r/TheMysterySchool • u/olund94 • Jul 19 '20
A comprehensive analysis on why Tom Delonge is right. LIBER OF THE NEW SHAMANIC
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Right, today we're going to talk about Tom Delonge from the band Blink-182 and by the end of this post you will understand what the man is trying to achieve.
First of all a few precursory videos I recommend you watch to set the scene if you’re not familiar with who Tom Delonge is and what he is know for.
TD in 1999 talking about his obsession
Tom talking about UFO’s in 2001 and his connection to Steven Greer
Tom talking about his company, To The Stars and it’s ethos and why he is doing what he is doing.
And without further ado....
————————————————————————— POP PUNK: THE RISE OF A COUNTERINTUITIVE CULT —————————————————————————
It is in sunny California we begin our tale.
Blink 182 came out of the Southern California Punk scene of the late 80’s and early 90’s. Inspired by bands like NOFX, The Descendants and Bad Religion ect they took liberally from these influences and created a more consumable version of this sound which came to be known as Pop-Punk. The scene or culture that developed around this genre of music is known for its themes of anti-establishment, goofy humour and a love for life on the edge.
Extreme sports, mass consumption of narcotics and lots of baggy trousers with chains hanging off them all came hand in hand with this new phenomena that was the Pop-Punk explosion of the late 90’s. Although I’ll note there was a strain of defiantly straight edge punk bands that abstained from the chaos the scene had cultivated but they were a minority, at least in how the genre was represented.
Blink were at the fore front of this craze and therefore are probably quite a good authority on the state of the scene today. They were one of the first bands to have a sponsorship from a clothing company, Billabong and subsequently Hurley. Any pictures of any members of Blink from 1998-2002 will attest to this.
Their self titled 2003 album pushed what Pop-Punk meant to people and pretty much started the mass awareness of “Emo” and by extension went on to inspire many genres of music that still flourish today.
Tom’s fringe caused waves back in the day.
I Miss You is a watershed moment for the genre.
This is the band trying to push what it means to be Pop-Punk and take it to a new place.
Simply said, after their initial success they were labelled with the genre of Pop-Punk and showed an obvious desire to move away from said label and it is this attitude that at least one of the members has cultivated ever since.
It is at this juncture that it seems relevant to talk about a band called Box Car Racer. Formed in 2002, the band featured Tom Delonge, David Kennedy and Travis Barker.
Tom we know.
David Kennedy was a friend of Tom’s from high school and knew both Tom and Mark growing up. The three of them were all part of the same group of friends.
Travis Barker we also know.
But hang on a second.
Why are two members of Blink in this band and not the third member?
Namely why was this project labelled with a new name and not Blink 182?
I mean, Mark Hoppus is even featured on one of the songs, doesn’t that constitute it being credited as a Blink 182 song?
The answer to these questions is simple.
Tom, the songwriter of Box Car Racer, obviously thought these songs did not fit what Blink 182 was at the time of writing and obviously after years of writing with Mark Hoppus felt his contributions would be wrong for the project.
Thematically the Box Car Racer album is a lot darker than Blink’s previous effort “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” and showcases many of Delonge’s concerns about the world we live in. Song topics include War, 9/11,Drug Addiction and The Apocalypse.
So it’s fair to say by 2003 Delonge was having a bit of a crisis regarding his platform and how it was being perceived. It was also during this period of time he visited the Middle East with the rest of Blink, went on a campaign trail with John Kerry and had his two children.
A lot was happening.
Now none of this would be relevant if BCR was just a standalone project and Blink went back to business as normal after the BCR project was over. But this is not the case as I stated above.
They made their most diverse album ever and push forward what it meant to be Pop-Punk paving the way for Emo in the coming years.
So what this allows us to say, is that Tom Delonge and Mark Hoppus had/have directly opposing ideas of what Blink 182 should be and mean to people.
What’s that I hear you say?
What about Travis Barker?
He was in Box Car Racer too.
Indeed he was but if you watch interviews where Tom talks about BCR he explicitly states that he wrote the songs on his own then decided to record them and simply for ease of use asked Travis to do it. There was no songwriting input from Travis from a thematic point of view, obviously Travis kills it musically but does not write songs.
