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  Potential Truthiness

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  potential truthiness?.

  the comedian stephen colbert wrote a book, "truthiness".truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.. to me, this perfectly defines the term: potential.as in "potentially true" or "potentially lying.".

  such labels poison relationships destroying reputations.potential labels are subtle and also just under the radar of committing libel or defamation legally.. that key word is "potential" positing a shadowy inference, suspicion, propaganda point.do you feel me?do you understand the point i'm making?.

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  All the social ills which might be rectified by spending "enough" money are always blocked with the question: "How will we pay for it?"
  And then the bailout came along and TRILLIONS of dollars magically appeared and went straight into the hands of the richest Banks and Corporations (and CEO's) the world has ever known.
  In politics, a "reason" against something is always an excuse.
  A promise is always a lie.
  A "gaffe" is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
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  Potential Truthiness

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  potential truthiness?.

  the comedian stephen colbert wrote a book, "truthiness".truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.. to me, this perfectly defines the term: potential.as in "potentially true" or "potentially lying.".

  such labels poison relationships destroying reputations.potential labels are subtle and also just under the radar of committing libel or defamation legally.. that key word is "potential" positing a shadowy inference, suspicion, propaganda point.do you feel me?do you understand the point i'm making?.

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  POTENTIAL TRUTHINESS?

  The comedian Stephen Colbert wrote a book, "TRUTHINESS".
  
  Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

  To me, this perfectly defines the term: POTENTIAL.
  As in "Potentially True" or "Potentially lying."

  Such labels poison relationships destroying reputations.
  Potential labels are subtle and also just under the radar of committing libel or defamation legally.

  That key word is "Potential" positing a shadowy inference, suspicion, propaganda point.
  Do you feel me?
  Do you understand the point I'm making?

  POTENTIAL is a dangerous concept because propagandists use potentials to create landmines, quicksand, and transitional traps for our mind to lure us away from TRUE toward FALSE.
  
  A Jehovah's Witness is first introduced to a new kind of Bible. (The NWT is filled with "cheats". Words with potential meanings which have been wedged in sideways and qualified.) The doctrine of the invisible "presence" is a replacement of historical theology using the "potential" substitute definition for "coming".
  
  "Truly I tell you today (comma) you will be with me in Paradise." A potential turned into an actual meaning through a non-existent comma.
  
  Everyday news events are re-engineered into subtle feats of transitional propaganda using wonky language.

  Are you a "potential" pedophile?
  Is your friend an "alleged"criminal?
  Those particular terms allow you to be slandered in the minds of others and you have no legal recourse.

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  Read on...

  The C.I.A., F.B.I. and other so-called Security agencies have come up with a poisonous variation of this strategy.
  "Potential Terrorist"
  Let's break that down, shall we?

  NOT a terrorist...but... Might BECOME a terrorist.
  Say what??

  Reading minds and then casting suspicion led to destroying the reputation of Richard Jewell who saved hundreds of lives having discovered and warned others about a bomb.
  Jewell was made a monster by the F.B.I. and News media as a "potential terrorist" who "fit the profile" of a bomber.
  Even after he was exonerated - the smear - the stench remained till the day he died.
  AUTHORITY with POWER is most dangerous when proving their point using fuzzy language with poisonous potentials.
  
  

  Why am I telling you this?

  I keep hearing about "Q" as in "Anon-ymous". Q'ANON.
  
  I wanted to know what it is alleged to be. Fair enough?
  Apparently not!

  The more I read, the more I bump into efforts to poison my opinion IN ADVANCE.
  Actual definitions are rare in media.
  POTENTIAL tricky, poisonous definitions are now the rule of thumb. I have to climb over barbed wire wordy fences to explore.

  Somebody doesn't want me doing this. Their words make this much clear.

  I'm very cautious about "words".
  Words are seedlings.
  Words must be handled gingerly.
  
