You'd Be Paranoid Too...

Discussion in 'Paranoid?' started by Jimbee68, Apr 20, 2024.

  1. Jimbee68

    Jimbee68 Member

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    I'm not paranoid. But most people would be if they experienced what I am about to describe. All my life people seemed to know stuff about me, stuff they couldn't possibly have. My therapist told me in 2011 it was because I was diagnosed with a minor mental issue at age 7. I saw a doctor then, and she told my parents and I that I was normal. And I didn't see a therapist again till high school. But my therapist said that wasn't really what she thought. And one teacher around that time said I that touched her inappropriately, even though I obviously didn't. I thought I was the only person who knew what happened that day. And for years I thought she would have gotten into a lot more trouble, hitting me hard like she did, in front of many witnesses. I only came up to about her hip in height at the time. But my therapist told me in 2011, everyone did know what happened that day.

    And this is going to sound odd. But the police in my area might know something about me. Or maybe they just think they did. I honestly don't know. Starting in the early 90's, when I started going out more, they'd give me dirty looks. And sometimes they seemed to know things about me they couldn't possibly. And they seemed to think at times I was up to no good. Why? I'm a good person. And I have no criminal record or behavioral issues. And they'd know that if they were the police. Wouldn't they? Yet they'd still let me know they were suspicious of me. Not too often, but it did happen.

    But you know, there was a local mall my family and I went to about 20 years ago, where the guards were all police. And they were very nice to me there at least. But the weird stuff I described above, it did happen in more than one city in my metro area.
     
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  2. jimandjan

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    lately I wonder if I an being watched. A couple of times wife and I have talked about something we needed. and next day adds come up on home page.
     
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  3. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    That is true.
    Last year Jane and I put it to the test by talking about buying her wedding dress. We had never discussed this before, having been married for more than 40 years. :)

    Our phones were switched on in the room at he time, but not in use. My phone is an old Nokia that I mainly use for work, while Jane has a smartphone.

    Over the following week, she got adverts everywhere connected to weddings, on both our computers and Jane's phone. Our emails have no ads due to our domain and filters, but the ads appeared on several sites that we were browsing.

    We were going to spend the following evening discussing the bombs that I am currently constructing. We decided to give that one a miss, we have grown quite fond of our stained glass front door. :D
     
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  4. ~Zen~

    ~Zen~ California Tripper Administrator

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    I have never tested that but it does occur in fact, every day around here.
     
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  5. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    So little is known about the truth of what is going on these days.
    The only possible culprit in my opinion was Samsung, who manufactured Janes phone. It runs on EE, but was not logged onto their server by an active call.
    One thing that is hard to fully comprehend is how if I called you on your mobile I would find you. By using your area code, if you were in your home country, we would connect within less than 5 seconds. But you could be anywhere in the world and your phone would ring and tell you who was calling within 15 seconds. This involves every mast in the world responding to billions of pings per second. The lower time reduces this somewhat by adding areas every second until the ping returns.

    One little known fact is that every financial transaction in the UK, copies to the inland revenue. For normal people, these are only transactions that total £5,000 per month, but if I was under investigation, they would know when and where I bought a sandwich. The only saving grace is lack or staff to interrogate them.
    Who knows, at sum point in the future, a tax inspector may appear as a hologram in the office.

    Meanwhile, we stupid earthlings did this all on our own. As my late father would say, "pull the other leg".
    Perhaps the guy who adopted the term 'cloud computing' for remote drives was trying to tell us something. We are led to believe all this is nothing more than a LAN or WAN. I wonder where the international space station fits in.
    Perhaps I will ask my MP that one between his cups of tea.
     
  6. Constantine666

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    Just an FYI: Doctors, Lawyers, Police, Other 1st Responders, they are all Master Manipulators. They are trained o be able to handle crowds, and unruly individuals. Questions they ask, random statements they make, all designed to put you off balance, and reveal things you may not know you are revealing. You aren't necessarily being watched or spied on, but you are being manipulated.
     
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    Happens to us alot
     
  8. jimandjan

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    I wonder about smart tv, and alexa, never thought about phones.
     
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  9. Tishomingo

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    If you have mannerisms or appearance that are odd, police might be picking up on that. They tend to zero in on the unusual as suspicious. Your teacher might have had the same problem. I was never a disciplinary problem, but had a teacher who picked on any kid who was a little "different". She grabbed me by the hair once, and banged my head against the blackboard in front of the class for getting a problem wrong. That was kinda traumatic. She's lucky I didn't tell my folks, since she could have lost her job and be sued for that.
     
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  10. ~Zen~

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    In a catholic school the nuns would have beaten your hands and knuckles with a ruler til they bled. All in the name of Jesus.
     
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    A doctor I been going to for about 30 years gave me a questionnaire to fill out that asked:
    o Do you have a gub in your holm? (gub is a substitute for a cordless hole punch). (I have no idea what a holm is)
    o Have you ever manufactured illicit drugs in your home?
    o Do you feel guilty all the time?
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    on and on . . . . .
     
  12. ~Zen~

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    I thought doctors were prohibited from asking questions about gun ownership. Perhaps that is why the words were deliberately mis-spelled?
     
  13. Tishomingo

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    Been there! I started off in a Catholic school, with the nuns with rulers. They told my folks I'd be better off in the public school--like being escorted out of East Germany during the Cold War when they were shooting everybody trying to escape. The public school is where the head-bashing occurred. where the head-bashing incident ocurred.
     
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  14. burmashave

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    Generally, that is true, but the Gubment has ways to pressure medical practices into asking questions that shouldn't be asked. Such as Medicare paying more to insurance companies if they play along.
    Money talks, the rules walk.
     
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