Email From an Apparent Sylvia Browne Fan

[RSLancastr]

I generally do not publish email without the writers permission, but I am making an exception in this case.

Dearest Mr. Lancaster,

I hope this is not too direct. I do not beleive a word of what you say. There is nothing in the world that could convince me of your lies and bashing. You do not even beleive what you say, therefore I will say this: you are creating a web of lies and uncertainty so thick that you are on the edge of strangling yourself with them.

Beware my dear friend. There is a whole lot of negative will that will be sent your way. I will not tell you how this will come about; but there are forces at work that you cannot not possibly comprehend. You will lay on your back looking at the sun wondering, wallowing in your own filth, a pile of steaming perfection of God's forces at work; the karma in which you be a slave too until your eternal soul is washed clean. But deep inside you, you KNOW. I am watching, and I am waiting. I am real and I will haunt your nightmares. I will wreck terror upon your soul.

You want to feel darkness? I was BORN in the darkness. I am OF the darkness. The eternal night shall be descended upon your web site, obscuring it from the viewing of others. Your corrupt reign is at an end. There is more. There is nothing you can do to stop the turn of events that will take place. The wheels of fate are turning slowly around, like the Earth moves slowly around the sun. Slowly, surely, ENEVITABLY. Until your doom comes crashing upon you like a hundred tidalwaves. Your negative hate energy is really the knife that will end up piercing your black heart. The hands of time tick slowly on. Your doom awaits you at the end of all things.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Most truly yours,
Master Myotismon, Eternal Vampire King of the Night.Discuss.

[Soapy Sam]

"You cannot not possibly comprehend? "
"beleive"?
"in which you will be a slave too"?
"wreck terror"?

I would expect a vampire to have a better grasp of spelling and grammar than the average fourteen year old.

I bet you're trembling in your boots, eh?

You made this up , you rat. Nothing could be this good.

Or Dr.A has been sniffing WD40 again.

This is a hoot.

[wahrheit]

Is this creepy or silly? :confused:

Sounds like a kid to me, but I'm not the expert here.

[Phil]

Is this creepy or silly? :confused:

Sounds like a kid to me, but I'm not the expert here.

A kid???

Don't you know the Eternal Vampire King of the Night is ageless?

[C.W.]

Eesh! It started out just whackadoo, but quickly turned creepy.

[Cleon]

"Eternal Vampire King of the Night"

:dl:

[Miss Whiplash]

That's similar to a post I found on my site yesterday. The poor thing couldn't even post the comment under the right topic, so I simply deleted it.

As school is out, I expect random snipers to increase.

[wahrheit]

A kid???

Don't you know the Eternal Vampire King of the Night is ageless?

Silly me! :mgbanghead


Robert, if I remember correctly your are a computer geek programmer. Have you checked the header of that mail, originating IP and stuff?

[Miss Whiplash]

"Eternal Vampire King of the Night"

:dl:


With his mom's credit card in hand, headed toward Hot Topic at the mall. :D

[Crossbow]

I generally do not publish email without the writers permission, but I am making an exception in this case.

Discuss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotismon

There is a neat wikipedia article that discusses the "Myotismon" character.

It sounds as if the person who wrote the e-mail is trying to merge vampire fiction with cartoon fiction in order to make a real person afraid of something that does not exist.

This guy sure is a hoot all right!

By the way, I noticed that he did not say anything to defend Browne, instead he just tried to vilify you. That sure says a great deal about the author of the e-mail.

[RSLancastr]

By the way, I noticed that he did not say anything to defend Browne, instead he just tried to vilify you. That sure says a great deal about the author of the e-mail.Yes, there is nothing in it to identify me or my site, as well as no mention of Browne.

Perhaps it is the email he/she sends to everyone.

Personally, I am thinking of sending it to a few customer support departments.

[Rasmus]

I hope this is not too direct.I wonder what kind of e-mail this person would send if they intended to be "too direct".

Oh yeah: Eternal Vampire King of the Night? So do vampires have a king of the day, too, like ancient Egypt had separate pharaos for the upper and lower Nile? Is the day king of vampitrism also eternal, or do they have a rota or something?

Robert, when you die, can I have your playstation?

