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COVID19, Transhumanism, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, and The Great Reset

These topics are being discussed all over world right now, as humanity is slowly becoming aware that we are being herded, like livestock, into The New World Order. We’re being prodded, poked, and jostled into a global authoritarian system. It was agreed upon a long time ago by The Powers That Be, that humankind is not fit to govern itself. They’ve allowed some of us to exist within false democracies, and provided the illusion of control, until they were ready to take complete control. That time is nearly upon us. I wanted to take some time to break down what we know (what’s been revealed to us) about the New World Order being built around us currently.
Transhumanism was a new word for me, until I first dived down the Pandemic rabbit hole. A quick internet search for the term brings us the standard definition:
“The belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology.“
Doesn’t sound all that bad. Many would argue that humankind is already on this path with the evolution of computing technology in recent decades, and they would be right. The transhumanism being discussed by the elite, however, has a nefarious purpose. Its being sold to us under the guise of inclusion, sustainability, and fairness for all. Make no mistake, the subjugation of humanity is the end goal. The 99% is to be transformed into a docile obedient slave class, more sub-human than trans-human, in order to serve the self appointed rulers of the human race. The transformation has already begun. So how does the manufactured COVID19 crisis tie into the transhumanist endgame? Let’s look to the work of World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab, for the answer.
“Advances in digital technologies and new materials over the last 20 years have enabled forward leaps in areas such as the understanding of genomes, genetic engineering, diagnostics and pharmaceutical development. Like fire in ancient Greek mythology, stolen from the gods by Prometheus and given to humans, the power represented by biotechnology is sometimes portrayed as a civilizational leap for humankind.“
“ …the ability to ‘read and write to’ the brain heralds new industries and systems for value creation, which will have deep social, political and economic impacts…our brains are at the core of what makes us human—they enable us to perceive and make sense of the world, to learn, imagine, dream and interact with others. Influencing the brain in more precise ways could change our sense of self, redefine what it means to have experiences and fundamentally alter what constitutes reality. By affecting how we govern ourselves, the system management of human existence, brain science encourages a huge step for humans beyond natural evolution.”
Those were excerpts from Klaus’ book “Shaping The Future Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution”. {You can obtain a copy to read yourself here} The second quote is from a chapter titled neurotechnologies, in section 2.3 Altering The Human Being. Think of Klaus Schwab as the spokesperson for The Great Reset. Is he the grand mastermind behind the entire NWO? probably not, but he is certainly involved, and he’s been pretty vocal about it. In his other book, COVID19: The Great Reset, Klaus lays out exactly what his vision of an ideal world looks like. More on that very soon.
Let’s return to our current situation, the Pandemic Crisis. Mankind is being manipulated on a never before seen scale. Across all national borders, every continent, every single individual, is being made to fear their own fellow man. We’re being socially conditioned to believe that every other person we encounter is a potential threat to our lives and the lives of our loved ones. We’re are being taught that we need to lesson physical social interaction (Unless you’re on TV) in order to save lives. We’re being deceived into rewriting our own “social contract” of what it means to be human, and in doing so, consenting to subjugation. The real issue here is not the virus itself, but the precedent that is being set.
If every single person is potentially a carrier for an extremely contagious, potentially deadly or symptom-less virus, it creates a state of general mistrust of others. You never know who might have the virus. The solution is to monitor every individuals location and contacts, as well as health status with tests. All citizens are encouraged to stay home as much as possible. They are discouraged to spend time with family on holidays. Medical masks are mandated everywhere you go in public, even though their is clearly no correlation whatsoever between mask wearing and the spread of the virus. I could write an article about masks alone. How they are useless, they don’t stop the spread of anything, they’re uncomfortable, inconvenient, and besides all the general complaints, they anonymize every individual, making facial expressions more difficult to read. Babies learn to empathize and recognize emotions by seeing their parents faces. Masks will surely negatively impact this process. Above all, masks are dehumanizing. They are a symbol of the slave class, a muzzle. Masks are essential to the Scamdemic because they make it real. They provide tangible evidence that we are living in a Pandemic. As event 201 clearly displays, the exact rules and regulations for COVID, including mask wearing, were planned down to the last detail years in advance. What we can learn from this, is that the elite are training us, not unlike how you might train your own pet. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, as described by Schwab, is a new chapter in human development.
Many hard working members of the middle class have heard the rumors or robotics and automation replacing human labor. More and more jobs, particularly in manufacturing, will be done by robots. As Artificial intelligence technology matures, human computer interaction becomes almost as natural as talking to a person. Imagine a world where this technology replaces people you see every day. People working at the gas stations, hotels, retail stores, fast food drive-throughs, restaurants. The fourth industrial revolution is planned to keep physical contact between people to the bare minimum (as well as make labor as cheap as possible). With the advent of the manufactured health crisis, we now have the perfect excuse to fully implement the proposed system.
A New World Order means the 99% are being lorded over by the 1%, who have obtained absolute power. The fourth industrial revolution is a facet of the NWO, it’s the more powerful and more present role of technology in our every day lives. The elite could never build an army out of the 99% to rule the 99%, so they seek to automate our rule, while ensuring compliance with the technocracy. We will exist within this technocratic system that rules us, while the elite enjoy their extravagant lifestyles, completely free and unhindered. An individual will be monitored every second of every day, by cameras, microphones and other sensors found all around them. Live data will be recorded, stored, and analyzed by AI algorithms. If the algorithm detects an abnormality, such as an individual staying out past curfew, not wearing a mask, saying something disparaging of the government, or breaking a law, the AI would report you to local authorities. (even determine a suitable punishment, or send a fine directly to your bank account.) If you don’t believe that such a system can exist, just look at present day communist China. I will be writing more on that in a separate post.
The transhumanist element comes into play with the advent of neurotechnology. Another great quote from Klaus:
“Neurotechnologies help us to better understand the brain and how it works, and also to influence consciousness, mood and behavior.”
By using classical conditioning on the entire population, the elites have effectively completed a “soft test” of our willingness to conform. It seems that the majority of people are willing to give up their personal right to bodily autonomy, given the proper stimulus. Now with the COVID vaccine coming soon, people are more than willing to ignore the red flags of the rushed experimental vaccine, and take the jab in order to feel safe from the invisible plague of death. Coercing the worlds population into a mandatory regular vaccination schedule is another step towards domination of humankind. Again, consider the precedent that is being set. Any number of agendas could be implemented against the population through the vaccination scheme. All we can do at the moment is speculate, but my worst fear would be the implementation of eugenics and population reduction on a global scale. Besides using chemicals to alter the way our brains work, technology could one day be used to read our very thoughts, or even send foreign thoughts directly to our brains. Sounds like science fiction, but our transhumanist slave master Schwab sees this as a real possibility. The push for a digital ID by the elites demonstrates the elitist perspective of the rest of our species. Putting everyone’s identification, health records (vaccination records), and even our digital wallet, on a biometric chip embedded in the individuals body, would be the easiest and most convenient way to manage the worlds population through the technocracy. 5G cellular networks and the Internet of Things play a role in the technocracy as well. Next generation cellular bandwidth allows much more data to be transferred over the network much more quickly, never mind the hazard of electromagnetic radiation all around us. The Internet of Things is simply a framework for more and more every day devices to be able to connect to the internet independently, in order to share information. Everything from toasters, light bulbs, door locks, or a refrigerator, can be used to monitor you, harvest data from you, and send that data to a remote server to be analyzed.
As I have mentioned many times, the announcement of The Great Reset is the announcement of The New World Order. The manufactured COVID19 pandemic is laying the groundwork of societal changes that need to be normalized in order to usher in The Fourth Industrial Revolution. If the globalists plans come to fruition, by 2030 the global technocracy will be in full effect. We will not be governing ourselves, we will be governed by algorithms processing incalculable amounts of data about our personal lives, sent by the population control grid being built around us. The groundwork for mass surveillance is already in place in most of the world, once all the harvested data is being funneled to our technocratic overlords, the system will be complete. There will be no escape from the watchful eye of Big Brother. Subliminal messages will be sent directly to our minds. Consume. Conform. Obey. Resistance will be made impossible. Before that dark age occurs for mankind, we have the opportunity to put a stop to it. We must resist now, while it is still possible to do so.
I hate to end the post on such a foreboding note, so instead I’ll leave you with this. The time to act is now. Rise up and claim your humanity before you are robbed of it. The elite mean to change the very meaning of human. We must show them now, that we will not allow it. Stand up to the subjugation. Take off your slave mask. Stop living in fear. We must unite to take our freedom back from those who wish to subjugate us. Civil disobedience is how we show them we wont comply with the enslavement agenda. Plant yourself firmly, hold your ground, and say no. Stay strong brothers and sisters.
Aur31ius

As you know, the very own final island of One Piece wasn't spelled Raftel, but Laugh Tale. Now I don't know much about Japanese to English phonetic translations, but I'd expect it to be laugh "teiru" not "teru." We can chalk this up to Oda using it as word play which is pretty fine as much as I dislike it.

tl;dr imu is uranus who ate a heaven-heaven/planet-planet fruit who reshaped the land before the ancient kingdom could combine their ancient weapon pluton with poseidon to take out 20 kingdoms

However, today it hit me. I was thinking about Gran D. Line and Re D. Line troll theories the other day and then I realized, how do you spell grand line? Gurando Rain, GROUND LINE. From there on I concocted the theory of how uranus was used to absorb a planet into the one piece world to reshape the land.
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(p.s. Before I go into further detail, we must understand one thing: The Void Century was the climax of events leading up to it; it was a clash not a beginning. What I'm trying to say is that things were already in motion before the void century. The tontattas were under Donquixote family's oppressive rule 200 years from void century itself. It is also around that time that people from the moon descended to earth. This is important because this implies that the ancient weapons have a history that goes back from void century.)
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The Originator of Red Line: The Red Planet Mars

Most of you must have realized that the world of One Piece has very little land compared to our world. This can be chalked up to it being a mostly water-filled fantasy planet, however a sizable chunk of the fan base is probably as suspicious as I am. Not only the world of one piece is full of water, but there is also the red line that looks as if it was added to the world suddenly. It is as if red line doesn't belong to the world but somewhere else, like, another planet (possibly Mars) and that the world of One Piece before void century was quite different than the one we know today.
If we look at it from this perspective, it makes so much sense that the void century breaks history, almost literally. There is such disconnection between its before and after that those who are interested in history cannot make sense of it at all.
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Mars is in the details

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Now, mythologically, Mars is the Roman God of war and also an agricultural guardian. the god of WAR and also an AGRICULTURAL GUARDIAN. If we think back to the scene with Imu in the garden, this makes somewhat of a sense and If we think of mars as a symbol of the world government, it makes even more sense. First of all, Latin adjectives from the name of Mars are martius and martialis, from which derive English "martial" (as in "martial arts" or "martial law.") Martial Law, especially with Akainu at the helm might as well be the norm currently in the story. World Government is also ruthless that even ideas from the poneglyphs is presented as highly dangerous. All in all, they are pretty despotic which falls in line with the idea of martial law. There is also this little tidbit: Although Ares was viewed primarily as a destructive and destabilizing force, Mars represented military power as a way to secure peace, and was a father (pater) of the Roman people. We all know securing peace and the "balance of three powers" is really important to the world government. And this: Mars takes its name from the god of war in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The Greek god Ares became Mars in the Roman adaptation of the deities. Mars’ two moons are named for Phobos and Deimos, in legend the twin sons of Ares who personified fear and panic. The World Government largely rules through fear and panic.
Now, I have mentioned that the land is scarce in One Piece which is a fact. This should raise the question of how people and whole countries sustain themselves. We might say they either hunt, fish, or GROW CROPS. Now who has the control of most of the lands? Who demands tribute from every allied kingdom? What happens to lands like Wano who aren't allied? (Of the allied kingdoms Dressrosa was pretty fertile and we can write off alabasta as a traitor country.) Do you see a faint pattern here? World Government has monopolized the land of one piece. Now you could say red line is wholly empty but we don't actually know. Mary Geoise is the holy land, no one who wouldn't benefit from there can go to red line at all. And we haven't heard anything about what's on red line from anyone whatsoever. Isn't that suspicious? On that note, why did all the kings decide to move to mary geoise if it had scarce food supply. I think this also answers Tequila Wolf by the way. It is constructed to extract more resources from East Blue. (In chapter 906, the beautiful forest Shirahoshi sees on Mary Geoise is mentioned to be man-made.)
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"Little note: Red soil is known to be bad water-holder however given that one piece world is full of water it is a non issue. I'm sure celestial dragons can distill sea-water."
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Ground Line and The Void Century

