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You've all overlooked another venue which i choose regularly, and that's the travelogues which are readily available on TV. These filmed documentaries take you on tours of countries all over the world, immersing you in their indigenous cultures, while a running narration fills you in on their history as well as other interesting information. I have visited many places in the comfort of my home. This works for me.

I was out to dinner with a some friends last night and one of the women described how she was victimized in an online scam. She was also trolled with an email similar to the ones I receive all the time. When an entity hacks into say Target's servers and steals passwords this is a VERY big deal. Many of us use the same passwords on multiple systems. So if your password is stolen from Target they may now also have your bank account's password. This data is freely available to the dark web and sophisticated scammers know how to exploit people beyond simple identity thief. I've included an example of a scam email below. Now I would NEVER pay someone under these conditions so this scam can not work on me. Besides I don't have three grand laying around. Still I could see where someone would be quite concerned about seeing an email of this, because my actual password (long since changed) is included and the nature of the treat. Like the "NIgerian prince" scam. If one sends enough of these messages out you'll snag a few live ones. Plus the email sounds plausible; It is of course possible to hack into a computer and take over the camera, and people do and visit porn sites and jack off to them 😲. Before the advent of social media porn was the largest form of traffic on the internet. Here is the email: “I will cut to the chase. I do know johnsonpcc1 is your password. Moreover, I know your secret and I've evidence of it. You do not know me personally and nobody hired me to look into you. It's just your misfortune that I found your misadventures. Well, I setup a malware on the adult video clips (sex sites) and you visited this site to have fun (you know what I mean). When you were busy watching videos, your web browser started working as a Rdp (Remote control desktop) that has a keylogger which provided me access to your display and also web camera. Immediately after that, my software collected all of your contacts from messenger, facebook, and mailbox. I then gave in more time than I probably should've into your life and generated a double-screen video. First part shows the video you had been watching and 2nd part displays the view of your web camera (its you doing inappropriate things). Honestly, I'm ready to forget about you and let you get on with your life. And my goal is to provide you two options that can accomplish this. The two choices with the idea to ignore this letter, or just pay me $ 3200. Let’s understand those 2 options in details. Option 1 is to ignore this mail. You should know what is going to happen if you take this path. I will definitely send your video recording to all of your contacts including close relatives, co-workers, and so on. It does not help you avoid the humiliation your household will feel when friends uncover your sordid videos from me. Other Option is to pay me $ 3200. We’ll call it my “privacy tip”. Now let me tell you what happens if you choose this path. Your secret remains your secret. I will destroy the recording immediately. You move on with your routine life like none of this ever happened. Now you must be thinking, “I should go to the cops”. Without a doubt, I have taken steps to ensure this message cannot be tracked returning to me and yes it will not steer clear of the evidence from destroying your life. I am not planning to dig a hole in your pocket. I just want to be paid for time I place into investigating you. Let's assume you decide to generate all this vanish entirely and pay me the confidentiality fee. You will make the payment through Bitcoin (if you don't know this, search "how to buy bitcoins" in google search) Amount to be sent: $ 3200 Receiving Bitcoin Address: 1AeMyWdsjHk4rAexuAz46R6yjPjvHTLyB9 (It's cASe sensitive, so copy and paste it carefully) Tell nobody what you would be sending the Bitcoins for or they possibly will not sell it to you. The process to acquire bitcoin usually takes a short time so do not delay. I've a specific pixel within this email message, and now I know that you have read this mail. You have 24 hours to make the payment. If I don't receive the BitCoins, I will definately send your video recording to all of your contacts including friends and family, coworkers, and many others. You better come up with an excuse for friends and family before they find out. Nevertheless, if I receive the payment, I will destroy the video immediately. It's a non negotiable one time offer, thus don't ruin my personal time and yours. Your time has started.” The web is still like the wild wild west. I don’t like to play with hackers because they could easily destroy my site before breakfast — and there would be nothing I could do about it — no place to go for justice… not even street justice. Given the nature of the corporate dominated web today, a video of me pleasuring myself would help raise the profile of the website tremendously. As “45” proves, time and time again, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

