Laura Chat ~ January 2015
Sunday, January 4 2015
1/4, 7:04pmHernandez Laura
Hi
im outside the mechanics house, waiting, so I have a minute. How are you my friend
1/4, 7:06pmBarry Kort
Mechanic? What's broken?
1/4, 7:06pmHernandez Laura
It has been a bitch of a job being me lately
the car has had an oil leak that all the sudden got worse
1/4, 7:06pmBarry Kort
Oh.
1/4, 7:07pmHernandez Laura
and needed a rotor and frint brakes
front
i have to make her roadworthy
the doctor didnt want to continue perscribing the same meds,
changed to Topomax and Lexapro
i said No
1/4, 7:09pmBarry Kort
Have you decided to stop participating in the process of creating insoluble problems for yourself to wrestle with?
1/4, 7:09pmHernandez Laura
so, im on my own with the pain now
yes sir i have
1/4, 7:10pmBarry Kort
Did he conclude the meds were making you paranoid and erratic?
1/4, 7:10pmHernandez Laura
and i will lusten to that link when i have a free hour
listen
can we talk?
Do you mean can I listen?
1/4, 7:10pmHernandez Laura
but please have patience with me
nope
What do you mean?
1/4, 7:11pmHernandez Laura
it was his first time. However,
I changed doctors
he just met me
What link are you referring to? I have no context for that.
1/4, 7:12pmHernandez Laura
he has nothing to compare
you sent a link for me to see and watch something
The Moth?
1/4, 7:13pmHernandez Laura
you said it would take an hour
i dont know what it is
all i know is my thought process creates all this havoc and its gotta change and the universe brought me you so i could think resonably well to efficiently solve problems and eradicate them from my life!
Are you talking about the link I posted in this chat last month, on The Moth Radio Hour?
1/4, 7:16pmHernandez Laura
i just scrolled back to see what it is, yes its called the moth
I didn't say it would take an hour. The name of the program is The Moth Radio Hour, but the link is about the program. It would take 5 minutes to learn about the program.
1/4, 7:17pmHernandez Laura
oopsy, misunderstood again
It's one of many venues for storytelling.
1/4, 7:18pmHernandez Laura
lol
story telling
you want me to tell stories
Your gift is making up fabulous stories. The stories are so fabulous and so convincing that you unconditionally believe them to be true.
1/4, 7:19pmHernandez Laura
Barry, please im chompin at the bit here, can we talk
I want you to tell your stories to an audience that likes to listen to fabulous stories.
1/4, 7:19pmHernandez Laura
and yes part of it is you listening
lol
okay
but will you be the first yo listen?
and teach me how to tell a story coherently
no one barely understands me my mind jumps around
You can talk. As you might have noticed, I have a genetically inherited listening disability. Both my parents had it, and I inherited it from them. So you can call me and talk, and I hold the phone to my ear so that you can believe you have someone who is listening.
1/4, 7:21pmHernandez Laura
uh?
OMG i had not noticed
are you kidding
And then you can tell another story someday, about how you told your fabulous stories to a guy who reads and writes on the Internet because he has a genetically inherited listening disability.
My dad could listen for about 5 minutes and then he was exhausted and had to get off the phone. And my mother (who also had a hearing loss) only talked, never listened, because of her bad hearing.
1/4, 7:24pmHernandez Laura
how did you notice?
And she would talk at me for about half an hour every Sunday. And I had no idea what she was talking about most of the time.
1/4, 7:25pmHernandez Laura
dad cant hear
lol
How did I notice what?
1/4, 7:26pmHernandez Laura
its like having a stroke, when people are talking to you, you have no idea what they just said
So feel free to call me up and talk at me as long as you like. But don't expect me to capture any of it.
1/4, 7:26pmHernandez Laura
how did you notice you had a genetic lustening disability
Because when I tried to do Active Listening -- echoing back to the other person what they just said -- I found I was very poor at recalling what they had just said a few seconds ago.
In class, I took a lot of notes. Or I just read the textbook.
1/4, 7:29pmHernandez Laura
after a bit if time passes, abd fhe treatment i received what people said had several neanings so i still didnt know what they meant
Maybe you have a listening disability, too.
