"Chasing Phantoms" (Page 5 of 6)

Oh, I definitely hear you there.  !!   Mistakes happen....but then there are those long, run on jumbled posts with no punctuation or capitals and typos gallore.    I don't read them either.   

I was talking via email with someone recently about this subject, and what I've noticed lately is a rampant, and I do mean rampant, issue with people misspelling/mixing up the following:

their/there/they're
it's/its
to/too/two
no/know
were/where
then/than

and the biggest offender of them all.............

drum roll.............................

should OF instead of should HAVE.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello, it's called a CONTRACTION. !  Should have = should've.   Not should of.   grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Actually, the equally big offender is the misuse of apostrophes and not understanding how to make words plural.  It's like people don't know how to make something possessive anymore.  There's a rampant problem with people thinking that the plural form of a word should have an apostrophe.....example, "puppy's" when they mean puppies, or desk's when they mean desks.....and then leaving them out where they should be!   I see this all over the internet.  Is this the modern school system?   !!!!   It makes me annoyed, like seriously annoyed, I don't know why.

"their should of been puppy's two but there werent instead it was kitten's and than they're where more puppy's and more kitten's and i dont even no what im talking about!"

Ah, true globalization.

It is only good for showing us how little we know about anything and anyone.

My polymath, polyglot ( x6! ), world-travelling, genius dad recently astounded me by not knowing that "junior" and "senior" come from latin. He was all jazzed about how much the italians appropriate anglo terms.

We're all a bit pretentious, but don't realize it until a humiliating moment comes along.

Sometimes not even then.

Who knew!    We're so conditioned in English speaking societies that apostrophes designate possession (or indicate a contraction) that it seems really strange to imagine using it to form the plural. 

For non-Dutch speaking American English speakers I'm left wondering if somehow their schooling was just SO bad - I mean, you hear horror stories about the modern day American public school system - that maybe they just never really learned how it all works...?   !   Especially if they rarely read and instead consume media, then they really just haven't spent much time actually noticing the logistics of the written language.

That made me laugh. 

or this...

"eats roots shoots and leaves"

edit:  but seriously,  could not grammar and its potential for pendantry get tooooo obsessive, so that you might miss something while you are busy shooting the messenger?  Or is it shooting the message?  Either way, a distraction, potentially, if not aware of such traps.  Ah, a "trap for young players" as they say round 'ere.

Well, it took a few days, but I got through to the end of the book. There were several weird things that happened while reading it, but nothing I can't handle. I plan on lending it to my good friend who introduced me to 'this' side of life; I think she'll enjoy it as much as I did.

I know you're not out looking for pity, but I just have to say that I really do feel sorry for you that you had to endure so much sh*t.  I don't know how you got through a life like that and ended up being as clear-headed as you are. If I had a hat, I would take it off to you...Well, here--I'll use my imaginary one.

You brought a lot of things to my attention that I had forgotten about long ago. My memory is pretty poor from my childhood and my dreams. I really don't think I've been abducted, but I definitely have had some weird things happen in my life. I used to wake up reversed in my bed, and I regularly slept in the narrow space in between my bed and the wall, because I felt safer there.  This was when we lived in the Presidio while my (pseudo) dad was stationed there in the army. I was very young. That's also when I think I experienced something very similar to your story about finding iodine "down there." When I read that in your book, I had a sudden flash of memory that was very strange.  That was also about the time when I started having really bad dreams, and literally made myself not remember them anymore.

Well, sorry about the story; I just wanted to relay a few similarities.

Again, very good book; thank you so much for making it available to all of us. I think I speak for most of us when I say that I can't wait for the sequel that includes more of Joe's story. BTW, I am so sorry for your loss. Whatever circumstances surround his death, I'm sure it must be hard on you since you had to practically raise him and you were so close. Hopefully, time and contemplation will help to somewhat heal your broken heart...

Thanks for the reply, Lyra.  I don't really know where to go from here. I've had many odd things happen in my life, but not anything like what you have gone thru. Of course, I've buried my childhood memories and don't recall 99% of my dreams, so if other 'strange' things have happened, I wouldn't remember them anyway. It sounds strange for me to not have any memories of my childhood, but I can't think of why that is. My memory recollection starts at about 12 or so. And most of those were brought about because the girl who used to be my best friend has brought most of them to my attention. And then I'm like 'oh yeah, I remember that!'  But before that...the only ones I have are of a sexual nature, and a few odds and ends (like waking up backwards or between the wall and bed).  Oh and I used to ask my mom if I could go to bed. But then again, I have always been the type who could fall asleep easily and sleep forever. (I guess most kids fight going to bed...not me!)

The 'guru' I saw in AZ was in contact with the spirit world thru his pendulum and whatnot, and he told me that he thought I was sexually abused. Then my current/only friend (not the one I grew up with) told me she thought I was abused, too. But the lady in AZ who hooked me up to the QXCI machine said that my subconscious does not recall a history of sexual abuse, just mental, emotional, and physical.

I've had many strange things happen in the last few years, but I just chalked them up to being physically ill. Although that wouldn't explain the mysterious bruises and scratches that I've had, or the fact that I still bleed every month even 2 years after my almost-full hysterectomy. And according to all the many doctors I've been to, there's nothing physically wrong with me.

Well, I could go on, but I'm sure you don't want to hear all about my life. At this point, I don't know what to do. I just keep reading and researching and trying to find out what's been going on in my life. I just finished "The Taken" and now I'm reading "Into the Fringe."  I guess I wouldn't mind doing hypnosis to see if I can retrieve any other memories, but honestly I don't even know who to see for that. I'm sure there's not very many hypnotists in my neck of the woods.

Well, thanks for taking the time to read my rambling.

DOH!!  I can't believe I missed that write-up on your site, Lyra. I had printed out most of your articles a couple months ago. I wonder how I missed "The Vortex"?!?  I've just visited your site again and printed that article out to read. You're right, it is almost a  book in itself! 

Oh, and I completely understand about not being willing to talk about *all* of your experiences. I totally wouldn't want them banging on your door because you spilled all the beans!

Hey, by the way, I just finished the latest issue of Nexus (very good reading, as always), and I saw your ad in the back for this book.  That was so cool!!!!!  I could hardly believe my eyes. I think that it's great that you're offering your ebook for free to all of us and that you made an ad for it, as well.  Awesome work... That's the best way to get the word out, eh?

Kudos to you!!