Cory Monteith RIIP: Imagine, Lifting the Veil onL !! (UPDATE)

The Deaths in 2013 site lists under July 13th: 

Cory Monteith, 31, Canadian actor (Glee) and singer

His death is timely... in other words, his own inner twin influenced their conjoined death for reasons that will become apparent if you care to investigate the facts.

MY previous post re: Velum-- Proof of Aquatic Ape Hypothesis... this one's for Elaine, records a email conversation between Jim Moore and I.  Immediately below is a continuation of the conversation.   My inner twin and the inner twin world have involved themselves in this converstation/debate via the death of Cory Monteith.

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Jim says:

You are wrong.  In fact, the soft palate and tongue in combination are so important for speech that the most common consonants in English are called 

"velar consonants".  Here's a couple of links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velar_consonant
http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/care_guides/plastic_surgery/cleft_lip_and_palate/speech

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I say:

The velum is utilized in speech involuntarily only because it's in the way.   It's not an adaptation to make speech more effective and I can speak perfectly fine without my velum moving whatsoever.  Speech does not require the three things that occur simultaneously when swimming under water: 1) velum is flexed so that the nasal passages are completely blocked; 2) velum is held in this position for an extended period; 3) velum is held in position without effort.  The Aquatic Ape hypothesis offers the most logical explanation for this unique ability that was the precursor to speech.  Consider other supporting evidence: our much longer nose bridge that hooks downward in contrast to most primates -- natures design to facilitate with diving and swimming. Thank goodness for the velum otherwise nature may have saw fit to design your nose like the Proboscis monkey (the modern day semi aquatic primate).  

May I suggest you read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias :-)(-:

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Jim:

Proboscis monkeys are not semiaquatic.  They swim readily (as do a number of macaque species too) but you really have to stop getting your nature facts from an unreliable source like Elaine Morgan.

Here's the problem for your claim:

1. the velum is used in speech, and it doesn't matter whether it's used voluntarily or not (although many of the sounds produced using it are learned in various languages; as one example I certainly can't do a !Kung style tongue click, but could with practice).

2. the velum is not so unique as you're thinking, as the link I sent you earlier shows.

3. the velum is not needed for diving or swimming; both proboscis monkeys and macaques swim and dive quite easily without the subtle differences between their velum and ours.  The proboscis monkeys' noses are not an adaptation for swimming or diving.

Sorry, but you've had what seemed like a good idea, but the facts contradict it.  When that happens, a mark of good science is that you need to be able to give up even a pet idea you really like.  It's not easy to do that, but in science it's a requirement.

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Me:

Science/Academia are right up there with religion -- a long dark history of narrow mindedness, confirmation bias and a willingness to discount perfectly good theories that threaten the status quo.

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Jim:

Sorry that facts are facts, but they are.

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Me:

Yes, the facts are facts, so consider this fact: people who are born deaf have the "innate" tendency to flex their velum in the lifted position to block off their nasal passages.   This indicates that the simultaneous action of "using vocals and lifting the velum" is hard wired in our brain -- it's an instinct that's overridden by people who are born with the ability to hear ... in other words, we've "learned" to override the tendency (the reason for this doesn't matter for the point that I now make).  In all the years that I've swam under water, I've done so with another person, and there have been occasions when I would need  to get the attention of my swimming buddy and so the instinct was/is to yell using a baritone, in fact, I can speak and be heard under water, but only with my velum lifted of course.    

Listen to this utube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlGocYJ2Dk,  where a deaf guy sings John Lennon's "Imagine".  This is typically the way deaf people sound when using their vocals for speech, one that's generally recognized... the way speech sounds when the velum is lifted.   

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So how did my inner twin and the inner twin world involve themselves in this conversation via Cory's "timely" death?!  When investigating, I was led to the Glee wiki page and then to utube in order to hear/see Cory performing the song "Don't Stop Believing"... where I also couldn't help noticing on utube another "Glee" video re a rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine".  I had no idea -- the video is a deaf person singing the song... and immediately I noted his sound... the same sound that many persons born deaf have when using vocals to speak-- their velum is lifted... which enabled the inner twin world to then influence my conversation with Jim... to give their "Tou sense worth" in this very important conversation... one that they baited.

I also had no idea until I played the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlGocYJ2Dk, that it had been downloaded on April 22nd... considering that when "twin" numbers crop up as a result of having followed the "Leads", and given that these are inner twin signature's, this is meaninful-- falling into the "Twin Numbers" pattern-cluster.  So note the following from Cory's wiki page:

Cory Allan Michael Monteith (May 11, 1982 – July 13, 2013)

He was born on May 11th... another set of twin numbers!!

So now, note the etymology of the word "velum":

velum (n.) 1771, from Latin velum "a sail, awning, curtain, covering" (see veil (n.)).

veil (n.) early 13c., from Anglo-French and Old North French veil (Old French voile) "a head-covering," also "a sail," from Latin vela, plural of velum "sail, curtain, covering," from PIE root *weg- "to weave a web."  

This is the inner twin world's coming out and communicating to us in our outer twin lives and world,  today... here and now!!  It's about the inner twin world "lifting the veil" of their secrecy.

The letter "L" has played a significant role in many posts, and I know that I've posted a picture of my left thumb before (see photo at left), butt it was only to show my particular type of "hitch hikers thumb" (a chimera trait), that forms a very perfect angle... much more than normal and much more than my right thumb ... hmmm, I never noticed it before, butt it makes a perfect L when the index finger is pointing out... of should I say "ELLE"... the inner twin world do consider themselves to be the "matriarchal inner world", a complimentary opposite to our "patriarchal outer world"

Imagine, Lifting the Veil on L!!

UPDATE:

Come to think of it, the above photo re my left hand making the "L" sign, is also used to indicate a "gun"... pointing upward with hammer cocked and in ready position... as though in use for a "race"!!  This ties in with my recent July 12th post title Elaine Morgan and Alister Hardy Bang On!!, note this excerpt at the end of the post:

It's better to bee "Bang On" than "Dead Wrong" n'est pas!! 

My own inner twin, Tou, influencing me to think and reflect the voice of the inner twin world.