1/4, 7:29pmHernandez Laura
did you tead the textbook more than once?
Sometimes, if the material was dense.
When people leave messages on my answering machine, I have to play them back 4 or 5 times to get the information off of the messages.
1/4, 7:31pmHernandez Laura
thank you for telling me
So a 3-minute message on my answering machine takes me about 20 minutes to extract the content.
1/4, 7:31pmHernandez Laura
oh no
is chatting easier
And then, on FB, there are people whose writing is so turgid and confused that I have no idea what they are saying in their FB comments.
1/4, 7:32pmHernandez Laura
i took the mice to the pet store and waited for a little boy that would want them to appear
i dont think i have what you have
The mice lived, I take it? And you were going to give them away to a little boy? Is that the story of your last remark?
1/4, 7:33pmHernandez Laura
but i probabky got the turgid part
sometimes even i cant understan what i wrote
Try telling your story into a tape recorder, then listening to it and transcribing it a day or two later.
1/4, 7:35pmHernandez Laura
and sometimes when i talk only i understand what im saying ive noticed
ive been asked before if im drunk or blond
but maybe those were just mean people
You understand what you are thinking, perhaps. But what you are saying out loud is a poor copy of what you are thinking.
1/4, 7:36pmHernandez Laura
id love to tell these stories
can i get paid
doi need a studio?
Tell them first to a tape recorder.
1/4, 7:36pmHernandez Laura
i have access to one
You can call up The Moth on their free 800 number and leave a story for them to consider using.
1/4, 7:37pmHernandez Laura
my good friend Joe graduated from Berkeley in Boston
he has a home studio
Berkeley School of Music?
1/4, 7:37pmHernandez Laura
oh
yes
he is a musician
he's a Jersey boy
So my recommendation is that you either record your stories on tape or call up The Moth on their 800 number and leave your story with them.
One of the Frankie Vallee Jersey Boys?
1/4, 7:38pmHernandez Laura
mmmm, i wiyld rather write them down and read them
would
Record them on tape and also write them down.
1/4, 7:39pmHernandez Laura
i mean maybe i can be telkibg them to someone at first and then polish for perfection
talking to someone
Try The Moth. The worst that can happen is you get some practice telling them.
1/4, 7:40pmHernandez Laura
can i support myself doing this
I have no idea. I write copiously on the Internet, but I don't earn a dime doing it.
But you need to do it for the therapy of telling your stories. That's your therapy.
1/4, 7:41pmHernandez Laura
oh, it is
but i need to figure out the truth first
And it's a lot cheaper to tell your stories to The Moth than to a shrink at $175/hr.
1/4, 7:42pmHernandez Laura
my perception is colored
Forget about getting to the ground truth. Just say these are your paranoid fantasies which may or may not bear any connection to reality.
1/4, 7:43pmHernandez Laura
i ve always had the advantage of having shrink that is payed for! The military was very kind to me as the wife of an officer
Chaplain Mack Larry Mack was a methodist chaplain
Was there a Madness to his Method.
1/4, 7:45pmHernandez Laura
yes Gestalt
he grew me up
Gezundheith.
1/4, 7:45pmHernandez Laura
without his teaching
i would have ceased to live live ago, he taught me how to not break apart
he was a special forces soldier
who was a methodist chaplain
with a degree in individual and family counseling
he was my shrink for 3 1/2 Years
at first it was three times a week
then twice
then once a week
then twice a month
he taught me how to sit in the chair of the observer
Did he teach you Deuteronomy 30:19 ...
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live."
Did he teach you to choose life?
1/4, 7:51pmHernandez Laura
then we finished on "you will not need more counseling until you go back to your family of origin.
Yes
he taught me to choose life
he taught me
Did you make a solemn commitment to choose life, and not soul-sucking adversity?
1/4, 7:53pmHernandez Laura
he taught me that sonetimes lufe woyld get tough and that when it does only think of one hour at a time
The Choice of Life or Death
But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you shall surely perish.
1/4, 7:55pmHernandez Laura
he told me that the only thing that would hurt worse than what was happening to me then would be the death of a child
is that the old testament
There is a child within you. Don't kill that child. Let that child within you have a life. Turn away from adversity and choose life for the child within you.
Deuteronomy 30.
