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MutantAndProud

(855 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 07:27 PM Oct 2023

What would you do if...

Literally everyone you knew suddenly began communicating in a different way? Like the words you spoke were having almost no effect or randomized effect?

Like being in the communication’s major’s equivalent of a twilight zone where you could only ever get reliable but barely useful basics out of an AI chatbot since the rest of humanity just went blank

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What would you do if... (Original Post) MutantAndProud Oct 2023 OP
Sounds like Fox News (n/t) PJMcK Oct 2023 #1
Sounds like the way Scientologists use the English language. Or MAGAts. fierywoman Oct 2023 #2
You know MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #5
I once had a friend who started the Scientology program (it was in LA and I think she fierywoman Oct 2023 #6
Ha. MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #9
According to her, it was what they really did. fierywoman Oct 2023 #10
Ha you never know exactly why MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #11
That was the premise of the "Hush" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Shermann Oct 2023 #3
Haven't seen Buffy in years MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #4
That's kind of my life cyclonefence Oct 2023 #7
Actually that has been happening to me more than a little MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #8
You might be interested ... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #12
I'm aware of those MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #13
I agree... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #14
Ah it's been a while since I heard that quote MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #15
My sanity depends on that quote. Think. Again. Oct 2023 #16
 

MutantAndProud

(855 posts)
5. You know
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 07:48 PM
Oct 2023

That is a possibility. I really haven’t figured it out either despite trying casually on the Scientology front because of some people I knew into it (I think?)…

The MAGA stuff is fairly obvious but most of that’s clearly pulling strings that I just don’t care about.

fierywoman

(8,105 posts)
6. I once had a friend who started the Scientology program (it was in LA and I think she
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 08:11 PM
Oct 2023

wanted to rub shoulders with some stars.) As she learned, she told me what the words they use mean. I kept laughing and saying, *no* it doesn't!

 

MutantAndProud

(855 posts)
11. Ha you never know exactly why
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 11:13 PM
Oct 2023

Someone gets so attached to perceptions (without analysis). I used to intellectually nudge people off the track just to see what would happen. It’s had interesting results, can be very illuminating sometimes.

Shermann

(8,636 posts)
3. That was the premise of the "Hush" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 07:36 PM
Oct 2023

Ghouls named "The Gentlemen" come to town and steal everyone's voices.

Worth watching, very unnerving. And comedic at times.

cyclonefence

(4,873 posts)
7. That's kind of my life
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 08:11 PM
Oct 2023

My husband is deafer than he thinks he is and won't wear his hearing aids. I have a very low voice and I confess I do mumble (my throat was paralyzed by polio when I was a kid). It's a little like living alone sometimes; sometimes it's pretty funny when he thinks I said one thing and then I do something he was not expecting.

OTOH It can lead to pretty nasty fights, all based on some stupid (literal) misunderstanding.

But this stuff really does happen when you get old and deaf--I'm a little deaf, too.

It's surprising to me that hearing is such a vital sense, sometimes more important than sight, even.

 

MutantAndProud

(855 posts)
8. Actually that has been happening to me more than a little
Tue Oct 10, 2023, 08:20 PM
Oct 2023

I do have hearing differences between the two…

Always had it to a degree from a young age, maybe genetic. My dad had polio and post-polio syndrome, not sure if it’s something inherited or not like certain traits are.

Never considered a hearing aid until recently.

Think. Again.

(17,906 posts)
12. You might be interested ...
Wed Oct 11, 2023, 03:04 AM
Oct 2023

...in exploring how some people with autism describe their experiences communicating with people who don't have autism.

 

MutantAndProud

(855 posts)
13. I'm aware of those
Wed Oct 11, 2023, 03:15 AM
Oct 2023

And that aspect of the social circle I’m in. Luckily I’m not intellectually disabled but culturally there are criminal deficiencies in how people like that are handled. Time for a shift.

Think. Again.

(17,906 posts)
14. I agree...
Wed Oct 11, 2023, 04:02 AM
Oct 2023

...I wonder about our society's habit of assuming that just because something is considered "normal", it must be the more correct way of being, and that any other way of being must be an inadequacy of some kind.

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -Jiddu Krishnamurti

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