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Still walking in a fog

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:49:54 +0000

In reply to Well it is a good song to get

Still walking in a fog

Not a song, but sadly

barefooted — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:15:00 +0000

In reply to Do It To Julia...

Not a song, but sadly inspirational all the same ...

Well it is a good song to get

EmmaZahn — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:37:49 +0000

In reply to I always liked his twang here

Well it is a good song to get drunk with.....

The lyrics though are why I posted it. How said it is that people keep talking past each other and are not even able to see one another because they are lost in a masquerade. I know I feel lost -- like your song choice -- like a stranger in a strange land.

I always liked his twang here

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:54:43 +0000

In reply to I think this fits well here..

I always liked his twang here that kept it from being too nightclub.

I think this fits well here..

EmmaZahn — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:06:26 +0000

In reply to Do It To Julia...

I think this fits well here....

I AM SO VERY SAD.

Richard Day — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:29:07 +0000

In reply to Do It To Julia...

I AM SO VERY SAD.

Leon and Leonard are dead.

And Glwen is gone too according rmrd and Wiki.

The end is near.

Dylan will be next.

DAMN

But Peracles....I grew up in a white suburb where all the edenists had five to eight kids and no place to put them all comfortably in a ranch home in the suburbs. hahahaha

We all had one bw tv in the living room and mom decided what idiocy to choose on three channels. hahahahas

My only son told his wife:

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

And had his tubes tied. hahahahah Following the birth of three lovely pixies. hahahahah

We are going to be okay.

We elected a fascist in a strange constitutional frame with three branches.

Sit back and relax Peracles.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

WHAT?

GOODBYE LEON:

To take you into a related

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:25:20 +0000

In reply to I have no idea why, but

To take you into a related but not identical nation, look up "fast and slow thinking" (there are some shorter summaries that are good, but what I've read of the longer is also quite fascinating.) There are very important psychological worlds out there that most of us are oblivious to and completely lacking in tools to handle. We're like lambs being led to slaughter.

Dislike Scott Adams all you want, but there was a certain methodology to Trump's repeat-everything-3-times, speak-like-an-adolescent, and smash-down-the-accepted-norms-at-every-juncture. He was imprinting his audience with every performance, knowing what would stick, what would be forgotten or simply wouldn't matter. Probably the reason Trump fights so hard to keep his reputation as "rich" more than any of his other lies, is that "rich" is his core fundamental - the source and validation of his stature, his success, the basis for his illusion. "When you're a star you can do what you want" - yeah baby, rock 'n roll. And while we might feel superior for not being susceptible to this magic, the incantations of success, it's just as likely that we're simply not his target audience, his "mark". Now his prime target doesn't have to be everyone who eventually votes for him, simply his core audience, the "true believers", but he knows how to cultivate and grow this group successfully.

Magicians work via several pre-existing human urges - the desire to be fooled, to be excited, to by mystified, to be part of a group and not stick out, to follow the bright-and-shiny, and so on.

I have no idea why, but

barefooted — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:56:54 +0000

In reply to Do It To Julia...

I have no idea why, but reading that "post-truth" is the Oxford Dictionaries' choice for 2016 international word of the year made me think of this post from you. It is defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, and even as I find that immediately depressing I realize it's most certainly not new. Still ... in an odd sort of way emotion and personal belief have to shape our opinions to some degree, don't they? Shouldn't they? Otherwise we'd all be a bunch of boring androids spouting whatever facts we're programmed to absorb - being human is the greatest spin of all.