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TerryWalstrom
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You Can't Say Gypsy (say: Cearzarnearzy)
by TerryWalstrom in"you can't say "gypsy.
"say cearzarnearzy.___i had just finished watching nightmare alley, a noir thriller about carnivals, mind-reading acts, and petty larceny.
the freeze frame of the carnival was on my laptop when_ he_ sat down.not really paying attention to the man, per se, i did sort of notice his interest.. he snorted knowingly.
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You Can't Say Gypsy (say: Cearzarnearzy)
by TerryWalstrom in"you can't say "gypsy.
"say cearzarnearzy.___i had just finished watching nightmare alley, a noir thriller about carnivals, mind-reading acts, and petty larceny.
the freeze frame of the carnival was on my laptop when_ he_ sat down.not really paying attention to the man, per se, i did sort of notice his interest.. he snorted knowingly.
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TerryWalstrom
"You can't say "Gypsy."
Say Cearzarnearzy.
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I had just finished watching NIGHTMARE ALLEY, a noir thriller about carnivals, mind-reading acts, and petty larceny. The freeze frame of the carnival was on my laptop when_ he_ sat down.
Not really paying attention to the man, per se, I did sort of notice his interest.He snorted knowingly. (My guess).
He lifted a craggy finger. Pointing at the laptop screen he cocked his head at me.
I sussed he was communicating.
I lifted my eyebrows at him and he spoke at last."Cearzan yearzou spearzeak Cearzarnearzy?"
__Let me halt here for a second._
Don't ask me how I picked up on a clue to what the old man spoke, but I DID.
I have 'an ear' for language and music.My mom taught me Pig-latin when I was a small child, too.
I was about 5 when she taught me to say, "Oo-day oo-yay eek-spay ig-pay atin-lay?"The idea is to disguise what you are saying, making it possible to communicate with a confederate without bystanders knowing your message.
My mother had worked in a traveling carnival for six months. She told me about it and I was fascinated. I pumped every detail as a child.
Why? I have no idea.
Maybe even that long ago I was gathering details for my imaginary writing career:)
Having said all that, I really mean to tell you this: I heard a kind of CODE when the old fella said to me:
"Cear-zan year-zou spear-zeak Cearz-arn-earzy?"
Mind you, I could not break the code or understand how it worked...not yet.
I had realized there was something to be discovered...some code to break!
Instantly fascinated, I nodded without even trying to respond in kind.
________________As an afterthought, I simply added a couple of words, "...My mother."
The old guy tilted his head a bit and the slightly sneery expression which permanently adorned his sour puss departed like a shadow when the sun breaks through.
______The odd old fellow made an appraisal like a jeweler looking at a ring in a Pawn Shop.
An almost imperceptibly subtle nod and slow closing of his eyes followed my two words.
At that very moment, I had my EPIPHANY!
This was the old "Gypsy" man who had wagged his cane at me and had admonished me for sitting at a handicap table, not more than a week ago!He wasn't wearing that telltale hat with the silver band or carrying the cane with the silver handle. The gestalt had been changed. Today he was just "a guy."
This flipped me out!
For a brief second, anyway. Or two.Were the two of us (both old men with white hair) playing some kind of unspoken game with each other?
If so...it was unsettling.I was at a clear disadvantage.
I didn't know the rules.
I might be a target of some payback.
I had, after all, more or less rebuffed his admonishment.
______What I did do was write down what I'd heard pho-net-i-cally. This is a habit I developed after taking a Dale Carnegie course (How to Win Friends and Influence People) way back in 1970 as an employee of the employment agency where I worked. When a person says something you don't fully understand, (such as a foreign name) IF YOU WRITE IT DOWN pho-net-i-cally,
you can examine it objectively.Anyway, I digress...
I typed the cryptic phrase and started a search. Trying the variations on spelling, I hit the jackpot!
"Gypsies", Carnival people, and jazz musicians used secret language codes to privatize communication in front of strangers.First, the word is broken up into syllables and dummy phrases are inserted between the syllables. Once you practice and get the hang of it, you can speak and understand easily.
My mom had shown me.
PIG = just the end of the word detached from the first letter IG and the reattached first letter with an "ay" or "day" sound.
PIG= IG-Pay.
"Do you speak Pig Latin"=
"Oo-day oo-yay eek-spay IG-pay atin-Lay?"
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What had my "Gypsy" companion spoken, then?
I still didn't know. I waited until he departed and spent awhile ferreting out clues.
EXAMPLE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=CjBJsL7Mbik
________Jazz musicians, like Carny workers, had what they called a Ghetto code. (Mind you, this was in Pre-Civil Rights era).
Snoop Dog has used the code:
“Hey, bree-iz-other mee-iz-an, how you fee-iz-eel?”“Is everything all-ree-iz-all-right? Well, why don’t you, uh, why don’t you tell me about this pee-iz-arty to-nee-iz-ight? You goin’? Wee-iz-ell, why don’t you bring me a nee-iz-ickel bee-iz-ag?’
“Yeah, and why don’t you bring some bee-iz-am-bee-iz-oo so I can ree-iz-oll those up. I appreciate it.”