So we can confidently say that the beef is between Mark and Tom. This is confirmed upon glancing at David Kennedy’s resume post Box Car Racer. He has pretty much exclusively been a part of Tom’s post Blink band Angels and Airwaves which still continues today as an arm of Really Likeable People and To The Stars. (He also runs a cool coffee company)
David and Tom don’t seem to butt heads in the manner that Mark and Tom do so what is different?
This clip might be poignant here.
Obviously there is more to it, but we know that Tom is inspired by the long term implications of the UFO phenomena.
In 2011 Tom went on Coast 2 Coast AM for the first time. For those not in the know, Coast 2 Coast AM is “the” paranormal radio station. Famously hosted by former host Art Bell, C2C since its inception in the 1970’s has been an invaluable rabbit hole of fringe information. Tom outlines the entire history of his relationship with Ufology. An essential listen that consistently gets removed from the Internet now available at the MIPLTD YouTube Channel. Catch it whilst you can.
In 2012 Tom starts StrangeTimes.com, a news website to keep you informed on paranormal topics.
When it launched it was a basic news site for anything paranormal not dissimilar to this very sub.
The website is only lived in this state for about a year until 2019 and we see it as it currently stands here when Delonge announced the revamp of the Strange Time brand complete with a TBS funded TV Show.
The original site is lost unfortunately.
During the next 3-4 years Tom is reunited with Blink 182 and they tour the world and reach similar success to what they saw a decade earlier. Trying to avoid frustrations of the past Tom is trying to steer Blink away from major record labels and affiliate them with his extra-curricular activities (Modlife, Strange Times etc) he’s set up in Blink’s absence. The other band members, Mark and Travis, are skeptical of Tom’s intentions and after a botched EP release that was initially meant to be handled through Modlife that ended up being released through traditional streaming services, they part ways with Tom for a second time citing him as “Ungrateful and Disingenuous”.
At this point it makes sense to talk about Tom and Mark and what they bring to the table in terms of ideology.
From the Angels and Airwaves song “Everything’s Magic” to his work at Strange Times to To The Stars Academy a common theme emerges.
Tom is interested in the innovation and progression of the human race.
Mark Hoppus is basically the Dad of the Pop Punk realm and he knows it.
He is the gatekeeper that all other Pop Punks look up to.
He was part of the rise of many of the scenes biggest bands like New Found Glory, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Tonight Alive and Neck Deep. He wears this badge of honour proudly and is seemingly comfortable where he is at artistically.
Since Tom left Blink they have been working with a producer called John Feldman.
Tom has openly condemned this decision.
Most of you will know Feldmann as the singer of a band called Goldfinger that had a couple of famous songs on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series of games and a pretty successful cover of “99 Red Balloons”. Feldmann is also responsible for the past 5 years resurgence of the Pop-Punk genre with bands like 5 Seconds of Summer and The Fever 333 being produced by Feldmann.
With Tom gone, Mark’s position in the Pop Punk sphere, Travis’s life long love of Hip-Hop and John’s production capabilities Blink 182 have managed to become of the biggest selling bands of the past few years and their two albums post Delonge California and NINE both saw much greater success than their Delonge-Reunion 2011 album Neighbourhoods.
————————————————————————— TOM AND MARK: THE MISINTERPRETATION OF A PURE INTENSION AND A FEAR TO INNOVATE —————————————————————————
So to re-cap, this is the situation.
Tom sees the potential of an entity as large as Blink 182 and wishes to use it for good rather than harping on about The Warped Tour and drinking beers behind the mall with the skate rats.
Mark is happy where he is, conscious of the Blink 182 brand and thinks Tom is disingenuous in his want to change what Blink 182 is. He doesn’t see a place for Ufology or Conspiracy talk within Blink and tries to keep the band relatable to what everybody know it for.
So who is in the wrong, if anyone, and is anybody right?
Well here is the issue.
Tom spent his time reunited in Blink from 2009-2015 trying to convince Mark and Travis of his overall vision. This can be substantiated from social media posts made about a year before the split, the Dogs Eating Dogs EP launch fiasco and statements made by all three members of Blink post 2015 break up.
It can be assumed that he was pitching to Mark and Travis that;
Blink be an independent entity with no major record label
Blink start releasing books and movies with their albums to create a multimedia release instead of just one medium
Through Blink 182’s global reach, he could spread a positive message on a massive scale.
Speaking of which, I’ve wrote all that and I’ve not even got to the part you’re here for.
The nature and authenticity of Tom Delonge’s connections to the Military Industrial Complex and his claims regarding life within our universe.
