How does one measure a year? About this time last year it was Easter Sunday which seemingly everyone was calling Resurrection Sunday like it had always been called that and to suggest otherwise was blasphemous. In addition to that, Transgender visibility day fell on the same day to add to the political debate and caused further controversy and division among the people. This of course was played off as Transgender visibility day had been a thing for a long time and it was purely coincidence that it was falling on the same day as one of the two holiest days of the year on the Christian calendar. More gaslighting in my opinion.
Perhaps this was the start of when I noticed that people were acting a little differently, a little more strange. There was an eclipse coming up in a few days on April 8, 2024 and that did not seem to help things, but I definitely noticed a change in people. Like there was something in the air that was causing everyone and everything to just be a little off kilter. I can’t really describe it.
I remember sitting at Easter brunch doing some people watching as they filed up to the all you can eat buffet feeling like a stranger in a strange land. Something had to be done. First thing was first. I hadn’t changed my handle on my YouTube channel in a while so I thought now was a good time. Long ago, I had it set as Cyndi the Great as I have always wondered what it takes to be great and knowing that our society hasn’t had anyone who has been known as “the Great” in a long time. I wonder why. In my search for the meaning and purpose of this human condition and my quest to achieve a higher state of consciousness I have always felt that I would someday do something and achieve greatness. Perhaps this lies within each and every one of us but that is something that I have been searching for my entire life as there has to be more to it than just suffering, servitude and then death.
I changed that handle long ago though because as much as I am pursuing greatness, I have not achieved it yet nor do I wish to be that arrogant and demand such a thing that I have not yet achieved. I settled in on a more anonymous Cyndi the courier as that is who I am and that is what I did. I live in a pretty big city and while I wanted something that still could identify me out in the real world, the likelihood of that happening was still pretty small. Then on Easter Sunday I changed it again for I thought was the last time.
I changed my handle to amancalledcyn that day as it seemed like the timing was right and I seemed to fit the description. It might look like a bunch of gibberish but add in a few spaces and the moniker should become clear a man called cyn. I went with called instead of named to throw it off just a little more and protect myself as I think I’m working on something big here. Is this biblical big that I write about? Yes, I believe that it is. There is some secret code written into the Bible that man has been trying to break since time immemorial and if the recent increase in discussion of end times prophecy is any indication, it appears that we are getting closer to that time.
Perhaps that is why there is all this talk about Agenda 2030. It takes little imagination to understand that the political elites know more than what is being told to the people of the world. Maybe there is a plan that the general public is not privy to and those in power know more than they are telling the people. I used to listen to a song by the rock band Warrant titled “April 2031” and that was off their album Dog Eat Dog released in the early 1990’s. The song is apocalyptic in nature.
It’s my opinion that something big has been preplanned for the future and I have been investigating all the angles that I can process in order to uncover it in hopes to avoid a disaster. I am attempting to answer a question as to whether the future is predetermined or if it is truly one of our own making and if it is the latter then who is pushing for this destruction? My big problem was that my only outlet is this blog as I feel that any posts that I make in mainstream social media networks are censored or have such limited reach that people on my friends list don’t even see what I post or even f they do, they just keep scrolling as I tend to be a bit wordy. Maybe I’m just not that good at using social media but I think somewhere along the line I must have set off some kind of alarm that my speech was to be limited. That’s the only explanation that I have. This shadow banning is a deterrent but it doesn’t stop me from searching for the truth.
Some of the angles are so preposterous and border on the conspiratorial and cannot be proven. Perhaps it’s supposed to remain a mystery. Maybe there is something to what is written in the scripture known as the Holy Bible but I can’t be to sure about that as there’s a lot of books that have been omitted over the years and the Vatican keeps it’s library under heavy security as if there’s information hidden there that is not supposed to be known for fear that the whole religion might be discredited. Just imagine what damage could be done if the worldview of a billion people was destroyed in an instant. I guess that would qualify as sudden destruction and that has been prophesied.
It seems like we are speeding towards this outcome whether it’s warranted or not as Christianity is the dominant religion in the western world. As we approach the one year anniversary of the Great American Eclipse, I have to wonder if something glorious or miraculous is about to happen…most likely nothing will happen. The sun will rise and set just like it always does but will there be a shift in our collective consciousness greater than last year? I can’t speak for anyone else but it seems like I’m in some time paradox. In 2023 we were all warned of a dark winter coming but if my memory serves, the winter of 2023 to 2024 was rather mild. I can’t say the same for last winter as it was particularly harsh at least for me.
Well the day is upon us, and nothing has really happened. Sure the stock markets are down but that doesn’t mean much as there are ways people make money when trading volumes are going up and there are ways to make money when stocks are going down. I guess that’s why it’s called trading as money is just trading hands from one person to another but overall the whole thing doesn’t make sense to me so I stay out of it.
There are also further problems in the Middle East and issues between the usual suspects. This has been going on for far too long with no end in sight. Someday, someone will come along and solve that problem for good but I wouldn’t count on that happening any time soon. I at its core, it’s a war over ideologies and that never ends well. It’s all part of some grand scheme to unite the world under one system of government and I doubt that’s going to happen as the people are too diverse in their customs for that to happen and that doesn’t even touch on the subject of greed that lies within humanity or the overall feeling that one has to have way more than everyone else at the expense of their neighbors. One would think that we should have learned something about this by now but we have not and this seemingly endless cycle continues. Perhaps it’s time to break it.
Maybe it’s time that we work to break this free from this corrupt system. Perhaps that’s what this whole talk of the rapture is all about? All over YouTube or then again maybe just in my feed, there’s talk of the rapture by all of the watchmen. They’ve been doing all their calculations and they think that it’s got to be coming soon. I want to believe them and don’t want to be labeled a mocker or a scoffer as they like to say as these beliefs are genuinely held by them that the true believers are going to be magically transported away from this world soon before the time of tribulation begins.
With that said, it’s hard to see how this time has not been anything but tribulation for many people in this world though, so I don’t know how much worse some of these rapture watchers think it can get. There are so many people in the world today who are simply existing at a subsistence level with no means to escape that endless struggle. Each day is more of the same. It does not have to be like this but it is and no one seems to be speaking out about all of the inequality that goes on in this world.
So what is next up on the calendar? Easter? Passover? Yes to both. Will something happen by then? Again, probably not but then again I am not invited to the meetings that make these decisions so I can’t really say. Maybe the this rapture thing that they speak of will be small and kind of a dud as if it’s not supposed to happen. Maybe that would prove that it’s not a real thing. I have spoken about this in the past on several videos posted on my facebook page but now due to a change in policy over storage issues, facebook will be deleting all my old live videos and they will be gone, lost forever because I’m not going through the hassle of downloading and saving them on another platform. Perhaps that’s for the best.
Maybe I’ve said all that I wanted or needed to say or maybe I’ve said too much already. Maybe I should stop talking and maybe I should stop writing as I don’t know if anyone reads them and judging by the feedback that I get which is none, nobody reads them so aside from me using this as a place to express myself and vent a little, it really doesn’t make any difference whether I continue to write here or not. I hope something good happens soon and I guess something good is going to happen at least for me. Tomorrow I finally get to escape the long term hotel that I have been staying at for the last ten months of which I have given the nickname hotel hell.