1/4, 7:57pmHernandez Laura
im getting hungry
Choose Becoming.
Choose Food.
Choose Health.
1/4, 7:58pmHernandez Laura
i have an opportunity to move to Estes Park Colorado
or go visit
Choose Recovery.
1/4, 7:58pmHernandez Laura
joe showed me a video of dr.Sanjay Gupta
journaling the journey of Charlotte' s web
Choose StoryTelling, if that is your best Therapy.
1/4, 8:00pmHernandez Laura
it is a marijuana plant that has been doctored for ten years to be high in cdc
low in thc
it is working for pain, no side effects
Are you choosing Nepenthe?
1/4, 8:01pmHernandez Laura
Nepenthe? what is that?
also, i think the foctor thinks i do drugs, i did not know that poppy seeds give a false positive
Nepenthe is a medicine for sorrow, literally an anti-depressant – a 'drug of forgetfulness' mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology.
1/4, 8:03pmHernandez Laura
nor that the protein powder made with hemp seed would give a false positive i think that's why he changed my meds
where is it?
this strain is for pain
Where is Nepenthe?
1/4, 8:04pmHernandez Laura
yes
oh never mind, i retead it is not a place
it is an herb
It is a Restaurant in Big Sur that appeared in the movie, "The Sandpiper."
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www.nepenthebigsur.com
Nepenthe, Big Sur...
been-seen.com
‘Dark, scant pasture drawn thin over rock shaped like flame; the old ocean at the land’s foot, the vast gray extension beyond the long white violence... This place is the noblest thing I have ever ...
1/4, 8:08pmHernandez Laura
wow, where did that idea come out of ? Why Nepenthe
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor starred in the movie, The Sandpiper, which featured Nepenthe, the restaurant in Big Sur.
It's named after the Greek word.
Nepenthe is a medicine for sorrow, literally an anti-depressant – a 'drug of forgetfulness' mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology.
1/4, 8:09pmHernandez Laura
Doctors kept adki g me if i do drugs, is that standard? n why would he not bring up uf i had eaten something with poppy seed
1/4, 8:10pmHernandez Laura
I reckon it's because you prefer to tell fabulous stories out your fertile imagination, rather than conscientiously engage in the process of therapy.
Since the doctor can trivially tell that you are telling fabulous stories out your fertile imagination, he suspects you are drugged out of your mind.
So he is seeking evidence from you, to see if you will disclose to him the truth of whether your fabulous stories are the result of taking drugs.
The word Nepenthe first appears in the fourth book of Homer's Odyssey, as a Drug of Forgetfulness, which chases away every sorrow, every grief, every mournful memory.
Then Helen, daughter of Zeus, had a different idea. Straightway she blended into the wine of which they were drinking a drug to quiet all pain and strife, and bring forgetfulness of every ill. ~Odyssey, Book 4, v. 219–221
Sound familiar? Mixing a drug into one's beverage, to make unwanted sorrows go away. You have been reliving and reifying that scene.
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Monday
1/5, 9:48amHernandez Laura
Hi Barry, last night i was chatting with you while waiting for Kevin. His sister Denise is a good friend and a naturopathic doctor. I went in to look for Kevin and waited for a long time chatting with Denise while Kevin showed up to tell me to come back tomorrow!
i just read what you wrote after i left the car, i had not read any of those stories! I do remember Nostradamus was poisoned and took antidote!
Ask him about the literary roots of Nepenthe, the Drug of Forgetfulness.
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What doesn’t kill you doesn’t necessarily make you stronger
www.washingtonpost.com
We can overcome trauma, but its effects are severe and long-lasting.
1/5, 10:03amBarry Kort
More discussion here:
Some good points but I feel as if there is some nuance missing. It seems like a critique of a crude sort of mentality about responding positively to adversity. Adversity eventually becomes toxic. But some exposure to discomfort can be an inoculation against adversity...
1/5, 10:09amHernandez Laura
Ask who about nepenthe? its borage! I looked it up
1/5, 10:11amBarry Kort
Ask your Neuropath.
Denise.
1/5, 10:12amHernandez Laura
oh, next time i see het
her
im not there now
they changed the law in Texas
no more talking on the phone while driving
1/5, 10:13amBarry Kort
Excellent. It's dangerous to be on the phone while driving.