[Soapy Sam]

"You want to feel darkness? I was BORN in the darkness. I am OF the darkness. The eternal night shall be descended upon your web site, obscuring it from the viewing of others. Your corrupt reign is at an end. There is more. There is nothing you can do to stop the turn of events that will take place. The wheels of fate are turning slowly around, like the Earth moves slowly around the sun. Slowly, surely, ENEVITABLY. Until your doom comes crashing upon you like a hundred tidalwaves. Your negative hate energy is really the knife that will end up piercing your black heart. The hands of time tick slowly on. Your doom awaits you at the end of all things."

Oh frabjous day! This is truly a thing of beauty. The slow, ponderous, crashing ENEVITABILITY of it all. This is to prose, what elastic is to a linear accelerator.
I fall down and worship, Oh mighty one.

This is pure sig material in every line. I may even reacquire one myself.

Robert if you get anything more from this numpty, please post it. I'm a fan already.

[RSLancastr]

I wonder what kind of e-mail this person would send if they intended to be "too direct".
Perhaps he/she would go straight for his second-level Digimon attack.

Robert, when you die, can I have your playstation?
Well, since I apparently won't meet my doom until "the end of all things," you have to wait a while.

[Tbone]

His evil laugh needs works.

[Rasmus]

Well, since I apparently won't meet my doom until "the end of all things," you have to wait a while.

That's cool. Just remember I asked first.

[Soapy Sam]

Certainly proves the old Transylvanian proverb
" It's when you are cursed by the Eternal Vampire King of the Night that you find out who your friends are as opposed to who merely wants your Playstation".
(It loses something in the translation).

[MelBrooksfan]

I do believe we have some sort of performance art at work.

[Rasmus]

Certainly proves the old Transylvanian proverb
" It's when you are cursed by the Eternal Vampire King of the Night that you find out who your friends are as opposed to who merely wants your Playstation".
(It loses something in the translation).

Nominated.

[Loss Leader]

Your doom awaits you at the end of all things.


Isn't this where doom awaits everybody?


Parenthetically, once when giving a talk about estate planning, I told the audience, "I am not a psychic but I guarantee you one thing - you will die." I thought this was fairly straightforward but some audience members were horrified. Apparently, nobody had told them.

[Kilgore Trout]

At least he started out polite. That has to count for something, especially these days, what with the kids and their hippity hop music and giant, low pants.

[Horatius]

...a talk about estate planning, I told the audience, "I am not a psychic... "

I thought this was fairly straightforward but some audience members were horrified. Apparently, nobody had told them.



Perhaps they misunderstood the concept of "estate planning".


"I see the numbers 6, 9, 14, 23, 34, 42. Those are sure winners!"


:D

[Mick Houlahan]

And I thought Ed Wood, Jr. stopped writing when he died.:D

[Carnivore]

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, what kind of madman writes maniacal laughter?

[Skeptic Guy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotismon

There is a neat wikipedia article that discusses the "Myotismon" character.

It sounds as if the person who wrote the e-mail is trying to merge vampire fiction with cartoon fiction in order to make a real person afraid of something that does not exist.

This guy sure is a hoot all right!

By the way, I noticed that he did not say anything to defend Browne, instead he just tried to vilify you. That sure says a great deal about the author of the e-mail.

I thought I recognized that name! My son used to watch Digimon a lot when he was younger. That reference suggests that he is a kid.

Yes, there is nothing in it to identify me or my site, as well as no mention of Browne.

Perhaps it is the email he/she sends to everyone.

Personally, I am thinking of sending it to a few customer support departments.

If Vampire received a similar one, he may be just hitting skeptical or "anti-supernatural" sites. That kind of thing.

His evil laugh needs works.

Yeah, "Bwahahahaha" works much better. He/she needs to practice up on his "Evil Vampire" routine.

[Babylon Sister]

Sounds a bit like Sweft to me. Same language style, same smugness, same "I know something you don't know" games.

Just a guess though.

See http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=82400

[tsg]

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, what kind of madman writes maniacal laughter?

Maskerade?

[Pythra]

There's a user on the GoSylviaBrowne forum who is obsessed with vampires and digimon. But my first instinct was that this email was a troll from a silly skeptic.

[Carnivore]

Maskerade?

Yep.

[Darat]

I'm confused, to me it reads like many of the emails I get sent to the "contact us" address everyday, well not quite as it had punctuation.

[BPSCG]

So are you hanging garlic in your windows? Clutching a cross to your breast as you go to sleep?

I wish I could inspire that kind of fury in people. Instead all I get is the lame candy-ass kind of cheese you see in my sig line. :(

[Minarvia]

I hope it doesn't bother you too much, Robert. I thought it started out kind of creepy, but I couldn't help but snicker thru the rest of it.
Yeah, probably a vampire-wannabe kid. And yes, the laugh could be better. Either bwahahaha or muwahahaha. Or not.

