This thread's getting a bit long. Nobody in his right mind is going to read it all through and probably nobody will even read this far.
That's the reason I think it's time to wrap it up, tie a nice bow around it, and let it slide into the scrap-heap of LP history.
That's also the reason I feel comfortable making what I hope will be the final post on this tread.
The people I've been referring to as jackals, the people someone else referred to as pirahna (sp), aren't members of the lottery ownership organizations.
They're aliens. They're just trying to help.
I wouldn't have realized that if I hadn't seen Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, circa 1968) for the first time in several decades:
Nicholson: "That was a UFO, beamin' back at ya. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago - we seen forty of 'em flying in formation.
"They-they-they've got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been coming here ever since nineteen forty-six - when the scientists first started bouncin' radar beams off of the moon. And they have been livin' and workin' among us in vast quantities ever since. The government knows all about 'em."
Nicholson describes more of his "crackpot idea" to Dennis Hopper about how aliens from the planet Venus (from a "more highly evolved" society without war, money, or political leaders) have already landed on Earth. They don't reveal themselves as living and working people because they are indistinguishable from normal human beings. Their mission is to help "people in all walks of life" to evolve into a higher destiny. In his theory, the US government leaders have repressed information about the extraterrestrials who represent the status quo:
Nicholson: "Well, they are people, just like us - from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved.
"I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders, because, I mean, each man is a leader. I mean, each man - because of their technology, they are able to feed, clothe, house, and transport themselves equally - and with no effort..."
"Why don't they reveal themselves to us is because if they did it would cause a general panic.
"Now, I mean, we still have leaders upon whom we rely for the release of this information. These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the tremendous shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems.
"Now, the result of this has been that the Venutians have contacted people in all walks of life - all walks of life". (He laughs) "Yes. It-it-it would be a devastatin' blow to our antiquated systems - so now the Venutians are meeting with people in all walks of life - in an advisory capacity.
"For once man will have a god-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all."
Right here on LP.
Aliens
Thanks to all of you who responded to this thread.
Best to all of you,
Jack