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Monday, Mar. 3, 2025

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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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Beholden

about an hour ago
In response to "The End of the World"

Also true, TJ.

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

about 2 hours ago
In response to "The End of the World"

I agree in part. Yes, if we didn't buy their hype, they'd stop publishing it. But also, I believe there are other factors involved in fear-mongering; it makes it easier to control people.

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Nixie 🦊

about 4 hours ago
In response to "The End of the World"

I agree. When we click on a 'candy link' we may believe what we read without researching further to determine accuracy. I've eschewed reading the news, one reason being, just like Chicken Little, 'the sky is always falling.'

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Beholden

about 6 hours ago
In response to "The End of the World"

All true, Dave. But the press wouldn't be printing their hysteria if we all stopped buying it. And that, I believe, is what is happening at the moment.

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Dave Ryan

about 6 hours ago
In response to "The End of the World"

In most cases it seems like it's the headline-hungry media who turn the hysteria dial up to 11. When you trace it back to the original quotes, they're generally fairly measured.

We have a "newspaper" in the UK called The Daily Mail which is notorious for this kind of nonsense. Scientist says there's, say, a 1% chance of a collision with such-and-such a comet/asteroid/whatever (estimates to be revised pending further measurements) and the DM fills their pages with cartoons of big rocks landing in London, with comparisons to nuclear strikes, blast radii and body counts. Then when it doesn't happen, the scientists get the undeserved ridicule.

But then, measured reporting doesn't get the page clicks.

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Ned

about 7 hours ago
In response to "The End of the World"

I thought I was the only one rooting for the asteroid.

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Beholden

about 8 hours ago
In response to "A Story in a Sentence"

It is indeed - except that this came first and the Bradbury later.

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Amethyst Angel 🍀

about 8 hours ago
In response to "A Story in a Sentence"

This is a whisper of a Bradbury story you wrote, isn't it?

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Polaran

about 20 hours ago
In response to "First Post?"

Congratulations on launching your blog! I really like the name of your blog. Right now, you may just be dipping your toes in and testing the waters, but I hope that one day you’ll be able to swim freely in the vast ocean. 🌊✨

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Kåre เลียม Enga

a day ago
In response to "First Post?"

I was the first person to mention this on the newsfeed... just saying.

I tend to blog every day and comment somewhere every day. Some of my blogs are based on comments I've made elsewhere. It can be easier to just comment.

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March 3, 2025 at 8:24am

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The End of the World

The End of the World

I wrote a comment today on Damon Nomad’s newsfeed post about the latest asteroid that came close to hitting the earth. As my comment stated, I have become tired of the scientists’ constant attempts to induce panic in us because “the world is about to end.” My point being that, if the world really is about to end, then there’s nothing that can be done about it (or it wouldn’t be true in the first place). And it’s not just about asteroids. We have been told for decades that one thing after another is about to bring life on this planet to an end and yet, here we still are. In fact, we seem to be doing better than ever before.

The net result of all this fear-mongering is that science itself is becoming suspect. After all, how many times do events have to prove these theories wrong before we realise that it’s overstated to the point of hysteria. In biblical times they would stone false prophets. We’d all live happier lives if we resumed the practice.

Anyway, that’s my rant for the day.

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