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Infinite Earths Just Got a Whole Lot Crazier
A little over a year ago, I was sitting on my bed and watching the TV series Supergirl when The Flash joined the episode I was on. He got there by going so fast that he opened a wormhole and landed on Supergirl’s Earth. When he got there, he ended up explaining the Theory of Infinite Earths and how each Earth has it’s own vibrational frequency, and it got me thinking. Keep in mind I had never really been a conspiracy theorist, mostly because I didn’t know it was a thing, but this whole thing reminded me of another theory that was gaining pop culture popularity: the Mandela Effect.
By Jayce Borgmann8 years ago in Futurism
The Accident
6:00 PM. Turners school of Co-Operational Learning is an exclusive private school lying just outside of Seattle, Washington, designed for very special students. One of those students is Amber McGee, a 13-year-old girl from New Brunswick, Canada. Today, she lies in her dorm room feeling anything but special. She stares constantly at her school books on her desk wishing that her studies might remove the memories of the day from her mind as they had done for her in the past. As this fails, she allows herself to be thrown back into the disaster area.
By Richard Jones8 years ago in Futurism
Writer's Toolbox—Story 1
The exercise I'll be using from The Writer's Toolbox requires you to randomly choose one stick from three categories—the First Sentence, the Non Sequitur, and the Last Straw—each of which have a writing prompt to use (I will have these in bold).
By Elysa Noelle8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Timeless' 2.5
Well, I'll just come right out with it and say that Timeless 2.5 was easily the finest episode of the series so far —across one and a half seasons -- and that's because the episode was one of the best JFK and time-travel narratives in any medium, page or screen, of any length that I've seen.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Buddhist Doctrines
Hello, again New Age Thinkers! I am extremely glad to be writing part two of the Buddhist document. This article is going to observe and discuss the various doctrines that make up Buddhism. Like stated in the last article, this is a three-part series. I will be posting one more article about Buddhism! There are many doctrines that make up the Buddhist faith. Although at first glance they may seem complicated, they are not. The intention of these articles is to break down the religion so that it is simple enough to understand while still introducing the religion for you.
By New Age Thoughts Chicago8 years ago in Futurism
The 60s Never Saw Kuri
Cultural explosion, an understanding of freedom and sexual liberty turned the 40s into the 60s. The baby boomer era where suddenly people were aware that they could own their own individuality and liberalisms. And in the middle of all this staunch change, a letter was passed between two very unlikely people.
By Becky Maxwell8 years ago in Futurism
10 Best Science Fantasy TV Shows on Netflix
Of all the different genres in the current TV landscape, none has produced more exciting shows than science fantasy. Science fantasy shows are all over the place these days, they're multiplying like rabbits and attracting a ton of viewers. Not only that, but most are garnering critical acclaim as well. Throw in Netflix, a streaming service that allows people to watch endless hours of their favorite content without feeling guilty (besides that pesky "Are you still watching?" message that comes up, the answer is always yes, Netflix), and suddenly there is more demand than ever before for quality fantasy/sci-fi shows. With so many shows dropping all the time, it can be hard to keep up with all of them. Fear not, I have compiled this list to solve that very problem. So without further ado, here are the ten best science fantasy TV shows on Netflix.
By Jesse Kinney8 years ago in Futurism
Shout-Out to Jack Dann and Joseph F. Patrouch
This came up at Monday's conference on Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion, which I organized at Fordham University. It arose in my answer to a question I posed to the panel on "Science Fiction Looks at Space Travel and Religion" about what was each panelist's most memorable, profound, or otherwise significant example of a science fiction story, book, movie, or TV series they read or saw, in which the subject was space travel and religion. On the panel with me were David Walton, Alex Shvartzman, and Lance Strate. Among others in the audience were conference participants Guy Consolmagno, Molly Vozick-Levinson, Brittany Miller, Michael Waltemathe, James Heiser, Mark Shelhamer, and Tom Klinkowstein.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Best Science Fantasy Authors
The art of science fiction is that it can be, and simply represent, pretty much anything within or without the boundary of reality. Imagination, in this regard, is free and open for practically any formulation, connotation, and activity. If one presses even deeper into these vast confines of unreality and shape-shifted real worlds never before beheld, they will find the very contexts of sci-fi fantasy. This is the subsetting, or the subgenre, of science fiction, a place where not only the real can be distorted, but even that of the distorted can be compressed and compounded even further.
By Salvador Lorenz8 years ago in Futurism
Science Fiction Terms You Should Know and How They Originated
If there was one thing that Orwell's 1984 got right, it's the insane effect that language has on reality. The moment that a word seems to be invented, it has an impact on humanity's overall state of being.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart8 years ago in Futurism
Are You Ready for aCommerce?
You read it right, aCommerce. This is what comes after eCommerce and stands for Automated Commerce—companies using algorithms and artificial intelligence to gain more efficiency from both the side of the business and the consumer.
By Georgia de la Bertauche8 years ago in Futurism
