Anti-intellectualism is a philosophic doctrine that assigns reason and intellect subordinate places in the world; and either denies or questions the ability of the human mind to comprehend the Truth of the real world. Therefore, hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism usually are expressed as derision of education and philosophy, and in the dismissal of art, literature, and science as impractical and contemptible human pursuits.
What are the causes of anti-intellectualism? It plays a significant role in politics and I think it is due to the rising inequality in society, education is far out of reach for most and there is a kind of sour-grapes attitude towards academics. In some regards, we are all anti-intellectual, as academics are often assimilated by politicians and corporations to lie to the public, these lies often cause lots of harm and suffering, but instead of a counter-movement that promotes truths, we see a growing movement of fringe groups who promote more lies that steer us into greater harms, partly due to lack of the ability and experience to think critically and independently and partly down to resentment and downright spite.
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Re: Anti-Intellectualism
I believe its the loss of the "power" they hold over people is what they are afraid of. I believe intellectuals are individuals that constantly try to accept and understand the "Truth of the real world." Society is a collective perception of ideological concepts that can not see anything as individual, therefore, can not understand it. To truly understand something is to gather all sides of a argument and come up with the best solution. Those groups that are hurting society rather than helping is the downfall of the free world. Classic example of emotion clouding logic.
Anti-intellectualism is ignorance > self-knowledge.
Intellectualism is self-knowledge > ignorance.
Anti-intellectualism is ignorance > self-knowledge.
Intellectualism is self-knowledge > ignorance.
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Re: Anti-Intellectualism
I believe its the loss of the "power" they hold over people is what they are afraid of. I believe intellectuals are individuals that constantly try to accept and understand the "Truth of the real world." Society is a collective perception of ideological concepts that can not see anything as individual, therefore, can not understand it. To truly understand something is to gather all sides of a argument and come up with the best solution. Those groups that are hurting society rather than helping is the downfall of the free world. Classic example of emotion clouding logic.
Anti-intellectualism is ignorance > self-knowledge.
Intellectualism is self-knowledge > ignorance.
Well, we all know what this means after your recent departure and it is your type of attitude that @"Socrates" is referring to.
Individualism is always a compromise within politics. If hearing all sides of an argument is required, why don't you practice what you preach and not let emotion cloud your logic?
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It has meaning to me, even though it sounds like they want to say sick sev-an, 6 represents Apollo and 7 represents Authority, the Sun, and Kronus, so saying 6 7 would translate to me to mean something like Apollo is King! Like AllahuAkbar! basically, and when these strange things occur, it seems to me the dumb bastards are being forcibly controlled by the spirit (algorithm) that runs through reality/experience and made to say and do things they don't even really understand.
These exclamations had versions throughout history, curiously to do with Apollo in those cases also, like this:
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The exclamation "Ie, ie Paian" (ἰή, ἰή Παιάν) was a repeated part of this song. It functioned as an invocation, likely meaning something similar to "come, come, Paian" or "shoot, shoot, Paian," referencing Apollo's role as an archer and a god of healing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean_(god)
Sometimes it is enough for me when things sound similar or close enough, and even more so if there are connections that can be made to the qualities involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paimon
This person experiencing something like obsessive compulsive or invasive thoughts is relying on the silliness of what the general public says and believes about these things. Lucifer, Ashmedai, and Paimon were all references to the same thing in three different aspects, that of Illuminator, Wrath, and Paean. Apollo used to be represented by Mars and was connected to numerous things including war and striking and the execution of justice and judgment, and is also Michael, which was spelled Mikal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apulu
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Syro-Canaanite deity Resheph, also known as Mikal or Mekal. He was a god of war, plague, and storms, and was worshiped in various cultures, including the Phoenicians, Egyptians, and Arameans. Resheph was often depicted as an armed warrior with a bow and arrows, and his worship included him being identified with other gods like Apollo in Greece and Nergal in Mesopotamia.
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Currently, the Apollo stuff is going completely crazy everywhere, and one of the representations is that of a snake, two headed snale, three snakes or a three headed snake, trident, two snakes interrwined, facing each other, facing away, a green snake, a golden snake, many golden or yellow snakes, a red snake.
