John Atkins:
CLASS OF 1971
Dallas High SchoolClass of 1971
Dallas, OR
Churchill High SchoolClass of 1971
Eugene, OR
John's Story
In some ways, being me was a curse. And yet, it was an education. I was a shy, quiet, person who did not like the limelight and had a hard time relating to people my own age. What most people did not know was that I was a genius trapped in a child's body. Most of my friends were older. Hell, everybody was older (I was the youngest kid in my class).
When I say my friends were older, I mean several years older. I could not relate to my peers and they certainly could not relate to me. Not that they particularly wanted to. :)
I was rebellious (still am) and many of you remember me as a bit of an outlaw. That was a misnomer of sorts. But it stuck.
On September 3, 1969, I was sent to MacLaren (reform school) for being out of parental control. The authorities have told me that this could not happen today. That is some consulation that has been long coming as the event became a major stigma in my life.
In 2003, I sold my life story to Publish America and they made a book out of it. Since then, I have published some two dozen books under various pseudonyms. Jonathan Rundy is my main facade.
My last four books have been on theoretical physics...more specifically, astrophysics/planetary motion. The interesting thing about those was that I took a huge leap of faith and published each book as I was actually still developing the theories. So, much of it is nonsensical.
I do not believe in a force of attraction. Newton's laws of gravity are compromised by his erroneous assumptions. Nowhere in the universe is there any sign of a force of attraction. There is a force "push" which, by its very nature, causes time to be unidirectional.
Gravity is a consequence of light. Therefore, in order to defeat gravity, one must control light. Now that we have computers, we might get there.
I do not want to bore you...so I will post more about our universe on my bulletin board. I think even those who have no interest in such matters will find it interesting. You will never look at the world the same way again. Guaranteed.
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was younger. That was kind of strange, considering that I was immensely afraid of heights. Nonetheless, I enjoyed shows about space and watched Lost In Space religiously.
I enjoyed being alone and often went for walks in the woods. There I would fantasize about stumbling upon a flying saucer. In fact, I have seen several since.
As you may have guessed, Flight of the Navigator is one of my favorite movies. That is the closest that Hollywood has ever come to my fantasy.
I am not so shy anymore. And I got over my fear of heights by learning to fly a helicopter. It was a Bell Jet Ranger (just like the ones you typically see on the news).
I read a book about Edgar Cayce and figured out that the human body goes through a complete changeover every seven years. At 21, I decided to try to sing and, after much practice, I began to get the hang of it. By 23, I was performing professionally. And I still like to do Karaoke on ocassion.
I have written several books on domestic violence. Abusive people are fairly easy to spot. And, despite the myth, most abusers were not, themselves, abused. Quite the opposite. Most abusers were spoiled rotten little pricks whom escaped the obligatory ass-whippin'.
The world is nuts today. We have tied the hands of both parents and teachers. Kids need to understand that there are consequences to their actions. Instead, we teach them how to manipulate and confuse them by accepting their temper tntrums as proper behavior.
Some nut job decided it was abuse to paddle your child. Unfortunately, the child grows up believing that it is his/her right to throw tantrums in order to get their way. And they tend to believe that you do not love them if you do not let them get away with controlling you. Duh!
Oops, getting side-tracked again. Will try to post more on that in my bulletins.
I am against the United States government. Our country is so corrupt. We have allowed the mafia and their jewish cohorts to ruin us. Time is ticking.
I advise people on how to make money. Of course, this advise is catered to poor and lower income people. But works just as well for rich folk.
Do not play the stock market. It is the world's largest casino and the deck is stacked. Short-sellers will rob you every time. Those CEOs are raking it in by providing "insider" info to their mob associates on Wall St. Ain't no man worth millions. And all that does is rob stockholders.
Don't play the markets. If you want to invest in a safe haven, try metals. Silver, lead, and copper are your best bets. Remember the 1960s?
I used to go up to the store and trade paper dollars for silver dollars. Instinct. I did not realize, until later, that silver dollar...Expand for more
s were worth more in silver value than in U.S. dollars.