  I LEARNED MY LESSON with the Governing Body and the Watchtower for 20 years of my life.
  It is so easy to trust and be led toward one conclusion after another based on tiny steps of "potential truthiness". We can lose our way.
  I lost my way!
  
  Before Trump there was no possibility of FAKE news.
  And then ...?
  Now we definitely smash into it every minute of every day.
  
  It's going to take me a long research slog to penetrate the wall between fact and potential truthiness if I'm going to discover what - if anything - there really is to the "far-right conspiracy" (as Wikipedia defines it.)
  
  I actually (don't laugh) spent a week chasing down exactly WHY anybody in their right mind could believe Flat Earth ideas. It was frickin' amazing!
  Even I - almost - started wobbling because the narrative of subtle truthiness was so expertly strung together (with juicy music backgrounds and spectacular visuals) I was being seduced!!
  I LOVED IT!
  Bullshit as an artform. At least I now understand it without dismissing it.
  Intellectual honesty requires I must be willing to change my mind if facts and evidence contradict what I hold to be true.
  
  I'm 73, retired and killing time (until it returns the favor) so - why not?
  
  

  I'll let you know what I find out as I explore Q'Anon group's true nature and purposes.
  So far, I'm up to my neck in quicksand.
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  Sidebar:
  Twitter in July banned thousands of accounts affiliated with QAnon and instituted policies meant to limit its spread. Facebook last month removed 900 groups and pages from its platform in a crackdown on QAnon and expanded its policy on violent extremism.

  These efforts have fallen short, however. A cursory search for terms associated with QAnon on either platform yields hundreds of results. The challenge of identifying and taking down these groups is made even harder when they’re international, given the comparatively limited number of content moderators that social media companies employee with native languages other than English.
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  I wonder if I'll get down to the facts or just the rumors???

  
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  EMMA PEEL (Adieu)

  by Terry in

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  emma peelyou’re oh so thrillin’ when you’re bashin’ in a villainin a tight black leather catsuit, yes indeed!head held highyou won’t dawdle but accelerate the throttle as you .

  toss a wink to handsome partner steedemma pealyou crave adventure in your role as an avengercool and pretty with such witty repartee’deserving of a kudo with the lithe and limber judoyou’re the boss with every tosser comes your wayemma pealmay break the rules but she’ll never suffer fools(though she’ll make the fools soon suffer for their crime!

  )nemesis to haughty ones, a darling to her audiencethe champion trendsetter of her timeemma pealwe’d love to kiss you every fan is gonna miss you(i am reaching for the tissue) as i cryas a true and loyal fan ireally know (you are diana)it’s the ending of an era bye and byebeautiful dianafond adieu …rest in peace my angellove, terry.

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  Wow. That’s fantastic Terry.

  It was a sort of Rap....the way it was structured and best said aloud. I mean YOU threw away the rules, too. Sorta. Shit. I’m very impressed sir. I think her family would surely appreciate reading that.
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  Thank you kindly! I grew up listening to (and loving) such things as "I am the very model of a modern Major General" from Gilbert & Sullivan, Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse - clever internal rhyme schemes simply fascinated me.
  I memorized TROUBLE from the Music Man. Poetry and songwriting should (IMHO) contain entertaining rhyme schemes and jaunty rhythm. But heck- that's just me.
  
  Bricusse gave us Doctor Doolittle's Academy Award winning song:
  "If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it

  Chatting to a chimp in Chimpanzee
  Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah
  What a neat achievement that would be!"
  
  
  
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  EMMA PEEL (Adieu)

  by Terry in

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  emma peelyou’re oh so thrillin’ when you’re bashin’ in a villainin a tight black leather catsuit, yes indeed!head held highyou won’t dawdle but accelerate the throttle as you .

  toss a wink to handsome partner steedemma pealyou crave adventure in your role as an avengercool and pretty with such witty repartee’deserving of a kudo with the lithe and limber judoyou’re the boss with every tosser comes your wayemma pealmay break the rules but she’ll never suffer fools(though she’ll make the fools soon suffer for their crime!