The music is particularly that of stringed instruments which look like a bow for shooting arrows also. The spade or spear-like arrow shape is common with this and the concept of vectors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(m ... d_physics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_vector
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A vector is what is needed to "carry" the point A to the point B; the Latin word vector means 'carrier'.[4] It was first used by 18th century astronomers investigating planetary revolution around the Sun.[5] The magnitude of the vector is the distance between the two points, and the direction refers to the direction of displacement from A to B. Many algebraic operations on real numbers such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and negation have close analogues for vectors,[6] operations which obey the familiar algebraic laws of commutativity, associativity, and distributivity. These operations and associated laws qualify Euclidean vectors as an example of the more generalized concept of vectors defined simply as elements of a vector space.
Vectors play an important role in physics: the velocity and acceleration of a moving object and the forces acting on it can all be described with vectors.[7] Many other physical quantities can be usefully thought of as vectors. Although most of them do not represent distances (except, for example, position or displacement), their magnitude and direction can still be represented by the length and direction of an arrow. The mathematical representation of a physical vector depends on the coordinate system used to describe it. Other vector-like mathematical objects that describe physical quantities, such as pseudovectors and tensors, transform in a similar way under changes of the coordinate system.[8]
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In mathematics, the associative property[1] is a property of some binary operations that rearranging the parentheses in an expression will not change the result.
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Someone spoke to me from my empty basement last night. What should I do?..
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Last night I couldn't sleep at all, which is fairly normal since I work graveyard shifts and it's pretty much turned me into a night owl. So even on my days off I'm usually up all night long.
So I'm up in bed watching a romcom, laughing and in a great mood, and decided that I deserve to treat myself to the occasional drink. My bar is in my basement which is fully finished and furnished. It's pretty much a man cave.
I've spent entire nights down there by myself or with the gang and nothing strange has ever happened. So anything creepy or weird down there was absolutely the furthest thing from my mind.
I finish laughing my butt off and head down there. I go behind the bar, pour myself a drink, and head upstairs. BUT as I'm on the second to last step to the first floor, from behind me I hear "Hey!.." coming from downstairs in the middle of the basement.
It was an older man's voice, in their 50s I think. I know the house is empty except for me. And it scared the absolute shit out of me. I looked down there and nothing moved, no one spoke or came forward, and I freaked the fuck out. I jutted up the last two steps and slammed the basement door closed.
I'm wondering, Did I imagine that?, Is there someone in my house?? And as I stand there panicking, I hear the same mans voice coming from down in the basement but muffled by the door.
By the intonation, he asked a question. Then continued to talk right after. He was talking to me, the question sounded something like where are you going? I couldn't make much out, especially what he said after that, but I was panicked, adrenaline pumping, and said Fuck This Shit, someone broke into my house.
I ran into the next room, grabbed my flashlight, my handydandy baseball bat, and headed the hell back down there.
Silence. Just silence. Slowly, I turned on every light in every room down there, ready to bash some homeless mans head in (I'm sorry to all the homeless people..) but nothing. Every nook and corner checked and the basement is completely empty except for my panicking and heavily breathing ass.
I noped the fuck out of there, locked myself in my bedroom, and spent the next hour in crisis mode checking my basement cameras which showed nothing and no one except for me pouring myself a drink, and then coming back down there and running around like a madman with a bat a minute later.
I went down to the basement this afternoon after I woke up, with my trusty bat in hand and rechecked the whole place. I found Nothing. No one. Just me questioning both my sanity and reality.
I know what I heard.. That guy was pretty loud and he was talking in my direction and AT me. Even through the door I heard him talking down there at me up the stairs.. It seemed like he was trying to have a conversation with me.
I've never had any kind of break in (this is a very safe neighborhood) or any kind of remotely strange experience down there in my 15 years here. Does stuff like this happen to people out of the blue, or am I finally losing my ever loving mind?
I don't know what to do now.
*Update - It happened at 1:50 am. At this point I believe it most likely was paranormal and I think I'm going to go down there tonight to repeat the same exact process at the same time and see what happens. My curiosity's gotten the better of me and I wanna know what he/it has to say.
If it's actually an intruder, I'm coming prepared this time but it should still be very interesting..
*Update 2 - I've been down here from 1:45am until 3am, walking around asking and looking, and nothing. Part of me feels like it needs the darkness, or even just that element of unpredictability in order to manifest. Maybe it needs a build up of energy which it discharged last night, so it's tapped out right now. No idea. I have nothing to show for it tonight, but don't say that I didn't try.