[Miss Anthrope]

While I read it I imagined some of the fourth grade goths from a few South Park episodes...........

[Cleon]

With his mom's credit card in hand, headed toward Hot Topic at the mall. :D

This guy probably got all inspired when he saw DJ Bobo perform at the Eurovision semi-finals:

-UT9gnChduc

[Pythra]

If it IS from the vampire/digimon obsessee from GSB (and maybe it just so happens that there are many such people in the Sylvia Browne fandom) then it was written by a 25 year old woman...

[HarryKeogh]

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, what kind of madman writes maniacal laughter?

LOL!

[PastBrowneFan]

It is soooooo obvious: you got a rare email from SB herself. :jaw-dropp

[wahrheit]

This guy probably got all inspired when he saw DJ Bobo perform at the Eurovision semi-finals:

-UT9gnChduc

I hate you!!11!! :mgbanghead

It is soooooo obvious: you got a rare email from SB herself. :jaw-dropp

You hit the nail on the head. :thumbsup:

[Miss Anthrope]

If it IS from the vampire/digimon obsessee from GSB (and maybe it just so happens that there are many such people in the Sylvia Browne fandom) then it was written by a 25 year old woman...

Funny how the internet is filled with those who love to attack Sylvia's critics, but hate the English language.

[Kilgore Trout]

Hate it or just beat it into submission?

[The Central Scrutinizer]

You will lay on your back looking at the sun wondering, wallowing in your own filth, a pile of steaming perfection of God's forces at work;

Well, obviously he's met you.

:duck:

[Azrael 5]

Beware my dear friend. There is a whole lot of negative will that will be sent your way. I will not tell you how this will come about; but there are forces at work that you cannot not possibly comprehend.

I've emailed David Soul right now.
RS Lancaster don't give up on us baby! :D

[Beleth]

Discuss.
Sir, you should feel justified -- nay, obligated -- to change your title to "A pile of steaming perfection".

[Steven Howard]

there are forces at work that you cannot not possibly comprehend

You hear that? Totally comprehensible forces are at work! It's entirely possible for you to comprehend these forces! No more namby-pamby cryptic forces, no sir. When these forces go to work, at least some people will potentially know exactly what's going on. So there.

[Raphael]

"a pile of steaming perfection of God's forces at work"

The worst pick-up line ever.

[vIQleS]

His evil laugh needs works.

Yeah - i was almost worried for you RS, until I read:

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

[thaiboxerken]

Why do I picture a wimpy, goth teenage boy writing this from his mom's computer while she's at work?

[imagineNoReligion]

You will lay on your back looking at the sun wondering, wallowing in your own filth, a pile of steaming perfection of God's forces at work;


I should hang that quote in my bathroom.

[Pope130]

Quote:
"You want to feel darkness? I was BORN in the darkness. I am OF the darkness."

This guy watches The Twilight Zone. Adolph Hitler in "He's Alive":
"The darkness Mr. Volmer? I was born in the darkness. I am the darkness!"

Rod Serling. At least you have to credit this wacko for plagiarizing the best.

Robert

[billydkid]

I generally do not publish email without the writers permission, but I am making an exception in this case.

Discuss.I would strongly recommend that you stop wallowing in your own filth. The last thing you need is to be lambasted by a steaming pile of God's perfection.

[clerihew80]

There's a user on the GoSylviaBrowne forum who is obsessed with vampires and digimon.
Are you talking about LadyVamdemon? According to Wikipedia, the Myotismon character is known as Vamdermon in Japan, and LadyVamdemon has a picture of him next to her screen name.

She posted the following comment on youtube a week ago:

Inappropriate remark removed.

It's in the comments section for this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkbkkkT6ejA&eurl=

She also posted this in the GoSylviaBrowne forum earlier today, not sure what it's in reference to:

"Ok, I won't post anymore on Lancaster.

Sorry, I just thought it was funny and so did Myotismon. But I'm not blaming Myotismon, I take responsiblity for the post. I am the one untimately in this dimension and the one pushing send. "

She seems to be obsessed with you, Robert.

[RSLancastr]

At least he started out polite.Yes, she did. Give credit where credit is due, I always say. It went downhill a bit after that, though.

I wish I could inspire that kind of fury in people. Instead all I get is the lame candy-ass kind of cheese you see in my sig line. :(What can I say - it's a talent.

