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Originally Posted by X¤MurderDoll¤X
you have to be inbred to see ghosts.
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I resent that statement. I grew up in a haunted house. Saw my first manifestation when I was three years old. I had no Wiccan beliefs and I am skeptical about most forms of Neopaganism, as many of them have popped up far too recently to have any real ideological clout and seem like a means of making money instead of a means of understanding the world. My family being both Irish and gypsy did have an undercurrent of superstition in their outlook, but my grandfather, who lived with us and worked as a jet engineer had none. He too didn't go in the basement after dark and stayed clear of the apple tree outside where slaves used to hang. It is not a matter of some people being more special than others or being inbred or sorcerous, I think it's a matter of attuning yourself to certain feelings in certain places. In some these faculties are greater than others, but it's not claiming magical powers. Some people are doublejointed. Some have no arms. Some have good hearing, some are deaf. It's a sense that anybody could experience faintly in the right place that gets interpreted differently. Going down a lonely road late at night, you feel like you know somebody died there. Somebody who is more attuned or looking harder feels more or catches a glimpse of a car careening off the road or hears a momentary snippet of crying. Who here can't say they haven't felt like they've been to a place where it feels like something's crying out, like the ground itself is suffering? Who here hasn't felt like they're not alone somewhere late at night? It's not just paranoia, it's sensitivity, impressions we can't always pick up, but that are there. Next time you feel something like that, try following the sensations, thinking about how close we are all to death and how mysterious the process is. See if the feelings don't come in even a bit clearer. Tune the radio instead of just tuning out. Do I seem like a stupid person, a hillbilly or a religious fanatic? Do I come across as somebody who would believe something they have no reason to believe? I certainly hope not. Fanatics and skeptics have one thing in common in this world and that's a closed mind.