1/5, 10:13amHernandez Laura
yes
but hands off its like dtiving with someone in the car and if there's no traffic its okay
but most dont admit it to themselves
1/5, 10:15amBarry Kort
If you have a wireliess headset, it's OK.
1/5, 10:15amHernandez Laura
i saw Oprah make many people sign a contract on her show not to text n drive
yes, have to get one of those
1/5, 10:16amBarry Kort
Texting is very bad because you have to take your hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road. Very dangerous.
1/5, 10:16amHernandez Laura
yesterday the conversation was about what difines addiction
1/5, 10:17amBarry Kort
Wireless Bluetooth headsets are not very expensive.
1/5, 10:17amHernandez Laura
an addict is someone that keeps going things in exactly the same manner time after time
1/5, 10:18amBarry Kort
Addiction is an instance of a repetitive pattern that goes nowhere. Also known in mathematics as an Untamed Recursion. Also known in Theology as "Hell."
Also known as a Vicious Cycle.
1/5, 10:19amHernandez Laura
lol hell
yes, vicious is right
1/5, 10:19amBarry Kort
Hell, in the Old Testament, was called Sheol. The word literally means "The Pits."
1/5, 10:19amHernandez Laura
i am so grateful for this friendship Barry
1/5, 10:20amBarry Kort
These are not new ideas. These ideas were written about by Homer and by the authors of the Old Testament.
1/5, 10:20amHernandez Laura
i am grateful we can have a disagreement and still be alright as friends, i hear your words in my head, reach for recovery
1/5, 10:20amBarry Kort
These are old old recurring issues.
Choose Life. Choose Recovery. That was an Order from the Diety of the Old Testament, the Deity whose name means Becoming.
1/5, 10:21amHernandez Laura
i am in a vicious circle with these headaches
1/5, 10:21amBarry Kort
So Choose Healing.
1/5, 10:22amHernandez Laura
i spoke with a guy that i connected with through match.com and he is afraid of meeting me because of the pain meds
1/5, 10:22amBarry Kort
The Deity whose name means Becoming sets before you a Free Choice. That Deity recommends you Choose Healing, Choose Life.
1/5, 10:22amHernandez Laura
i dont blame him
where is healing?
1/5, 10:23amBarry Kort
Healing is in the Path You Choose.
1/5, 10:23amHernandez Laura
the car will be road worthy by the end of the day
1/5, 10:23amBarry Kort
Have you ever seen an aerial photograph of an Open Pit Mine?
1/5, 10:24amHernandez Laura
nope
do you remember our fight?
1/5, 10:25amBarry Kort
On the phone, where I got angry at you?
1/5, 10:25amHernandez Laura
you didnt get to see where i was
1/5, 10:26amBarry Kort
Or are you referring to a different fight, with someone else?
1/5, 10:26amHernandez Laura
yes, n you told me i didnt know how to resolve anything that all i knew was to be a drama queen that tells stories
1/5, 10:26amBarry Kort
That's the routine practice I found you engaged in.
Have you decided to persist in that routine practice, or evolve out of it?
1/5, 10:27amHernandez Laura
to either drink the water again in an ER or give it to some mice and resolve something!
1/5, 10:27amBarry Kort
What did you decide to do?
1/5, 10:28amHernandez Laura
when that happened i was on the grounds of Trinity University and there was no one there because it was christmas break
i decided to get some mice and shut up about everything until i had proof
scientific undeniable proof
evolve out of it
please
this texting is horrible i miss a lot if i dont keep rereading and scrollong back
I have to do the same. FB chat is almost as bad as voice telephony.
1/5, 10:31amHernandez Laura
okay, better to have this han nothing at all
than
I have much better systems, but I despair of ever getting to the point where I can introduce you to them.
1/5, 10:32amHernandez Laura
well yes, if you cant listen
You do know that you can post a private thread on your FB TimeLine that only you and I can read? You do know that, don't you?
And also on Google+.
And also on one of my own systems.
1/5, 10:34amHernandez Laura
q
uh? what are you talking about you
Getting back to Hell and the Open Pit Mine, look at this photo of one. How do the vehicles find their way down to the bottom of the pit, and then find their way back out again?
