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Your eternal space journey continues. Gather the children around the thermal radiation fires and read this grade-A space science doctrine.
With your great deference to corporate science and real life worship of space, I offer this magnificent collection of doctrine, dogma, and techno space religion.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
It’s worth mentioning that author, James Tiptree Jr. writing as – Alice Sheldon, in 1987 loaded a revolver with two bullets, calmly pointed the gun at her husband and killed him, and then turned the gun on herself to finalize space opera.
Senescence and long suffering too much to bare for science fiction people.
Even after reading about her double suicide murder, and understanding the death-spell and magick sure to be born from this text, I still enjoyed it very much, and if you can separate reality from fiction (phantasy from non-fiction), maybe you will enjoy it too.
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Some of my highlights:
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by James Tiptree Jr.
Book last read: 2023-01-02 17:23:33
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Chapter 5: I NTRODUCTION BY G RAHAM S LEIGHT
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Chapter 6: I NTRODUCTION II BY J OHN C LUTE
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Highlight: Because the human race is destroying the Earth its mother, Doctor Ain spreads a virus which will destroy the human race
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 7: T HE L AST F LIGHT OF D OCTOR A IN
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Highlight: Later they found he had been explaining that the virus utilized the body’s own immunomechanisms, and so defense was by definition hopeless.
Notes: Gain of function.
Chapter 8: T HE S CREWFLY S OLUTION
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Notes: Covid vaccine is the virus.
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Notes: Face mask people.
Chapter 8: T HE S CREWFLY S OLUTION
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Chapter 9: A ND I A WOKE AND F OUND M E H ERE ON THE C OLD H ILL’S S IDE
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Chapter 9: A ND I A WOKE AND F OUND M E H ERE ON THE C OLD H ILL’S S IDE
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Highlight: I don’t know if our birth rate is going, that’s not the point. Our soul is leaking out. We’re bleeding to death!
Notes: Corporate government.
Chapter 10: T HE G IRL W HO W AS P LUGGED I N
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Highlight: Placental decanters. Modified embryos, see? Fit the control implants in later. Without a Remote Operator it’s just a vegetable.
Chapter 10: T HE G IRL W HO W AS P LUGGED I N
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Highlight: Our economy, our society, would be cruelly destroyed.
Notes: CDC
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Notes: 5G
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Highlight: “Yes, Sir. I—I’m to go to parties and buy things and use them as they tell me, to help the people who work in factories.
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Highlight: Multiply that by a million consumer industries, and you can see why it’s economic to have a few controllable gods.
Notes: Celebrities.
Chapter 10: T HE G IRL W HO W AS P LUGGED I N
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Highlight: The idea that art thrives on creative flamboyance has long been torpedoed by proof that what art needs is computers. Because this showbiz has something TV and Hollywood never had—automated inbuilt viewer feedback. Samples, ratings, critics, polls? Forget it. With that carrier field you can get real-time response-sensor readouts from every receiver in the world, served up at your console. That started as a thingie to give the public more influence on content.
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Highlight: One great big vortex of lies and garbage pouring round and round, getting bigger and bigger, and nothing can ever change. If people don’t wake up soon we’re through!
Chapter 10: T HE G IRL W HO W AS P LUGGED I N
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Highlight: They’ve got the whole world programmed! Total control of communication. They’ve got everybody’s minds wired in to think what they show them and want what they give them and they give them what they’re programmed to want—you can’t break in or out of it, you can’t get hold of it anywhere. I don’t think they even have a plan except to keep things going round
Notes: Google
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Highlight: The news.” He laughs. “There’s nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up, and nobody would know it if they didn’t want.
Notes: Prophecy fulfilled.
Chapter 11: T HE M AN W HO W ALKED H OME
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Highlight: IT IS CERTAIN THAT THIS EXPLOSION PRECIPITATED THE WORLDWIDE HOLOCAUST WHICH ENDED FOREVER THE AGE OF HARDSCIENCE.
Notes: end of life church of science.
Chapter 12: A ND I H AVE C OME UPON T HIS P LACE BY L OST W AYS
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Highlight: privileged to be a Scientist and search the stars for knowledge
Notes: Science people. Get off the planet.
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Highlight: And here he was among Star Scientists, adding his mite to man’s noblest work.
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Notes: Burn their temples to smoldering ashes.
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Highlight: Did he hope to do Science with his feeble human senses?
Notes: Dispose of the bots.
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Highlight: Was it possible that a Scientist could have been bribed?
Notes: lol – corporate science.
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Highlight: Was it possible that a Scientist could have been bribed?
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Highlight: Only a living man, stupid enough to wonder, to drudge for knowledge on his knees. To risk. To experience. To be lonely. No cheap way.
Chapter 13: T HE W OMEN M EN D ON’T S EE
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Highlight: When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like—like that smoke. We’ll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You’ll see.
Chapter 13: T HE W OMEN M EN D ON’T S EE
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Highlight: Her voice is a whisper. “All the huge authoritarian organizations for doing unreal things. Men live to struggle against each other; we’re just part of the battlefield. It’ll never change unless you change the whole world.
Chapter 14: Y OUR F ACES , O M Y S ISTERS! Y OUR F ACES F ILLED OF L IGHT !
