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24th March 2019, 11:38 AM | #2001 |
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24th March 2019, 11:55 AM | #2004 |
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You believe without proof, you use blind faith, and you accept what daft people tell you because you're daft enough to believe that they're actually talking to spirits, when the closest they've ever gotten to any spirit is in the booze aisle of their local Asda. And you go and talk about things people don't know.
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24th March 2019, 12:13 PM | #2005 |
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Yea, it must be irritating that I don't capitulate, and turn myself in at the nearest mental hospital. But my entire life experience is that there probably is a spirit world, and they do communicate with us through some genuine mediums.
I am not put in my place by a bunch of atheists, because I think you are all wrong about almost everything. I say again there must be a reason that people like me hear voices and I am about to risk life and limb exposing myself to static electricity to see if the voices are driven out. It won't be soon as Amazon predict it will be weeks before I receive my wimshurst machine. Maybe it has to come from abroad. |
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24th March 2019, 12:18 PM | #2006 |
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24th March 2019, 12:22 PM | #2007 |
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Who's you? You know nothing about my views on virtually anything besides how I think your views are silly, obviously unproven psychobabble. So, here's ten points for your own ironic ignorance about other peoples views.
Of course there's a reason you hear voices, you're suffering paranoid delusions that have been groomed by a few weird money-grabbing people who take advantage of your plight. Talk about being wrong about everything, lol. |
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24th March 2019, 12:24 PM | #2008 |
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No, but I will unbolt the door, so that if my sister cannot get me on the phone, she can get in without breaking down the door. I have been reading up on the safety of wimshurst machines, and as far as I can tell a low charge will not harm me, although it might be painful. I intend to try the machine out until I know how to store a low charge in the capacitors, then apply it to my stomach.
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24th March 2019, 12:26 PM | #2009 |
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24th March 2019, 12:28 PM | #2010 |
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Paranoid delusions is one thing, but hearing voices in your ears is another. There is no doubt I hear voices whispering to me when it is quiet and there must be a reason for it. I am going to see if the reason is I have entities in my aura and they respond to static. That is an experiment worth trying.
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24th March 2019, 12:31 PM | #2011 |
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You're hearing voices in your head, like many people with paranoid delusions do, some people see things which aren't there, like my friend, who committed suicide by jumping in the Mersey last year. He didn't get the help that he needed, and neither are you, you should think about that before you meet the same end that he did due to paranoid delusions.
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24th March 2019, 12:34 PM | #2012 |
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24th March 2019, 12:39 PM | #2013 |
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Here's your future, mate: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news...-took-14905211
He had the same delusions, and he began doing strange things, like what you're doing with this static electricity crap you're planning. He was seeing bugs that weren't there, spiders crawling in his bed, hearing voices, was found jogging in the streets without shoes on, all manner of things that should've set warning signals off, but nobody took it seriously, much like you don't take your problem seriously. That's your future, mate. Seek the help that you need before you're fished out of a river and need your dental records to identify your decaying, bloated corpse. My mate can't be helped now, but you can. Do yourself a favour. |
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24th March 2019, 12:48 PM | #2014 |
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It is unfortunate what happened to your friend. Did he get any anti psychotic medication? Because that is about all the help you get in Britain today.
Psychiatrists are over stretched and there is no talking therapy for schizophrenics. I would not have objected to a nice national health nurse holding my hand, but there is no chance of that either. The modern drugs do work, and I am on a low dose of abilify, but it does not stop the voices. |
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24th March 2019, 12:52 PM | #2015 |
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There's a great deal more to the story than what was reported by the Echo, but basically, he was poorly managed, some of my friends are making a case, but I don't know the details.
