>>8932965

Well, speaking for myself, this was immediately understood. I'm not sure about other anons, but this was part of my primary education. We had to know this stuff in order to go on to highschool. Granted, this was back in 2003…. I saw the doors slamming shut behind me as I went through school. History books were changing.

Anyway - Q says to be ready in the same post as the lanterns. Q is not telling us that two lanterns are lit - but that we should be ready to receive signals. Or… Someone should, and it doesn't hurt for us to be ready, either.

Part of the fun of what Q is doing is that he could be speaking only to one person out there, but the method by which he does it allows us all to take a role real or imagined that plays a part in the magnum opus to come.

The twin lanterns can also symbolize or mean many different things. That is the power - the magic - of symbols… The ability to convey an array of concepts and context with a simple image.

Not to be confused with an icon.

It may seem like semantics, at first, but show a child the save icon and they will not understand why it looks the way it does. Show someone a lantern in the dark… And it holds an intrinsic value that can't be erased by any organization.

Symbolism will be their downfall, but not for reasons many anons seem to think. Most people are good and strive to be good according to what they know and understand. Those who would take symbols as icons for the occult… Can't prevent the awakening to their meaning.

The thing about two lanterns is that if one should go out for any reason, the other can light it back up.

Together, you are strong.

From a single light, a new dawn can be lit from even the darkest of times.

Did Q mean all that?

Who knows. That is the magic behind it all, and why symbols are sought as icons by those seeking to make their ideas seem legitimate.

>>8933078

When China sells a shoe they make for $0.35 to us at $5 below our domestic market's rate… Where do you think the profit goes?

China produces the world's medications - or at least ours in America. Why has cost skyrocketed despite decreases in per capita production costs?

After internally gimmicking their markets to produce artificially low cost products to the Western market and destroying all domestic competition, what do Chinese manufacturers often do?

Not the fly-by-night amazon brands of "US seller" - but the ones contracting to supply brands?

The company I work for buys sinks made in China for less than it would cost us to purchase the raw materials - when (not if) these same companies eventually begin entering into direct competition with us, do you think their government is going to play fair? Or will the communist government allow them to operate at a real financial loss in order to, in the long term, remove our business and, thereby, our industrial capacity?

Why did Chinese investors purchase food processing, and what sane national defense policy would allow foreign ownership of major strategic suppliers of food?

Look at a graph of ore smelting operations inside the U.S. - steel and aluminum are the two big industrial metals.

China was burning coal back in 2012 to produce aluminum from ore. The process is so insanely inefficient it is absurd (our own aluminum ore smelt was located near hydro-electric power for a reason) - and they were selling it for pennies to our dollar. It's insane (there again, aluminum that shatters like glass when dropped is one of those things you get what you pay for to some extent).

But I digress.

>>8933266

Ara ara…

You seem to be a larp of an operating larp at this point.

>>8933359

Ever hear the story of the Bamboo Cutter, anon?

I remember as a kid in 2nd grade, we had a transfer student from Japan. Small town - so everyone got a little asian fever going on and in my case it seems to have become something of a permanent affliction. Anyway - there was a PBS production about Big Bird going to Tokyo. There's a guest appearance of the character in question, who arrives to help Big Bird after he is lost and away from home.

When you couple this type of story with the legend of the Imperial Regalia from Japan (gifted to Amaterasu's grandson) - it becomes rather obvious that the Japanese feel a particular affinity with the people from the sky - IE - the gods.

Now, as for what Q meant by this… It's hard saying. If you watch "The Melancholy if Haruhi Suzumiya" - I argue that Haruhi is actually the alien - or, rather, an interface just like Nagato Yuki - an alien in human form who is probing the ability of the human species to define the nature of reality around them. To which, the main character, Kon, plays a role as a matching interface.

Pay attention to how Haruhi is first noticed by Kon and how he pays attention to her signalling attempts via hair style.

Perhaps some of us are a bit more than we realize. Perhaps there is more to all of us than we currently allow ourselves to think. But, this could rapidly devolve into brain-in-a-jar existentialism, so I'll truncate it here.

>>8933485

https://youtu.be/2QibkSYbyMY

It's a great series, and part of the history of chan culture/weaponized autism;

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anime-haruhi-math-mystery

If you have a bit of time to entertain media that likes to help expand one's thinking…. Or so I believe.