It is soooooo obvious: you got a rare email from SB herself. :jaw-dropp:eek:

Well, obviously he's met you.Yes, and on one of my better days!

Sir, you should feel justified -- nay, obligated -- to change your title to "A pile of steaming perfection".That is so going on my business card.

You hear that? Totally comprehensible forces are at work!:D

I should hang that quote in my bathroom.It makes me ask "What exactly is the sun wondering?

Rod Serling. At least you have to credit this wacko for plagiarizing the best.I would imagine it was stolen third or fourth-hand, perhaps from a cereal box with a Digimon prize inside.

I would strongly recommend that you stop wallowing in your own filth. The last thing you need is to be lambasted by a steaming pile of God's perfection.My doctor has told me precisely the same thing, bdk.

Quoted remark removed.That must have been before the absinthe kicked in.

By the way, is it really "worship" if I'm just really fond of my own? :confused:

[thaiboxerken]

RSL.. did you just say that you're fond of your own Inappropriate remarks removed.

[MelBrooksfan]

Quote:
"You want to feel darkness? I was BORN in the darkness. I am OF the darkness."

This guy watches The Twilight Zone. Adolph Hitler in "He's Alive":
"The darkness Mr. Volmer? I was born in the darkness. I am the darkness!"

Rod Serling. At least you have to credit this wacko for plagiarizing the best.

Robert

I do apologize for being excessively specific, but I recall the line as being "... darkness Mr. Volmer? I invented darkness!"

[clerihew80]

Another wonderfully eloquent youtube comment by Ladyvamdemon:

Inappropriate remarks removed.

[Tamazon]

"Sorry, I just thought it was funny and so did Myotismon. But I'm not blaming Myotismon, I take responsiblity for the post. I am the one untimately in this dimension and the one pushing send."

I sense a little schizophrenia. I was thinking that the first part of the email sounded like it was written be a woman. The latter part not so much. But I dismissed that thought as the email was signed "Master Myotismon".

[Tamazon]

Actually, I take it back...from the quotes I'm reading, she isn't very ladylike at all. Where's all the love and light these folks are normally throwing around?

[clerihew80]

This was posted by the gosylviabrowne administrator on May 17 at 4:26 P.M., apparently after LadyVamdemon had been writing some spiteful things about Robert Lancaster:


"Hi LadyV...I am the one responsible for deleting those posts. No offense. I just feel that even if you were trying to be funny and stand up for Sylvia, I don't really want to condone any negativity toward RSL.

If someone from this site puts that out there, it seems as though we are no better than the skeptics who come into our site and play games with us. I don't wish them any harm, I just want them to leave us alone.

I know my mailbox is full of abusive, hateful, and strange messages from people. I don't want anyone doing it to him."


I think "abusive, hateful and strange" describes LadyV's e-mail quite nicely! What a fruitcake.

[Tricky]

I generally do not publish email without the writers permission...
I think you ought to have a section for the wacko e-mails you get. When a person sends you e-mail then they are essentially giving you permission to use it unless specifically stated otherwise. You could clip off the names.

[clerihew80]

Here is a drawing of LadyVamdemon's spirit guide, "Lorraine." (Click to enlarge)

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_15683464d146d1aa42.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=5832)

So watch out, Robert, or she might unleash this supernatural agent of destruction! Beware!

[Slimething]

I sense a little schizophrenia.

Just a little? Looks to me like there's a bunch of very lonely meds out there looking for a body. :boggled:

[Miss Whiplash]

Speaking of the GSB administrator, I found this on her blog:

By the way, yes, I am aware of the spam in the guestbook. I have used all the filters I possibly can. Everytime you see it filled up with junk, you can thank the immature oxygen-thieves who signed me up for it in the first place. Way to go, skeptics! Your moms should be really proud! I will try to get a new program soon but in the meantime, I will clean it up here and there like I always do.

I can't keep quiet on that. Judging by the IP numbers, these are the same spambots I get hit with everyday on my own site. She needs to take a course in rudimentary web security instead of blaming a conspiracy of skeptics.

[Stellafane]

I don't see how you can possibly respond any other way except "I love you too!"

[Stellafane]

...She needs to take a course in rudimentary web security instead of blaming a conspiracy of skeptics.

She's probably convinced skeptics made it rain on her birthday.

