Thus spake the authority on metaphysics.
Cheer up - it's a beautiful day.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 11:44, 1 reply)

so clearly you must have a bit of metaphysical knowledge that I don't have which demonstrates that spirits might exist?
I'm pretty sure that I'm on a solid footing when I say they definitely don't exist
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 11:48, closed)

Listen, lad, it's only a bit of fun, there's nothing to get upset about.
Really. So you're an atheist - well done I'm very impressed good for you being so sure of your convictions.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 11:51, closed)

not upset at all, just didnt get the story, and was struck by how blindingly obvious the source of the ouija creepiness was, considering that you yourself mentioned that one of the participants knew Latin
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 11:55, closed)

Next up
Santa doesn't exist, the tooth fairy is your parents, and everyone dies in the end.

Music is but maths, beauty is just pattern recognition, and love just biochemistry.

How joyful.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 11:59, closed)

"Music is but maths, beauty is just pattern recognition, and love just biochemistry"

no real need for the "but" and "just" there, is there? don't see a problem with seeing beauty in real terms rather than spiritual ones, what's wrong with a materialist approach in that sense?

I would wager that most of the people who have created beautiful music and art have done it through understanding of the maths and the patterns, rather than by a vague "spiritual" response, but I digress.

Just didn't understand your story is all, the tramp at the end didnt seem to relate to anything so thought I had missed something, and it seemed like it should be clear even to you taht your mate was behind the Latin quote.
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:04, closed)

Seriously, lighten up.
You don't have a point to prove. It's only a bit of fun - it's not like I'm burning women at the stake for being witches.

If you didn't get the story, you didn't get the story - never mind - I'm used to writing and saying stuff that goes right over people's heads - it's a curse.

But pissing all over it just makes you look like a petulent teenager.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:10, closed)

No.
He doesn't sound petulant. He pointed out that there was a decent explanation for what you experienced, which doesn't involve invoking spirits. You then bizarrely extrapolated that he must be miserable and trying to suck the joy out of everything. I don't see how that follows.

If you need to invoke metaphysical bollocks to see beauty or meaning in anything I'd suggest that it's your problem. Not his. There's no need to get stroppy about it.
(flimflam_machine, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:22, closed)

See below.
"Creepy stories" is hardly a set up for sirrius scientific discussion of explainable phenomena, is it?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:27, closed)

No
But it would help if the story made some sort of sense (most of the replies have been along the "I don't get it" line) and didn't include in it the information that clearly showed why it wasn't really all that creepy.
(flimflam_machine, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:29, closed)

OK I'm very sorry for wasting your time and ruining your day.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:32, closed)

Well
One of you is certainly behaving like a petulant teenager.
The other is actually writing rather articulately and interestingly. If you prefer to think that you're the "other" rather than the "one", that's your privilege.
(snopesthetruth, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 16:59, closed)

Especially as the Ouija board is a parlor game invented in the 1890s
designed to let men and women engage in risque discussions without social censure.
With no association with the 'talking boards' of earlier spiritualists.
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:12, closed)

wasnt pissing over it, its just that when you say "my mate definitely didnt know what it meant" it does encourage the more sceptical to cast doubt, because you cant just take at face value that a ouija board spelled out a latin phrase with no input from the participants. If you'd said "well, my mate probably did it, but it still freaked us out at the time" that would have been fair enough
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:21, closed)

Thanks I'll take that into consideration - next time I'm posting a creepy story
I'll be sure to preface it with "ALL OF THE BELOW IS ENTIRELY DUE TO RATIONAL, EXPLAINABLE PROCESSES OF WHICH I WAS UNAWARE AT THE TIME."

just in case anyone might start thinking that ghosts might exist.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:25, closed)