Blue as BALLS .....

Well, here it sure LOOKS LIKE a couple of testicles, but it does have other meanings as well, like e.g. "balls" in favorite toys. Many don't even know about other kinds of balls than the ones their dogs covet and insist on playing with, over and over ....

Yes, that's cute: A charming dog with his/her favorite toy, i.e a BLUE ball

However, as most of us know, and as my first picture indicate, the saying "Blue Balls" may have another meaning than being the name of favorite toys for a dog. Also they may be the name of what is known as painful testicles, and as such they are feared by many men and some women. The men fear what many present as an excruciating pain, and the main reason why some women fear them is that these bouts of pain are used by some men to make them take part in sexual acts they don't really want to have anything to do with. Actually, women may tell you that the love and care for men and boys which they were brought up to feel will get them to help the male sex to the orgasms which rid them of their painful "blue balls". I see it as a common male trick, something that shouldn't oblige women to do anything, but many of the female sex feel so bad for their menfolk that they may comply, no matter what.

Yes, the cure is an orgasm, but still, that shouldn't be the responsibility of a woman. To me it's some kind of "rape": The man may not attack the woman physically, but he uses the myth of the super-painful "blue balls" against her. She, who most probably has been conditioned to take care of the vulnerable male ego and support his feelings of "maleness" and "masculinity", becomes an easy prey for the allegedly victim of the blue balls syndrome. Something that's not OK in my opinion ....

 

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/blue-balls

 

https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/blue-balls 

 

https://bigmouth.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Balls 

 

https://www.webmd.com/sex/blue-balls 

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10155057/ 

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10155057/ 

 

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New Games of the Literary World

It seems that every agency is offering what they call "courses" or "classes" now. As always these shady agents are trying to make the authors they represent believe in promises that - hand on heart - look very much like blatant lies: No, you'll not turn into a bestselling author just by attending these expensive classes or even more costly writing conferences. Some call this strategy MLM-scams, but I think that although that may be true for some agencies or agents, it's not about everyone - at least not yet. As even some big and legit agencies offer these conferences, classes or courses which presumably aren't scams one is up against some problems: We really need to find ways to discern between the new scammers of the literary world and those who don't belong in that group, but how? All we have to go by is recommendations from people we trust, and that's not as easy as it may sound ....

Some writers have been lured into thinking that meeting an agent will do the trick and they set high hopes to such an event: "Wow, an agent is interested in my work!!!!" OK, that may be the case if you get as long as a meeting in person - even though you may have to pay e.g. $ 500 for it - but most hopeful authors only get a noncommittal reply when they write an agency or an agent which isn't quite something to build one's hopes on. Also there is another reason why this idea of a savior in the form of an agent sucks: EVERYBODY may call themselves an agent without nothing more to their name than a more or less fancy website.

When I visit some more or less literary platforms I often see questions like e.g. this one: "WHEN does one start earning money on one's book????" A good question, but the answer is heart breaking: "Maybe NEVER even though you get it published as an indie book. There it is, you see it, and you remember the many hours you invested in writing it, but somehow it's invisible to others .... Sad, but the truth ....

 

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/multi-level-marketing-businesses-pyramid-schemes

 

 

 

The Sex Offender Site

 

 

How does one recognize a sex offender like e.g. a pedophile? Well, sadly enough, he or she doesn't sprout warts, horns or anything else indicating that he/she is guilty of these sex crimes. Besides, and needless to say, an individual only becomes a culprit by committing the crime, not by thinking about or even planning it. That means that he or she must have been indicted, arrested and preferably also convicted as an offender to be one which makes it difficult or even impossible to warn his/her targets in beforehand. 

Little, innocent ones should be safe, but aren't always as some people may have sexual designs on them. That I knew before i had the VERY unpleasant experience when I, more or less for fun, some years ago Googled the name of a friend and then found out that he fits the picture only too well because there it is: One by now closed criminal case which led to his indictment, and seemingly also a conviction back in time and at least one active case a few years ago.

That was a surprise, but when I thought the matter over I remembered some covert statements about "problems" in his past, but I thought that had to do with his family situation, and his sorrow/anger at being let down by someone very close to him. I know him well enough to see that in reality it was about rage at accusations and convictions which this special and very proud man would never accept as fair. In his opinion those he had victimized must be liars and slanderers and not at all victims because that was how HE saw their "relationship". Needless to say, that man now is out of my circles, so to speak.