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Step 1. Steal a cadaver (Check!)
by TerryWalstrom ini live in fort worth.
for a time, so did serial murderer henry howard holmes.henry, as a young medical student in 1861, was a future serial killer.
did he know his destiny?
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Step 1. Steal a cadaver (Check!)
by TerryWalstrom ini live in fort worth.
for a time, so did serial murderer henry howard holmes.henry, as a young medical student in 1861, was a future serial killer.
did he know his destiny?
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TerryWalstrom
Serial killer from Gilmanton to be dug up to prove his identity
By TRAVIS M. ANDREWS
Washington Post
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These sorts of stories are so endlessly fascinating--if for no better reason than we are the same species as the bestial killers.
I read yesterday that some folks are eager to attach H.H.Holmes to
JACK THE RIPPER's mayhem. The same time period and Henry's elusive disappearance from one place to another is invoked.
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Jehovah's Witnesses: DO THEY FACE REALITY
by TerryWalstrom inarticle
1.the organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its own version, interpretations, and meanings.
a.only watchtower approved publications are allowed.
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The formatting I had when I pressed the button VANISHED and everything was squished into a giant block of dense wordage. Very sorry for that. I see no EDIT button. So, I'm stuck with it.
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Jehovah's Witnesses: DO THEY FACE REALITY
by TerryWalstrom inarticle
1.the organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its own version, interpretations, and meanings.
a.only watchtower approved publications are allowed.
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TerryWalstrom
ARTICLE 1.The Organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its OWN version, interpretations, and meanings. a.Only Watchtower approved publications are allowed. b.No higher education is to be pursued. c.No non-JW friends or associations are encouraged with their "outside" points of view. d.No freestyle questioning of doctrine or criticism permitted. Curiosity is verboten. e.Threat of being "marked" or disassociated looms over them 2.Between every real-world event and the rank and file, JW's mind is a roadblock. a.The moment of identifying is short-circuited by an interpretive moment of RE-LABELING in Watchtower-speak. b.All things happening are forced into a narrow storyline and propagandized as End Times happenings leading to Armageddon. 3.Social and Personal IDENTITY is expunged and replaced by a collective PERSONA: "Jehovah's Witness". a.Private thinking is red-flagged as selfish and sinful. b.Personal improvement, welfare, and ambition is crushed and door-to-door ministry substituted as "worthy" endeavors. c.Self-conscious obsession permeates Witness awareness as each person is transformed into a public spectacle of performance for judgment. d.Since you aren't an individual you don't really have a right to fall in love and marry or educate or earn. You are the property of the local Kingdom Hall, the Governing Body and ultimately Jehovah. 4.Both History and Future cease to be objective occurrences a.Every human activity is constantly represented as part of Jehovah's Plan for mankind leading to an inevitable conclusion b.Great Leaps of advancement for humanity are disregarded as "important" for civilization since the New World solves all problems eventually. c. The worst atrocities are magnified as proof positive of Satanic influence in a doomed world. d. Individual triumphs and tragedies have no particular value, but, only as indicators that the Watchtower is right about End Times signs leading to Armageddon. 5.Talent, Creativity, and Genius are transformed into useless and wasteful ego problems. a.No room is made in the Organization for personal praise for achievement since all glory is for Jehovah only. b.Neither Musical, Artistic, Scientific or Mathematical ability is needed or encouraged because of the preaching activity trumps and supersedes all. c.Critical Thinking leads to questioning, doubt, skepticism and eventual disfellowshipping--so--intelligence itself is marked as suspicious. 6.Ignorance, poverty, disease and mental disturbance are NOT worthwhile problems for charity, education or institutional asking for JW's. a.Building hospitals or colleges diverts precious time away from the JW ministry. Besides Paradise brings repair and perfection anyway. b.Becoming a physician, social worker, volunteer in the community or joining any established task-oriented organization DISTORTS rather than solves human problems because Armageddon is coming so quickly anyway. c.Humanitarian activity, disaster relief, and institutional charity promote secular and false-religious creeds instead of Jehovah's solutions. d.Personal financial concerns aren't important to the congregation. Your finances are a symptom of End Times only, not a focus of brotherly remedy. 7.Human perception is untrustworthy, corrupted by sin and dangerous a.Only thinking the thoughts which come from official Governing Body writings are safe. b.Personal opinions, life experience, and original analysis constitute hubris and running ahead of Jehovah's plan for his people. c.Calling attention to doctrinal irregularity, questioning "new light" and repeated calls for clarification red-flag spiritual weakness and danger. 8.There are no "Good" people in any other religion. If they were good they'd join Jehovah's Witnesses. a.The appearance of goodness, charity, benevolence and selfless devotion to others by Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists or other religious types is only an artificial misunderstanding of their human ignorance of Jehovah's long-lasting solutions to mankind's true problem: sin and death. b.Most do-gooders are religious fakes, imposters and money-grubbing charlatans who should be exposed and not admired. c.There is no one good except Jehovah anyway 9.Everything you read, see, experience and think is a distortion by Satan for the purpose of deflecting you from Jehovah's TRUTH. a.Watchtower study replaces the corrupt images, thoughts, and ideas with clean, purified and approved versions b.The human heart is desperate and corrupt. What you "feel" is probably sin and not compassion. Don't trust yourself to know anything. c.The entire world is in the control and power of invisible demonic forces hellbent on destroying humanity 10.Doubting Jehovah's organization isn't the result of logical awareness of their errors a.They never said they were perfect b.Jehovah eventually repairs any damage c.Disloyalty to the Organization is disloyalty to Jehovah himself. Armageddon will settle that score. In view of the Ten reasons above there can be no doubt that Jehovah's Witnesses have REALITY completely REMOVED from their awareness. Being denied a right to reality is to have one's mind stolen from them. Without having your own mind to think your own thoughts you cannot be an actual person or individual. The only thing left is to belong to a group that thinks FOR you and instructs you what to do and say and be. Without that GROUP there is only terror, doubt, emptiness, and longing to be cocooned by the "other". And you wonder why it is hard to break free? You wonder why your JW family member won't listen to reason? You wonder why the obvious isn't at all obvious? Well, now you know! JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES SIMPLY CAN'T FACE REALITY. For them......it just doesn't exist! It has been surgically removed by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses organization. (On purpose!)
