An unusual claim of religious persecution

[Sionnach Glic]

Can't remember. I'll go and look for the source now.

[Granitehewer]

thanks matey, am going to nick the article for a project on ''Public Perceptions of Mental Health'' which is due tomorrow,

[Aaron]

Yeah, it certainly isn't his religion that's wrong with him. I'm a certified crazy man (though one under control) and I can safely say that this dude is crazier than anything I've felt (for more than a brief spell, at least). People go nuts whenever the "R" word is invoked, but in his case the dude's simply out of his mind.

Exactly. He's just using his religion as a shield to get his job back, probably cause he can't afford food right about now. Hopefully the cout will just throw it out. Because honestly if you showed up and said "I lost my job because I spent 10 hours pissing on myself while watching The Sopranos after I saw a giant tri-colour elephant at work", that wouldn't fly either.

[Mark]

Take out the demon sighting, and that's still MORE than enough to take away his gun.

But, for the record........he may very well HAVE seen SOMETHING. We shouldn't dismiss it out of hand. I can say for me personally, that I sure as hell BELIEVE I saw a "demon" inside somebody's eyes once. True story. I was 18 and my nephew and some friends thought they would introduce me to this girl they thought would be perfect for me. When I finally met her, I can't explain it, but when I looked into her eyes I saw "evil". Not dead eyes because I've known cold blooded murderers. Not insanity, because I've known a couple of honest nut jobs. But evil. She had blue eyes, but they just "seemed" black to me. She radiated waves of evil (I can't think of any other way to explain it" that raised my hackles, gave me chicken skin, made me break out in a cold sweat, and my heart race. I could only stand to be around her for a little while before I had to make excuses and get the hell away.

Later that year, she was arrested for practicing bloody satanic rites involving animal sacrifice. After said arrest, the police found her "diary" where she was planning a human sacrifice. She had been playing with Ouji boards and black magic since she was 13, and I HONESTLY believe that's what happened to her.

The DITL scientists are welcome to scoff. Hell, I'd scoff myself if I hadn't experienced it first hand myself. I truely do believe in science, but my instincts tell me that is what I saw.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Take out the demon sighting, and that's still MORE than enough to take away his gun.

But, for the record........he may very well HAVE seen SOMETHING. We shouldn't dismiss it out of hand. I can say for me personally, that I sure as hell BELIEVE I saw a "demon" inside somebody's eyes once. True story. I was 18 and my nephew and some friends thought they would introduce me to this girl they thought would be perfect for me. When I finally met her, I can't explain it, but when I looked into her eyes I saw "evil". Not dead eyes because I've known cold blooded murderers. Not insanity, because I've known a couple of honest nut jobs. But evil. She had blue eyes, but they just "seemed" black to me. She radiated waves of evil (I can't think of any other way to explain it" that raised my hackles, gave me chicken skin, made me break out in a cold sweat, and my heart race. I could only stand to be around her for a little while before I had to make excuses and get the hell away.

Later that year, she was arrested for practicing bloody satanic rites involving animal sacrifice. After said arrest, the police found her "diary" where she was planning a human sacrifice. She had been playing with Ouji boards and black magic since she was 13, and I HONESTLY believe that's what happened to her.

The DITL scientists are welcome to scoff. Hell, I'd scoff myself if I hadn't experienced it first hand myself. I truely do believe in science, but my instincts tell me that is what I saw.

Scientifically, you may have picked up on something about her that you couldn't explicitly understand consciously, but that you understood at some level and this "feeling" was the way your unconscious alerted you to the perceived danger. In that sense, it's not that incredibly strange that one gets a "feeling" about someone, though the "demon" aspect certainly makes it more colorful. Animals definitely use such a sense all the time.

[Granitehewer]

i have university degree level and above qualifications in biology,and cognitive psychology so might be a ditl scientist but i won't scoff,to discount something without empirically testing it, checking its falsifiability etc, is foolish in any academic discipline.

[Mark]

Take out the demon sighting, and that's still MORE than enough to take away his gun.

