tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post2963196275592495783..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: A Ghost, Oh!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-56560300342856102202014-08-03T00:37:29.409-04:002014-08-03T00:37:29.409-04:00I got ghosts but they occupy my head rather than a...<i>I got ghosts but they occupy my head rather than a physical location. Analeptic alzabo is one helluva drug.</i><br /><br />Smut for Autarch!<br /><br /><i>Death, to quote that noted philosopher Clint Eastwood, is a helluva thing. It's been the driving force behind so much superstition and mythology for a hundred thousand years. One day someone is there, the next day they're gone. Forever. It's the finality that freaks people out, so they seek ways to cushion the brink of eternity. Heaven, Ghosts, all sorts of 'afterlife' just so stories all mean essentially the same thing: Fear not, for the end is not really the end. </i><br /><br />Yeah, the idea of just ceasing to be does scare a lot of people. I don't think that an eternal afterlife to which you can consign people you disapprove of is the best response, though.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-43850035367808107132014-08-02T11:23:02.407-04:002014-08-02T11:23:02.407-04:00Death, to quote that noted philosopher Clint Eastw...Death, to quote that noted philosopher Clint Eastwood, is a helluva thing. It's been the driving force behind so much superstition and mythology for a hundred thousand years. One day someone is there, the next day they're gone. Forever. It's the finality that freaks people out, so they seek ways to cushion the brink of eternity. Heaven, Ghosts, all sorts of 'afterlife' just so stories all mean essentially the same thing: Fear not, for the end is not really the end. <br /><br />Personally, I liked the treatment of death in Delany's "The Einstein Intersection", where it was an irreversable, profound change in a being's status - they were gone forever from HERE, but they had become something else - a sort of weird mashup of reincarnation and afterlife, combined with graduation.mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-68912982666833090592014-08-02T03:51:18.298-04:002014-08-02T03:51:18.298-04:00I got ghosts but they occupy my head rather than a...I got ghosts but they occupy my head rather than a physical location. Analeptic alzabo is one helluva drug.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-61005852667720854122014-08-02T02:47:20.053-04:002014-08-02T02:47:20.053-04:00I'll come work there. I like cats, and the dar...<i>I'll come work there. I like cats, and the dark! Also, orbs.</i><br /><br />Come on back to New York! The Lew Rudin golf center awaits!<br /><br /><i> I'm basically as agnostic as they come, but I can't quite shake the idea that places can have ghosts. I've been places where there was something up with them. Just something...up with them. I can't say what. Just sometimes I will get an impression and be aware that I am "not alone". Ish.</i><br /><br />It's a perception that a place has absorbed "psychic energy" somehow through the events that transpired there, isn't it? Buildings, inanimate objects can seem to have "memory". Have you ever read Clark Ashton Smith's <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/78/genius-loci" rel="nofollow"><i>Genius Loci</i></a>?Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-54542138123741204642014-08-02T00:19:55.640-04:002014-08-02T00:19:55.640-04:00I don't mind "haunted" places. I'...I don't mind "haunted" places. I'm basically as agnostic as they come, but I can't quite shake the idea that places can have ghosts. I've been places where there was something up with them. Just something...up with them. I can't say what. Just sometimes I will get an impression and be aware that I am "not alone". Ish.<br /><br />It isn't an uncomfortable feeling, and I can't quantify it in any way. But some places just smell different, have an odd temperature, and somehow give off that something "ghosty". Like an ozone and off-milk smell. I dunno what it is, but I've felt it in schools, museums and some houses. Just a random "stuff happened here" thing. I know that isn't rational. But there is a subjective-ass thing afoot on some places. Since I don't actually "believe in it", I'm a little sheepish anytime I feel it. But I do.Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-82731061510704349422014-08-01T23:50:17.720-04:002014-08-01T23:50:17.720-04:00I'll come work there. I like cats, and the da...I'll come work there. I like cats, and the dark! Also, orbs.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com