[Jackalgirl]

Here is a drawing of LadyVamdemon's spirit guide, "Lorraine." (Click to enlarge)

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_15683464d146d1aa42.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=5832)

So watch out, Robert, or she might unleash this supernatural agent of destruction! Beware!

So...Monica's seen "Narnia", eh?

[Jackalgirl]

Sorry, I just thought it was funny and so did Myotismon. But I'm not blaming Myotismon, I take responsiblity for the post. I am the one untimately in this dimension and the one pushing send.

So...she's channeling a fictional character? Whee!

[Tamazon]

She's probably convinced skeptics made it rain on her birthday.

Yeah, that was me....sorry.

[clerihew80]

Here's some more of LadyV's artwork:

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_15683464d2392d40cd.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=5834)

There's our friend Myotismon on the far right, and that's LadyV herself (aka Monica - her real name) next to him. The creature on the far left is "Shimmer," Monica's guardian angel - "I also saw Shimmer in a dream. The thing I most remember is that it was all white. There wasn't a speck of colour on it! But it was not glowing.... and it was genderless too."

[MelBrooksfan]

Here's some more of LadyV's artwork:

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/thum_15683464d2392d40cd.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=5834)

There's our friend Myotismon on the far right, and that's LadyV herself (aka Monica - her real name) next to him. The creature on the far left is "Shimmer," Monica's guardian angel - "I also saw Shimmer in a dream. The thing I most remember is that it was all white. There wasn't a speck of colour on it! But it was not glowing.... and it was genderless too."

Her spirit guide as the invisible woman? I wish I had some sort of woo that could pass as Jessica Alba.

[Miss Whiplash]

I wonder if she sees Monica when she looks in the mirror. :cool:

Lorraine looks like an inflatable Judy doll.

Edit: Ok, she's Monica.

[clerihew80]

Ladyvamdemon just posted this in the Gosylviabrowne forum:


No, sorry Heather. I shouldn't have put it up. I can see now that it was a little innapropiate. I just didn't see it at the time. I;m a little socially retarded if people haven't noticed by now! lol! And Myo has a massive detachment from other's opinions.

But I think you probably enjoyed that the letter most likely weirded the person in question the frig out.... which was Myo's intent.

But we'll both be good from now on. I promise. And I'll try to listen to my guide more. I always just shut her out when she tries to give me advice that I don't like or agree with. Just like she tried to do before I posted the naughty post in question.

Love monica.


So, Robert, were you weirded the frig out?

[Miss Whiplash]

I've read where she posted she has a child.

Oh, dear. She's reproduced.

[MelBrooksfan]

That must have made for an interesting imaginary friend phase for the kid..

[RSLancastr]

So, Robert, were you weirded the frig out?If I was weirded out by it, I would have notified the authorities.

As it was, I sent her this reply:

Dearest Master MyotisMonica, Eternal Vampire King of the Night:

I am surprised to learn that you take time away from playing Digimon to pay any attention to Sylvia Browne.

Regardless of that, if you can point out even one lie in the "web of lies" you call my site, please do.

Best regards,

Robert S. Lancaster
Webmaster,
www.StopSylviaBrowne.com

[nails3jesus0]

i am starting to feel embarassed for her.



I've read where she posted she has a child.

Oh, dear. She's reproduced.

im more suprised when people that dumb havent reproduced.

[Questioninggeller]

I wasn't sure if this was posted, but:

Acclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne appeared for the 2nd and 3rd hours of the show, sharing her forecast for 2006. Among her predictions:
...
-The 2008 election will be between Kerry and McCain, and Kerry will win in a close vote.


http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/01/03.html

Well Kerry isn't a canidate, and currently McCain is behind for the Republican nomination.

Psychic Sylvia Browne (sylvia.org) who is pictured below, returned to C2C to offer predictions and share tales from "the other side." Among her forecasts are the death of Saddam Hussein by the end of this year, a Democratic president elected in 2004, and the possible eruption of the volcano at Yellowstone within the next 3-4 months. "I think the whole thing is gonna blow," she said.
...

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/10/22.html

And 0 for 3 there.

[clerihew80]

Hey, slightly off-topic, but I was browsing through the gosylviabrowne forum and I came across this remark:

"Hey Monica: Why don't you call Sylvia Browne's office and ask for spiritual counseling on this matter: 408 379 7070 It is free and Sylvia's ministers are highly intuitive and just amazing. "

Is this true? Does anyone know if you can really get free "spiritual counseling" by calling this number?

