How Do You Know It's Not Magic, Smart Guy?

[Sock Puppet]

I'm a Grand Master lit crit nerd. My nonstandard interpretive models have to be registered as lethal weapons.

[Adam]

Well, good. Maybe you can slap Barthes around a bit, textually, and tell him to pay up the 20 bones he owes me.

[yguy]

Originally Posted by Adam

I'm still interested in how his narratives, plausible or not, aren't even cultural.

The quote I responded to said people use cultural narratives to interpret what they perceive during sleep paralysis episodes. In my case, there was no need for interpretation, because it was perfectly clear what was happening.

As for what you are evidently calling my "narrative", there was nothing cultural about it in the sense of being a synthesis from ideas I had been exposed to. Dark entities are not a product of cultural imagination; rather, cultural references to demons, irrespective of how much they may be exaggerated, only exist because those entities exist in reality.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by yguy

Dark entities are not a product of cultural imagination; rather, cultural references to demons, irrespective of how much they may be exaggerated, only exist because those entities exist in reality.

cf. borg.

ETA: I'm sorry, I broke the rules. You are very wise and insightful.

[yguy]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

ETA: I'm sorry, I broke the rules. You are very wise and insightful.

Don't sweat it. No sense in belaboring the obvious, after all.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

In my world, I am not attacked by evil spirits nor do movie aliens actually exist. In my world, there are dangers, yes, but they are limited by natural physical laws so not only are they more predictable and detectable, but also I can avoid many and protect myself from many.

E.g. by using the 'ignore' feature.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Dragar

I would love to know what the real explanation for the melting glaciers is!

All available evidence suggests it's either dark spirits, the Human Torch, or greedy dwarves who delved too deep and woke this guy up

[Ensign Steve]

Excellent use of the Magic thread.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Excellent use of the Magic thread.

To prevent confusion, the thread you're currently reading is the magic thread.

THIS is the Magic thread.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by Adam

To prevent confusion, the thread you're currently reading is the magic thread.

THIS is the Magic thread.

T'other way 'round, Adam. This is the Magic thread, while the one you linked to is the magic thread.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

T'other way 'round, Adam. This is the Magic thread, while the one you linked to is the magic thread.

He swapped them! Without anyone noticing! It's like ... like ...

[Qingdai]

So I dreamt once that I went to a town full of victorian era houses. Then a water spirit came up through a well and sucked me down. My uncle was pissed that I was visiting too.

Then, in real life, about a month later I went to Port Townsend. It looked like the town in my dream. I declined staying the night there.

Moral: victorian era towns are creepy.
Victorians, also creepy.

[Ensign Steve]

[Qingdai]

That looks more 60's or depression era, but yeah, also creepy.

As is the movie "Spider Baby." Which that picture reminds me of.