Time Cube, a pseudoscientific personal web page created by Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray in 1997, is a conspiracy theory that claims that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide conspiracy to teach lies. The theory, which claims that each day consists of four days occurring simultaneously, is based on the idea that time is cubic. Ray’s personal model of reality, which he developed around 1997, states that all modern physics and education are wrong and that Greenwich Time is a cube.
The theory is a classic in online conspiracy truthers and an outlier. It is often dismissed for being unintuitive, as it runs contrary to government teachings. Ray spoke about Time Cube at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 2002, and a professor tried to cancel the lecture before it took place. Time Cube is arguably one of the most notorious single web pages online, with an endless wall of text about the conspiracy to suppress an explanation for the universe.
From a philosophy standpoint, the truth content of Ray’s “Time Cube” model is objectively indeterminate, as it is infinitely different from reality. The world is a cube, time is a cube, and you are a cube. This conspiracy theory suggests that modern education and physics are hiding the ultimate truth: that each day actually consists of four separate, simultaneous days.
Time Cube was a self-published outlet for Ray’s “theory of everything”, which posits that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide conspiracy to teach lies. The theory has been criticized for its unintentional humor and lack of labeling or description.
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📹 Time Cube | Down the Rabbit Hole
In the late 1990s, a man named Gene Ray creates a baffling new theory delivered through an unintentionally humorous website.
Ray had a pretty big family, with children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren apparently. He seemed to have had a rather fulfilling life and was probably loved until the end despite being a nutcase. Richard, on the other hand, seemed to be just a really troubled person overall. His interactions with Ray were horribly awkward to watch. it’s a shame what happened to him.
I’m old enough to have been a programmer in Silicon Valley when Time Cube first appeared, and while I’m sure there were some who trolled Gene Ray the general attitude most people took with him was akin to how Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico was received in his era. There are certain times and places where the mad but harmless eccentric is embraced by the community and at least with regards to the MIT lecture those students weren’t mocking him so much as celebrating an eccentric character who fearlessly challenged the established wisdom motivated by his deep certainty in the truth of his belief. Gene Ray was for many the Don Quixote of the Internet.
I used to work in a small independent movie theater back in college. We had a regular customer that came in once a week who we named Vietnam John. John was a very eccentric old man. He normally worry black tights/yoga pants, a neon yellow athletic shirt and a large fur coat. He was missing most of his teeth and had long hair that was dyed black and kept in a pony tail. He loved flashlights, and always had a collection of pen lights to show off. Despite being on the kooky side, he always came off seeming intelligent. I got the impression that John spent every day reading anything he could. He had an amazing ability to recall things he had read, but little filter in what he read or absorbed from it. He was just as likely to talk to you about physics as he was about the illuminati. Gene Ray sounds and talks just like John, and cube time sounds like something John would talk about. Maybe he’s just a different independent theater’s Vietnam John that just happened to get famous.
having a schizophrenic father who i’ve watched spiral downwards makes so many of the down the rabbit hole articles so saddening to watch… not nearly as upsetting as templeos, but the amount of people who egged gene on, warping his perception of how he’s seen and laughing behind his back, and then there’s the fact that gene had adult kids and grandkids that probably had to watch him spiral down too just… really bums me out honestly.
This story reminds me an experience I had when I was in college. I worked at a local sandwich shop and this older gentlemen would come every day (sometimes multiple times a day), and talk to me. Over time, he got comfortable enough with me to share things about his life. He was somewhat obsessed with a system he created for mathematically being able to discern people’s personality based on the construction of their faces. He would talk about it excitedly, if not a little frantically, until his own thoughts would fail him and he would shrink away. It felt like one of those things that he was really sure of, but he just couldn’t communicate it. He would randomly pop in the deli with magazines of peoples faces and hold it up against mine. “You’re a peak!” he would explain. He had also characterized the different personality types humans could have based on geographical land forms. He was somewhat of a sentimental man, and was very warm. I learned that he was actually living in the local retirement home, and in his younger days had been a physicist at a very well known laboratory. I can’t remember if he had any family, but he definitely had a few friends in the neighborhood (fellow shop owners/workers who he had sort of charmed). He wasn’t an egotist like Gene Ray, but he definitely felt like he was holding some deep truth about existence that no one else could understand. I always humored him, but took more interest in him than his theories (which he warmed up to). I don’t know what ever happened to him, but I do know that his health was deteriorating by the time I left.
