Going Twitter

Faithful Readers,

 

I've done a lot of complaining about how few of our readers and researchers are willing to come out and share their findings firsthand, but I haven't done much about it.  Today, that all changes.

 

Here's the link to our new Twitter: http://twitter.com/whoissambailey

 

Our Facebook page has a slightly more obscure URL, but here it is.

 

Those who know me personally recognize the ridiculousness of me interacting with strangers - even on the internet.  Whether or not you've guessed from the blog, I'm not much of a socialite.  At the same time, the work I'm doing here is too important to keep to myself.

 

If I've waited this long to take the plunge into a more open-door approach to my research, then it's taken me this long to get comfortable with the way things work these days.  To those who have had to listen to me moan about the lack of public involvement, I apologize.  Likewise to all those who haven't been able to get involved until now.

 

Best regards,

Tennyson E. Stead

Drosophila Melanogaster

The fruit fly.  Because their genetics are understood, and because they live for a very short lifespan, (enabling scientists to track inherited traits through multiple generations without tons of waiting,) drosophila has been adopted by the scientific community as the ideal system for genetic experimentation.

 

Just a few short weeks after moving an iron maiden out of the Vatican archives, along with a number of papers from roughly the era of Sam Bailey's imprisonment in Rome under the Inquisition, the Vatican is getting bills from a drosophila lab.

 

What that tells us, basically, is that the Vatican's interest in the blood found in this iron maiden is not purely historical.  Experimenting with fruit flies doesn't tell you who somebody was, what they did for a living, or what they ate for dinner.

 

On the other hand, if you inject specific genes into the larva of a fruit fly and watch how the fly's offspring and descendents change, it might give you a clue into what that gene does for people.

 

This kind of research can take years of study, but it looks as though the Vatican is involved in the search for an immortality gene.  Personally, I don't find this a comforting thought.

Wikipedia on Immortality

For a great look at the more commonly debated elements at play in our discussion of Sam Bailey, I recommend this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality

Debunking Marlowe

First, let me say that as of this moment, there's no way for me to know what's happening in the lab where, presumably, Sam Bailey's Iron Maiden is being scrubbed for genetic research materials. Rest assured, I'm working on it.

Yesterday, I came across the theory that the Comte de St. Germain was, among other people, famed English playwright Christopher Marlowe. Among other works, Marlowe wrote "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus", which was a personal favorite of mine as well as probably his most well-known. Frankly, the history nerd in me loves the idea of Sam Bailey as the author of that particular work. Shakespeare was his contemporary, and some folks probably know him first and foremost as Ben Affleck in Shakespeare in Love.

At the same time, there are two problems. First, the bulk of Marlowe's work extended from 1584-1616, which according to the Resurrection of Antelao were among the years Sam Bailey was held in captivity by the inquisition. Secondly, they look nothing alike in their portraits.

Much as I would love it, all the evidence to date suggests that Sam Bailey did not write "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus".

Is this blog dangerous?

First, an update:

 

I'm trying to get copies of the medical research bills my contact inside the Vatican has been seeing.  While I'm not an expert on gene sequencing, I've known enough lab people to know what it means when someone's paying for gels:  It means they're separating the bits and pieces of a set of genes, to see what they're made of.  If one of our readers knows enough to break down where this research is headed, so much the better.

 

Of course, they've just started.  It may be too early to tell.  All the same, if someone is unraveling the secrets of immortality, I consider it my duty to bring as much of this information to light as possible.

 

That's really the focus of this blog entry.  Over the weekend, I've given things a lot of thought.  Yes, it's possible that I set the Church on Sam Bailey's trail.  Moreover, I'm fairly certain that research like theirs is what keeps people like Sam in hiding.  If it isn't obvious, there's a lot the world can learn from a man like him.  His silence is our loss.

 

I'm going to keep this project alive for that reason.  If the Church insists on persecuting and picking apart the wonders and miracles they claim to worship, then the best thing we can do is show the world that they are a minority.  Exploration and compassion have often been exclusive to one another, but they don't have to be.

 

Let the record show that I neither endorse nor condone violence as a tool for inquiry.  Anyone who uses my information for violent purposes is acting against the spirit in which that information was gathered and shared.  Let this forum be a place for science, history, and reasonable discourse.  Every one of history's best thinkers held to these ideals, from Socrates to Einstein.

 

I refuse to be dangerous, and I deny those who use my knowledge for harm.  Let us honor our world and embrace her mysteries.

Iron Maiden

Last week, I received some information regarding the iron maiden that went missing from the Vatican archives, along with the "Resurrection of Antelao" and several sixteenth and seventeenth century documents related to the inquisition.

 

First, the torture device has been moved by truck out of the archives entirely.  This, I know for sure.

 

Secondly, the bursar's office at the Vatican library has been receiving some medical bills in excess of €700,000 at a time.  This, also, is a fact.

 

My thinking, as I said before, is that in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, the Church had their hands on Sam Bailey and tortured him.  After all these years, they've made the connection - that Sam Bailey is immortal, and that spilling his blood all those years ago may have provided them with the single most important genetic information in the world.

 

This raises two very important questions.  Why is he at large?  Did he simply outlive his captors?  Was Sam Bailey released by a new generation of Vatican staff, who discovered him with no idea of who he was?  Certainly, it explains his condition when he arrived at the abbey in Antelao.  That's a consideration almost too horrible to entertain... but if they'd kept better records, they might not have let him go at all.  Maybe, as one submitter suggested, they'd have found a way to kill him.

 

At the same time, I'm concerned that this blog may have been what led the Vatican to reconsider Sam's case and uncover the iron maiden.  If anyone knows that to be the case, I'd appreciate some information.  The cat's out of the bag, I suppose.  At the same time, I may owe someone an apology.

 

Just thinking about what an organization like the Vatican might do if they were the first to uncover the secrets of immortality...  It's like a Dan Brown novel.  Terrifying.

 

More to come.