Feel free to ask any further questions. I'll keep a keen eye on the basement and if anything happens now you'll all absolutely hear from me.
robert812003
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I know it was half sarcastic and I understand the skepticism.
My parents both died and left us the home and it ended up on my neck because my siblings are successfully leading their own lives in other states, while I'm barely keeping my head above water.. I work as many hours as I can get doing graveyard shifts because I don't really get along well with people.
I'm pretty socially inept and according to everyone, too nice and naive to make it anywhere in the real world. People are conniving and cutthroat and I just don't like that. I barely make enough money to keep covering the mortgage and bills each month and don't know what im going to do in order to keep the house in a few months.
Lol. There's my sob story. It's not some privelidged or amazing life I'm living, so I hope that helps clear things up.
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I been reading the comments as the story develops, and I have to say that you are unusually adept with words. You avoid hackneyed phrasing and have a knack for picking just the right metaphor… Maybe a career in writing (or copywriting)? You do not have to be a conniving, world-weary jerk to make it in those professions
And, while I am not a “believer“ in the paranormal, it does seem that something out of the ordinary did actually happened to you.
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Totally agree with this. You have a very colorful, descriptive, entertaining, and expert way with words!
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robert812003
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Hahaha! Thank you kindly friend. I actually kept it kurt and on point in order to not bore you all with a 4-5 page story with all the exact details. I knew I'd have lost a lot of readers along the way that are used to reading much less and much more quickly. But I want to know their opinions as well.
My experiences over the years though, some of that real craziness.. Maybe I will eventually write a book about them all. It would be a damn shame for all of that potential knowledge to just disappear with me.
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Thank you so very much. That does mean a lot to me, I mean it..
I don't know about that precisely but I've always loved languages and their specific uses of our vernacular. One word can mean so many things in so many languages and we often lack the words to express our deepest feelings and desires. We're lacking in face to face expression and reaching for technology to do it for us instead. I truly weep for us all.
English and history were my best subjects, and I vehemently wanted to be a writer some day. Once I realised the truth of our current system that I gave up. I need to be able to write at my leisure, as it flows and comes naturally. Ideas, imagination, life experiences.. you can't rush those. Our most famous authors died mostly broke and penniless.
I've dabbled with the idea of being another martyr or pariah for the masses, but seeing the state of this world right now, I'd much rather be looking after my family or whatever is left of it.
It's just that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. And I'd rather be on my own shed building whatever the fuck I want. I'm not good at dealing with most people to begin with so it's no skin off my back. I just want the freedom to be able to think, write, and live what I believe. And I see no future in that in this countries system at least.
Things are progressing too quickly with no real tangible goal in sight. It's even more of a clusterfuck with AI entering the mix. Will I have a job in 10 years as an author, or will we all bow down to auto driven and written text and data? It's become ridiculous at this point. I'm not the person to ask for anything but my opinion. And my opinion is "What the fuck are we doing to ourselves?"
You all lost me long ago. Good luck with that shit, but I've got my bug out bag ready.
I currently feel a very deep and primal need get well away from all of this insanity..
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This was a sobering read. You cannot be THAT "bad with people" to have the powers of observation you do. But perhaps that's simply classic introversion. [Pertinent aside: I spent several years of my life quasi-obsessed with... Emily Dickinson. To me, an obvious genius on the Pushkin-Shakespeare cosmic level, but someone who receded from society nearly entirely. That is, out in "her own shed, building whatever the fuck" she wanted, in her case an enduring body of poetry and thought. I suppose the difference is that, as the song goes, her "Daddy's rich"; sad to think of the counterfactual if she had to scrounge just for a roof over her head.]
People like you who are talented in "non-commercial" subjects like English and History are being systematically disenfranchised from participating in so-called White Collar work. Your comment regarding AI means that that last corner where creative types can congregate to participate in the great capitalist experiment is getting painted into oblivion... unless... "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em?" AI is helping people who simply couldn't do certain things before to be passable at them, and quickly. Thinking out loud, but... can you leverage your skills with writing and "broad observation" along with AI tools somehow? [I say this because Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Claude have helped me massively in my own work.]
REGARDLESS, you are noticeably and notably talented, and this stands out even among the unusually good writing here on Reddit. And you also seem like a good egg.
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It wasn’t meant to be anything other than sarcastic. If anything it was highlighting that you sounded fortunate. My apologies if my sarcasm was hurtful to you. Honestly I was trying to be helpful.
