The porn fairy was, very often, more of someone quickly dumping something they didn’t want found.
However, the really big piles were sometimes a person’s little self-love spot away from their home, for one reason or another.
My grandparents lived adjacent to a big stretch of woodland. A half hour hike away from their house, and there was a run down old shack that had hundreds of various magazines. Just the slowly decaying stacks of playboy were astounding in number, and went back decades, though with plenty of gaps.
Best guess on that one was a specific gentleman that had owned the land, or his son. The overgrown path that was barely detectable led roughly towards their house. Considering the rather fiery and hyper-religious nature of the lady of the house, it could have been either, though if it was the son, he had picked up a lot of old issues at some point. Which, some people do.
But there were penthouses and hustlers too. It was kinda crazy.
Eh, when you put out obvious bait, and a fish runs with it, it’s kinda on the fish.
You throw out some kind of weird fly, any fish with sense is going to be wary.
Vegans are the fish in this analogy. When there’s a troll so obvious that a teenager is like “dad, does anyone ever actually fall for that?”, and the vegan fish not only nibble at the bait, they swallow the whole dang rod, it’s almost like the bait is true. I mean it is true, but it’s still also an obvious thing meant to take the piss.
It’s irresistible to me because it has never once, in over a decade of doing it on various forums, failed entirely. At most, it would take a day or two to get noticed before someone comes screeching in, ready to lambast and be nasty. I have zero guilt about messing with the kind of people that take the bait.
But have you never run into the vegans that treat it like holy scriptures? That vegan is the one and only true way to be ethical and/or moral? I mean, I can believe that, it’s not like you’d run into that if you aren’t frequenting the places where the proselytize online (I’ve never had one dumb enough to do it in person).
It really is a thing that they treat being vegan as a command from on high than anyone who doesn’t fall in line is not just wrong, but bad. Not all vegans for sure, just the most visible ones because the chill vegans and vegetarians are just living their best life and eating well.
But, because of that obnoxious branch, I get a cheap giggle out of riling them up because calling them zealots gets the worst ones to act like zealots. It really reminds me of my pet chicken. Doesn’t take much to get her little wattles and comb bright red, and that tail twitching. And, since I have a very vivid imagery ability, that’s what I see when I pull this childish troll. Just some random person with their arms bent, flapping them and squawking madly as they scratch the ground. I did mention it’s childish, right? Me trolling them is childish, but I can’t seem to help myself. It’s almost as fun as going to to a group of fellow metalheads and asking them if they love that amazing metal band, nickelback.
Here we go got turned to utter shit here in the US.
It used to be awesome, but then it got bought out and they pushed an update that broke the hell out of it. Three times, it tried to have me turn into a lake. Twice, it kept telling me to turn every damn block until I had to shut it off and resort to waze. And for the week I kept trying to stick with it, voice navigation would cut in and out, give garbled noises instead of words. It was absurd.
I’m glad folks in other places have a good gps navigation app though :)
Not a physicist, but have had a lot of wiccan/neopagan friends over the years.
A portal to where? If you assume it does go somewhere, and isn’t just a visual disturbance of some kind, what you would have is a massive amount of energy being focused to connect two points.
I’m old and dgaf, but you can go look up the kind of math used when people start talking about wormholes. I’ve seen the kind of numbers involved in the energy required. There’s a really big value for n where 10^n is used to express it. We ain’t even talking triple digits if my memory isn’t worse than I think it is.
So, if your friend was present for a portal to or from somewhere other than this earth, I would imagine they’d be dead. Poking a hole like that is not going to be free of secondary phenomenon like black holes have emissions.
So, I would seriously doubt that what she experienced was a portal, doorway, hole, or anything like that. It has its own validity as an experience for her, but that validity doesn’t extend beyond her.
If you want the woowoo spiritual explanation, it would have been a symbolic representation of a doorway rather than a doorway itself. You can easily learn to visualize so strongly as to have the imagery seem very close to reality. There’s weird folks out in the world that don’t even have to try; they just have highly visual imaginations, and it takes very little for it to become very realistic. Don’t even ask about my dreams in that regard, or how easy it is to have what amounts to hallucinations if I can get deep into a book.
So, someone that is spending a great deal of time focused on “spiritual planes”, or whatever, is very likely to eventually either find something they can convince themselves is spiritual and “real”, or outright placebo themselves a numinal experience. And, you can’t prove a negative, so maybe they do experience something that has an objective reality that we can’t detect. But, you know, wiccans be trippin, even when they aren’t smoking herbs.
Look, it’s a valid vent. I don’t agree with it, but it’s a valid vent.
But I gotta be real with you, if you think Muslims are the only problem, you’ve had a very limited exposure to religion.
You also underestimate the hegemony Christianity still has on world affairs. It’s the default for so many things in western (read: most of Europe, the US and Canada) thought and policy. The world is still largely run by religious fruitcakes. As opposed to people that aren’t fruitcakes, and happen to be religious.
Hell, if you really wanna be scared of something that could happen in your lifetime, look at the bullshit being pulled here in the states. Imagine that hate filled bullshit being exported. If Islam spreads via reproduction in numbers, it won’t reach dominance across the entire world until long after we’re both dead and dust. You could see a christo-fascist regime spread in the next decade. Or not, I ain’t a magic 8ball.