However, my experiment taught me something else: To get the full information from criminal files one has to pay some fees and that made me think of the situation many parents will find themselves in. They want to protect their children against predators by finding the necessary information about the activities of someone specific, but can't afford to get it. Also they may find that they risk more than money by giving out their personal information in the application form of the Sex Offender Site. Who
protects them against the criminal who may be vindictive? Nobody! What a crappy way to handle something as serious as this! I would understand this way of handling the situation had it been a shield to protect a vulnerable system, the privacy of the suspects/convicts or of the victims, but it's for earning money. That's not right and it doesn't speak well for the system as such.

As to the man I knew then IF the information I've got just by Googling his name is what it looks like then he sure is a culprit in the true sense of the word, but I can't be sure as to the extent of his crime(-s) until I've decided to pay the fees and that I don't feel like doing. Not only for the expense, but also for the principle in it: This should not be paid for. It's wrong, it's stupid and also discriminatory.

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/sex-offender-registry

https://www.probationinfo.org/sor/cost/

 

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Playing With Words

 

One way of keeping those grey ones - i.e. between one's ears - spruce and vigorous is to make ANAGRAMS or EUPHEMISMS. An Anagram is "A word or phrase with letters that may be rearranged into another word or phrase" by transposing the letters of the chosen (victimized!!!) word or phrase.

Many of us know the art of anagrams from one special source: Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and the links beneath give you the software for making anagrams of your own name, like in the very popular book and movie, but beware because some of the anagrams may not exactly be flattering. For instance, what about this one: George Bush = "He bugs Gore" .... Another one is Florence Nightingale who may be transposed into "Flit on cheering angel". Well, at least that one is much nicer than the Bush-anagram .... 

Some words are easily discerned as interchangeable like e.g. "Amor" and "Roma", "Live" and "Evil" (that one is actually quite thought-provoking), "Eros" and "Rose", etc.. I bet that this kind of words made a special impact on the cabbalists who worked the magic of words, numbers, etc. in the Middle Ages. The purpose of this often endless toiling with letters and numbers was their wish to find "the philosoper's stone" which according to their beliefs would convert all kinds of substances into gold.

Another transforming process of words and letters is the Euphemism. To make an euphemism one may want to put something in a more humane or polite way: Euphemisms soften an offensive remark or word. To me some of these euphemisms look like squeamishness like when the devil attains a new name, i.e. "His Satanic Majesty", or people say "A lady of the town", meaning a prostitute. However, some are more like mockery: "The hummingbird" for the "electric chair or "chicken house" for a brothel.

http://www.anagramgenius.com/ 

 

https://www.thewordfinder.com/anagram-solver/ 

 

https://ingesanagram.com/ 

 

Wikipedia

 

 

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Maria Orsic, The Nazi Medium Who Disappeared

 

Maria Orsic - also known as Maria Orschitsch - was a beautiful, and multi-talented Austrian, born in 1895. She may have died in 1945, at least she disappeared, seemingly without a trace. As a young girl she studied ballet, languages and everything occult which included what, at that time, was known about other star systems. Becoming a trance-medium she was supposed to be able to channel spirits as well as various beings from Outer space. Allegedly these ETs sent her a lot of  information about the intricate workings of Space as well as many plans to build time machines and spaceships. Many of her activities became part of the ideology of The Vril Society which originated from a science fiction novel which Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871, i.e. "Vril: The Power of the Coming Race". (The word "Vril" means "The power of the Coming Race").

As the leader of the Vril Gesellschaft Maria Orsic had many followers in the world of the occult, and one of these was Adolph Hitler and many other Nazis who were dabbling in the occult. According to Hitler everything in this world went by "races" which were in perpetual combat. It's this battle that he believed was driving the society, and just as there, in his opinion, are low- and high-ranking races so there are supposedly the same "racial differences" between ETs and humans. This belief was part of the so-called "Thule Society" which was very influential in the pre-war Berlin. As has been pointed out by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, the Vril Society was a sort of inner circle of the Thule Society. (However, I must admit that it's my opinion that the intricacies of these societies, and their political impact, are not fully understood even today).

I'm not sure that Maria Orsic and Hitler ever met in person, but I find it likely that they did although I need proofs to be sure .... 

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/maria-orsic-and-the-vril-society/id361910564?i=1000434381978 

 

http://www.ufopedia.it/Orsitsch_Maria.html 

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7534774/ 

 

https://nymag.com/news/features/conspiracy-theories/nazi-vril-society/ 

 

Wikipedia

When Communication Is A Life Saver - Or A Killer ....