You can be helped, Scorpion, and you seem to allude to wanting someone to help you out, because it doesn't seem like you're in a happy place. I may laugh and joke, but I wouldn't wish for you to end up being pulled out of a river, mate. There are options out there, places to go, people to talk to, but you have to want to do it, nobody can force you. Think about these things before doing anything silly, that's all I'll say on the matter. Good luck to you. BTW, I agree, simply medicating a person isn't a way to solve the issue, but it can go a long way to helping solve the issue, and it can't be ignored, IMO. As for the mediums who're giving you advice, I'd take them with a healthy pinch of salt, they don't seem to me to be your friends. If you have any friends that you can trust, speak to them, because my friend Chan kept his problems largely to himself, and look what happened there... |
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The reason is that you have schizophrenia and hearing voices is a symptom of schizophrenia, in the same way that pain in the joints is a symptom of arthritis and spots on the skin is a symptom of measles. There are treatments and drugs that alleviate the symptoms of most illnesses, even chronic ones, but schizophrenia is a particularly tricky one I know, and it's sometimes difficult to find the right treatment for every patient. I hope you find a more effective treatment soon, but you won't get it from spiritualists and other woo merchants.
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24th March 2019, 01:49 PM | #2017 |
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. Sri Ramakrishna Even in the valley of the shadow of death two and two do not make six. Leo Tolstoy |
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The mechanism may not be completely understood but that does not alter the fact that hearing voices is a symptom of this particular illness. The illness causes the brain to malfunction, and that malfunction manifests as this symptom. It's no different to the other examples I gave, even if how this illness produces this symptom is less well understood than how, say, arthritic joints produce pain.
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24th March 2019, 06:41 PM | #2022 |
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24th March 2019, 06:56 PM | #2023 |
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Hold on. You blew 100 bucks on a Wimshurst machine because some fool who heads up the local gullibles society told you that astral beings stuck in your aura can be ejected by static electricity?
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24th March 2019, 08:46 PM | #2024 |
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I seriously suggest you DO NOT DO THIS! You obviously don't know about electricity, and you could very well store a deadly charge. Playing around with high voltage is not something for the untrained. Please for your own safety, do not use any capacitors in your attempt to dislodge your spirits. You may end up dislodging yourself.
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Case in point. Old school TVs and monitors used to have a HT lead running the tube. Without due care and attention, it could easily cause insta-death.
Scorpion simply does not care.His spiritualst guru's? They don't care about him at all. They are happy and content to use him as a poster child for their woo. I regularly get static shocks from my car/Clothes rails in stores/My ex-wife/random strangers/My cat and so forth. Scorpion thinks this is all evidence of something "other" despite the fact that static discharge is mundanely understood by pretty much anyone who has traversed a nylon carpet. So why does Scorpion think that static lecky is evidence for spirits? Damned if I know. Damned if he knows either. It is apparently "spooky" enough to count as evidence. Or some such BS. |
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Umm Scorpion....
Isn't this exactly what others did to you that you hated so much 50 years ago? But now under less controlled circumstances. Please be smarter than this. |
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Good questions.
As I said the source of the idea you can drive out astral entities was the former president of the spiritualist association, his name was Thomas Johansson and he gave a lecture on the subject in the 1970s at the spiritualist headquarters in London. I wrote to him asking how the charge of static electricity could be safely applied, but he never answered me. So I am left to draw my own conclusions. It comes down to experimenting on my own to see if I can clear my voices with static. I have no information on how much of a charge it takes to electrocute astral entities. I do not care where they go if I get rid of them. I do not think they are evolved enough to get angry with me and I don't give a damn if they do. I would be quite pleased if I hurt them. I have read that wimshurst machines will not kill, but a shock can be painful. I have not seen a doctor or psychiatrist for years, and I obviously would not tell them what I plan, although I might want to tell them if it is successful. But they obviously would not believe me. |
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25th March 2019, 08:31 AM | #2028 |
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Another anecdote. I went for spiritual healing at a spiritualist church a few years ago.