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No apologies needed. I know you meant no harm haha. But thank you for apologizing. That means a lot. We all have our weird, depressing, and wonderful situations dealt in life and you never know how things will turn out. You did nothing wrong my friend.
The fight against Social inequality is a different fight for a different day and one that I'm very much behind.
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Was the voice similar to your departed father? I was going to ask if you knew the history of the house, but after reading this it's obvious you do know the history.
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robert812003
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Not at all. It was a stranger's voice entirely. No one that I even remotely recognize and if it had been a family member, they wouldn't be speaking in English for damn sure, and definitely not without a very thick and heavy accent.
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Killing our ego is empowering, & mentally liberating, fr! Im not very religious as far as Christianity goes, but i totally understand why pride is the #1 sin. For the most part, pride & ego just hinder progress, while increasing socio-economic strife.
Im certainly not perfect, but i try my best to be conscious of my mentality, as much as possible. Being wrong, & offering different perspectives only create an opportunity for gaining knowledge, & self growth!
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So, the reason I put all that stuff here is for different levels and expressions of what I think anti-infellectualism me be and may be expressed as, including the replies in the reddits posted, down to the funny arguing about thieves not wearing white masks (executioners did). People seem to not do any research when it is now so easy, like the guy talking about Paimon and another talking about Glasya-Labolas and their seemingly refusing to look up either term properly lol and repeatedly insisting that they don't lnow what that is.
I was recently sitting in a restaurant and overheard a grown girl of maybe around 20 or so now, a college student, say she doesn't know what philosophy is or what the word means or refers to, and the two people trying to explain it to her took to insulting information technology as a degree, saying that IT is like Janitor Work compared Computer Science, which seemed so pretentious, and other things I overheard from everyone on the table were so devestatingly stupid and annoying.
I've been working on the idea that stupidity may be a conspiracy based on your suggestion that the people may not be total stupid fools who fall for their sworn enemies when they simply claim to be in favor of the poor people like them, and that the internet just makes them seem really stupid since that is what is put up online and easily noticed, but then I overhear stuff that really strengthens the impression that the intelligence of people may be taling a dangerous dive due to being totally stuck online woth each younger generation.
These people were trying to be intellectual though, they weren't deliberately fighting against anything like "smarts" as some people might do, possibly even out of fear of being judged as inferior to some standard they are imagining.
An example I often see is "it is just a movie" or "don't think/look too deeply into it", and others trying to shut people down from talking or typing too much and then insulting them fter theor efforts.
For years now, reading anything from people online really has a frequent tendency to get me feeling bad and annoyed with all the manipulations and complexes and sick control measures involved, not that I don't also try to do what I think is right and best, but in the case of other people they just seem like they are taking out their frustrations on total strangers by purosefully insulting them or saying things they probably still might not dare to in person, even though it would be highly unlikely that they get punched in the face as they ought to were they to ever even say something very aggressively belligerent and rude to anyone, and the least likely to be volatile in response would be a total stranger, but so many people seem to need to be whipped, at least with words, into being more well-oiled socially.
The experience of reading comments is a whole lot of cringing and pain for me, which for the most part doesn't occur in professional and serious academic literature that stays focused, but does occur in some that is very conversational and pretentious, seemingly created by charlatan poseur types who are still seemingly rare among the authors I read from, probably because of the investment involved in wasting their lives on some niche topic and the egoists wanting to be recognized and so choose different strategies and areas to broadcast their snootiness.
I hope that the stupidity and naivity I'm seeing is some kind of illusion and that people are not being duped. I fear that there may be a real project to try to dumb people down to such a point that making fools of them repeatedly is near effortless, in which case I hope that they revert to an even more un-tamed and feral state which can not participate in anything but wanton crime, unfortunately which will harm the most vulnerable first, rather than those demons who worked their malice upon society in the hope of controlling people rather than uplifting them.
The intellectual may not even exist, it might just be another epithet self-applied to the ruling class.
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The word and idea of "Executioner" has been occurring all day now, with and without looking it up.
One idea can also be that the physical surroundings generate the interiors, so that people only imagine themselves to be the agent and are instead just something that comes up because of the walls, so that this prisoner looking guy in silence hood was brought back when the walls were stripped down and brought back also, thus projecting the interior that the structure generates. An absurd, anti-intellectual notion.
