Yesterday, a random thought came into my mind as I drove to Home Depot about an experience years ago with a woman where I saw an eyelash on her cheek and told her “oh, you have an eyelash” and she let me take it away. Later, I had regrets, thinking that might have been too intimate a gesture for a casual friendship. So, I tossed that around again for no good reason yesterday. What made me think that? I needed to think about what I needed to get at Home Depot so I wouldn’t have to go back again in an hour. Not some random person and their random eyelash from years ago.
Several hours later, I decided to try some Spam and eggs for dinner since I had forgotten to thaw anything and too lazy to go to the store. I was a little amazed how retro the can looked when I broke into my stash but.. whatever. I tried it. Not great, not bad. Definitely needs more texture if you add it to eggs. It was OK.
Amused yet? Lol, I am sorry for dragging you into this.
Then I watched “Operation Mincemeat.” Have you seen it? Recommended! Anyway, the first scene shows a formal dining table and there are cans of SPAM oddly sitting at each place setting. This was minutes after eating mine. Way too informal of a food to be sitting on a fancy dinner table and absolutely no point in it but there it is.
Spam?? I know that isn’t a big deal, but I had to see if I was really awake.. Just too much Spam in a short period of time.
Later in the movie, there was the whole “main character picks eyelash off of a woman” scene... and it seemed a bit intimate of a gesture for their platonic relationship and it’s integral to the operation. If you’re following me, I had that same incident in my head just hours ago.
There are no coincidences. What if we are IN the movie? Mind control, showing us what they want us to see, causing random memories to resurface, causing us to change our behavior and perhaps, contact that person we thought about? Why was the woman I thought about important? It was during my military years. Is she important to the story? Did the listening devices in my home know I was having Spam? Is that why Netflix suggested it, because I was just surfing. Is the spying and mind control THAT intricate? It just seemed a little matrix glitchy to me.
But then, the whole point of the movie is about the lengths our military and govt go to deceive. The false flags, military operations, coups and what we’ve been living lately? Highly intricate, complicated acts of planning and deception, with people so caught up in the lies that they start to believe their own characters are real.
“In any story, if it's a good story, there is that which is seen and that which is hidden. This is especially true in stories of war. There is the war we see, a contest of bombs and bullets, courage, sacrifice, and brute force. As we count the winners, the losers, and the dead. But alongside this war, another war is waged. A battleground in shades of gray, played out in deception, seduction, and bad faith. The participants are strange. They are seldom what they seem, and fiction and reality blur. This war is a wilderness of mirrors in which the truth is protected by a bodyguard of lies.”
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Welcome to the weird wide world of synchronicity, aka serendipity.
As one's field of inference widens (knowledge of surroundings), synchronicity seems to increase. (Pulling thoughts together, rather than seeing them as seperate events).
This happens to me on the daily. Maybe not to the extreme you post, but sometimes it's downright scary.
Look to work by Carl Jung, who coined the phrase synchronicity.
Here's the fun part tho. It happens to me so often, I'm sometimes called "Mr. Synchronicity" by friends. And then after seeing it........THEY experience it WITH me ! And so the nickname.
I've engaged in conversations and apparently given it way more thought than most because I'm always asked to write a book on it. I considered writing them all down, but i'd be keeping a daily journal it happens so much. There are a few events that would amaze.
I've developed a saying about it that goes: "Synchronicity is God's way of saying "You're onto something."
Entertaining post, thank you.
Wow, thank you! Your comment is much appreciated.
maybe it was just a coincidence that i saw your post before any others
:)
Lol no coincidences!
There is a term 'social conciousness'? (Greek: 'logos')
I feel that is an inroad to understanding.
As we 'come together' in our understanding, events begin to coagulate around the common theme.
in Egypt, this would be part of their system of 'magic' where like attracts like.
Carl Jung coined the term "synchronicity" precisely to describe such odd events. It's almost as if the universe -- or God -- occasionally taps us on the shoulder with one of these odd events to say, "Pay attention, I'm still here." Deja vu is much the same thing. I think the universe we live in -- whether its a simulation or as solid and real as can be -- is an extremely odd place. I just finished reading a book by an astrophysicist, titled "Why The Universe Is the Way it Is." The author discusses in great technical detail, and at length, the many many coincidences and small chance that humans are alive at all. I recommend the book,
But beyond that, we can be easily fooled into thinking that the material world -- what we can see, touch, feel, measure -- is all there is. As the father of quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg, said, "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
Also, a fellowship I belong to has a saying, "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." And one more quote by Heisenberg: “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
I think you're on to something, TNBanjoMan. And I hadn't seen that Heisenberg quote before; it's awesome.
