Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Topic: “Globe”
💬 Quote Library — containing “Globe”
📖 Excerpts Library
It Is Probably a Sphere
Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Earth Had to Be a Sphere
It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
All of a Sudden, Proved to Be a Sphere
The first of these schemes derives from the fact that the generally accepted "flat earth" was, all of a sudden, proved to be a sphere by the voyage of Magellan's ships around the world.
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
No Reason Why This Old Philosophy Should Be Longer Concealed
Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...
Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck
Rolling Round the Central Sun
In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...
Source: The Origin of FreeMasonry
Being a Sphere, It Therefore Had to Be a Finite Object
Being a sphere, it therefore had to be a finite object, with a finite—that is, limited—surface area. With this awakening the ideas of world trade and related colonial proprietary rights were born.
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
🎼 Song Excerpts
When the Earth Folded In on Itself
Will you tell me what you saw, and I'll tell you what you missed, when the ocean met the sky - You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye - When the Earth folded in on itself
Source: Ocean Breathes Salty by Modest Mouse
Pop Goes the World
Everybody, tell me have you heard? Pop goes the world
Source: Pop Goes the World by Men Without Hats
The Voyage to the Corner of the Globe Is a Real Trip
The voyage to the corner of the globe Is a real trip
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🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Globe”
We’ll Begin With a Spin
Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it.
High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.
It Was Always Burning Since the World’s Been Turning
And I’m trying to believe in things that I don’t know. The turning of the world, the color of your soul.
We Just Want To Dance Here, Someone Stole the Stage
We’re seeing things in a different way and God knows it ain’t his.
We Built This City on Rock and Roll
…how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.
But I Feel It Still…
If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling. Listen to reason, reason is calling.