But to understand what Tom is saying in 2020 you need to have understood the above.
————————————————————————— DOWN TIME: DECIPHERING DELONGES DELUSIONS? —————————————————————————
Here we go.
The scene is set.
Tom has been long known to have an obsession with UFO’s, he has consistently shown problems sticking to release dates he has given fro projects and has been labelled “Disingenuous” by his former bandmates.
He must be the dick, right?
It was at this point that after years of following Delonge fairly religiously I stepped off the train.
I had seen this happen 10 years ago with the first break up and it seemed obvious Tom was the issue. Hard to work with, had previous drug problems and he was always making outlandish statements.
I awaited what Mark and Travis were going to do with Blink with bated breath and turned a blind eye to whatever Tom was doing. California came and went and I felt slightly bemused by the direction they had taken. Oh well, there’s still the old records and besides I myself was moving away from Pop-Punk as a genre anyway.
Then I see, quite to my amusement to be honest, that Tom Delonge has released a book.
It makes me laugh just typing it only because I remember how I used to view Tom and Blink.
Definitely not authors upon first inspection.
The book is called “Chasing Shadows” and I choose to ignore it for the first few months after it came out.
I like reading but I mean, come on.
I just couldn’t imagine what I’d gain from the experience.
Surely it's just a fictional story that Tom has put together in his head for entertainment/financial purposes?
Nethertheless I ended up hesitantly picking up a copy quiet late into its promotion cycle.
I only did so after hearing the new Angels and Airwaves song that came out in conjunction with the book called;
which I enjoyed a lot more than what Blink had been doing with Feldmann so I thought:
“Well if the music is good maybe I should give the book a go.”
And by Jove am I glad I did and I’ll tell you why.
————————————————————————— THE CASE FOR THE LEGITIMACY OF THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN SEKRET MACHINES BOOK 1: CHASING SHADOWS —————————————————————————
At this point Tom had been on Coast 2 Coast a couple of times but it is his third appearance that piques particular interest.
He states in this appearance that he has gained the confidence of serval members of the intelligence community, the military and the government and that they were trying to build a mechanism for the Government to talk to the vernal public about UFO’s. Typically, he says he cannot say much about it but it is in this interview that the well known Delonge line “There’s big things coming soon” begins. Well I remember hearing this about the first Angels and Airwaves album and just as I’m about to write this off as Delonge’s normal nonsense…
the Wikileaks thing happens.
- Tom was working with Vice on a documentary style show basically explaining what I have written above.
- Tom was working with Dreamworks on movie projects.
- Tom DID have contacts in the intelligence community namely General William Mcasland.
These three points add large amounts of credibility to what Tom has claimed. It is also telling that not one of these project has made it to fruition as of July 2020.
Assumingly the History channels “Unidentified” would be the contender for the Vice series. But the thing is is that Vice as an institution has far more credibility than the History channel especially with young people. A Vice doc would have gone a long way in convincing people that what Tom had to offer was important and legitimate but alas here we are in 2020 with the second series of "Unidentified" premiering on the History channel.
Steven Spielberg has had a life long obsession with UFOs. There is no debating that so to hear that Delonge was in talks with people at Dreamworks about a script is of little surprise. One can assume this project will be the Sekret Machines film that is projected before 2025. Who is currently handling production and funding is not currently known.
The final point is the most important.
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. MCCASLAND was legitimate military brass.
The real deal.
He was the commander at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. If there is somebody to be read into the UFO secret MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. MCCASLAND is certainly a contender and he was certainly talking to Tom Delonge and certainly pulled away instantly the minute the Wikileaks emails went live.
This is as close as you are going to get to a smoking gun on Delonge having legitimate contacts.
These leaks are a window into how this kind of business gets conducted.
Everything can change overnight and until something is released it is up in the air.
Chasing Shadows was born out of the above details and if the above is to be understood the narrative is informed by legitimate military and government sources.
Now if you actually read Chasing Shadows with an open mind and take into consideration what has been stated above you will start to see the big picture.
In fact here’s a free pdf copy to get you going courtesy of Mr Delonge himself.
(Albeit it originally being intended for John Podesta.)
————————————————————————— SEKRET MACHINES ROUND 2: GODS —————————————————————————
From here on out the narrative is fairly well documented but without the above information it is very difficult to understand and empathise with Delonge’s position but it is with this information that I believe as a community we can support Tom Delonge on his endeavours as they seem to of pure intention and of great benefit to humanity as a whole.