I read a lot of books on physics fundamentals (meaning what kind of universe is being described by the theories and experiments?) and on the nature and foundations of consciousness. The two areas go well together and it's a fascinating broad area to explore. One of the things that has drawn me to this topic is that I've yet to accept that any activity by atoms and other particles or collections of matter (quarks, molecules, human cells, entire brains, etc) can create phenomenal consciousness, or experience, qualia, etc.
A machine can know the exact temperature at 32 degrees but it cannot feel the cold. What could be added to your thermostat to give it the FEELING of whatever temperature it's detecting?
The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality by Bernardo Kastrup is the first book that gave me what seemed a good answer to the "hard problem of consciousness" -- and which, in another framework, might be describing the nature of God and the soul. It's a collection of Kastrup's articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including those for the hard sciences. Kastrup has been published in Scientific American also.
He might be wrong (on some details I believe he is) but he's an interesting thinker with an intriguing theory. And his framework certainly has implications for synchronicity.
On the subject of machines being able to know but not feel, Roger Zelanzny's Hugo-Award-winning novellete For a Breath I Tarry is unequaled (imo) in the realm of fiction.
For a Breath I Tarry can be read on the 'net here (scroll down; you can also have it read TO you) or you can probably find it, used, in the out-of-print compilation The Last Defender of Camelot. Here's the start:
They called him Frost. Of all things created of Solcom, Frost was the finest, the mightiest, the most difficult to understand.
This is why he bore a name, and why he was given dominion over half the Earth.
On the day of Frost's creation, Solcom had suffered a discontinuity of complementary functions, best described as madness. This was brought on by an unprecedented solar flareup which lasted for a little over thirty-six hours. It occurred during a vital phase of circuit-structuring, and when it was finished so was Frost.
Solcom was then in the unique position of having created a unique being during a period of temporary amnesia.
And Solcom was not certain that Frost was the product originally desired.
The initial design had called for a machine to be situated on the surface of the planet Earth, to function as a relay station and coordinating agent for activities in the northern hemisphere. Solcom tested the machine to this end, and all of its responses were perfect.
Yet there was something different about Frost, something which led Solcom to dignify him with a name and a personal pronoun. This, in itself, was an almost unheard of occurrence. The molecular circuits had already been sealed, though, and could not be analyzed without being destroyed in the process. Frost represented too great an investment of Solcom's time, energy, and materials to be dismantled because of an intangible, especially when he functioned perfectly.
Therefore, Solcom's strangest creation was given dominion over half the Earth, and they called him, unimaginatively, Frost.
For ten thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole of the Earth, aware of every snowflake that fell. He monitored and directed the activities of thousands of reconstruction and maintenance machines. He knew half the Earth, as gear knows gear, as electricity knows its conductor, as a vacuum knows its limits.
At the South Pole, the Beta-Machine did the same for the southern hemisphere.
For ten thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole, aware of every snowflake that fell, and aware of many other things, also.
Thank you for the suggested reading. The only hard copy for sale is the compendium Last Defender of Camelot and it's $50 from Amazon. I'll be looking for a PDF version online. And another one in that vein is Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," wherein a computer on the moon has so many neural links hooked to it that it becomes self-aware, and helps a group of moon colonists fight a revolution against their Earth overmasters. Heinlein was quite the visionary to have come up with that idea. Thanks again.
Kastrup isn't wrong.
Careful though, gents, as sci-fi is ideology codified into fiction.
Predictive programming even.
One man's 'science' is another's tool of control and if in contention, it's science that will get the boot as the plandemic demonstrates.
Besides...........science will always fail the subject because measurement changes the object measured, and the part can't contain the All.
That said, I'm not being negative or critical about the conversation and theories. I would like to say that it has all been taken care of in the past in mythology as symbol and in the highest study of both Hindu and Buddhist literature. From there, it degraded into psychology with 'causation' a wedge between giants like Freud and Jung.
These studies are like rungs of a ladder. You might be able to skip one or two but the ascent wouldn't be a smooth one and one might mis-step.
I've spent a lifetime deep-diving into these subjects and even caused a name change in a known theory about cognition after a discussion with a team of psychological theorists, yet was unable to get them to understand what was actually being said, because they had an agenda they thought it fit, when it didn't, so they 'stole' the idea and used it anyway. Holy cow.
