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mojo2 · Aug 19, 2006, 02:34 PM

Art, we are in your corner and appreciate all you've given us as well as the world and we wish you nothing but happiness as YOU define it. And all the best to Airyn!

Goldfinger · Aug 19, 2006, 02:43 PM

^weirdo

Kevin · Aug 19, 2006, 05:41 PM

Looks like Robert pwned Art.

mojo2 · Aug 19, 2006, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Looks like Robert pwned Art.

There ain't a horse that cain't be rode, nor a cowboy that cain't be throwed.

Art is happy, I think & hope. Robert is happy, I think & hope.

Spliff · Aug 19, 2006, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

I think it's just weird.

Here's the way I see it:

1. He loved his dear departed beloved wife so much that he is grief stricken and heartbroken and not coping well...he meets this girl and totally invests himself in her in order to forget about his wife. Verdict? Not normal.

2. He loved his dear departed beloved wife so much that he is grief stricken and heartbroken and not coping well...so he goes online looking for a girlfriend to help him forget about his wife. Verdict? Not normal.

Either way you look at it, his behavior is, well, just not normal.

Even if you don't villify the guy, he's just not acting in a way that most of us think IS "normal."

Cody, I agree. It's not normal. It's paranormal.

mojo2 · Aug 19, 2006, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

^weirdo

Pot. Kettle. Gert.

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 01:31 AM

Shadow Creature Encounter

This happened about two years ago in October. I'm not sure of the date, but it has haunted me ever since. I was lying in my bedroom, which is in the basement of the house. The room is rectangular-shaped and my bed was against the long windowless side wall. Across the room are two windows on the opposite wall.

I was watching TV and all of the sudden I couldn't move. I was paralyzed and I could see in the corner of the room next to the second window a 6-ft 5-in black shadow. As I looked more at it, I could see it had eyes that were glowing red. Then, it flew at me! It looked like it had bat wings and a triangular face. I started hearing this evil witch's laugh that lasted for a good five minutes. I tried to scream, but I couldn't.

It went back to the corner of the room and stared at me for a minute. It raised its hand up to its face as to do a 'SHHHH' movement, then disappeared and my scream came out. At first the creature was hazy like a shadow, but the more I looked at it the more defined it became. Its arms looked like human arms but with really long nails. Its wings came around the front of it as to look like a coat.

--'Abarbaneld'
abarbaneld@gmail.com

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1702.html

besson3c · Oct 29, 2006, 01:33 AM

Welcome back Marden!

Chuckit · Oct 29, 2006, 01:40 AM

Sleep paralysis is serious business!

analogika · Oct 29, 2006, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Sleep paralysis is serious business!

Wow. Thanks for that! I used to get that as a little kid (paralysis, not mardenmojaberdeen-style hallucinations), and it scared the **** out of me!

http://www.aufora.org/discuss/messages/6465.html

besson3c · Oct 29, 2006, 02:39 AM

I think I still have sleep paralysis quite frequently, although it is probably a very mild and non-severe form that doesn't seem to be causing any problems worth pursuing.

goMac · Oct 29, 2006, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

I think I still have sleep paralysis quite frequently, although it is probably a very mild and non-severe form that doesn't seem to be causing any problems worth pursuing.

It used to happen to me though. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to move. I wouldn't even be able to talk.

Hasn't happened recently though. Which is nice.

what_the_heck · Oct 29, 2006, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Welcome back Marden!

Back from the ban, and starts right away with another post & run. Just great.

-t

BlueSky · Oct 29, 2006, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Back from the ban, and starts right away with another post & run. Just great.

-t

Look at it this way: A hundred years from now it won't matter.

Come to think of it...

hey!_Zeus · Oct 29, 2006, 04:29 PM

This thread has me real confused but that's normal, I think. Where the f@&k am I?11?

powerbook867 · Oct 29, 2006, 08:55 PM

if you wake up in a different place, at a different time, do you wake up a different person?

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Welcome back Marden!

Thanks.

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

Wow. Thanks for that! I used to get that as a little kid (paralysis, not mardenmojaberdeen-style hallucinations), and it scared the **** out of me!

http://www.aufora.org/discuss/messages/6465.html

My world is filled with fantastic hallucinations. They're not scary, though.

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Back from the ban, and starts right away with another post & run. Just great.

-t

That is a unique way of saying, "hi."

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by BlueSky

Look at it this way: A hundred years from now it won't matter.

Come to think of it...

BINGO!