Are better days on the horizon? I hope so but then again I know this is going to be another uphill climb and I’m getting tired of always climbing because for me it’s doesn’t seem to be hills but mountains that I have to ascend. Is it all part of some divine plan or is it all just some big cosmic joke? I don’t know. I’m sitting alone now in my new apartment and while I should be happy to finally be out of the hotel, the depression seems to be getting worse. Now I’m surrounded by boxes of just some of my stuff with a lot more left in storage. It’s probably going to have to stay there because I can’t imagine lugging it all up two flights of stairs to the third floor only to life among a bunch of boxes.
What’s in the boxes you ask? My various collections most of which consist of die cast vehicles with numbers estimated to be between the 15-20,000 range. It’s something that I’ve been doing for over 25 years now and I’m a completist, meaning when it said on the package to collect them all, that’s what I attempted to do. What did I plant on doing either all these you ask? I don’t know that either. I guess there was a dream to put them all on display as to abstractly show what a misspent life looks like as they really mean nothing are just really toys that are supposed to be played with and enjoyed by children and not scalped by adults always looking to turn a profit. I never planned to sell them, just keep collecting. I’ve seen enough stories about how a little toy car that originally sold for a couple dollars is somehow worth a couple hundred dollars now, but then again, things are only worth what others are willing to pay for them.
What does one do with a collection that one has spent half a lifetime acquiring? I’m not looking forward to selling it as the shear volume of it all is daunting and overwhelming. At this time, I can’t put a number on what I think the value of the whole collection is but have to believe that at minimum at approximately $1.00 per unit, I’m looking at some serious money. Of course knowing my luck, I would have a hard time getting that much as I’m not good at selling anything. Maybe I should just take the huge loss and dispose of them for pennies on the dollar. The lesson here that has been hard to learn is that once you buy something, you better be happy with it as you own and to anyone else, it isn’t worth that much. Almost everything loses value and very little in this world holds value or even rises in value. That should not be confused with price as prices and values are two very different things. If you’ve ever heard the saying that someone knows the price of everything and the value of nothing then you can understand what I’m talking about.
I don’t know what I’m going to do with the collection but step one is trying to get a good valuation of it all. I have spent the last week or so, trying to accurately count how many pieces are in it. The number I currently have is just over 14,000 with a few more boxes to go. When it’s all counted, I estimate the number to be just over 15,000 so my early low estimate was good. Now that I know how much I have, I can begin the process of trying to figure out what to do with it all. There’s a part of me that wants to open a store and I think that’s a pretty good idea as I think that I have enough to fill one, but I lack the money to do that, so I’m kind of stuck at the moment. Someday I’ll figure this one out but that day is not today and I don’t think the day is coming anytime soon; kind of like the rapture.
The watchmen on the wall are still waiting for this event to take place and the fact that it did not happen last Sunday just means that there’s going to be a whole new set of times that are high watch periods. Maybe now that Pope Francis has passed on, another marker has been hit but I doubt that. It looks like the prophecy was misinterpreted or wrong again and the Vatican will be electing a new pope soon enough. Maybe this next one will be the final pope or possibly there’s nothing new under the sun. I’m still good to hold out hope for this rapture thing to happen but with each passing day, the whole idea sounds more convoluted. I highly doubt that some miraculous event is going to take place and we believers are going to be magically taken out of this world to go live with the Lord, Jesus Christ as they like to say.
Well, Easter and Passover have come and gone and almost all of us are still here. There are a few more days coming up that seem promising but then again, I will prepare for more disappointment. Lately, my depression has been taking quite a toll on me and I don’t know how much longer I can continue on like this. Last weekend was one panic attack after another and it’s really wearing me down. Do with that said, maybe we are on the brink of something big. In about a week or on May Day to be more precise, I will be observing the one year anniversary since everything in my world got turned upside down. As above, so below is what they say. What did I do to deserve all of this? I wrote someone a letter about a job that I thought I would be good at doing. I didn’t get that job. I guess it was kind of a long shot, or maybe I was a little bit too optimistic to think I could make a change in that capacity. Most likely what had happened was the job had been promised to someone else already and we all had to go through a big show. In any event, I have little confidence in the man currently in that position.
What pisses me off the most about the whole thing is how my life completely unraveled while everyone else’s seemingly improved. I don’t know how it was done but there were plenty of people and clues that were working on making me think that I was on the right track but impossible to explain to others. The story was too convoluted to be real. I must have been having a mental illness episode. At the time I don’t think I was but now months after the fact, it’s clear that I have developed a serious case of depression. I’m trying to break out of it but it is difficult and now life has become a day to day struggle.
One year to completely ruin your life? I took that challenge and it worked. Mission accomplished. Maybe now that I’ve lost most everything that I once cared about and had to sell off a lot of things that had sentimental value now I can move on and start over with a new goal. Maybe in a year from now I can get to a place where I am better than I was before.
I guess only time will tell but something tells me that if the political climate stays the same, the economy will not improve for the the vast majority of people and we’re all in for a very bumpy ride. The media can’t call it a recession for some reason or another but for many people, self included, it feels a lot like a depression. So much for that new golden age thing that we were promised. Maybe it will get better but that remains to be seen. It seems that any improvement won’t be seen without a period of great pain and suffering for many for the foreseeable future.
This country and this world needs a savior and sadly no one is coming to save anyone. We are on our own here. We can continue to debate stupid topics but in my opinion it’s time to get real. The republicans have no plan nor do the democrats. Salvation cannot be found within the current two party paradigm for they are merely two sides of the same coin. Heads they win and tails you lose. It is time for radical restructuring across the board. I need to strengthen my resolve, slim down and prepare myself for the road ahead for I cannot sit idly by and watching this slow moving train wreck happen.
Somewhere, someone has to stand up and say that this is unacceptable and we do not have to stand for this any longer. While I’m not a savior in any sense of the word nor do I want to be looked on as one, I’m very concerned that America and the way of life that so many people love is in danger of being lost and the future is looking quite bleak. Perhaps I need to get out my pen and paper and write some more letters to some world leaders. Maybe they will listen this time. The last time I tried to express my concerns it fell on deaf ears, maybe this time it will be different.
Is judgement upon us? If it’s not, it sure does feel like it. I will try to remain optimistic about the future but it is difficult. How much tyranny are we expected to tolerate? That amount varies from person to person but something tells me that amount is large and it can be enormous when you’re not even allowed to speak the word. When freedom of speech is lost, everything else is too. Is it too late to get us all back on track? I’m hesitant to say no because I don’t want to believe that it’s ever too late but we better start getting to the root cause of our problems very quickly and solve them or someday soon it will be too late to do anything about it at all and then it’s done.
I can’t keep going on giving out warnings like this. I hope someone reads this and passes it along.
