06-22-2011, 03:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-15-2011, 02:20 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(06-21-2011, 06:22 PM)Azrael Wrote: OH MAN! A+ Reference, A Wrinkle In Time is an amazing novel, and eerily syncronitic with our current state! I agree with you 100%, the Guardians appear to help the harvest in a way that will help all in future harvests.
Yeah, thanks! Definitely timely... thank Netflix . I was looking around the other day and saw the movie. I didn't even know they had made a movie!

So my girlfriend and I turn it on... and both fall asleep. We knew it must be good then as we have a running joke/observation that sometimes when about to be hit with a great spiritual truth the brain just simply shuts down.
Actually the book first re-emerged in my mind while doing some research on Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where someone had noted that the line "It was a dark and stormy night..." was the first line of his Paul Clifford, but also A Wrinkle In Time.
Then, not too long after that I noticed it on Netflix. It could have been there all along, but I still think I would have noticed it before. I read that book several times as a kid.
What is really bizarre is that I have been led back to it somewhat obliquely after not really thinking about it for at least a decade... yet somehow the concepts in this book have both stayed with me this whole time, as well as are immediately pertinent. I had no idea this single book affected my mind so much.
For example, I have commented several times over the past few months that I wished people understood more that treating people as equals does not mean treating them the same. Straight out of the book: "Like and equal are not the same thing at all!"
Another quip I spout off every now and again is that "a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points". Again right out of the book.
Down the rabbit hole from there, literally, the research I was working on had to do with the idea that many of the "ET" groups are not extraterrestrial at all, but subterranean. Living here on earth with us since before the cataclysm... and no they do not all have the best interests of the surface dwellers at the forefront of their minds right now.
Some very interesting research that has been coming out about the Interstellar Boundary kind of tipped me in the direction of an idea that I had already been leaning to- namely that advanced beings do not fly around interstellar space in metallic machines. Again, originally from the book.
Which "coincidentally" led me back hear after reading a post by Hatonn about our "space friends" showing up in their "space craft" to lend us a hand. Sorry, but I am a bit skeptical of that, if you know what I mean.
I wonder what the Guardians would have to say about this?