The theological notion of "Hell" corresponds to the mathematical construct of an "untamed recursion."
In Hebrew, the corresponding word is "Sheol" which literally means "The Pits." It's always been a metaphor for becoming ensnared in a Vicious Cycle. The same metaphor tells us how to climb out of a pit. You have to systematically construct a winding helical road around the walls of the pit, much like the road into and out of an open pit mine. Each time around the loop, one gains a small increment of elevation above the bottom of the pit of hell.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5303/5591863109_ed6144b7b0.jpg
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For the past 25 years, I have built online community systems that are much better than these lousy chat systems on FB. I have one of them running on a machine next to me, than anyone on the planet can log into.
1/5, 1:34pmHernandez Laura
okay, ive read and caught up
can we talk now
i have to tell you the story of the water, im still laughing at what an idiot i am at thinking of all the possibilities
1/5, 1:35pmBarry Kort
Try going to this address:
If you get a login page, login as Laura with password Evelyn
1/5, 1:35pmHernandez Laura
it is good to laugh at yourself
k
1/5, 1:36pmBarry Kort
Tell me if you succeed.
You got in!
1/5, 1:37pmHernandez Laura
yes
im in
what is it
?
1/5, 1:38pmBarry Kort
It's a forum site using software called "Elgg".
1/5, 1:38pmHernandez Laura
El gg
1/5, 1:39pmBarry Kort
Did you get a notice of a message?
1/5, 1:40pmHernandez Laura
where would that be?
i sawan icon that looks like an envelope
1/5, 1:41pmBarry Kort
Click on it.
1/5, 1:41pmHernandez Laura
im in the car it is hard to see the screen
1/5, 1:41pmBarry Kort
Are you driving?
1/5, 1:41pmHernandez Laura
but im parked so dont worry
no
are you crazy
1/5, 1:42pmBarry Kort
If you click on the Envelope Icon, do you see a Hello Message from Moulton?
1/5, 1:43pmHernandez Laura
yes, i said hi
that screen is hard to see in this glare
I saw that and answered.
1/5, 1:44pmHernandez Laura
let me go there
hold on
is footy cafe your software
and can i describe a game to you and you wtite the software
write
I don't write software.
1/5, 1:47pmHernandez Laura
hey, hold on okay, im going to go get a taco, im hungry
I only install turnkey packages that other people create.
1/5, 1:47pmHernandez Laura
ok, whats that mean
On Foofy Cafe, you can write a story and edit it. Later, you can decide to publish it.
Did you have some game in mind?
1/5, 2:38pmHernandez Laura
yes, i have a game in mind where the tree of life angels give lessons and teach life experience
1/5, 2:38pmBarry Kort
Is this an actual existing game, or a game concept in your own mind?
1/5, 2:39pmHernandez Laura
im at palenque eating the car wont start
concept in mind
1/5, 2:39pmBarry Kort
Oh.
1/5, 2:39pmHernandez Laura
i have no idea if it exists
1/5, 2:40pmBarry Kort
Why would an imaginary game actually exist? And if it did, how would you find it, without knowing the Name of the Game, as published?
1/5, 2:45pmHernandez Laura
i dunno i just think after all this time someone might have thought of it, i don't know I don't play games
1/5, 2:46pmBarry Kort
It's called Parenting.
1/5, 2:48pmHernandez Laura
lol
not where i was raised
1/5, 2:49pmBarry Kort
You were cheated out of Parenting.
1/5, 2:51pmHernandez Laura
i had patenting, just the not thete kind! And if there, highly critical, judgemental, and rigid
there was very little love or understanding
1/5, 2:52pmBarry Kort
Let me rephrase that...
You were cheated out of Parenting.
1/5, 2:52pmHernandez Laura
which is the greatest gift you bring to the table as a parent
your time, your presence, your love and your understanding are the greatest gifts
i didnt have that! I had other things
lol
okay Barry, i was cheated out of parenting
1/5, 2:57pmBarry Kort
Now everybody some gaps and issues in their parenting. Even the best parents aren't perfect. And so we spend our adult lives correcting the errors in our upbringing and filling in the gaps.
