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Okay, let’s get this show on the road. I will begin by sharing research related to the 1971-1972 effusive eruption which is similar to what is happening now. I will be sharing old photos and crediting sources so not to confuse everybody that it’s not related to today’s activity.
To begin: the type of volcanologist I am is a “historical and social” volcanologist, which means I research how past and present activity impact the people who live with volcanoes. A lot of my data are old written records, interviews, photographs, newspapers etc.
This is important to note and acknowledge there are multiple ways to research volcanoes. I therefore know less about the geology BUT knowledgeable in volcanic hazards and how people live with these hazards.
Photos taken by Arnold Da Silva and donated by Vincentian geologist Lance Peters, all taken sometime before the 1971 activity. Important context for 1971-1972 in relation to today’s activity: there was a crater lake. A lot of water was present...
...Water is a key ingredient in making volcanic eruptions explosive BUT sometimes it isn’t. 1971-1972 had no explosions and little to no seismic activity associated. Photos in the 1970s by Arnold Da Silva and donated by Lance Peters.
Hello! So, after 41 years, the volcano l have been researching, La Soufri\xe8re on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, is erupting in the form of non-explosive lava activity (Drone footage from @uwiseismic Facebook page). I\u2019m here to answer questions BUT...(1/2) pic.twitter.com/TemOGjEE7Q
— Dr. Jazmin Scarlett (wear a mask!) (@scarlett_jazmin) December 29, 2020
To begin: the type of volcanologist I am is a “historical and social” volcanologist, which means I research how past and present activity impact the people who live with volcanoes. A lot of my data are old written records, interviews, photographs, newspapers etc.
This is important to note and acknowledge there are multiple ways to research volcanoes. I therefore know less about the geology BUT knowledgeable in volcanic hazards and how people live with these hazards.
Photos taken by Arnold Da Silva and donated by Vincentian geologist Lance Peters, all taken sometime before the 1971 activity. Important context for 1971-1972 in relation to today’s activity: there was a crater lake. A lot of water was present...
...Water is a key ingredient in making volcanic eruptions explosive BUT sometimes it isn’t. 1971-1972 had no explosions and little to no seismic activity associated. Photos in the 1970s by Arnold Da Silva and donated by Lance Peters.
This is Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and dictator. Right-wing strongman of the 90s-70s BCE.
I've been thinking a lot about Sulla this past week, and people like him.
Ever heard of him? I bet not. 1/
You've certainly heard of Julius Caesar who (the story goes) ended the Roman Republic, and was slaughtered by freedom-loving patriots.
But everything Caesar did--marching on Rome, setting up one-man rule, remaking the Senate--had been done by Sulla 40 years before. 2/
So what's the difference? Both men were fantastically wealthy oligarchs--but within that spectrum, Caesar was considered a liberalizer, and Sulla a conservative.
Caesar said he was going to change things; Sulla said he was re-establishing the old ways. 3/
Rome didn't have a written Constitution. Instead they had a set of customs called the "mos maiorum," or "way things are done." We'd call them "norms."
If you asked Sulla and his supporters what they were fighting for, they would've said the mos maiorum.
Which was a lie. 4/
And we KNOW it was a lie, because invading the pomerium (sacred boundary) of Rome was overturning the heaviest norm there was.
Sulla did that in 88 BC, over a personal slight. He was mad he didn't get a generalship.
Is now where I make a modern equivalence? No, I'll wait. 5/
I've been thinking a lot about Sulla this past week, and people like him.
Ever heard of him? I bet not. 1/
Sulla\u2019s March on his own capital #Rome in 88BC and his destruction, chaos and terror led directly to the destruction of the Republic by Pompey and Julius Caesar half a century later. pic.twitter.com/voJSciVSw3
— Paul Harrison (@PaulHar77393852) January 7, 2021
You've certainly heard of Julius Caesar who (the story goes) ended the Roman Republic, and was slaughtered by freedom-loving patriots.
But everything Caesar did--marching on Rome, setting up one-man rule, remaking the Senate--had been done by Sulla 40 years before. 2/
So what's the difference? Both men were fantastically wealthy oligarchs--but within that spectrum, Caesar was considered a liberalizer, and Sulla a conservative.
Caesar said he was going to change things; Sulla said he was re-establishing the old ways. 3/
Rome didn't have a written Constitution. Instead they had a set of customs called the "mos maiorum," or "way things are done." We'd call them "norms."
If you asked Sulla and his supporters what they were fighting for, they would've said the mos maiorum.
Which was a lie. 4/
And we KNOW it was a lie, because invading the pomerium (sacred boundary) of Rome was overturning the heaviest norm there was.