But, for the record........he may very well HAVE seen SOMETHING. We shouldn't dismiss it out of hand. I can say for me personally, that I sure as hell BELIEVE I saw a "demon" inside somebody's eyes once. True story. I was 18 and my nephew and some friends thought they would introduce me to this girl they thought would be perfect for me. When I finally met her, I can't explain it, but when I looked into her eyes I saw "evil". Not dead eyes because I've known cold blooded murderers. Not insanity, because I've known a couple of honest nut jobs. But evil. She had blue eyes, but they just "seemed" black to me. She radiated waves of evil (I can't think of any other way to explain it" that raised my hackles, gave me chicken skin, made me break out in a cold sweat, and my heart race. I could only stand to be around her for a little while before I had to make excuses and get the hell away.

Later that year, she was arrested for practicing bloody satanic rites involving animal sacrifice. After said arrest, the police found her "diary" where she was planning a human sacrifice. She had been playing with Ouji boards and black magic since she was 13, and I HONESTLY believe that's what happened to her.

The DITL scientists are welcome to scoff. Hell, I'd scoff myself if I hadn't experienced it first hand myself. I truely do believe in science, but my instincts tell me that is what I saw.

Scientifically, you may have picked up on something about her that you couldn't explicitly understand consciously, but that you understood at some level and this "feeling" was the way your unconscious alerted you to the perceived danger. In that sense, it's not that incredibly strange that one gets a "feeling" about someone, though the "demon" aspect certainly makes it more colorful. Animals definitely use such a sense all the time.

That actually was the first thing that I thought of. Believe me, a supernatural explination IS hard for me to swallow. Unless my senses where so finely tuned at that precise moment to pick up on it BEFORE she uttered a single word or even stood up, it wouldn't explain it. A split second of eye contact, and my fight or flight (mainly flight) response kicked in.

Fixed quotation - Tsu

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Yeah, in that case - I guess we all get feelings that are hard to explain away. I've had some as well that my skepticism can't quite seem to explain sometimes.

BTW, your formatting is a bit funny in that last reply.

[Tsukiyumi]

I'm quite good at reading people, and there have been more than a few times where I got a "negative vibe" from someone right away. To date, I'm batting .1000 when it comes to sniffing out "evil" people.

[Granitehewer]

''sniffing out...people'', elton john does that

[Tsukiyumi]

[Aaron]

Take out the demon sighting, and that's still MORE than enough to take away his gun.

But, for the record........he may very well HAVE seen SOMETHING. We shouldn't dismiss it out of hand. I can say for me personally, that I sure as hell BELIEVE I saw a "demon" inside somebody's eyes once. True story. I was 18 and my nephew and some friends thought they would introduce me to this girl they thought would be perfect for me. When I finally met her, I can't explain it, but when I looked into her eyes I saw "evil". Not dead eyes because I've known cold blooded murderers. Not insanity, because I've known a couple of honest nut jobs. But evil. She had blue eyes, but they just "seemed" black to me. She radiated waves of evil (I can't think of any other way to explain it" that raised my hackles, gave me chicken skin, made me break out in a cold sweat, and my heart race. I could only stand to be around her for a little while before I had to make excuses and get the hell away.

Later that year, she was arrested for practicing bloody satanic rites involving animal sacrifice. After said arrest, the police found her "diary" where she was planning a human sacrifice. She had been playing with Ouji boards and black magic since she was 13, and I HONESTLY believe that's what happened to her.

The DITL scientists are welcome to scoff. Hell, I'd scoff myself if I hadn't experienced it first hand myself. I truely do believe in science, but my instincts tell me that is what I saw.

I had the same experiance when I first met my former brother-in-law and years later I find out he was arrested for jerking off in a parking lot to some teen girls. Sometimes your instincts give you a clue that you can't pin down, I tend to listen to them but it's nothing supernatural. Just a natural response to some subtle clues.

[Tsukiyumi]

...Sometimes your instincts give you a clue that you can't pin down, I tend to listen to them but it's nothing supernatural. Just a natural response to some subtle clues.

Right. Some people are just better at listening to those instincts.

[Mikey]

There are all kinds of empirical evidence and scientific redording of "supernatural" events, from clairvoyance to materializing a tulpa. The point here is that the people involved aren't generally both a) hanging around pissing on themselves, and b) walking around with a firearm in a position to use it.

[Mark]

Very true. Now that I don't drink anymore, I have no trouble getting to a toilet