Illusory truth effect.

 There's a phenomenon called the "Illusory truth effect". It's the tendency to believe false information to be correct following repeated exposure to it.

Most notably used in election campaigns, advertising, news media and political propoganda, we can see this in other areas of life.

When a controlling person repeatedly attacks the self esteem of someone they have a relationship with, they will soon start to believe that falsehood. Children especially but adults too, when repeatedly told they are stupid or unattractive will take on those ideas as their own. 

We have all witnessed the effect of mass medical misinformation and how that takes hold and spreads like wildfire, despite it being clearly disproven.

But there's a positive use for this concept, if we know how. Its powers can be harnessed and used to a positive effect. Now I bet that's got you wondering.

On a number of occasions, I have, for the purposes of my health among other reasons, convinced myself to believe something that I know to be untrue, by repeatedly telling myself and those around me that I believe the lie.

For example, I wanted to quit eating chocolate (I was eating far more than is healthy in anyone's world). So I told myself every time I saw it, was offered it, saw it in a book, magazine or anywhere, that "I don't like chocolate". I told anyone who would listen "I don't like chocolate". Pretty soon, I was really believing my own lie!! 

The problem arises when you actually try it again and realise you were as wrong as is possible. Which suggests it's more of a delusion than a "lie". But it's worked for a number of things. 

There's the possibility this could be some psychotic or narcissistic personality trait, or possibly just the sign of a compulsive liar. But I promise, I am using this power only for good.

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The amazing feta cheese tin

 I spotted a discussion about feta cheese, which reminded me, I promised to write a book about this seemingly little known phenomenon.

Years ago, before upcycling and repurposing, I lived in this remote little Greek village. There wasn't much to call entertainment, but one thing that always provided amazement and surprise was the many versatile uses for an old feta cheese tin. 

It comes in these big square tins and I can't remember ever seeing one thrown away.. they seem to go on forever.

I've seen street cleaning done with a broom and a feta tin on a stick, builders fill a tin with plaster and get his grandma to carry it up ladders to be applied, farmers with them strapped to the back of a motorbike to collect stray goats, used to make a grate for a fireplace, beach parasols have their pole planted in a tin of concrete to stop them blowing away, as bins next to the toilet that can't manage a poop let alone anything else so you chuck everything in there, for restaurants to collect waste for the pigs, involved in a multitude of children's games along with a stick/boiled egg/rock/what looks like someone's homework, as some kind of cockroach trap/competition to see if you can guess how many are in it, for the totally soul destroying job of picking olives/ emptying ashtrays in the bars/ collecting water from the tap in the square (because it's only on in homes for a few hours a day)/ dispensing church bread (we label it "choke you to death bread"....you get the idea.

Additional reading/sites of interest:

• https://www.inspiredbygreece.com/feta-tin-village/
• https://ideabygs.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-evolution-of-feta-cheese-tin-in.html?m=1

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Going underground

 The mysterious world         under your feet.

   The subterranean world is a whole other secret place that few people are privy to. You never quite know what could be unearthed. People walk around everyday for years, never realising the hidden secrets in a place where time has stood still.. frozen in time. With no accrued dust or materials degrading (the result of water ingress/exposure to sunlight), it frequently appears as though the occupants of these uncanny scenes have momentarily stepped out of the room, then failed to return.

   I reckon it's a great option for those of us looking for some peace and privacy.

   Takes a little getting used to because sounds travel in a certain way. Once you get used to it, nobody can creep up on you and if someone didn't want to be found, it would be just the place. Anyone trying to find them but not used to it, would be totally lost because it's hard to know exactly where a sound is coming from or how near it is. Also, it's easy to lose a sense of direction. 

   Best to take a map and a compass if you go exploring. Many places are closed off, but there's usually an outlet somewhere and you can get in that way.

An excellent book.

   Some years ago, I lived in Bilston (near Wolverhampton) where there was a particular pub, that is widely reported as being h h H Haunted!👻 Woo!! Once upon a time, it had marked the halfway point, along that lengthy and treacherous journey heading southwards, transporting detainees betwixt the Northerly Scottish borders and Ye Olde London Town, where England's highest court of law, The Old Bailey was (and still is) situated. These individuals would have been facing severe punishment, potentially the dreaded hangman's noose.

The Old White Rose Tavern

   Prisoners being transported to the city would be locked in the cellar/ dungeon beneath this tavern/inn/hostelry overnight, alongside the horses. Meanwhile upstairs, those tasked with delivering them to the capital enjoying some famous Black Country hospitality. 