There were two ladies doing the healing and working together. One of them looked at the other healer and pointed at my stomach. She other one looked down and nodded. I don't know what they saw, and they said nothing to me. But I have felt disturbing feelings in my stomach for 50 years, as if something is writhing around in it. I felt the healing as heat, and felt uplifted for days after the healing. |
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25th March 2019, 08:44 AM | #2029 |
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Again, Scorpion, this is all very familiar to me. These are warning signs, and if you don't do something actually beneficial for your mental wellbeing, then you're going to end up being found dead one day, and I don't think any of those hokey spiritualist mediums would bat an eyelid or attend your funeral, but your friends and family will. There's very little difference in the things you talk about and the things my friend talked about before he lost his mind completely and killed himself. Do what you're gonna do, but why not give one of those mediums a call and see if they'll vouch for this "static healing," and if they'll take credit for it if you end up offing yourself.
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25th March 2019, 08:49 AM | #2030 |
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Thanks. I do know something about electricity. I am qualified in Television and electronics, and microprocessors. But I know next to nothing about static electricity apart from the fact it can destroy processors, and I used to use a wrist strap to earth myself when working on electronics circuit boards.
As far as wimshurst machines I know they build up high voltages but use low current. Since it is the current that kills I figure I can risk a shock. I will not be rushing into shocking myself though. I figure the reason stun guns are effective is they use high voltage and very low current too, but they do not normally kill unless someone has a weak heart. |
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25th March 2019, 10:16 AM | #2031 |
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Been looking up the source of the lecture I attended on schizophrenia and I found out the name of the lecturer was Tom Johanson not Thomas Johansson. He is now dead and unless I get a message from him (joke) I cannot find out anything more about his statement that he used static electricity on people at the spiritualist association. Here is a link about him.
http://www.tomjohanson.com/ |
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25th March 2019, 11:41 AM | #2032 |
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I searched for ' entities in the aura' on Google and found a lot of pages about it, but none about using static to get rid of them.
I did however temporarily get my computer taken over by a site that planted a program on my computer, and I had to find the program in windows 10 and delete it before I could reset my homepage. |
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Scorpion Are you familiar with Dr. Carl Wickland’s book “Thirty Years Among the Dead” ? wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wickland According to Wickland, he emigrated from Sweden to St. Paul, Minnesota, married Anna W. Anderson and moved to Chicago, graduating from Durham Medical College in 1900. Wickland's own autobiographical sketch lists accomplishments as a general practitioner of medicine, member of the Chicago Medical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and chief psychiatrist at the State Psychopathic Institute of Chicago. Wickland turned away from conventional medical psychology and toward the belief that psychiatric illnesses were the result of influence by spirits of the dead. Wickland came to believe that a large number of his patients had become possessed by what he called "obsessing spirits", and that low-voltage electric shocks could dislodge them, while his wife Anna acted as a medium to guide them to "progress in the spirit world". Spiritualists considered him an authority on "destructive spirits" and he wrote a book in 1924, Thirty Years Among the Dead, detailing his experiences as a psychical researcher. |
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So sometime back in the 1970s at a spiritualist church (where and when most great scientific advances take place), a younger, mentally ill Scorpion with a drinking problem attends a lecture from a guy who read and paraphrased an anecdote from Wickland's book.
Fast-forward to 2019, and an older and still mentally ill (yet sober!) Scorpion eschews further medical treatment that he admitted was working to help treat his condition so that he can blow 95 bucks and potentially electrocute himself based on a wispy memory of a dude who once said something based on a book about nonsense. |
27th March 2019, 06:28 AM | #2039 |
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Hi! glad to see you here. No I have never heard of Carl Wickland. I do remember another medium, Ursula Roberts saying that ECT (electro convulsive therapy) could dislodge obsessing entities. I am not sure how high the voltage of ECT was, it may be in the region of 150 volts.
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In order to establish whether any medical treatment is effective it is necessary to use a double blind test protocol, in order to eliminate the placebo effect and investigator bias. Do you understand why this is, Scorpion? If not I would be happy to explain it to you further. It is such protocols that enable us to show, for example, that aspirin is an objectively effective painkiller and homeopathic remedies are not, even though users of both will report perceiving some benefit from taking them.
Please describe the test protocol you intend to use to establish whether or not the machine you have ordered can "dislodge possessing entities". |
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