954: I Shit on You

[tchikovsky]

Just an FYI - Manny Ramirez will not be paid for the 50 games he was suspended. He is making around 25 million dollars this year and is going to miss out on about 7.5 million dollars. Additionally, there are 162 games in a baseball season, so 50 games is a little less then a third of the season.

[NinjaPirate]

Is there anyone that is not an atheist but spiritual and doesn't believe in ghosts ?
I would think. If your spiritual - as in you believe in a higher power and in an afterlife. Why would you poo poo ghosts (manifestations of an afterlife) ??
I voted unsure.
God agnostic.
Ghost agnostic.
Manbearpig agnostic.

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by littlp

1. Watch this video and explain how that was even possible (watch all the way to the end) YouTube - Unexplained Ghost Car Disappears During Police Pursuit

2. I voted yes on ghosts, but I do acknowledge that I could be experiencing something else. I've just had too many creepy feelings. I had one sleep episode where I woke up but couldn't move. I was lying on my back (usually sleep on my stomach) and it felt like there was someone lying on me, with their hair brushing my chin and rubbing my right hand. I don't recall having a tough time breathing, but I'm pretty sure I was awake because I remember feeling like I was forced to go back to sleep. Strangest thing ever. If anyone can explain that one to me, please do.

It was already explained to you upthread. Sleep paralysis is fairly common.

As to the "ghost car," you can see the fence shaking at the end of the clip. Looks like he drove over it and it bounced back up again as the police car approached.

[GirlNextDoor]

What’s so wrong with believing in the unexplained? I’m sure there are rational reasons for everything but believing in something outside of rationality is more fun. I occasionally suffer from sleep paralysis, once I was told that it was demons trying to pull me into to hell. I don’t believe in hell but I still thought “maybe”. Sometimes there are no known reasons for something. Like when you think about someone who hasn’t crossed your mind in years and the next day you run into to them. This could just be a coincidence or some kind of ability to sense what is to come (psychic ability). Which one of those answers is more exciting? The Brain is a powerful thing; we know that energy can make things happen who’s to say that brain energy can’t to the same thing.

As far as ghost go I’ll leave you with this ghost story… Discuss
This one time in junior high I went downstairs to the locker room (where people have reported seeing the ghost of a girl). I was with maybe 2 friends and there was no one else down there “we think”. We heard a lot of banging and when we went to see what it was, all the lockers where open. We then searched the locker room and saw no one. Was this a prank, to calm everyone down we said it must have been. But being the middle of class who could’ve been down there, there was only one way in and out and we heard no one leave. We told the story to the class and no one fess up to pulling the prank. I put it in the “O wells” category. We never found out what really happen.

[BrownEyedBtch]

Originally Posted by NinjaPirate

Is there anyone that is not an atheist but spiritual and doesn't believe in ghosts ?
I would think. If your spiritual - as in you believe in a higher power and in an afterlife. Why would you poo poo ghosts (manifestations of an afterlife) ??
I voted unsure.
God agnostic.
Ghost agnostic.
Manbearpig agnostic.

I am spiritual, not tied to a deity, but don't whole-heartedly believe in ghosts. I do believe in a spiritual medium (covered already in the Robert Alvarez thread) but don't necessarily believe that ghosts can take on some sort of physical shape, even one that is only visible when the light catches it, and physically affect a human or animal. I think, especially in the case of that woman, her mind was playing tricks on her, and it was just sleep paralysis.

[GirlNextDoor]

Originally Posted by NinjaPirate

Is there anyone that is not an atheist but spiritual and doesn't believe in ghosts ?
I would think. If your spiritual - as in you believe in a higher power and in an afterlife. Why would you poo poo ghosts (manifestations of an afterlife) ??
I voted unsure.
God agnostic.
Ghost agnostic.
Manbearpig agnostic.

I'd like to Point out that Manbearpig is very real and should be feared by all men.

[John Galt]

Regarding headbutting, the trick is to quickly and unexpectedly nail the bridge of their nose with the thickest part of your forehead. It works best when you're up close arguing with someone and need to get in the first hit, or when you're in a cinch face to face.

Preston posted a comment on this in the "Advice" thread ->

Originally Posted by Preston Buttons

If you are in an argument with someone and you see their head go back - LOOK DOWN. They are going to give you a Glasgow Kiss. It wil hurt but at least your nose won't be broken.

[36D]

I had something similar, though not as serious, happen when I called 911 once. I was driving during a torrential downpour at night on a road without streetlights in a small town (yay suburbia), when my car died. I was on the side of the road and called my father to come get me. 10 minutes later, a car pulled up behind me and, assuming it was my father, I ran out to the driver's side window to talk to him. It ended up being a creepy looking guy who said, "get in". I said no thanks and told him my dad was on his way to get me, then ran back to my car. Two seconds later, he slammed his car into the back of mine, and kept doing it. I freaked out and called 911 and the operator asked what was happening, so I told him some asshole was hitting the back of my car. He then yelled at me and told me to use appropriate language. I was too shocked to say anything else, but I gave him my location and hung up.

The guy ended up driving off after a few minutes of hitting the back of my car, and my father showed up a bit later. He got it working, and then we waited a bit for the cops to show up so I could tell them what happened, but they never showed, so we left.

Yet once when I was dialing someone's number and mistakenly dialed 911 (instead of 914) and hung up as soon as I realized, the 911 operator called me back and insisted I put my mother on the phone so that she could talk to her about how I was pranking 911.

[HeyAnne]

Chemda was right on with her suggestion to adopt a more childlike attitude in life.

My 4 year old daughter always wants to 'help' me. Help me with the laundry, help me with the dishes, help me garden and basically help me do anything that to me is not fun. I just want to get shit done and use to get quietly annoyed that she was slowing me down.

She thinks everything is fun -- it is fun to put the clothes in the washing machine, it is fun to load the dishes, it is fun cleaning the bathroom. I had to put it together that I need to adopt her attitude more and stop looking at everything like it is WORK -- maybe throwing the clothes in the washing machine like it is a basketball hoop can be more fun even though it will take me a few more minutes.

Although I will NEVER ever be happy about cleaning the bathroom. But I will wear her flashing bracelet as an anklet while going out with my husband for dinner just because she thought it was the finishing touch to my outfit.

[DaveNJ]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

I get this too. It's super creepy before you realize what's going on. This could also be what's happening to people who believe that they're being abducted from their beds by aliens.

I never see ghosts or aliens -- I always think someone is breaking into my apartment or rifling through my things and I can't move to stop them. Now that I've grown accustomed to it sometimes I'm able to turn it into a lucid dream and change the situation to whatever I want. And then it always turns into a sex dream.

I'm able to turn sleep paralysis into lucid dreaming, too. It's tough to do it every time, because sometimes you panic, but in general it's a good way to deal with the problem. Nowadays I just let my imagination create an area to explore and I explore it. It's quite fun.

Sleep paralysis is relatively common, but people just don't know what it is.