BTW, the "matter" referred to is a tiff between Monica and her husband, who, according to her, has Loser as one of his "life themes." Something about spending all of the couple's money on a fishing boat and paint ball guns. Sounds like a gem.

Anyway, she decides to divorce the guy, and with the help of her spirit guide Lorraine, a cadre of angels, and Jesus ("for good measure") she summons up the courage to break off the marriage. At 5:18 PM on Apr 21, 2007 she proudly announces that she has done it, that her life is now completely changed. But then, literally less than a day later, Apr 22 at 6:43 AM, after experiencing what she calls an "astral dream," she writes that she has decided to give the marriage another shot: "I now understand that he was suppost to treat me that way so that I could perfect my theme. Now that that lesson is over we probably charted a better relationship from here on in. I am so glad this happened it has really increased my spirituality BIG TIME."

I don't know if this is sad or hilarious. Probably both.

[wahrheit]

Is this true? Does anyone know if you can really get free "spiritual counseling" by calling this number?

Dunno, but I assume it is as "free" as a free "personality test" by the scientologists. Much like calling a phone company regarding that "free" cell phone, which turns out to be $35 per month ten minutes into the conversation. ;)

[Pythra]

I don't think LadyVamdemon has any mental illness. I think she's a lonely housewife whose stunted emotional and social development has led to a strange obessession with Digimon. It also explains her weird behaviour and her belief in SB's abilities.

The email looks ridiculous and embarrassing to us, but it probably sounded quite clever and initimidating in her head. I don't think she needs help. To use a tired old cliche, she needs to get out more.

If you enjoyed her email to RSL, you might also enjoy her MySpace page:
http://myspace.com/ladyvamdemon

[clerihew80]

I don't think she needs help.
I dunno, there's something kind of latently vicious about some of the things she writes. Take this remark, for example:

"Dark enetities I don't care about hurting, they could all fall into a pit of lava for all I care."

She also seems to have a grandiose conception of herself and her abilities. She considers herself a "Builder," whatever that is, but apparently it's a personality type that is commonly misunderstood and prevents one from succeeding in conventional terms. She is resigned, however:

"When I was younger I used to feel kind of bad that I couldn't help the "masses" so to speak but I quickly realized that I could do kind acts everywhere I went with out necessarily going and doing some big thing...Knowing I am a Builder has helped me feel totally ok with the fact that I may not be able to do an exciting career, but when I think about it being able to discreetly do small good deeds that may bring a smile to another persons face or help a person in a time of need, or just brighten another person's day is a lot more exciting to me than being well renouned"

[Soapy Sam]

Just had a look at that myspace page.

Monica seems a bit daft, but -hey, she's a slyvia fan. There's worse things than being daft. She does at least seem capable of self-mockery, which is a good sign. I don't think she wrote RSL's email. Her general writing is better, clearer and less contrived- more in line with a 25 year old than a 14 year old.

Re Heather Browne- It seems that in spite of running her own website, she has not appreciated either that spam is universal or that the admin has no control over members except on his or her own site.
Even if some of her spam does come from JREF members - and I hope not- that is no more under Randi or Darat's control than an SB fan spamming this board would be Heather Browne's fault.

If posters here have serious useful advice for Browne regarding control of spam, it would be a charitable act to post it on her site. If she chose to reject it, that's her call.

[Zep]

I call: Tequila.

[clerihew80]

I don't think she wrote RSL's email.
On the contrary, I don't think there can be any doubt that Monica is the culprit. Notice how RSL addressed his response to "Master MyotisMonica," and how she actually apologized to the Gosylviabrowne administrator for sending RSL a letter that would "weird (him) the frig out."

Her screen name is Ladyvamdemon. "Vamdemon" is another name for the Myotismon character. She's also quite the creative writer. Here's a sample of her work: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcg9764f_11g67sh2 (Be forewarned: it's full of "vulgar swearing and racial slurs, graphic description of violence, and descriptions of rape and child abuse"!)

I mean, really, how many digimon-obsessed Sylvia fans can there be?

[Cuddles]

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, what kind of madman writes maniacal laughter?

To paraphrase Monty Python, maybe he was dictating.

[Miss Whiplash]

Just had a look at that myspace page.

Monica seems a bit daft, but -hey, she's a slyvia fan. There's worse things than being daft. She does at least seem capable of self-mockery, which is a good sign. I don't think she wrote RSL's email. Her general writing is better, clearer and less contrived- more in line with a 25 year old than a 14 year old.

