Misinformation- Keep it!

I am all about learning, checking things out, investigating, and knowledge. There are lots of things that float around the information superhighway that are just plain garbage.

Over the past 4 days I have received 6 email that were flat out crap, from fairy tales to scare tactics, to "pass this on or you will have bad luck". Things people could have easily spotted as junk, or have taken 2 minutes to check out and find out it is false. This stuff makes me nuts. If you send me anything that is pure internet junk mail, I will send it back with the link to Snopes or truthorfiction.com for you. I'll do the work for you, but I trust you to then email every one back and say "ooops, my bad!", the story was a hoax!

I have written about hoaxes, and scare tactics so many times, I would think people would know why it is energetic suicide to pass that crap on, so I won't reiterate, but please check things out BEFORE you pass them on. That means looking to see if they are false, not looking to see if other gullible people think it is true.

I can tell you that Hershey's has not moved to Mexico, there are no robbers walking around with babies to use as bait, and if you don't pass that email on...nothing will happen. Mr Rogers was not in the Special Forces, and Captain Kangaroo was not at Iwo Jima. Facebook doesn't want your social security number.

The biggest (latest) scam is that Obamacare will require people to be implanted with microchips. Seriously people. WAKE up!!!

People make this stuff up to see how well it gets circulated. And you are the Candid Camera victim.

The other thing that popped up again the other day was that "squaw" is a derogatory word. Well, my tribe was the authenticator of that word. It never was a bad word to them. They also came up with moose, skunk, succotash, papoose, wampum, and pow wow (pauwu). People (French), started to say it meant something else entirely, and others ( especially Natives) , believed it. They didn't speak Algonquin and were told it was a bad word, so they believed it. There is a movement today to get the word recognized as what it really is and means.

Why do people want to create and perpetuate untruths? Sometimes is is malicious, but most times they just don't know and don't check.Why we want all this drama in our lives is beyond me.
We pass along "warnings" about how people are out to do us harm, and say we do so in the name of protecting people. Why not check it out first instead of creating a society of people who walk around suspicious and scared all of the time of untruths? Why upset people for no reason? Need the attention? Get a dog.

People pass around stories of missing children who aren't missing. There was one going around about a child who shot themselves with a nail gun (which by the way, is impossible), and needed prayers. It goes around every few years. It started over 5 years ago. People like to see how gullible you can be, and laugh at you all the way to their next computer scam.

Don't pass anything negative around at all. EVER! If you can't take the time to check it out the right way, DON'T PASS IT ON. The worst is of course politics, the second worse, scare tactics about crimes. Don't be part of the negative energy creation that most people try to escape. Don't spread misinformation.

If spreading that crap makes you feel better. You have a problem. When you feel good if you put down someone else (even if they are a political figure), spread around tragedy, spread around fear...you need help. Seriously.

Only spread the truth AFTER you check it out carefully, even if it seems like good stuff, like Mr Rodgers was a Green Beret...


Do the right thing FOR THE RIGHT REASON!!
DON'T SPREAD UNTRUTHS, DON'T SPREAD FEAR!


Peshaui Wequashimese



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