Fulgurator wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 9:42 pm
George Michael just wrote the song, unaware of how his subconscious had stored the Manilow track at some point.
Same thing happened with George Harrison's My Sweet Lord, which was be exactly the same tune as The Chiffons' He's So Fine.
Like you I enjoy the contents of my own mind, and my own company.
Fulgurator wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 9:51 pm
I'm also having a struggle to read sections of the Apuleius witchcraft trial in Latin
Sadly I can no longer even attempt that kind of thing. A TBI nearly nine years ago has made concentration impossible. It's normal for me to have three or four books on my desk at any given time, and sometimes to give up on a book altogether because I've left it too long and can't remember what was going on or who the characters were.
As for creative writing, that's a tragedy. I'm the only writer I know who (used to) get an image, or maybe overhear a snatch of conversation on the street, and start typing, ie. I didn't play any of my stories, I just wrote them. That meant I read the story as someone else would, while it was emerging. With such a long time since my knock on the head, and it being tragically mishandled at the time, I can no longer write fiction. I've tried.
With disability you get compensation. My eye sight is abnormally bad but my other senses compensate.
What strikes me is I read texts that came from somebody's thoughts 2000 years ago before English ever existed. Imagine, at that time society was pagan. The Driuids inhabited Britain. People were more spiritual and superstitious. Actually, the elites would have been more intelligent than we are. You can tell by the more complex language used. Politically they were ahead and in arts and drama and architecture, herbal medicines. Psychology existed. They say disease that affects the right side of the body is more potent such as in epilepsy.
Quiet Voice seems to be cooling off. I just found her fruit preferences come under "terrestrum" which is trees and fruit, while "terrestris" would be mammals. The demons inhabit the air so it's thought.
Fulgurator wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:11 am
My eye sight is abnormally bad but my other senses compensate.
That'll be all the reading you do. I was legally blind for a long time, okay on familiar ground but often helpless otherwise.
When told I needed cataracts removed I put it off as long as I could, seeing other post-op people unable to read close-up. I mentioned that to a co-worker and she said she'd had one eye short and one long, wasn't tripping on uneven pavement or having to read books from a couple of yards away. My surgeon originally wasn't keen but I kept pestering him about it until he caved.
It took three operations and I struggle with small type and/or poor lighting, but otherwise I suppose I'm better off than I was. Certainly less potential for embarrassment!
Fulgurator wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:18 am
Quiet Voice seems to be cooling off.
Let us pray!
Still, we could do with one or two other posters, couldn't we!
I get the impression real psychology is practically dead. I've tried a bit of basic genetics lately because G.Suhareva's essays on child autism include a bit of genetics. She says Asperger's is dominant and Schizophrenia recessive. She wrote the two are connected in family lines. So, she called Asperger's "Schizoid Disorder" which indicates like Schizophrenia. This interests me as I seem to have both. Others have also been diagnosed with Asperger's and Schizophrenia. My Schizophrenia symptoms these days are slowness, low empathy, a struggle to begin new tasks or find initiative, sometimes mild paranoia and a modest degree of dissociated personality, although only slight. The so-called "swings" come around age 20, so that was my worst period. I just tick off what relates. Although Schizophrenia autism tends to dominate thoughts by emotions and deluded reality, that doesn't apply to me. In the old days, it was the Schizophrenic group so not everyone was the same. Asperger's is like negative Schizophrenia symptoms, or the pre-psychotic symptoms.
I note little is known about Schizophrenia in the U.K. It goes much deeper into physiological symptoms of thyroid, adrenal glands, brain and even cardiovascular. None of this seems to get studied.
There's a resounding peace as Quiet Voice licks her wounds. I've been tackling dozens of Quiet Voices on Facebook. They censored some 12 abusive responses to my blunt posts. America seems infiltrated with almost pre-Hitler anti-Semitism which I assume has crept in via migration. We are importing toxic, ideological hate. Given Americans seem poorly educated, the younger generation is open to manipulation. If you repeat dogma over and over, social groups start to accept it, just like the Covid manipulation. The more people believe in false history assertions, the more others follow. Ultimately American education is to blame. On Facebook, I pulled few punches but the truth is lots of these hate posters struggle to respond, beyond an insult (which get deleted). Of course, I learned about brainwashing in the 1970s by the Unification Church, or Moonie Cult. This group was able to turn converts against their families, deemed satanic. The converts sold flowers on the streets and candy to gain revenue for the cult. Now with social media, extremist groups can program and manipulate students and net users. Ultimately, America will one day regret how they opened easy doors for extremism to operate.
