Christoff Hendriks

Advocate, friend, disenfranchised, philosopher, procrastinator. not necessarily in that order!

[Duff Crave @duffcrave]

A hot new bombshell has entered the villa

[Hilary Duff Brasil @HilaryDuffBR]

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[World Alternative Media @WorldAltMedia]

Strange.
Daveigh Chase, and actress from The Ring and Lilo & Stitch died at 35.

What stands out though is that she is the same woman that as a little girl, Diddy and Ashton Kutcher famously invited to their parties and got weird with her on video.

She recently recounted the experience and it was terrifying.

Now she is dead.

Why are so many people who speak out about Hollywood ending up dead?

[Cream @Creamofthe1960s]

MELISSA BENOIST
SUPERGIRL.

[Waken Minds 𓂀 @wakenminds]

I’m not buying that a pre-electric, horse-and-wagon society built this..

[Charlie Scream! @charliescream]

Britney Spears

[Fan Account @breatheonmiley]

Most streamed album tracks from Blackout on Spotify:

#1. Get Back — 45.03M
#2. Get Naked (I Got a Plan) — 35.73M
#3. Toy Soldier — 15.19M
#4. Freakshow — 14.26M
#5. Hot as Ice — 13.87M
#6. Ooh Ooh Baby — 13.11M
#7. Heaven on Earth — 12.12M
#8. Perfect Lover — 10.88M
#9. Why Should I Be Sad — 10.32M
#10. Everybody — 5.97M

[CRUSH FLIX @CrushFllix]

Tate MacRae is so perfect

[CRUSH FLIX @CrushFllix]

Hilary Duff, the finest woman 🥵

[Hilary Duff Diary @HilaryDiary]

19 years ago today, Hilary Duff attending the 2007 Much Music Video Awards in Canada (June 17, 2007)

[Hilary Duff Diary @HilaryDiary]

11 years ago today, Hilary Duff at her "Breathe In. Breathe Out." album signing event in New York (June 17, 2015)

[Whiplash347 @Whiplash437]

😳😱👽🔅THIS WAS POSTED ON A REDDIT ACCOUNT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO

"These images, which are spreading rapidly on social media and being shared as 'leaked images of Agartha,' are associated with the legendary underground kingdom of Agartha, said to be located beneath the Earth.
Agartha, a legend that emerged in the 19th century, is said to be the home of an advanced civilization in the depths of the Earth.
According to the theory, there exists a civilization here with giant cities, secret passages, and advanced technology."

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Chapter 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring, “The Shadow of the Past,” was originally very different from its final version.

When Tolkien first drafted the story, Frodo was still called Bingo Baggins, and it wasn’t Gandalf who revealed the truth about the Ring. That role belonged to Gildor Inglorion, who explained the Ring in reference to the Black Riders in Three is Company.

As Tolkien developed the history of the One Ring in 1938, he inserted the chapter, gave the exposition to Gandalf, and created “The Shadow of the Past,” the chapter he later called “the crucial chapter” of the entire story.

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” - Gandalf

Art by Ruth Sanderson

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

In Yemen, 90% of men and 50% of women chew khat daily. A quarter of all their household income is spent on this plant.

Alcohol is haram, but they are all drug addicts. Make it make sense.

[Tarts 🍒 @Tarts4K]

it’s lil but it’s moving 🫨

[Steve Inman @SteveInmanClips]

No one taught him manners, until today.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

You have heard of Atlantis, the island civilization that vanished beneath the sea. What you may not know is that Plato gave a precise date for when it sank, and that modern science has found a real event that happened at almost exactly that moment.

First, it is worth remembering what Plato actually wrote. We tend to treat Atlantis as a myth he invented. But in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, Plato does not present it as a fable or an allegory at all...

The story, he says, had been carried to Athens by the great lawgiver Solon, who had traveled to Egypt and heard it from the priests of the city of Sais, keepers of records far older than Greece. One old priest tells Solon: "O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you." The Greeks, he says, have forgotten their own past, while the Egyptians had written it down.

And the priest gives a specific timeframe. The war between the Proto-Athenians and Atlantis, he says, took place 9,000 years before Solon's visit. Then, in Plato's words: "there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune... the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea."

Nine thousand years before Solon places the event at roughly 11,600 years ago. And here is where it becomes strange...

That date, 11,600 years ago, is almost exactly when one of the most dramatic climate transitions in the recent history of the planet came to an end. Geologists call it the Younger Dryas: a period when the Earth, already warming out of the last Ice Age, suddenly plunged back into near-glacial cold for more than a thousand years.

According to modern science, that cold period ended around 11,600 years ago, and it ended abruptly. The warming returned with great speed, and the great ice sheets resumed melting.

That melting is the part that matters here. Some scientists have identified a phase of rapid sea-level rise at the close of the Younger Dryas, beginning around 11,500 years ago, known as Meltwater Pulse 1B. The studies that support it describe sea levels surging upward as the ice sheets collapsed, drowning coastlines that had stood for thousands of years.

Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis, in other words, falls almost exactly on the moment when modern science says the oceans may have risen suddenly and swallowed land at the end of the Ice Age.

I want to be careful and honest here: none of this proves that Atlantis was real. Most scholars believe Plato invented the story to illustrate his ideas about pride and the fall of great civilizations, and they may well be right.

But the coincidence is hard to shake. A philosopher in the fourth century BC, insisting he was recording true history passed down from a people who kept ancient records, said that a great land was destroyed by floods roughly 11,600 years ago.

And thousands of years later, with ice cores and radiocarbon dating, we discovered that the last Ice Age really did end at almost exactly that moment, in melting ice and rising seas.

Plato could not have known any of this. He had no way to date the end of the Ice Age, no way to know that the oceans had once risen and erased the old coastlines of the world. And yet the moment he chose, for the drowning of his lost civilization, is the same moment the seas truly rose.

Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Or perhaps the Egyptians, as the priest told Solon, simply remembered something the rest of us forgot. Maybe we really are a species with amnesia...

I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:

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Thanks for reading.

[𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨 @Mr_Perfect1117]

Hilary Duff is 38 and a mother of 4 sons. How is this even real? 🤯🥵

[Actress Velvet @ActressVelvetHQ]

Mother of 4. Hilary Duff at 38. 😳🔥