Truth, like wine, comes from the grapevine.
One of the buildings at the University of Sydney is made entirely out of seaweed.
We didn’t actually elect Kevin Rudd. That’s John Howard in a new body. Didn’t you wonder why Howard was so magnanimous in defeat? Why Rudd carefully avoiding talking about the unions in his thank you speech? It’s why Rudd looks conservative, Christian and business-minded, so unlike the way the Left is supposed to be: he is. I voted for Socialist Alliance. It’s where the ones seeking real change work.
Canberra isn’t build in circles so the alien overlords know where to land, idiot. It’s part of a complex summoning circle so the government can get advice from demons. Duh.
The best language to use for esoteric rituals ain’t Latin- every man an’ his dog speaks Latin in occult networks. Nah, for the real good stuff, use Pictish. It’s the native tongue of western demons, see, ’cause it’s the most primal language of western europe, predating all the Indo-European stuff that turned into modern languages.
Michael Behe is the reincarnation of Isaac Newton. No, wait, hear me out. See, Newton was an alchemist, right? And he used alchemy -a pseudoscience- in a real scientific way. A paradoxical kind of guy. Well, now that Einstein is the figure for science, Newton got demoted and has turned himself into someone that is using science -biochemistry in this case- in a real unscientific manner. He had to change his name, of course.
You know how some potato and corn chips curl onto themselves, forming little tubes? If you look through ’em the right way, you can see into the spirit world.
Australia is a sinkhole capable of draining all the world’s oceans. Luckily, they built the Great Dividing Range to keep the sea from getting in. But the terrorists are out to destroy it.
Having read in semi-canon that Newton actually ascended as The Magus, with his scientific understanding of the world during the Age of Reason (or whatever Age it was), your rumor is all the more amusing. What better alchemy for a Magus than to turn matter into energy on an explosive scale? Einstein definitely qualifies. Newton using science now in a very unscientific manner is a very cool inversion, since in life he basically studied un-science in a very scientific manner (when he wasn’t, of course, actually studying science, or working for the Mint.)
There’s an idea for a Room of Renunciation – one that is only interested in inverting one’s modus operandi.
Fun fact: Nobody knows Einstein’s dying words. The attending nurse didn’t speak German (I haven’t thought of a way to UA this, but it feels like it has potential.)
I was very pleased with my Newton/Einstein inversion. It came to me in the midst of a four-thousand word paper analysing Newton’s alchemical studies. You pretty much nailed my reasoning there.
Now that is a fun fact. Hmm. I’m sure something could be done with that, but I’m not sure what.
The novel Jitterbug Perfume has a neat explanation of Einstein’s last words. It turns out that even if the attending nurse did speak German it wouldn’t have helped, because he was speaking an extinct, ~7th Century slavo-gothic language.
There is an endless series of alternate realities existing simultaniously in a major western Australian city. The wall is really thin between them, too much spell-slinging in one place is enough to get you there. Sometimes nothing at all is needed to slip between dimensions–you just wake up one morning and notice that Hitler won the war, turn a corner ang Al Gore won the 2000 US presidential elections, etc. The only way to get back to where you belong is to kill your alternate self. Smartasses call this the “Crisis of Infinite Perths”