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The Friends of Jules Library item 29 May 2017

Jules Energy PSSV - the Game

"Would you be ready if your partner walked out on you suddenly?"

"Would you be ready if your partner walked out on you suddenly?"

Jules walks out on me.

Without Jules the net has stopped working. I can’t charge my phone. The phone network no longer works anyway. Please come back Jules! I’m so so sorry. Would you be ready if your partner walked out on you suddenly? How would you cope? You can find out what it would be like to lose Jules by playing this variant game:

Jules Energy PSSV - the Game. J5

Jules Energy Password Set Swap Variant.

Simple Rules. We know you are an addict. The short boost of hormones that the internet, email, texts, twitter, etc. give you are your drug of choice.. Intermittent rewards - Google it. Try a day on real life. Can you spend 24 hours off line? If not you are hooked. If there was a large scale power cut you would suddenly go cold turkey. You probably are in denial, you don’t think you are hooked on the net? So prove it to yourself.

Soo……. Print this sheet of instructions out. No need to read it all yet. You and your S.O. (Significant other), best friend, BFF, housemate, must now set each others passwords. Agree to turn off your gadgets for 24 hours. If people need you they can write a letter or call your land line.

Now you may suddenly find you have a lot of time to do things. With a small part of this do a creative piece (on paper, yes paper) about Jules. Write about your experience without Jules. If you don’t succeed, then write about that.

My Friend Jules is an easy concept, but not so easy that a sound bite, a tweet, or a Facebook post is enough to understand it. This puts it beyond a lot of people today. It requires more attention span than people hooked on data have. . A few more words, a bit more text, a bit more effort. You will need to get your mind back in order to make that effort. The only way to make you make the effort is to take away your cyber dummy until, once you stop throwing your cyber toys out of your cyber pram, ignore the distractions, the Trumpery, the false news, the things happening to other people you neither know nor care about, until you get real and think about the energy you use, the energy you care about. The energy keeping you alive, warm, happy, health, mobile. Then, only then can you reconnect to the NET, your cyber drug. Otherwise it is cold turkey for you mate, cold turkey. Write about your relationshop (not a typo) with energy, Jules, your mate, what gives? T$hen (Not a typo) you get to logon, tune out and turn off. Energy is your Mummy. Energy is the Sun, no energy, no plants, no food, no life, it is big. Think about it and act now or it’s dinosaur city mate.

MFJPSS (My Friend Jules Password Set Swap. ) * Only allow your game partner to logon again when the agreed period has passed. * Until then your net use is controlled by your partner. * Jules has rattled your cage. * You are trapped until you get on with things. * No cooperation until you agree to the NEW Jules rules. * Make a pact with your mate and get playing. It will be a rough ride. Use a pen, to write your story. * Transcribble each other's story.





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