This guy reminds me of a guy who lives in my town called Keith carlock who has been studying invisibility since the 90s and sometimes comes on public access whenever he can to talk about his invisibility and holodeck theory. He’s a nice man, but consumed by schizophrenia and thinks the local newspaper has been suppressing his ideas for over 20 years.
I’m gonna be honest, I stopped laughing and enjoying this around the time of that longer interview with Gene. I started feeling intensely sad and empathetic. That guy is not just crazy, he’s fundamentally broken. There’s just nothing there, nothing at all but nonsense. His head does not work right, and it has led him to this state where he literally doesn’t know up from down.
“Your father was a fish.” Seriously though. These are all sad stories and the Time Cube is no exception. I can’t help but just see an old man suffering from some fashion of mental illness, and then a similarly wounded young man getting lost in these delusions. Committing suicide when his hero insulted him, then Rey just becoming fully (if he ever wasn’t) incomprehensible. That all said, I still have no clue what the Time Cube is.
I was thinking about the granddaughter, and how it was strange she stopped by right as Time Cube got home with Time Cube Jr., and then it dawned on me that she was probably just checking up on him, making sure he was safe. He did invite a 20 year old complete stranger from Australia to stay with him. He must have told his family about the visit beforehand. Can you imagine what they thought when he told them all that? Good on her for making sure he’s safe, if that’s how it all went down. R.I.P. Ray and Richard. Especially Richard. That young dude breaks my heart. I mean, he made that trip ALONE, all by himself. He must’ve been a really sad young dude. Poor guy.
I love how he completely dismisses the thumb and big toe from the ends of the limbs. The four corners of a classroom is so telling – i’ve been sitting through the article wondering why the numbers 8, 6, 12 (vertices, faces, edges) haven’t shown up more and now I’m starting to understand that this man doesn’t understand the difference between a square and a cube.
In geometry, what we commonly call a corner in a room is actually a vertix, where three or more faces meet, a corner is where two faces meet Cubes have 8 vertices, 12 corners and 6 faces. What’s even funnier is that he is actually describing two conjoined pyramids. That’s an octahedron, which has 12 corners, 6 vertices and 8 faces.
Gene sounds like me when I had an hour left to write a lit paper – frantically grasping at any connections I could make to deeper themes but making literally no sense because I probably never even had the time to read the book anyway (in all seriousness though this is really sad I wish we had better support systems for people like him)
Turning a old man into an internet joke is heartbreaking. Your well researched and well thoughtout documentary hit me right in the feels. Thank you for looking into Gene Ray as a person and not as a joke. Keep up the awesome work. And also Richard story is just so hauntly sad . To hear a person be rejected by the man he so idolized is painful
Around the 29 minute mark I was certain this was going to turn into a murder-suicide thing. From the way Richard unenthusiastically keeps saying (Yeah) and seems to only be half listening, you can tell that this old man isn’t the wise time lord he had hoped for. I genuinely feel bad for both these men and am thankful that neither became violent, especially in Richard’s case.
Everything Knudsen does feels like a documentary. I wouldn’t mind hearing about the more obscure stuff with a professional team of editors, sound design, the whole thing. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve actually felt something when finishing a article. The Collyer Brothers and Time Cube left me with a feeling of despair and sadness. Henry Darger left me feeling uneasy. Something about the way Fredrik does his articles always has some effect on me. Maybe my time cube is malfunctioning…
Its amazing to see how crazy and extreme people are online but when you see there life outside of all of that its so interesting. He has a sweet and loving family and doesn’t seem like he had any strange upbringings. Its pretty apparent he has a mental issue. Hes not a bad guy or anything just stubborn.
