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|    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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