Sulla did that in 88 BC, over a personal slight. He was mad he didn't get a generalship.
Is now where I make a modern equivalence? No, I'll wait. 5/
TURN IT UP LOUD.... does anyone know the significance of this OMG...!!
Shall I share the story??
This was written by Beethoven, in 1830 (111 - God's Creation) and it goes for 5:55 (15 - God's Grace) to capture the Moonlight on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
It was written in the 19th century and was extremely innovative for its time - 19: Spiritual awakening and growth.
👇
Lake Lucerne is exquisitely beautiful (I haven't been there yet) but called to me a lot as a child). This music God was just showing me was capturing the energy of the ancient portals that connect the grid to the stars and underground worlds (just saw this in a vision). 👇
A little search to show me this demonstrated that there are over 20,000 underground bunkers dotted around those lakes, and that go to these deep underground tunnels. And that this is one of the places where children were held captive.
A quick reference to Gematria follows:
Switzerland is the playground of the Illuminati, and was one of their playgrounds. Here, we find a convergence of worlds, where CERN is found not far, and that this is a portal for receiving demonic transmissions (I saw this in a vision before I looked at the results)
Shall I share the story??
\U0001f64f\U0001f64f\U0001f37f\U0001f37f\U0001f37f\U0001f37f\U0001f37f\U0001f5e3\ufe0f\U0001f5e3\ufe0f\U0001f5e3\ufe0f\U0001f5e3\ufe0f\U0001f5e3\ufe0fhttps://t.co/cjEluj7BHa
— Agent Kek (@chasingthehare) January 22, 2021
This was written by Beethoven, in 1830 (111 - God's Creation) and it goes for 5:55 (15 - God's Grace) to capture the Moonlight on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
It was written in the 19th century and was extremely innovative for its time - 19: Spiritual awakening and growth.
👇
Lake Lucerne is exquisitely beautiful (I haven't been there yet) but called to me a lot as a child). This music God was just showing me was capturing the energy of the ancient portals that connect the grid to the stars and underground worlds (just saw this in a vision). 👇
A little search to show me this demonstrated that there are over 20,000 underground bunkers dotted around those lakes, and that go to these deep underground tunnels. And that this is one of the places where children were held captive.
A quick reference to Gematria follows:
Switzerland is the playground of the Illuminati, and was one of their playgrounds. Here, we find a convergence of worlds, where CERN is found not far, and that this is a portal for receiving demonic transmissions (I saw this in a vision before I looked at the results)
'Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, a long-standing friend of China, died of pneumonia on Sunday aged 89.' China Daily - 2005 https://t.co/koUwjWIlRR Below Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath and late Chairman Mao Zedong at a meeting in May 1974 in Beijing.
Chinese former Premier Zhu Rongji pictured below with Sir Edward Heath, former Prime Minister of the UK.
https://t.co/ubhD94q7Km
Director of Huawei Mr Victor Zhang, is an Honorary Member of the 48 Club. Along with many other members in our British Institutions...They give speeches at The Youth Group 'The Icebreakers'.
Who was behind Mao ZEDONG CCP Founder/Despot?
Chinese former Premier Zhu Rongji pictured below with Sir Edward Heath, former Prime Minister of the UK.
https://t.co/ubhD94q7Km
Director of Huawei Mr Victor Zhang, is an Honorary Member of the 48 Club. Along with many other members in our British Institutions...They give speeches at The Youth Group 'The Icebreakers'.
Who was behind Mao ZEDONG CCP Founder/Despot?
Shared this on the gram but a friend's comments made me think I should share this here.
Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in his 20s. By the time of his murder 10+ years later, his viewpoints had evolved. He had begun to explicitly link white supremacy to capitalism.
https://t.co/qzRARQ2Zw4
Remember: he was in Memphis when he was killed supporting the sanitation workers strike over wages and working conditions. This is a man who said, "what good is the right to sit at a lunch counter if you cant afford to buy a hamburger?"
King also spoke out strongly against the war in Vietnam. I've copied an excerpt from his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam Below but you should listen to the whole thing
I also want to note, the NYT's and WaPos reaction to King's speech at the time (and the NAACPs)
Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in his 20s. By the time of his murder 10+ years later, his viewpoints had evolved. He had begun to explicitly link white supremacy to capitalism.
https://t.co/qzRARQ2Zw4
Remember: he was in Memphis when he was killed supporting the sanitation workers strike over wages and working conditions. This is a man who said, "what good is the right to sit at a lunch counter if you cant afford to buy a hamburger?"
