September 9, 2007

• Internet Island Topic Post #28: Premonitions/Back to School

  

  Internet Island Topic Post #28: Premonitions/Back to School

  At about the same time Bridge I-35W was falling into the Mississippi River, I was crossing the Vincent Thomas suspension bridge over the Los Angeles harbor on my way home from work. For some strange reason, I began to think about what would happen to me if the bridge suddenly “fell down” into the harbor about 60 feet below. I drive an open car, so I wondered if I should unbuckle my safety belt and try to dive away from the car, or if I should “ride it out” in the car as it fell. I don’t watch TV news, and wasn’t on the internet that evening, so I didn’t even know a bridge had collapsed in Minnesota until the next day. This got me to thinking about premonitions, visions, and supernatural events.

  This month, the Internet Island Topic is divided into two sections. The first “unworldly” section deals with the supernatural. The next more “grounded” topic is “Back to School”.

  The Topic Post will last about a month. Please enter the link or date of your Internet Island Topic Entry for this post in a comment here. If you are creating a link, make sure you link to the page with the “comments” box and not the page with five entries. (HERE IS A TUTORIAL ABOUT HOW TO MAKE LINKS.) The purpose of Internet Island Topic Posts is to help get the members of the Internet Island Blogring to exchange comments and get to know each other. Please check back periodically for new entries throughout the posting period.  If you post a topic entry, please make an attempt to visit the other Islanders who do so as well. It is also a good idea to post the link to the Topic Entry in your own entry so that other interested parties can come here. You can copy/paste the Topic Post links right here in this entry into your own weblog entry box.

  As you list your entries in the comments to this post, I will “list” them here, so they are easy to find. It is also helpful to add your Internet Island entries to the Internet Island Blogring Pool. When entering a post for an Island Topic on your blog, click “Send to Blogrings” in your editor, and choose the Internet Island Blogring

  28.1.1: There was an old TV program in the 50s called “One Step Beyond”. I remember an episode where a gentleman who had booked passage on the Titanic had a premonition that he shouldn’t go on the cruise. We all know what happened to the Titanic! Have you ever had a premonition which steered you away from danger, or have you otherwise experienced any supernatural “visions” or do you know of anyone who has experienced or who has told stories about premonitions in their lives?

  28.1.2: Do you believe in the supernatural, and if so, what do you think causes things like premonitions, deja vu, telekinesis, and the reading of others minds?  If not, why do you think these strange things happen? Is there a natural explanation?

  28.1.3: A lot of bloggers “blog their dreams”. Do you have or have you ever had a dream which seems to relate to “real life”? Has a dream ever told you to do something, or stay away from doing something? What are dreams? How do they relate to life, or do they? Why do people seem to forget their dreams immediately after they wake up? Can someone die in their dreams like in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies? Use these questions, or formulate some of your own for an entry about dreams and nightmares.

  28.1.4: Here’s a more serious subtopic you might try your hand writing about. Is there a spiritual reason for paranormal phenomena?  Or is it a bunch of hooey?

  28.2.1: It’s the time of year cheered by parents and dreaded by children. It’s “back to school time”. What are your memories of your own schooldays, or what has been memorable about your children’s first days of school.

  28.2.2: When I was a kid, I would go with my parents to Zodys in SoCal where they would buy our school clothes. Sometimes this was as exciting as Christmas. Each year we would get shiny new notebooks (which we would immediately personalize by drawing logos, cartoons, and slogans). In high school the “Pee Chee” folder was almost ubiquitous. Do you have any memories of your own schoolday shopping trips, or have you had any memorable shopping trips with your kids?

  28.2.3: I created a blogring called MikeVideo to gather together friends and fans of my own MikeVideo internet movies, which I am collecting on both YouTube and Xanga, and to attract videomakers themselves. Almost anyone can make a video nowadays. You can use a standard videocamera, a computer ballcamera, or certain cellphone cameras to shoot video. Then you upload your video masterpieces to Xanga’s video section.  If you have the means to do so, I’d love to see “interviews” with your children about how their first days of school this year turned out.  Are they excited? Bored? Did they learn anything new?

  28.2.4: I’m always hearing about the different cliques in school. There are the “sochs”, the “freaks and geeks”, the “stoners”, the “goths”, the “gangbangers”, etc. Were you part of a group or clique in school? What are/were your experiences as a student. You could talk about either elementary, middle school, high school or college or all of them.

  Topic Entries:

  Ladyblue1 28.2.4 8/16

  sherrytwinklz 28.1.1 8/17

  Kristenmomof3 28.2 8/17

  natgusman 28.1.1-4 8/17

  mourning2dancing 28.1 8/18

  merridian 28.1-4 8/18

  screaminginmyhead 28.1.2 8/18

  A Method 2 My Madness 28.2.1 8/17

  prettynosyarentu 28.2.4 8/20

  BoureeMusique 28.2.1 8/20

  Zeal4living 28.1.2,4 8/21

  propa ghandi 28.1,2 8/21

  harmonyOstars 28.1.2-4 8/22 (new member)

  A Method 2 My Madness 28.2.4 8/23

  mourning2dancing 28.1&2 8/23

  xhandwrittenlettersx 28.1.3, 28.2.4 8/16

  baldmike2004 28.1.4 8/27

  Araku 28.2.4 8/27 (new member)

  BoureeMusique 28.1.2 8/30

  PacifismPlease 28.1.2 8/30

  ladywolf aq 28.1-2,4,28.2.2 8/31

  thereluctantsinger 28.1.1 9/2

  adriansluzky 28.1 9/9

  YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT.  IT’S ALL UP TO YOU!

  Remember, the tabs at the top of theInternet Island Blogring Page will “sort” the members by latest post, date joined,  and alphabetical Username. Use the ring page to find new Islanders, or older ones you might not have visited in a while. It’s OUR Island, and we’re a great group of people with different interests, fantastic stories, and wonderful lives, and we have a great deal of love for our fellow man.

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