It really blew my mind that not only does it mention the old Graveyard of the Gods, which I posted all the time on, but one of my posts was actually shown on screen! I was Hierophant. Wow. I do miss CubicAO guy. We made a whole subforum for him and we were all sad when he killed himself. We had nothing but love for him.
It’s websites like these that really show the innovation of content creators on You Tube. Down the Rabbit Hole is better than any documentary series I’ve seen on TV, Cable or Netflix. Keep up the good work, Fred! You are an inspiration to artists like me, that we can produce content as good as and better than traditional media!
Sadly this man’s case is neither special nor unique, as anyone who has spent time inside a psychiatric ward (as either an employee or a patient) can attest. These places are FULL of sad little old men like this one with fantastic ideas that they’re convinced will revolutionise the world and will share them with anyone willing to listen; you just don’t meet them very often in the outside world. I distinctly remember one such guy explaining to me (totally unbidden) his grand idea for a literal escalator to Heaven. He was completely serious: it was going to be a double escalator (one up, one down) that people would stand in line on, and once they reached the top they would receive a quick blessing directly from God and then immediately get on the down escalator so the people behind them could take their turn in an assembly-line process. And the whole thing was supposed to be powered by somehow converting water into fuel; he had drawn up a detailed diagram and everything.
I actually kind of see the initial logic. His first rambling about the ‘four days’ is a misunderstanding, while he knows that the four isolated point have different times at the same time, he doesn’t consider that the ‘day’ is a gradient over all four. So if you take the ‘four points’ and think of them as separate instances not connected, they all have one day, adding them all together is where he’s pulling the ‘4 days to one 24 hour period’ from. He misses the big picture, then starts to look for supporting evidence instead of taking on a different way to think about it.
This dude would answer EVERY email he ever got. Don’t know how he had time for anything else. I would write him with absolute nonsense I made up on the spot and he would seriously try to debate it, until realizing that I was clowning him and hitting me with this zinger: “A fart has more meaning than what you just said.” Been, er, borrowing that one ever since. EDIT: I was 12-13 so yeah. When I found out how old he was I felt bad. Also may I add in the warped annals of schizophrenic theories of the world and whatnot, Timecube at least started out with an axiom (of sorts) that I was able to understand and at least had something approaching coherence. Again, I am judging this purely against the standard of Schizophrenic rationales, so, you know.
Breathlessly, I struggle on hands and knees; the demons of society and life weighing me, attempting to drag me down and begging me to stop and focus on the work. Wordless, I struggle on. Before me lies a hole of monstrous size. Without a second thought, I throw myself over the lip of this massive hole, the demons cries fall upon deaf ears. The wind flows with me as I fall. Back Down The Rabbit Hole. I forgot the popcorn….
You, Sir, are on another level. The quality of your articles are second to none. The research is outstanding, and the presentation is too. I have never subbed so quick in my life. I usually watch 3-4 articles before I decide to subscribe. This guy got me after one. I’ve now finished all his articles in 2 days. 😔 Can’t wait for the next. 😁
As someone with a lifelong interest in psychology, I’ve always found it very interesting how schizophrenic people often try to explain their thoughts through numbers and mathematics. Of course, not all schizophrenic people do this, but it is a common symptom. People experiencing the mind-altering effects of substances such as DMT also frequently try to explain their visions and hallucinations through numbers, such as sacred geometry. I have no idea if the two are at all related neurologically, but it’s still fascinating nonetheless.
This was some awesome work man. It’s an intensely sad story. I still can’t believe that he garnered a true follower and then alienated him to the point of suicide. Every moment Ray spent in public with crowds of people all coyly patronizing him enough that he came away feeling positive about the experience is mind boggling. How could the interaction go so poor with a true disciple? It seems the first person that genuinely tried to engage and share insight seriously triggered something in Ray. Thanks for making the article, it’s truly a sad story. I am really interested to know how much his family knew about his theories and online persona.
