Christopher Dufresne

[lady_mockington]

Tell us the story! I don't believe in ghosts, but I know several very smart, rational people who have told me that they've seen and believe in ghosts. I always like hearing the stories.

Great user name, BTW.

Thanks, I like your name too. I'm a huge Tarantino fan. My one and only ghost experience happened when I shared an apartment with some friends. I was in my room, alone, when I heard something in the dining room. I went out and just saw this human figure which moved a bit and then disappeared. I tried to figure out what the hell it could be but never did. Interestingly enough, I mentioned it to our downstairs neighbour and they had experienced the same thing. I say human figure because it had shape but no form. I know it sounds weird but that's the best way to explain it. Was it a ghost? I don't know for sure but I think it was.

This is just my opinion but if we are energy, are matter, then that energy must go somewhere when its shell dies. That's the way I look at it.

 

[TheDaver]

Heck with the bottle; I'd be hitting the whole distillery!

Hell with that – if I was Browne’s son, I’d have doused myself with it and lit a match!

Thanks, I like your name too. I'm a huge Tarantino fan. My one and only ghost experience happened when I shared an apartment with some friends. I was in my room, alone, when I heard something in the dining room. I went out and just saw this human figure which moved a bit and then disappeared. I tried to figure out what the hell it could be but never did. Interestingly enough, I mentioned it to our downstairs neighbour and they had experienced the same thing. I say human figure because it had shape but no form. I know it sounds weird but that's the best way to explain it. Was it a ghost? I don't know for sure but I think it was.

This is just my opinion but if we are energy, are matter, then that energy must go somewhere when its shell dies. That's the way I look at it.

Sorry to kind of take the wind out of your sails, but I think your mind was just playing tricks on you.

I’ve had it happen before, although not quite as interesting as your case. My computer’s in my bedroom very close to my bed, and in a few instances I’ve left the computer doing some task when I went to bed, and then woken up in the middle of the night half asleep (e.g. to get a drink or go to the washroom) and seen odd things on the screen only to have them change to something more normal once I blink or rub my eyes. Again, nothing incredible – usually just numbers that appear as I expect or worry about them being rather than what they really are. And I know computers (especially the programs involved in this case) well enough to know that it’s not the computer glitching out or playing a trick on me – it’s really just my half-asleep mind.

That’s my experience, anyway.

 

[dropzone]

My half-asleep mind saw and felt a flamingo walking on my bed. I don't trust my mind when I'm awake and I'm darned if I'll trust it at other times.

 

[lady_mockington]

Hell with that – if I was Browne’s son, I’d have doused myself with it and lit a match!


Sorry to kind of take the wind out of your sails, but I think your mind was just playing tricks on you.

Hello, TheDaver! If this had been in the middle of the night with me just waking up, I'd be inclined to agree with you. But this was in the afternoon and I hadn't been asleep..just relaxing in my room with a good book.

And I agree with you re: Browne's son. Go Habs!

 

[dropzone]

I have found just the right mix of non-prescription medicines to let me do it any time of day. Nyquil and Benadryl aren't just to dry up your sinuses anymore!

Beats the heck out of the old method, which was to get less than two hours sleep in a two-day period. Avoid having cholicy twins if you don't want to hallucinate. Those like me, members of the "just say yes" generation, are open to it.

 

[Vic Vega]

Thanks, I like your name too. I'm a huge Tarantino fan. My one and only ghost experience happened when I shared an apartment with some friends. I was in my room, alone, when I heard something in the dining room. I went out and just saw this human figure which moved a bit and then disappeared. I tried to figure out what the hell it could be but never did. Interestingly enough, I mentioned it to our downstairs neighbour and they had experienced the same thing. I say human figure because it had shape but no form. I know it sounds weird but that's the best way to explain it. Was it a ghost? I don't know for sure but I think it was.

This is just my opinion but if we are energy, are matter, then that energy must go somewhere when its shell dies. That's the way I look at it.

Good story. Thanks for sharing. Sorry to hijack the thread.

Carry on.

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

I just feel that his skeptical writing gifts are wasted on Sylvia Browne.
Because for every one person who reads his site or finally gets their worthless $700 phone call and see Sylvia for what she is there are five more to take their place.