In my theory, the world of one piece had less water than it does today. This falls in line with the fact of kozuki stonemasons' inscribing nautical information of laugh tale, which is probably correct if they insribed it after the catalysmic event as the last resort (and they did.)
Grand Line, as it is called today, was actually above the sea level with red line being non-existent. There is a lot of reaching in my ideas here but bear with me. I think we are going to see parallels drawn between void century and the current day events aka final war.
In Punk Hazard we saw Law talking about how the big players of the world were amassing power as if they were getting ready for a big event, an arms race if you will. The parallel could exactly be this.
Now in One Piece, the past is shown to be more technologically advanced and the old guard of roger, whitebeard, xebec, garp has been portrayed as monsters that cannot even be hoped to be challenged by the present day pirates (sure kaido had a chance at beating old whitebeard but beating him in his prime? Hardly.) So the past has always been shown as stronger than the present. (mind the word present here.)
The Parallel here is that, weak pirates of today are amassing childish toys like smile fruits, captain allies or getting into "pirate games like making alliances" while the STRONGER parties of the ancient times did that by going for ANCIENT WEAPONS. What is an army of smiles before the might of Pluton? or Poseidon? You get the idea.
I think, the number of three is really well chosen by Oda. It refers to land, seas and the sky first of all. I'm going to say, Pluton was in the making by the ancient kingdom while the 20 countries were creating or going after Uranus. This makes Poseidon a third party that can win either of them the game. We now know that Poseidon and Joy Boy were in cahoots and that Joy Boy left one piece on Laugh Tale. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the ancient kingdom was going to win with the pluton+poseidon combo. This makes even more sense when you think that Alabasta's poneglyph tells the location of pluton and its kings were entrusted with its protection through obscurity. Remember, Alabasta is a traitor country, which makes sense if ancient kingdom and king of alabasta was also in cahoots but alabasta did a last minute "betrayal" as a spy of sorts on a millennia spawning scheme. This also explains their refusal to join them on the Holy Land Mary Geoise, to protect Pluton's poneglyph closely.
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Devil Fruits?

Now this is where I thought to myself, "but wait Req, how do devil fruits play into this?" And I have two ideas on this one. First, Uranus is either a combination of individuals that ate certain devil fruits, (5 elder STARS ANYONE?) or one person with one devil fruit or uranus is something like a machine. Now, I'd use gravity and darkness fruits as examples of the five or more but they wouldn't freely give the gravity fruit to an admiral so that theory flops. HOWEVER, what if uranus is the ultimate devil fruit eater, one that cannot manipulate gravity or darkness but PLANETS AKA CELESTIAL OR HEAVENLY BODIES! This would include water manipulation to ground manipulation as well. We know Birkans left the moon because the planet ran out of resources. This gives the ancient kingdom who probably descended from MARS ample reason to stop them to prevent the same thing happening to their new world! (there are craters like the ones on the moon on depictions of the ancient kingdom!) Also, this falls in line with the national treasure of mary geoise and ope ope no mi, you change your soul with IM's and voilâ, you rule planets!
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So, Uranus, now known as IM drained Mars (going from the moon to the world of one piece easier which might mean space travel is easier, I mean Enel reached the moon!) and created red line from its soil and filled Ground Line making it Grand Line (since world government can erase history and manipulate information, manipulating the homophones of Grand Line and Ground Line must have been a cake walk.) Im probably didn't need to go to mars, just view it to manipulate it. We know that Ohara had a celestial model with many moons around one piece.
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The origin of devil fruits is as much a mystery to the world government as to us which makes sense considering they are trying to make vegapunk explain it all. This also explains the mysticism surrounding them and how they have power over life and death. (sea devil and such legends and explaining them through science fits here)
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On the will of D. and the Straw Hat

I think, the red line on the straw hat and why IM viewed the giant straw hat at the Levely is connected. (oh on that note oda doesn't do mistakes like that by chance, levely is a lot closer to leveling, like leveling of an entire city OR A CONTINENT!) IM, before killing joy boy, probably heard joyboy saying that "this planet will perish too, and then you will remember why I tried to stop you" It was a lot like reminiscing for im in the storage than anything else if you look at it that way (why go into a cold storage room to view something anyway?)
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I think, the clan of d. is on the side of harmony since they drained their planet and didn't want the same thing to happen here while IM and the world government's ancestors were on the side of control and consumption. and I think, this is reaching, a lot of reaching so this is just a guess like most things in this post but D stands for DENGE, which is Turkish for harmony I'm Turkish and I tried to search Japanese for a word that starts with D that means harmony to no avail, help me out here. Think of it as my parting gift.
And this is it my friends, I think this is where we stand right now. The explanation of devil fruits, how the future will triumph the old guard of the past and whether harmony will win and revert the land BACK IN ONE PIECE will be seen by us all.
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(This also explains how they deleted god valley, no a buster call wouldnt work at all.) Also, ALL Blue could be a water planet, maybe IM used a water planet for water and another one codename:mars for red line who knows.)
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tl;dr imu is uranus who ate a heaven-heaven/planet-planet fruit who reshaped the land before the ancient kingdom could combine their ancient weapon pluton with poseidon to take out 20 kingdoms

Original post, with commentaries on the first 9 chapters
Commentaries on chapters 10-24
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CHAPTERS 25&26
Ishmael still isn't done beating his advocacy pulpit. He's run his mouth so much that he's hungry, talking about coronation rituals with salt and castor and salad oil—oil as intellectual lubricant, "sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils", the one case where people can use non-medicinal hair oil and not consign themselves to mediocrity and contempt. Yet anointment is a staple of Christianity, supposed to be used in baptisms and meant to ward off evil and demons; perhaps it is a bad omen for common folk to be visibly anointed, since people don't like to be reminded of their own fallibility and prefer to pretend they are self-reliant.
After declaring that whalemen are integral to coronations, Ishmael is finally done, and introduces chief mate Starbuck to us. Starbuck is a man of great vitality, managing his trauma through fortitude that doesn't flag in any clime and through caution that treats some superstition as rational and courage as a tool dangerous in excess:

I will have no man in my boat who is not afraid of a whale.

This caution is a compromise: he wants to return safely to his "young Cape wife and child", but can't imagine forsaking the business of whaling, despite its traumatic effects on him being visible to Ishmael. Maybe both despite and because of that, since Starbuck lost his father and brother to whaling; there is a timebomb in him, due to his bravery being weak to spiritual terrors "which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man."
Ishmael would be loath to write about "the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude" were it to happen, because

man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes

—yet this chapter exposes such a blemish while claiming it won't be relevant. How would Ishmael even know about it?
For Ishmael, something essential in each of us bleeds at the exposure of ignominy in another, because the valor ruined by such exposure is "that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture"—the strength of the soul, accessible to commoners, the foundation of democracy, which any man, no matter how mired in grief or sin, can use to "lift himself to the exalted mounts", and Ishmael vows to robe such men in "ethereal light", as if he's a prophet who can say whom God has championed. My man went straight from advocating for whaling to advocating for humanity, but not even treating his position as objectionable—and he built his case around Starbuck, whose only apparent weakness is to the spiritual assault of an authority figure that would cave in his integrity and his democratic dignity.
Starbuck is a reliable, worldly man, but limited by his resignation to what he takes to be his place; he doesn't strive for more, not to defeat a vicious whale and not to stand up against a domineering man, so the source of his competence is the seed of his downfall. Losing people to whaling accidents stripped Starbuck of the trust in himself to act with integrity and boldness in crisis situations, boldness being taken for recklessness—not a terrible position for a man who just wants to earn an honest living for his family, but with how unpredictable profits from whaling voyages can be, this isn't a stable career suitable for someone who wishes to be content with their lot in life or who is excessively aware of how little control they have over nature at her worst. Ishmael frames Starbucks' timebomb as a "fall of valour", but I think it would be the revelation of the lack of valor in that area, contrary to Ishmael's grandiose optimism about human greatness. In his effort to defend democratic principles, Ishmael's framing only betrays the flaws of democratic ideals—above all, the fact that they're ideals, requiring great pretension to present them as widely fulfilled.
Ishmael doesn't even try to throw robes over man's flaws; he prefaces that optimism with "Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be", the world wicked in all meridians. The appearance of such blemishes, quite real before becoming visible, is taken as an offense to piety, which amounts to blaming God for Adam and Eve's decision to sin and thereby plunge mankind into unfulfillable debt. But this is all overlooking the nobility of the man who accepts the thankless responsibility to preach truth and virtue, as Father Mapple and Jonah before him did, and as Queequeg did upon realizing that this is a joint-stock world (rather than companies, which economizes the original sin and implicitly treats salvation as competitive and zero-sum) that should encourage pagans and Christians alike to look out for each other.
This chapter is conspicuously devoid of any moral judgments about Starbuck, narrowly brushing past them wherever they could be brought up naturally. Ishmael rather focuses on the equality of men in their God-given opportunities to rise above each other in their roles in providence—Bunyan, Cervantes, Jackson—even though democracy is a collective affair and any man's ascendance is predicated at the very least on its validation through others' recognition and sanction, and almost always on the social, spiritual, and physical resources that are needed from others along any path to nobility.
Starbuck doesn't need an ornate robe thrown over his flaws; he needs a friend who can show him how to realize and navigate his flaws so he doesn't make any despair-inducing decisions when his timebomb detonates and someone like Ahab commands something unreasonable of him. And Ishmael would probably do well to not project his ideals and aspirations onto others; he ends up saying more about himself than the characters when he does so.
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CHAPTERS 27&28&29
Ishmael introduces second mate Stubb, who poses a stark contrast to the overcautious Starbuck in having a carefree, cheerful, fearless—though not valiant—demeanor, like that of a carpenter:

He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster.