 

 

Sadly enough it may be the doctor's fault that his patient is deemed a "hypochondriac": He has heard what she has told him about her symptoms, maybe even for years, but he never listened and took her words in as the information they are. Why is that? Well, I would say that it's my impression that the communication is difficult right from the beginning, yes, even impaired by one fact: The patient uses words that are not part of the medical lingo. To talk of a symptom as "pointed and bluish" makes sense to her, but not to him. And what about something like e.g. "a pulsating as well as heavy feeling in the muscles"? To her that is a very precise description, but to him it's nonsense which makes it "impossible" (?????) for him to translate it into his vocabulary.

All kinds of language are interesting both as phenomenon and possibilities because that's all we have when it comes to communication. To tell someone something by using words or signs, colors or music, etc., etc. is only possible if they have some common frame of reference. That often is a choice: One allows oneself to be told something or one discharges the information that is offered, e.g. by a patient. Sadly enough doctors and patients often talk past each other. Also doctors often don't see eye to eye on medical problems ....

 

Stealing Baby From Womb

 

Clarisa Figueroa, 51

Here we go again and, although it's not an everyday-crime, it happens too often, almost as by a set script: Some woman who isn't pregnant decides to kill a pregnant woman, to snatch her unborn child, and to pretend that the infant - dead or alive - is her son or daughter whom she gave birth to at home without any witnesses. The reason for this gruesome crime is that she wants a firm hold on her lover or husband whom she tricks into believing that she is pregnant by him. 

In this specific case the killer, Clarisa Figueroa, lured the 19 year old, expectant-mother-to-be, Marlen Ochoa-Lipez, to visit her by promises of certain baby stuff for free. Then she and her 24 years old daughter, Desiree, killed Marlen and cut her baby out of her womb. The reason for this crime was that Clarisa wanted a hold on her then boyfriend, Piotr, whom she had told that she was pregnant by him. It was her intention to pretend that the child she had stolen from the pregnant Marlen was that child which she had given birth to without assistance. I suppose everything might have worked out had the murder been as she had planned it to be. However, when she went to the hospital with the baby and covered in Marlen's blood, it was found out that Clarisa wasn't the mother of the child. The many threads of the plot was unraveled, and Clarisa was sentenced to 50 years of prison while her daughter received a sentence of 20 years. As to the baby, he sadly died some weeks later. 

It's important to understand that many of these sad cases of murder and baby-snatchings in reality isn't about the child. The woman may have some maternal feelings, but the main cause for what they are doing most often is to get a hold on that much coveted prize, a man. A lover or a husband still counts for much in the world of the women. His worth as such is not only as a genuine love object or support, but as a social asset. The "Miss"/"Mrs"-distinction may not be of such an importance now when it's possible to use the title "Ms", but to me it's obvious that the former strict rules about female status in the world of the women haven't been eradicated, only loosened. I suppose that someone like Clarisa was brought up to believe that "without a man I'm nothing, i.e. nobody". The stolen child was to ferment her emotional and social relationship with Piotr and it's obvious that her machinations were detailed plans, not only a "whim" ....

Both Clarisa and Desiree were sentenced to jail, but e.g. Taylor Rene Parker from another recent case (i.e. 2022) was sentenced to death.

Taylor Rene Parker

She worked out an elaborate plan, pretending to be pregnant for 9-10 months, in order to "keep her boyfriend from leaving her", but her many schemes didn't get her what she wanted: The young mother, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, and her daughter died, and she, the murderer, ended up on death row. 

Amber Waterman 

In another case from 2022 a married couple, Amber and Jamie Waterman, kidnapped the 33-year-old, pregnant Ashley Bush. They lured her to their home by offers of free baby clothes, but shot her and cut out her unborn baby, Valkyrie Grace Willis. Sadly enough the little girl died after being cut out of her mother's womb. The case will be brought for the court later this year: October, 2024. 

It seems that the husband assisted his wife in the kidnapping and murder of Ashley and her daughter so both of them will end up in jail. I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that this case will prove to be different in many ways, but time will show ....

 

https://apnews.com/article/baby-cut-womb-chicago-guilty-plea-9e393b97beb92e5e8a7fd0f272b9a7aa 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/fetal-abduction-attacks-expectant-mothers 

 

https://people.com/crime/woman-sentenced-death-stabbing-pregnant-woman-100-times-stealing-baby/ 

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/pineville-woman-indicted-killing-unborn-child-kidnapping-victim 

 

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