Re Heather Browne- It seems that in spite of running her own website, she has not appreciated either that spam is universal or that the admin has no control over members except on his or her own site.
Even if some of her spam does come from JREF members - and I hope not- that is no more under Randi or Darat's control than an SB fan spamming this board would be Heather Browne's fault.

If posters here have serious useful advice for Browne regarding control of spam, it would be a charitable act to post it on her site. If she chose to reject it, that's her call.

I left her a few links on how to combat comment spam on my blog (http://www.mondoskepto.com/node/135). I can't tell her directly though - I'm blocked.

[brodski]

Robert, please forward that e-mail to “Bishop” Sean Manchester, vampire hunter extraordinaire- it would be a great example of fighting woo with woo, and the Eternal Vampire King of the Night would be too busy declining offers of exorcism and denying slander and libel to even remember your site exists…

[Lisa Simpson]

Her screen name is Ladyvamdemon. "Vamdemon" is another name for the Myotismon character. She's also quite the creative writer. Here's a sample of her work: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcg9764f_11g67sh2 (Be forewarned: it's full of "vulgar swearing and racial slurs, graphic description of violence, and descriptions of rape and child abuse"!)

I mean, really, how many digimon-obsessed Sylvia fans can there be?

She posted something vulgar on one of my youtube videos as well. I deleted it and blocked her. What a nutjob!!

[Miss Whiplash]

:dl:

Someone should get the bish interested in Sylvia. Can't you just see him challenging her to a psychic duel?

[Peter S.]

Here is a drawing of LadyVamdemon's spirit guide, "Lorraine." (Click to enlarge)...


No thanks.

[Redtail]

I can't really add anything to this thread that hasn't been said already. (Well, I could but I haven't had coffe yet) So I just thought I'd share the fact that there are few things funnier that waking up to a golfer getting attacked by a flock of geese.

[Robaato]

She also posted this in the GoSylviaBrowne forum earlier today, not sure what it's in reference to:

"Ok, I won't post anymore on Lancaster.

Sorry, I just thought it was funny and so did Myotismon. But I'm not blaming Myotismon, I take responsiblity for the post. I am the one untimately in this dimension and the one pushing send. "Hm. Sounds like someone's set the reality enhancement jumper on the motherboard...

[Moochie]

A kid???

Don't you know the Eternal Vampire King of the Night is ageless?

I think that's a speech from an old Bela Lugosi movie. :D

M.

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm wondering if she's more like a strange simulacrum of Speide Bahl, just insane and not as polished. If this is all serious (to her) she really needs to be on medication. No offense to Mr. Bahl.

[MelBrooksfan]

If you enjoyed her email to RSL, you might also enjoy her MySpace page:
http://myspace.com/ladyvamdemon
She's 25.. I can't believe that.

[Minarvia]

:dl:

Someone should get the bish interested in Sylvia. Can't you just see him challenging her to a psychic duel?

I had a vision of the two getting married and beginning a society to vanquish psychic vampires! :p

[Jon.]

She's 25.. I can't believe that.

I would take everything on that page with a grain of salt. She [?] also claims to have an income of over $250K, have completed grad/professional school, and to be a Hindu. I also hope that her [?] claim to live on Vancouver Island is also false, as that would put her [?] only a short ferry ride away from me...:eek:

[ChristineR]

I know of a troll that posts under the name LadyVan and her posts would certainly not be allowed to stand on this site....

Let's just say that she claims to make specialty porn movies....and she has plenty to say about her craft.

[wahrheit]

The links in your post don't seem to work, ChristineR.

[Pythra]

I would take everything on that page with a grain of salt. She [?] also claims to have an income of over $250K, have completed grad/professional school, and to be a Hindu. I also hope that her [?] claim to live on Vancouver Island is also false, as that would put her [?] only a short ferry ride away from me...:eek:

Some of the things on her MySpace page are clearly false, but I'm fairly confident she's really 25. It's the age she claims on the GSB forum and she talks about parenting with some of the other members.

I wonder if she'll ever read any of this?

[Miss Whiplash]

I would take everything on that page with a grain of salt. She [?] also claims to have an income of over $250K, have completed grad/professional school, and to be a Hindu. I also hope that her [?] claim to live on Vancouver Island is also false, as that would put her [?] only a short ferry ride away from me...:eek:

Notice she also says she 4'1"?

[RSLancastr]

Notice she also says she 4'1"?Maybe that's absolutely huge in the Digimon world...

