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139 you. ;) This is what I think about “them” monitoring my every thought, word, and action and seeing what I see: I don’t care. Next! In retrospect it was that mindset that helped save me. Had I spiraled down into fear, paranoia, anger, frustration, etc. I probably wouldn't be typing this right now. On a closing note there’s another facet of paranoia I want to get into: blaming every little thing that happens in life on the infamous invisible all powerful “THEMS!!!” Sometimes things happen — stuff breaks, people don’t get your email or voicemail message, mishaps occur, etc., and the “THEMS!!!” are not behind it, believe it or not! ;) I Had I have encountered a few people in life though with the tendency to blame every little thing that happens on the “THEM!” in this bug eyed, alarmist way, and to that I say....it’s time to get a grip. While you might be a target, they’re not micromanaging every little malfunction and mishap that occurs in life. I’ve gotten several emails from people who were convinced that the “THEMS!” were interfering with their email accounts, so sure that I wasn’t going to get their email, or that if I didn’t write back right away then it obviously meant that the THEMS had struck again, causing interference to keep us from communicating. All of which just left me shaking my head. It’s very off-putting to hear from people like that, stuck in that mindset. Another time when I was giving a talk/interview sort of deal to someone who’s since become an acquaintance of my boyfriend and I, he was experiencing technical difficulty with the microphone and sound setup during our first talk. His immediate thoughts were that it was THEM! interfering. He was pretty convinced of it too....until the issue resolved itself. ;) And we’ve never had another issue like that again while talking. It’s because the problem wasn’t “THEM!” interference, it was just normal technical difficulties while doing the initial set up. Those things do happen after all. I’ve also read of a guy on a message board (the same one who was freaking out about tapped phones, mentioned earlier) who was convinced that his hard drive was fried out by “THEM!” Well, sometimes computers die. It happens...a lot in fact. It doesn’t mean “THEY!” did it. There were a few others on this same message board Well, also blaming things on the THEMS, describing what came across as wide-eyed paranoia about various hiccups and things in life. The test for discerning what might be the handiwork of “them” is whether logical explanations can be ruled out. And ideally, I think we should always be looking for the logical explanations for things — not Part III - Expanded Insights —_—_—_—_—— ee *e