Ishmael figures that Stubb's carefreeness comes from his addiction to smoking on his pipes, the smoke acting as a sort of counter-miasma "against all mortal tribulations". Stubb is go-with-the-flow even about death, but Ishmael believes he sees death as a call upwards, whose contents would only be known when he obeyed the order—and he was neither hurrying nor hesitating toward that call.
Careless, not but boldly reckless like the third mate, Flask, whose vitriol toward all whales reduced them in his eyes to "a species of magnified mouse, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil." Starbuck must not have a say in Flask's presence; Stubb's a liability enough, but Flask's utter lack of reverence and mystification can't possibly end well. Not only is Flask openly motivated by spite, but he has fun on the voyages that probably bore others to death; he's built "to clinch tight and last long", to brace the ship against nature's onslaughts—but Ishmael doesn't acknowledge what a hazard his attitude is.
The three mates are very different men, ranging from careful to carefree to reckless, and each serves as a knight with one of the harpooneers as his squire: Starbuck with Queequeg; Stubb with Tashtego, a Native who traded his father's bow and arrow for the harpoon; and Flask with Daggoo, a giant of imposing humility. The harpooneers have each been hunters in some form since their youth, and retain their native customs because they haven't spent enough time on land to integrate into American or other culture, whereas the officers are American-born.
The Pequod is a miniature of Hobbes' Leviathan mentioned in the extracts, a diverse mixture of men marshalled by Ahab, American-born sailors providing the brains and everyone else supplying the muscle. Whaling may be a staple of the American economy in this time frame, but it wouldn't be so without the many, many non-Americans onboarded for the opportunities whaling provides. Even if it's a dangerous, unreliable career, and your credit will go to the shareholders and officers, it's a legitimate investment if your prospects are limited by illiteracy, non-acculturation, and lack of education.
All these whalers are "federated along one keel" "to lay the world’s grievances before that bar from which not very many of them ever come back." They're united by their quest to slay whales, but each man has a very different relationship with the whales, whether as receptacles for monstrous projections whereby to eradicate the monstrosity so projected, or as mere paychecks, or as rats to enjoy exterminating, or as harbingers of God's wrath—as creatures through which to rebel against God while clinging to piety.
At last, Ishmael introduces Ahab, who delivers vicarious orders through the mates while continuing to brood, while Ishmael can no longer suppress his suspicions—though it's well too late to back out now. During a gloomy morning of the Pequod's latitudinal descent, Ahab appears to the crew, appears "like a man cut away from the stake", which I'm interpreting as his hellfiery executors (the whale's jaws of despair) changing their minds and sparing him, leaving him with a decocted body of "solid bronze", like Cellini's cast of Perseus (depicted holding Medusa's head).
Ahab has a scar that may be a head-to-toe—man's reach from Earth or hell to heaven, I suppose—birthmark or the brand of lightning—the crew doesn't speculate much about it, nor can those who do—with zero basis—agree. Ahab replaced his leg, lost all the way over by Japan, with a peg carved from a sperm whale jawbone.
Ahab is silent as he looks over his crew, and unease seizes all under his "troubled master-eye"—there is "crucifixion in his face", that of bearing with dignity an immeasurable and fatal woe. What makes a noble hero tragic is first that they bring upon their own downfall somehow, but second that they bear a superhuman load of trauma before buckling. Ahab is then seen every day, his presence longer each time, as the foul winter weather departs, although he is still unneeded so long as there's no whaling to be done. The clouds themselves settle on his brow, as though he were a great mountain or Atlas shouldering the sky.
Ishmael implies that the sunny weather alone is what lifts Ahab's mood, but it could well be that the ship is getting palpably closer to the whales, to the whale, which must be on Ahab's mind every waking and sleeping second. The now-vernal days are "warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant"—that sounds like Ishmael trying in vain to milk all the hope he can from the now-realized imagery that Bildad left him with, and even looking forward to some action.
The tropics bring to them dazzling nights that wring out memories as frigid, clear crystals, and Ahab is out of his cabin more than in it because it feels like a tomb and he must be having nightmares too. Ahab barely sleeps, but despite his restlessness, is often considerate of how his heavy steps would keep people below from sleeping.
When Stubb insults Ahab within earshot, suggesting there be a way to muffle his steps, Ahab, indignant, asks if he's a cannonball, but is willing to brush it off, dismissing Stubb to his "nightly grave" like a dog to the kennel. Stubb argues back, but can't stand his ground against the fearsome captain, and departs, monologuing an existential crisis, deliberating retaliation against or prayer for Ahab—Stubb isn't pious; Ahab even put the fear of God into Stubb. Stubb suspects Ahab holds late clandestine meetings; that might be noteworthy.
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CHAPTERS 30&31
Ahab calls for his pipe, and realizes that smoking no longer soothes, that his nervous puffing resembles the plumes of a dying whale, "the strongest and fullest of trouble," so he discards it overboard. The pipe is meant for serenity, like that of Stubb or a mild elder, like whom Ahab is neither. On this day, the puffs blew back in his face against the wind, which other men may have found undignified, but which unlikely perturbed Ahab, despite his royal bearings on his ivory stool. Throwing away the pipe may have been impulse from a mild inconvenience, or a decision to not let smoking dull his fire, or disgust at the pipe reminding him of his own mortality—or all three.
The next morning, Stubb tells Flask about a bizarre dream he had, where Ahab kicked him with his ivory peg, and Stubb trying to kick the captain in retaliation but only hurt himself, as though he were attacking a "cursed pyramid"—the most imposing, unassailable tomb ever built. Stubb rationalized that getting kicked by a dead appendage wasn't so bad, as "there’s a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump." While kicking in vain, he's accosted by a "badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back"—sperm whales have small humps on their backs, and badgers (known for toughness and aggression) can have "iron-grey" hair like Ahab, so I figure this merman is a mixture of the two.
Stubb threatens to kick even him, backing off after seeing spikes lodged in the merman's back—a sperm whale could endure with harpoons buried in non-vital areas. The merman convinces Stubb to stop his pettiness, because the merman considers it a wisening honor to be kicked by that ivory leg—implying that this is the whale appearing in a dream with great respect for Ahab that he imparts onto Stubb, who, concluding his reminiscence, declares it best to ignore Ahab from now on. Right then, the first whales are spotted at sea, with a caveat: "If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!"
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CHAPTER 32
Now that the first whales have been sighted, Ishmael starts to lay out his blueprint for a science of whales, a "classification of the constituents of a chaos"—on top of their divine and sublime qualities, whales have thwarted naturalists, philosophers, and shipmen alike to try to capture them in thought, but their great size has made the the object of many such attempts by figures as diverse as "Authors of the Bible" (isn't it weird for him to not think the Bible was written by God?), Scoresby, Aristotle, and Linnaeus. The list of whale-authors Ishmael provides shows just how much work he laid upon the sub-sub in the extracts.
Ishmael regards Scoresby as the leading expert on Greenland (bowhead) whales, the "usurper upon the throne of the seas", taking offense to the bowhead whale's status, established and perpetuated through traditions of poetic allusions to such whales, because the sperm whale, no matter how shrouded in obscurity and fable, is the proper monarch of the sea. It's Ishmael's goal to be the first author to breathe life to the sperm whale, the only two reliable accounts then-extant about the whales being "mostly confined to scientific description".
It seems almost like Ishmael is setting out this taxonomy primarily to accentuate the sperm whale at the head as the leviathan of leviathans; he doesn't even concern himself with the completeness of the program he lays out, "because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty." But even trying to map the contours of a cetology is a monumental effort, equal for Ishmael to having "one’s hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world", which is ironic because the fact that whales surface proves that they need to breathe, and, having limited lung capacity, can't swim into the abyss unless it is shallow—and then it's not an abyss!
Ishmael's cetology tries to capture and thereby control—to bind this "chaos" in a rigid, hierarchical order—God's power incarnated in these sea-beasts. "Behold the hope of him is vain!" He cites reasons for whales not being fish, "waiving all argument" and declaring the matter settled—even though whales' vertical swimming, lungs, and warm blood, like those of other mammals, vs fishes' horizontal swimming, non-lungs, and cold blood is damning evidence in evolutionary biology, which Darwin was then hard at work laying the modern foundations of—, happily defining the whale as "a spouting fish with a horizontal tail" simply because nothing else he knows of fits that description: fishes don't spout and walruses can move on land. Ishmael's criteria for what counts as a whale are rather arbitrary, letting anything "the best-informed Nantucketers" regard as whales count as whales—despite having given a definition with unambiguous criteria—and excluding some fish not just for lacking spouts, but for being "noisy, contemptible".
The cetology program is divided into three books for tiers of size, subdivided into chapters for species, selecting as mascots for each tier the sperm whale (folio), the grampus (octavo), and the porpoise (duodecimo). True to form, Ishmael starts with glorifying the sperm whale as the most formidable, majestic, lucrative, and large whale—and, by extension, organism—on Earth, but ends with the note that the sperm whale's name comes from a mixture of a popular misconception that the oil is that "quickening humor" found in bowhead whales, and of the term's retention by drug dealers from back when spermacetti was a precious commodity used for medicine, retention to "enhance its value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity." The sperm whale's overratedness is built into its philology, which Ishmael recognizes but merely dismisses as "absurd" instead of seeing irony—and he's otherwise in a comedic mood in this chapter.
The powers of hearsay, abstraction, erudition, and convenient assumptions (conflating the bowhead and right whales, which are now recognized as different species) allow Ishmael to recognize in many different names one and the same whale in each chapter. The finback whale (which can grow up to 90 feet long, longer than any confirmed sperm whale) is characterized as misanthropic, elusive, and reclusive, as "the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race", and is conflated with other whales whose bones are harvested on the basis of similarities in hump, back-fin, teeth, and baleen—these traits strike Ishmael as the obvious discriminators to categorize whales, but he admits that "it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan" around these traits.
This ungeneralizable heterogeneity has thwarted whale-naturalists, but even if any had the flexibility to realize that such differentiable traits weren't a sound basis for a taxonomy, the tools (of dissection and concept) to pursue stronger leads were inaccessible to them. Half-recognizing this, Ishmael proceeds boldly under the pretense that his way is the only "practicable" program. The folio book concludes with sulphur-bottom whales, which are in fact blue whales, and which Ishmael speculates with no trace of sarcasm got their "brimstone belly" by "scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of [their] profoundest divings"—what lung capacity to manage a descent to hell!
Folio and octavo book formats have similar proportions despite differing in size, whereas quarto, the size between them, doesn't preserve their shape. Although Ishmael wants to show that octavo whales are like folios, simply smaller, skipping quarto emphasizes the gap in size. The octavo whales have distinct superstitions: grampuses portend sperm whales, hyena whales bear an "everlasting Mephistophelean grin", narwhals are "sinister" (left-handed or witchy) unicorns, and orcas are killers like all of us.
Ishmael's knowledge is heavily skewed by his agendas and limitations. He does seem to be committed to thoroughness while knowing his blueprint is woefully incomplete, and adds "a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales" for later investigators to fit into his system, and glosses over mentions of whales in ancient texts, "suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing."
Since this novel symbolizes whales as God's wrath (fury motivated by justice), and because Ishmael narrates as the survivor of a shipwreck, probably having seen the literal jaws of death several times, and because Ishmael had been struggling with his faith since before he boarded the Pequod, and since the Shakespeare reference feels out-of-place, it's all the more fitting—now finished laying out his cetology, many of the connections Ishmael has formed about them must be fresh on his mind, and some of those connections weigh heavily.
Because Ishmael leaves this blueprint for his successors, it seems to be his vie for transcendence, not quite immortality, but something to leave when his body rots and his soul is silenced, for "grand [architects], true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity"—a lot of grandiosity to cover the fact that Ishmael has no idea what he's doing, stuck in a lifelong obsession that didn't grant him wisdom, worldliness, or even legitimate knowledge.
I highly doubt Melville, these connections made, supported the cetology he has Ishmael voice, especially because he had access to Darwin's notes from his Beagle voyage, notes that included existentially unsettling musings about the origin of species: their malleability, diversity, and adaptations, musings that had to be born of overwhelming evidence because Darwin was an orthodox Christian, unlike Ishmael.
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CHAPTER 33
In the history of whaling, command of the ship used to be divided between the captain, tasked with "the navigation and general management of the vessel", and the specksynder or chief harpooneer, in charge of "the whale-hunting department and all its concerns". By the present, the latter's dignity had been reduced, and the harpooneer's command confined to "night watches on a whaling ground", but due to their importance for whaling voyages' profits, harpooneers were given the boarding of officers, set apart from the crewmen despite being their "social equal".
Many captains used the rigid social norms normal to whaling ships to parade themselves around like emperors, and although Ahab "was the least given to that sort of shallow assumption", even he exploited his privileges of "practical, available supremacy over other men", the "irresistible dictatorship" that almost all in positions of unchecked power inevitably succumb to, and that are only possible through the "external arts and entrenchments" established to situate authorities and exempt them from "the world's hustings", from debate, election, and even accountability.
For Ishmael, dictators earn the highest honor due to their fallibility compared to "the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert", which I take to mean saints with principles of faith and justice that are unmoved by anything material or at "the dead level of the mass", over which it is no great honor to reign. Ahab is no saint, despite and probably due to his "moral indomitableness", which is a trait that saints have, but there's no indication that Ahab's is buttressed by principles: he's not a pious or God-fearing, and he's willing to exploit his powers for selfish and unstated ends, and this novel promises to end in disaster—were Ahab a saint, he wouldn't bring tragedy that would make it into the history books; he would have a stable, respectable, and unassuming life and career.
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CHAPTER 34
The dinner ritual has a fixed structure: the dough-boy summons Ahab, who summons Starbuck and goes to the diner, who waits a minute and summons Stubb and goes to the diner, who waits a minute and summons Flask and goes to the diner, who breaks into a mocking dance when the officers are gone before donning his expected persona and going to the diner. "Wherefore this difference? A problem? Perhaps not." A harmless, or rather impotent, bit of rebellion against the dictator whose supremacy is doubled as the head of the diner.

Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar. It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding.

The order of entering the diner and eating is upheld because otherwise the balance of power could tilt—and remind everyone that power is nothing more than an agreement between the ruler, the ruled, and the relevant infrastructure—, which could be awkward or worse. A great king eating at a host's house would be during that meal second in power to the host. The officers treat Ahab like a stern father, themselves as "warlike but still deferential cubs". The weight of the hierarchy renders these "solemn meals, eaten in awful silence", despite silence not being enforced; the officers simply mirror Ahab's own refusal to speak—wait, wait, Ishmael isn't allowed down here, so how does he know what's going on in the dinner ritual? Did he sneak in? Get promoted? (That seems unthinkable with his experience and temperament.) Fabricate all of this?
Ishmael assumes that Flask could but wouldn't help himself to better portions than he was directly offered, wouldn't because "never more would he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world" and could because "Ahab never forbade him". Because the officers leave in inverse order, Flask barely has time to eat, and "once admitted in private"—to Ishmael? to someone Ishmael overheard?—that his hunger was permanent; even as a crewman he'd eaten better.
Flask is in the awkward position of being at the bottom rung of the upper class, almost ascetic in his timidity to test his boundaries. "There’s the fruits of promotion now; there’s the vanity of glory: there’s the insanity of life!" Yet Flask has no complaints about the added responsibility or other possible difficulties of being an officer, just that he doesn't feel that he's allowed to eat well. Ishmael tattles on how he figured out the details of the dinner ritual: it's easy enough for a sailor to peep into the aft cabin, but he says the only motivation for doing so would be if a sailor had a grudge against him—it's not clear whether the pity this peep would produce would be sadistic or understanding, but Ishmael seems not to dislike Flask.
When the officers cleared out, the harpooneers took their place with a "frantic democracy" of barbaric consumption, bullying the dough-boy for fun into constant fear and respecting no etiquette. There is some contrast between Queequeg, the sadistic Tashtego, and the moderate Daggoo, the latter having to sit on the floor so his "hearse-plumed head" doesn't bonk the ceiling—hearse-plumes adorn horse-drawn funeral processions, a stark cultural contrast. The dough-boy has a physically easy job that he can't have imagined would be so mentally taxing. Ahab clung to the mutually alienating belief that the cabin belonged to him, and that the mates and harpooneers were as doors that briefly turn in to enter their house while, "as a permanent thing, residing in the open air."
Ishmael compares Ahab to a grizzly bear, his soul, "shut up in the caved trunk of his body", hibernating and eating away at the fat reserves of his gloom in the winter of his heart—one step past a damp, drizzly November, his shelter from the elements—the turbulence of connection—all the more isolating. This is a moody, hard-hearted man with the mental and physical conditions to use people as tools on a whim, and none would have the guts to mutiny against him.
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CHAPTER 35
Ishmael gets his first lookout duty and compares being atop the ship to being an astronomer on a pyramid—the Egyptians' pyramids being, for Ishmael, the original documented mast-heads, even if older civilizations may have had similar designs—; or a statue atop its pillar, the imposing historical figure it represents no longer vigilant, and silent with their secrets even if their visions would be worth sharing; or an early Nantucket shoreside watchtower waiting to direct moored, ready boats. All of these being obsolete, the whaleship mast-head stands as the one true mast-head, situating a whaler at the summit of the vast expanse of sea to be attentive from the time the ship departs to the time it either docks or is saturated, not one vial left empty—a dogged determination to maximize profits, which befits every man to adhere to because his stake in the whaling voyage is his share in the profits of the whale parts harvested.
The mast-head is unhomely, lacking a crow's nest or any comfortable amenities to cloister—as a corpse in a hearse or Father Mapple in his pulpit—oneself from the elements and the panoramic view of the sea, but that view is blissful, especially in calm tropical weather, where a sailor can lose himself in the timeless, placeless sprawl, a "sublime uneventfulness" with no concern for stock markets, sensational news, or where to find the next meal—Ishmael may not be motivated by profit, but the draw of free food may be a greater motive than he acknowledged.
The Sleet's crow's nest is described in longing detail, Ishmael torn between wanting one and considering the view in its absence to more than compensate for the discomfort. The mast-head is a bridge between man and the stars, the skies, and the seas—yet it is the waters in which sailors lose themselves rather than the skies, which serve rather to guide and orient them, courtesy of the arts of navigation.
After admitting that he shirked his duties of being attentive at the mast-head, Ishmael cautions whalers against hiring people like himself: "For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber." Way to tell on yourself. The discomfort of the mast-head should be a constant reminder to stay on-task for your two-hour shifts; maybe a crow's nest would've been a wise investment. With it, Ishmael wouldn't be able to fantasize about being a colossus or saintly stargazer.
Also, Sleet is clearly Scoresby; the real crow's nest was invented by father Scoresby with help from son Scoresby; it's no more arrogant to name your patents after yourself than your children, and I'd say far less so. Might there be an Ishmael Sr.?, maybe a drunkard and a whaler? Ishmael took on a mocking tone when saying that Sleet forgot to mention the alcohol that should've been his friend and comforter at the summit of the watery world.
Ishmael blames his incompetence on his education—Plato's Phaedo, on the immortal life and memory of the soul, instead of Bowditch's navigation handbook foremost in his mind—and his short-sightedness instead of his lack of discipline, even though he's here to marvel at whales. But what good is vision on such incomprehensible constituents of chaos, where "every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form" is inextricable from the oceanic soul it's born from and borne through, as we and all things living are through the ungraspable and bottomless sea of God—the very sight of the unobstructed expanse dissolves and diffuses Ishmael's identity until he startles himself back to reality, or even tumbles overboard to reunite with his source amidst the leviathanic phantoms he's making a lot of excuses not to look for. Moby Dick itself could've swam by and Ishmael would've missed it.
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CHAPTER 36
Ahab's pacing is so frequent and intense that it leaves signature dents, but his thinking is more-so in "the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought" that it leaves on his brow, ribbed and weighed down by the weight of the sky and that of the sea—that of the whale that dismasted him, surely. Stubb sees a change hatching in Ahab, and hatch it does in the evening: the previous chapter established that manning the mast-head at all times is almost ritualistic for whaleships, but here, Ahab summons everyone, "an order seldom or never given on ship-board except in some extraordinary case." The crew is rightly anxious, seeing the storm brewing in the man, and Ahab lets that anxiety marinate until he's collected his thoughts or resolve enough for a speech.
He exhorts the crew to recite the tenets of whaling:

"What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?" "Sing out for him!"
"And what do ye next, men?" "Lower away, and after him!"
"And what tune is it ye pull to, men?" "A dead whale or a stove boat!"

For enough men to know these lines to be able to create such a singular chorus, they must be standard, whether to Ahab's ship—if most of these shipmen be returnees loyal to the captain—or to a manual most whalers ought to be acquainted with. Satisfied with the impulsive and unified replies, Ahab offers a gold coin worth ~$530 in today's currency to "Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw"—this sends the men into a frenzy, but the three harpooneers are particularly interested. Tashtego gets Ahab to confess at last that he's after Moby Dick, the whale, and that's why we're here, readers and characters alike. Each of the harpooneers cites peculiar details about the whale that Ahab affirms; each of them has encountered the white whale up-close and lived to tell the tale. Starbuck gets Ahab to confirm that it was none other than Moby Dick that "razeed" him, and that this is a revenge quest.
Ahab vows to chase the whale "round perdition’s flames" "till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out"—and he's dragging all the whalers along the journey with him, himself unmotivated by money but earning the whalers' unity on this undertaking with his incredible charisma—even reading his speech is exciting—and the gold coin. Starbuck, the voice of reason, reminds Ahab that they're here to work, that this whale won't pay for the voyage by itself—though that if they cross it, he's happy to face its jaws of death to harvest it, probably treating it as a rather ordinary whale—, and Ahab pounds his chest, declaring that the vengeance will "fetch a great premium" for his heart. Stubb muses that his chest "rings most vast, but hollow"—that Ahab has let his outward revenge altogether replace inward substance despite there being immense capacity in him to harbor such substance, whether of profit or connection.
When Starbuck is taken aback at Ahab's "Vengence on a dumb brute", Ahab channels Ishmael's Platonism, seeing in the monster the wall imprisoning and masking all phenomena, the masks being unreasoning but undergirded and shaped by some reasoning enigma:

If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.

This is Ahab's quest for transcendence, projected onto a concrete object and delivered with compelling charisma, weaving the concept of fairness into the reason cohering the world so he can exploit the former to justify vengeance against the latter:

I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.

Ahab is the indomitable nobility of the human spirit and the emptiness that befalls who tries to realize it. No master, no God, no fate—only the man, the truth he can reach and pierce, and the vitality for doing so.
Ahab blasts Starbuck with a solid page-and-a-half of passionate monologuing, giving Starbuck chances to speak but being met only with silence. What is there to say? That's a dense wall of chaotic energy, and Starbuck is the coward Ahab accuses him of being, one of the only people with a chance of talking Ahab off the warpath and not even attempting to at his final opportunity. Mirroring Starbuck's mental defeat, the wind dies down and the ship's heart sinks—predictions or warnings from without, or "verifications of the foregoing things within"—the synchronicity of personally significant concurrent events that do not share a cause—, in any case they were brief and undriving.

For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us on.

Starbuck perks back up out of sheer "stubbornness of life", and none of the crew, taken in as they are by the sermon, registers the portends. Ahab passes a strong drink around the crew:

Men, ye seem the years; so brimming life is gulped and gone.

This is the opposite of the universal thump of punishment; this drink is passed around to commemorate their new common cause, to celebrate the passional and consumptive joys of life—those that aren't clutched and hoarded—, and to presage their descent into hell:

[The drink] spiralizes in ye; forks out at the serpent-snapping eye.

Unlike Satan despising the sun for reminding him of his lost glory, Ahab only takes offense that is personal and direct, although his temper and education lead him to defy the fatal inner workings of the world that shackle him by the masks that comprise the visible world by unseen clockwork: to hunt Moby Dick would be, on some level, to slay (and thereby replace) God and then use the parts for money—and not even a lot of money compared to any regular sperm whale harvest! Mad Ahab even relishes that his charisma could kill a man at full blast as he leagues the officers, strong men, who can't meet his gaze.
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Ahab is an amazing character. Like, wow, Melville is channeling the full brunt of his influence from Milton here. Ahab and Satan are by far the best depictions I've seen of supernatural charisma. In one day, Ahab turned the Pequod into a death cult, and excited me in doing so. This is an extraordinarily difficult book, and it feels almost self-demonstrating in what it's doing with Moby Dick: its truths feel vast, ungraspable, submerged—you could chase them your whole life, but you couldn't force them up. It has many insights, fins jutting from the water, but what they imply is obscure and daunting; to pull them out would bring their whole massive body up with them.
At the crux of the work's knotted vision seems to be the tension between views on fate, its knowability, and its malleability: 1. Providence, which to obey is inauthentic but which to disobey is apostatic, which Ishmael regards as an arbitrary jailer; 2. Yojo's prophecies being reliable but fallible; 3. Elijah's forecast, where fate is set in stone but somewhat inscrutable; 4. Ahab's defiance of the gods, vowing to have no master in body or spirit; 5. the compulsion of inward, unconscious motives; and 6. the self-fulfillment of some prophecies where pursuing or avoiding them realizes them. The white whale itself seems to reflect each of those conceptions in its mythos.
Ahab's parallels with Satan pose big questions about what it means for man to defy or conquer God, and if the distinctions between various forms of fate matter: whether free will means following God's plan or one's inner directives, whether it affects man's redeemability (Satan was considered irredeemable), in what sense redeemability matters when you're trying to conquer God and if the soul or heaven don't exist (in which case the traditional God can't exist), whether fate is malleable and why mastering it would matter, whether you're a hypocrite for having a clean conscience killing whales while forswearing human bloodshed, how defying God dooms you to despair and when Ahab crossed the line. I'm just trying to sketch out these questions' field and let them marinate in me as I soak in the novel.
I'm hooked. This is everything I hoped it would be except accessible (lol).