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by hey!_Zeus

This thread has me real confused but that's normal, I think. Where the f@&k am I?11?

Here.

marden · Oct 29, 2006, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by powerbook867

if you wake up in a different place, at a different time, do you wake up a different person?

No, because you can't experience yourself in any way but the first person. So even IF you changed bodies (the only indicator, assuming you had the same thoughts and memories or even NO memories) your own frame of reference would always be as "you" relating to the world.

besson3c · Oct 30, 2006, 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Back from the ban, and starts right away with another post & run. Just great.

-t

I really don't think he is a chronic post and runner, he usually participates a great deal in his own threads, especially those about the latest scare.

What is the big deal about this so-called posting and running thing anyway? If somebody can create a fun or interesting thread, who cares how much they choose to participate in it?

I think where posting and running does apply is if somebody asks a question, and in order for this person to be helped they need to answer follow-up questions which they don't stick around to answer. This is mostly discourteous.

Abe never asks for help though, so this doesn't apply... he already has everything figured out... at least about the latest threats and the usual stuff he is obsessed with at that moment

xsphat · Oct 30, 2006, 01:44 AM

I had a Russian woman contacting me once. She wanted $200 for a plane ticket and she will "arrive to me" in two days. The punchline - she didn't even know what state I lived in. I told her that I wanted an Asian woman from a little farther east, and that I have an extreme anal sex fetish.

I waited a week.

Then I sent her an email. It bounced right back to me, she had canceled her account.

Could have been true love, just like what this Art Bell fellow has (I just laughed a bit inside), just a different girl from a different country and me instead of him, yeah, just like that.

xsphat · Oct 30, 2006, 01:45 AM

Sorry, I posted after reading only the first page.

marden · Oct 30, 2006, 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

I really don't think he is a chronic post and runner, he usually participates a great deal in his own threads, especially those about the latest scare.

What is the big deal about this so-called posting and running thing anyway? If somebody can create a fun or interesting thread, who cares how much they choose to participate in it?

I think where posting and running does apply is if somebody asks a question, and in order for this person to be helped they need to answer follow-up questions which they don't stick around to answer. This is mostly discourteous.

Abe never asks for help though, so this doesn't apply... he already has everything figured out... at least about the latest threats and the usual stuff he is obsessed with at that moment

Hi!

marden

suspiciousmind · Nov 25, 2006, 11:09 PM

I wanna play with her pee-pee!
<evil grin>

suspiciousmind · Nov 25, 2006, 11:26 PM

He may be old but he knows young pee-pee when he sees it!!! <horny grin>

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 12:01 AM

She is in a 'family way,' so be nice.

Get your old man/young babe jollies elsewhere.

Mastrap · Nov 26, 2006, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by suspiciousmind

I wanna play with her pee-pee!
<evil grin>

grow up.

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 02:56 AM

Here's Art & Mrs. Bell and Kitties wishing us all a Merry Christmas!

I wish there was a way to make the pix larger.

Chuckit · Nov 26, 2006, 03:28 AM

Aww, Art Bell looks so cute with his granddaughter in that picture.

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Aww, Art Bell looks so cute with his granddaughter in that picture.

Somebody is J-e-l-l-o...

u-s

Chuckit · Nov 26, 2006, 03:36 AM

Nah, the tyke's not really my type.

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Nah, the tyke's not really my type.

What about Hugh Hefner's babes?

Chuckit · Nov 26, 2006, 03:58 AM

Nah, not them either, although at least they look old enough to drive.

marden · 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Nah, not them either, although at least they look old enough to drive.

If a woman looks like a man but is really a woman and you like how she looks and love her why would her appearance be an issue?

Unless you actually put the opinion of OTHERS before your own taste and preferences?

Point is that Mr. Bell's wife is 27. If you think she looks younger, that's got nothing to do with anything. They love each other and if you are prejudiced against women who look like that then that's your problem.

Or maybe you like the *ahem* mature women?

She looks like a lovely person. You like?

Chuckit · 04:36 AM

Dude, I can appreciate the liking inappropriately young chicks thing — but a woman as much younger than me as this chica is compared to Art Bell will not even be a gleam in her father's eye for another twenty-something years. Marrying somebody with that kind of age gap is all kinds of creepy.

Let's put it this way: I'm about her age, and Art is around my grandparents' age. I cannot imagine marrying one of my grandmother's friends.

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Dude, I can appreciate the liking inappropriately young chicks thing — but a woman as much younger than me as this chica is compared to Art Bell will not even be a gleam in her father's eye for another twenty-something years. Marrying somebody with that kind of age gap is all kinds of creepy.