Fun with cameras taken a few months ago but today we observe the birthday of our Savior
Here I sit alone in a hotel room with the feeling that I’m one misstep away from being homeless. I feel like I’m in some sort of a prison albeit a lot nicer than real prison. After several months of being unemployed, things are looking hopeless. Although I have recently found a a new job, that offers little comfort to me as it’s not anything resembling a dream job and the pay, while fair, is no where near what is needed to live a normal life. If you were to ask me earlier this year that it was going to turn out this way, I wouldn’t have believed you but today I am faced with this reality. Earlier this year I had a job that I enjoyed, and while the rate of pay was on the low end, I was able to make a decent living due to all of the hours that I worked; hours that were worked on straight pay because as an independent contractor, there is no overtime, just whatever the job pays and that’s all.
I had been working as an independent contractor for about ten years as it was seemingly the only kind of work that I could find that had the opportunity to earn more than a minimum wage. These days with minimum wage on the rise, and some states now pushing for raises in it to be a livable wage my former job did not keep up. It was a lot like gig work, like driving for Uber or DoorDash but wasn’t driving for either of those companies; I was driving for a courier service instead. There were many times when I was out on a job and thinking about how much that particular job paid and then deducting my expenses only to realize I was making far under the state’s minimum wage for that hour. The only way to make money at that kind of job was to work more. Sixty to seventy hour workweeks were the norm for me. Luckily, I enjoyed my work and just got used to it. It’s hard for me to believe that this is what some people have to go through just to make a living in this country as I know I’m not the only one. While I do subscribe to the idea of if you enjoy what you do for a living, you’ll never work a day in your life, that is just an idea and my wages were not keeping up.
There was always some new issue that kept my line of work from being profitable. Something would always pop up that added to my ever growing expenses. The car needs new tires, the insurance cost went up, the alternator went out needs to be replaced, and the list would go on and on. I’m not even getting into the constantly fluctuating price of fuel as that was my biggest expense. In the past, the price of fuel would average out to about an eight hundred dollars per month then in the last couple of years that rose to a thousand or more per month. One month back in 2022 when the gas prices spiked, I spent $1400 on gas. I did not get any raise for this unexpected increase, it was just cut back in other areas so I could afford to keep the car running and keep myself working. There was nobody to complain to and nothing that could be done about it. I had made my bed and now I was lying in it, seemingly my fate was sealed.
It wasn’t though, as I just did what I always had done, trudged on trying to not let gravity of the situation get me down. It felt as if I was in a prison of my own making. As far as a prison goes, it was nice enough. There weren’t any guards watching over me and I was free to move around and get my work done. I’ll always remember what the owner of a previous company I used to work for always said; “I don’t want to go back to prison.” I had heard him say that about a dozen times and that’s why it stuck with me. I never asked him what he meant by that or if he really spent time in prison, it just gave me food for thought. In my former line of work, there was plenty of time to be alone with my inner monologue. There’s got to be a way out of this and a better way living. Either way, I knew I was somehow finding myself living in a prison of my own mind. At least my thoughts were private, or so I thought until recently. That’s what happens when you step outside the box and shrug off the chains of conformity.
Earlier this year I had found a certain level of happiness that I had been searching for a long time. My jobs took me to the most interesting places and in those days I looked around not just to be aware of my surroundings but also as a form of sightseeing. Many of my jobs in the last part of this chapter in my life were located in the south and west sides of Chicago, not the nicest of neighborhoods and places most people would avoid like their lives depended on it. It wasn’t that bad and I think the stories are very much overblown. While there might be some criminal elements, for the most part, these neighborhoods are paces where good, hardworking people live or at least try to eke out the best life that they can or are able. I was driving down Garfield Boulevard and something touched me deep inside. I saw so many abandoned houses with broken windows, some boarded up, many more weren’t, uncut lawns that were more weeds than grass, the trees untrimmed, the streets covered by potholes, there was only one thing that I could think of. It looked like a war had been fought there and the former residents had lost and been forced to relocate. Seeing this made me feel sad as I knew it wasn’t these people’s fault at all, just another byproduct of years of bad policies that have plagued the city forever. No one would willingly choose to live in these conditions as the state of distress was caused by abusive tax laws and neglect of the people that made up the city.
It wasn’t the first time I had been in a place like this and probably wouldn’t be the last. I remembered a time years earlier where I found myself surrounded by all kinds of abandoned buildings. Nobody was around. I was in an industrial area that was maybe four blocks in size without a soul to be found. There was supposed to be someone there as I was making a delivery, but upon arriving, the place appeared empty. After noticing this, I sent a message out to dispatch and after a little while was told that I should wait and someone would be by soon. It was an eerie feeling being there. The area for the loading dock had recently been replaced with fresh stones and looked as smooth as could be yet out of place when compared to the state of the buildings surrounding it. It was very dystopian, like a scene from a movie. While I could read the time of the day and knew what day it was, for some reason I felt as if I had somehow left the world I knew and was in some other place or some other time on perhaps even a parallel universe. That feeling was similar to how I felt earlier this year. From all outward appearances I was in the same world as everyone else but something had shifted and maybe I wasn’t.
A panopticon is defined as a prison design or theory in which one guard can watch over the whole population without the prisoners knowing that they are being watched. In this instance this is all happening digitally as computer systems and technologies have become so advanced and imbedded in our lives that we humans don’t even think much about it; we just go on with life thinking this is normal. It’s not normal in any way, in fact it is dangerously close to reaching a point where any attempt to escape from this matrix is futile. Of course nobody was watching me but the smart phone was always on and in that, it means there’s really no privacy as someone or something could be listening at any time. Just being aware of that is the first step in trying to stop it. I didn’t try and stop it though as whatever I was listening to or the phone calls I took weren’t all that interesting from my perspective. It was just searching for new information or ideas that could be useful in something I had planned to write about in the future.
The world we live in the year 2024 has become an inescapable prison where seemingly everyone is just going about their daily routines unaware of how invasive the technology has become. Everything that humans do, where they go, and even what they think is now being recorded and updated in real time for reasons not fully explained to the public. Why must everything be mapped and tracked? What is the purpose of this? Any attempt to answer that will only accomplish one of two things; elicit blank stares or get you labeled as a conspiracy theorist. Well, if I could tell you anything about it, it would be that the thought of it being a conspiracy is no longer a theory. I might not know all the details of it but I do know that there’s far too much information on the subject to be dismissed as mere coincidence.
If two things outside the realm of possibility happen it can be considered a coincidence but if more than two things happen and continue on that are outside the norm and defy logic, one starts to see trends or patterns developing. It seems that there is all kinds of information that is coded that make up this false reality. If I didn’t subscribe to the idea that humanity is part of a simulation or some kind of game theory before, now I am aware that this is a possibility and almost getting to the point where it’s a high probability. It is this idea that I have been exploring for the last six months as I continue my research for a book that I intend to start writing soon. I’ve always had the idea of writing a book and sharing what I’ve learned and it seems that the time is now ripe for me to do so. Now my question is, how do I write this in secrecy, knowing full well that everything, what websites I’ve visited, what videos I have watched, what I have typed and even my keystroke patterns are being recorded on some data server somewhere?