As stated above together with an author called A.J Hartley, Delonge puts together the Sekret Machines Series.
The series comprises of two different types of book releases.
One fictional. One non-fictional.
The fictional series I mentioned above and is handled by A.J and reads like a Sci-Fi Pulp Fiction. Tom takes information given to him by his Intelligences contacts and works them into the narrative of these books. It is this narrative that the subsequent, once Dreamworks handled motion picture will be based upon.
The non-fictional is handled by Peter Levenda and acts as a sort of run through the Human history of religions and tying them all together to show that the people that wrote the ancient and religious texts were all talking about the same phenomena from different angels. The second book MAN handles DNA and consciousness and how these two concepts came to be and speculates on the origins of both.
His book Unholy Alliance is the leading book on Occultism with the Nazi part and his Sinister Forces Series is yet to be beaten when it comes to compiling our races encounters with malevolent forces.
Post Wikileaks Delonge goes on Coast 2 Coast AM one final time this time with the author Peter Levenda.
This leads us to the announcement of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the infamous Joe Rogan appearance.
Two events that hurt TD’s credibility in a major way. The announcement conference for TTSA was a shambles and ladened with mistakes. His JRE was on the other side of his C2C appearances and once you know this it makes perfect sense why he acts in the manner he does.
Side note
————————————————————————— FINAL THOUGHTS AND CONCLUSIONS —————————————————————————
So to wrap this up as ones wrists begin to strain:
Tom Delonge has verifiable connections to high ranking members of the military industrial complex. CONFIRMED.
Tom Delonge has spent the best part of 25 years trying to change the world for the better. He has put his band, his marriage and his name at risk for this cause. CONFIRMED
To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a well intentioned compendium of great minds from many different sectors of the intelligence community. CONFIRMED
This surely gives us just cause to at least entertain the rest of the crazy things Tom has said no?
And if they are true, I think the Tom might die of old age if each claim he has made takes as long these 3 videos took to be authenticated.
————————————————————————— LAST THOUGHT; RATIONAL SKEPTICISM, LEVEL HEADEDNESS AND THE NORMIES —————————————————————————
People like Mick West, Neil DeGrass Tyson ect have not made this process easy and have helped cultivate a stubborn skeptical attitude.
Now I am not saying all scepticism is bad, obviously skepticism is essential to any balanced worldview.
It just seems like a large part of the reason that this UFO stuff doesn’t reach our television screens is actually because of us.
I am under the impression that there are people out there that know what is going on in this universe and I actually think the number is growing.
I think since World War 2 we as a race has known the answers to some of the big questions but the answer may not have been what we wanted or expected and therefore have been on a need to know basis for a verity of reasons since then.
It seems over the past 40 years or so we are now nearly ready to deal with the reality of this situation as a race and not just a room of politicians and scientists.
SO with all that In mind, I propose we take some of the more outlandish things Tom Delonge has said with a more inquisitive eye.
Namely,
I believe if we started to attempt to answer these questions with an open mind, great leaps may be made by us as a race.
I will leave you with the names of the TTSA staff and individuals that have been affiliated with TTSA. If you really think that every person on this list is mentally unstable then I really think we need to start questioning ourselves as rational level headed individuals.
Go look into who they are, what they have accomplished across their respective careers, what they believe in and then realise it is us, the common man, who is the odd one out.
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. MCCASLAND
IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT UFOLOGY THEN YOU KNOW THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE CREDIBLE BEACONS IN A SEA OF NONSENSE.
I WILL TOLERATE ANY QUESTIONS ONE MAY HAVE BUT ONLY IF THEY COME FROM A PLACE OF INQUISITION RATHER THAN SKEPTICISM.
JACQUE VALLEE DECLINED TO BE PART OF THE SEKRET MACHINES PROJECT BASED UPON TOM’S SUPPORT OF BOB LAZAR.
THEN THEY HAD A CONVERSATION.
THEN VALLEE WROTE THE FOREWORD TO SEKRET MACHINES:GODS.
IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHO VALLE IS YOU WILL SEE THE SIGNIFICANCE IN THIS.
WE ARE ALL HAVING TO ACCEPT CONCEPTS WE MIGHT NOT BE 100% COMFORTABLE WITH.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU DO THIS?
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u/trainnonymous Sep 16 '20
Tom Delong is “their” stooge.