Link: Immanuel Velikovsky
Pilloried by the usual close minds back in the fifties, his third book: EARTH IN UPHEAVAL.. sold a ton of copies. He had been "boots on the ground" all over the world, and found fish and other sea life as well HIGH IN THE Tibetan mountains, and in other places as well.
I read this, and also the classic: THE BIBLICAL FLOOD AND THE ICE EPOCH...looking at the facts that support the Biblical flood and other references.
Last time I had an intelligent conversation about this...after our "Phalanx" was split up after the Goldwater DELIBERATE sell out, was here:
In the only really happy time of my life (outside of 1999 to 2006) in Placerville, CA, whenever a flatlander or "back East-er" came to visit, they always wanted (circa early to mid '70's) to "see beautiful Lake Tahoe........which was code for : "I am drooling all the way from Iowa to toss some nickles in slot machines and make some money".
So, it being just under an hour (weather permitting) to South Lake Tahoe, up we would go.
I never was a gambler. Years back on zoggy forum, I believe I posted my experience with a "system" for winning on the crap tables. More on that some other time.
So, since in those days they still had the old fashioned "wheel of fortune", they being operated by a human and not electric motors (and programmed software), I would usually play a buck (big spender) on the five to one slot.
Very often I would hit for five bucks and let it ride. Maybe ten times in those years, it paid for dinner and gas.
One night a nice lookin YOUNG woman was operating and it was slow, so it was just me.
Popped a whole five on the five to one. Bingo, twenty five juicy FRN's. By then there were no silver dollars left. In the sixties we could shoot up to Vegas from L. A and get silver dollars for face value. I remember being ticked when they asked a buck fifty for them. (I'd take a carload at the price today)
Anyway, I pulled twenty and then noticed that she had a book to read during super slow times. Lo and behold, she was an archeology major at the University in Reno, and was reading EARTH IN UPHEAVAL". We Velikovsky'd a while, and I kept a buck or a five on the five to one, having noticed that a practiced operator could pretty much "get the feel" of the force for a spin. We talked books, I kept something on the five to one, funds were coming my way steadily, so I popped for ten to one as well, and walked away with a refreshing young mind with which to exchange thoughts and a hundred twenty to the good.
That was probably 1978, and the last time I ......wait... I think I went for broke a time or two, had a twenty and laid in on the line for craps, snake eyes'd out or Seven'd out in another roll.
Those oodles of hours playing "the system" in the early sixties ruined that nutty gambler feeling when you get to say. "Eight , Skate and Donate" or something like that.
Thankfully I have no vices. OK, I was naughty one time and am paying dues to the max.
But that is tucked away in my locked heart.
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