Today supposedly marks the day of the beast, so what better time to introduce my latest creation, Psychic Freaks. If you’re interested in psychics, Ouija boards, ghosts, or anything paranormal, this is the place. You can read about my personal experiences, and submit your own to share with everyone!
Now it’s been pointed out to me that I have fallen off the deep end. I am approaching my new site from the other end of the spectrum. I take the position that paranormal phenomena does happen based on my own experiences. While I don’t believe it is related to religion like some readers have mentioned, I do acknowledge that it places me in a "freak" category of sorts and that was done purposely. I enjoy the opportunity to approach a subject like this from the other end. As stated in the comments, it is easy to sit here and rip apart religion, but sometimes you have to leave your comfort zone to further your knowledge and challenge yourself.
So after you’re done here reading about make-believe stuff like God, Jesus, and unicorns… come on over and take a look at the real supernatural ;)
Thanks,
gasmonso
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Hello gasmonso,
I found your website about a month ago and was quite impressed. You take a skeptic standpoint and use religious related news to spur discussions about the absurdities of fundamentalism. I’ve also enjoyed the humor aspect of the posts. It is with great disappointment that I read the ‘About’ section of your new website, psychicfreaks.com. Instead of taking a consistent skeptical view of the ‘paranormal’, you are promoting it and encouraging others to do the same. Is your disdain for religion born out of skepticism, or is it because it disagrees with your own beliefs in the ‘paranormal’? If it is the latter, then religiousfreaks.com amounts to nothing more than one religion bashing all others. If it is the former, please consider your own beliefs under the same skeptical view.
Thanks for reading,
sidfaiwu
I gotta second that comment from sid. I find the “paranormal” to be just as silly as religion – both just silly fairy tales and ghost stories.
I gotta say, I find it a bit hypocritical. But I’ll still read Religious Freaks, just not as …. religiously (pun intended).
I take a skeptical look at religion because I have seen no evidence God, angels, the devil, the Ark, etc. All religious texts are full of mistakes and inconsistencies, etc. It is soley based on faith and not fact.
With Psychic Freaks, I actually have some experience with the paranormal. Call me a nut or whatever, but I have a solid basis for my belief in the paranormal based on experience.
Does that make me a believer of everything paranormal? No, of course not… I am reserving my beliefs to what I have personally experienced.
My disdain for religion comes from lack of personal experiences and proof, not because I believe in the supernatural. They are seperate in my eyes and can coexist if you ask me.
So religiousfreaks.com is not about bashing everyone (although that happens of course). This site is about several things…
- exposing religious idiocy and hypocracy in our world.
- hearing religious views from all angles
- having fun with a subject that many take too serious
- add your own here
So please, don’t assume that because I’ve had a few paranormal experiences, that I believe everything I hear. That’s simply not true. I will encourage people to try it, just like I would encourage people to give religion a shot. Afterall, I was a Catholic for my entire childhood, until I gradually found the courage to make my own choices and steer my own course.
Hopefully, this clears things up a bit.
gasmonso
gasmonso,
Thanks for the clairification. I’m glad that you take a skeptical view at least to things outside your experiences.
I’m curious then. If your ‘paranormal’ experiences happened to be religious experiences (or happened within a religious context), would that have altered your view of religion at all? I guess I’ll have to actually read your accounts to draw an appropriate analogy with a religious experience. I’ll pose my question more fully there.
I forgot to thank you for the great content at this site in my original comment so I’ll do so here. Thanks for the creating this interesting website. I’ll still be frequenting Religious Freaks.
sidfaiwu
This made me sad. I had great respect for this site, and enjoyed Gasmonso’s typically intelligent comments on crazy fundamentalists.
Now Gasmonso comes out of the closet as a believer of insane paranormal ideas? There is very little difference to me between that and religion. Both require faith in that there is no evidence (not counting the solid proof of the Holy Books, of course), and neither makes sense to an observing mind.
Everybody [critically thinking] knows how easy it is to fit the typical reading to your life, and that you require a very good sense of statistics to realize exactly why you’re being tricked.
You realize of course that also religious people claim to have ‘personal experience’ with their deity. That often means just attributing various events to the deity, since they were prayed for, for example.
Gasmonso, you da freak!
I am open to skeptical views on all my beliefs as it keeps me sharp. But please don’t mix religion with the paranormal unless you have something to back it up. I honestly believe they are seperate issues, but of course I’d be willing to entertain a discussion on that :)
Now if did have a religious experience, then yes it would alter my view on religion and the same goes for you too. That applies to every facet of life. If somneone doesn’t believe in aliens and suddenly a UFO lands in their yard and little green men come out… wouldn’t that change your views on aliens? If you were outside your home and the clouds opened up and God appeared to you and spoke… I guarantee you would believe in God and so would I… but we both know that ain’t gonna happen without the help of drugs :) Well maybe the aliens thing could happen ;)
Psychic Freaks is a step in the other direction and definitely poses challenges for me, but that’s why I did it. I don’t like being in my comfort zone as it dulls the senses. Just give me a chance and I’m sure you’ll find it quite interesting.
I sincerely appreciate you keeping me honest and participating in this site. Keep it up!
P.S. I don’t claim to have all the answers and I will make mistakes, but such is life. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
gasmonso
It is that very attitude that keeps this site interesting. Alright, I’ll give your new site a chance. Especially now that I know that you like to be challenged!
That’s all I ask. It’s safe and easy for us to sit here and rip apart religion and gasmonso. But to expose yourself to unpopular beliefs like I have is not that easy.
I know that I’m going to take a lot of flack on the new site and that’s fine. But just as I have studied religion so I could judge it with some merit… you need to expose yourself to different views and educate yourself before forming an opinion about me and my new site. That’s the only way we can learn and truly form opinions.
Now let me get back to work damnit before I get fired ;)
gasmonso
I hope you do stay skeptical. I’ll give it a try (the new site) but don’t expect me to have anything good to say about the paranormal.
What’s the difference between someone saying they saw a ghost or a UFO or whatever, and someone saying they saw God? What’s the difference between an ‘accurate’ psychic reading and someone saying God talked to them?
I’ve been to a psychic. It was fun. But after the initial “OH EM GEE she was so accurate!” I really thought about what she said and realized that everything was deliberately leading questions and comments that led her down the road to generalized statements that fit what she could get from me with the right questions.
Both the paranormal and religion are about seeing what you want to see in unexplained phenomena. Some explain it with God, some explain it with the Paranormal. I personally don’t see a difference.
Just my two cents. Now get back to work. I should do the same. heh
I can see this is already sparking some good debate… excellent. Wait till I post my Ouija board experiences this weekend… you’re really gonna think I’m a freak ;)
I hope that the new site attracts /. type readers because I’ve always respected their skepticism and logical approach to issues… I’m one myself.
This should be fun :)
gasmonso
Some months ago I ate a whole habanero pepper (diluted in soup, but still…). *That* was a paranormal experience.
Habaneros are no joke. Reminds me of the Simpsons episode when Homer eats the Guatemalan Insanity Pepper grown by mental patients and starts tripping! That was hillarious… damn now I gotta find that clip.
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