HANX. Or Thanks or Tom Hanks has been Infecting just about just about every “fringe” event of sub-series of conspiracy communities. With all the hoopla surrounding him currently I wanted do dive back a couple years to some of the down right ODD things in connection with Mr Hanks.
From the top I will mention the various point where Tom or connected parties showed up in the particular research I was doing.
First big series of hanks sync weaving was to do when I was researching the Mandela effect and the prominent position Hanks has as a Nexus of effects.
https://www.reddit.com/Retconned/comments/7lfka2/an_exercise_followed_by_examples_word_association/
If you are unfamiliar with the Mandela effect then essentially is a a series of pop culture points that have been altered or a wide collection of people have noticed a change from their memory of a particular specific point.
Weather or not it is faulty human memory or something else is up for debate but what is not up for debate is the rampant and creative ways the Mandela effects connect to Tom Hanks.
I made this post as a way of explaining how to play with words and symbolism, ways of looking at things as a puzzle.
Here is a bit of what that looks like.
Mandel means Almond, An almond is the Mandorla, Mandelas prisoner number is 46664 but used to be 4664 according to some. Cern is said to be responsible or at least involved in some way and their video “Happy” Has Both Nelson Mandela and 4664 (the occluded Prisoner number) Cerns logo has the 666 theme as well as being Mandela effected as well and the effect added a mandorla. Cern built the WWW or 666 vav vav vav 777/ which is also the Monster energy drink logo. LOGOS changing LOGOS is the WORD and the thing that was with God during creation. The levels of fractal metaphor are stunning to me. Staggeringly beautiful not just in their existence but the fact that conscious minds can behold it.
Isnt it funny that Jaws (villian) and Jaws(shark) are both to do with The mouth and teeth and the ME involves braces... And that the dolly/jaws scene had them mirror each others smiles, like in snow whites mirror mirror. and that the actress who plays dolly is Blanche Ravelec. Blanche means White/pure. As does Clarice In the Silence of the lions/lamb.... loins fruit of the womb. froot looms loony looms..... the double 00 thing oo like eyes that see.
Sally fields name is effected, her famous Oscar speech is effected, she costars in forest gump which has curious George as a key element and sally field being the one Tom hanks is quoting, he would then be involved in another ME later on. And sally fields brother works at cern... Tom hank is also Woody and Says “Theirs a Snake in my Boots” which contextually makes no sense and reminds us of the Fields not having a plural.. Another way to look at that is “Boots” could be interpreted as a word.. and the Snake is S s is a snake a snake hissessssss los of ssess lol The s on the end can also denote possession (again more S'es) possession is ownership and ownership is shackling and oppressive. You may also be reminded of Field of Dreams “If you build it THEY/HE will come (who is he?) HE is right in the middle of THEY TY thank you... and back to the start with the fact sally fields acceptance speech was her saying thank you to the academy.
This may appear to be nonsense or gibberish but if you had the time and knew the things I was referencing then you would be able to see the connections.
Of Course this is just nothing as it is. But then the universe nods to us this genuine morsel.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/4687152/Tom-Hanks-to-switch-on-repaired-Large-Hadron-Collider.html
Why is Tom Hanks turning the Large Hardron Collider at CERN back on? What is the movie that he is promoting?
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.104
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown the continuation of Robert Langdons Symbologist tour all around the world to uncover exotic secrets and truths.
The next in the series is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(2016_film))
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Langdon and Brooks figure out that Zobrist, who was obsessed with Dante, has created a viral superweapon he has dubbed "Inferno", with the potential of annihilating half the world's population. In the meantime, they have been traced by both Vayentha and agents from the World Health Organization (WHO),
https://www.reddit.com/C_S_T/comments/ckwrv5/tom_hanks_the_mandela_effect_and_the_essence_of/
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The craziest part about the LHC CERN connection is that I didn't see it back when I was deeply diving into Tom hanks and the Mandela effect. That fact came later along with this particular nugget I have seen no one reference.
https://www.reddit.com/MandelaEffect/comments/7kxwby/the_mandel_effect_is_the_precursor_to_quantum/
The MANDEL effect is the precursor to quantum computing.
My wife comes in and mentions that she got an ad for the movie Splash with Tom hanks, while I am Knee deep in looking into “Red Shoes”
I started looking into this movie because of the notable Calling Card that Hanx has developed on twitter. He has posted pictures of lone gloves, shoes and other discarded or lost objects. Its kind of his “Thing”
I first had this brought to my attention due too my research into the Death of Issac Kappy. Which is another completely bonkers rabbithole that covers Epstein and leads to the death of researcher Tracey Twymin.
Kappy had called out some folks in his various videos before his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyG1nyWhR28&t=225s
ANNNNDD HOLY FUCK what is this!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGv79VO6dp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PMRmZinHI
Whelp this is new too me. Damn strange , The way hes propped up and the fact the time stamp in the video is 2 mins before he is noted as jumping off the bridge as there was supposedly a group of 6 or 7 teenagers on the bridge attempting to stop him.
Did anyone notice the song playing in the background.”When Im gone” by 3 doors down....
https://genius.com/3-doors-down-when-im-gone-lyrics
Why is this anything pertaining to Tom Hanks?
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1114014676734451712
Tom hanks posted a picture of a discarded glove with the caption “Historic Route 66. Roadkill? I hope not! Hanx. “
This was on 4-4-2018 and 40 days(5 weeks 5 days) before Kappys death on Route 66.
2 posts later on the day that Kappy died Hanks posts
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1128061487929389056
Look up the significance of handkerchiefs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code
That wasn't what I expected but it fits in.
https://twitter.com/tomhanks
It looks like Hanx twitter is where a lot the juicy conspiratorial coincidences lie.
Make not of all of the posts made from 3-13-20 and beyond and you will see that there is a pattern to the posting style not present before.
Before 3-11-20 he posted inside the ap using the twitter posting ap, and writing the post and attatching a picture.
After 3-11-20 all of his posts where he writes a blurb are pictures of text with pictures embedded
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1237909897020207104/photo/1 With this seeming like the post he had been destined to post this whole time. The lone glove in bio-hazard waste bin.
And then drops this gem of a post.
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1240024515498786816/photo/1
Haha oh my, so ironic that I brought my CORONA typewriter all the way to Australia only to get the CORONAvirus.
“My wife has won 6 straight hands of gin rummy and leads by 201 points.”
This first thing that jumped out is 201.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174
Taking place in NYC on Oct 18-19 by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. (who are also involved with Vaccines and ID2020, and global management systems.)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back
Nov-17-19 was the first traced case of the Corona-virus Covid-19
This simulation was based on the Coronavirus from Pigs in 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_(zodiac))
Now we are in the year of the RAT. Which is quite heavily intoned with the black plague
https://chinesenewyear.net/
The phrase "black death" (mors nigra) was used in 1350 by Simon de Covino or Couvin, a Belgian astronomer, who wrote the poem "On the Judgment of the Sun at a Feast of Saturn" (De judicio Solis in convivio Saturni), which attributes the plague to a conjunction) of Jupiter and Saturn. Hmm that is indeed interesting as I am aware that there is a Great Conjunction this very year, the year of the Rat. And the Year of the Coronavirus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction
This conjunction is taking place on the solstice which is quite significant.
May-31-2000 was our last great conjunction and can you see how the world is so much different from that point in time. And we can suspect that this point in 2020 is yet another turning point into a “New Normal”
Note that Dante Alighieri was very involved with astrology and had a penchant for the Great conjunctions in particular. And He was the inspiration of the movie INFERNO with Tom hanks trying to prevent a global outbreak intended to reduce the population to save the planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri
https://books.google.com/books?id=rR-8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=dante+great+conjunction&source=bl&ots=HxnVXyKCti&sig=ACfU3U3w3tf4y5l-RjEYU7Xwz5UtrtwCXQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFqL76xsDoAhVCSN8KHQ5VBeQQ6AEwBXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=dante%20great%20conjunction&f=false …......................................................................................................................... Here is a point of note. I am browsing this wiki for the first time and I am seeing this nugget.
Pope Boniface quickly dismissed the other delegates and asked Dante alone to remain in Rome. At the same time (November 1, 1301), Charles of Valois entered Florence with the Black Guelphs, who in the next six days destroyed much of the city and killed many of their enemies. A new Black Guelph government was installed, and Cante dei Gabrielli da Gubbi was appointed podestà of the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podest%C3%A0
Podesta really..... I had no idea this name meant anything, really never looked into it, even though I have an obsession with names and the meanings of said names, I had not sought this.
Ok I seem to be diving into other trails in this Warren of rabbit holes.
Back too Event 201 and Tom hanks game with Rita Wilson where 6 games in is ahead 201 points.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201
What is this? 6201.................... 6 games 201 points...... bill signed into law the day you and Rita Wilson tested positive for corona virus in Australia with your CORONA typewriter?
So we have a grand convergence of coincidence. 1 with event 201 coming before HR 6201 is passed and 2 with the rummy game hanks played with his wife referencing said bill.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6719291/madonna-coronavirus-bathtub-rant/
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9330887/madonna-cancels-madame-x-paris-shows-coronavirus-restrictions
MADAME X is Madonnas alter ego that she created these past couple years. And she had an interesting back to her album cover that came out last year.
https://www.mad-eyes.net/music/madame-x/img/album_madame-x_deluxe_back.jpg
The album releasing in June of 2019 has a picture of Madame wearing gloves and typing on a Corona Typewriter, the same typewriter that hanks brought with him too Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_X_(album))
Too add more synchromystic stuff too the mix we have this
https://www.reddit.com/typewriters/comments/6pzyp8/where_can_i_get_similar_pape
I searched for Tom hanks and found this post from Typewriters and its simply an autographed Typewriter but altogether a nod that Im on the right path.
OH fuckin Kay I guess this means something
You may mention above I said my wife came In in and mentioned the Tom hanks Movie splash.
https://d2e111jq13me73.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/product_image_aspect_switcher_170w/public/product-images/csm-movie/splash.jpg?itok=nOlS8nFn
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Splash_ver2.jpg
Directed by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babaloo_Mandel
Babaloo Mandel? Baloo and Mandel, for real? Mandel like the Mandel effect and the Mandela effect. And Baloo like the character from the jungle book who is not wearing coconuts as a bra anymore?
Look up “Baloo Mandela effect” and you'll see what I mean.
This stood out too me because of course Tom hanks connection too the Mandela effect through notably the Most Mandela effects attributed to his name and works. But I didn't think it was 'Enough” to share here.
So after seeing Madonna and Tom hanks connected via the Corona Typewriter I googled . “Tom Hanks and Madonna”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_League_of_Their_Own
OK so the other film by Babaloo Mandel that stood out as another Tom hanks flick was this movie .
Im getting long winded and as always there is more left out then I have presented it too you as their really is no way of condensing this so that you acquire the full picture.
I end with a question?!!!
What was Madonnas name before she changed it too MADONNA for the purposes of being a star?
https://www.reddit.com/MandelaEffect/comments/538lcf/residue_of_madonnas_real_name_maria_louise_ciccone/
Well that's not actually the end because we need to wrap this baby up in swaddling clothes.
https://www.reddit.com/Retconned/comments/aogi7m/the_heart_of_forrest_gump_or_the_trees_do_you_see/
Tom hanks wife is Rita Wilson...................... Wilson you say?! Hmmm well the vollyball in CAST AWAY must have been named after her... right????
In the film, Wilson the volleyball) serves as Chuck Noland's personified friend and only companion during the four years that Noland spends alone on a deserted island. Named after the volleyball's manufacturer, Wilson Sporting Goods, the character was created by screenwriter William Broyles, Jr While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. This was the inspiration for the film's inanimate companion. From a screenwriting point of view, Wilson also serves to realistically allow dialogue in a one-person-only situation
Here is a prime example of synchronicity that when brought up to someone not exposed to these ideas they would come back at you with “Well its prolly because his wife was named Wilson” and then the door is shut for them they don't have to take on any new ideas or modify there existing foundation of reality. If you tell anyone a small peculiar fact then they inevitably try and “Solve” what you just told them. They have to organize the new information in a way that doesn't cause uncomfortability or stress. The human brain seems to have an Autonomic response to new information that doesn't jive with the world view that person has built up over the years.
Mention any Mandela effect and someone will try and come up with a reason to ignore what you are presenting to them. The effects themselves are in such mundane places that it doesn't seem to have much weight to the average Joe.
It seems like many people fall into the logical fallacy of the “Wisdom of the Crowd” Even if they have no concept of what this is they may still fall into its tenants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd
Take any of the biggest conspiracies out there. The moon landing, 9-11, flat earth. The bigger and more wide spanning the conspiracy then the more “Well, if this is real then people would have said something about it” “You couldn't keep a secret that big” “Somebody in my life would have told me if X was True/False.” Have you seen the meme from xfiles with the poster Mulder has saying “I want to believe” with a flying saucer on it. Thats what this is like. But the train goes both ways. “I want” and “I dont want. “
https://www.amazon.com/X-Files-Poster-Believe-Official-24x36/dp/B003V1IU3O/ref=asc_df_B003V1IU3O/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309733593834&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8924062892720319746&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010924&hvtargid=pla-571329128101&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=61981387152&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=309733593834&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8924062892720319746&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010924&hvtargid=pla-571329128101
Both of these Mantras play out in our heads unbeknownst to our recognition. A duel play on what we wish reality to be and what we wish it not to be. As want and unwant are dualistic sides of the same coin. For someone that believes 9-11 was an inside job. “I want to believe” that I among all these other people on this planet found out that this large sector of society has been duped and I am one of the few people smart enough to have figured it out.
For someone who thinks 9-11 conspiracy theorists are insane. “ I dont want to believe I have been duped by the establishment and that everything I have been taught and all the people that I love have been duped into believing an untruth.”
I think this is mainly something that stems from our human need for others to identify with and a tribe to call home. And to have our beliefs echoed by another group. To be acknowledged as a contributor to the paradigm and to feel validated by others that feel the same way.
Its like we are innately narcissistic creatures who love our own images. We find those most similar to us and we just stare at each other reflecting the same ideas and producing a greater dived between US and THEM.What it comes down to is life's great mystery. Which takes shape in questions we ask ourselves: ” Why do I exist?” “Why is reality a thing instead of a non-thing?” “What is my purpose?”
Instead of “what is my purpose?” it becomes “Is there even a purpose?”
Mainstream elements give us Relativity, The Big Bang, and Evolution.
If a human delves into and absorbs these tenants of culture, then one may come to the conclusion that reality is the result of a freak accident of random number of infinite forces coming together and creating everything you know and love and think and do. That it is all a fluke and you are just lucky..... but luck doesn't exist because this is a random universe and nothing lies deeper than surface exploration.
To identify Self you must also have the Other. The contrast creates the existence of a thing.Imagine 2 worlds, one of infinite shadow and one of infinite light. The one of infinite shadow would be a black slate and the world of light a white slate. Without contrast everything is nothing. Sense without the lack of sense is Nonsense. A world of pure sound or silence is a world where sound isn't a thing that exists. If you ask the question. “What is a thing” the answer would be the inverse of its opposite. What is an exhale. It is the inverse of an inhale. But what is that? It is a see saw..... seeing and after seeing sawing. SAW because it WAS. Its like pIng pOng In and Out IO overlapped is the symbol for power. On/Off. Imagine a hero without a villain. The story of Batman is a prime example of the balancing force of the universe. Without the Joker he would have never experienced the trauma to become the batman, its very possible that if the joker had not killed his parents that he would not have had fear in the cave with the bats. Joker was the primeval creation force alchemizing the batman into existence.
And then you ask would the Joker have done what he did if he didn't have a nemesis to combat against... a force to emphasize his existence
This reality/ game seems like a puzzle of disCERNment. That the presence of so many untruths shows us the massive amounts of truths that can be yielded. The shadows can show us where the light lies.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1242246372000059393
I see this when I go to CNN today to see that Tom and Rite are at home safe and sound.
Why does she make a video holding a book that she is not reading and making sure to show the title in the scene.
Enders Game, Or is it the End Game of the end times ala Thanos Snap reducing the worlds population.
I read this book in high-school.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=enders%20game
Im sure more people are saying whats dat book she readin in dere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game
The book is a story of a dystopian future where children are raised on video games and are chosen based on their aptitude to be brought into the military and as a part of their training they do a series of “Wargames” via simulations systems and Haptic feedback suits for realism. SPOILER ALERT! The simulations they were performing were actual drone battle missions where they were killing actual sentient creatures.
The psychology of getting kids to perform against actual foes with the knowledge that it was all a game made them more proficient in their duty to kill.
Ok lets reel it back for a
TLDR.
Tom hanks is involved or a focal point in the Mandela effect phenomenon present in Forrest Gump Life is/.was like a box of chocolates, Apollo 13 Houston we have/we've had a problem, Woody from toy story says “There's a snake in my boot/s ,Momma from Forrest Gump is played by sally field/s whose name is considered a Mandela effect and has a famous Oscar speech that is commonly attributed to the Mandela effect and Sally Fields brother in real life is a scientist at CERN. CERN makes a video set too Pharrells Happy that is filmed at Cern and a scientist holds up signs saying Bond# (Barry Nelson) and Mandela underneath, also showing the number 4664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46664
Tom hanks then turns CERN back on after a failure that had occurred. He did this in honor of a movie Angels and Demons whos sequel INFERNO has Hanks catch a virus set to be a worldwide pandemic for the purposes of population control for the greater good. In Nov of 2019 one month before the first documented case of Novel Coronavirus Event 201 is hosted in NYC by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. And on 3-11-2020 the same day Hanks and Rita announce they are infected with Corona virus, after bringing a Corona typewriter all the way to Australia. Then Hanks announces his wife's score of 6 games 201 points. When 6201 if you google it will get you one thing.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201
Hanks is called out in a video also calling out Epstein and others involved in the underground trafficking of children, This person is then killed/died/epstiened on route 66 which Tom hanks Tweets about.
There is some funky stuff going on in the world and to be blunt there are 3 options. And then variations between those 3 options.
The extremes are

