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Elizabeth I said:
I wonder if the spirits in this thread and the spirits in this other thread are the same spirits?
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I don't know if they are the same spirits, but here's what flaccon posted elsewhere (#18) back in 2005:

My doctor was treating me for pseudocyesis (result of an attack) he knew my case was genuine. Whilst he was away on holiday I went to visit a locum doctor and asked to be put under observation. Maybe they could detect any signs of illness I dont see. I related events and showed certain evidence to a psychiartris. I was monitored for 6 months (weekly visits to our home) and I spoke with a psychiartrist fortnightly. I was declared A1 sane. Still am, and always will be.
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Pseudocyesis is also known as false pregnancy, so draw your own conclusions.

When I listened to Scrappy's recording I heard, in a clear voice: "Lack of insight."

Scordatura
 
scrappy said:
she's not messing with spirits, they were "messing" with her. she didn't study the bible much but she knows of no other spirit that can raise the dead heal the sick, produce blood from scars, and attempt to provide for the poor.
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Oh stop being ludicrous.
There are no spirits. Full stop.

There is no raising of the dead. There is no healing of the sick beyond medical practices. Attempts to provide for the poor are purely human endeavors.
 
Quinn said:
scrappy said:
Correction, I record in silence. My room is silent.
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This is incorrect. It is a highly significant error. It may even be the error that's causing all your other errors.

Unless your room was specifically designed and constructed by highly-paid professionals for the express purpose of being silent, it is not silent, even if you think it is. It may sound silent to you as you sit there, but that just means the ambient noise is too quiet for you to notice. It is not, however, too quiet for a microphone to pick up. So when you use a microphone to make a recording of what you think is silence, what you're actually recording is the noise that's too quiet for you to hear, but not too quiet for the mic. When you then play back that recording, but turn the volume way up so that the noise that was previously too quiet to hear is now audible, you're hearing noise that was there all along, but that you just didn't notice. And this is exactly the kind of noise that's easy for our brains to impart with patterns that we want to make out.
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Funny how these salient points keep getting ignored by the OP and her henchman. You're recording ambient room sounds that the naked ear cannot detect, and then projecting your own biases into the playback as your brain seeks out patterns in the noise. What is so difficult to grasp about that?
 
Vortigern99 said:
Funny how these salient points keep getting ignored by the OP and her henchman. You're recording ambient room sounds that the naked ear cannot detect, and then projecting your own biases into the playback as your brain seeks out patterns in the noise. What is so difficult to grasp about that?
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Well, it's not as cool as "spirits are infesting my computer."
 
scrappy said:
I'm not the one entering a contest. I know Flaccon forwarded a suggested test plan, but received a reply about broken showers, pay cuts and redundancies.
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If he's referring to ASKE, are they having plumbing and financial problems?

Scordatura said:
I don't know if they are the same spirits, but here's what flaccon posted elsewhere (#18) back in 2005:



Pseudocyesis is also known as false pregnancy, so draw your own conclusions.
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I've drawn my own conclusions and they're much more disturbing than the comparatively harmless delusions caused by pareidolia. Notice that flaccon says her doctor believes her case was 'genuine' - does she mean a genuine case of false pregnancy (the most reasonable explanation) or a genuine case of demonic/ghostly attack? As we've seen, what a doctor says and what flaccon wants to hear may be two very different things.

To be honest, I think the bloodstain pictures and ghostly voices may be the tip of the iceberg. flaccon has already provided us with her father's surname, which IF it was real was a very unusual one. She's also told us the real Christian name of her late sister. IF this was the name under which her birth was registered I can find no trace of it in the records to which I have access as an amateur genealogist. I also find it hard to believe that one of flaccon's sisters is married to a knighted ex-head of Scotland Yard.

If I'm mistaken about this I'll be happy to apologise.
 
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Alice Shortcake said:
Congratulations on passing this baptism of fire! You have demonstrated your worthiness to embark on the epic Shroud of Turin thread*.