Serious question. I really want to hear your answer on this.

You say Sylvia is a waste of time and not a worthy target. What would be a worthy target to you? James Van Praagh? John Edward? Rosemary Altea? You'd be saying the exact same thing about all three of them, if Robert turned his attention to them! Someone else? Kevin "Informercial" Trudeau? Benny Hinn? Who?

 

[Brattus]

Serious question. I really want to hear your answer on this.

You say Sylvia is a waste of time and not a worthy target. What would be a worthy target to you? James Van Praagh? John Edward? Rosemary Altea? You'd be saying the exact same thing about all three of them, if Robert turned his attention to them! Someone else? Kevin "Informercial" Trudeau? Benny Hinn? Who?

I said a waste of Mr. Lancasters time and talent. I didn't say anything about not being a worthy target.
Anybody with half a brain knows that Sylvia Browne is a liar, cheat and a fraud.
But she was on that crap Montel show.
TV reaches far more people than a website does.
My point being that once a lying psychic fraud makes it to a regular national TV spot all bets are off.
They will pull them in by the 1000s. No website can touch that.
So for every 1 person that finds the site and learns from it there are 5 more new fools sending her money and buying her books.
Once they get that famous or infamous then they are just about untouchable.
Look at all the ghost hunter shows on TV now.
They have stumbling bumbling idiots hosting that crap who have no reason to ever be on TV but people eat it like candy.
Most people believe what their TV tells them.
If their TV tells them Sylvia Browne is a great psychic, spirit talker and faith healer they buy it all the way.
You said yourself in one of the post I seen by you.
That you couldn't understand how people could follow Sylvia Browne when there has never been any prove of any of her claims.
The answer is their TV told them it was true.
That is all the proof the sheep will ever need.
So when Mr. Lancaster is going up against Sylvia Browne he is also going up against TV itself.
I believe his talent would be used much better going after the smaller time up and coming frauds and stop them just like he did Kaz before they reach the TV stage.

 

[pgwenthold]

I no longer believe in much that is psychic at all. Well, maybe none of it. I don't know. Even my old favorite, Edgar Cayce, hasn't stood up to close scrutiny.

To further the derail, I find this comment very interesting. That you once were a believer of Cayce, but now admit that he doesn't hold up to "close scrutiny." Does that mean that when you were a believer, you didn't actually scrutinize all that closely?

 

[ExMinister]

To further the derail, I find this comment very interesting. That you once were a believer of Cayce, but now admit that he doesn't hold up to "close scrutiny." Does that mean that when you were a believer, you didn't actually scrutinize all that closely?

Yes. I studied Cayce's philosophy for many years but I never actually deliberately looked for contradictions or inaccuracies. It was only when I decided to research and go back through the material to look at the things that could be validated or disproven that I started to find the problems.

 

[Madalch]

This is just my opinion but if we are energy, are matter, then that energy must go somewhere when its shell dies. That's the way I look at it.

Not to derail the thread, but that energy does go somewhere- it gets dissipated as heat. It just doesn't stay organized as "you".

 

[Brattus]

Not to derail the thread, but that energy does go somewhere- it gets dissipated as heat. It just doesn't stay organized as "you".

Even if it did it wouldn't matter.
With no brain to think with or store and recall memory then what would be the point?

 

[ExMinister]

Speaking of the afterworld - It occurred to me today that Chris Dufresne may have one major factor working against him when it comes to taking over the family business, and that is the fact that he doesn't claim to have a direct spirit guide connection to the other side like his mom does.

I really think a big part of what has made Sylvia Browne successful is the fact that she claims to have this spirit guide who gives her answers directly from the other side, through actually speaking in her ear or coming through in trance. Chris does none of that. All Chris can do is parrot his mom's philosophy and pretend to have inherited some psychic ability. I sincerely hope it's not enough.

 

[Hokulele]

Speaking of the afterworld - It occurred to me today that Chris Dufresne may have one major factor working against him when it comes to taking over the family business, and that is the fact that he doesn't claim to have a direct spirit guide connection to the other side like his mom does.