Even the words that I write right now are being recorded somewhere as are my biometrics in some data center and analyzed for reasons unknown possibly by people but now more commonly, an entity of sorts comprised of artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence takeover is a very real threat to the future of human life and should not be taken lightly. World leaders know this as do scientists who study these things and it is not a new thing at all. Years ago, Stephen Hawking said that AI was an existential threat to humanity. While people and companies have been working on this for decades now, the technology has caught up to the research and is, in my estimation, getting close to surpassing humans and perhaps coming to the conclusion that humans are obsolete.
I don’t like the idea of planned obsolescence, never have, but that is what seems to be happening here on a human level. Humanity is getting pushed out of service being eclipsed by the machines that can perform tasks faster, with greater precision and more efficient than what humans can accomplish. This is not to say that this is going to happen tomorrow, the next day after that or three weeks from next Tuesday, but it is happening and sometime in the future, if the current trend stays on course, humans will someday become slaves to the machines that humans created. This very idea is one that is prophesied about in the Book of Revelation. I think that the new terminology for it while talking out the biblical overtone is called the singularity and it is almost beyond comprehension as to why people try to develop things that could destroy them. Without some serious regulation into the development of this technology it could easily get out of control. When, not if, that happens, it’s doom for humanity.
The cracks are already starting to appear. Not a day has gone by that there isn’t a story in the news that provides more information on the takeover. Just the other day Google announced that they have a quantum computer chip that they are releasing. Earlier today there was a story about open AI’s Chat GPT and an ongoing dispute with Elon Musk about which way their company needs to be pushing this new technology. Musk figures if it is not profitable then it needs to back down so his artificial intelligence service can rise to prominence. The need for greater profits at the expense of people is all that Musk seems to care about, puffing profits over people and not the other way around. This is a far cry from what I heard him talking about earlier this year. In the early part of the year he was outspoken about low birth rates the country or world, how this was a problem that needed to be reversed and how he was on “team humanity” but his message has changed a lot since the early part of this year and his actions are speaking louder than his words. Now his main concern is with reducing government spending and is very vocal about his intention to layoff many government workers as their jobs can more efficiently be done by algorithms and computer systems in which he has a controlling interest. While there are stories of struggles between him and President Trump, there’s part of me that can’t help but believe that the stories are false and the two men are getting along just fine as they work together to create a future that is going to be very difficult for anyone who doesn’t graciously accept the vision of the future that they are laying out for the people. Could these two men be setting up humanity to take the biblical mark of the beast? Part of me doesn’t want to think that way but it is a possibility as this has been prophesied.
I have to wonder what damage this is going to do to the people. In my estimation, so much damage has already been inflicted on the people, mostly by the governments of the world and more recently the corporations are making their moves as they chase higher profits at the expense of their workers and customers. Any thoughts of saving the republic are quickly being replaced and fascism looks like it’s coming in hot and heavy. If the you’ve ever heard someone say they had to train someone who is their own replacement, nowadays people are going to work training something that will eventually be their replacement. I could only imagine what that feeling is like. No wonder many of the younger generations are quiet quitting and leaving their jobs. What they are doing to earn money is another story as without working, how does one gain money? Maybe this is where the idea of universal basic income comes into play but I’m unsure how that would help anyone. It’s enough to make one feel like life is pointless and unfulfilling. Technology may make some people’s lives easier but that benefit is at the expense of others and is further dulling natural intelligence and unknowingly creating a life forms that operate at a lower vibrational frequency.
I was reminded of this in a recent conversation with my mother when I noticed that another bowling alley in the area had been torn down. These days there are very few privately owned bowling alleys left. The ones that are around are now owned by large corporations. Putting that aside, she told me about going bowling with my sister and her family and how it’s nice that the lanes are all computerized and keep score for the bowlers. While that’s nice, I made the point that it might not be so good as now no one needs to learn about how scoring works anymore and the need to figure it out for oneself no longer is an issue. That’s just something inconsequential like bowling, think about other things that people used to know how to do and now due to automation have been phased out and try not ending up at the conclusion that an elite few in our society are making a vast majority of the people obsolete. Maybe that’s too depressing of a thought and that’s why many choose to ignore that idea all together, however, nobody will be able to ignore it when it hits them at home.
Things that people used to do, aren’t done anymore. I’ve heard plenty of stories about how kids can’t tell time on an analog clock and I know that the schools stopped teaching cursive writing long ago. It’s kind of like what the astronaut, Don Pettit said when he said something like this: we don’t have that technology anymore, we used to, and it’s a painful process to build it back. He was talking about going to the moon and how the space agency he works for can’t go back now, even though the same agency went multiple times over fifty years ago. That statement alone should tell you a lot. I brings up the question of if man ever landed on the moon at all.
At this point, I can’t really say definitively whether or not the moon landing happened. On the side of yes, it did happen, all that is evident is the story, the articles written about it and some pictures. On the side of it being an event that never happened, there are interviews where the astronauts occasionally make a statement and say something which introduces the element of doubt. This is of course leaving out all the information that is presented about the Van Allen radiation belts and how they are a major challenge to get through on the way to the moon. So, if the question is did man land on the moon then my answer would be divided but leaning very far towards it being a hoax and a mighty big one at that. If the news was ever released that humans can’t travel to space the implications would be felt worldwide as people would lose trust in their governments. Maybe that is the type of news that would usher in the new age. In any event it’s possible that the recent mysterious drones are making an appearance and rumors of alien disclosure is being heard a lot more.
If it were true that humans never landed on the moon then that opens up a whole new bunch of issues that would need to be addressed; issues such as why all of the deception and where did all of the money go? I’m asking myself where all the money went a lot lately both from my own pocket but also from the nations treasury as well. In case you didn’t realize it, the United States is a corporation and every year it operates at a loss. Control of the nation’s money has been turned over to a private corporation that is neither federal nor does it have any reserves. It’s not difficult to understand as the main corporation, the Federal Government has so many departments and agencies flying under its flag. One of those departments is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA for short. In some circles it is said that NASA really stands for Not A Space Agency.
I don’t want to turn this post into a debate as to whether or not the moon landing happened nor do I wish to make this all about conspiracy theories even though I’ve heard them all. I’m just using it as an example of there are always two sides of the argument and the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle. I was reminded of this again today when someone on a video repeated the old mantra: history is written by the winners. That is a very true statement. For the last couple of months I have been looking through history as to find clues that support my hypothesis that this is all part of a simulation. We are living in some kind of a game designed by someone or something it seems and there’s even an idea called game theory that is being discussed by people who are aware that something is just a little off in the world for this not to be part of a much greater plan.
Supposing that what we call life is all part of a game or a simulation, one has to wonder what is the reason for it. Who designed this simulation? The vast majority of people in the world hold the belief that there is a God or gods that rule over us. In the eastern religions, the concept of God is polytheistic and in the western religions, God is monotheistic meaning there is only one. Beliefs about a one all knowing and all powerful God varies from person to person and location to location depending on the philosophy behind the religion. So far I subscribe to the thought that there is one God and He is equal parts good and evil because one cannot exist without the other. God is dualistic in nature. This is written about in the Bible too when it’s looked at from the view of one price of literary work. The Bible is probably the number one playbook that those in power use to keep the people in line and shackled to their system.
