Rune Soup Archonology series

[operator kos]

Although it's been linked to in a number of other threads, I think this series of blog posts deserves its own dedicated thread. Some Rune Soup posts I find much more interesting than others, but this series in particular is excellent IMO. It's a combination of rigorously intuitive woo and speculation mixed with informed history and modern news-combing.

Archonology Index
Things That Persist: Archonology Part 1
While We Pray for a Long Summer: Archonology Part 2
Spook Tech: Archonology Part 3
The Money: Archonology Part 4
Collaborators: Archonology Part 5
The Weapon of the Enemy: Archonology Part 6
Knives in the Dark: Archonology Part 7

I've reformatted this post to include the above links for easy reference to everything that's been posted thus far. You really need all of the embedded links and videos to get a full appreciation for the information anyways. I'd be quite interested in hearing other RI'ers take on the material.

[slimmouse]

Thats a great article OK, thanks.

Im not quite sure he's got it right about Diana though.

I reckon thats a story that gets a lot, lot deeper.

Which is of course just my own two cents

[cptmarginal]

Thanks for the heads-up, I was just reading some Rune Soup articles a few nights ago. And yeah, I was turned on to his site by endorsements from RI contributors such as Wombaticus Rex

[kelley]

^likewise. read part 7 earlier this week. it's a tremendous series and the entire site is fascinating. great stuff all around and excellent stand-alone work that should possibly become an indispensable supplement to jeff's writing.

[Hammer of Los]

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I've dipped into his site a couple of times myself.

It's lively writing and interesting content.

Gordon's bookmarked.

I'm not really down with the whole Archon thing, exactly, though.

Is that controversial?

What is the difference between literal and metaphorical?
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[seemslikeadream]

RI was created to be an indispensable supplement to jeff's writing.

lost our way?



being pushed to the side?

there was a time when there was practically nothing too wooooy for RI

now all we get is shame

[coffin_dodger]

What a great site Runesoup is. Thanks Elf.

[slimmouse]

What a great site Runesoup is. Thanks Elf.

Should that not read Operator Kos?

Not that I dont wholly agree CD, and perhaps I was being a tad crass in my earlier analysis of what is a truly excellent read.

Some of the many hard researched facts in there are simply stand out gems in and of themselves.

[coffin_dodger]

What a great site Runesoup is. Thanks Elf.

Should that not read Operator Kos?

Not that I dont wholly agree CD, and perhaps I was being a tad crass in my earlier analysis of what is a truly excellent read.

Some of the many hard researched facts in there are simply stand out gems in and of themselves.

Sorry! Thanks Kos.

[operator kos]

Sorry! Thanks Kos.

Hey, being confused with the eminent Elf isn't an insult.

Anyways, here are a few random thoughts on the series... I'm open to all of the possibilities that the author Gordon brings up in the series, right up to literal archons using us as cattle. I tend to be a little more hard-nosed and agnostic about certain things that he presents as undisputed facts, like the success of government psi experiments. It might seem like I'm being picky about wording, but I do think it's important to check your gut feelings with a healthy does of skepticism when you're delving into this sort of material. I suspect that there is something to psi phenomena, but the scant records available from a single dodgy government program are hardly proof in other words.

There are a few areas where I strongly disagree with the author, his siding with beam weapon theories for the destruction of the WTC probably being the most glaring example. But at least he has a sense of humor about it, and acknowledges that he's on the "fringe of the fringe" with that one, rather than screaming about Richard Gage and Steven Jones being shills like many in the Judy Woods camp are prone to do.

Overall, obviously, I'm a big fan.

[KUAN]

Thanks kos, Rune Soup is one that I bookmarked but haven't been back to in a while so it was good to be reminded.
I had a chat with him via email a while back about what I saw as similarities between the Easter Island statues and the way the Moriori of the Chathham Islands buried their dead, (head above ground, looking out to sea).
He writes v. well and is open to the mystical, like our Jeff.

[operator kos]

Just a quick mention that this series is still ongoing...

Fate of Empire: Archonology Part 8
Dispatches from the Front: Archonology Part 9
Force Majeure: Archonology Part 10

[BrandonD]

RI was created to be an indispensable supplement to jeff's writing.

lost our way?



being pushed to the side?

there was a time when there was practically nothing too wooooy for RI

now all we get is shame

Unfortunately that seems to be inevitable with any site that entertains unconventional ideas. The normalizing effects of culture and its pressure to conform are a powerful influence upon us - whether we like it or not - and without an acknowledged authority to "validate" unusual ideas for us, we tend to succumb.

[identity]

Thank you for the reminder to check out the latest additions!

My only criticism of the site is that it's a shame – given the obvious care/trouble he goes to with text formatting and images – that he does not give more screen real estate to the main content field, and instead allows the site banner and navigation menu to consume 2/5ths of the screen, when it could easily be reduced to less than half of that. The content field could also be filled out more horizontally. (I tend to enlarge text for easy reading at a distance, so there is usually no more than 1 to 1.5 paragraphs onscreen for me at a time there, which feels unnecessarily cramped and constricted, and fragments the text -> image relationship.)

[KUAN]

^^^ Agree, most disconcerting...