The evil of banality

[hooplala]

Point.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Great rant Mang!!!!!



Your point is well proven here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302158_3.html?sub=AR&sid=ST2008111401409&s_pos=

I have a real hard time with the whole "vampire movement"    I just can't comprehend that people are really truly that stupid. 

[Manta Obscura]

A fun test to do with "psychic vampires" (or "aura seers," regular psychics, or any other mystical fraud) if you ever run into one*:

1) First, ask them if they can sense your energy. They will say "yes."

2) Ask them if they can sense your energy a few feet away from them. They will say "yes."

3) Hold an object, like a book, in front of your head. Ask them if they can sense your energy. They will say "yes."

4) Ask them if, since all of this is "true," you were to stand behind a long, thin (yet opaque) wall that was just taller than your body, would they be able to sense your energy and discover where you are behind the wall. They will start blathering and sputtering, not knowing how to reconcile their claims with the challenge.

5) Laugh as their worldview is shattered. Find another "psychic vampire" or mystic person and repeat.



*Note: I blatantly stole this from Dr. Raymond Smullyan's essay, "On Astrology," adapting it in a few ways.

[Jenne]

I never meet any psychic vamps...but I swear my step-monster-in-law is one.  Everytime I'm around her I just want to go limp and crawl into a fetal position.

[Rhaythe]

Great rant Mang!!!!!



Your point is well proven here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302158_3.html?sub=AR&sid=ST2008111401409&s_pos=

I have a real hard time with the whole "vampire movement"    I just can't comprehend that people are really truly that stupid. 

Never underestimate the human potential for stupidity or how far people will go to "fit in".

[OPTIMUS PINECONE]

Drinking the blood of a kill, in hunting is fairly common. The basic idea is the energy exchange, which is not complex and applicable to other similar consumptions. For instance, this is part of the German Jaegermeister history.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

But blood is food, so that's not really analogous to people who claim to feed on non-matter energy.

[OPTIMUS PINECONE]

But blood is food, so that's not really analogous to people who claim to feed on non-matter energy.

     And you're doing WHAT, right now?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Are you calling me a psychic energy vampire?

[Jenne]

Drinking the blood of a kill, in hunting is fairly common. The basic idea is the energy exchange, which is not complex and applicable to other similar consumptions. For instance, this is part of the German Jaegermeister history.

Great point--makes me want to research blood rites and how they are stictly verboten in some cultures and totally sacrosanct in others.

[Mangrove]

Back in my day, there were no such thing as 'psychic vampires'. If you wanted to have all your emotion and will-to-live sucked out of you, go find an alcoholic and get them talking about their life story.

[hooplala]

Back in my day, there were no such thing as 'psychic vampires'. If you wanted to have all your emotion and will-to-live sucked out of you, go find an alcoholic and get them talking about their life story.

Or observe Beyonce in mid-performance of any song.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Back in my day, there were no such thing as 'psychic vampires'. If you wanted to have all your emotion and will-to-live sucked out of you, go find an alcoholic and get them talking about their life story.

[OPTIMUS PINECONE]

Are you calling me a psychic energy vampire?

     I'm calling EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, a psychic vampire.

     Except Peter Griffin.

[hooplala]

I take issue with that... I'm more of a psychic gremlin.