1. This is all orchestrated and everything presented through the public is controlled/filtered and dispensed with one purpose. All news media and things that people talk about are intricately put together to share some underlying puzzle.

Ways this could be feasible: this is a simulation and everything is preordained and put in place with no free will to the occupants in the simulation.
Ways it couldn't be feasible. Barring a simulation it just would not cut it to have any sort of person or group in charge of such a thing, its too well orchestrated for human hands.
I suppose a god of the realm in control of such things could perform such a feat..... but why?

1. This is all the universe playing a coincidence game, a red herring game of sorts to keep some busy and others asleep. Like if Tom hanks really got the itch to bring his Corona typewriter and he and his wife did actually play games of Gin Rummy that resulted in the 6 games 201 points with Event 201 being finished and HR 6201 just passing the same day they are infected with coronavirus.

This is just one facet of the coincidental underlying tapestry that paints itself underneath human activity.
Within this post I detail some stellar findings/coincidences that bear repeating here.
https://www.reddit.com/conspiracy/comments/8pgmln/william_blakespeare666_cyphers_the_man_in_black/
https://imgur.com/F3zCiRw
And here Is one of the most incredible coincidence blocks ive ever seen.
What are the odds that is is 666.6 nautical miles between the Kaaba and The Temple Mount of Jerusalem?
What are the odds that 666. Nautical miles =1234.56432 Kilometers ? You have the sequential united with the repetitive number sequences married by a relationship between the size of the earth and the speed of light.
https://imgur.com/F3zCiRw
What are the odds of Stanley Kubrick writing a movie that feature 2001 as a key plot point and in this film show a man “Dave Bowman” play chess against HAL which is 1 letter transliterated from IBM and that 666 days before Stanley Kubrick's death IBM's Deep Blue beats Gary Kasparov at chess and that 666 days after Stanley Kubrick's death is the Dawn of the 21st Century 2001. To tie all that up Kubrick References 666 through the occulted wink of the number that is missing. as Officer # 665 and 667 are apprehending the main droog of the story.
https://imgur.com/GSx4hZX
What are the odds that Wilson the volleyball is not named after Rita Wilson, his wife who kept her last name. But is instead named because the Writer stranded himself on an island and a Wilson Volleyball washed up onshore. This is the type of coincidence that bars any human forethought or knowledge to arranging. One of those universal winks in the form of syncs.
Look for my post history and you will find hundreds of WTF how is this a coincidence facts that could be both coincidence/divine providence/ or the will of man.
Oh yeah and the 3rd Extreme way of looking at this data I have presented here and in the past is to just shut the door and say.
“Nothing” none of this means anything at all and you are just thinking too much or looking too deep.
The most likely is a synergy of these 3 points. There maybe a controlling organization or AI program controlling the media and news, film and music. But there is most likely a clever universal side of things projecting the ironic in these peculiar times. And im sure some of this is just digging to deep as everything is intrinsically connected .
What cant be stated is the data presented is incorrect(unless it is,im not perfect) it is our interpretation of the data that differs, im not making any conclusions, im only discussing options and possibilities.