1/5, 2:59pmHernandez Laura
yes, as an adults and 9 years with psycholigist ive gathered perspective and for some reason inside i knew that what was happening was not right
1/5, 3:00pmBarry Kort
90% of our culture is bogus crap and baloney.
1/5, 3:01pmHernandez Laura
only 90%
?
1/5, 3:01pmBarry Kort
In your case, coming from Texas, it's closer to 98%.
1/5, 3:06pmHernandez Laura
lol
i was born in Washington DC
raised in Mexico City
came to Texas in 1968
it was very bigotted
they all thought of me as a mexican because i spoke no English
by birth I'm American, first generation
my dad is a Spaniard and mom is German, Swiss, and English
are you Irish
the red hair?
1/5, 3:16pmBarry Kort
I am not Irish.
1/5, 3:17pmHernandez Laura
Scottish
1/5, 3:17pmBarry Kort
I am not Scottish.
1/5, 3:18pmHernandez Laura
well, fez up
1/5, 3:18pmBarry Kort
I am not Turkish either and I don't own a Fez.
1/5, 3:18pmHernandez Laura
oopsy, headache time
1/5, 3:18pmBarry Kort
Nor was I ever a member of the Shriners.
1/5, 3:19pmHernandez Laura
i know you are Jewish
1/5, 3:19pmBarry Kort
That's a religion, not a nationality.
1/5, 3:22pmHernandez Laura
i am love from earth
and if you give me a little time after i leave here, ill be much better
Kevin is on his way
1/5, 3:23pmBarry Kort
To start your car for you?
1/5, 3:23pmHernandez Laura
im stranded by the access road
yes
1/5, 3:23pmBarry Kort
Have him diagnose why it wouldn't start.
And observe his method of diagnostic reasoning.
1/5, 3:25pmHernandez Laura
Kevin??? that would be impossible , the guy is hyper talks a mile a minute and starts drinking beer at 7am
he self medicates
he has a lot of nervous tension
is funny as hell
1/5, 3:26pmBarry Kort
How can you listen to him, then?
1/5, 3:27pmHernandez Laura
i do as best i can but mainly i just give him the car abd pay him
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1/6, 2:21pmHernandez Laura
Car's battery went dead yesterday after the car had open heart surgery! Kevin got her running! i never did get to tell you the story of the water and where the mice ended up!
1/6, 2:22pmBarry Kort
Your storytelling is like that of Jean Sheppard. A few days or weeks later, the story finally comes around to an ending connected to where it began.
1/6, 2:23pmHernandez Laura
Who is Jean Sheppard
i accidentally drank from the bottle of water i was giving the mice
1/6, 2:24pmBarry Kort
Radio story-telling icon.
1/6, 2:26pmBarry Kort
Probably best know for his narration of A Christmas Story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story
en.wikipedia.org
A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, based on his book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements derived from Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed b…
1/6, 2:27pmHernandez Laura
I had placed the bottle i was drinking from next to the kitchen sink at Joe's house, had placed the mice in the studio with their water and a latter moved them into the area where the kitchen table is because it was a very cold day and i had a horrific headache i could not medicate!
1/6, 2:28pmBarry Kort
Jean Sheppard would start telling a story at 9 PM on WOR Radio, New York, then go off on a bunch of tangents for 2 hours and 50 minutes. In the last 5 minutes before midnight, he would return from the tangents to finish the story he had started 3 hours earlier.
1/6, 2:30pmHernandez Laura
anyhow, when i moved the cage with the mice i placed their water on the table next to my computer! Sat down to get on my computer and unknowingly took a big drink from the bottle next to the computer!
oh Jean Sheppard is a guy!
The water didnt taste metally, i distinctly remember the taste of the water, sometime between tuesday to Thursday morning, the water bottle was emptied and refilled because i labeled ut right away on tuesday so i would not mistakenly drink from it again!
1/6, 2:33pmBarry Kort
Fascinating use of Passive Voice.
1/6, 2:37pmHernandez Laura
if i had not mistakenly taken a sip i would have never figured that out! i went back to the pet store awaited next to where i got the mice! A beaitiful little boy was there with his mother! His name is Ethan, he took the mice and his mom gave them a home! Originally those muce are bred to be snake food.
1/6, 2:37pmHernandez Laura
Great story!