Cut to the chase. I've pretty much heard it all by now. I don't have the energy to pump out the 3 zillion word diatribe it would take to touch the hem of the garment............but..........
If you'd like to hear the foremost authority in the west about the deep understanding of cognition/self.......using east, west, and science all at once...
Check out Theoria Apophasis vids on YouTube. Bring your dictionary, it's worth it.
Enjoyed the conversation and thank you.
A sincere thanks for the reply. I will look into Theoria Apophasis as soon as I reasonably can; however, I have quite a lot of irons in the fire at the moment and will have to defer that until I get some free time. It seems that in years past we were all told that the future would be great and that we would all have more leisure time. Well.... I'm still waiting for a flying car and vacations on the moon, AND that promised "more leisure time." I despair.
Read Mistress in grade school (I discovered the school library that year) but don't remember it well; Heinlein was awesome though -- maybe I'll get a copy and read it again. EDIT: I was thinking of Have Space Suit, Will Travel. Mistress didn't come out until I was in high school and I think I missed it.
It's a bit of a slog in the first few pages because as Heinlein saw it, any population that was isolated from the main culture would develop its own dialect and syntax.... but hang with it, it soon makes sense. And it's worth reading, IMO.
In the past few years I watched a TV series called "The Expanse"....quite good sci-fi, and the "belters" were a group of people who were fierce, almost savage miners who dug ore from the Asteroid Belt, and their language was like what I remember from Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress." I do believe the producers of that series were Heinlein fans.... and bonus, it didn't have any of that PC bullshit that infests TV today.
I agree with you on The Expanse -- great show, although I was a fan of the books before it started and having the petite Asian Naomi character played by a tall-ish black chick took me awhile to get used to. But actors almost never look right (at least at first) in the roles where a book I've read is concerned.
My father was an engineer and whenever I read Heinlein (which I haven't in decades now) I got the same engineer-ish vibe. Makes sense because Heinlein WAS an aeronautical engineer. Logical, common-sensical, and with a very American live-and-let-live attitude that infused his stories as a natural background.
I think Heinlein was basically John Galt, a libertarian before we knew what those were, and a no-nonsense kind of person. I think I would have liked to have him as a friend.
Ah, follow up:
https://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~alexp/books/forbreat.html
I will start reading this today after I get some things done. Thanks again.
Thanks for that link; there's another one somewhere on the web but it has FAR too many typos. The one you posted there is much better, although not 100%, and I enjoyed reading the story again.
It may be that consciousness is the entire purpose of the universe. Also you might look into the mind vs the brain. They are not the same thing. I have come to understand that the mind is separate from the brain and it may continue to exist even after our bodies have decayed.
The brain is hardware, the mind is software.
I'm using "software" in the most general sense, as a collection of data and instructions that can be made to perform some function. A word processor is software; a music file is software, an operating system, the hardwired instructions in a BIOS chip, and (the words in) a book on your shelf are all software. The OS, the type of hardware, the language that data and instructions are written in don't matter in the least in regards its categorization as software.
Lacking any scientific data to describe the mind with, we've used "soul" to mean the mind, and not ONLY the mind but a healthy mind including the nerves of the body, which bring information from the organs and muscles and bones, and the lower levels of the brain (the brainstem and other structures below the cortex). An unhealthy mind is a corrupted soul. A psyochpathic mind lacks the ability to form a connection and bond with others (frontal lobe damage or defect) which creates a life of emotional solitary confinement and for obvious reasons usually leads to internal rage and often to mistreatment of others.
There's a delicate, easily missed or misunderstood difference between awareness and consciousness -- both are of mind, but awareness is in general upper-brain; consciousness (full consciousness at any rate) involves a fluid interconnection between lower brain activity and the cortex. Neurotic repression can lock lower memories and feelings (as from childhood or infancy) away from conscious knowledge, but of course any serious or threatening event MUST come to full consciousness; evolution insures that such memories don't just fade away like, say, what you had for breakfast 26 years ago. One can be completely unconscious of old traumatic events or one can be AWARE of them -- know they happened and even describe them in detail -- without having access to the FEELINGS involved. If trauma threatens behavior enough to be maladaptive, neurosis (blocked feeling) is the result.
-- Oops. Just noticed how far I've run on here. Enough on that.