HANX. Or Thanks or Tom Hanks has been Infecting just about just about every “fringe” event of sub-series of conspiracy communities. With all the hoopla surrounding him currently I wanted do dive back a couple years to some of the down right ODD things in connection with Mr Hanks.
From the top I will mention the various point where Tom or connected parties showed up in the particular research I was doing.
First big series of hanks sync weaving was to do when I was researching the Mandela effect and the prominent position Hanks has as a Nexus of effects.
https://www.reddit.com/Retconned/comments/7lfka2/an_exercise_followed_by_examples_word_association/
If you are unfamiliar with the Mandela effect then essentially is a a series of pop culture points that have been altered or a wide collection of people have noticed a change from their memory of a particular specific point.
Weather or not it is faulty human memory or something else is up for debate but what is not up for debate is the rampant and creative ways the Mandela effects connect to Tom Hanks.
I made this post as a way of explaining how to play with words and symbolism, ways of looking at things as a puzzle.
Here is a bit of what that looks like.
Mandel means Almond, An almond is the Mandorla, Mandelas prisoner number is 46664 but used to be 4664 according to some. Cern is said to be responsible or at least involved in some way and their video “Happy” Has Both Nelson Mandela and 4664 (the occluded Prisoner number) Cerns logo has the 666 theme as well as being Mandela effected as well and the effect added a mandorla. Cern built the WWW or 666 vav vav vav 777/ which is also the Monster energy drink logo. LOGOS changing LOGOS is the WORD and the thing that was with God during creation. The levels of fractal metaphor are stunning to me. Staggeringly beautiful not just in their existence but the fact that conscious minds can behold it.
Isnt it funny that Jaws (villian) and Jaws(shark) are both to do with The mouth and teeth and the ME involves braces... And that the dolly/jaws scene had them mirror each others smiles, like in snow whites mirror mirror. and that the actress who plays dolly is Blanche Ravelec. Blanche means White/pure. As does Clarice In the Silence of the lions/lamb.... loins fruit of the womb. froot looms loony looms..... the double 00 thing oo like eyes that see.
Sally fields name is effected, her famous Oscar speech is effected, she costars in forest gump which has curious George as a key element and sally field being the one Tom hanks is quoting, he would then be involved in another ME later on. And sally fields brother works at cern... Tom hank is also Woody and Says “Theirs a Snake in my Boots” which contextually makes no sense and reminds us of the Fields not having a plural.. Another way to look at that is “Boots” could be interpreted as a word.. and the Snake is S s is a snake a snake hissessssss los of ssess lol The s on the end can also denote possession (again more S'es) possession is ownership and ownership is shackling and oppressive. You may also be reminded of Field of Dreams “If you build it THEY/HE will come (who is he?) HE is right in the middle of THEY TY thank you... and back to the start with the fact sally fields acceptance speech was her saying thank you to the academy.
This may appear to be nonsense or gibberish but if you had the time and knew the things I was referencing then you would be able to see the connections.
Of Course this is just nothing as it is. But then the universe nods to us this genuine morsel.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/4687152/Tom-Hanks-to-switch-on-repaired-Large-Hadron-Collider.html
Why is Tom Hanks turning the Large Hardron Collider at CERN back on? What is the movie that he is promoting?
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.104
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown the continuation of Robert Langdons Symbologist tour all around the world to uncover exotic secrets and truths.
The next in the series is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(2016_film))
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Langdon and Brooks figure out that Zobrist, who was obsessed with Dante, has created a viral superweapon he has dubbed "Inferno", with the potential of annihilating half the world's population. In the meantime, they have been traced by both Vayentha and agents from the World Health Organization (WHO),
https://www.reddit.com/C_S_T/comments/ckwrv5/tom_hanks_the_mandela_effect_and_the_essence_of/
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The craziest part about the LHC CERN connection is that I didn't see it back when I was deeply diving into Tom hanks and the Mandela effect. That fact came later along with this particular nugget I have seen no one reference.
https://www.reddit.com/MandelaEffect/comments/7kxwby/the_mandel_effect_is_the_precursor_to_quantum/
The MANDEL effect is the precursor to quantum computing.
My wife comes in and mentions that she got an ad for the movie Splash with Tom hanks, while I am Knee deep in looking into “Red Shoes”
I started looking into this movie because of the notable Calling Card that Hanx has developed on twitter. He has posted pictures of lone gloves, shoes and other discarded or lost objects. Its kind of his “Thing”
I first had this brought to my attention due too my research into the Death of Issac Kappy. Which is another completely bonkers rabbithole that covers Epstein and leads to the death of researcher Tracey Twymin.
Kappy had called out some folks in his various videos before his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyG1nyWhR28&t=225s
ANNNNDD HOLY FUCK what is this!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGv79VO6dp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PMRmZinHI
Whelp this is new too me. Damn strange , The way hes propped up and the fact the time stamp in the video is 2 mins before he is noted as jumping off the bridge as there was supposedly a group of 6 or 7 teenagers on the bridge attempting to stop him.
Did anyone notice the song playing in the background.”When Im gone” by 3 doors down....
https://genius.com/3-doors-down-when-im-gone-lyrics
Why is this anything pertaining to Tom Hanks?
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1114014676734451712
Tom hanks posted a picture of a discarded glove with the caption “Historic Route 66. Roadkill? I hope not! Hanx. “
This was on 4-4-2018 and 40 days(5 weeks 5 days) before Kappys death on Route 66.
2 posts later on the day that Kappy died Hanks posts
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1128061487929389056
Look up the significance of handkerchiefs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code
That wasn't what I expected but it fits in.
https://twitter.com/tomhanks
It looks like Hanx twitter is where a lot the juicy conspiratorial coincidences lie.
Make not of all of the posts made from 3-13-20 and beyond and you will see that there is a pattern to the posting style not present before.
Before 3-11-20 he posted inside the ap using the twitter posting ap, and writing the post and attatching a picture.
After 3-11-20 all of his posts where he writes a blurb are pictures of text with pictures embedded
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1237909897020207104/photo/1 With this seeming like the post he had been destined to post this whole time. The lone glove in bio-hazard waste bin.
And then drops this gem of a post.
https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1240024515498786816/photo/1
Haha oh my, so ironic that I brought my CORONA typewriter all the way to Australia only to get the CORONAvirus.
“My wife has won 6 straight hands of gin rummy and leads by 201 points.”
This first thing that jumped out is 201.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174
Taking place in NYC on Oct 18-19 by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. (who are also involved with Vaccines and ID2020, and global management systems.)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back
Nov-17-19 was the first traced case of the Corona-virus Covid-19
This simulation was based on the Coronavirus from Pigs in 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_(zodiac))
Now we are in the year of the RAT. Which is quite heavily intoned with the black plague
https://chinesenewyear.net/
The phrase "black death" (mors nigra) was used in 1350 by Simon de Covino or Couvin, a Belgian astronomer, who wrote the poem "On the Judgment of the Sun at a Feast of Saturn" (De judicio Solis in convivio Saturni), which attributes the plague to a conjunction) of Jupiter and Saturn. Hmm that is indeed interesting as I am aware that there is a Great Conjunction this very year, the year of the Rat. And the Year of the Coronavirus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction
This conjunction is taking place on the solstice which is quite significant.
May-31-2000 was our last great conjunction and can you see how the world is so much different from that point in time. And we can suspect that this point in 2020 is yet another turning point into a “New Normal”
Note that Dante Alighieri was very involved with astrology and had a penchant for the Great conjunctions in particular. And He was the inspiration of the movie INFERNO with Tom hanks trying to prevent a global outbreak intended to reduce the population to save the planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri
https://books.google.com/books?id=rR-8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=dante+great+conjunction&source=bl&ots=HxnVXyKCti&sig=ACfU3U3w3tf4y5l-RjEYU7Xwz5UtrtwCXQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFqL76xsDoAhVCSN8KHQ5VBeQQ6AEwBXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=dante%20great%20conjunction&f=false …......................................................................................................................... Here is a point of note. I am browsing this wiki for the first time and I am seeing this nugget.
Pope Boniface quickly dismissed the other delegates and asked Dante alone to remain in Rome. At the same time (November 1, 1301), Charles of Valois entered Florence with the Black Guelphs, who in the next six days destroyed much of the city and killed many of their enemies. A new Black Guelph government was installed, and Cante dei Gabrielli da Gubbi was appointed podestà of the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podest%C3%A0
Podesta really..... I had no idea this name meant anything, really never looked into it, even though I have an obsession with names and the meanings of said names, I had not sought this.
Ok I seem to be diving into other trails in this Warren of rabbit holes.
Back too Event 201 and Tom hanks game with Rita Wilson where 6 games in is ahead 201 points.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201
What is this? 6201.................... 6 games 201 points...... bill signed into law the day you and Rita Wilson tested positive for corona virus in Australia with your CORONA typewriter?
So we have a grand convergence of coincidence. 1 with event 201 coming before HR 6201 is passed and 2 with the rummy game hanks played with his wife referencing said bill.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6719291/madonna-coronavirus-bathtub-rant/
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9330887/madonna-cancels-madame-x-paris-shows-coronavirus-restrictions
MADAME X is Madonnas alter ego that she created these past couple years. And she had an interesting back to her album cover that came out last year.
https://www.mad-eyes.net/music/madame-x/img/album_madame-x_deluxe_back.jpg
The album releasing in June of 2019 has a picture of Madame wearing gloves and typing on a Corona Typewriter, the same typewriter that hanks brought with him too Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_X_(album))
Too add more synchromystic stuff too the mix we have this
https://www.reddit.com/typewriters/comments/6pzyp8/where_can_i_get_similar_pape
I searched for Tom hanks and found this post from Typewriters and its simply an autographed Typewriter but altogether a nod that Im on the right path.
OH fuckin Kay I guess this means something
You may mention above I said my wife came In in and mentioned the Tom hanks Movie splash.
https://d2e111jq13me73.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/product_image_aspect_switcher_170w/public/product-images/csm-movie/splash.jpg?itok=nOlS8nFn
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Splash_ver2.jpg
Directed by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babaloo_Mandel
Babaloo Mandel? Baloo and Mandel, for real? Mandel like the Mandel effect and the Mandela effect. And Baloo like the character from the jungle book who is not wearing coconuts as a bra anymore?
Look up “Baloo Mandela effect” and you'll see what I mean.
This stood out too me because of course Tom hanks connection too the Mandela effect through notably the Most Mandela effects attributed to his name and works. But I didn't think it was 'Enough” to share here.
So after seeing Madonna and Tom hanks connected via the Corona Typewriter I googled . “Tom Hanks and Madonna”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_League_of_Their_Own
OK so the other film by Babaloo Mandel that stood out as another Tom hanks flick was this movie .
Im getting long winded and as always there is more left out then I have presented it too you as their really is no way of condensing this so that you acquire the full picture.
I end with a question?!!!
What was Madonnas name before she changed it too MADONNA for the purposes of being a star?
https://www.reddit.com/MandelaEffect/comments/538lcf/residue_of_madonnas_real_name_maria_louise_ciccone/
Well that's not actually the end because we need to wrap this baby up in swaddling clothes.
https://www.reddit.com/Retconned/comments/aogi7m/the_heart_of_forrest_gump_or_the_trees_do_you_see/
Tom hanks wife is Rita Wilson...................... Wilson you say?! Hmmm well the vollyball in CAST AWAY must have been named after her... right????
In the film, Wilson the volleyball) serves as Chuck Noland's personified friend and only companion during the four years that Noland spends alone on a deserted island. Named after the volleyball's manufacturer, Wilson Sporting Goods, the character was created by screenwriter William Broyles, Jr While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. This was the inspiration for the film's inanimate companion. From a screenwriting point of view, Wilson also serves to realistically allow dialogue in a one-person-only situation
Here is a prime example of synchronicity that when brought up to someone not exposed to these ideas they would come back at you with “Well its prolly because his wife was named Wilson” and then the door is shut for them they don't have to take on any new ideas or modify there existing foundation of reality. If you tell anyone a small peculiar fact then they inevitably try and “Solve” what you just told them. They have to organize the new information in a way that doesn't cause uncomfortability or stress. The human brain seems to have an Autonomic response to new information that doesn't jive with the world view that person has built up over the years.
Mention any Mandela effect and someone will try and come up with a reason to ignore what you are presenting to them. The effects themselves are in such mundane places that it doesn't seem to have much weight to the average Joe.
It seems like many people fall into the logical fallacy of the “Wisdom of the Crowd” Even if they have no concept of what this is they may still fall into its tenants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd
Take any of the biggest conspiracies out there. The moon landing, 9-11, flat earth. The bigger and more wide spanning the conspiracy then the more “Well, if this is real then people would have said something about it” “You couldn't keep a secret that big” “Somebody in my life would have told me if X was True/False.” Have you seen the meme from xfiles with the poster Mulder has saying “I want to believe” with a flying saucer on it. Thats what this is like. But the train goes both ways. “I want” and “I dont want. “
https://www.amazon.com/X-Files-Poster-Believe-Official-24x36/dp/B003V1IU3O/ref=asc_df_B003V1IU3O/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309733593834&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8924062892720319746&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010924&hvtargid=pla-571329128101&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=61981387152&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=309733593834&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8924062892720319746&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010924&hvtargid=pla-571329128101
Both of these Mantras play out in our heads unbeknownst to our recognition. A duel play on what we wish reality to be and what we wish it not to be. As want and unwant are dualistic sides of the same coin. For someone that believes 9-11 was an inside job. “I want to believe” that I among all these other people on this planet found out that this large sector of society has been duped and I am one of the few people smart enough to have figured it out.
For someone who thinks 9-11 conspiracy theorists are insane. “ I dont want to believe I have been duped by the establishment and that everything I have been taught and all the people that I love have been duped into believing an untruth.”
I think this is mainly something that stems from our human need for others to identify with and a tribe to call home. And to have our beliefs echoed by another group. To be acknowledged as a contributor to the paradigm and to feel validated by others that feel the same way.
Its like we are innately narcissistic creatures who love our own images. We find those most similar to us and we just stare at each other reflecting the same ideas and producing a greater dived between US and THEM.What it comes down to is life's great mystery. Which takes shape in questions we ask ourselves: ” Why do I exist?” “Why is reality a thing instead of a non-thing?” “What is my purpose?”
Instead of “what is my purpose?” it becomes “Is there even a purpose?”
Mainstream elements give us Relativity, The Big Bang, and Evolution.
If a human delves into and absorbs these tenants of culture, then one may come to the conclusion that reality is the result of a freak accident of random number of infinite forces coming together and creating everything you know and love and think and do. That it is all a fluke and you are just lucky..... but luck doesn't exist because this is a random universe and nothing lies deeper than surface exploration.
To identify Self you must also have the Other. The contrast creates the existence of a thing.Imagine 2 worlds, one of infinite shadow and one of infinite light. The one of infinite shadow would be a black slate and the world of light a white slate. Without contrast everything is nothing. Sense without the lack of sense is Nonsense. A world of pure sound or silence is a world where sound isn't a thing that exists. If you ask the question. “What is a thing” the answer would be the inverse of its opposite. What is an exhale. It is the inverse of an inhale. But what is that? It is a see saw..... seeing and after seeing sawing. SAW because it WAS. Its like pIng pOng In and Out IO overlapped is the symbol for power. On/Off. Imagine a hero without a villain. The story of Batman is a prime example of the balancing force of the universe. Without the Joker he would have never experienced the trauma to become the batman, its very possible that if the joker had not killed his parents that he would not have had fear in the cave with the bats. Joker was the primeval creation force alchemizing the batman into existence.
And then you ask would the Joker have done what he did if he didn't have a nemesis to combat against... a force to emphasize his existence
This reality/ game seems like a puzzle of disCERNment. That the presence of so many untruths shows us the massive amounts of truths that can be yielded. The shadows can show us where the light lies.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1242246372000059393
I see this when I go to CNN today to see that Tom and Rite are at home safe and sound.
Why does she make a video holding a book that she is not reading and making sure to show the title in the scene.
Enders Game, Or is it the End Game of the end times ala Thanos Snap reducing the worlds population.
I read this book in high-school.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=enders%20game
Im sure more people are saying whats dat book she readin in dere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game
The book is a story of a dystopian future where children are raised on video games and are chosen based on their aptitude to be brought into the military and as a part of their training they do a series of “Wargames” via simulations systems and Haptic feedback suits for realism. SPOILER ALERT! The simulations they were performing were actual drone battle missions where they were killing actual sentient creatures.
The psychology of getting kids to perform against actual foes with the knowledge that it was all a game made them more proficient in their duty to kill.
Ok lets reel it back for a
TLDR.
Tom hanks is involved or a focal point in the Mandela effect phenomenon present in Forrest Gump Life is/.was like a box of chocolates, Apollo 13 Houston we have/we've had a problem, Woody from toy story says “There's a snake in my boot/s ,Momma from Forrest Gump is played by sally field/s whose name is considered a Mandela effect and has a famous Oscar speech that is commonly attributed to the Mandela effect and Sally Fields brother in real life is a scientist at CERN. CERN makes a video set too Pharrells Happy that is filmed at Cern and a scientist holds up signs saying Bond# (Barry Nelson) and Mandela underneath, also showing the number 4664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46664
Tom hanks then turns CERN back on after a failure that had occurred. He did this in honor of a movie Angels and Demons whos sequel INFERNO has Hanks catch a virus set to be a worldwide pandemic for the purposes of population control for the greater good. In Nov of 2019 one month before the first documented case of Novel Coronavirus Event 201 is hosted in NYC by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. And on 3-11-2020 the same day Hanks and Rita announce they are infected with Corona virus, after bringing a Corona typewriter all the way to Australia. Then Hanks announces his wife's score of 6 games 201 points. When 6201 if you google it will get you one thing.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201
Hanks is called out in a video also calling out Epstein and others involved in the underground trafficking of children, This person is then killed/died/epstiened on route 66 which Tom hanks Tweets about.
There is some funky stuff going on in the world and to be blunt there are 3 options. And then variations between those 3 options.
The extremes are