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It has meaning to me, even though it sounds like they want to say sick sev-an, 6 represents Apollo and 7 represents Authority, the Sun, and Kronus, so saying 6 7 would translate to me to mean something like Apollo is King! Like AllahuAkbar! basically, and when these strange things occur, it seems to me the dumb bastards are being forcibly controlled by the spirit (algorithm) that runs through reality/experience and made to say and do things they don't even really understand.
These exclamations had versions throughout history, curiously to do with Apollo in those cases also, like this:
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The exclamation "Ie, ie Paian" (ἰή, ἰή Παιάν) was a repeated part of this song. It functioned as an invocation, likely meaning something similar to "come, come, Paian" or "shoot, shoot, Paian," referencing Apollo's role as an archer and a god of healing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean_(god)
Sometimes it is enough for me when things sound similar or close enough, and even more so if there are connections that can be made to the qualities involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paimon
This person experiencing something like obsessive compulsive or invasive thoughts is relying on the silliness of what the general public says and believes about these things. Lucifer, Ashmedai, and Paimon were all references to the same thing in three different aspects, that of Illuminator, Wrath, and Paean. Apollo used to be represented by Mars and was connected to numerous things including war and striking and the execution of justice and judgment, and is also Michael, which was spelled Mikal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apulu
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Syro-Canaanite deity Resheph, also known as Mikal or Mekal. He was a god of war, plague, and storms, and was worshiped in various cultures, including the Phoenicians, Egyptians, and Arameans. Resheph was often depicted as an armed warrior with a bow and arrows, and his worship included him being identified with other gods like Apollo in Greece and Nergal in Mesopotamia.
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Currently, the Apollo stuff is going completely crazy everywhere, and one of the representations is that of a snake, two headed snale, three snakes or a three headed snake, trident, two snakes interrwined, facing each other, facing away, a green snake, a golden snake, many golden or yellow snakes, a red snake.
The music is particularly that of stringed instruments which look like a bow for shooting arrows also. The spade or spear-like arrow shape is common with this and the concept of vectors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(m ... d_physics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_vector
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A vector is what is needed to "carry" the point A to the point B; the Latin word vector means 'carrier'.[4] It was first used by 18th century astronomers investigating planetary revolution around the Sun.[5] The magnitude of the vector is the distance between the two points, and the direction refers to the direction of displacement from A to B. Many algebraic operations on real numbers such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and negation have close analogues for vectors,[6] operations which obey the familiar algebraic laws of commutativity, associativity, and distributivity. These operations and associated laws qualify Euclidean vectors as an example of the more generalized concept of vectors defined simply as elements of a vector space.
Vectors play an important role in physics: the velocity and acceleration of a moving object and the forces acting on it can all be described with vectors.[7] Many other physical quantities can be usefully thought of as vectors. Although most of them do not represent distances (except, for example, position or displacement), their magnitude and direction can still be represented by the length and direction of an arrow. The mathematical representation of a physical vector depends on the coordinate system used to describe it. Other vector-like mathematical objects that describe physical quantities, such as pseudovectors and tensors, transform in a similar way under changes of the coordinate system.[8]
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Someone spoke to me from my empty basement last night. What should I do?..
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Last night I couldn't sleep at all, which is fairly normal since I work graveyard shifts and it's pretty much turned me into a night owl. So even on my days off I'm usually up all night long.
So I'm up in bed watching a romcom, laughing and in a great mood, and decided that I deserve to treat myself to the occasional drink. My bar is in my basement which is fully finished and furnished. It's pretty much a man cave.
I've spent entire nights down there by myself or with the gang and nothing strange has ever happened. So anything creepy or weird down there was absolutely the furthest thing from my mind.
I finish laughing my butt off and head down there. I go behind the bar, pour myself a drink, and head upstairs. BUT as I'm on the second to last step to the first floor, from behind me I hear "Hey!.." coming from downstairs in the middle of the basement.
It was an older man's voice, in their 50s I think. I know the house is empty except for me. And it scared the absolute shit out of me. I looked down there and nothing moved, no one spoke or came forward, and I freaked the fuck out. I jutted up the last two steps and slammed the basement door closed.
I'm wondering, Did I imagine that?, Is there someone in my house?? And as I stand there panicking, I hear the same mans voice coming from down in the basement but muffled by the door.
By the intonation, he asked a question. Then continued to talk right after. He was talking to me, the question sounded something like where are you going? I couldn't make much out, especially what he said after that, but I was panicked, adrenaline pumping, and said Fuck This Shit, someone broke into my house.
