Articles (notes and videos) make for greater understanding ...
by Paul Quek, from Singapore
MAppSci (CompSci), BBA (Hons)
[Master of Applied Science, Computing Science]
[Bachelor of Business Administration, Honours]
Incept Date:
01 September 2008
Rev'd Date:
09 March 2010
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"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true
science.
He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.
It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered
religion."
SPECIAL WEB ARTICLE
If you believe that the Cold War is over, that the KGB is no longer active,
that Russian or Soviet Communism is dead, that Siberian incarceration is over,
etc., etc., etc. ... think again!
And if you think that the UFO phenomenon is just for the fringe crowd, the
kooks, the 'need to get a life' layabouts, and the pseudoscientists, etc.,
etc., etc. ... think again!
The videos are a bit longish than perhaps necessary ... and there are some
boring parts, here and there, especially for the 'fast crowd' with byte-sized
attention spans ... but nevertheless the 9-part YouTube video is an eye-opener
of a documentary produced and aired during the last years of the 20th century
(specifically, in 1998).
UFOs are serious stuff to the Russians ... so don't take things too lightly!
Especially in this new 21st Century ...
If the Russians think UFOs are real, and if they think they can
reverse-engineer UFO-Alien technology to their political, economic, military
and security (PEMS) advantage ... well, the 21st Century might just become a
Russian century, and we might all just be sipping illegal Volka in underground
resistance-movement hideaways (much like the French Resistance folks back
during the Second World War)!
Now ... do things begin to take on a new light?
Preamble
(Articles - Page 01 of 03)
Welcome to the "web articles" section of the 'Mysteries-of-the-World.com' website ... For simplicity, we call this section of our website, the 'Articles' section.
If something about any of the Mysteries is not in the main Mysteries webpages
(which you can reached via the left NavBar buttons), then it is likely to be in
here, in the 'Articles' section!
This set of articles are divided into several 'sub-sections' as follows:
General Mysteries (General Mysteries — General Conundrums, Perplexities & Oddities)
The Universe & Its Mysteries
UFOs
Aliens & Alien Autopsies
Real Aliens & Alien Abductions
Ancient Astronauts
Cryptic Creatures
Phenomenal Places
Bible Mysteries
Jesus Mysteries
'About' (this website)
Mysteries - General Discussion
Mainstream vs Fringe
Misc
Basically, this 'Articles' section of our website provides access to a set of web articles that form a
sort of 'support base' for the main web pages (note: those main web pages,
which we call 'Tier 2' or NavBar pages — see our Site Navigation web article — are accessible only via the left NavBar). This set of
supporting web articles that are accessible only in this 'Articles' section extend what is discussed in those main, Tier-2, NavBar web pages. They
are created and placed here for various reasons: e.g., they provide additional
and detailed information; they provide supporting information; they are
articles that if added to the main/Tier-2/NavBar pages would probably make
those pages too unwieldy or interrupt the flow of the presentation; they
contain supplementary material; they contain notes; they contain videos; and so
on and so forth.
You can view the web articles here as "supporting cast", if we use a term from
Hollywood or the movie industry — or these web articles could be regarded
as providing "supporting fire", to use a military term.
... near the top of this 'Articles' section, you can get access to several web articles on the various Mysteries,
e.g., UFOs, Aliens, Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda Triangle, etc. These are
basically 'mini' web pages, not because they are short in length or content,
but because they play the role of supporting cast (Hollywood or movie term) or
supporting fire or support base (military term). The main web pages on each
Mystery are accessible via the buttons on the left NavBar (which is present on every web page or web article) or via the text links in our 'Table of Contents' at the bottom of the home page (only; no other web page or article has these
text links).
So ... enjoy!
General Mysteries (General Mysteries — Conundrums, Perplexities & Oddities)
(Articles - Page 01 of 03)
Here are collations of interesting stuff ... about everything else not listed in
the other categories of Mysteries ...
Here are collations of interesting stuff about "The Universe: Unexplained
Mysteries", the Multiverse of 'bubble universes', Dark Matter, Time Travel, and
the like ...
"Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of
billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of
presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous
immensity"
(Quantum mechanics is our best model so far for the microcosm, the universe of
the very small — as well as some macrocosmic systems such as
superconductivity and superfluidity.)
Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am
in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That
would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this
website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in
... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever
really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the
Mysteries of the World
.
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond.
[...]
— Katya Walter,
Tao of Chaos
Sub-title:
Merging East and West
(1994, 1996)
Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda,
Our Secret Planet
(2005)
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particular 'Mystery', although we will examine and explore all possible
viewpoints pertaining to each 'Mystery' — including the fringe
AND the mainstream.
We will, of course, come to a conclusion (eventually!) about each 'Mystery' ...
even if that conclusion may eventually turn out to be 'as yet unresolved' or
'unexplained to our satisfaction'.