  )nemesis to haughty ones, a darling to her audiencethe champion trendsetter of her timeemma pealwe’d love to kiss you every fan is gonna miss you(i am reaching for the tissue) as i cryas a true and loyal fan ireally know (you are diana)it’s the ending of an era bye and byebeautiful dianafond adieu …rest in peace my angellove, terry.

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  EMMA PEEL
  You’re oh so thrillin’ when you’re
  bashin’ in a villain
  In a tight black leather catsuit, yes indeed!
  
  Head held high
  You won’t dawdle
  But accelerate the throttle as you

  toss a wink to handsome partner Steed
  
  EMMA PEAL
  You crave adventure in your
  role as an Avenger
  Cool and pretty with such witty repartee’
  Deserving of a kudo with the
  lithe and limber judo
  You’re the boss with every tosser comes your way
  
  EMMA PEAL
  May break the rules
  but she’ll never suffer fools
  (though she’ll make the fools soon suffer for their crime!)
  Nemesis to haughty ones,
  a darling to her audience
  The champion trendsetter of her time
  
  EMMA PEAL
  We’d love to kiss you
  every fan is gonna miss you
  (I am reaching for the tissue) as I cry
  As a true and loyal fan I
  Really know (you are Diana)
  It’s the ending of an era bye and bye
  
  Beautiful Diana
  fond adieu …
  Rest in Peace my angel
  
  Love, Terry
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
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  Confession of a German Widow

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  confession of a german widow.

  rosa hoffberger would be late for mass.

  it couldn’t be helped; cold weather set in and her movement was twice as difficult with arthritis.she hadn’t attended mass since the bombing had ended months ago.

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  How poetic!
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  When Russell Met Rutherford (A Play)

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  the scene openssetting: beth sarim is a ten-bedroom mansion in san diego, california________curtain rises.

  night has come to beth sarim mansion as president joe rutherford (the "judge") sits cleaning his pistol and sipping whisky from a flask on the edge of his silk sheets at bedtime.

  (rutherford heads up the watchtower bible & tract society).. there is a knock at the bedroom door.____________.

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  Much obliged nbd
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  A Strange Story

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  a strange story.

  chad's diner .

  the visitor in the tattered baseball cap blinked painfully in the direction of the sun and winced.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9dqs5Ej-ao&ab_channel=lambrijer
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  Curios and Curiouser

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  curios and curiouser__________________________ short story by t.e.

  hector, sir—she shouldn’t be in the front seat with you—she’s unaccustomed to travel—and besides, an awkward turn could injure her.”.

  the newly weaned saluki pup had been bred for cal hector by the most reputable kennel in kentucky.he paid cash in new bills and gathered her into his arms; then plopped her into the front seat of his vintage car.. the breeder had wagged his bony finger with disdain as he warned him.. “nonsense—do you think i’ve never owned an animal before?

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Berdella
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  Confession of a German Widow

  by Terry in

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  confession of a german widow.

  rosa hoffberger would be late for mass.

  it couldn’t be helped; cold weather set in and her movement was twice as difficult with arthritis.she hadn’t attended mass since the bombing had ended months ago.

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  Apropos of nothing ...
  Did you know a Priest who is kicked out of the church cannot have
  wrested away from him the "power" of transformation wherein the wafer turns to Christ's body and the wine becomes blood?
  I mean - of course - it's all balderdash but it struck me odd the Church has a mental adjustment weakness when it comes to kicking priests into the street and not being able to repossess the magic.
  Lunacy of the highest order.
  
  
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  A Strange Story

  by Terry in

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  a strange story.

  chad's diner .

  the visitor in the tattered baseball cap blinked painfully in the direction of the sun and winced.

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  I might turn this into a script for Jordan Peale and Twilight Zone ...