I have bipolar type 1 so I can sometimes get myself into psychosis when I’m not taking my meds. The mix of grandiose delusions and paranoid delusions make this whole frame of mind, thinking you’re so smart that you’ve cracked everything or drawing relations between things that make no sense is scary. I can only imagine how bad schizophrenia must be, at least I have periods where I’m able to regroup my thoughts eventually and realize what delusions led to my erratic behavior and the medication I’m prescribed seems to help a lot. This guy is clearly not able to ground himself after letting his imagination and fears take flight.
Richard was NOT a troll. Anyone who knee-jerked to this reaction must have never met to or spoken to an Aussie irl. Especially someone from a more rural part of Australia. Using the OCEAN acronym for psychology Richard was: Extremely high in Openness Pretty high in Conscientiousness (his articles are actually really good for 2007-8 and he managed to get to America to meet Gene) Low range in Extroversion as his teachers and friends called him Introverted. Extremely high in Agreeableness Extremely high in Neuroticism (not just one but many symptomatic co-morbid mental illnesses it seems) He says (Yeah.) 90% of the time he’s talking to Gene but when he does ask questions he’s actually truly digging into some of the things he wants to talk about while also making genuinely empathetic bridges by talking about childhood and family. He’s an introvert but he’s really making an effort. Don’t let the way our sentences always make it sound like it’s a question fool you, that’s just our way of opening the door to invite the other person into the conversation, it’s not to troll anyone.
Here’s a nice long email I got from Gene back in 2006. It was in response to a fairly mean email from me poking fun at his website. I honestly didn’t expect a response. It appears that you are wising up some at the end. The slash represents a zero neutral value between equal opposites – as if an equator between opposite poles. I possess NASA film depicting a molten lava equator around a planet. Close examination shows top half of lava equator moving in one direction and the bottom half moving in an opposite direction. The only way this can happen is if the opposite hemispheres rotate in opposite directions during construction – and before they hardened. The opposite rotation friction created the molten lava inside. See evidence of opposite rotation on globe – where North America and Africa depict such an opposite creation direction. I talked softly for many years and it excited little interest. Even now what you call my ranting, is mostly ignored. Maybe only being shot at or starvation will gain the proper respect for the Coming Cubic World Paradigm. Your opposite brain analytical thought process was given to the academic singularity bastards when you were age 6. You only know the singularity lies you were taught to know. Your analytical thought process to think opposite has been lobotomized. The simple math of 4 Earth quadrants rotating 4 simultaneous corner 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth is above your academic brotherhood taught singularity android mentality.
This reminds me of my mentally ill grandfather and what would happen if he managed to get a following on the internet. He has been working on a religious book since before I was born. Though this guy manages to have friends. Grandpa does a great job isolating both him and my grandma. I think he has been kicked out of almost all of the churches in town.
Came up with a general theory on what Gene meant with his initial pitch of the Time Cube (obviously he has some form of schizophrenia and pretty much everything after that is unclear): Imagine if you were standing on the equator of the Earth, but are 4 different humans at the same time each evenly spread across the globe. While one of your bodies would see the sun rise, another would see it fall, while one is experiencing mid-day, another is experiencing mid-night. What Gene tried to do was almost explain that different times of the day occur at different actual times for each sector of the planet. To summarize, Gene just gave a really fucked explanation of a concept that everyone on Earth is already aware of and one that resulted in the creation of time zones so many years ago. He just got hung up on the idea of fours for some dumb reason (when, obviously, someone at one end of a time zone and someone at the other end would experience a sundown/mid-day/whatever, on an astronomical level, at different times since time zones are on a scientific level gradual). I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain such a fundamental concept of our reality, but Gene fucked up explaining it so hard and inserting in all this random talk of the “spirituality” of his time cube (what?) that I’m really surprised I was able to come up with any general comprehension of what exactly the guy was trying to say. Even still, I gotta feel sorry for him.
