I am having some youthful flashbacks to my childhood in Centralia. The best images of the town as it was as I was growing up actually come from a mediocre movie called MADE IN USA.
This is the town I was born and raised in.. and the ruins I grew up in..
It has been about a year and a month since I lost a friend to cancer. She was a brave soul who endured agony before she passed away.. She was young—at least I look at her that way since she graduated the same year as me from high school, and I’m not old, right?
It is somewhat weird that Facebook pages never die .. We can pass from this existence, but the words and ‘likes’ we had will remain so as long as Mark Zuckerberg and the NSA permit it..
My friend’s name was Lori.. I visited her Facebook page the other night and realized that people were still actively posting messages to her.. sending love .. actively asking for her to help them. Grieving never stops, perhaps.. And maybe with technology it is evolving. Does it help or hurt to be able to constantly go back to someone’s Facebook, or Twitter, or blog? After all, a visit to the page could make it seem like they’re still here, somewhere.
And maybe they are.
Alexander Graham Bell often visited seances. Some think his invention of the telephone was meant to help the deaf.. others wonder if Bell, like all of us, were searching for a way to speak to the dead and ponder an afterlife. The mystery of EVPs has been around for centuries.. are they recordings of ghostly apparitions, wandering the earth? Or are they just a recording of the endless loop of life—a recording of what we say that replays over and over again? We are told by paranormal ‘experts’ that Bell had those questions. He didn’t find an answer—but his invention led us to years of creepy stories of the dead calling their loved ones after they left the earth.
I wonder how long until we hear from people who claim that the dead updated their Facebook accounts.. I wonder how long until the dead do it—if the dead are powerful enough to do such things.. And that takes into consideration the fact that an afterlife would be existent. And if there was one, it would have to have a few dull moments that people would rather update a Facebook status as opposed to playing musical instruments with angelic figures…
I don’t say this in mocking. As a matter of fact, I am quite surprised that there are no movies or scary stories to tell in the dark regarding Facebook, or Twitter.
It is a little eerie to me to visit Lori’s Facebook page a year and some time later after she lost her battle to cancer.. The photos of her struggles remain.. her hometown remains, as though she’s still there. Her profile picture remains.. as though it’s still current. And the messages to her are continuous, as though she is still alive.
It’s the new way we deal with grief and pain. And there is nothing wrong with it. Any way we try to cope is healthy—it shows we are actively trying to get a hold on our emotions and become mentally stable with the tragedy that life can be..
Alexander Graham Bell was quoted once as saying this,
I have been thinking for some time of a machine or apparatus which could be operated by personalities who have passed on to another existence or sphere. I believe that if we are to make any real progress in psychic investigation, we must do it with scientific apparatus and in a scientific manner.
Maybe one day that apparatus will be Facebook….when a lost soul responds to friends who miss them. Just imagine that premise next time you post a message on a deceased friend’s wall…
Note to reporters reading their cue cards: Watch for the period in a sentence. The lack of one certainly changes things..
Lots of news articles are touting the benefits of getting the flu shot. We are being told it’s not too late to get it now.
I don’t want to get in a debate about that, I have my opinions, I think it’s worth asking what else may be causing this.
I argue that there could be an overall lifestyle change which is helping disease and sickness spread. A lack of good food.. a lack of wholesome food—a population getting too poor to afford good medical care and GMO free meals..
Just my thoughts.
Flu shotters may disagree.. But health isn’t a one fix problem..
The BBC is reporting this at the hour:
Ukraine’s opposition has asserted its authority over Kiev and parliament in a day of fast-paced events.
MPs have replace the parliamentary speaker and attorney general, appointed a new pro-opposition interior minister and voted to free jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
Police appear to have abandoned their posts across the capital.
Protesters in Kiev have walked unchallenged into the president’s official and residential buildings.
An obvious developing story.. and fast moving..
The grid.. the infrastructure.. everything crumbling. And now this.
We could have used modernization years ago.. we’re beyond being not modern now.
I often wonder if the flu is hitting professionals worse this year because professionals (and lots of others) don’t have the money they once did to buy good, wholesome food. Overall diets are awful.. getting worse as prices go high. Flu shots are no match for lifestyle..
I don’t know which is funnier.. the video of this skater ‘falling through the ice’ at the Olympics or the endless thread of commenters debating whether it’s real or not..
This study seems to have no value or goodness.. But it’s worth mentioning only because people in Washington DC have sex that lasts for 2 minutes and 8 seconds..
Now you know.
How disappointing.. So basically, late night comedy shows have gone from lampooning politicians to a world where they will allow them to ‘soften their image’ and be even faker than they were before.
Goodbye Carson…1980-1995 Letterman.. and all the others.. Hello Jimmy Fallon.
Good luck being everyone’s friend.
The year of the horse.. and the Katy Perry Dark Horse video is now revealed..
If you’re into that sort of thing, I am sure you can spot all of the occult and Illuminati symbolism present in the music video (even amateurs can pick up on them)—and if you’re not check with Alex Jones or Mark Dice later..
30 years of Wrestlemania.. amazing..
As for me? I always liked Andre the Giant more.. but that’s just me.
Video going viral tonight of a woman in Austin Texas who was arrested for crossing the street.
ARRESTED,
Hauled away,
cuffed…
Arrested.
Ain’t that America………
Another reject on the way?
Rob Zombie is working on another horror movie that he compares to the DEVIL’S REJECTS.. apparently BROAD STREET BULLIES is second a side street in Zombie’s plans..
In an interview,Rob Zombie said that he was working on the hockey film but ‘something else’ popped up..
Interestingly, Zombie also says his movie he liked the least was HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES because it was a ‘mess.’ I agree with him.
But I would have to say his HALLOWEEN remakes were much more deplorable in nature than others..
Sometimes the news is bad.. Sometimes a miracle happen. Tears of joy finally escape my eyes tonight instead of yet another tragedy about a child..
Sebastian de la Cruz stopped breathing while his aunt Pamela Rauseo was driving in bumper to bumper Miami traffic.. She screamed for help as the baby went purple without air..
She frantically performed CPR on the baby.
And suddenly…she got help. NBC NEWS reports this:
The female good Samaritan who came to her aid was Lucila Godoy, who was driving with her own child when she spotted Rauseo in distress.
"I wasn’t thinking. I just got out of the car and saw the baby and heard her calling him Sebastian, which is my baby’s name, and I just freaked out," Godoy said.
"I couldn’t think. I was like, ‘Please don’t die on me.’"
Flagged down by the Miami Herald photographer who took the gripping photos, Sweetwater Police Officer Amauris Bastidas also rushed to help.
The three did CPR on Sebastian, who started breathing — and then suddenly stopped again. More rounds of chest compressions and rescue breathing followed until the baby started breathing on his own again.
"That’s when I broke down crying out of relief, knowing that he was OK," Rauseo said.
And this…
Rauseo said that she learned how to to CPR seven years ago but had forgotten the basics. Now she plans to take a refresher course to get certified.
"I would suggest that anyone with a baby or a baby in their family do so," she said.
I told my wife for several years now that this is something I want to learn. She already knows it. It’s time for me to act..
Miracles do happen.
And there’s good people still around.
And seriously.. any time Chris Christie skips dinner, that’s a headline..