Anyway, I reiterate, remember the 60s? Well, history has repeated. This time, instead of silver, it is copper. Almost all pennies made prior to 1982 were made of copper. It takes about 152 pennies to make a pound. With copper already over $3. a pound, each penny is worth two cents. In other words, hoard your copper pennies. Where else can you double your money simply by saving it?
Supply and demand. In economics, bread and butter. Population keeps growing; metals do not. Sure, they mine them...but the supply of metal is limited to whatever the Earth contains. Unlike stocks, you'll never lose with metals.
I hope that I am not boring you. I have one more topic which I would like to address before closing. Global warming.
Now, before I can eplain global warming to you, I need to digress back to planetary motion. Specifically, I wish to explain how the earth came into being.
Several years ago, the headlines touted the striking of the Shoemaker-Levy 5 comet into Jupiter. Many people, scientists included, shrugged it off as being what it was and nothing more. In their minds, the only extraordinary thing about it was simply that we had witnessed it.
That comet was made of iron. By the time that it reached Jupiter, it was a ball of molten metal.
Do you know how shotgun shot is made? They take molten lead and pour it into a cold kettle of water. As the lead strikes the surface tension of the water, it rolls up into a perfect sphere.
Look around. Where else does one see perfect, or near perfect, spheres? Planets. Moons. See?
As the comet struck Jupiter (Jupiter is a ball of ice), hot metal pressed against cold ice (water) and formed a ball which, by my estimation, is rolling around on Jupiter. And, just like we make big balls out of little snowballs, that comet is growing. Eventually, when the comet's mass increases sufficiently, the rapid rate of rotation of Jupiter will toss it off into space.
When you look at the four largest planets, you see that they are all balls of ice that have more than sixty moons apiece. And now you know the rest of the story.
Almost. Let us return to global warming.
The earth was once a moon of Jupiter. Ditto for Venus, Mercury, and Mars. As the Earth moved closer to the sun, the methane ice that surrounded our iron core began to melt.
The primary compound within that ice was ammonia. Ammonia consists of molecules of nitrogen and hydrogen.
As the earth's surface warmed up, the hydrogen bonded with oxygen which was being formed by interactions with the iron core. This left the nitrogen to fend for itself.
You probably do not know this, but our atmosphere is primarily nitrogen...being somewhere between 80 and 90%.
The hydrogen that bonded with the oxygen became H2O (water). Be patient, I am almost to the global warming part.
BY a simplistic process of reverse osmossis, brought on by overpopulating the planet, the oxygen is disappearing. It is disappearing as more and more oxygen bonds with something more congeneal than hydrogen. Carbon.
Humans exhale carbon dioxide. This, in turn, bonds with oxygen. As more and more oxygen gets depleted, more and more hydrogen bonds with nitrogen. And we get neat little things like acid rain and, you guessed it, global warming.
Will global warming destroy us? Historically, it does do a lot of damage. Think of it this way. As more and more water gets dumped into the oceans, there arises more and more kinetic energy. All of that water causes the planet to wobble around. The more water, the greater the wobble. And it could not come at a worst time.
You have, undoubtably, heard of December 21, 2012? Planets are where they are because of tidal action brought on by harmonics. In a harmonic, an application of force on one side of a foci will produce an exponential force on the other. In the case of planets, we apply a given force, x, on one side and we get a force of 2x on the other.
Picture that chain of secession. Mercury gets x. Venus gets 2x. Earth gets 4x, etc. With the Earth wobbling, the additional energy becomes a huge problem.
Worst case scenario is that we lose our moon. I won't bore you with that but let's suffice it to say that our fate will be comparable to that of Venus.
Don't let that ruin your day. It is what it is. We cannot change it because it is too late. We have already reached critical overpopulation. Truth is, we are all dying. None of us gets out alive. No point in being bummed about it.
See, I told you I was cursed. Can you think of a greater curse than being able to see so many things so clearly and not being able to get people to listen?
I apologize if I wasted your time. You wanted to know who I am...well, this is it. :)
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