As for your comment that "It may be that consciousness is the entire purpose of the universe" -- I believe, tentatively, that it's probably true. Indeed, Kastrup's theory of Idealism is that matter is formed from (universal) consciousness, not the other way around. He sees our soul -- the EXPERIENCE of the action and memories our brains and bodies produce -- as existing in the form of a disassociated bit of the universal consciousness (i.e., of the universe as a whole) locked in our brains, focused on what happens in the brain instead of experiencing, far more vaguely, the entire universe outside ourselves.
Kastrup isn't wrong.
Careful though, gents, as sci-fi is ideology codified into fiction.
Predictive programming even.
One man's 'science' is another's tool of control and if in contention, it's science that will get the boot as the plandemic demonstrates.
Besides...........science will always fail the subject because measurement changes the object measured, and the part can't contain the All.
That said, I'm not being negative or critical about the conversation and theories. I would like to say that it has all been taken care of in the past in mythology as symbol and in the highest study of both Hindu and Buddhist literature. From there, it degraded into psychology with 'causation' a wedge between giants like Freud and Jung.
These studies are like rungs of a ladder. You might be able to skip one or two but the ascent wouldn't be a smooth one and one might mis-step.
I've spent a lifetime deep-diving into these subjects and even caused a name change in a known theory about cognition after a discussion with a team of psychological theorists, yet was unable to get them to understand what was actually being said, because they had an agenda they thought it fit, when it didn't, so they 'stole' the idea and used it anyway. Holy cow.
Cut to the chase. I've pretty much heard it all by now. I don't have the energy to pump out the 3 zillion word diatribe it would take to touch the hem of the garment............but..........
If you'd like to hear the foremost authority in the west about the deep understanding of cognition/self.......using east, west, and science all at once...
Check out Theoria Apophasis vids on YouTube. Bring your dictionary, it's worth it.
Enjoyed the conversation and thank you.
Yes, and the modern leftist bent of much SciFi isn't new, of course; Star Trek was a socialist paradise that somehow "worked" (everything can work in the movies!) and H.G. Wells was also a socialist.
Hell, Einstein was a socialist, which goes to show that feelings are often stronger than intellect -- a general principle, actually. Feeling is far more ancient and a deeper, more central part of life than is upper-brain intelligence.
As for science: in times of widespread corruption or emotional damage, science, like everything else, degrades.
That's quite true. Still, if the goal of science is an ever-deeper and more accurate understanding of reality, then science can at least be very useful even when it the understanding is clearly incomplete. Newtonian physics is so useful that engineers and others still often use it instead of quantum or relativity, at least for the many intermediate-scale situations where Newton's results are so close to experimental results as makes no difference for the situation at hand.
There's another reason science will, in some fashion, always fail: I don't believe the human brain is anywhere near adequate to grok the whole of reality. An ant will never understand Shakespeare. A dog will never fully appreciate music despite having excellent hearing: no spindle cells in the brain to supply the output of hearing-related brain areas directly to certain feeling-related areas, so the deep feeling that music creates in humans (and to a lesser extent in a few other primates and in some cetaceans, and perhaps a few other animals) is never generated in a dog. Music theory wouldn't help, even if the dog could learn and understand it.
The universe is too big, too multi-layered, too multi-dimensional (including perhaps literally) for humans to fully grasp, or so I believe. Kastrup and the reports of some near-death survivors suggest the merging of one's self (of That Which Experiences) with the universe may change that. I'm not yet on board with the idea, but open to it.
I will, and thank you for that, and for the conversation.
Thanks for the great reply.
Engineers and Imagineers are at war right now.
The Truth is always somehow in 'the middle'.
That is exemplary of a "high energy" post, thank you, anon. I too think that the mind and soul are interchangeable terms for the same thing. I further think that the mind is, like you say, the software and the brain the hardware. I've also heard the analogy of the brain being a TV or radio receiver, and the mind is the broadcaster, the will that animates the brain to cause the body to do (or not do) an action.
But further, the mind (or soul, if you will) is an entity that has accompanied us all our lives but is not necessarily located IN the body. The mind is sometimes free to wander, such as in REM sleep and in out-of-body experiences. I've never, to my knowledge, had an out-of-body that I can remember, but I know credible people who have.
From reading about peoples' near-death experiences, where they were clinically "dead" but resuscitated, describe the experience of finally shedding their physical bodies and go to another realm of existence. Their stories are almost universally the same... enough so that I have come to no longer fear that thing we the living call "death." It is just another state of existence, but a higher and better state, and quite possibly eternal.