I ran into the next room, grabbed my flashlight, my handydandy baseball bat, and headed the hell back down there.
Silence. Just silence. Slowly, I turned on every light in every room down there, ready to bash some homeless mans head in (I'm sorry to all the homeless people..) but nothing. Every nook and corner checked and the basement is completely empty except for my panicking and heavily breathing ass.
I noped the fuck out of there, locked myself in my bedroom, and spent the next hour in crisis mode checking my basement cameras which showed nothing and no one except for me pouring myself a drink, and then coming back down there and running around like a madman with a bat a minute later.
I went down to the basement this afternoon after I woke up, with my trusty bat in hand and rechecked the whole place. I found Nothing. No one. Just me questioning both my sanity and reality.
I know what I heard.. That guy was pretty loud and he was talking in my direction and AT me. Even through the door I heard him talking down there at me up the stairs.. It seemed like he was trying to have a conversation with me.
I've never had any kind of break in (this is a very safe neighborhood) or any kind of remotely strange experience down there in my 15 years here. Does stuff like this happen to people out of the blue, or am I finally losing my ever loving mind?
I don't know what to do now.
*Update - It happened at 1:50 am. At this point I believe it most likely was paranormal and I think I'm going to go down there tonight to repeat the same exact process at the same time and see what happens. My curiosity's gotten the better of me and I wanna know what he/it has to say.
If it's actually an intruder, I'm coming prepared this time but it should still be very interesting..
*Update 2 - I've been down here from 1:45am until 3am, walking around asking and looking, and nothing. Part of me feels like it needs the darkness, or even just that element of unpredictability in order to manifest. Maybe it needs a build up of energy which it discharged last night, so it's tapped out right now. No idea. I have nothing to show for it tonight, but don't say that I didn't try.
Feel free to ask any further questions. I'll keep a keen eye on the basement and if anything happens now you'll all absolutely hear from me.
robert812003
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I know it was half sarcastic and I understand the skepticism.
My parents both died and left us the home and it ended up on my neck because my siblings are successfully leading their own lives in other states, while I'm barely keeping my head above water.. I work as many hours as I can get doing graveyard shifts because I don't really get along well with people.
I'm pretty socially inept and according to everyone, too nice and naive to make it anywhere in the real world. People are conniving and cutthroat and I just don't like that. I barely make enough money to keep covering the mortgage and bills each month and don't know what im going to do in order to keep the house in a few months.
Lol. There's my sob story. It's not some privelidged or amazing life I'm living, so I hope that helps clear things up.
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I been reading the comments as the story develops, and I have to say that you are unusually adept with words. You avoid hackneyed phrasing and have a knack for picking just the right metaphor… Maybe a career in writing (or copywriting)? You do not have to be a conniving, world-weary jerk to make it in those professions
And, while I am not a “believer“ in the paranormal, it does seem that something out of the ordinary did actually happened to you.
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Totally agree with this. You have a very colorful, descriptive, entertaining, and expert way with words!
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Hahaha! Thank you kindly friend. I actually kept it kurt and on point in order to not bore you all with a 4-5 page story with all the exact details. I knew I'd have lost a lot of readers along the way that are used to reading much less and much more quickly. But I want to know their opinions as well.
My experiences over the years though, some of that real craziness.. Maybe I will eventually write a book about them all. It would be a damn shame for all of that potential knowledge to just disappear with me.
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Thank you so very much. That does mean a lot to me, I mean it..
I don't know about that precisely but I've always loved languages and their specific uses of our vernacular. One word can mean so many things in so many languages and we often lack the words to express our deepest feelings and desires. We're lacking in face to face expression and reaching for technology to do it for us instead. I truly weep for us all.
English and history were my best subjects, and I vehemently wanted to be a writer some day. Once I realised the truth of our current system that I gave up. I need to be able to write at my leisure, as it flows and comes naturally. Ideas, imagination, life experiences.. you can't rush those. Our most famous authors died mostly broke and penniless.
I've dabbled with the idea of being another martyr or pariah for the masses, but seeing the state of this world right now, I'd much rather be looking after my family or whatever is left of it.
It's just that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. And I'd rather be on my own shed building whatever the fuck I want. I'm not good at dealing with most people to begin with so it's no skin off my back. I just want the freedom to be able to think, write, and live what I believe. And I see no future in that in this countries system at least.