Aside from the sun, moon, stars, oceans, mountains, trees, birds and the bees, God’s existence so far cannot be proven one way or another at this time but I suspect that some governmental and religious leaders know more than they are willing to admit to the people. God exists as an idea and man in his arrogance has repeatedly tried to destroy that idea. Mankind has done some pretty crazy things to dispel the idea of God in an effort to become gods here on earth; like the experiments that are being run in laboratories like CERN to the Antarctic expeditions back in the 1940’s by Admiral Richard E Byrd to launching nuclear weapons into high altitudes in an attempt to break through the firmament.
Speaking of CERN, which stands for the European Center for Nuclear Research I just heard more news about them. It seems that they are either very close to developing dark matter or may have already done it. I have to wonder what gives them the right to try and develop anything that could potentially destroy the earth. There’s enough people out in the world who blame CERN for causing the Mandela Effect, which is basically misremembering little things that have occurred in pop culture. That of course brings up the idea that they are affecting the space time continuum in some way. Well, again, if they are, what gives them the right to do so? Perhaps they achieved opening up little black holes here on earth and were able to control them as they did not grow large enough to start feeding on themselves and devour the earth. I know these things sound crazy because they are crazy. Why do these things if they have the potential to cause worldwide destruction? I don’t have an answer for that question other than man’s desire to become god…either that, or money because that seems to be all anyone cares about in this world. Becoming a god is one thing and it’s possible to achieve that immortal status here on this astral plane but becoming the one true God, creator of all of the universe is not, for there is only one. Even Jesus never claimed that he was God, merely a part of Him as we all are.
The Christian eschatology is loaded with symbolism and it is through symbols how those at the top of the hierarchy communicate with each other. In fact there is evidence to support the story that every thing that is part of the religion is little more than interpretations of pictures seen in the constellations of stars. The Christmas story is loaded with this kind of symbolism and it’s possible that the whole thing is just a way of telling a story of something that happens every year at the same time but with man being the character in the telling. It’s no wonder at all that what we call the sun sounds a lot like the son. It’s possible that the whole religion of Christianity is an elaborate way of masking sun worship and if the visuals that the powerful elites use in there rituals is any evidence, that’s exactly what it is. There is a lot of references to Lucifer in the Roman Catholic Church. Could they secretly be hiding the fact that they are Luciferians? If they are not, it sure looks that way to me. And then there’s talk about 1000 priests standing in a perfect circle getting ready to chant and open a portal. Whatever that’s all about, it doesn’t sound good nor does it sound like something that Christians should be playing around with. Whatever the ritual was about, so far I have to say that it didn’t work but it was only done last night and the portals are supposed to remain open until January 6, so we shall see what if anything transpires between now and then.
Lots of strange and creepy things go on in Europe and among the wealthy elites. There’s a reason why there’s a statue of the the Hindu god Shiva the destroyer is on the campus of CERN and there’s also a reason behind all of the apocalyptic imagery that was displayed during the opening ceremony of the Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland several years ago. It was the same kind of imagery being shown at the recent Olympic Games opening ceremony earlier this year in Paris. Same goes for the rituals shown at the reopening of the newly reconstructed Notre Dame Cathedral. Is the Roman Catholic Church behind this? Most likely as they do these rituals out in plain sight and the parishioners seem to be none the wiser. I’ve heard more stories than I can even begin to count to support the statement that the RCC has a lot of nefarious practices that the general public seems to be completely unaware of. These are stories that are so awful that if a believer in Catholicism heard any of them it would really cause them to have to reevaluate everything they thought they know about their faith.
I have a lot of questions that are going unanswered in regard to religion and faith and have been on a mission for a very long time to gain a deeper understanding of the world. While I don’t wish to cause anyone any harm whatsoever, the information that I have been able to gather has proven that things that I have knowledge of would prove disastrous to the system if enough people were alerted to my findings which would require a much longer explanation than what I can say here. It’s little wonder why the the system is giving me resistance. For years now, I have been throttled and shadow banned as things that I have written and said are too dangerous for public consumption. There has to be a reason why nothing that I have written here before has gotten any attention. I know I’ve said some outrageous things and while I have tried to write it as comedy, writing things that are funny is not easy at all. I guess I’ve given up trying to write funny as jokes seem to be forbidden these days and the algorithm has no sense of humor. There are other people who talk about the same things that I have and they are often censored too. The system fears people like me, people who have a lot of questions and don’t accept the canned answers as satisfactory.
For some reason I drew this a while ago and it has perplexed me ever since. It’s just circles and lines but I can’t help but think there’s some symbolism here. I tried connecting dots to make it make sense further but I’m still stomped. Maybe because it looks like an 88 or maybe because the AI symbol is in the middle or maybe because in theory the points a made are all equidistant from one another and it all could be folded in on itself and form on circle or the letter o or the number 0. Someday I’ll figure out what it means or maybe somebody already knows and will tell me what it means.
It’s a very dangerous game that I am playing as I am searching for the ultimate reward which is to transcend this life and reach a higher level of consciousness and existence. I think I finally found what I was looking for back in April of 2024. I might not have known everything but I knew the fundamentals of how this false reality is being perpetrated on the unsuspecting public. Back then I was going about my business, doing my job and driving down the road towards the next place that I had to be when I was looking out the windshield and peering into the sky as far as my eyes could see. I could almost see the graph lines written in the air. I started thinking about a Bible verse, particularly the one that says that we do not fight flesh and blood but powers and principalities which has always perplexed me. I’ve spent a lot of time over the years thinking about what it means and how to put it in action.
It’s about fighting something intangible. It’s about fighting an ideology. It’s about spiritual warfare. There’s a lot of talk about spiritual warfare on the internet lately. If one can’t figure out what it means to fight a war on the spiritual front then that person has no business being in the fight at all. Some may call it witchcraft, and it is similar, but one deals in the forces of evil while the other deals in the forces of good. long ago, I made the conscious decision to devote my life to doing good. In everything I do, I have to make a decision about any moral reservations that I might have in performing a task. Is it morally right or wrong is the question I ask myself a lot. If there’s any indication that something might not be on the level, I don’t do that thing as I must try to maintain a clear conscience. It’s a better way of living. Of course I have made mistakes before and those are the memories that stick with me. It’s those missteps that can and often do run on a loop over and over, haunting me as there’s nothing that can be done now after the fact that make the memory go away.
I was just reminded of this a minute ago as I had to take a phone call. I don’t get too many phone calls these days as the phone seems like it is becoming a lost form of communication pushed aside by emails, texts and whatever the hot new messaging app of the day is. First it was instant messages, then it was direct messages, after that it was Snapchat, or WhatsApp or who knows what is coming up next. What happened to a simple phone call? Now there’s new forms of etiquette that goes along with using the phone; call once, wait a decent amount of time before calling back, if the recipient doesn’t want calls, no more calling, make sure you call through another service to protect your number, friends and family don’t have the time, even the call quality can be dicey sometimes. It’s little wonder why the phone seems to be in the process of being phased out. with that said, I’m looking for a new job now so I have to answer every call. The call I just took wasn’t from a job though but rather from a debt collector. I find it odd that I did not hear from these people for months, then the day I finally got a new job, they are calling again. I can say that was just a coincidence but then again, I pretty much stopped believing in coincidences a while ago.
