Looking for Skeptics

[Orphia Nay]

Well said. These are points that make me quite sure we are not dealing with an internet hoax.

We are not competing with clever trolls. We're faced with people intoxicated by the paranormal. Life after death, spirits, demons, ghosts... this story has a lot to offer the credulous.

Simple things like fact-checking and consistency go by the wayside when such 'awesome, wonderful' issues are at stake. Fact-checking and consistency are terrestrial, mundane stuff.

The paranormal offers a cheap thrill, a high, a sense of being special.

What do we offer? Cold hard facts and the relief of understanding.

Whoever mentioned "intoxicating in the paranormal" are way off the mark. I am 20 years on the run, and a further 8 months down the line praying for the Church to help me.

That was me. See above.

Your second sentence does not logically follow your first. It actually contradicts it, and proves my point.

You're intoxicated by the paranormal; you're addicted to the paranormal.

It's sent you on the highest highs, and the lowest lows. It makes you feel special. Admit it, "Special Fingers".

You're so addicted to the paranormal it has become your life's work. 20 years and counting. You spend every night playing with your recordings, getting your fix.

You lie to cover up for your dearest thing, the paranormal. You refuse to admit it could possibly be pareidolia, despite pareidolia being able to explain everything that has happened. Anything to protect your highs.

I feel so sorry for you.

 

[Daylightstar]

For the record, I am with my sister, Robin1, right now.

Any mention of a "Robin" in this thread and/or on recordings has nothing to do with my sister.

She is not connected to the OP at all.

Funny coincidence, though.

How's the refrigerator holding up?

 

[Maurice Ledifficile]

For the record, I am with my sister, Robin1, right now.

Any mention of a "Robin" in this thread and/or on recordings has nothing to do with my sister.

She is not connected to the OP at all.

Funny coincidence, though.

I was just cracking myself up again. Welcome to the forum. I hope you'll be speaking your own mind.☻☺☻

 

[tuxcat]

That was me. See above.

Your second sentence does not logically follow your first. It actually contradicts it, and proves my point.

You're intoxicated by the paranormal; you're addicted to the paranormal.

It's sent you on the highest highs, and the lowest lows. It makes you feel special. Admit it, "Special Fingers".

You're so addicted to the paranormal it has become your life's work. 20 years and counting. You spend every night playing with your recordings, getting your fix.

You lie to cover up for your dearest thing, the paranormal. You refuse to admit it could possibly be pareidolia, despite pareidolia being able to explain everything that has happened. Anything to protect your highs.

I feel so sorry for you.

Some people find heroin as a comfort blanket, others delusion and stone-age fairy stories.

 

[Maurice Ledifficile]

That was me. See above.

Your second sentence does not logically follow your first. It actually contradicts it, and proves my point.

You're intoxicated by the paranormal; you're addicted to the paranormal.

It's sent you on the highest highs, and the lowest lows. It makes you feel special. Admit it, "Special Fingers".

You're so addicted to the paranormal it has become your life's work. 20 years and counting. You spend every night playing with your recordings, getting your fix.

You lie to cover up for your dearest thing, the paranormal. You refuse to admit it could possibly be pareidolia, despite pareidolia being able to explain everything that has happened. Anything to protect your highs.

I feel so sorry for you.

Well, there's that too...

 

[OccamJr2]

How's the refrigerator holding up?

That's cold.

 

[Daylightstar]

... my dead dog's ghost ate inside my laptop.

Aaaah so that's what calibrating a laptop means.

 

[Daylightstar]

That's cold.

Oh good, so you have it plugged in and it works. Excellent.

 

[Maurice Ledifficile]

That's cold.

I gotta say, that's funny enough for me.

 

[AdMan]

That's cold.

I gotta say, that's funny enough for me.

I LOLed too.

Cheers, OccamJr.

 

[Daylightstar]

Yep, OccamJr2 is a pretty funny person.

 

[Apology]

In the US a general practitioner can also be certified in various specialties. For instance, my mother's GP is also an OB/GYN and Aviation Medicine specialist. He's a very busy guy.

I'd like to see him combine his two specialties into one visit but I doubt he'd think that was very funny.

 

[tuxcat]

In the US a general practitioner can also be certified in various specialties. For instance, my mother's GP is also an OB/GYN and Aviation Medicine specialist. He's a very busy guy.

I'd like to see him combine his two specialties into one visit but I doubt he'd think that was very funny.

I don't know about the UK but as far as I know GPs are only trained in general practice. That's not to say that they don't have other qualifications but it's highly unlikely seeing that they would be working in a hospital with better pay and a greater status.