Let's put it this way: I'm about her age, and Art is around my grandparents' age. I cannot imagine marrying one of my grandmother's friends.

Inappropriately young?

You are at odds with the law. The law says she's appropriate.

I can't imagine being friends with someone having your sensibilities, but I'm sure you have friends.

Look in the mirror and see what is a sign of liberalism run amuck. No one is asking you to marry your grandmother's friend.

Kevin · Nov 26, 2006, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Dude, I can appreciate the liking inappropriately young chicks thing —

He isn't into liking underage gals. Because those are the only inappropriate young chicks.

Lets cut down on the hyperbole. I know it's marden and you want to belittle. But take it down a notch or two.

Chuckit · Nov 26, 2006, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by marden

Inappropriately young?

You are at odds with the law. The law says she's appropriate.

The law has as much to do with propriety as a cookbook does with repairing a jet engine.

Originally Posted by marden

I can't imagine being friends with someone having your sensibilities, but I'm sure you have friends.

Yeah, and they also think it's weird to marry somebody half a century older than you. If two people with that kind of gap have anything in common, there is something bizarre about one or both of them.

Originally Posted by marden

Look in the mirror and see what is a sign of liberalism run amuck. No one is asking you to marry your grandmother's friend.

Uh…I thought it was supposed to be that liberals wanted guys to marry other guys and people to marry their pets and all that. Now all of a sudden liberals are the Marriage Nazis?

Kevin · Nov 26, 2006, 05:09 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Yeah, and they also think it's weird to marry somebody half a century older than you. If two people with that kind of gap have anything in common, there is something bizarre about one or both of them.

Yeah the darn tootin politishuns. Next thing you know gays will want to get married.

bizarre.

Chuckit · Nov 26, 2006, 05:20 AM

It's far more likely that two guys who are otherwise the same as any other couple will be compatible than two people separated by several generations.

Kevin · Nov 26, 2006, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

It's far more likely that two guys who are otherwise the same as any other couple will be compatible than two people separated by several generations.

Nonsense. Probably equally as likely.

For example I know a guy that grew up in the 70s, that is dating someone that grew up in the 90s.

Just so happens she likes movies, music, culture etc from the 70s.

They get a long just fine. He is 42, she is 22.

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

The law has as much to do with propriety as a cookbook does with repairing a jet engine.

So, you are declaring yourself to be in opposition to the laws?

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Yeah, and they also think it's weird to marry somebody half a century older than you. If two people with that kind of gap have anything in common, there is something bizarre about one or both of them.

That attitude is as hopelessly bigoted as a person can have. Revel in it. There are few people around who still harbor that kind of bigotry. Or few people who have the 'Michael Richards' in them to express it openly.

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Uh…I thought it was supposed to be that liberals wanted guys to marry other guys and people to marry their pets and all that. Now all of a sudden liberals are the Marriage Nazis?

Of course you can't see yourself clearly. The sign of liberalism is that because you have a bias against May-December marriages you think it is wrong for everyone.

Wait a minute.

You are just playing around with me because you know of my relationship with Abe.

Gotcha.

besson3c · 02:11 PM

Marden, what kind of relationship do you have with Abe? Are you guys gay lovers, or just friends with privileges?

Kevin · Nov 26, 2006, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

What kind of relationship do you have with Abe? Are you guys gay lovers, or just friends with privileges?

You know the last few posts you've made have been about Abe. Even when the topic isn't about him.

I am beginning to think YOU want to be Abe's friend with benefits.

suspiciousmind · Nov 26, 2006, 02:02 PM

Occam's Razor has it; simple = most likely.

Romona = tough, old, haggard, tired pee-pee.

Airyn = nice, new, young, soft pee-pee.

marden · Nov 26, 2006, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Marden, what kind of relationship do you have with Abe? Are you guys gay lovers, or just friends with privileges?

Let's follow the Clinton example of dealing with personal issues...

Don't ask, don't tell.

besson3c · Nov 26, 2006, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by marden

Let's follow the Clinton example of dealing with personal issues...

Don't ask, don't tell.

But Clinton eventually did have to tell us...

Let's hear the truth from you Marden, or do we have to put you on trial like we did Clinton?

For starters, what is your real name? Are you Burt Bacharach? Who are you sleeping with, Abe or Mojo2? Or maybe Kevin or Railroader? Are you Cody Dawg? Art Bell?

The truth please...