I had a pretty good job a while back that I enjoyed despite it being very much underpaid for the work I was doing. I can’t say that I was fired from it because I wasn’t, but I was going through something and work told me to take a little time off then come back when I was ready. One thing led to another and very quickly I was out of money to keep gas in the car to continue my work. I worked as a courier and I liked a lot about the job that I did. I brought people medicine and that helped them out. I brought companies critical parts so they could keep their lines of production going and that helped them out. On top of that, because I was helping people I took great responsibility to make sure I was always striving to go above and beyond for them and doing it all with no moral reservations. It’s about being the change you want to see in the world. I miss that job but doubt I’ll ever go back as now there are new things to do and new challenges to overcome.
As much as I enjoyed my job, it never paid enough to afford me anything more than a subsistence level, paycheck to paycheck existence. On paper it looked like I was doing alright but that was very deceptive. I warned as an independent contractor as at the time it was the only job I could find. Being transgender really limits the options available and poverty is a real issue for people who are divergent from the norm. This life, not feeling comfortable with the sex you were born as is not easy in any way and nobody would willingly choose this path. It’s one of those things where one either is or is not and if a person falls in the is category, better prepare for a whole new set of challenges.
I had always known I was a trans person even long before I knew the terminology for it. The reason why I am this way remains elusive and I doubt I’ll ever know why this was to be the course my life would take. Perhaps, being trans is something that occurs in nature as there is some studies that come to that conclusion but I think that nurturing plays a large role in it as well. I had somehow been drawn to cross dressing from an early age. At the time I did not know what was compelling me to engage in this activity but it was overwhelming and on some level, I knew it was unacceptable behavior and thus the reason for secrecy. To have to go through life having to keep a half of yourself secret takes a great amount of discipline. One learns very quickly how to live a double life.
Before I even really know what sex was, I knew there was a great disconnect between the image I saw in the mirror and what that looked like and how I felt about myself. As much as I knew there was something wrong with me, I also knew that I had nobody that I could talk to about this issue. I remember watching the television show “Night Court” and the episode where Dan Fielding, played by John Laroquette was visited by an old friend of his who he lost track of and recently came to see him. His old friend was now a woman and Dan didn’t know how to respond to that. Eventually they talked for a moment and then parted ways presumably forever. There was a part of that episode that hit me pretty hard. In that moment, I learned that this was something that happened on occasion and I wasn’t alone in my feelings but still not ready to confront them.
The next moment I remember was when I was spending the summer before high school with my aunt and uncle so I could get a jump start on my studies and took typing during summer school. Back then typing was a class that could be taken as it was still a skill that needed to be developed for work. This was before the computer had fully taken hold over people’s lives and I don’t know if it’s its own class anymore but rather just a given and something that people take for granted. I was put up in their extra bedroom and that room was filled with books and magazines. There was also a file cabinet and upon looking in it out of curiosity I found another book: “The Joy of Sex” by Alex Comfort. It looked interesting, most of what I learned about sex could be attributed to that book, and now that I think about it was as close to pornography as I can remember seeing when I was younger. I read it cover to cover but there were a few pages that I reread over and over in the section about fetishes and the difference between transvestism and transsexualism. While the former matched what it was I was doing, the latter fascinated me as that resembled how I was feeling.
So there is the state that I find myself in today. Being one thing that is true but feeling false and the false thing feeling true but neither is really true or false at the same time. I wish I didn’t feel this way but if there’s a way to break this way of thinking then I haven’t found it yet. I’ll stand by the statement that nobody willingly chooses to be trans because why would anyone do that? A life that’s far more difficult than the vast majority of people, no thanks, I’ll pass. A life subject to a state of poverty, discrimination and a general sense of not belonging, again, no thanks, I’ll pass. There has to be some reason for my existence as I don’t believe that any of us were put into this world solely to suffer. There’s so much suffering anyway and while people denounce it, nobody other than governments are able to alleviate it. The problem with this is: do the people want their governments to solve the issue of human suffering? Most would say no, and they remember President Ronald Reagan’s nine scariest words: “ I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” The political right and the conservatives know all too well that any help from the government comes with strings attached so they shun it. I’ve always distanced myself from any help that the government could provide as I’ve wanted to do things on my own. The greater the risk, the greater the reward, I guess, until lately when now I could really use a little help.
With that said, I don’t subscribe to the political left’s views either. Their views always overreach into the territory of too much government and it’s largely the fault of the left for producing the nanny state that currently exists. If there’s an issue, the left has a solution and that is to push for more regulations that further erode the rights of the individual. So long as an action does not hurt anyone else, it should be fair game. Policies that have been implemented often take the cautious approach and then we end up where we are now, with a government that limits the individual’s freedom and independence. Helmet laws for motorcycles is a good example of this as are seat belt laws. Nobody wants to see anyone get hurt, so these laws have been passed preventing the people from making their own decisions about their safety. No one who rides a motorcycle should have to wear a helmet if they don’t want to and if it’s permitted in one state, then it should be permitted in every state. People have to be able to make their own decisions and mistakes so long as the decision doesn’t hurt anyone else. The term victimless crime comes to mind for if the perpetrator is the only victim then what crime has been committed? Speeding tickets are another example of a victimless crime but unfortunately the courts don’t see it that way, so most of the time they’re just a money grab but that’s a whole different story for another time.
The way I see it, we should always try to see both sides of the equation. If you were to ask me where I fall on the political spectrum I aim for the middle as to not be too far left or right. While I’ve held some far right views in the past, I have since softened them and seen the light as where the far left is coming from. I believe that politics should be about compromise and that seems to be a thing of the past. Everyday there’s a new issue and both sides gather their base and prepare for yet another argument that is ultimately going to end in a stalemate because neither side is going to budge in their list of demands and they are just playing against each other and with each other at the same time like the symbology of the two headed eagle. These days, politics is all about what side of the aisle a candidate is on and they are supposed to look at the other side as their mortal enemy. Democrats and republicans both are guilty of not trying to work together anymore and make sure that they are voting the party line. It’s no wonder why there’s a position in the congress called the whip. That person is there to crack that whip and make sure that their members of their party are toeing the line and voting accordingly.
Maybe my political views have something to do with my decisions as of late. I flirted with the republican party and they being at odds with some of the democrats more progressive views pushed me to want to try and bring myself more into alignment with their policies. I don’t believe that men should be competing with women in sports…that should be common sense but these days it appears that there’s no such thing as common sense. With that said, I no longer blindly subscribe to one political ideology over another as both sides of the aisle can make decent points although in the end they fall flat. This last year has been a real eye opener for me. When it started I considered myself fully onboard with the America first agenda because it sounded like a good idea. Logically speaking, who wouldn’t want to put America first and who wouldn’t want America to be great again? I had been going about my own business trying to keep up on all the news as to be informed of the issues and the platform of the Trump campaign seemed like it was the better option. While I do hope that the country succeeds, I know this is going to be a constant battle for the next 4 years as those on the opposite side are going to feel like they are being underserved. Just because they are now in the minority role across all branches of government doesn’t mean that they should remain silent and just take it. Soon enough the pendulum will swing back their way and things will get harder for the new administration to pass legislation.
