Good to be back, though afraid it isn't for long. About a weekend is all I got, and I won't be able to spend it posting on all my colossal-waste-of-time-travels to tell you all about it. Just wanted to check to see that my favorite bunch of loonies are still thumping. Company's got me globe trotting...

Is there a specific conspiracy you're referring to, Nemesis?

Save?

By Daniel Flynn ROME (Reuters) - Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" in Venice, buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century. Sounds like something Long might do...

I know I shouldn't, but

Anything yet?

Alternate dimensions, string theory, and more. "Mildew on a shower curtain" huh? I remember watching a similar program several years ago. Very interesting, if very off.

Please remember Heather, that Malakai is a little troll who in no way speaks for the Society here. No, but it seems to be a growing pattern by more than a few. Keep those articles coming, Heather. I'm enjoying them. Hey X, what type of monitoring? Papparazzi type, people following with cameras? Or ...

Though I try to keep an open mind this seems kind of silly to me. Food-animals? I can't help but laugh. I can think of no logical reason that anyone would try to breed a food-animal someplace where the native fauna would be extremely hostile toward them. Then again, aliens would have very alien min...

Wearwolfs are a possability, but I'd probably assume, from the location described and the events, that it's one of the lost shaman spirits. After all the massacares and deaths of their followers there isn't much power left for them which is why they appear so insubstantial. I've heard of a lot of c...

A standard response, and the one we skeptics have generally heard. It continually amazes me how so many of you people wonder why the world doesn't believe you when all you have for them are wild tales and appendectomy scars. There are few people I know who regularly make an effort to gather proof of...

The esteemed Chen Lung has it. You can have all the belief you want, but you can't transfer that belief to others by grabbing their lapels and screaming in their faces, "But I saw it, man! I SAW it! It even gave me this scar!" That sort of talk just leads more level-headed men to call the ...

I understood you perfectly, sir. Only, both aspects have entered my life. People jumping to conclusions have nearly seen to my death, and in my own younger days, its caused me to lose a fair share of knuckle skin.

I don't know, a sedative and a straightjacket might just be what the doctor ordered if this ever goes beyond the realm of "fun" and into a true cry for help. So called "psi-jammers" are just a bunch of boxes that emit a high frequency soundwave that sensitive ears like those of d...

Actually, Mr. Ash Shaytan, "Jumping to conclusions" IS "Calling it as seen". The reverse can also be said with accuracy. We regularily jump to conclusions about what we see based on little more than our own individual prejuidices. This tendency has saved me more often than not. ...

Nemesis wrote:Actually, before the skeptics jump on it, I should look into some anti-hallucegenic drugs. There may be something there...

Heh. Why should I "jump on it"?

This is all for fun, remember? You said so yourself.

Lord Shakar wrote:Exactly Ron you tell it how you see it. Which is how it should be.

Agreed. But "jumping to conclusions" isn't "calling as seen."

Or think they really saw. The problem isn't people coming up with rational explanations for inexplicable events. The problem is when people start attributing a supernatural explanation for everything they see.

Looking back on what I've just written I realize just how silly all this actually is. Just the over-active imagination of a child who then had that imagination further fueled by other bored children. That is the simplist and easiet explanation. Hope you're having fun writing the story, Nemesis. Ver...

Why haven't there been more sightnings and experiences of people and the occult and the supernatural. Surely with 6 to 7 BILLION people in the world, surely we can not be the only ones seeing this stuff. Guess it kind of begs the question on why I'm reading up on a post started by a guy who hasn't ...

Splendid. I want knowledge, too. But sick and feverish soldiers have been known to wander off at night. As to what kind of technological function would not record a body, I cannot answer, for that is not where my expertise lies. But if there are any who believe machines never malfunctions is either ...

Like strange "moaning" sounds reported by guard posts that came from just outside the wire at night? Or the junk scavengers that didn't have a signature on a T.O.W. missile's thermal sight? Or the large shapes seen breaking the surface of a lake about 10 miles west of Al Fallujah? I doubt...

That's one word for it. I can think of others.

Disturbing, for one of them.

Who knows.

This story just shows that more people would rather believe in supernatural influences than in physical forces and social effects. It would seem that Americans would rather live in ignorance than in knowledge. It is, however, up to us to live in knowledge, to protect their right to be ignorant if t...

I doubt they have amnesia. But something might be in the "cover up" mode. Or, if I wanted to be really insulting, I suggest it didn't happen. However, that would be priggish and rude. So I won't.

Clarity Grace wrote:_____Mostly they smoke these strange cigarettes. They asked me if I wanted one, but I said I didn’t. Ethan didn’t smoke, so neither will I.[/i][/color]

Perhaps you should reconsider hanging out with these people, Clarity.

"Faded?"

That's remarkably convenient. But if you really believe in that stuff, are you sure it was a "burn" and not something else?

A. Pendragon wrote:

biggie wrote:well,nemesis
that is true...
but i meant it very literally...

it got strong enough to hold me down in the material plane...

have you ever had a history of night terrors?

Actually, I do suffer from night terrors quite often. Too often to be exact.

Related to PTSD, perhaps?

You know Miss Eilonwy, my da told me the best way to forget your pain is to serve others. It may sound trite and preachy coming from me, but hey. If it works... So not going to comment on My views of serving anyone. Good. This is about Miss Solstice's condition, after all, not on your views of serv...