1. This is all orchestrated and everything presented through the public is controlled/filtered and dispensed with one purpose. All news media and things that people talk about are intricately put together to share some underlying puzzle.

Ways this could be feasible: this is a simulation and everything is preordained and put in place with no free will to the occupants in the simulation.
Ways it couldn't be feasible. Barring a simulation it just would not cut it to have any sort of person or group in charge of such a thing, its too well orchestrated for human hands.
I suppose a god of the realm in control of such things could perform such a feat..... but why?

1. This is all the universe playing a coincidence game, a red herring game of sorts to keep some busy and others asleep. Like if Tom hanks really got the itch to bring his Corona typewriter and he and his wife did actually play games of Gin Rummy that resulted in the 6 games 201 points with Event 201 being finished and HR 6201 just passing the same day they are infected with coronavirus.

This is just one facet of the coincidental underlying tapestry that paints itself underneath human activity.
Within this post I detail some stellar findings/coincidences that bear repeating here.
https://www.reddit.com/conspiracy/comments/8pgmln/william_blakespeare666_cyphers_the_man_in_black/
https://imgur.com/F3zCiRw
And here Is one of the most incredible coincidence blocks ive ever seen.
What are the odds that is is 666.6 nautical miles between the Kaaba and The Temple Mount of Jerusalem?
What are the odds that 666. Nautical miles =1234.56432 Kilometers ? You have the sequential united with the repetitive number sequences married by a relationship between the size of the earth and the speed of light.
https://imgur.com/F3zCiRw
What are the odds of Stanley Kubrick writing a movie that feature 2001 as a key plot point and in this film show a man “Dave Bowman” play chess against HAL which is 1 letter transliterated from IBM and that 666 days before Stanley Kubrick's death IBM's Deep Blue beats Gary Kasparov at chess and that 666 days after Stanley Kubrick's death is the Dawn of the 21st Century 2001. To tie all that up Kubrick References 666 through the occulted wink of the number that is missing. as Officer # 665 and 667 are apprehending the main droog of the story.
https://imgur.com/GSx4hZX
What are the odds that Wilson the volleyball is not named after Rita Wilson, his wife who kept her last name. But is instead named because the Writer stranded himself on an island and a Wilson Volleyball washed up onshore. This is the type of coincidence that bars any human forethought or knowledge to arranging. One of those universal winks in the form of syncs.
Look for my post history and you will find hundreds of WTF how is this a coincidence facts that could be both coincidence/divine providence/ or the will of man.
Oh yeah and the 3rd Extreme way of looking at this data I have presented here and in the past is to just shut the door and say.
“Nothing” none of this means anything at all and you are just thinking too much or looking too deep.
The most likely is a synergy of these 3 points. There maybe a controlling organization or AI program controlling the media and news, film and music. But there is most likely a clever universal side of things projecting the ironic in these peculiar times. And im sure some of this is just digging to deep as everything is intrinsically connected .
What cant be stated is the data presented is incorrect(unless it is,im not perfect) it is our interpretation of the data that differs, im not making any conclusions, im only discussing options and possibilities.

Okay, okay, okay, I know what you’re thinking.
”Scramble failed, how could it have worked?”
Well, being the nitpicky bastard I am..
...I found a flaw.
I’m PROBABLY not the first to have spoken out about this, or at least thought it.
But here I go, on my monologue anyway..

FOREWORD:

Please note that I AM:

• An average member of the SCPF community
  
• A person with basic/average knowledge of computers, cameras, and software.
  
• A real person, please be kind in your criticisms!
  

Please note that I am NOT:

• A software engineer
  
• A hardware engineer
  
• An avid member of the SCPF community
  
• SCP-079 (looking at you, re-captcha.)
  
• An expert/specialist at any of the aforementioned suspects.
  
• The writer of the 096-A incident, or 096’s document itself. Nor am I in contact with them, or understand how they intended to depict Project Scramble.
  

One final disclaimer!

This is NOT meant to disprove anything, nor is it in hostile spirits! This is all good fun, just building on to the theories on how to contain SCP-096, or prevent it damaging the world any further!
Right then, with no further ado, let me explain my delusional ramblings!
So, how do I start this.. Scramble relies on (as far as I’m aware) two displays for each eye, much similar to an HMD, (Head Mounted Display) aka a VR headset. Of course, due to weight distribution issues, I’m going to go ahead and take the liberty of assuming they’re much smaller. Alongside the two displays is a camera or two, a small processing chip, designed to locate memetic hazards (such as 096’s face) and block them out of the displayed image. Simple enough, right?

So what I’d like to know is how the hell a d-class escaped

Haha, funny SCP joke.
In reality, all I’d like to know is how Scramble failed?
According to the official SCP 096-A incident report, little picosecond-long images still containing 096’s face would slip through the gaps where the software failed, causing the Shy Guy to enter his patented ‘who the FUCK looked at me’ phase. But how would those images slip through? A see-through monitor? While they exist, it seems like an iffy technology. For the following reasons:

• How would the processor know where 096’s face is? There’d have to be at least 4 extremely small cameras, and proper software (VERY fine-tunes) to accurately locate the XY coordinates on the screen in revelation to the position of the cameras.

Okay, the fix for that is some fancy foundation work. That’s one problem dealt with.

• How can we be sure 096’s face would be completely blocked out? Even if the software was accurate, since the display itself is transparent, the pixels may not be bright enough to cover up 096’s face without leaving a trace. hey, that rhymed!

You’d THINK these issues would arise during the R&D phase, or the original testing. Or even just during design! Dr. Daniels seems a smart man, so he would probably not stick to this design. So I think it’s safe to rule out that first design.
So, instead, he would probably make them in the style I described earlier. You know? Displays, cameras, microprocessor, et cetera..
But that design couldn’t have failed. Quite literally, could not have failed.
Here’s an analogy about cameras to try and make this easier. When you record a video in a camera and see the preview, you don’t see a 100% real-time image. You see a projection, an image bottlenecked at the framerate or either the camera or the display, whichever is lower. So let’s say the human eye sees about 500fps (just for this scenario.) So if the camera sees 60 frames per second, and you are looking through the camera, the image you are seeing is sixty frames per second. Therefore, you cannot catch any picosecond glimpses of faces of pale white creatures at a rate faster than 60 frames per second.
See what I’m getting at?
No?
Can’t blame you.
Alright, so if the cameras on the goggles are bottlenecked at 60 frames per second, and each image is processed before being displayed on the screens.
But if each image is being processed before being displayed... ...then there’s a slim-to-nil chance of the algorithm failing. (Disregarding hardware and/or software failures.)
So how did Scramble fail? It shouldn’tve.
What do we do with this information? I have no idea. Rewrite 096-A?
So to recap, Scramble failing would rely on a faulty design, which seems improbable, due to the sheer power of the Foundation, plus the intelligence criteria to be accepted as a researcher. Honest mistake, or did Dr. Dan really want Scramble to fail? I’ll leave that with you, conspiracy theorists.
So if Project Scramble really did fail due to the faulty design, then it can still be salvaged! All it needs is some fancy, large-brained science man to re-design them!

But hey, that’s just a theory, a GAME(?) THEORY!

This is where I get into the list of cool things Scramble goggles could have, too.

• Integrated MTF Field Code database So that poor officers that have forgotten their symbols can get a little heads-up on what they mean!
  
• Thermal imaging/night vision Self-explanatory.
  
• H.U.D with ammunition counter, compass, GPS positioning, reinforcement ETA status, etc. Once again, self-explanatory.
  
• Index for SCP documents, possible summaries of them, too? So you don’t have to sift through 8 paragraphs to find out how to stay the fuck away from fffuckING 939 MAN- I hate SCP: CB.
  
• Comms For trying to find your fellow MTF friends.
  
• Laser. Laser go PEW!
  

Please let me know in the comments if there’s anything I brushed over, or should include, or something to add, or just feedback!
EDIT: okay, I’ve just been made aware that SCRAMBLE’s failure was actually intentional. Well, fuck, there goes an hour of my life..

Secure. Contain. Protect.