A Miscellaney

[azurelunatic]

The struggle for diurnal programming continues! Yesterday's blow from the body: waking up at 3am bright and rested after 6 solid hours of restful sleep! Gee, thanks! Today's: 2am! THE SAGA CONTINUES!

In the department of recognizing what things hook to what other things, I am realizing that I have a genuine problem witnessing paranoia, even paranoia that has been made necessary by environmental circumstances. I will see something, and a little bell in my head will go "This is crazy behavior", and I will edge away from it nervously. So I'm wondering why that is. That bell turns into a giant shrieking alarm when I run into serious hardcore stuff like conspiracy theorists. I cannot be around that stuff, or the little person inside my brain that governs mental health and safety starts seriously having a riot in order to get me away from it. (Things like timecube, that's different. It's way too out-there and surreal for that part of my brain to recognize it as legitimately crazy.) But when crazy people are proselytizing their crazy, I need to be away from it, and I need to be away from it fast.

I have discovered that I am all about consistent user interface for page furniture, rather than having too many heavily contextual things changing and disappearing and becoming unavailable if the moon is full or something.

The guy upstairs has dog or dogs.

Fandom definitions: if you're using "slash" to mean something besides "same-sex pairings in fanfiction" (unless you're talking about sharp objects, a guitarist, or the loo), do not be surprised if the rest of your fandom does not understand you, and/or mocks you. Case in point: the guy who says that any pairing at all is "slash" -- ahahahahahaha.

Comments

[fairlight]

...how the heck do you manage interacting with my husband? I love him, but the man's...kinda paranoid.

[azurelunatic]

On him it tastes more like "taking perfectly reasonable precautions under the circumstances".

[lacey]

I hope I'm not as triggering to you paranoia-wise as I suspect I might be.

[azurelunatic]

Less so now than previously, but on you it's a perfectly reasonable response to being surrounded by the completely irrational and dangerous.

Slightly non-sequitur, but

[lacey]

Reading back through this reminded me of cray-cray slash dude! I'd completely forgotten about him. How I managed that, I'm not sure.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Conspiracy theorists make me back away, too. Not to say that there aren't occasionally conspiracies, there are, but they are usually fairly obvious and between people who already work closely together in fields that are not sufficiently regulated.

People who believe in conspiracies from the UN (the whole lot, not one or two member branches acting in illegal concert), or among scientists, are simply maniacs, as simple observation will prove the impossibility of having that many politicians or scientists agreeing with each other. The Moon Landing is obviously real, since, all documentary proof aside, you could never convince that many engineers to tell the one lie.

And now I have to go and hunt down the wacky man ;-)

[azurelunatic]

Someone would have leaked, or made a deathbed confession, or something of the like, even if originally everyone was trying to keep a lid on.

And I know people involved with the space program, for crying out loud. Not with the moon landing, but in and around. The person I'm thinking of has a hard time with birthday secrets, and they're good things, and not the cruel dashing of their childhood dreams and aspirations.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I am completely failing to find the wacky man, you know. Link?

And yes, the problem of being able to bury records make conspiracies unlikely, but the impossibility of being able to shut people up permanently make true secret conspiracies impossible.

[azurelunatic]

Link. It may ask you to register.

[khasael.livejournal.com]

I worked in a health food/supplement store, in an incredibly liberal town (in a red state, no less. Boulder, CO), during 5 of the GWB years. The amount of crazy and conspiracy theorists was nothing short of amazing.

You heard all sorts of conspiracy theories, especially about 9/11. We sold Nexus magazine, which is nearly all conspiracy theories. One woman even said there were all sorts of vile, corrupting messages put into Finding Nemo by the government. Man, I almost wish I could remember what she gave as "specific examples". They were pretty priceless. Even some of the employees who leaned a little toward that side of the paranoia spectrum themselves were making the "get me away from the crazy" faces.

[azurelunatic]

oh dear goodness.

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