I haven’t been around since Friday and I’m um… wondering… WTF by things I am reading
The last I saw was that changes was not really changing but light now Changes, changing, light is also Finding Peace…. WHAT….
I’m thinking, uh oh, I haven’t been around and maybe I will be changes/changing/lighter/Finding Peace .. and how would you really know I’m not? Only they would know, right? And that is only if I am not them.
See how crazy this is… how this sounds… at least to me… I really thought of the Maple Street Episode of the twilight zone…
It is mid-evening in September and the street is full of playing children and adults talking. A shadow passes overhead and a loud roar is heard, accompanied by a flash of light. Later, after it has gone dark, the residents of Maple Street find that the telephones no longer work, and there is no power. They gather together in the street to discuss the matter. One of them, known as Pete Van Horn, volunteers to walk out of the neighborhood to see if the problem is widespread.
Steve wants to go into town but Tommy, a boy from the neighborhood, tells him not to. His reasons being; he read in his comic/action hero books that an alien invasion is taking place, and it is a family that looks like humans, but isn't.
Meanwhile another resident, Les Goodman, tries unsuccessfully to start his car. He gets out and begins to walk back towards the other residents when the car starts all by itself. The bizarre behavior of his car makes Les the object of immediate suspicion. The residents begin to discuss his late nights spent standing in the garden looking up at the sky. Les claims to be an insomniac. His problem becomes worse when the lights in his house come on, and the rest of the neighborhood remains in the dark. Suspicion then suddenly switches to Steve when he tries to defuse the situation and prevent it from becoming a witch-hunt. Charlie, one of the loudest and most aggressive residents, pressures Steve about his hobby building a radio that no one has ever seen.
A man is seen walking along Maple Street through the dark, towards the gathered crowd. Panic begins to build, and Charlie grabs a shotgun and kills the man. When the crowd reaches the fallen man, they realize that it is Pete Van Horn, returning from his scouting mission.
Suddenly the lights in Charlie's house come on and he panics, realizing how it looks. He is now the subject of the suspicion. He makes a run for his house while the other residents begin to chase him and throw stones. Terrified, Charlie attempts to deflect suspicion onto Tommy, the boy who originally brought up the idea of alien infiltration. Lights begin turning on and off in different houses; lawn mowers and cars start up for no apparent reason. A riot begins and the hysterical residents smash windows, fight and switch blame from one person to another with little justification.
The episode ends with two Martian observers watching the rioting on Maple Street and discussing how easy it was to create paranoia and panic, and let the people of Earth destroy themselves, one place at a time. One of them tells the other:
"Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, their telephones, their lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then sit back and watch the pattern."
"This pattern is always the same?"
"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find.... and it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch."
"I take it that this place...this Maple Street...is not unique."
"By no means. Their world is full of Maple Streets, and we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves."
FP,
I’m sorry about your D I have sat also in the ER with all three of mine and it is so scary to them getting stitches. (aw poor baby)….my son is still tramuatized when he gets cut…even little ones… DO I HAVE TO GET STITCHES… ?? But boo boo presents always helps..
Love
Deb
