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   Message 214,684 of 215,367   
   Jim Wilkins to All   
   Re: Yep, You Only Have To Think About It   
   10 Aug 25 22:34:50   
   
   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:107b0pa$24pam$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   I like to try to mention things that are good.  Not just whine about   
   things that aren't, but as I pointed out before it seems like the moment   
   I praise something it goes south.   
   ...   
   Yes Jim, You Only Have To Think About It   
   Bob La Londe   
   ---------------------------------------   
      
   As a trained scientist I believe the laws of Physics and Chemistry   
   accurately describe the actions of nature, yet I've experienced quite a bit   
   that suggests otherwise, such as the nearly to-the-minute accuracy of my   
   biological clock for waking up and turning on TV weather forecasts. It even   
   works to get up early for fishing trips.   
      
   This afternoon I was trading stories of the unexplained with a girl selling   
   witchy things at a faire booth. Mine was of exploring an undeveloped area   
   for hunting and finding the foundation of a vanished barn. There seemed to   
   be a lonely youthful presence who wanted to show me around. I went (or was   
   guided) to the boulder the kids climbed on and saw where their dirty bare   
   feet had worn steps, and then through woods to the far side of a patch of   
   dense brush, nearly tripping on the rough granite step where the door to the   
   farmhouse had been, then I realized that the brush patch was its shrubbery   
   and I'd found (or been directed to) the only entrance. A few hand-forged   
   wrought iron door corner braces remained on the granite. I think I learned   
   more but didn't find a town record of a family there for confirmation. The   
   next time I passed through I was carrying a shotgun and felt nothing, or   
   perhaps disappointment.   
      
   Another was of dirt-biking and exploring in a flood control area where the   
   houses had been removed. At the end of the driveway of the only right-angled   
   corner lot I felt the funny cold feeling. Later at a theatre group party I   
   asked an older friend about that area, and she told me she knew the spot,   
   had been to a party at that house and felt the creepy chill when she went   
   upstairs for her coat, on the bed in the room where they told her a child   
   had died.   
      
   When house-hunting we found a very reasonably priced older house that I   
   checked thoroughly for repair needs. The story was that it was being sold to   
   settle an estate, which made me think of my grandmother in a nursing home.   
   Everything looked fine until my wife entered and immediately backed out of   
   an upstairs bedroom. I went in and suddenly realized that the elderly woman   
   had fallen and slowly died of thirst on the floor there, not in a nursing   
   home. I told the real estate lady (who must have known at least some part)   
   that we couldn't move in until the previous owner left, and she turned pale   
   and speechless.   
      
   https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/NSA-RDP96X00790R000100010041-2.pdf   
   The Soviets boasted that they had developed a psychotronic machine that   
   could tap into whatever it is for espionage. I've been near very strong   
   magnetic fields and most of the radio spectrum and never noticed any effect   
   beyond what my instruments could measure, though some claim to be able to   
   detect them.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity   
   It's possible that dental metal might create Schottky diodes that rectify RF   
   into physically detectable DC or audio.   
      
   The only coded messages I ever received from deep in space are ones I had   
   previously transmitted as a test.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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