Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "What Really Happened in Salem 300 Years Ago?" video.

I agree. I love getting interested in a subject, then finding tons of interesting videos on it! In my ancient days (when dinosaurs walked the earth!), you had to go to a local library, which never had what you were looking for, or write to a New York Bookstore to get books on the subject. As a kid, I always wanted to know everything, and it was extremely frustrating to never be able to get any information!!! Now, I google continuously, it drives everyone nuts, but to me, it's a gold mine!!!
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@Steven-ze2zk When you're so negative you just randomly type in the word "no" proactively..😂😂
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@O B D You're overreacting since it's an IRONIC comment, not someone yelling sexism or anything else. You're trying too hard to put someone down.
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That's fascinating to me! When we were there we attended some places where they reenacted the trials and took a tour, this was way back in the early 90s, when Laurie Cabot (The Salem WITCH) had published a load of wiccan books and was always parading around the town in a long black cloak and unlikely platinum blonde hair, so that she looked like an extra from the tv show, "Dynasty" (very Linda Evans). Look her up and you'll have a great idea of what Laurie looked like. I was there in October, and it was exceptionally beautiful...I would love to go there once a year!
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@tee-shorts5891 What a cool combination! My mom was half American Indian and the other I think was french/creole...my dad was a descendant of the Irish who fled the potato famine and grew up in Boston in poverty. He was farmed out to relatives and put to work at ten years old, running errands for a record company. He lied about his age to get into the Navy during WWII. He got to travel the world convoying ships. It gave him a huge fascination for other cultures, people and foreign countries....he described Boston so vividly to me when I was young, that even though I had never been there before, I found my way around easily when i finally visited!
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@martineldritch 😂😂😂
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The movie, "The Witch" was fantastic! I found it so underrated, all the actors were very good, and the young girl who played the main role was brilliant! Check it out, it gives you a perfect example of how paranoid fears and too much brooding can drive people insane.
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I loved it there! Everyone is so nice and the place is so beautiful! Have a great time!
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@TheCrazystupidpeople You're so right!! People weren't expecting psychological subtlety! A lot of people need to be bludgeoned with horror, or they, "don't get it!"... I bought the video and watched it several times, seeing some really cool touches, it is kind of a Hitchcock story in a way, to me. I love the ending! It makes sense, considering how awful all the "regular people" were! Still, its chilling and leaves you unsettled!
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@jamesdorpinghaus3294 I meant to congratulate you on the anniversary of your job! Thanks for being on the front lines, helping save people. I don't know very much about roadside assistance, except that they saved my butt a couple of times! I have to admit that I dropped out of high school 2 million years ago, because my parents wanted me to go to Stanford, I had a breakdown and just quit. Never went to college, unfortunately. If I did it again I would have gone to a quiet little 2 year college like SAC and studied art. Since I had no real education, and loved to read, I've been reading ever since. So I know a great deal about the 1920s art scene in France, but nothing about the war of 1812...oh well, I was always really lucky, and ended up happy. I'm convinced now that I'm old(er), happy is the outcome we should strive for anyway...
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@jamesdorpinghaus3294 You are right!! I know couple of people who have been scrimping to pay off college for over 20 years!! Ugh.
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@Foolish188 I could NOT get through that movie!! I love Daniel Day Lewis, but it was awful!! Arthur Miller was a great playwright, I guess, I just never had the reverence for him that people seemed to exhibit. I never got it, but that may be my lack, hard to say. Just my opinion, anyway😁
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"THE WITCHES HAMMER"!
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@Upshotr it depends on who your teacher is...or where you go to school...
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Sorry for my ignorance, but tell me where you are from and what the dominant belief where you live is, if you don't mind?
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Yes!! The museum is incredible!!
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Sounds like the Amazon warehouse job....
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@jamesdorpinghaus3294 Omg! What was the worst thing about it, to you? I can imagine, but would love to hear a real account...
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@jamesdorpinghaus3294 Thank you for telling me! It confirms yet again the horror of the Amazon warehouse job! They opened up a couple of warehouses here in San Antonio, Texas, and same thing, apparently, draconian management, unreal overtime, the ye older plantation attitude. I wonder where this system came from? They obviously think it is worth having to replace their entire workforce every couple of months...when I worked at SEAWORLD in the 90s, they hired everyone under an old loophole in the Texas employment law that was originally written to get migrant workers. Hire them as "part time, when they are really working full time hours, and every ten months, fire everyone, they can apply for unemployment if they want, so the taxpayers cover it, and SeaWorld didn't have to pay any benefits whatsoever. No sick day with pay, no overtime pay, no holiday pay, no medical insurance, etc., etc. The old 1920s law was enacted originally so that ranchers could hire tons of illegal immigrants to work the fields, and after the harvest, kick them back...and save millions. SeaWorld thought that was a great idea! There became, because human nature is really insecure, a huge disconnect between the full timers and the lowly part timers, and it was strange. Partimers had to wear ugly name tags, the ugly uniforms and could not have facial hair or even "ethnic" hair. The full timers got to go to lunch earlier in the cafeteria so that the daily specials always ran out before the part timers got to eat, and on and on...things really became, "us" and "them". It was like the Stanford prison experiment in the 70s. It bugged me so much all the time, and I almost got fired for putting up a sign in the office over the drinking fountain that said, "full timers ONLY". But they couldn't prove I put it up (I did!)....
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I loved Salem when I was there, but it would have been hell 300 years ago when you couldn't get away from the constant religious spewing, judging, condemnation and angry old people who hated kids... There are always freaked out extremists in every town, but having no distractions from the snow and boring darkness of winter...let those people go over the top to get attention and spread paranoia... During the beginning of the pandemic, when toilet paper hoarders were going bat shit insane, the manager at our local Dollar Store yelled at me for laughing about it, and screamed that TP was going to be worth more than gold!!! I was like, ok, bath salts have finally gotten into the water supply...but it turned out that she infected tons of people with her hysteria, and they were all panicking and hysterical...
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@ginashemeth7708 I had an Aunt Jane who lived there, I wish I had known her better, she was a classic spinster, New England style school teacher in the 50s! My Dads side was from Boston....
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