Happy ending for the mice! However for me, i keep hearing my friend Kevin's words, Danger Will Robinson!
What is Passive Voice mean?
1/6, 2:38pmBarry Kort
You get an A+ in Fabulous Story Telling and an F in Science.
1/6, 2:39pmHernandez Laura
There was nothing to test. Once i tasted the water
that was not the water that i drank, it tasted totally different
1/6, 2:40pmBarry Kort
Passive Voice: "The water bottle was emptied and refilled."
How do you explain the use of Passive Voice in that one passage, in which everything else was in Active Voice?
1/6, 2:41pmHernandez Laura
please don't give me an F
uh?
how do i what?
1/6, 2:41pmBarry Kort
You earned an F in Science, and a Meh in Grammar.
1/6, 2:42pmHernandez Laura
Meh?
English is my third language
but that's no excuse
1/6, 2:42pmBarry Kort
I gave you a grade of Meh for the use of Passive Voice in the most important passage in your Fabulous Story.
Do you know what a Ghost Story is?
1/6, 2:44pmHernandez Laura
nope
are you going to tell me?
as soon as i figured out i no longer had the water i gave up the mice
1/6, 2:48pmBarry Kort
In a Ghost Story, things happen, but there is no actor who is doing the things that are happening.
So the author has to use the Passive Voice.
"The lamp fell over."
"The door flew open."
"The water bottle was emptied and refilled."
There was no actor who did those things.
1/6, 2:51pmHernandez Laura
Someone did it, but i realize now that i directed it to dad's wife and i don't actually know who did what.
1/6, 2:52pmBarry Kort
Obviously, you are telling a Ghost Story. That's what Passive Voice is for. When there is no Actor, but Things Happen.
You flunk Science, because in Science, the objective is to sort out Cause and Effect.
1/6, 2:53pmHernandez Laura
Yes, lots of things happening and no actor!
1/6, 2:53pmBarry Kort
If you tell stories in which Things Happen and there is no Actor, you are not doing Science.
So I award you a Fabulous F in Science.
F for Fabulous Ghost Story in which Things Mysteriously Happen. And there are No Actors.
It would be useful to invent an Actual Ghost, and give your Ghost a Name. And make friends with it. Like Caspar the Friendly Ghost.
Today
9:35amHernandez Laura
This is not a Ghost, Im pretty sure it is Graciela as i saw her peeking into the car three days in a row when the sun roof seal was punctured! No one else was in the house when i started throwing up, she is a sneaky conniving woman with a history of getting what she sets her mind to!
9:35amHernandez Laura
I hope you are nt impying i am imagining these things!
not implying
Good morning Barry
9:37amBarry Kort
You have a vivid imagination. But in your Ghost Stories, you haven't allowed us to See the Ghost.
9:39amHernandez Laura
When the leak happened in the sun roof, i saw her out the bathroom window peeking into the car window then looking above the car then back into the window, she was looking for water damage!
9:39amBarry Kort
You have less than zero scientific or forensic evidence to support your working hypothesis. That's why I am obliged to award you a Fabulous F in Science.
F for Fabulous Ghost Story in which Things Mysteriously Happen. And there are No Actors.
9:40amBarry Kort
Let me repeat that, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y...
You have less than zero scientific or forensic evidence to support your working hypothesis. That's why I am obliged to award you a Fabulous F in Science.
F for Fabulous Ghost Story in which Things Mysteriously Happen. And there are No Actors.
9:40amHernandez Laura
i saw her three days in a row looking into the car, i finally opened the window and asked her if there was something she needed in the car!
9:41amBarry Kort
Let me repeat that, once again, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y...
You have less than zero scientific or forensic evidence to support your working hypothesis. That's why I am obliged to award you a Fabulous F in Science.
F for Fabulous Ghost Story in which Things Mysteriously Happen. And there are No Actors.
9:41amHernandez Laura
i get it, how do i catch her, i (LET
(let me repeat it) Know it is her!
9:43amBarry Kort
For starters, go back and watch half a dozen episodes of Scooby Doo. You can get the videos out of your public library. Study how the Scooby Gang does Forensic Scientific Investigation. Study how they obtain Evidence.
