#gene ray

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

[otatma]

Today is probably the tenth anniversary of Gene Ray's death.

I wonder if anyone ever got around to explaining to him that if two people standing on different parts of Earth can be counted as two separate days, then every rotation of Earth experiences a day for every member of the human race. Billions of days per day. How's that for educated stupid?

Like. My guy. I like squares and cubes just fine, I'm a huge fan of tiles — but you never touched on why it has to be a cube and not, idk, a hexagon. Or a dodecahedron. You could fit the Earth in a dodecahedron just fine. What's special about the day/night line exactly? Is this actually a sun worship thing? I could get behind some sun worship actually.

Anyway my private conjecture is that he needed a pretext to heap abuse on public education, academia, and government with every breath he had. Mr. Ray was a real one for that. That guy's hatred was way more creative than his timekeeping or his rhetoric.

If you never actually saw the time cube site, today's a good day to go dig it out of archive.org or wherever they're keeping it the day you read this, scroll down a random amount and read a couple paragraphs. Absolutely don't read him for his ideas - he didn't have any new ideas that stood up to even the mildest of challenges. Read him for the quality and the quantity of his insults. (also it is accidentally the funniest word salad bullshit I ever read)

Rest in cube, Gene, you fucking racist queerphobic antisemite crank.

[xabiramone]

#Obituary

Gene Anthony Ray (May 24, 1962 – November 14, 2003) was an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. He was known for his portrayal of dancer Leroy Johnson in both the 1980 film Fame and the 1982–1987 Fame television series based upon the film.🖤#LovingMemory

[jimintomystery]

Time Cube

I wish there was a story to tell about Time Cube.  I discovered the website in the mid-1990s, and was fascinated by Gene Ray’s incoherent theory of everything.  For decades I’ve meant to write up my take on the whole thing, but I never got around to it.  I suppose that’s because there really isn’t a point to all of it, much like Ray’s concept of how the universe works.

In retrospect, there isn’t anything particularly special about Ray posting a crank manifesto on the web.  Twenty-five years ago, though, I didn’t know that.  The world wide web was young and so was I.  I was only beginning to discover that people could have the means to access the internet and nevertheless be inarticulate, or incompetent, or irrational.  I approached Ray’s oddly hostile demands for people to prove him wrong in good faith, figuring that reason could unravel any sort of nonsense.  I had a lot to learn.

It’s tempting, at first glance, to interpret Time Cube as an argument that everything exists in one of four states, and that anything moving to another state implies that three equivalent things must make correlating movements.  That’s kind of weird, but it at least resembles a falsifiable premise, which lures you into trying to make sense of the rest of it, the better to debunk it on its own terms.  But there isn’t a “rest of it” to make sense of.  Ray never actually applied this “four corners” premise to any meaningful conclusion, except that academia and organized religion have conspired to suppress his brilliant discovery.

A newcomer to Time Cube might realize that right around the time they started noticing all the odd references to the Clintons, or Jews, or cannibalism, or various things that are supposedly “queer.”  The only ideas Ray truly articulates are his contempt for anyone who can’t understand his ideas, and his certainty that no one but himself can understand.

Over the years I’d occasionally remember Time Cube was a thing, and poke around to see if anything new had developed.  Usually there was nothing new.  Now and then Ray would be contacted for an interview or invited to “lecture” for the amusement of some college kids.  Surviving footage of these events suggests Ray had a far more gentle demeanor in person than you’d think from reading “You Word-Murder Your Children“ on his site.

Gene Ray passed away in 2015 at the age of 87, and his site went down shortly thereafter.  Snapshots of timecube.com are available on archive.org, although the novelty of reading the site is blunted by knowing that no one alive today actually believes that stuff.  Today’s internet has its hands full with a wider variety of more prolific cranks, producing more intricate charts and spreading more dangerous misinformation.  Maybe that’s why I look back to Time Cube, with nostalgia for a simpler era of gibberish.

[technodeathsquad]

[princealigorna]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyE-DG4azw)

Ah, Gene Ray. You might be the smartest person ever....or the dumbest.

I’m leaning towards the dumbest.

[zillion-ronald-manus]

Alex Jones vs. Gene Ray vs. Francis E. Dec ... Who would win?

I think Alex Jones’s wrath and relative youth would give him an edge, but he is blatantly overweight.

Gene Ray is old and frail, but since he knows the truth of Cubic Time he can attack the other two from points in time they can’t even comprehend

and Francis E. Dec is a mystery... a true wild card.

[roseytide]

1.3.16

I’ve decided that I will one day sit in a random setting, and start saying random quotes from time cube and the first person with a dick to notice im quoting gene ray will be the person i marry.