Preparedness for when

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We live in interesting times, it's the downside to the homogenisation of the world and mixing of races, idealogies, lifestyles, and all races and creeds living in close proximity in diverse countries. Politics and politicians have an awful lot to deal with that isn't at all easy or I suspect obvious to the general populace. I may not agree with all decisions that various governments have made but I do think that whatever the reasons behind increasing security levels yesterday I'd much rather have too much security than not enough and the knowledge that what can be done to keep us safe is being done and will continue to be done until the threat diminishes.

Baileys_Babe

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Are library assistants told to monitor the books we borrow for instance?

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No need, they can use the computerised issuing system.

moneyistooshorttomention

I went off to make breakfast pondering all this and thinking "Well...at least within our own minds we have our privacy regardless and can think whatever we think/feel whatever we feel and no-one else can see whats going on in there"

....and then I read an article in todays paper about two scientists in different countries conducting a (successful) experiment in one sending a telepathic email to the other one. The equipment used is very primitive. The sender was only sending a one-word email, eg "Hola" - but I've read of other recent experiments along similar "read someone else's thoughts/emotions" over last few years and the telephone network was very cumbersome and primitive to start with.

Right at this moment though we can still think "We can lie to someone and tell them we have whatever belief system they think we should have and they'll never know that, inside our heads, we are still 'ourselves' " and I'll admit I'd lie first if I were in some countries in the world (rather than get persecuted for telling the truth) and then go and think my own thoughts later.

I do speculate on how Britain of the future would be and whether, for one month of the year for instance, people would have to make sure they ate their food surreptitiously and within their own homes only in daytime (courtesy of a foreign religious festival (r*m*dan) for instance).

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Oh Lordie if anyone could even begin to make sense of what pass for thoughts in what passes for my brain I'd be surprised as most days I can't!. Good luck to any telepaths in the general vicinity is all I say!!!

mardatha

That's the kind of thinking that has got me through my whole life - what goes on in my head is my business and nobody can dictate to me what to think. Starting with the church lol
MrsL, funny the RV and I were just talking about that yesterday, about WW2 and the men who didnt get counselling or diagnosed with PDST or support of any kind - but who just bloody well got on with it. We both had grandad, dads, and uncles who would never ever mention the war ... until they'd had a wee drink. And then sometimes they wouldn't shut up. So I think that was their coping system. I think now the fuss that is made in some cases makes it far worse.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

We have had our worldview tailored for us since the beginning of time. Religious authorites (not havng a dig at any particular faith groups, all are at it from shamans upwards) and secular authorities. What you are taught in school (the school you will not have been sharing with the spawn on the elites), what you read in newspapers and magazines, what you talk about at the pub or the schoolgate or any point in between; it's all tailored to our masters' whims.

There's nothing new about using psychology to steer us where they want us to go, the advanced use of these techniques is at least 100 years old.

Wouldn't surprise me if TPTB had certain book titles flagged up to see who buys them online and who borrows them from libraries. Never mind which websites you read and which articles on those sites you are interested in. The technology is there, it only takes a decision to use it.

Concerning about charlies-aunt's rural HA staff having to be given The Talk. My lot aren't doing anything like that (or if they are, I don't know about it). I don't believe we could cope with a major incident, given how badly rainstorms and even moderate falls of snow impact on our city. Would only take a couple of roads to be impassable and you'd have chaos. I think if anyone is thinking they will drive out of a crisis, unless they have a considerable head-start on their neighbours, they better have another think coming.

Today, I shall do some errands and some gardening, have to keep the soil in good heart, the weeds under control and the produce producing.

moneyistooshorttomention

GQ - That's not to mention other "ordinary people in the street" just expecting us to think a certain way or its obvious that they do. That all-too human wish to "fit in"...

I've not quite known how to react to the comments made to me (more than once) since moving over here by strange men to effect of "What would your husband think about you doing.....(insert as appropriate)?". The best I've thought up as a response to that is to put a puzzled look on my face and say "I don't think like that". In lighter moments I wonder whether I'm being chatted-up (at my age the chat-ups finished some years ago:rotfl:) and its a roundabout way of finding out if I have a husband...

mardatha

Natan Sharansky wrote about freedom of the mind, and he would know.

VJsmum

Talking of getting in our heads, GQ you were in my dream last night :eek:

Do you really look like my old English teacher?

T'was a lovely baby's romper suit you knitted though


Not a pile of ironing to be seen :rotfl:

The OH and I are off up a hill today and "out to lunch" in more ways than one. He is off on a lads holiday later in the week, to Switzerland. Hope that bliddy volcano doesn't go off until he's there, cos he'll be hell to live with if he doesn't make it out there.

Have a great day and nil desperandi carborundum.

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Talking of getting in our heads, GQ you were in my dream last night :eek:

Do you really look like my old English teacher?

T'was a lovely baby's romper suit you knitted tho.

:eek: Jings, now I'm worried. If your old English teacher was a total babe, then yes, otherwise probably not. Plus my knitting skills are pretty limited and I'd be more likely to say Here's a M0thercare voucher, dear, go treat the baby to something nice.