Note from the Editor:
What does the two-word theme of this issue’s introduction mean? “Wrong mission” is what I realized I was focusing on when I chose to go help another American pretending to be in distress. I had this idea, growing up, that I would go through tough training, fly around the world, and help people everywhere, and I achieved that dream, but… it was manifesting more people asking for help, and not necessarily good ones with legitimate issues.
I’d recently chosen to let go of that contractor job I had with the Corps of Engineers, it having long-since gone south due to shitty coworkers, anyway. This freed me up to move again, and to help people beyond just handling all their computer-related scheduling and project-template issues, but it was still several years before The Shift, and that meant more shit-shows no matter what I chose or where I went. This latest one turned out to be back where it all began in this life; I was asked to head to Virginia.
It started off well enough; there was communication, some measure of openness and honesty, a humble request, and me being ready, willing, and able to perform another selfless act. It was a way to get back out of the state I hated most, which had wronged me at every turn, and I took it. All seemed to be lining up for a win.
Maybe it was the right mission for this time in my life, as it taught me how to better assess things, as well as how to refine –or re-define– my mission and thinking. It was definitely the wrong type of mission for me to continue being on, though. I’ll get into the details in the next issues of this season.
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Vocab of the Day:
- FOB-Book: Inisfree’s version of Facebook, also heavily inspired and influenced by Fuckbook and other social networks
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Articles:
2009-2010 articles are here.
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News Stories:
R’lyeh Study: an examination of ocean-floor ruins in the middle of the Pacific is underway. Books released to the public claim underwater cities are fictitious; flights of fancy from creative writers. They are not. The Yonaguni ruins off the coast of Japan, and the Cruiser Tablemount in the north Atlantic, not to mention the miles-wide and oceans-long road-like ruins along every ocean floor, tell the real story. What’s the news? Even at the bottoms of the oceans, we are not, and were not, alone.
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Face App:
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Poking Fun at Fake News:
A ton of new bogus stories are posted here. They distract people from the real and important events, using nothing more than hearsay about deaths and drama. Why is the fake news always so inaccurate and negative?
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