I really think a big part of what has made Sylvia Browne successful is the fact that she claims to have this spirit guide who gives her answers directly from the other side, through actually speaking in her ear or coming through in trance. Chris does none of that. All Chris can do is parrot his mom's philosophy and pretend to have inherited some psychic ability. I sincerely hope it's not enough.

I predict that when Sylvia "passes over" herself, Chris will start claiming that she is the one speaking through him. The rat bastard.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

My bet is that Francine will move on to Chris.

 

[Brattus]

Speaking of the afterworld - It occurred to me today that Chris Dufresne may have one major factor working against him when it comes to taking over the family business, and that is the fact that he doesn't claim to have a direct spirit guide connection to the other side like his mom does.

I really think a big part of what has made Sylvia Browne successful is the fact that she claims to have this spirit guide who gives her answers directly from the other side, through actually speaking in her ear or coming through in trance. Chris does none of that. All Chris can do is parrot his mom's philosophy and pretend to have inherited some psychic ability. I sincerely hope it's not enough.

That damn fraud enabler Montel made Sylvia as big as she got.
I believe once Sylvia does the world a favor and drops dead her kid will try to take it over but end up living in the nearest dumpster offering head for a dollar a shot.

The sad part is that one way or another some other lying fraud will take her place and the fools will wait in the rain and beg them to take their money.

 

[grayman]

I predict that when SB passes over, she'll be reincarnated as a 1928 Porter Touring car, and will communicate with Christopher through the car radio, but only he can hear her. John Edward will constantly try to acquire the vehicle from Dufresne. Wacky fun ensues.

 

[ExMinister]

The second thing is that he's... well, he's not exactly the brightest bulb. OK, as my husband says, he's just too stupid. Says my husband, who also knows Chris personally, "He's too stupid to be on stage. He'd expose himself as a fraud after he opened his mouth for 5 minutes."

Yeah, I try to put a polite spin on things (or as RSL has recently said, I take classes in under-statement). My husband is right. Where did I read recently that Chris told someone their relatives were busy on the other side right at the moment and not available to speak with them?

That's probably the reason you don't see him up there more often (ever??).

So if following in his mom's footsteps involves being on stage or on TV, it's not going to go well.

Anyway, that's also probably the reason he hasn't pretended to trance channel his own spirit guide; he'd screw it up. Like I said, all he seems to be able to do is parrot his mom's philosophy and do readings.

Maybe that's the reason they've had their hopes set on Angelia, who Browne claims in one of her recent books to be encouraging to major in drama. What they need is another family member who is bright and eager to be in the spotlight.

 

[alfaniner]

I said a waste of Mr. Lancasters time and talent. I didn't say anything about not being a worthy target.
Anybody with half a brain knows that Sylvia Browne is a liar, cheat and a fraud.
But she was on that crap Montel show.
TV reaches far more people than a website does.
My point being that once a lying psychic fraud makes it to a regular national TV spot all bets are off.
They will pull them in by the 1000s. No website can touch that.
So for every 1 person that finds the site and learns from it there are 5 more new fools sending her money and buying her books.
Once they get that famous or infamous then they are just about untouchable.
Look at all the ghost hunter shows on TV now.
They have stumbling bumbling idiots hosting that crap who have no reason to ever be on TV but people eat it like candy.
Most people believe what their TV tells them.
If their TV tells them Sylvia Browne is a great psychic, spirit talker and faith healer they buy it all the way.
You said yourself in one of the post I seen by you.
That you couldn't understand how people could follow Sylvia Browne when there has never been any prove of any of her claims.
The answer is their TV told them it was true.
That is all the proof the sheep will ever need.
So when Mr. Lancaster is going up against Sylvia Browne he is also going up against TV itself.
I believe his talent would be used much better going after the smaller time up and coming frauds and stop them just like he did Kaz before they reach the TV stage.

Paragraphs, please.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I predict that when SB passes over, she'll be reincarnated as a 1928 Porter Touring car, and will communicate with Christopher through the car radio, but only he can hear her. John Edward will constantly try to acquire the vehicle from Dufresne. Wacky fun ensues.

That, sir, is an insult to the otherwise fine comedian, Jerry Van Dyke.