Things are progressing too quickly with no real tangible goal in sight. It's even more of a clusterfuck with AI entering the mix. Will I have a job in 10 years as an author, or will we all bow down to auto driven and written text and data? It's become ridiculous at this point. I'm not the person to ask for anything but my opinion. And my opinion is "What the fuck are we doing to ourselves?"
You all lost me long ago. Good luck with that shit, but I've got my bug out bag ready.
I currently feel a very deep and primal need get well away from all of this insanity..
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This was a sobering read. You cannot be THAT "bad with people" to have the powers of observation you do. But perhaps that's simply classic introversion. [Pertinent aside: I spent several years of my life quasi-obsessed with... Emily Dickinson. To me, an obvious genius on the Pushkin-Shakespeare cosmic level, but someone who receded from society nearly entirely. That is, out in "her own shed, building whatever the fuck" she wanted, in her case an enduring body of poetry and thought. I suppose the difference is that, as the song goes, her "Daddy's rich"; sad to think of the counterfactual if she had to scrounge just for a roof over her head.]
People like you who are talented in "non-commercial" subjects like English and History are being systematically disenfranchised from participating in so-called White Collar work. Your comment regarding AI means that that last corner where creative types can congregate to participate in the great capitalist experiment is getting painted into oblivion... unless... "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em?" AI is helping people who simply couldn't do certain things before to be passable at them, and quickly. Thinking out loud, but... can you leverage your skills with writing and "broad observation" along with AI tools somehow? [I say this because Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Claude have helped me massively in my own work.]
REGARDLESS, you are noticeably and notably talented, and this stands out even among the unusually good writing here on Reddit. And you also seem like a good egg.
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It wasn’t meant to be anything other than sarcastic. If anything it was highlighting that you sounded fortunate. My apologies if my sarcasm was hurtful to you. Honestly I was trying to be helpful.
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No apologies needed. I know you meant no harm haha. But thank you for apologizing. That means a lot. We all have our weird, depressing, and wonderful situations dealt in life and you never know how things will turn out. You did nothing wrong my friend.
The fight against Social inequality is a different fight for a different day and one that I'm very much behind.
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Was the voice similar to your departed father? I was going to ask if you knew the history of the house, but after reading this it's obvious you do know the history.
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Not at all. It was a stranger's voice entirely. No one that I even remotely recognize and if it had been a family member, they wouldn't be speaking in English for damn sure, and definitely not without a very thick and heavy accent.
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Killing our ego is empowering, & mentally liberating, fr! Im not very religious as far as Christianity goes, but i totally understand why pride is the #1 sin. For the most part, pride & ego just hinder progress, while increasing socio-economic strife.
Im certainly not perfect, but i try my best to be conscious of my mentality, as much as possible. Being wrong, & offering different perspectives only create an opportunity for gaining knowledge, & self growth!
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So, the reason I put all that stuff here is for different levels and expressions of what I think anti-infellectualism me be and may be expressed as, including the replies in the reddits posted, down to the funny arguing about thieves not wearing white masks (executioners did). People seem to not do any research when it is now so easy, like the guy talking about Paimon and another talking about Glasya-Labolas and their seemingly refusing to look up either term properly lol and repeatedly insisting that they don't lnow what that is.
I was recently sitting in a restaurant and overheard a grown girl of maybe around 20 or so now, a college student, say she doesn't know what philosophy is or what the word means or refers to, and the two people trying to explain it to her took to insulting information technology as a degree, saying that IT is like Janitor Work compared Computer Science, which seemed so pretentious, and other things I overheard from everyone on the table were so devestatingly stupid and annoying.
I've been working on the idea that stupidity may be a conspiracy based on your suggestion that the people may not be total stupid fools who fall for their sworn enemies when they simply claim to be in favor of the poor people like them, and that the internet just makes them seem really stupid since that is what is put up online and easily noticed, but then I overhear stuff that really strengthens the impression that the intelligence of people may be taling a dangerous dive due to being totally stuck online woth each younger generation.
These people were trying to be intellectual though, they weren't deliberately fighting against anything like "smarts" as some people might do, possibly even out of fear of being judged as inferior to some standard they are imagining.
An example I often see is "it is just a movie" or "don't think/look too deeply into it", and others trying to shut people down from talking or typing too much and then insulting them fter theor efforts.