*We strongly advise the use of protective clothing and a tinfoil hat
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By the hilited bit you mean the Shroud of Turin leggings, I presume?
I daresay we could expect flaccon to ah calibrate the tinfoil hat for a reasonable fee.
 
Orphia Nay said:
I'll just leave this here...

Listening to Soft Voices Can Cause "Brain Orgasms"

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Thanks for a most interesting little item, Orphia!

Alice Shortcake said:
...To be honest, I think the bloodstain pictures and ghostly voices may be the tip of the iceberg. ...If I'm mistaken about this I'll be happy to apologise.
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I came to that conclusion from reading the webpage with the references to cats.
And like you, I'll be happy to apologise if I'm mistaken.
 
Ah, those leggings! If they were a bit cheaper - say £12 - I'd buy a pair.

On a totally unrelated note, pakeha, I love your Christmas kiwi and its teddy.
 
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Why can't I find the Shroud of Turin Thread? And will I have finished reading it in time for Christmas?

I've got my disbelief suspended, and my tinfoil hat by my side.
 
'Tis here:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=226761&highlight=shroud+turin

If you don't waste too much time sleeping and eating you should have finished reading it by Christmas 2014.

If you enjoyed that, or simply have masochistic tendencies, I also recommend two other JREF classics:

The corn gods are speaking to us! Sort of!
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91938

The return of Bonnie Prince Charlie:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188210

Anyway, to get back on track - flaccon, if you didn't intend to reveal your father's surname I suggest you ask one of the mods to edit it out.
 
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Whoa, I temporarily forgot about Turin Shroud II - Jabba Wants To Believe. My memory's sanity-maintaining filter must have kicked in.

I hope flaccon and scrappy will be back to tell us more about their forthcoming performance. I'd love to know where they found the sceptics who've been invited.
 
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Alice Shortcake said:
Ah, those leggings! If they were a bit cheaper - say £12 - I'd buy a pair.

On a totally unrelated note, pakeha, I love your Christmas kiwi and its teddy.
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Hmmm.
I'm seeing white leggings and one of those shops that'll print anything on tee-shirts and similar...

The avatar IS a peach, isn't it.
It was made for my by a true artist in the Christmas avatar thread last year.
ETA
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248662&highlight=Christmas+avatars


zelda19678 said:
Why can't I find the Shroud of Turin Thread? And will I have finished reading it in time for Christmas?

I've got my disbelief suspended, and my tinfoil hat by my side.
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Maybe for Christmas of 2014.
 
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1 On death As Wilde lay dying, he bravely laughed and joked with his friends. "I am dying beyond my means," "I can't even afford to die" and "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go" are some of his famous death-bed utterances. Wilde's funniest witticism on the subject of death, however, was told a few months earlier to his devoted friend Robert Ross. Like much of Wilde's wit, it is also incredibly moving. "When the Last Trumpet sounds," he said, "and we are couched in our porphyry tombs, I shall turn and whisper to you, `Robbie, Robbie, let us pretend we do not hear it.' "
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3573236/Top-five-Oscar-Wilde-witticisms.html

The author of The Infanta's Birthday can do no wrong in my eyes.
You, on the other hand...
 
Orphia Nay said:
I'll just leave this here...

Listening to Soft Voices Can Cause "Brain Orgasms"

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I'm in total agreement with this commenter:

In all seriousness, are we being punked? I ask because her voice is so grating to me I had to turn it off after about 20 seconds. Maybe some sort of social experiment geared toward the average Mental Floss reader? Again, I am asking for real. I HATED hearing her talk this way.
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For me, hearing that is instant "flight or fight". I have to get out of there fast, or I'm worried I'd start breaking furniture.

I lasted 10 seconds. Tried it again. Nope. Gotta go, sorry.

oh, and then Brett says:

It sounds like you may have something called misophonia, or "sound hatred." Usually characterized by the literal hatred of sounds, such as lip smacking and loud chewing. I experience both ASMR and misophonia, so I ride a very fine line while browsing for content.
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Yup. My ear, so to speak, is a smoking gun. (Block that metaphor.)
 
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