One of the saddest parts to me is that the main part of his theory is not even a complicated idea. It seems like he’s just misunderstanding how days are counted by everyone else and is describing it differently. We define a day as “the Earth completing one rotation”. He’s defining a day as “any part of the Earth where it goes from morning to night”. So of course he’s getting 96 hours/4 days because he’s saying Earth has four “sides” where it’s different times of day, which means that each of the 4 goes through one “day” by his definition, making 4 days. It’s like saying that there’s actually 4 race tracks and not 1 because there’s 4 cars in each corner of the track all simultaneously making their own laps.
I think I get it, but Gene was too small-minded. The Earth actually has an INFINITE number of “equators” (or to be more accurate to what Gene was talking about, “lines of longitude”), thus the Earth as a whole experiences an infinite number of middays, midnights, sun-ups, and sun-downs, which traverse across each line of longitude as the Earth rotates. However, this has absolutely no effect on the average person’s perception of solar time (time dictated by apparent motion of the Sun). This is because the average person (or any person, really) cannot teleport to several distant points on the Earth to experience the infinitude of different local solar times out-of-sequence. The most the average person can do is ride on an airplane between two distant points on the Earth, traversing a subset of all possible local solar times in-sequence, during which they will experience what appears to be either an accelerated diurnal cycle (if flying east) or a slowed diurnal cycle (if flying west). But again, this is of no consequence beyond causing the traveler to experience jet-lag. Basically, this guy stared at Platonic solids for too long and lost his goddamn mind.
i get why this guy became a meme bc some of the lines on his site are funny out of context, but jc this article is honestly just depressing. even in the first half i sorta only felt bad for the guy. what kind of person goes out of their way to mock and manipulate someone so clearly struggling with mental illness? then in the second half it just got so much worse. im not excusing rays actions towards that kid by ANY means but it hurts to think that all of this could have likely been prevented if people just left him alone and both him and the kid had access to treatment/a support system. humanity is truly disgusting in how we treat eachother sometimes
The mental aspect of this is really troubling. Here we see someone clearly in need of help for years, and he can’t even connect with someone who is basically where he’s going, and that guy kills himself, possibly because of his rejection, but it’s hard to tell. Some of the things people posted about the Australian guy troubled me as well. They didn’t seem like they were really trying to help him, the people who met up with him at least. It really saddens me that people who seem to be in serious need of help are just getting people to mock them. I could tell very early on that something wasn’t right with Gene Ray. Richard on the other hand, it was hard to see. I think he probably tried hard to hide how he really felt. It almost seems like when he met Gene he just became even more depressed, it sort of seemed that way in his voice. Why exactly he sounded despondent I don’t know. But I’m sure being rebuked after he returned only hurt him more.
I love the message at the end. Yeah sure it can be kinda funny to see something so absurdist but to poke and prod at someone mentally ill or deficient is cruel. I’ve spent time in a mental hospital due to depression, and while there I met a boy who was schizophrenic. He would make weird comments but was generally nice and calm. What really bothered me was that people would encourage his delusions, furthering his mental state into obscurity. It is really sad to be there, in person, and see how this can affect another person. So thank you for making it a point to mention how it can be unethical to do that to a person, it’s something we don’t often hear enough on the internet.
The weirdest part is, I understand the logic as to why he came to some of these conclusions. I mean, four times four equals sixteen. So he was talking about squares when he said that you’re part of four corners. But the eight corners on a square, or the six faces on a cube don’t fit into that because eight is only four times two, and six isn’t a multiple of four. So he said you can’t use sixteen, only four. That’s understandable as it’s simple math he explained in a convoluted way. How this grew into a malformed theory about a time cube, sexual dimorphism, multi-planar consciousness, and… microspermfish… I have no idea.
This is so sad and not even slightly funny, if you’ve worked with psychiatric patients it’s very clear he’s suffering from schizophrenia. This sort of obsessive and grandiose thought process is diagnostic. It’s shameful folks thought baiting him was amusing. I’m glad at least his family seemed to care for him.
