Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for December 04, 2022

yups

That’s because you have no friends Aunty.

Delete.

You ain’t the only one!

Too true.

I stopped sending stuff years ago, so rarely get them now. I did it initially because most people don’t know how to use bcc.

Sorry I can’t share this. Good one, but contains the forbidden words.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” – attributed to Mark Twain (and others).

Sharing is the means by which the disease of disinformation is transmitted. It used to be called gossip and happened over the water cooler or back fence, but now is transmitted at the speed of light.

It can be prevented a dose of critical thinking, by wearing a mask of skepticism and by socially distancing one’s self from certain internet sites.

The poet Virgil describes personified Rumor, in “Aeneid, Book IV”:

“Rumor raced at once through Libya’s great cities, Rumor, compared with whom no other is as swift. She flourishes by speed, and gains strength as she goes: first limited by fear, she soon reaches into the sky, walks on the ground, and hides her head in the clouds.

Earth, incited to anger against the gods, so they say, bore her last, a monster, vast and terrible, fleet-winged and swift-footed, sister to Coeus and Enceladus, who for every feather on her body has as many watchful eyes below (marvellous to tell), as many tongues speaking, as many listening ears.

She flies, screeching, by night through the shadows between earth and sky, never closing her eyelids in sweet sleep: by day she sits on guard on tall roof-tops or high towers, and scares great cities, as tenacious of lies and evil, as she is messenger of truth …”

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https://www.loebclassics.com/view/virgil-aeneid/1916/pb_LCL063.435.xml?readMode=recto

Come now Aunty, you know the there are three unstoppable forms of communication, telephone, telegraph, and tell a woman.

Aunty, I don’t they consider you a friend.

Probably won’t even like it.

You are a friend to no one.

Same if it says “I bet none of my friends will share this” or “People who don’t love God will just scroll on by but those who love Jesus will share this.” or anything similar.

see here for 10 things your friends will be sure to share with you!!…