11 Replies to “Published This Month In The Journal Of The Blindingly Obvious”
Yes, but they could also be seniors who never hear from or see any of their family and are very lonely.
You got something there gellen. Both my wife and I are seniors now, but when she worked in a medical setting lonely seniors would come for doctor visits or not want to leave the hospital, there are various expressions of need for human interaction.
Lonely senior? Attend church and it’s functions. Don’t shop your heritage to some stranger on the phone.
Many seniors fall for the guff that they can increase their heritage and be better remembered for it.
Don’t fall for it, Grays. Stay strong, stay smart, be the wise ones the younger ones need you to be.
Go to your church. Pray for wisdom. Worship. The Lord will sustain you.
Some aren’t able to drive anymore, use walkers and need assistance. I can get in my van but can’t get into a car. I pay $20/hr to have someone drive my van so don’t go far.
You’re lonely and anxious, and you’ve always been a pleaser.
Don’t judge harshly till you’re there.
I nearly sold a cemetery plot to someone with poor English but with all the immigrants in the city, I figured I couldn’t take it upon myself to discriminate against him. A lightbulb went off once it got too crazy and I called the OPP – a chq coming from Paris & I was to deposit a certain amt and send them the remainder. I even went to the bank. There was anxiety affecting my thinking so you really don’t know why seniors fall for scams.
If it is the beginning of Alzheimer’s there will be other indications. The post below is a good one. Not changing clothes, or interested in appearance, repeating, repeating, repeating.
File that bit of info into your brain right now and you’ll never fall for a scam when you’re in your eighties & nineties. Till then, try not to be too judgmental or sanctimonious.
as his dementia advanced, my father, once a staunch conservative, started praising the NDP. At that point I realized there was no hope.
“Answering phones when they don’t recognize the number” – do those “researchers” have any idea how many seniors have phones which do NOT display the number of the incoming call? And even if they do, they can be susceptible to dead batteries (have one such on my desk now).
Worked with seniors in our family so they would recognize scams. That was some years back, and they were vulnerable because of innocence, not because of cognitive decline. Am more aware m’self of the scams out there, but have had clients considerably younger than myself ask me about either emails (Rev Can has a refund for you) or phone calls (CRA saying you owe and the police are coming). Those scammers are extremely persuasive/threatening.
Today’s university students easily fall for the scam of Cult. Marxism and it’s variants of class warfare.
Because, they are too young to have a living memory of the horrors of applied Marxism in the Soviet Union and Mao’s China. They can’t see that “Marxists are always one (more) murder away from utopia. “(Jordan Peterson)
Our history is, in effect, our memory of Western Civilization.
Cult. Marxists imposed Post-modernism in University History Departments. They switched to short half-classes in history studies of….(insert identity group). That lack the intellectual rigor required to teach about historical epochs, and the relations and transition from one to the next, and the ideas that drive them.
They’ve done away with survey history classes, especially ones that demonstrated the long, storied and inspirational development of Western Civilization. Today’s students are bereft of the memory of their own civilization. They are rendered historically disoriented and thus more vulnerable to ideological scams.
Therefore, Cult. Marxism’s take over of the teaching of History, with it’s indoctrination of post-modernism/identity politics, in effect, has induced a widespread intellectual dementia,
akin to Alzheimer’s.
As an old guy who is really getting “up there” as is said, I worry about my cognitive ability. I am still physically active, I play golf, walk the course and carry my clubs. Beer is a good thing as well. I also get some confirmation that I am not losing “it” whenever some idiot insults me on line I know that I am still sharp enough to hit a nerve.
Speaking of the Journal of Blindingly Obvious, a number of months ago my wife and I were watching CBC News, and the news host enthusiastically reported on a study, just published, where an academic tested 100 dogs as to “visual cues”. The academic tested the dogs, as to both anticipating being fed and anticipating going out for a walk. Sure enough, 97 ot 98 dogs waged their tails, etc., after seing the visual cue, and these experiments were enough to get the paper published in an academic journal. My wife stared at the CBC News host, incredulous that somebody would be paid to publish what seemed obvious. As an academic myself, I tried to explain the rigorous science behind this study. To no avail.
Good story. re visual clues, we had a dog that the kids taught to read (he did not have this ability if there was no treat involved) with printed signs “SIT”, “DOWN”, ROLL OVER”, “SPEAK”. He could do these flawlessly, though later in his life, as a Senior dog (so maybe he was showing signs of doggie dementia) he would just do all the actions without waiting for the right sign.
I work untold hrs researching and submitting files to CVWM. After researching, last evening I was able to submit photo of F/Sgt. Keith Wood plus his grave marker, and abt 8 pgs of into to CVWM. Up till then, there wasn’t anything on his page, not even the name of his parents, Rev. & Mrs. Wood of Winnipeg. He was in his 1st yr med school and left to enlist. His Halifax was shot down by a nightfighter.
I keep all these kinds of things together in my head, but fell for the guy who was going to buy my cemetery plot. Go figure.
I hate that scammers are allowed to use local unused telephone numbers so we can be fooled into thinking it’s someone who knows us. Recently I emailed a complaint board about that one.
