LOL. I knew it!!!
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Punditry
The year was 2012. I think. Unfortunately, I didn´t take any notes. But one newspaper pessimistically predicted that by the year 2020 (or thereabouts) all chocolate would be gone in the world. Cuz climate change will destroy all cocoa plantations. Another newspaper (or maybe the same one!) also optimistically predicted that by the year 2020 (or thereabouts) the world would have abundant energy from fusion power. Assuming somebody pays something like a trillion euros for developing such power plants.
What we really got was...more of the same. I can still buy chocolate in my supermarket. And I can turn on electricity from fission power or hydro.
But yeah, it´s gotten more expensive. Much more, actually. They also missed a couple of crises which did happen. You know, the demographic crisis, the migrant crisis, a dude named Trump becoming US president, that kind of stuff. Nothing to worry about, just some slight oversights, I´m sure.
And now sports!
Never trust a convert
Here we go again...
Uncle Eddie is skeptical of religious conversions. Do people really change? As in really-really? A propos Russell Brand´s alleged conversion to Christianity.
Climate crisis?
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So I just saw a Christmas decoration here in Sweden which associates Santa Claus with...fallow deer?! Ahem, surely *everyone* knows that Santa should be paired with reindeer! You know, caribou. That kind of thing. Any connection to climate change?
What´s next, I wonder? Unicorns? LOL. Merry Xmas, btw.
Your shopping mall is sentient
Thomas Sheridan is "back on track" with something he calls VoN-X. Yes, it´s fringe Forteana. On New Year´s Day 2024, the Miami police investigated an incident at the Bayside Marketplace shopping mall. Rumor has it that space aliens had invaded! And so on. Sheridan originally believed that it was a psy-op (in itself a fringey belief) but now thinks that shopping malls are sentient and that the building itself somehow "created" paranormal entities and poltergeist phenomena. Our man also claims that he and a friend once made themselves invisible using magick (I think I remember that video).
Sheridan might return with an X-file video on the New Jersey drone flap, but personally I think that was just people going bazooka over completely regular drones, not some kind of Fortean event.
That being said...make of this content whatever you wish!
Hemma till jul?
Och ändå finns det personer på nätet som tror att Ryssland har enorma reserver (av kanonmat?) som gör att de kan besegra NATO? Till jul?
The True Cross
Sounds legit...
>>>The second event was of even greater importance. In the year 326 the mother of Constantine, Helena, then about 80 years old, having journeyed to Jerusalem, undertook to rid the Holy Sepulchre of the mound of earth heaped upon and around it, and to destroy the pagan buildings that profaned its site. Some revelations which she had received gave her confidence that she would discover the Saviour´s Tomb and His Cross. The work was carried on diligently, with the co-operation of St Macarius, bishop of the city.
>>>The Jews had hidden the Cross in a ditch or well, and covered it over with stones, so that the faithful might not come and venerate it. Only a chosen few among the Jews knew the exact spot where it had been hidden, and one of them, named Judas, touched by Divine inspiration, pointed it out to the excavators, for which act he was highly praised by St. Helena. Judas afterwards became a Christian saint, and is honoured under the name of Cyriacus.
>>>During the excavation three crosses were found, but because the titulus was detached from the Cross of Christ, there was no means of identifying it. Following an inspiration from on high, Macarius caused the three crosses to be carried, one after the other, to the bedside of a worthy woman who was at the point of death. The touch of the other two was of no avail; but on touching that upon which Christ had died the woman got suddenly well again.
>>>From a letter of St. Paulinus to Severus inserted in the Breviary of Paris it would appear that St. Helena herself had sought by means of a miracle to discover which was the True Cross and that she caused a man already dead and buried to be carried to the spot, whereupon, by contact with the third cross, he came to life. From yet another tradition, related by St Ambrose, it would seem that the titulus, or inscription, had remained fastened to the Cross.
I´m sure this is a true story. Or no?
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