 Popular belief acknowledges that the place is haunted. The Mysterious Britain website (23/12/18) relates this story:

The Olde White Rose is a 16th century building with extensive cellars. It was in the cellar system early one morning that landlord John Denston clearly witnessed an apparition. At the end of a long disused cellar was a drop which was convenient for lifting empty barrels up to ground level.

Early one morning in 1998 John clearly saw a figure exit the drop and stand at the end of the cellar. He was wearing old fashioned and quite scruffy clothes. After standing stock still for a few moments staring at his upturned palms the swarthy and unkempt looking man disappeared into a side tunnel. By this time John realised it was an apparition he had seen as the side tunnel actually went nowhere. It was securely bricked up at the end.

 

Idid my share of haunting that bar and their excellent veggie carvery. 

There's tons of subway that's either disused or never got used. Old sewers and a mass of not-so-secret secret subterranean weapons bases. Tons of bomb shelters from various times and various shapes and sizes are all still there. When Catholicism was rejected but Catholics had their own ideas about it, wealthier people would have a priest come to perform mass at their home. "priest holes" are all over those old houses...places to shove your forbidden clergy, but some actually have escape tunnels too. 

There's loads I haven't had a chance to look at. There must be other people into exploring this hidden world with knowledge of ways in. We don't get earth quakes so they're pretty safe. 

If we could establish an alternative underground community, maybe we could evolve into "mole people". 

I don't fancy those sewers still in use though. It's not the potential of rats, ninja turtles, alligators or even monster poos. It's the dreaded fatburg!!!!

https://youtu.be/C0F8qWFL0_M

  Useful links:

🔗https://www.loveexploring.com/galleries/68772/underground-britain-things-to-do-beneath-the-surface

🔗https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201005-the-uks-rumoured-subterranean-network

🔗https://listverse.com/2023/05/27/10-truly-unsettling-underground-places-in-the-uk/

 

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Pretty nasty Patel

***Update***She's gone!!! Will things be better? Only time will tell. But it's a tough act to follow, as you may already know...or not ~ it's not the first time so be mindful should she return to Britain's political leadership.

"PrettyNastyPatel". That's what her friend's call the astonishingly racist and hateful former secretary for state. The ever increasing catalogue of stories about her heartless, inhumane and evil policies and the tragedies resulting from them, reflects how successfully she modelled her image around her Thatcherite aspirations. 

  Indeed, when she finally resigned, after being rumbled having secret meetings with various government and military interests in Israel, lying to the prime minister about it, maintaining these were "personal friends" and using her position to propose granting aid to Israeli military field hospitals, echoes of Thatcher's downfall abounded as a chorus of "Ding Dong, the witch is dead" rung out.

The bizarre irony is that she would never have even been "British" had her own evil policies existed when her parents arrived in the country with her in tow, fleeing the insane bloodthirstiness of Idi Amin.

 

Britain's earliest refugees,

 Ugandan Indo asians were admitted to the U.K. in the 1960s as most held British passports (being the children of workers who Britain brought to Uganda when it was under British rule). 

  Hey Priti!...put your money where your mouth is. There's still time for you to deport your mom and dad. Maybe she could put them on one of her planned deportation flights to Rwanda. 

  Mirroring her idol; She's supposedly female... when it suits her. Comparing her "Women for Britain" campaign for anti EU women to that of Emaline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes, she was cut down by Pankhurst's great granddaughter Helen Pankhurst. 

  Similarly she will defend her racist policies such as holding asylum seekers offshore, suggesting Ascension Island as a viable option (despite it's location, more than 4,000 miles from our shores) which shadow cabinet members condemned as "inhumane, impractical and wildly expensive", using her ethnicity as a shield is not beyond her self-vindication tactics . Where were her Hindu principles when she opposed European restrictions on tobacco (in the pocket of British and American Tobacco), or defending drug dealing (alcohol causes more harm and crime than any of her "illegal" drugs) polishing her talents in the art of "spin" cooking up PR for multinational Alcohol giant DIAGEO.

  If you're thinking it sounds as if she plays both sides, those who know her are with you on that matter. She's been pronounced guilty multiple times, of harassing, bullying and belittling staff in the workplace. 

     Officials who witnessed her behaviour in the department for International development confirmed that staff had "really suffered", that "she had a reputation for being a bully" and that many had been "traumatised". However, they point out it's not her intention, but simply her personality...who she is. Well, that must be a great comfort to her victims. 