Sometimes when I think about all this, it makes the problems of this world seem petty and distant. But still, this is the age we were born in, and these things are what we were born to struggle with. I think this knowledge (that death is an illusion and that this is not my eternal home) is what gets me through the daily grind of living in this age with some degree of equanimity.
Yes, we are engaged in battles between good and evil, and it's a play or movie that has been playing out for millennia, this is just the most recent chapter, so we are all called to bear witness and participate on the side of good.... God wins in the end.
The struggle has even found a front here in my east Tennessee remote place that I call home, and I know it must be more intense beyond these mountains, in crowded cities across the land.
This has been a most refreshing discussion, thank you, fren.
I've enjoyed our discussion also, anon. Kastrup (in The Idea of the World) describes his view that Idealism implies an immortal soul, although he uses the odd-sounding term That Which Experiences (which he abbreviates to TWE) for the small bit of universal consciousness within the human (or animal) brain that takes the DATA supplied to the brain by the eyes, ears, somatic nerves, etc and EXPERIENCES that data. That includes the MEMORY stored in the brain -- which brings up another topic; brain damage of certain types destroys memory. After death, with the brain soon completely dysfunctional and sooner or later rotted away or otherwise demolished, how does the soul carry any memory? Before death (but after the brain damage), the soul cannot access the missing memory. -- just one of many questions we may never know the answer to in our lifetimes.
How true. Without any proof to back this up, I am of the opinion that the mind carries ALL of our memories intact, unspoiled, and the knowledge of why we are here, but the brain cannot usually access all of that flood of information. Not to belabor the point of near-death experiences, but some people experiencing that have reported that the "reality" they experience "there" is more real than the physical lives they were leading here in the physical realm, and further, that they were whole "over there".... all physical and mental impairments were gone.
Also very telling, at least to me, is that a goodly number of near-death experiencers reported that they wanted to stay there and NOT come back, and were quite angry when they were resuscitated. That land must be quite wonderful.
So, this happened: I took mother in law to dr appt. Office staff refused to see me because we had no showed twice. I asked when. She said May 11. i said Ma'am, today is May 4. It it's not possible that I no showed on May 11. She went and got someone else to bring me their policy, all highlighted. I said, It is not possible that I no showed on May 11, today is May 4. She went to get the manager. At this point, I was digging for my phone, to check the date, wondering if maybe I had a stroke, am I confused .... Nope. It was May 4. Here comes the 3rd masked person to tell me that I have violated their no show policy. By that time I was pissed and I used my nurse voice to tell them that I do not care about their policy, that I had an appointment for my mother in law who had an acute issue, and if they refused to see her, it better be for a clinical reason and not their policy. So they acquiesed. But I did doubt myself for a minute.
Good stuff! I have it happen where I’m reading a word and I’ll hear it exactly the same time on the tv or radio. I like what you said “the devil is tricky.” Sure is!
Yes, we noticed this synchronicity in the early nineties. We used to call them library angels.
I like the description. We watched operation mincemeat and it was very good. Interesting that it was a true (ish?) story.
Also, it drives home the point that all that you hear, from any side, must be taken with a trailer-load of salt.
I think very much like you. Finding meaning in our situation is normal. Think Of what we are here to accomplish it’s pretty deep stuff. So we find the meaning to keep connected to our Creator and on mission. Thanks for the story it affirms I am not the only one.
Thanks for taking time to read it and commenting!
Yes I often said I was living in a Truman show, I would have a dream and tell a friend about it and next thing you know a singer has a new song that described my dream. I would walk under street lights and they would go off as I passed under or even drove by. Walking back to our hotel from a concert for some reason I asked if that ever happened to any one else and the light above me went out. I said see what I am saying, they haven't ever had that happen. Just random strange habbenings. :)
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Well, I think our internet overlords are definitely spying on everything we type and view. Anytime I look at an item on a website to buy, I am inundated with ads from that place or places like it for months afterwards.
As a married, straight woman I wonder if they think I am male because I read and comment on these kind of political and medical sites.
The worst offenders are ads that pop up for things like Viagra and feature half-clothed women which I have not clicked on nor searched for.
Recently there have been plenty of ads for Russian Brides who are 'obedient and willing'. And ads that say, 'Consider a beautiful Filipino Bride'.
I ignored those kind of ads most of the time, but finally I hit the 'x' button to remove them from my screen and to make them stop. G__gle then asks why did you close the ad? I select 'inappropriate' or 'not interested'.
