Sunday Musings: The Pervasive Presence of Suspciousness
We saw some pretty and unusual clouds over our house, last week.
I like clouds; like many, I've been looking at clouds since I was a little kid and we'd look at the sky and say "Look! That one looks like an elephant!" and so on.
Mrs. Denmarkguy took a couple of pictures and posted them to Facebook, for no reason other than they were pretty, unusual and interesting.
photo by @cosmictriage
The unexpected element of doing so was the quick "reaction" from more than one person that it was "chemtrails" and probably something related to HAARP.
As an adjunct to my post from a week back about the pervasiveness of "boogeymen" in people's lives, I find it amazing and alarming how much people seem to be looking for something nefarious in virtually every daily event they come across.
These are clouds, folks!
Aside from the fact that "Altostratus Ondulatus" clouds were present in the sky when I was a kid in the 1960's — a couple of decades before HAARP was even a thing — I'm just really struggling with the "evil intent" angle.
Lenticular cloud over Mt. Shasta
Not everything in the universe is out to get you, people!
To each their own... and ultimately, I don't really care, but the question that comes to my mind — and that I want to ask — is what will all the fearmongers HAVE if they turn out to be right?
"Oh, the end of the world happened, and you're laying there as a pile of ashes! But YOU WERE RIGHT! Shame that you're dead like the rest of us, and can't tell the difference anymore!"
The End of the World!
Recently — on May 26th — it was once again supposed to be "the end of the world" as some Aztec (not Mayan) calendar "expired."
Here we are, ten days later, and the world did not end... AGAIN.
I'm not here to tell anyone what and how to believe, I just want to know what the objective is, in focusing and dedicating your entire life to "the end of everything."
Are you just longing to be part of some kind of mass extinction? Or are you not happy unless you can have someone to blame for everything?
Let's consider that even if you knew a giant asteroid was heading this way and would kill you just as certainly as anyone else... and there was not a thing you could do about it... why would you turn your entire life into a perpetual anxiety attack as you study every dust mote in the universe to try to determine whether it will kill us all?
Anxiety — and not just having it, but also obsessively seeking it — can also be an addiction. And if the big disaster does hit the world, and everything ends? It won't matter all that much because...
WE'LL BE DEAD!
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It's just a sign of people having a good life with nothing else to worry about, so they seek for drama. Because wouldn't we all get bored without a bit of drama?
Too much time on our hands! Yes, I often think that's the "problem" for a lot of people...
It’s a double edged sword. We need to know the bullshit they try to sew and push upon us, such as present date for example. Vaccine passports were talked about years ago but they needed a reason to start to convince the public about it. Insert human-created crisis and you have the classic problem-reaction-solution scenario. With clouds, they’ve been destroying them for years but only the loonies knew it and talked about it. Now that they admit it, it gives the people who knew it happened some validation so they trust less and are suspicious more. Unfortunately a lot of people aren’t on the side where you are suspicious of a lot but can see where your suspicion isn’t warranted. Those clouds are probably seeded since most are, but not in the way of the more obvious chemtrail that many get pissed about.
Maybe a large part of what we are really facing here is that the Internet has made everyone an "armchair expert."
As a super simple example, consider an item from the mental health field. "Narcissism" is definitely real but from the clinical perspective the actual mental health disorder is quite rare, but if you walk around on the street it seems like every person you meet "knows at least 3-4 Narcissists."
As to vaccine passports, most people don't even know that you had to have them for international travel back in the 1950's and 1960's. I still have my old yellow 1960's WHO vaccine book... we could go nowhere outside Europe without proof of Yellow Fever, Malaria, Swamp Fever, Typhoid and other records of vaccinations. Old applied idea, recycled. What's changed isn't the idea, but our perception that having to prove our status is no longer "a matter of health safety," but instead "an infringement on our RIGHTS."
As always, there's a fine line between healthy suspicion and outright paranoia.
That's wild I didn't know they did that back then! Thanks for the historical background. It's definitely seeming like a modernized way to try to enforce something of the past. I wonder when it faded from being checked.
Yeah, it’s one of the cases where people find that they have come to a conclusion and makes them what they find to be an expert. Tough part is that there aren’t a whole lot of experts and the people who call themselves experts are a bit more self absorbed than is tolerable. I would rather say that someone has a lot of experience, personally. Spending a lot of time on one topic doesn’t make anyone an expert, it often makes them have one view and not be open to others that are different, whether a healthy challenge or foolish.
Yes, that's true. I also have and still conserve that old 60's traveller yellow book. The current green one? Yeah, prolly an old idea "they" are trying to resuscitate once again.
On other hand, sheesh @cmplxty... you are such a youngster!! hahaha :)
Hahah in some ways I would say! Not as young as those who don't remember the beginning of the internet. I remember connecting to it when Walmart offered dial-up! I still remember the jingle tune, though I don't remember the words lol.
It's at least a little promising to know that they tried this type of stuff in the past. There are different ideologies nowadays and people don't seem to fight as strongly for their freedoms but could just be my perspective.
Well, I will concede you the "senior" status only if you also used Compuserve & AOL surfing the non existent web with Mosaic browser in the early days before the official internet.
Yeah, everything is cyclic in this life. Even washing our hands without soap.
Nope, not just your perspective. Your perspective is actually well accurate. It's just that people nowadays for having more easy access to information and in consequence having been more exposed to the brainwashing machinery of everyone and their pets with multiple and diverse different ideologies for longer time, now they don't know exactly what tree to hang by the neck themselves from.
I had a yellow vaccine book from the US government that I had to use for travel when I was leaving the US. Everyone willingly gave it, because that was the way it was.
We didn't worry about tracking and such. Why worry now? They already have all the info they need on you.