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Originally posted by abeverage
Who is an expert? Someone with a signed document? Being an Amateur astronomer I know more "experts" that have no degree but know more and have discovered or added more to the field then the PhD Astronomers I have had contact with. The same applies to Information Technology...or medical fields.
And when it comes to Telepathy who is an expert in this field? A neuroscientist? A Yogi (meditation)? Someone who suffers from invasive thoughts or psychic attacks?
Who knows more?
A doctor who has had years of schooling and a degree about how the body/mind works (or they believe how it works). Or someone suffering from an illness?
It used to be that we had to rely "Completely" on the Doctor because we the uninitiated had little or no access to the knowledge that had been accumulated without ourselves becoming doctors.
The doctor makes a hypothesis based on teachings and 3rd party experience unless they have had that illness they can only speculate what it is doing to the patient. The patient being ignorant to the condition would take whatever advice the Doctor had because they had no choice a limited options.
But these days the knowledge abounds and in some cases makes us think we are more educated than the Doctor. Becoming what has been coined a Cyberchondriac, believing what ails us is worse or that we have a certain condition when it is unlikely. While this can be dangerous it is no less dangerous of giving all of your trust in one person, without any consideration to learning about what ails us. So both must work together or find a second, third or fourth opinion.
Perhaps there are others who believe like you do that there is malicious intent and have suffered through it. Perhaps they have suffered like you or worse. There may also be others who have been through it and learned how to resist it. We could argue all day about what it is external or internal or if there is a cure or ways to repel an attack Ad infinitum. But ultimately it is up to an individual to believe there is a remedy and choose to believe it.
And while I am no expert I do believe in a mental firewall.
Originally posted by AboveBoard
reply to post by abeverage
Ah - Hummingbirds speak "red" and "sugar-water/nectar" in my experience - lol!
Fed a stunned hummingbird from a red plastic lid when I was a girl. It had bounced against our family picture windows, and the cat, who had very different ideas about what to do with stunned hummingbirds (who teased him mercilessly), was speaking "OUT! LET ME OUT THERE RIGHT NOW! OH BETRAYER!!!! MEOUUUUUUUT!" It was not difficult to understand the dynamic of this.
I'm no Dr. Doolittle, but the hummingbird rested, ate with its long tongue while I sat beside it ignoring the cat. The cat, however, took a while to forgive me, complete with swishy tail and all...
Great story, Abeverage!!
Originally posted by Jonjonj
Well then, how curious. After basically being embarrassed into desisting from any and all investigations of FL, or at least the reporting and posting of such in this thread, as it would have constituted an invasion of (FL) privacy, it seems the thread has turned into a mutual backslapping and yay you, yay me festival. Fortunately I have been a little sneaky and kept myself entertained immensely for the last... The Basque thread is a most promising line of enquiry if one were to look for a loose end, as it were. Agur.
reply to post by abeverage
That way those who do not wish those inquires can continue here and the thread does not get derailed again by debating that investigation.
Originally posted by Jonjonj
Well then, how curious. After basically being embarrassed into desisting from any and all investigations of FL, or at least the reporting and posting of such in this thread, as it would have constituted an invasion of (FL) privacy, it seems the thread has turned into a mutual backslapping and yay you, yay me festival. Fortunately I have been a little sneaky and kept myself entertained immensely for the last... The Basque thread is a most promising line of enquiry if one were to look for a loose end, as it were. Agur.
Originally posted by tetra50
Originally posted by Jonjonj
Well then, how curious. After basically being embarrassed into desisting from any and all investigations of FL, or at least the reporting and posting of such in this thread, as it would have constituted an invasion of (FL) privacy, it seems the thread has turned into a mutual backslapping and yay you, yay me festival. Fortunately I have been a little sneaky and kept myself entertained immensely for the last... The Basque thread is a most promising line of enquiry if one were to look for a loose end, as it were. Agur.
Ahhh yes, Jonjon....I have been awaiting someone from the thread like you, who would bring us back to the "essentials"...... Please, do not be run off, for I have felt this way, too, recently, and/or it is too important what may be going on here to dismiss it on a personal level...or any other level. So, please, do not leave the thread for those reasons, for we all get sidetracked and distracted by our personal situations, and always could use a somewhat objective and derisive voice, as it were.......
Welcome back,
tetra50
Originally posted by tetra50
reply to post by abeverage
That way those who do not wish those inquires can continue here and the thread does not get derailed again by debating that investigation.
Could you explain this further, please?
2nd and third and fourth...
tetra50
Originally posted by abeverage
Originally posted by tetra50
Originally posted by Jonjonj
Well then, how curious. After basically being embarrassed into desisting from any and all investigations of FL, or at least the reporting and posting of such in this thread, as it would have constituted an invasion of (FL) privacy, it seems the thread has turned into a mutual backslapping and yay you, yay me festival. Fortunately I have been a little sneaky and kept myself entertained immensely for the last... The Basque thread is a most promising line of enquiry if one were to look for a loose end, as it were. Agur.
Ahhh yes, Jonjon....I have been awaiting someone from the thread like you, who would bring us back to the "essentials"...... Please, do not be run off, for I have felt this way, too, recently, and/or it is too important what may be going on here to dismiss it on a personal level...or any other level. So, please, do not leave the thread for those reasons, for we all get sidetracked and distracted by our personal situations, and always could use a somewhat objective and derisive voice, as it were.......
Welcome back,
tetra50
So you believe digging into the background of members of FL's personal lives is acceptable?edit on 1-9-2013 by abeverage because: (no reason given)
I cant say I would even know how to address the threads topic anymore. I cant say I know where to continue down a line of collaborative effort anymore or what the common thread of thought is.
I think this thread has lost its direction and that anything worthwhile that is put forth would be lost to a thousand directions.
Are we still trying to find evidence of a world language from antiquity? A common link to a forgotten world from which all that we know sprung up from? Are we still trying to gain an deeper understanding of human history, the seeds of our youngest empires and peoples, the origin of our most forgotten civilizations and their legacy today?
I really dont think so.