You have ZERO EVIDENCE. Therefore your Working Hypothesis has No Scientific Merit.
You had Custody of a Sample. How did you handle your Sample?
You wrote in your Investigator's Notebook about your Sample:
"The water bottle was emptied and refilled."
That is Evidence of Sloppy Custodial Duties of a Would-Be Forensic Scientist.
Passive Voice. "The water bottle was emptied and refilled."
No Actors. Just a Ghost Story.
How do you know the water bottle was empty and refilled? Who had Custody of it?
Who taught you to Concoct Fabulous Working Hypotheses Unsupported By a Shred of Reliable Forensic or Scientific Evidence? Who taught you that Pathological Practice?
9:52amHernandez Laura
not only that, on Tuesday, Dec.9 when i started throwing up, i labeled the bottle and left it on top of the drawers for easy switcharoo
Did you dust it for fingerprints?
9:53amHernandez Laura
i was throwing up, for a while, then i hurt like hell and the headaches were unmedicatable
nope, dont know how to do that
I had headaches and threw up when I was dealing with a person who was manifesting the Dark Triad.
9:54amHernandez Laura
dont have the equipment to dust for prints nor a copy of her prints
how did you catch them
I agree that you don't know how to do Forensic Science. But you are gifted at concocting fabulous working hypotheses unsupported by a shred of reliable forensic or scientific evidence.
How did I catch whom?
9:56amHernandez Laura
but these headaches were different, they were not throbbing, they were steady big unmedicadable
I had Migraine Headaches.
9:56amHernandez Laura
the person with the dark triad
Catch them doing what? Being themselves?
9:57amHernandez Laura
the person who pousoned you, how did you catch them?
No one poisoned me. Who the hell gave you the idea that anyone poisoned me?!?
9:58amHernandez Laura
oh my i misunderstood you?
i thought a while ago you said someone tred to poison you?
and you proved it
It appears you once again engaged in your recurring pathological practice of concocting a fabulous working hypotheses unsupported by a shred of reliable forensic or scientific evidence.
Evelyn, I want you to take 5 minutes to scroll back and find anything I said that led you to form that curious belief (that someone tried to poison me).
10:06amHernandez Laura
Did you have a second bottle that you had securely filled with freshly filtered water that you knew was not tampered with by anyone?
i am doing this now going back and looking but i remember it was during the conversation we had while i was walking in the park
How does that question from me about your Story lead you to believe that there was someone who once tried to poison me?!?
10:09amHernandez Laura
but what i copied down is one of thesteps that would have led me to know the sample had been tampered with
so let me get this straight, at no time in your life has anyone ever tried to poison you
How would my instructions to you, regarding the Scientific Protocols for your Investigation lead you to surmise that once upon a time, long ago, someone tried to poison me?!?
My best friend's mother tried to feed me to death at Thanksgiving and Easter. Is that what you mean?
10:11amHernandez Laura
i thought you said you caught someone that tried to do something similar
nope
but i gotta get going now, lots to get done to get my car road worthy, im not going to reach for learning how to catch this bitch, im going to reach for recovery
You cannot catch a Ghost.
10:13amHernandez Laura
love you my friend
take good care
But you can Catch a Bus to Recovery Central.
10:14amHernandez Laura
i wish she was a ghost, then she'd be dead!
Ghosts haunt people for the rest of their lives.
I suspect you are haunted by a Ghost from Your Past.
10:15amHernandez Laura
not if you know how to exorcise them and or bind!
O:D
How would you know if you had that capability?
10:17amHernandez Laura
I have some ghosts from my past who still haunt me some 3 decades later.
And I still come across people who remind me of that Ghost from the Past.
10:30amHernandez Laura
Ask Kodoish Kodoish Kodoish Adonai Tzebayoth to send them into the I AM presence of the Violet Flame to be destroyed. All that has been destroyed by the I AM presence of the Violet Flame is transformed into healing energy to heal the earth!
Whn bad aproaches, take it as an opportunity to pray and transform
Are you referring to the Holy Lord of Hosts, or the Unholy Lord of Ghosts?
12:29pmHernandez Laura
there's an unholy lord of hosts?
just got out of shower, gotta go
Unholy Lord of Ghosts. Ghosts, with a G.
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