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kentuck

(110,950 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 12:42 AM Jan 2017

I cannot recall when I slid into the alternate reality.

But, nothing is the same. So many people are no longer thinking rationally. Perhaps they never were?

Everybody at the carnival wants to play the 3-card monte. They just like to gamble.

As the wheel spins behind them, and the cheerful music surrounds them, they stagger from one tent to the other, looking for the gypsy to tell their fortune.

But there is but one fortune to tell.

Beware those that gain your confidence to steal your money. They are the con-men that talk the loudest, and walk the proudest.

In a moment of weakness, so many followed the viper into the garden.

Hopefully soon, the truth will lift their heavy eyes to the light?

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I cannot recall when I slid into the alternate reality. (Original Post) kentuck Jan 2017 OP
I'm afraid a brick wall is going to have to fall on most of them to wake them up Warpy Jan 2017 #1
I have felt like I've been in... 3catwoman3 Jan 2017 #2
It's weird, isn't it? Aristus Jan 2017 #3
Since Raygun burrowowl Jan 2017 #4
I feel like I'm living in someone else's nightmare. Dave Starsky Jan 2017 #5
The 2000 Election Debacle. I think that was the pivot point ms liberty Jan 2017 #6
I keep wishing Mulder and Scully will come on scene.... Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #7
That's a lot of metaphors there. cwydro Jan 2017 #8

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
1. I'm afraid a brick wall is going to have to fall on most of them to wake them up
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 01:03 AM
Jan 2017

They know they've been diddled for decades, they are just really unclear about who really did the diddling. The fact that their AM radios and preachers might be lying to them blows their circuits right now. It won't once the bricks descend.

Sadly, that is going to happen. It always does.

Funny, I've just never understood gambling, punching buttons on machines and flipping cards and watching a wheel go around. It all looks like work to me, useless activity with little reward. I can't help thinking of Skinner boxes full of pigeons compulsively pushing their levers, not even bothering to eat the occasional food pellet that pops out.

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
2. I have felt like I've been in...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 01:49 AM
Jan 2017

...an alternate universe ever since it became clear that Trump was going to be the last man standing as the clown car emptied out.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
3. It's weird, isn't it?
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 01:50 AM
Jan 2017

We're living that ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times..."

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
5. I feel like I'm living in someone else's nightmare.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 06:26 AM
Jan 2017

Because my brain couldn't have conceived of anything like this.

ms liberty

(8,479 posts)
6. The 2000 Election Debacle. I think that was the pivot point
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 10:00 PM
Jan 2017

Thay was the place where the primary reality split happened.

Jacob Boehme

(789 posts)
7. I keep wishing Mulder and Scully will come on scene....
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 10:03 PM
Jan 2017

.... to explain it all. I know they can't.... but if wishes were horses, dreamers would ride, eh?

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