Holy shit I knew I recognized that accent. I lived in cumming GA for two years. 1300 Peachtree Parkway right off 400 Highway. born and raised in Chattanooga and I’m back here in Chatt town now but COMMING Georgia is a great place right outside of Atlanta. Just expensive as hell these days, It’s been about 15 years and since then it’s developed massively
It’s really sad seeing how people still mock this guy in this very comment section If anything, this web-series shows how vicious people can be behind the comfort of their own screen, stalking and harrassing often mentally troubled or impaired people and for what? Because they spout nonsense or drew a shitty comic or whatever and were being kind of haughty about it on twitter? Just leave them alone for fucks sake! Having schizophrenia is hard enough as is, it wouldn’t suprise me if some people have actually killed themselves, becuase the internet had to start some holy crusade against them.
OH I GET IT! This is my third time perusal this and every time I try and understand the lunacy of his proposed system of thinking. I think I finally understand his idea that there are 4 days in a 24 hour cycle. think of a clockface that is devided directly across its centerpoint, with one half representing day and the other representing night. Now if you could spin this clockface in only 90 degree increments, you would have 4 unique times of day (as in Gene Ray’s example; Noon, sunset, Midnight, sunrise). Mr. Ray is not considering each of these as only times of day however, he is looking at the entire clock face of each of them and considering it its own full day. Hes not fully incorrect either, as it is one of those times somewhere on Earth, as in each of those 4 positions represents a correct clock somewhere on Earth, meaning that each of those 4 days are all happening simultaneously. I’m guessing this is where hes getting the cube from, if you only apply these 4 points on a clock to a 3d object, you get something with only 4 sides. What the north and south pole faces of his cube represent, I have no idea. The problem with his thoery is that he is using a created construct of time to base his idea off of, and not expanding its boundries. For instance, I could argue that its acutally not a cube, and instead a 8 sided construct, turning my original clockface only 45 degrees each time and not 90. If you keep expanding this idea, you get a circle, and not a cube. I think he got so diluded by getting obsessed with the number 4 that he tricked himself into thinking he has to be correct.
man… goodass article. props for being very mindful of mental illness. the internet makes it very hard to tell if someones just silly or they have personal issues effecting them. its part of why i hate this recent “cringe” culture meme thats been pretty popular. i… dont think ill be able to use timecube as copypasta material anymore. once you realize somethings written by a human it suddenly goes sour…
Earlier this year, a similar case happened in Brazil. There’s an electrical engineer that filed a legal complaint against Albert Einstein for “disturbing the advance of scientific knowledge” with the theory of relativity as it’s cause. He then proceeded to publish his studies on the “expansionist theory of Everything” where tries to explain the universe with ethereal fluids and stuff. All his content is in portuguese, but just in case he got 2 websites: “Josênio dos Anjos”(his name) and “cosmos answers”.
Watching this I was getting TempleOS vibes. Weird how in both stories somebody got hit by a train, both included schizophrenics with clear mental health issues beyond just schizophrenia and elicited reactions from enthusiastic and toxic followers. Fuck man, the internet is a wild and savage place for these people and their outlandish theories. I still believe we’re not meant to live so connected like this, it only ever ends badly with high levels of random user interactions from across the internet when usually these kind of people and their “science” would have been shunned wholesale by the surrounding community as pure hogwash. Now with the internet it’s used almost as a net (no pun intended) to catch others who are not only susceptible to this broken way of thinking, but also from creative and destructive detractors of the topic at hand who serve to either inflate or destroy the person in the spotlight. Idk man, every story about this sort of archetype of person (“high intellect” by self proclamation, clearly schizoid or mentally unstable, proffering a new science/concept only they have discovered etc) ends so super badly for someone involved. It’s almost like these people need to be helped, not lauded.
I was NOT expecting the ending for Richard. Crazy to think he was genuinely a troubled person who got sucked into a cult-like conspiracy. The whole article, I assumed he was playing along with Gene, yet the fact he took his own life after he essentially disowned him shows otherwise. R.I.P. you crazy bastard!
