.
Shot on Ilford Pan F Plus @ ISO 40, Pt-Pd toning in PS.
Kinnaird Lighthouse is located in Fraserburgh Scotland, I have had it on my places to visit list for a number of years , today 13th November 2018 , I finally ticked that box.
Posting a few of my photos that I captured on the day to archive my visit.
Location - Kinnaird Head Lighthouse - Fraserburgh Scotland - 2018
Year first constructed1787 (first) 1824 (second)
Constructionstone tower (second) fiber glass (current)
Tower shapecylindrical tower with balcony and lantern rising from a castle , cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / patternwhite tower, black lantern, ochre trim white tower and lantern.
Tower height22 metres (72 ft)
10 metres (33 ft) (
Focal height25 metres (82 ft)
Intensity690,000 candela
Range22 nautical miles (41 km; 25 mi)
CharacteristicF. W 5s.
Fog signal - siren: discontinued
Admiralty numberA3332
NGA number2808
ARLHS numberSCO-113 (second)
SCO-112 (current)
Managing agentMuseum of
Kinaird Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on Kinnaird Head, in Fraserburgh, Scotland.
The current light is the second to be built on the headland, superseding the original which now forms part of the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
History
The original light at Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was established by Thomas Smith on 1 December 1787.
A lantern was set 120 feet (37 m) above the sea on a tower of the old castle
Whale oil lamps produced a fixed light, each backed by a parabolic reflector. Kinnaird Head was the most powerful light of its time, and contained 17 reflectors arranged in 3 horizontal tiers. It was reported to be visible from 12 to 14 miles (10 to 12 nmi; 19 to 23 km).
In 1824, internal alternations were made to construct a new lighthouse tower through the original castle tower. This tower supported a new lantern and reflector array by Robert Stevenson (civil engineer).
In 1851 Robert's son, Alan Stevenson, installed a first order dioptric lens at Kinnaird Head. The lens was standing and gave a fixed character. The site was further improved in 1853 with the site's first purpose built accommodation blocks designed by brothers David and Thomas Stevenson.
David Alan Stevenson further upgraded the site in 1902 by installing a flashing lens apparatus.
The hyperradiant fresnel lens gave one flash every fifteen seconds and was visible for 25-27 miles. The lens was designed by David and his brother Charles Alexander Stevenson, and was made by the Chance Brothers.
Only nine Scottish lights were given hyperradials, Hyskeir and Kinnaird Head being the only stations to retain their hyperradials today. A foghorn was also built and was operational from 1903 giving a 7-second blast every 90 seconds.
In 1906 the light was converted to incandescent operation. In 1929 Kinnaird Head became home to the first radio beacon in Scotland.
The Fog Signal was discontinued in 1987, although the horn is still in place. The original lighthouse is no longer operational and is now home to The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. A new automatic light was established beside the original light in 1991.
In 2012 the old Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was lit for two anniversary celebrations. First, on 2 June 2012 the light was exhibited in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
This coincided with the lighting of the NLB's Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacon at Kinnaird Head Lighthouse. Secondly, the light was exhibited on 1 December 2012 in celebration of Kinnaird Head's 225th anniversary. The light was lit at 3.31pm, and extinguished at 8.30am the next morning, marking a full 17-hour shift.
On that occasion Kinnaird Head was the only manned lighthouse in the British Isles, albeit outwith NLB service. Both events were organised by the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
I loathe fly-posting on litter bins, lampposts, windows and other street furniture. That applies to campaigns which I personally support.
But I also understand the frustration of local residents who see their taxes abused by Haringey Council. With public money routinely wasted on shameless one-sided propaganda.
In this case, the Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV). A so-called "partnership" which - if it goes ahead - will lead to demolition of publicly-owned homes, schools and many business premises. With large-scale displacement of residents and weakening of local communities.
We need new and workable agreements and rules about Freedom of Speech and places and spaces where opposing views can be freely debated.
Unfortunately, in Haringey my own local borough, Council democracy is seriously weakened. There is an undue influence of fear, threats, punishments and rewards. There are undemocratic mechanisms of surveillance and reporting by Party "whips". Attempts to secure the appearance of unity, stifle free speech, and enforce silence on anyone who might disagree.
All within a bureaucratic structure which controls large sums of public cash and funds communication tools used to encourage acceptance of the official 'line'. This may be presented as "Reality", in contrast to the views of critics which may be misrepresented and labelled as "Myths" to be "busted".
The link above illustrates a good example. It takes you to a four-page A4 leaflet in full colour described as "Tottenham News". It was written, published and printed by Haringey Council, which also spent public funds to ensure a door-to-door distribution.
Some of the content is actually news. Two items are advertising: for a business called 'Create'; and another named 'Five Miles'. However, the entire back page is the misuse of public funds for political propaganda about the Haringey Development Vehicle.
§ Department for Communities and Local Government.
● Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity.
● Explanatory Memorandum on the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity.
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Below: Extracts from the U.S. Supreme Court judgement of Justice Louis Brandeis in the Supreme Court case of Whitney v. California.
“If there time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evils by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that, in its government, the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end, and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness, and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that, without free speech and assembly, discussion would be futile; that, with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty, and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. They recognized the risks to which all human institutions are subject. But they knew that order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies, and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones. Believing in the power of reason as applied through public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by law -- the argument of force in its worst form. Recognizing the occasional tyrannies of governing majorities, they amended the Constitution so that free speech and assembly should be guaranteed."
Posting for FILM26:
Film only Film. There are 26 two week periods in a year...and 26 letters in the alphabet. Every two weeks we will use the corresponding letter of the alphabet as our inspiration. Either take a photo of the letter itself or choose a word that begins with the letter as inspiration for your photo.
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