 

[Orphia Nay]

The GP's letter looks real enough to me.

However, with such long sentences redacted it's not worth much.

What is left, though, looks like the GP doesn't believe in the paranormal to me, since he/she has written it knowing Tracey would see it and doesn't want to offend her.

I'd be much more interested in seeing the GP's file notes, but that's not going to happen.

Doctor slang is a dying art

 

[Foolmewunz]

That's cold.

I gotta say, that's funny enough for me.

I LOLed too.

Cheers, OccamJr.

Yep, OccamJr2 is a pretty funny person.

No. Robin1 is a pretty funny person. He said in his first post he was with her and we know she has a good sense of humor.

Robin, how ya doing? Enjoying your self-imposed martyrdom? Couldn't stay away, could you? Why not just re-register and come out and run with the big dogs, again?



/end derail? hope.

 

[desertgal]

A GP is general practitioner - general ailments and illnesses that the general public has. Anything more severe than a cold and you need to see a specialist at a hospital after being referred.

I understand that. Not what I was asking. Flaccon consistently referred to the good doctor as a GP-presumably someone practicing family medicine, and not a specialty. The scan of the letter reveals the doctor is most likely a practicing OB/GYN-presumably someone limiting their practice to the specialties of gynecology and obstetrics. Is it common in Britain to refer to an obstetrician as a GP?

Something about this doesn't smell right. Why would a Bishop refer a possibly delusional parisioner to a gynecologist? Why would any doctor write such a letter? Seems like there is more to this story than flaccon says. The only possible explanation that I can think of is that the obstetrician wrote the letter with the intent that flaccon would present it to a mental health professional for reference. Otherwise, none of it makes sense.

I'm just wondering aloud. Sorry for the thread drift.

 

[tuxcat]

I understand that. Not what I was asking. Flaccon consistently referred to the good doctor as a GP. The scan of the letter reveals the doctor is most likely a practicing OB/GYN. Is it common in Britain to refer to an obstetrician as a GP?

Something about this doesn't smell right. Why would a Bishop refer a possibly delusional parisioner to a gynecologist? Why would any doctor write such a letter? Seems like there is more to this story than flaccon says. The only possible explanation that I can think of is that the obstetrician wrote the letter with the intent that flaccon would present it to a mental health professional for reference. Otherwise, none of it makes sense.

I'm just wondering aloud. Sorry for the thread drift.

No a GP will probably not be a gynaecologist although GPs can take smear tests. A gynaecologist will be called a gynaecologist and not a GP.

 

[Orphia Nay]

I don't see the point in repeatedly asking flaccon to submit a protocol.

She's said she doesn't want to take any paranormal challenges.

She's clearly just here to claim the spirits are real because she and a few of her brave friends think so. (Confirmation Bias; anecdotal evidence; appeal to popularity.)

She conjures up lame excuses "the spirits" have for not taking even the most simple tests.

She can't answer a simply phrased question.

It's taken her a month just to work out the quote button...

Do you really think she can work out a scientific testing protocol?

 

[tuxcat]

I don't see the point in repeatedly asking flaccon to submit a protocol.

She's said she doesn't want to take any paranormal challenges.

She's clearly just here to claim the spirits are real because she and a few of her brave friends think so. (Confirmation Bias; anecdotal evidence; appeal to popularity.)

She conjures up lame excuses "the spirits" have for not taking even the most simple tests.

She can't answer a simply phrased question.

It's taken her a month just to work out the quote button...

Do you really think she can work out a scientific testing protocol?

^ You have a point. Quite frankly I have no idea whether flaccon is:

• A wind-up merchant trolling us for kicks
• Round the bend and in need of a straightjacket
• Genuinely psychic and obtuse and as thick as two short fat planks

 

[Orphia Nay]

I understand that. Not what I was asking. Flaccon consistently referred to the good doctor as a GP-presumably someone practicing family medicine, and not a specialty. The scan of the letter reveals the doctor is most likely a practicing OB/GYN-presumably someone limiting their practice to the specialties of gynecology and obstetrics. Is it common in Britain to refer to an obstetrician as a GP?

Something about this doesn't smell right. Why would a Bishop refer a possibly delusional parisioner to a gynecologist? Why would any doctor write such a letter? Seems like there is more to this story than flaccon says. The only possible explanation that I can think of is that the obstetrician wrote the letter with the intent that flaccon would present it to a mental health professional for reference. Otherwise, none of it makes sense.

I'm just wondering aloud. Sorry for the thread drift.

My preferred GP is also an Ob-gyn. I see him whenever I can get an appointment for whatever is wrong at the time.