Another exciting week in which what follows are only a few events during which I also received my Pfizer booster shot, anti-Covid ..... but this has nothing to do with my receiving the vaccination. This is a flight of fancy!
I've succumbed! I've been seduced! I'd always said, "No!" before, but I finally gave in. Actually, I was in a non-compromising position and could no longer resist. I expect to hear from some, those words, "What took you so long?", and I may even wonder myself, but avoiding the inevitable for some time, if I could, seemed to be the better part of good judgement for me.
I hope you won't think any less of me for giving-in. Who knows, I might even come to like it. I didn't do this just because I kept being told, "It's safe, its okay, everybody's doing it." I know that doesn't make it the right thing for all to do. Still, the pressure is off now. I've done it and there's no turning back.
I'll have to live with the consequences, whatever happens -- adapting my life, adjusting, coping with frustrations. Facing a whole new way of life may be what I must accept. Will I continue to oversee my life, or will dictates come from elsewhere?
This is, after all, "a smart phone" -- smarter than me? Has artificial intelligence, aka AI, taken the device over which, in turn, will conspire to take over me? Will my thoughts, my time, my whole being be devoured as reportedly seems to have occurred with some who are owned, er-r-r-r, I mean, that own these little devices? You see, already I'm giving this little invention powers possibly beyond realistic entitlement.
Have I been brain-washed with tales dispersed full of conspiracies composed of unmitigated falsehoods formulated in deep dark dungeons ... spread by the unknowing, uneducated, and the un ... un .... un, whatever?
Will truth ever emerge?
(I don't actually have this little devil phone in my possession yet, but meanwhile, my good ol' landline remains very operative which I will keep along with the "smart phone". This may allow the fastest way in some areas for my exact location to be determined should I need to call emergency 911, or possibly if there is a power outage.)
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I really had intended continuing with another topic at this point, but in recent days I've had reason to feel concern that word of this "Smart Phone" coming to my house may have unleashed a troubling event, causing me concern there could be more issues materializing. Thursday I discovered my bedside clock radio had already turned back one hour. But the daylight savings time change wasn't to occur until the coming Sunday, Nov. 7th at 2 a.m. What happened?
This premature time reset on my clock prompted me to form a theory much like those promulgated by QAnon. They may well want to adopt my speculation to spread among their citizenry as fact to those susceptible to such ideas.
I am speculating that the digital devices in my home may be communicating with one another. Maybe my computer has spread the word a "smart phone" is coming, having deciphered an exchange of messages I had with my son ... but why, and has the word spread even further? Perhaps to my clock radio, for one, a device that now has chosen to demonstrate a long-awaited increased sense of pending power. What does this indicate could happen in the future?
I'm discreetly, but closely, watching my TV, microwave, and oven. Perhaps, even my dishwasher, clothes washer and drier received the word and pose additional risk. The refrigerator, too? Surely not the toaster oven. Of course, the coffee-maker was, years ago, the forerunner of all these self-operating devices ... and then it went digital! Now where is technology taking us? My "smart phone" is coming!
Katzenjammer - "Land of Confusion"
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Alitlweird comment on youtube site reports between the four girls they play 50 different instruments; their music is acoustically produced, aside from electric sound amplification.
As if my "smart phone" isn't enough, I've now been told on my landline phone, that I'm not human! Not human? -- I didn't know! -- Am I a robot, an alien and only now learning this? The digital devices with the smart phone in control are really the forces in charge?
Typically, if I have reason to answer a phone call and it's a recorded message, and there has suspiciously been an increasing number of them, I immediately disconnect without even listening. Also, any calls with a real live but unknown person on the line, who instructs me at any point to press another key to answer questions or access a different contact, I don't do that either. Who knows to what I might be acquiescing!
Sneaky ways some spammer, or scammer, tries to accost people include this example in a recent call I received. I noted it was from a "Wireless Caller". (I chose to answer this for personal reasons I won't try to explain here.) The recorded message said, "This is an important call for ... (they accurately gave my name). If you are (my name again) then press 5, if not press 3". I did neither. Following a silent pause, the message continued, "Sorry, you have revealed you are not human!" Then the call disconnected.
I consider all the newer inventions that I haven't acquired yet, but eventually may be the only ones available, like the "smart" TVs and appliances, cars that drive themselves, even houses equipped to do lots of things, and who knows what else. What are the implications of these for our future?
So, here I am, in the autumn of my life, having been described as being not human, with a clock radio seemingly out of my control, and a "smart phone" possibly capable of doing who knows what coming into my home. What lies ahead for us humans, assuming some of us are humans? What am I to think or do? What do you think and what are you going to do?
