Posted by alexandra_k on July 25, 2018, at 21:02:36
In reply to Re: Paul Jay, posted by sigismund on July 23, 2018, at 21:34:36
> Ours are off the mainland, to the north of New Guinea (Manus) or north-east of the Solomon Islands (Nauru), above NZ, well away from the press, without possibility of visas for them.
Yes.
I think you will find there are prison camps / refugee camps / detention camps secluded away in the outback, too. But, yeah, I imagine the message is mostly 'don't try and get into Australia unlawfully because you will likely find yourself stuck in a camp outside Australia'.
> The psychology is similar to Trump's separation of children and then blaming it on the Democratic Party.I don't know anything about any of that.
Well, my test is done, now. I don't feel good about it, actually.
I don't see any personal or financial gain to be had by anyone at all to hear my opinion that the test was around 40 questions too long which forced people into making decisoins between time spent on a question (which would result in getting a question right?) vs getting through more of the questions (because some of the questions seemed easier to figure in less time than others). It was also really hard to know whether you were getting them right, because sometimes more complex questions require you to do more checks on them, but there really wasn't enough time to do complex checks on them...
Anyway, I got through the whole thing, and got to (I hope) sensibly answer some of the ones I missed on a first pass near the start)... But I really didn't get back through more than a few pages before having to just fill in anything at all so as not to leave blank fields on the form. I worry I made the wrong decision to move forwards quickly to get through the whole test and that it may have resulted in my getting them wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Because it takes a bit of time to actually read the question and probably I over-estimate how much 'thinking time' goes in to actually answering it and / or checking it has been answered properly once you've actually parsed the task... I don't know. I may have done better to have resigned myself to not finishing and to have really worked out some of those earlier ones that I could have worked out (I think?) I don't know.
I guess part of the idea is to overload things and see how they break...
I felt upset / disapointed that a lot of the section two questions felt like personality test questions to me. Genuinely ambiguous and what emotional tone do you read into the situation. Aside from avoiding obvious ones like 'everything is always about sex' and so on... Sometimes it was less clear which of the characters they wanted you to resonate with mostly. I imagine I didn't do well on this section because they would want more along the lines of happy / bubbly / normal than someone identifying more with the sick / injured / a-typical? Who knows...
I don't even trust any of the above, at all, with respect to any of it. Designed to see how they break, for sure.
I had the weirdest dream the night before.
Turned up and was instantly hungry but no way to get food. We were herded about really quickly. The employees making comments I don't remember about 'we treat you like sheep now because xxx' And we got herded into various rooms and sat down and talked to for a bit.
Then we were all herded together outdoors and there was this ravine or valley with this sort of a... Underside of a bridge with metal beams or it was a rope bridge or similar... SOmething likethat sort of a structure. ANd we were supposed to go across that.
And there was something like that at camp when I was my first year at intermediate. Around 11 or so. ANd I really didn't like my teacher much (and she really didn't like me much) but we had mostly the same hobbies (pre-existing). So she turned out to be my hockey coach and symphonic band teacher, too (I already played the violin). And on camp there was this rope bridge. And I was terrified about the height really terrified and I didn't want to go across. And there was a lot of pressure for me to do it. And one of the parents offered me lots of kit cats or similar.. Not really offered sort of bribed.. Anyway... I tried. And I got about 1/4 of the way across and I just froze. And I couldn't open my eyes and I couldn't move I just just stuck and so terrified. And eventually I think the teacher had to come out and coax me into looking at them and following them back but I've never been so scared in my whole life.
Anyway... In my dream a couple people bounded off to do it and most of the people sort of ambled off after... And I just sort of hung my head becaue there was no way I could do it.
And there was something odd about cremated remains had been scatted over the bridge or something to... Bless it, or something. Only there were chunky bits (it's harder to cremate things to an actual ash than you might suppose) but in my dream even that morphed into fresh people mince.
And people were running / flying across the bridge so fast they were eating bits of it. Like how if you run in teh bush at night you sort of inhale / eat hoo hoo grubs.
And there was a guy who was leading the whole thing. Really tall and handsome and charasmatic. And he was looking at me with... Disdain? that I wasn't participating in the process... But his attitude to those who were was ambiguous, too. Whether they stood out for being the best or whether they stood out for being the worst / most corruptable. He wiped his finger in the swarm (somehow the people mince was like a swarm of locusts or something around the bridge) and offered it to me 'want a taste'.
And I turned my head away and hung back.
F*ck*ng strange, huh.
I do not normally have f*ck*ng strange super-vivid dreams like that.
I don't usually care at all... But I wonder what it means.
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