King also spoke out strongly against the war in Vietnam. I've copied an excerpt from his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam Below but you should listen to the whole thing
I also want to note, the NYT's and WaPos reaction to King's speech at the time (and the NAACPs)
Can confirm. I lived in C. Springs in 98-99, and sporadically for years after that, when fate brought me through.
Focus on the Family had its claws DEEP in that town, at every level, and especially in the military families stationed there.
For years, including my own military service, FOTF was my yardstick for crazy, over-the-top evangelical conservatives.
Until I met a particularly memorable Air Force chaplain, who opined that he felt Rev. Dobson didn't go nearly far enough.
And I grew up in Indiana, a hotbed of Christianity-motivated murders and mutilations.
Like, parents cutting off their own kids' hands to keep them from masturbating. That kind of crazy.
But back home it was individuals going off the rails. Not massive, organized megachurches.
The Air Force Academy is a place where people enter as children, are immediately thrust into a deeply traumatic environment, their personalities assaulted and broken down from all sides, then built back up to be leaders.
Anyone going through that experiemce--ANYONE--will reach out for any emotional lifeline they can find.
And a lifeline of unconditional love and salvation sounds mighty good when the rest of your life is people screaming at you for being a worthless failure.
Focus on the Family had its claws DEEP in that town, at every level, and especially in the military families stationed there.
Focus on the Family moved to Colorado Springs in 1992, and soon, megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who helped to radicalize the town, would come to head the National Association of Evangelicals.
— Chrissy Stroop in the winter of our discontent (@C_Stroop) January 10, 2021
My family moved to the Springs in 1993. Our milieu adored the nearby Air Force Academy. https://t.co/gEFV2cc8Jd
For years, including my own military service, FOTF was my yardstick for crazy, over-the-top evangelical conservatives.
Until I met a particularly memorable Air Force chaplain, who opined that he felt Rev. Dobson didn't go nearly far enough.
And I grew up in Indiana, a hotbed of Christianity-motivated murders and mutilations.
Like, parents cutting off their own kids' hands to keep them from masturbating. That kind of crazy.
But back home it was individuals going off the rails. Not massive, organized megachurches.
The Air Force Academy is a place where people enter as children, are immediately thrust into a deeply traumatic environment, their personalities assaulted and broken down from all sides, then built back up to be leaders.
Anyone going through that experiemce--ANYONE--will reach out for any emotional lifeline they can find.
And a lifeline of unconditional love and salvation sounds mighty good when the rest of your life is people screaming at you for being a worthless failure.
This is a great question, so let's get into this in more detail!
The question here is is essentially, "what did Philip II (father of Alexander) do to the Spartans, and how do we know that?"
A thread! 1/25
First off, our sources for the life of Philip II are really poor. Unlike the multiple biographies we have of his son Alexander III ('the Great'), we have no sustained biography of Philip II. Consequently, we're left to piece together his reign from disparate sources. 2/25
There's a strong tradition that Philip II just left the Spartans alone. That tradition comes from Plutarch, who preserves that classic Laconic reply where Philip threatens that if he enters Spartan territory he would destroy them and they respond 'If' (Plut. De Garr. 17). 3/25
Frustratingly, some modern scholars repeat that tradition uncritically (e.g.Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus (1990), 225; otherwise excellent book) and so it gets included in things like the wikipedia article with the Laconic phrase and nothing more: https://t.co/VyazqjrkZ0 4/25
But we actually have a fair bit of evidence that Philip did invade Sparta and that the end results were less than the Spartans might have hoped for! 5/25
The question here is is essentially, "what did Philip II (father of Alexander) do to the Spartans, and how do we know that?"
A thread! 1/25
Hey I love this and want to send it to someone but I can't find a source for Philip invading them, Wikipedia says he just ignored them?
— Greg Luce (@garglfluz) January 17, 2021
First off, our sources for the life of Philip II are really poor. Unlike the multiple biographies we have of his son Alexander III ('the Great'), we have no sustained biography of Philip II. Consequently, we're left to piece together his reign from disparate sources. 2/25
There's a strong tradition that Philip II just left the Spartans alone. That tradition comes from Plutarch, who preserves that classic Laconic reply where Philip threatens that if he enters Spartan territory he would destroy them and they respond 'If' (Plut. De Garr. 17). 3/25
Frustratingly, some modern scholars repeat that tradition uncritically (e.g.Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus (1990), 225; otherwise excellent book) and so it gets included in things like the wikipedia article with the Laconic phrase and nothing more: https://t.co/VyazqjrkZ0 4/25
But we actually have a fair bit of evidence that Philip did invade Sparta and that the end results were less than the Spartans might have hoped for! 5/25