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[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Abramelin, on 23 June 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

I just made that up.
And you gobbled it up.
..........sigh...............

Did I gobble it up, or say that your explanation makes sense? It made sense, especially given the content of Tomas' work.

[Junior Chubb]

ouija ouija, on 22 June 2012 - 07:18 PM, said:

I would prefer it if you didn't mention in public that you had 'played around ............. in fun ............ with Ouija'. Thank you.

I thought the whole point of Ouija is that it was a board game, for fun? Is it so powerful that mentioning it in jest can cause trouble?

[Mr. Smith]

ouija ouija, on 22 June 2012 - 07:18 PM, said:

I would prefer it if you didn't mention in public that you had 'played around ............. in fun ............ with Ouija'. Thank you.

I used to really get my ouija all worked up and bothered. I knew all the special spots, top to bottom, left to right and whispered sweet things that made the room shake. We'd do it all night long. Then I grew board and traded my ouija for a six pack.

[Abramelin]

Framling, on 23 June 2012 - 04:02 AM, said:

I used to really get my ouija all worked up and bothered. I knew all the special spots, top to bottom, left to right and whispered sweet things that made the room shake. We'd do it all night long. Then I grew bored and traded my ouija for a six pack.

Did that too. I had a another gf once, and she wanted to ''prove" the existence of 'spirits' to me with this 'ouija' thing.

Nothing, nada showed up, and her explanation was that my skepsisism blocked them, lol.

[Abramelin]

Wearer of Hats, on 23 June 2012 - 12:22 AM, said:

Did I gobble it up, or say that your explanation makes sense? It made sense, especially given the content of Tomas' work.

It wasn't meant to make 'sense', it was a fkg LIE, lol.

[Abramelin]

Junior Chubb, on 23 June 2012 - 12:23 AM, said:

I thought the whole point of Ouija is that it was a board game, for fun? Is it so powerful that mentioning it in jest can cause trouble?

It has no power at all.

All power it might have is in the powerful imagination of those who believe in it.

[Paracelse]

lilthor, on 23 June 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

Metallica.

My youngest son riffs The Four Horsemen on his guitar non-stop until my ears bleed and I beg him to turn it down a notch.

That's how frickin' old I am.

WOW in my home or car it's the other way around it's the kid who says "DAD turn the volume down it's too loud" and me that question : didn't hear what you say kid.

Junior Chubb, on 23 June 2012 - 12:23 AM, said:

I thought the whole point of Ouija is that it was a board game, for fun? Is it so powerful that mentioning it in jest can cause trouble?

Methink it was to be taken as a joke considiering the fact that Ouija Ouija was a girl (women/crone)(medontknow) and Taun claimed to have fun with a ouija.


Great post Abe, did all the reading you mention and methink there was lots of crackpots in the lot but there are some genuine finds to be done, Gobeki Tepe is one of the exemple that changes the line of history, Neanderthal had knowledge of painting 40 000 years ago etc... history is not linear, does that mean professional historians and archeologists are crackpots too?  Methink that an open mind is better than scepticism.
Take a look at Thomas Lethbridge for exemple, he kept an open mind and made some interesting discoveries about the pendulum.  The worse is (for skeptics) every one can do what he did.
Have a gret week-end and thanks again for the info you gave me, I found what I was looking for and more.   Have a great week-end.

[Mr. Smith]

Abramelin, on 23 June 2012 - 05:48 AM, said:

Did that too.

I hope you enjoyed your 6 pack as much as I did. But those ghost hunter shows where they make it seem like psychotic ghosts are haunting and talking to them through white noise recivers and such freak me out for some reason. I know it's fake but i still get the chills.

[The Puzzler]

When I was young I wouldn't even go to religion class at school, I made them start a class that offered something else, I wasn't at a Catholic School, so I learnt to play the recorder instead, that was fun.

Then something came over me where I even thought the Raelians had some good ideas, being a Hari Krishna seemed pretty cool at the time, I took their free books and read up on them.

Now I sit middle ground. I may not believe but I do not say it does not exist, for all I know, it just might.

Maybe I'm a sceptical believer.

[Abramelin]

The Puzzler, on 23 June 2012 - 07:24 AM, said:

When I was young I wouldn't even go to religion class at school, I made them start a class that offered something else, I wasn't at a Catholic School, so I learnt to play the recorder instead, that was fun.

Then something came over me where I even thought the Raelians had some good ideas, being a Hari Krishna seemed pretty cool at the time, I took their free books and read up on them.

Now I sit middle ground. I may not believe but I do not say it does not exist, for all I know, it just might.

Maybe I'm a sceptical believer.

I was born and raised as a Roman Catholic, and I always loved to listen to some blackrobe  telling us Jesus' parables. But then I started asking  questions endlessly, and they forced me to shut up. And I did. But I was 10 years old then.

And, lol, you know who the first visitors were in my house here, 25 years ago? Hare Krishnas. One was a Dutch guy, and the other an American, a pupil of the former or something.

I'll never forget they rang at my door when my house was still empty, and only had carpetting.

We sat on the ground, eating some vegetarian stuff, discussing religion, watching photos of their work in India amongst poor people, and so on. I even bought from them a painting on silk (of an elephant dressed up in a ceremonial way).

But the Dutch guy got a bit angry at me - even saying I must be the devil or something similar in Indian - and they left.

I still remember saying, "I hope the money I gave you is ok anyway".

It was.


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Edited by Abramelin, 23 June 2012 - 10:57 AM.

[Abramelin]

Framling, on 23 June 2012 - 07:08 AM, said:

I hope you enjoyed your 6 pack as much as I did. But those ghost hunter shows where they make it seem like psychotic ghosts are haunting and talking to them through white noise recivers and such freak me out for some reason. I know it's fake but i still get the chills.

Heh, I have watched those shows a couple of times, and I always had to laugh out loud. I like a good horror story, but these shows were stupid beyond compare.

[Abramelin]

Paracelse, on 23 June 2012 - 06:27 AM, said:

Great post Abe, did all the reading you mention and methink there was lots of crackpots in the lot but there are some genuine finds to be done, Gobeki Tepe is one of the exemple that changes the line of history, Neanderthal had knowledge of painting 40 000 years ago etc... history is not linear, does that mean professional historians and archeologists are crackpots too?  Methink that an open mind is better than scepticism.
Take a look at Thomas Lethbridge for exemple, he kept an open mind and made some interesting discoveries about the pendulum.  The worse is (for skeptics) every one can do what he did.
Have a great week-end and thanks again for the info you gave me, I found what I was looking for and more.   Have a great week-end.

There are of course still many great things to be found, and we do not need crackpots to make them up.

And... being a skeptic IS having an open mind. I think many equate skepticism with cynicism.

[ZaraKitty]

Is the moral to this story to question everything?

[questionmark]

ZaraKitty, on 23 June 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

Is the moral to this story to question everything?

Yes, that a shark ain't a shark if you can't provide evidence

[jules99]

I dont know but when educated people  talk about higher math, quantum physics etc then my rejection or acceptance of these ideas will by necessity be faith based. My skepticism has its limits,
Good thread Abe, Ive read a lot of junk too, I dont mind people being wrong, thats life, but I hate liars..