I didn’t even need to hear the confirmation that Gene had schizophrenia. He sounds exactly like my aunt, same paranoia, same obsession with specific topics, and same odd logic to everything. It’s sad that he wasn’t able to be treated. My aunt, too, refuses treatment though she has been formally diagnosed. That’s the nature of the beast, I suppose.
Okay… I think I kinda understand what Timecube is. He’s seeing patterns of 4 in the world around him, and thinks they are all related. Even if he has to arbitrarily sort things to fit the pattern (ex: the four “corners” of the day, the four stages of life, ect), which of course bolsters his case in his mind. From there he is weaving his personal beliefs in between, to forge connections that don’t actually exist between these coincidences. Add a massive ego and belief in his superior intelligence, then he thinks that every thought in his head thus must also be true and somehow figures into Timecube. He really needed help and support, and it’s awful that he didn’t.
Realized I saw this episode a long time ago, so when Qanonanonymous came out with a patron episode about the time cube I was like “Wait didn’t they already make an episode where an aussie goes to the US to meet his mentor, then takes his own life shortly after his return?”. Took a while for me to remember it was here I had first heard about it.
I had correspondence with Gene Ray. I introduced him to some ideas about higher dimensional cubes, and Peter Carrols theory of 3 dimensional time as a way to express Quantum mechanics in terms of geometry. I also turned him on to the idea that no entity can exist in itself because all things include their opposite and cancel out. This from the Essay on Buddhist ontology written by Aleister Crowley called “Berashith”, that focused on his 0=2 formula. I told him he should consider these opposites as similar to his 2 genders when he said that “human sexuality is a crap shoot”. Meaning that each individual is a cube and you have 2 types of cubes male and female. I told him we can consider the 4 corners as the way in which the opposing “charges” or “Genders” are help apart so they do not cancel out, creating not an entity as he would put it a singularity, but a cubic ontology. I am not sure how much of my hypothesis he understood but he did tell me that I was very wise.
It’s sad how common it is for people who are so obviously in need of help to instead be met with either redicule, or with enabling. Both of which only cause more and more damage to the point where no kind of, or amount of help could make any difference to improve the persons mental health or quality of life. Unfortunately with hindsight being 20/20 it’s easy to say that so much attention from online communities may very well have been able to somehow help get this man, and others, the kind of help they needed before they fell to far down their own rabbit holes. It’s just a shame that situations like this are so much more common than they need to be, and even more so that it will continue to be just as, if not more common in the future. All it takes is for someone with a weakened mental state to come across the wrong bit of misinformation or a convincing enough conspiracy theory, and it can take over their entire life. Often alienating them from much of society and even their own family, a strong enough delusion can convince anyone that they are the only one who is sane or knows whatever truth they now believe, making them retreat even further from the people and assistance that they so direly need.
At 7:49 we can see he writes “crap-game”, if we take the ‘p’ in ‘crap’ and flip it we will be left with ‘crab-game’. Crab game is a indi game made by the indi game dev Dani who made crab game as a parody of popular Netflix original ‘Squid game’. Knowing this we can begin to realize that Gene Ray was smatter than any God and the wisest human as he was able to see far into the future and predict the creation of not only squid game but parody game crab game.
I’m like four minutes in and what I’m pretty sure what he’s saying is this: The earth is a sphere and therefore has three equators. One is around the axis of rotation following the latitude lines (the one we all know and love), and two are “in line” with the axis of rotation offset by 90 ° following longitude lines (as seen in the diagram at 2:39). The two perpendicular equators intersect with the “normal” equator twice, making four points on earth’s surface. Each of those four points experiences sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight in a 24 hour period. Therefore four days occur on earth for every 24 hours that passes. A full day passes at each point and there are four points, therefore there must be four days every 24 hours. What I think the site at 3:40 is saying is that if you were to follow the rotation of earth, there would be 24 hours of each of those states of sun (midnight, midday, sunup, sundown) that you would experience in one earth rotation. I’m not yet sure how that factors into the wider theory since I’m only this far in. We’ll see how this checks out at the end Edit: Yeah I have no idea about the rest of it that first four minutes was all I understood