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Chapter 14: Y OUR F ACES , O M Y S ISTERS! Y OUR F ACES F ILLED OF L IGHT !
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Chapter 14: Y OUR F ACES , O M Y S ISTERS! Y OUR F ACES F ILLED OF L IGHT !
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Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: That was about when the big flares started.
Notes: Sun flares.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: one of them gave orders and the others did whatever they were told,
Notes: Essential workers
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: From eight billion to two million . . . Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, America itself—wiped out. There weren’t any more babies. World sterility, from what?
Notes: Vaccine depopulation mandate.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Notes: Help us, Father.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: It seems to have been an airborne quasi-virus escaped from Franco-Arab military labs,
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Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Notes: Fake people.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Notes: Mrna injections.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: Early androgen treatments.
Notes: Fake men.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Notes: Trans confusion in space.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: The men are all gone. They died off in the epidemic. There’s nothing but women left alive on Earth.
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: I am taking command of this ship in the name of the United States of America under God.”
Chapter 15: H OUSTON , H OUSTON , D O Y OU R EAD?
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Highlight: Let the women learn in silence and all subjection; Timothy two eleven. They shall have sons to rule over them and glorify Thy name.
Notes: Amen.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Notes: Space religion. Gtfo Elon Musk.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Highlight: A nurse at the State Orphans’ Crèche told her that a student OB had crushed it, in the birthing that killed her mother.
Notes: Health authority.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Highlight: At fifteen her mother had been assigned to a visiting Manager who fancied virgins.
Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Highlight: Lots of people longed to go to space, of course; among other things, the spacers’ life was thought to be a privileged one.
Notes: Gtfo Jeff Bezos
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Highlight: But on board a long flight, what we need sexually is a human waste can.
Notes: Transhuman space people w Elon Musk labotomy devices.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Highlight: She was headed for the Empire. Whose name, she knew quite rationally, was Death.
Notes: Space religion.
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Notes: Prison smart city.
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Highlight: But she felt nothing but joy—joy in her perfect freedom.
Notes: Stop the nightmare.
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Highlight: gazed out at those star fields straight ahead that could be seen through the gyrostabilized scope.
Notes: Apollo astronauts saw no stars in “space”. Look it up.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Highlight: Beyond them she could just see the lighted sparkle of running river water, free water, presumably fresh.
Notes: Pay for water. Slaves on prison planet.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Notes: Chimera people in space.
Chapter 16: W ITH D ELICATE M AD H ANDS
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Chapter 17: A M OMENTARY T ASTE OF B EING
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Notes: Bill Gates population problem.
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Notes: Techno space religion doctrine.
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Notes: Bill Gates population problem.
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Notes: Elon Musk space religion.
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Chapter 17: A M OMENTARY T ASTE OF B EING
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Notes: Space sacrament of exploration.
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Chapter 17: A M OMENTARY T ASTE OF B EING
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Notes: Atrazine.
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Notes: One world nightmare government.
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Notes: Prison planet.
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Notes: Gtfo jeff bezos and elon musk.
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Chapter 17: A M OMENTARY T ASTE OF B EING
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Notes: Garbage space religion.
Chapter 17: A M OMENTARY T ASTE OF B EING
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Notes: Space bishops.
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Notes: Bill Gates
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Notes: Caveman history revealed.
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Highlight: We all regret, we, here who are joined in this mission have always regretted—that the United Nations of Earth who sponsored our mission were not more perfectly united when we left.
Notes: One world shit can for mrna slaves.
Chapter 17: A M OMENTARY T ASTE OF B EING
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Notes: Amrev 2
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Notes: Apes in space.
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Notes: Elon Musk
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Chapter 18: W E W HO S TOLE THE D REAM
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Chapter 19: H ER S MOKE R OSE U P F OREVER
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Chapter 19: H ER S MOKE R OSE U P F OREVER
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Notes: End times.
Chapter 19: H ER S MOKE R OSE U P F OREVER
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Chapter 19: H ER S MOKE R OSE U P F OREVER
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Chapter 20: L OVE I S THE P LAN THE P LAN I S D EATH
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Chapter 20: L OVE I S THE P LAN THE P LAN I S D EATH
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Chapter 21: O N THE L AST A FTERNOON
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Notes: Repent. It’s over.
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Notes: Covid vaccine die off.
Chapter 21: O N THE L AST A FTERNOON
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Chapter 22: S HE W AITS FOR A LL M EN B ORN
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Chapter 22: S HE W AITS FOR A LL M EN B ORN
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Notes: Satan’s army of covid nurses.
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Notes: Mrna transfection.
Chapter 23: S LOW M USIC
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Notes: Now.
Chapter 23: S LOW M USIC
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Notes: Trans human future people.
Chapter 23: S LOW M USIC
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Notes: Get off planet, Elon Musk.
Chapter 23: S LOW M USIC
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Notes: Bill Gates
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Notes: Dung heap compost pile.
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Notes: Gtfo, Elon Musk
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Notes: Heavy.
Chapter 24: A ND S O O N, AND S O O N
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Notes: Lol. Space religion in one sentence.
Chapter 24: AND SOON, AND S O O N
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Notes: Gtfo. BILL GATES
Chapter 24: AND SOON, AND S O O N
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Notes: Prepare for Arrival.