OK, In all equality...
I think she is a Batshit Crazy extremeist!
Take er' down Atheists

I wonder how her mom things of this... Since birth she said...

>> ^Sagemind:
OK, In all equality...
I think she is a Batshit Crazy extremeist!
Take er' down Atheists

Why bother? There are far more dangerous crazies in our schools, in our government and in our media who have truly sinister agendas. Let the psy-vampires feed off my imaginary energy or whatever; at least they're not starting wars or shooting abortionists.

Religion sucks...

Hmmm, are we sure that first guy's mom is a psy vamp and not a cheeseburger vamp?

Maybe I'm misinformed on the calorie count of psychic energy...

Play them off, keyboard cat!

"Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, law, justice, validity, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as mysticism or mythology) by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned argument."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

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I think people just want to believe in something but everyone wants to be different or original. Some want status quo, some want to stand out, some people like sex while some people hate their bodies, Some want to lead, some want to follow.

My point is, it's all the same, under a different label. Humans just yearn for understanding whether it is in religion or in science - most people just want to know..., "is this it or is there more?"

Because life can be so blasé, we want there to be more. And for those that can rationalize out some of the believing in what doesn't exist, science is the next best path.

Satanism is just a fun way to say "I want to believe too, I just don't want to believe what you believe,"

Actually, let me take it to the next level.

Remember the first Harry Potter book? You know why it was so popular? Because at its core, it is everyone's ultimate fantasy. I don't mean the magic, I mean the fundamental theme: your life sucks and you discover that you are actually a very special and unique person; suddenly you are whisked away from your shit life and lead and exciting existence beyond your wildest dreams.

To me this the the fundamental principal of all social delusion. People who say they have seen a UFO, people who say they saw bigfoot, people who say they hear god talking to them, people who say they are vampires, etc.

Now, I think after a while, as you lie you yourself over and over, or perhaps because you are taught to lie to yourself from such an early age you don't know any better, you start to believe the lie and even worse, depend on it for your identity.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to wake up tomorrow to some wonderful revelation about magic of some kind in the universe. The problem is that there is NEVER any reasonable evidence and eye-witness accounts are worth nothing because of this basic principal. Show me a "credible" UFO witness and I'll show you a person who has finally become "special" because something interesting happened to them. Even so-called alien abductees who claim to not want the terrible knowledge they have are in my mind reveling in the attention they get.... they are on tv, with their funny glasses... looking at themselves on their taped playbacks and saying "woe is me, I'm special."

As for the vampires, like anything else, put them in front of a doctor and they will tell you invariably that they are just people like any other. They don't burn instantly in the sunlight, they can't live on they so-called "feeding" alone. Most pathetically, many of their "traits" can clearly be traced back to movies and literature which have defined them, not to anything historically relevant.

I suppose that the fringe amuses me in a further way than normal because it always seems like the people who lead the most pathetic lives are the ones who find themselves suddenly "special" like that 300lb psychic vampire. To go back to my original comment... I'm sure she got obese by eating pint after pint of Ben and Jerry's and not by sucking psychic energy from her enabling friends.

>> ^ponceleon:
cheeseburger vamp


the looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand or so I have read

I agree entirely!
And I think we all want a piece of that fantasy, even if just a little bit.
I think many of us would thrive more if we gave up the fantasy and lived the reality more.

>> ^ponceleon:
Actually, let me take it to the next level.
Remember the first Harry Potter book? You know why it was so popular? Because at its core, it is everyone's ultimate fantasy. I don't mean the magic, I mean the fundamental theme: your life sucks and you discover that you are actually a very special and unique person; suddenly you are whisked away from your shit life and lead and exciting existence beyond your wildest dreams.

>> ^ponceleon:
To go back to my original comment... I'm sure she got obese by eating pint after pint of Ben and Jerry's and not by sucking psychic energy from her enabling friends.

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