2021.03.23 07:00 - History, so far

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: hard to remember where Not sat in a while
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: Have no fear listener, Riddle is here
Adams Rubble: look how I broke up the rhyme
Riddle Sideways: sorry lotus, had a wall that was hard to click through
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: this pavilion wall is tricky
Riddle Sideways: everything gets Tricky
Riddle Sideways: restart the modem today
Riddle Sideways: restart the bots, Even Alexa had issues
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: poor Alexa

Adams Rubble: I look like I am emerging from a rock
Riddle Sideways: poofy skirt
Adams Rubble: my Alexa was playing fifties rock this morning
Adams Rubble: not sure all those songs were actually 50s
Adams Rubble: but close

Riddle Sideways: read your blog today
Adams Rubble: the history lesson?
Riddle Sideways: it took a long while because tried and re-tried to say the names
Riddle Sideways: yes, history lesson
Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: since we last met I finished the abhidharma book and it turned Spring
Riddle Sideways: yes, whew
Adams Rubble: since reading about the abhidharma I have been drawn to the heart sutra
Adams Rubble: now that I know what it is talking about :)
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: time to re-re-read it again
Riddle Sideways: ㋡

        had personal IM chat about a grocery store shotting in Boulder
Riddle Sideways: seems that one article is all the Denver newspaper lets one read before asking for money
Riddle Sideways: can't get any updates
Adams Rubble: yikes
Riddle Sideways: need to look up how to spell nonsequitor
Adams Rubble: some of the papers allow articles about traumatic events to be seen for free
Riddle Sideways: yes, the majors allow today's news for free, but not searching back
Adams Rubble: The Boston paper allowed reading about the bombing there a few years ago
Adams Rubble: newspapers are being taken over by sindicates

Adams Rubble: it is odd the police are being so slow about releasing details
Adams Rubble: I wonder if there is more oging on
Riddle Sideways: the reporters were hounding the mayor and police officials
Riddle Sideways: for names and reasons
Riddle Sideways: when they did not know
Riddle Sideways: when the next of kin should be told first
Riddle Sideways: said they did not want to just say something before they knew

Riddle Sideways: anyway back to all the hard to pronounce
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: was wondering about Buddhists coming here and trying to get the differences in churches
Adams Rubble: yes, must be confusing
Riddle Sideways: the new church we cook at has a very strange name, like it is a mash up of 3-4 sects
Riddle Sideways: new friend there is Hindu and was just staring at the buildings sign
Riddle Sideways: like he wanted to ask, but knew the answer might be too complicated
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: glad for Wikipedia
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble is in the dark about the name and the issue it causes

Riddle Sideways: Also, liked the image of you reading and reading and researching
Riddle Sideways: then walk outside and it is spring
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: think that is happening for many
Riddle Sideways: shut in for a year and starting to walk outside
Adams Rubble: it is common for a season certainly start to show its stuff
Adams Rubble: suddenely to start
Adams Rubble: knock knock. I am here
Riddle Sideways: seeing the first robin.
Riddle Sideways: spring is here
Adams Rubble: last week it was the frogs

Riddle Sideways: and yesterday had a long think about the Other side of things
Riddle Sideways: in a class about the year 1968, the teacher wanted us to think
Riddle Sideways: of what our parents might have been thinking;
Riddle Sideways: their world was being shaken
Riddle Sideways: their values and safe places
Riddle Sideways: the laws, rules, ways
Riddle Sideways: and then their own children were shaking Everything up
Riddle Sideways: had only been thinking of how the new generation was being fed that old stuff
Riddle Sideways: and it did not make sense
Riddle Sideways: But, what about the safe same ol'
Riddle Sideways: that was finally warm and nice
Riddle Sideways: being taken and shaken on them parents
Adams Rubble: great lesson in empathy
Riddle Sideways: Wars were things America did. and won
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: yes! spend much of yesterday in empathy
Riddle Sideways: it is nice
Adams Rubble: yes, nice

Riddle Sideways: whoops. that stopped the chat
Adams Rubble: That is not what is stopping me

Adams Rubble: I have been managing not to look the news as much lately
Adams Rubble: have been feeling things were going to work out
Riddle Sideways: great
Adams Rubble: this morning's news hit like a ton of bricks
Adams Rubble: The capitol policeman who was killed was from the town across the river; so were both of his killers and there were other details that hit close
Adams Rubble: this morning I feel that things are going backwards
Riddle Sideways: when News items hit close to us

Adams Rubble: but I am intrigued by your history teacher's lesson
Adams Rubble: the empathy
Adams Rubble: how to empathize with all the people believing all the false narratives being spread
Adams Rubble: why are they so eager to believe some things that are obviouslt untrue
Riddle Sideways: wish to know that answer too
Adams Rubble: our parents went through the depression and world war II and their minds were formed by those twop events
Adams Rubble: Hmmm. The government has been lying to us for all the wars since
Riddle Sideways: how it is safer, warmer, easier to believe Space aliens did it then one side of WWII killed those Jews
Adams Rubble: and many on the other side secretely approved
Adams Rubble: the country's myths are breaking down

Riddle Sideways: in Feb. 1968 Walter Cronkite (the most trusted source of nightly truth) went to Viet Nam and was lied to his face by the General
Adams Rubble: yes, and everyone was tuning into one of three sources of news
Adams Rubble: everyone had the same narrative
Adams Rubble: I am going to have to leave at the hour
Riddle Sideways: Westmoreland lied right to him. then he and his crew looked out the window
Adams Rubble pictures some Viet Cong waving from the other side

Riddle Sideways: then the parallels to today start echoing from 1968
Riddle Sideways: Something about those that do not learn from history
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: :)

Riddle Sideways: whoops long private IMs again
Adams Rubble: yes, important but private stuff
Adams Rubble: yes,sadly I do have to go but we can meet again in two days
Riddle Sideways: Thank you for this time
Adams Rubble: hehe, I am having trouble stopping the talk :)
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Rubble: thank you for the session :0
Adams Rubble: bye