For years now, reading anything from people online really has a frequent tendency to get me feeling bad and annoyed with all the manipulations and complexes and sick control measures involved, not that I don't also try to do what I think is right and best, but in the case of other people they just seem like they are taking out their frustrations on total strangers by purosefully insulting them or saying things they probably still might not dare to in person, even though it would be highly unlikely that they get punched in the face as they ought to were they to ever even say something very aggressively belligerent and rude to anyone, and the least likely to be volatile in response would be a total stranger, but so many people seem to need to be whipped, at least with words, into being more well-oiled socially.
The experience of reading comments is a whole lot of cringing and pain for me, which for the most part doesn't occur in professional and serious academic literature that stays focused, but does occur in some that is very conversational and pretentious, seemingly created by charlatan poseur types who are still seemingly rare among the authors I read from, probably because of the investment involved in wasting their lives on some niche topic and the egoists wanting to be recognized and so choose different strategies and areas to broadcast their snootiness.
I hope that the stupidity and naivity I'm seeing is some kind of illusion and that people are not being duped. I fear that there may be a real project to try to dumb people down to such a point that making fools of them repeatedly is near effortless, in which case I hope that they revert to an even more un-tamed and feral state which can not participate in anything but wanton crime, unfortunately which will harm the most vulnerable first, rather than those demons who worked their malice upon society in the hope of controlling people rather than uplifting them.
The intellectual may not even exist, it might just be another epithet self-applied to the ruling class.
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The word and idea of "Executioner" has been occurring all day now, with and without looking it up.
One idea can also be that the physical surroundings generate the interiors, so that people only imagine themselves to be the agent and are instead just something that comes up because of the walls, so that this prisoner looking guy in silence hood was brought back when the walls were stripped down and brought back also, thus projecting the interior that the structure generates. An absurd, anti-intellectual notion.
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Artis, can you access your messages? People have been trying to contact you.
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I can't access them currently. Once in a while I get access to the forum to try to quickly create something for the imagination. One of my threads could be used to talk to me or my email, theartismagistra one could be used, though even my emails are difficult to read and respond to since the thing I do have brief access to is so small and doesn't properly display what is written. I'm still working on figuring out the phone situation, and soon I'll either get a replacement of the same phone or a screen replacement to take to a repair person, but I'm especially hesitant about the latter, also a new phone is really disturbingly expensive and turns me off a lot except that I've been using phones more than anything for the last two years or so now, but I also doslike it all.
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Any thread of mine or my email might be a way to reach me for now. It is also difficult for me to type with what I briwfly get access to for now, the typing is a mess, the putting in of links is a big pain and often blanks out all that I'm writing.
There has been a big bunch of stuff coming through during this period, as usual, this time it has been a number of interrelated seeming symbols that have an anchor point which everything revolves around in the form of snake imagery and themes. The local electronics are all on the fritz, a lot of screens continue to flicker and lights going out.
Inside the room at night, twice there has been an extremely bright flash from no discernable source that fills the room with light completely and no shadows, like an alien abduction lol.
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Any thread of mine or my email might be a way to reach me for now. It is also difficult for me to type with what I briwfly get access to for now, the typing is a mess, the putting in of links is a big pain and often blanks out all that I'm writing.
There has been a big bunch of stuff coming through during this period, as usual, this time it has been a number of interrelated seeming symbols that have an anchor point which everything revolves around in the form of snake imagery and themes. The local electronics are all on the fritz, a lot of screens continue to flicker and lights going out.
Inside the room at night, twice there has been an extremely bright flash from no discernable source that fills the room with light completely and no shadows, like an alien abduction lol.
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I have access to two phones. The one phone had the screen blow out but has a secondary mini screen, and so it has a tiny space yo write in and mostly doesn't make writing easy or very visible. The other phone is mostly in use by someone else and I can only sneak on when it is left behind and the keyboard is horrible and typing on it is torture, so I've mostly used it for brief reading, but largely I've been on devices less but also not doing much except imagining things, using my imagination and daydreaming like a device lol. So the main site has logged me out agsin, it requires me to log in, then it will send me a slow email to verify me as it has been doing every time, then I have to verify and it suggests making my email impossible to remember, which I refuse. I csn't see the email properly on the tiny screen which doesn't display it. I can try now on this other phone but my time with it is over as it is being waited for and I have to hand it over, which makes the slow email for verification also a hassle.