Earlier this year I decided to write a letter to someone who had a big microphone and I thought might listen to my concerns. The letter went unanswered for the most part but I did get some strong indications that it was at least received. There were little clues that were given in videos that I saw in the following days. I wondered why this was happening as I did give out my contact information and why must we go through covert measures of communication but decided that this was the way it was going to be so I had no choice but to play along. Still to this day I don’t know what the whole point of that exercise was, as I am now sitting in a hotel room feeling excommunicated from most of my family and left alone. Every day there’s some sort of garbage outside the place that looks out of the ordinary, like it was placed there for me to notice it but no explanation is given like the paving block that was left on the sewer cover next to my car as I had left a paving block somewhere else a while back, somewhere where the paving block looked out of place, but that’s a different story for another time. It feels like someone or some group is trying to play tricks on me, trying to get me to break and do something that would be construed as going too far and breaking the law, but that is not going to happen as I am very strong willed and there are things that no matter how hard I am pushed, I will not compromise on my principles.
What has happened to me cannot be all organic as nobody would sabotage themself and submit themself to the kind of anguish that I have experienced in the last few months. I had a decent enough life happening before and while it didn’t make the kind of money that I had hoped for, there’s more to life than money and time to be free with your thoughts is extremely valuable. I still can’t prove that any one person or agency is tracking me or reading and manipulating my thoughts but there is a very strong possibility that it is happening as if my whole story was known, then one could see why I had been put on some kind of a watch list. That letter that I wrote was not just an ordinary letter. It was spelling out something and a form of magic as to undo the damage done to the downtrodden people of the world. I have been subjected to living a meager existence for months now, so if there is one thing that I have learned from this is how the vast majority of people on earth live their lives without any kind of privilege and the life of one of many people who could easily be forgotten. I have been humbled. There’s a lot of chatter on the internet about how we are living in the end times or how this is the dawning on the new age. Again, there’s no way to prove it but all I can go on is the way I feel and what others are saying about it. Something is going on and people are starting to notice and speaking out about how that the world is getting more strange every day.
It all feels like I am descending into madness and I try to hold onto that perspective that no matter how hard I am pushed, I have not been broken down yet and have no intention of doing so either. There’s that old saying, that which does not kill you only makes you stronger, and I am trying to prove that not to be true either one way or the other. I have been going through a lot lately and was reminded of this when watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” recently, particularly the ending where George Bailey questions his own existence and is shown how much he mattered to the world by Clarence the Angel, Second Class. Whoever or whatever, as this may be some kind of demonic entity, is doing this to me needs to know that they have picked a fight with the wrong individual. Do your worst but know that I will win in the end. Months ago, I was told to play the game like I had already won it. While it doesn’t feel like I have won anything right now other than a lot of heartache and strife, I look forward to better days in the future when this operation has run its course. In the end, I will be victorious and now is just a time of trouble that will someday come to pass.
As I wind down this post here on Christmas Day 2024 I want to leave the world with a message of hope. I was a great courier once, always striving to operate at the highest level possible. My dispatcher’s daughter used to call me “the best in the business” and I know she was being sincere in that statement. Maybe that’s why I wrote that letter many months ago to a prominent political figure. I wish I saved a copy of it but that’s not how I roll. It was supposed to be a friendly letter and I thought that it deserved to be a one of a kind communication for a one of a kind person. I’m not happy with how this year is ending for me, but next year there is hope that things will get better. I don’t know why I was set up to hit the bottom but one thing is certain and that is when you hit the absolute bottom of it all, there is only one way to go from there and that is up. AC/DC had it right when they sang “it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll” and it is a long way when you’re starting over from the bottom. I know it won’t be easy but perhaps I will get to reach that highest of highs, find that special feeling, and transcend from this place. I have to believe that I will and when I reach that destination that I wave been looking for, I hope to deliver the message to the world…like I said, I’m really good at delivering things and now I’m trying to deliver the ultimate message, for there is the promise that the best is yet to come!
Merry Christmas to all,
Cynthia L Pryber
That’s not natural, clouds don’t do that but nothing these days seems natural anymore and there’s a lot of mysterious signs in the skies.
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As an adult adoptee, I have always wondered where I came from. For many years I lived in the adoption fog and tried to accept it as fact. I did so because that is what I had to do in order to make my life somewhat bearable. Living in the adoption fog is a coping mechanism that we adoptees have. Isn’t it funny that in order to cope, we must convince ourselves that our whole existence was built on lies, coercion and secrecy in the very beginning? We are expected to go about being happy and grateful about this fact. As our society is ever-evolving, there is a new movement beginning as we begin to fight for Adoptee Rights. You may have heard about the Animal Rights movement before and this is very similar. In the Animal Rights movement, proponents often ask: Who will speak for those who cannot speak for themselves? As Adoptees, we are similar because in our beginnings, people spoke for us and made decisions on our behalves in which we had no voice. Some may say that humans are animals and in a way that is true, but humans have been able to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom as we are more intelligent that most other species and have become the dominant species in the world we live in. Somehow, the stigma that comes along with adoption leaves us adoptees feeling like second-class citizens and the continued secrecy as perpetrated by the courts, adoption agencies, lawyers, politicians, birth parents and adoptive parents follows the adoptee around throughout his or her lifetime.
The fog is rolling (Photo credit: davidyuweb)
The Adoption Fog is not limited to just the adoptee as the the concept of adoption is really nothing more that a bizarre love triangle. Adoption is touted as the loving option but it is ultimately built on the losses of all three members of the triad. Adoptees lose the most, but are expected to put that behind them and be thankful for what they gained. Happily accepting that your loss was a good thing allows the adoption fog to set in and once it does, it is very difficult to find your way out. Adoptees are not the only ones who can live in the fog; both the birth parents and adoptive parents can also live in the fog. I am an adoptee who has come out of the fog and ready to speak out against it. I have been trying to become reunited with my birth mother. I want to share with you the letter that I sent her a few days ago.
Dear Mother,
Please allow me to apologize in advance for some of the attitude you might get out of this message as i am very irritated with how this thing between you and I has been going. As you now have had one year knowing of my existence and whereabouts, you have done as little as humanly possible to acknowledging said existence. I am a human being who should, but doesn’t, enjoy the same basic human rights as everyone else, namely knowledge of my origins. My birthright was stolen from me as to say you gave it away like it was nothing. I really appreciated hearing from you that you loved me very much back then, but ever since the day that I was born, I’ve had a very difficult time believing that. I seriously hope that you are getting the help that you need because although I do not know you, I don’t need to in order to say that YOU NEED HELP !!! YOU’RE LIVING IN THE FOG OF DENIAL !!!