  Red flag!!!  You may have heard this before. Such behaviour as a character trait is  indicative of a psychopathic personality disorder. As is the fact that those same people explain her being "the most charming person. People can be drawn to her" is a further confirmation of this fact.

  Another characteristic of the psychopath is their tendency to be drawn to participate in  criminal activities. The discovery of her  breaking the ministerial code of conduct should have marked the end of her career in politics. Fortunately (for Pritti) crazy (poor man's Donald Trump) Boris Johnson, appointed her into her current role, where she can truly relish in the misery she causes to the most desperate and vulnerable Britain has to offer. How perfectly this exemplifies her heartlessness. But for Boris and his obscure hair-brained  ideas, maybe we would have been rid of her already. 

  She'd already entered the employ of an American telecommunications company as an advisor, taking home a whopping £5,000 a month for only 5 measly hours of work. Perhaps she would be more comfortable in the US, where the most damning of the numerous revelations concerning her psychopathy- her delightful utter lack of any regard for the value of human life as  illustrated in her support for capital punishment - would fit the bill to a tee.   Funnily enough, her initial loss against the labour opposition for her locally assigned seat, was conveniently changed to one in which the borders could be carefully manouvred, assuring her ongoing success (this is called "gerrymandering", kids).

  Her "nationality and borders bill" was condemned by Amnesty International. But however much she's cited; This is Britain and as such, it's the British people that get to enjoy the fallout from her self-hatred. "The UK government has ripped up the refugee convention - a longstanding international agreement", Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director said.

  Do we really want to follow America's example of trampling over International conventions as they did when they illegally invaded Iraq? Ask yourself this.. "Which country presents the greatest and most immediate threat to world peace?"  "America" is the answer given by an overwhelming majority. This includes 70% of the American population who rightly, don't want to send their young people to virtually certain death or if they're lucky,  permanent disability and lifelong  psychological trauma. All for nothing but, adding yet one more enemy nation to the growing list of those with a legitimate grievance against the failing empire. The only people who don't want peace are in  Washington and those who support them. War profiteers do love wars when they remain safe in their ivory towers.

  Having amounted a body count numbering 30million since the end of WW2, there's plenty of people out there harbouring a grudge. How long before they all join forces and decide it's their turn to start fires? You can't go round punching everybody in the face without expecting someone to eventually turn around and knock you onto your arse.

  

  Scientists have revealed how power effects the brain in the same way that cocaine does, releasing the pleasure giving neuroreceptor, dopamine that floods the brain. Like a drug addict, those same actions that fuel the drive for omnipotence, become beyond their control, increasing in frequency and severity. One study explains how, "Ethical standards of entire organisations can be badly damaged if a corporate psychopath is in charge."

  Calls for Patel's dismissal from her position are abundant. UK employment legislation cites as grounds for fair dismissal "Bad behaviour, poor discipline, theft, or dishonesty." Taking £11million of taxpayer money and pouring it into shopping malls, 5 star hotels and restaurants in Pakistan surely meets these criteria. All money intended for humanitarian aid, that she used to line the pockets of selected rich businessmen. Unfortunately, such malfeasance has become part and parcel of being a member of the British Conservative party. Given the Wikileaks exposure of countless American atrocities, poor Julian Assange didn't really ever stand a chance. The truth is becoming increasingly distorted and thin on the ground . None more than in such case where their version of truth flavours how the world perceives us personally, even if it is the product of sick and disturbed thinking.

But....how long before her extreme directives disqualify Priti for leave to reside??

A good solicitor with a silver tongue, a taste for a challenge and a sense of moral gravity might just be capable of saving us from the curse of Priti.

Additional reading/sites of interest:

• https://psychology-tools.com/test/pcl-22
• https://www.hdinvestmentcontent.com/post/priti-by-name-mental-by-nature-why-is-the-uk-s-response-to-ukraine-so-sh
• https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2020/11/23/priti-patel-might-be-a-bully-but-shes-also-so-much-worse-than-that/
• https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/12/03/hate-filled-hindu-priti-patel-is-sycophantic-to-jews-psychopathic-to-whites/
• https://gal-dem.com/everything-horrible-priti-patel-has-smirked-at-said-and-done/
• https://bleg.jigokuki.org/plotting-pretty-priti-patel-corruption-treason-zionism-covert-capture-israel-mossad-mi5-lord-polak-boris-johnson-espionage-conservative-friends-of-israel-zionist-rape-gangs-jimmy-savile/

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