Yes, but they could also be seniors who never hear from or see any of their family and are very lonely.
You got something there gellen. Both my wife and I are seniors now, but when she worked in a medical setting lonely seniors would come for doctor visits or not want to leave the hospital, there are various expressions of need for human interaction.
Lonely senior? Attend church and it’s functions. Don’t shop your heritage to some stranger on the phone.
Many seniors fall for the guff that they can increase their heritage and be better remembered for it.
Don’t fall for it, Grays. Stay strong, stay smart, be the wise ones the younger ones need you to be.
Go to your church. Pray for wisdom. Worship. The Lord will sustain you.
Some aren’t able to drive anymore, use walkers and need assistance. I can get in my van but can’t get into a car. I pay $20/hr to have someone drive my van so don’t go far.
You’re lonely and anxious, and you’ve always been a pleaser.
Don’t judge harshly till you’re there.
I nearly sold a cemetery plot to someone with poor English but with all the immigrants in the city, I figured I couldn’t take it upon myself to discriminate against him. A lightbulb went off once it got too crazy and I called the OPP – a chq coming from Paris & I was to deposit a certain amt and send them the remainder. I even went to the bank. There was anxiety affecting my thinking so you really don’t know why seniors fall for scams.
If it is the beginning of Alzheimer’s there will be other indications. The post below is a good one. Not changing clothes, or interested in appearance, repeating, repeating, repeating.
File that bit of info into your brain right now and you’ll never fall for a scam when you’re in your eighties & nineties. Till then, try not to be too judgmental or sanctimonious.
as his dementia advanced, my father, once a staunch conservative, started praising the NDP. At that point I realized there was no hope.
“Answering phones when they don’t recognize the number” – do those “researchers” have any idea how many seniors have phones which do NOT display the number of the incoming call? And even if they do, they can be susceptible to dead batteries (have one such on my desk now).
Worked with seniors in our family so they would recognize scams. That was some years back, and they were vulnerable because of innocence, not because of cognitive decline. Am more aware m’self of the scams out there, but have had clients considerably younger than myself ask me about either emails (Rev Can has a refund for you) or phone calls (CRA saying you owe and the police are coming). Those scammers are extremely persuasive/threatening.
Today’s university students easily fall for the scam of Cult. Marxism and it’s variants of class warfare.
Because, they are too young to have a living memory of the horrors of applied Marxism in the Soviet Union and Mao’s China. They can’t see that “Marxists are always one (more) murder away from utopia. “(Jordan Peterson)
Our history is, in effect, our memory of Western Civilization.
Cult. Marxists imposed Post-modernism in University History Departments. They switched to short half-classes in history studies of….(insert identity group). That lack the intellectual rigor required to teach about historical epochs, and the relations and transition from one to the next, and the ideas that drive them.
They’ve done away with survey history classes, especially ones that demonstrated the long, storied and inspirational development of Western Civilization. Today’s students are bereft of the memory of their own civilization. They are rendered historically disoriented and thus more vulnerable to ideological scams.
Therefore, Cult. Marxism’s take over of the teaching of History, with it’s indoctrination of post-modernism/identity politics, in effect, has induced a widespread intellectual dementia,
akin to Alzheimer’s.
As an old guy who is really getting “up there” as is said, I worry about my cognitive ability. I am still physically active, I play golf, walk the course and carry my clubs. Beer is a good thing as well. I also get some confirmation that I am not losing “it” whenever some idiot insults me on line I know that I am still sharp enough to hit a nerve.
Speaking of the Journal of Blindingly Obvious, a number of months ago my wife and I were watching CBC News, and the news host enthusiastically reported on a study, just published, where an academic tested 100 dogs as to “visual cues”. The academic tested the dogs, as to both anticipating being fed and anticipating going out for a walk. Sure enough, 97 ot 98 dogs waged their tails, etc., after seing the visual cue, and these experiments were enough to get the paper published in an academic journal. My wife stared at the CBC News host, incredulous that somebody would be paid to publish what seemed obvious. As an academic myself, I tried to explain the rigorous science behind this study. To no avail.
Good story. re visual clues, we had a dog that the kids taught to read (he did not have this ability if there was no treat involved) with printed signs “SIT”, “DOWN”, ROLL OVER”, “SPEAK”. He could do these flawlessly, though later in his life, as a Senior dog (so maybe he was showing signs of doggie dementia) he would just do all the actions without waiting for the right sign.
I work untold hrs researching and submitting files to CVWM. After researching, last evening I was able to submit photo of F/Sgt. Keith Wood plus his grave marker, and abt 8 pgs of into to CVWM. Up till then, there wasn’t anything on his page, not even the name of his parents, Rev. & Mrs. Wood of Winnipeg. He was in his 1st yr med school and left to enlist. His Halifax was shot down by a nightfighter.
I keep all these kinds of things together in my head, but fell for the guy who was going to buy my cemetery plot. Go figure.
I hate that scammers are allowed to use local unused telephone numbers so we can be fooled into thinking it’s someone who knows us. Recently I emailed a complaint board about that one.