You know nothing about the difficulties adopted people face in life. You know nothing about how it feels to go through life not knowing where you came from and never seeing anyone who looks like you and has the same mannerisms. You know nothing about what its like to go through life trying to please everybody so you won’t be rejected. You know nothing about what its like to look at two people who look nothing like you and have to worry about if you’re living up to their expectations. You know nothing about how it feels to know the one person who was supposed to love you, gave you away because you were inconvenient. You know nothing about how it feels to know that the better life I was supposed to have wasn’t at all better, just different.
Please do not think that I am anything less than empathetic towards you and what you have been through as that has been spelled out many times before. I have repeatedly apologized to you for things that you somehow misunderstood. I’m so sorry if you thought that I contacted you because I wanted money. There is no dollar amount great enough to make restitution for what you took from me. All I am looking for is simple acknowledgement and and a little bit of your time. Please spare me the whole I’m too tired because I work excuse as I have heard it enough already. I don’t believe it anyway because nobody in this world works as much as you say you do. I have come to believe that you do not respond to me because you just don’t want to, probably because I never meant that much to you in the first place.
Is any of this my fault? No it is not. I was, am, and always will be the innocent party in our little triangle thing. I had no choice in the matter. You had told me that it is my choice (as it should be) regarding contact and you would comply with my wishes. What changed your mind? Am I not living up to whatever fantasies you had about me over the years? Believe me when I say this, I do not like being the way that I am; i just deal with it to the best of my ability. However I am today should have no bearing on who I was and if you need further clarification of that , I was YOUR BABY THAT YOU GAVE AWAY. Is it so wrong for me to want to know who you are? Again, that answer is a resounding NO.
I am growing very tired of writing to you with no response. In case you have not noticed, we live in a 24-hour society and emails are supposed to be responded to within a reasonable amount of time like a day or two. I’m sorry if this is taking you too long to process but I get the feeling that you aren’t thinking about me at all. Perhaps you are just hoping that one day I’ll get the hint and go away. That’s not going to happen until I get what I’m looking for. I have tried very hard to convey the message that I am not doing this to hurt you. I will repeat again that I am empathetic to you as it must have been very painful to keep secret the knowledge of knowing that you gave your baby away. I read something not too long ago and I would like you to ponder this: a secret can only hurt you as long as it remains a secret.
Did you forget that everyone in your immediate family knows that you were once pregnant and gave away your baby? It’s not just them. Although I said to someone that I wouldn’t mention it, I’m going to tell you now that a few months ago, I had an email conversation with someone in the family. It was a nice exchange and I received some information about my ethnic heritage (but only half of my ethnic heritage) In that exchange, I was told that my existence was never a secret in their family and all of their children know. I highly doubt that I am a secret to your parents as I sent them a Christmas card. I understand that they are probably very old school in their thinking and can’t acknowledge me because of what society might think about them. I wonder if they have any remorse over not ever knowing their presumably first grandchild; maybe you should ask them. Either way I’m indifferent on them, but It might be nice to meet them once before they’re dead and at their age, they are already on borrowed time.
So I wasn’t a secret to a whole lot of people in the family, except for one. Do you think that he never got one idea that he might not have been your only kid? I really don’t care one bit if he and I ever meet one another and who is to say if we really have anything in common, which we probably, do but it might be nice because we are half-brothers. In any event, I took the liberty of introducing myself a while back:
Dear (half brother),
I am writing to you because I feel a need to reach out to you. Please let me apologize in advance for any discomfort you may feel about what I am about to tell you as I mean you no harm. My name is Cyndi and I was born in June of 1975. I was the product of an unwanted pregnancy and was immediately given up for adoption. The adoption was closed but my entire life I have wondered about my birth family. I have tried to contact my birth mother but communicating with her is proving difficult for reasons unknown to me. Please know that this was 37 years ago and she was most likely told at the time she would never hear from me and she should try to forget about me as that was how these things were done back then. What I have just told you is probably her most guarded secret and you were never supposed to know of my existence. Please be kind and compassionate to her and do not hold this information against her as I know that she loves you very much. I will not contact you again and I want nothing from you. If you would ever like to talk to me, that is entirely your choice and you would be very welcome. My email is: xxxxxx@hotmail.com and my phone number is 779-XXX-XXXX. Sincerely,
Cyndi
I don’t know if he believed it or not, but at least the seed had been planted. A few days later, someone contacted me on a dating website. It was a bizarre exchange and then he deactivated his account. I don’t know who he was but he said his name was B. Williams and he sent me his picture and that is attached. Maybe you know this is? If it was (my half-brother), you might want to ask him about what he was doing on a transgender dating website.
So as you can see Mother, I wasn’t really a secret to many and now I’m not a secret anymore and that is empowering. I highly doubt that you talk about this with anyone else in the family because you’re ashamed that you gave your baby away, but It isn’t a secret so why not ask them what they think? I’m like that big pink elephant in the room that no one ever talks about as not to offend you. Personally, I think they are all missing out on a lot of fun by not knowing me but you are the gatekeeper and you are in denial and the rest of them won’t get any laughs from me because of you. I’ve said this before and will say it again, I am a really nice, compassionate person who has a wonderful sense of humor…and everyone is missing out.
I am not mad that was adopted as I accepted long ago that that was something that cannot be changed. I am mad that after so many years of wonder I am still being denied acknowledgement and the little that you have said has been some of the cruelest, most cold-hearted things I have ever heard. Mothers are supposed to love their children, not give them away and then turn their back on them. In case you did not know, there are only 18 miles between us but the way you have made me feel, there might as well be 18 million. Have you forgotten that it is my choice to make and you are supposed to comply? Have you forgotten that I have something called free will? It is my choice to make and I am pleading with you one more time to get out of the fog before I have to say damn the consequences and drag you out of the fog. If it ever comes to that please understand that I’m doing this because I think its “the best that I could do for you at the time.”
After reading all this, please do not think that I don’t love you. I am sending this message because I do love you and I want to make you a better person. You will never be whole until you open your eyes, accept reality and get out of the fog. Last but not least, as far as the title of email goes, I will be in your area tomorrow night for my monthly meeting at the church on Lake and Ridgeland and will be finished at 7 pm. Perhaps we can meet afterward? Perhaps I’ll stop by and see how you’re doing.
Love, Cyndi
Outcome: My mother responded back to me very quickly.
Open Records emblem used in Adoptee Rights Protest, New Orleans, 2008, artist: D. Martin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
But Why? Because of the last sentence in the letter. It is bringing the whole ordeal close to home and closer to being out of the fog.
A large part of the Adoptee Rights Movement focuses on access to Original Birth Certificates (OBC). The movement stands by its belief that access to OBC does not have anything with reunion and reunions are not guaranteed but I disagree. While there are some people who may just want the information that the OBC contains, many of us do ultimately want the reunion as that experience can provide a lot more information than a piece of paper that has remained hidden and secret. It is my belief that any adoptee who says that they do not need the face to face meeting has not fully left their place in the adoption fog. Only when we all (adoptee birth parents, adoptive parents) decide to stop living in the fog can the healing process begin.