Following that, I was immediately inundated with ads for 'gay cruises' with photos of buff gay men. Their algorithm is definitely in use. Unbelievable.
Wow.. my YouTub e recommendations are hilarious but probably not as curious as your ads!
Whenever I read articles anywhere I get the gross stuff for ads.
People pulling blobs of gunk out of their ears,
pimples all puss filled that need popped,
Toenails a quarter inch thick all flaky and yellow,
The red, swollen gums of gingivitis sufferers.
I never google ANY of that terrible stuff, but its mostly what I see in ads.
I've always felt it was deliberately done and no, they're not trying to sell me anything...they want to gross me out.
Here's some Spam trivia for you, fren:
Spam: A Luxe Gift in South Korea
The humble Minnesota export has been popular there for generations
https://www.nextavenue.org/spam-luxe-gift-south-korea/
That was pretty interesting! I had no idea. I can see how it would go well with Korean cooking. Thanks! I’ll keep mine for emergencies. It’s like ham but too soft. I fried the crap out of it in a cast-iron pan but it never got very brown or crispy. Just like mushy ham.
A friend of mine was in South Korea and sent me back photos from one of the grocery stores. There were rows of fancy boxes filled with tins of Spam. It was a big deal to give them as gifts.
We always make jokes about Spam, but to the South Koreans, it literally saved their lives during the war, hence their reverence for it.
Spam was actually a major breakthrough in preserving meat via canning. The problem had always been getting the heat high enough throughout the entire chunk of meat in order to kill off any pathogens in it, without overcooking the outside and leaving the inside undercooked. The trick turned out to be the jelly that you find inside the can. Something about that jelly allowed for even cooking throughout the entire piece of meat.
That’s really interesting. So that’s what the jelly is for! I thought it was just fat that congealed. I’m probably going to go down a rabbit hole regarding the history of it in Korea. It’s fascinating. That’s why I originally got hooked on Serpentza and Laowhy86 on China. They used to talk about food differences all the way down to MREs in China vs US military MREs. All kinds of mundane things you take for granted. Bathrooms, apartments, washing clothes, you name it. So you’ve inspired me :) thank you!
You can read some of the history of Spam if you go to amazon and look up this book. It will allow you to see some of the pages in the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Cookbook-Marguerite-Patten/dp/0600635384/ref=sr_1_5?crid=31O015ZIO004F&keywords=spam+cookbook+and+spam+book&qid=1652752231&sprefix=book+on+SPAM%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-5
Is that like Panko bread crumbs? That’s a great idea.
I’ll probably just save my Spam in case of emergency. It was just ok. It’s a textural issue for me. But that’s a good idea anyway.
"Reality" can be fascinating, can't it. And I see a lot of evidence that consciousness actually does create it, and mind-pictures are powerful. The whole visualization thing. I am positive that the woman with the errant eyelash thinks about you from time to time. That gentle gesture may have been the only time she ever received one.
Well, I hope she found someone to cherish her. I was young and awkward. Still awkward lol. That’s nice what you wrote.
Well, for starts, try to get off Netflix.. 😄 I know things come to your attention when you're ready to see them. An example would be to name your kid or dog and all of a sudden Everyone seems to have that name. Here is something I wonder about to a point...There was an Outer Limits (I believe, might have been the Twilight Zone) episode once that had "people" who would reset your life for you, like a movie stage. Once instance had it where the main character lost their keys and went looking for them. Then the "people" realized they had forgot to set them back up, so they did. Main comes in and finds them right where he had looked before. Idk why I think of that, but I do, even though it's silly.
I know a lot of people here talk about how bad Netflix is and that we should not watch and cancel subs but I’m not really on board with cancel culture. If your advertising offends me, I’m likely not to buy that product or use that service and if a network like Fox or cnn offends me, they’re dead to me (which they are) but Netflix has had a lot of shows and series that I’m interested in that aren’t woke or pushing some political agenda. Other good ones I just saw were “Our Father,” “The Keepers,” “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.” All well done, all worth watching, highlighting important issues and there are many more. I’m not ready to throw in the towel yet.
No worries.. I was teasing.. hence the smile face. It's your choice.
I shut it off as I didn't have any Netflix original shows I was committed to other than Stranger Things and I don’t know if season 4 will ever come out anyway..lol
I have hulu atm and it's a pit as well. I think it's impossible to avoid crap completely nowadays if you have any kind of service. If anyone has some wholesome places, let me know!