One could observe that there's never a dull moment on this board because people are always going at it, engaging in verbal combat, something that has become the name-of-the-game on social media. How such confrontations play out here, provide very good material for a spoof served up with a cast of caricatures. Let's shift into the satire zone for a moment and imagine a "mockumentary" about the genesis of a Cynique's Corner smack down. * * * * * * * * * * After a busy day on the job where he holds the position of "head nigga in charge of shuffling papers", Pioneer is back in his digs, flushed with a latte from Starbucks, busy at work putting the final touches on his latest post for AALBC’s on-line discussion forum. The subject of his latest post is something that came to him earlier after tossing aside a manual, entitled “Single Race Theory for Dummies". Having forgotten to turn on his spell-check, he proceeds to log on to the site where he will share his thoughts with fellow posters and his hoped-for audience of lurkers. The topic of his latest dissertation? "One is the loneliest number in the world", a subject on which he is an expert, having once known some one who was the loneliest of his 3 friends. Meanwhile, Cynique before settling in for a interlude with her newly-arrived house guest, is on-line checking out recent comments on the corner named for her, looking for any excuse to start an argument because, much to the delight of her visitor, fussing gets her juices going. After "liking" harry brown’s weekly rant about greedy. womanizing. black. preachers. and. neo. nazi. cops. who. belong. to. the. KKK, her radar is suddenly put on alert. The appearance of Pioneer’s new post immediately puts her into attack mode. Yelling for her boy-toy to start the party without her, Cynique homes in on Pioneer's carefully crafted article which is complete with maps, pictures, graphs, links and a YouTube video featuring a tirade by Louis Farrakhan. Eagerly her eyes scan the material, hungry to find juicy nuggets to chew and spew at him. Quickly spotting several misspellings, making a note to furnish a definition for a word he has taken liberties with, parsing a phrase she discovers is grammatically incorrect, she proceeds to take aim, firing off a couple of ad hominem remarks while describing Pioneer’s article on one being the loneliest number in the world, as something he made up while humping his blow-up doll. Elsewhere on the forum, finished with their contest to see who can write the most cryptic sentence, arch enemies Del and Kalexander spot the notification of Pioneer’s new entry, and hurry to inject their input. Making reference to how he has picked the brains of thousands of people from all walks of life - when he's not spending his time casting astronomy charts which have, on occasion, been semi-accurate, Del is eager to validate Pioneer's claim, and shield him from Cynique's bullying. Kalexander simply settles for repeating his suspicions about Pioneer being a plant for the Russians, and then takes a break. But not before endorsing Cynique's harassment of Pioneer. Before long, Troy shows up to methodically explain to Pioneer why he is totally wrong about one being the loneliest number in the world, subsequently taking on Del’s counter-claim that Pioneer is absolutely right when it comes to one being the loneliest number in the world. They will eventually spend considerable time one-upping each other about what components make up the number one, ChevDov and Mel may put in appearances, opting to skip this debate, preferring to rhapsodize over such subjects as there being more Moors than previously thought. Over days, the hot button issue about one being the loneliest number in the world will escalate into lively exchanges laced with sarcasm, ridicule, misinformation and occasional lapses into enlightenment. Repetition and reiteration will abound amid a litany of "who said what", - accusations embellished with quotes lifted from previous posts. On and on it goes. Days later, the question as to whether one is the loneliest number in the world will have been sliced, diced, re-hashed and stirred up. Pioneer stands by his assertion convinced that white western science imposes its questionable beliefs on Afro Americans. Del also hangs in, certain that scientists are too arrogant to admit the truth about Pioneer's theory. Cynique philosophizes about "one' being an abstract number with 2 sides, both of which could be lonely. Troy trusts what is correlated by scientific data gleaned from a study of prison life where everyone is determined to be lonely, - an affirmation we have to figure out because of omissions and typos he didn't correct. Chevdove, Mel, Kalexander and harry brown fade in and out as we all bide our time until another earth-shattering question arises and spawns a new hectic debate after which no minds will have been changed and no issues resolved. Again. There you have it. Life as it pulsates around the cyber space that encompasses Cynique's Corner. And so it goes... 😁

The American propaganda reduced to reading the material, especially college textbooks is yet another reason to visit the source destination for accurate data, brother; trust me, there's material here the U.S. would never allow to be taught, let alone available for public consumption. How many times have you, yourself acknowledged fallacies in the 'printed' reading material? More on point than sister @Mel Hopkins example, why travel through outer space when one need only to read make-up of the planets to know where they are and existence of life?

Maybe, but brother, prior to actually visiting her in the Near East I was of the opinion that most, if not all Muslims were terrorists, believed America was a country of devils, and that Christ Jesus as God's son and died on the cross. Fact is, it was all bullshit. Not from just interacting with the people, the elderly but by going to the libraries and universities reading about all sides of the story.

Well first of all, I never did understand why some people needed magazines and porn videos to masturbate too....lol. I have a vivid imagination. Even as a teenager if I was alone that night and needed to "beat that meat" all I had to do was close my eyes and Thelma Evans (among others) would pop up grinning at me. But.............. To be honest, if I really thought they had the goods on me AND I thought paying them off would protect me.....I wouldn't have a problem paying them. But again, those two criteria must be met. It's not enough for them to prove they have the goods on me, they must also demostrate that me paying them will get them off my back. It also depends on how much harm their information would cause. I don't jack off to porn, but if they just had a picture of me nude or having sex....I ain't paying them $50, lol. I mean, really my friends and family KNOW I have a diick and they KNOW I need to get "treated" from time to time, either by my woman or by myself...lol. It's nature, so what....am I supposed to be "embarassed" by this or something?????

This statement does not resonate with me at all. Ideally, it is best to read and visit a place. But if you are interested in learning about a place, and can only read about it or visit it. I would choose reading. I say reading because you can get more more information about a place than you can visiting it. You can read about more locations you can read the historical context you can read the perspectives of locals, and the collective observations of many others. You simply can't do this on a visit. Don;t get me wrong I love to travel and if I personally had a choice I would rather visit a place than read about it, but I'd also recognize that my experience is very limited and may even be misleading. It is saying you know something about Florida, because you visited Disney. When I visited Nigeria the Brother I was staying with told me I should read Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa before I came. He told me it would help me understand what I would see on my visit. I followed his advice and I'm glad I did. I simply would not have had a clue why NIgeria is in the state that it is in. Indeed many of the people who live there don't know. I also came to discover that I knew more about Nigerian writers than many of the locals. Personal experience can only take you so far @Pioneer1 books and the internet have the potential to advance man's knowledge tremendously. It is just unfortunate that capitalists have perverted the internet and it is having the opposite effect -- making us less informed or worse, ill informed. Sure books can be used for evil too, but we can choose the books we read, while the garbage on social media is pushed to us and we consume it unfiltered.

LOL. Oh Geez... This was too funny! I am fading in and out too!-- But right now, I'm so busy I can't get back and chime in regulary, ... but I'm trying... I'm gearing up... to post some more... about 'being more Moor than I thought!--- I can't be mad at ya... this is too funny.

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@Cynique that was brilliant. I laughed all the way through this. It was insightful and on point and just damn funny! Thanks you so much for brightening my day! This is a perfect ending to a long day. I've been at it for over 13 hours. I'm gonna make myself a nice dinner and grab a glass of wine. Thanks again Cynique. Indeed, thanks everyone for participating! I know, I know, I have to do better with my typos😞