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CRAZY THINKING and how to AVOID it
by TerryWalstrom in1. asking the wrong people the wrong questions in search of the wrong answers based on the wrong presuppositions.. 2. failure to realize you can't drive without a steering wheel by facing the loss of autonomy, individualism, and self-respect.. 3. self-righteousness in failing to acknowledge poor choices you made coupled with a lack of curiosity as to why and how you made them.. 4. unwillingness to learn what a category fallacy** is in searching for the "true" religion or "correct" interpretation of scripture, etc.. 5. blindness to the autonomic response mechanisms drilled into you by the watch tower society making non-bias impossible for you.
replacing the jw's with some other nitwit scheme of absolute certainty.).
6. failure to let go of black and white thinking by learning how to see the gray areas between extremes.
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TerryWalstrom
1. Asking the wrong people the wrong questions in search of the wrong answers based on the wrong presuppositions.
2. Failure to realize you can't drive without a steering wheel by facing the loss of autonomy, individualism, and self-respect.
3. Self-righteousness in failing to acknowledge poor choices you made coupled with a lack of curiosity as to why and how you made them.
4. Unwillingness to learn what a Category Fallacy** is in searching for the "true" religion or "correct" interpretation of scripture, etc.
5. Blindness to the autonomic response mechanisms drilled into you by the Watch Tower Society making non-bias impossible for you. (i.e. replacing the JW's with some other nitwit scheme of absolute certainty.)
6. Failure to let go of black and white thinking by learning how to see the gray areas between extremes. (Repair your rational thinking by constant drills.)
7. Obsessing over the inconsequential while neglecting the essential. (Food, shelter, clothing, money, education, career, relationships, recreation---which is which? Which come first? How?)
8. Developing the habit of surrounding yourself with people who will urge you to get out and DO something rather than holding your hand indefinitely.
9. Learning Self-Esteem comes from what you DO and not who you think you are.
10. Not embarking on a Self-Improvement regime every day of your life improving all skill sets equally such as Vocabulary, writing, reading, math, education, etc.
And . . . a special bonus!
FAILURE TO AVOID CRAZY-THINKING by spinning off on wacky reading material, conspiracies, fads, entertainment rumors, gossip, UFO's, Bigfoot, dead/alive Elvis, apocalypse speculations, food faddist lifestyles, etc.)
(Category fallacy: http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/general/bldef_categoryerror.htm
a semantic or ontological error in which "things of one kind are presented as if they belonged to another", or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.)
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Step 1. Steal a cadaver (Check!)
by TerryWalstrom ini live in fort worth.
for a time, so did serial murderer henry howard holmes.henry, as a young medical student in 1861, was a future serial killer.
did he know his destiny?
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TerryWalstrom
I have many videos on YouTube on the subject. One author complained how many dead end stories had been published by reporters who didn't bother doing the actual on-the-ground legwork. These reporters made up lurid headlines and tickled the sensational aspect.
He tried to find stories by reliable reporters willing to chase down leads, witnesses, and verification.
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Step 1. Steal a cadaver (Check!)
by TerryWalstrom ini live in fort worth.
for a time, so did serial murderer henry howard holmes.henry, as a young medical student in 1861, was a future serial killer.
did he know his destiny?
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TerryWalstrom
Diabolical, endlessly inventing, lying, back-stabbing, contriving, cheating...
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Step 1. Steal a cadaver (Check!)
by TerryWalstrom ini live in fort worth.
for a time, so did serial murderer henry howard holmes.henry, as a young medical student in 1861, was a future serial killer.
did he know his destiny?
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TerryWalstrom
Author Adam Selzer goes into as much detail as can be extracted from various sources still extant. One big problem comes from the ill preserved newspaper sources.
Holmes, he writes, is said to have killed more than 200 people in his “murder castle,” but he was only actually accused of killing one person at that location.
This fellow had one of the most extraordinary careers in murder as far as variety and bizarre circumstances.
I could spend days going through the newspapers if I could locate them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peX8B9DcLn8