[Skeptic Guy]

I would take everything on that page with a grain of salt. She [?] also claims to have an income of over $250K, have completed grad/professional school, and to be a Hindu. I also hope that her [?] claim to live on Vancouver Island is also false, as that would put her [?] only a short ferry ride away from me...:eek:

You could be friends.

[ChristineR]

Hmm....quite a few of the Digimon fan sites refer to character heights, but I'm unable to determine where they are sourcing their information.

[Roadtoad]

Lame. Very lame.

You have my respect, Robert. I'd have not only run the e-mail, I'd have included the adress so the rest of us could mercilessly mock this whiny twit.

[articulett]

Funny how the internet is filled with those who love to attack Sylvia's critics, but hate the English language.

On the plus side, vampire hate-mail isn't nearly as atrocious as christian hate-mail.

I do wish he would have listed Roberts' lies that will cause him to have all sorts of egregious things to happen... I must have missed them. I've met Robert and been to his site and he seems like a rather mild mannered, humble, and very honest guy to me.

I think a big problem with woo promotion is that it creates brains that can find meaning in the vaguest of things--and that's just a hop, skip, and a jump from schizophrenia. Sometimes, I have trouble distinguishing between the woos, the mentally deranged, the "developmentally delayed", teenagers, the inbred, and the ignorant online. There appears to be a lot of overlap.

Maybe it's not woo causing these overlapping traits-- maybe the above groups of people are just more prone to be infected by "faith in faith" memes of all sorts.

Anyhow, Robert, thanks for amusing us. Aren't you glad you're a skeptic?

[RSLancastr]

Hmm....quite a few of the Digimon fan sites refer to character heights, but I'm unable to determine where they are sourcing their information.I'm guessing the sources are less reliable than those on the height of Neopets.

You have my respect, Robert. I'd have not only run the e-mail, I'd have included the adress so the rest of us could mercilessly mock this whiny twit.Thanks, 'Toad. It was tempting, but... naaah.

On the plus side, vampire hate-mail isn't nearly as atrocious as christian hate-mail.I wonder what hatemail from Christian vampires is like?

I've met Robert and been to his site and he seems like a rather mild mannered, humble, and very honest guy to me.Sounds like I work for The Daily Planet! (thanks)

Anyhow, Robert, thanks for amusing us. Aren't you glad you're a skeptic?I dunno... If I wasn't a skeptic, I could be something really cool like a vampire or something...

[clerihew80]

I also hope that her [?] claim to live on Vancouver Island is also false, as that would put her [?] only a short ferry ride away from me...:eek:
I think she really does live in Vancouver. If you want to know how to recognize her, here's a self-description:

I look very similar on the TOS as i do here. This is probably from laziness! lol. I wear a lot of black here. I even have a black leather trench coat. When I was in astral state in my sleep. I looked down at myself and saw that I wear black on TOS!

I'm lucky, I'm not ugly in this incarnation. I was in my last one. I wsa a dude and kinda ugly! Although I remember thinking that I was so great looking. I WAS WRONG!

I don't like my nose now, but I think that if that is all I have to complain about then I'm sittin' pretty! lol

So, just figure out what she looks like on The Other Side and that will correspond with what she looks like here. Then you will know her when you see her. Simple, see?

(She keeps promising to eventually post a pic on the gosylviabrowne forum but says that she currently has no way of doing so. Funny, though, she was able to post one of her daughter!)

[Miss Whiplash]

Robert, you should install a hate mail randomizer like the one on this site (http://www.disgruntledhousewife.com/mail/index.html).

[Pythra]

I think she really does live in Vancouver. If you want to know how to recognize her, here's a self-description:

I look very similar on the TOS as i do here. This is probably from laziness! lol. I wear a lot of black here. I even have a black leather trench coat. When I was in astral state in my sleep. I looked down at myself and saw that I wear black on TOS!

I also enter an astral state when I'm sleeping, except I've always called it 'dreaming'.

[clerihew80]

An example of one of LadyV's "astral dreams":

When I was a bit younger in an astral dream I remember being on a table on the other side. I was nude but at the time it didn't concern me. Some guy was helping me medically. About what I didn't know, but I still remember it.

Ahem. Diagnosis, anyone?

[Kilgore Trout]

Ahem. Diagnosis, anyone?
I think in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders this condition is diagnosed as "Completely Bonkers" or "C.B."

[Roadtoad]

I think in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders this condition is diagnosed as "Completely Bonkers" or "C.B."

You are in error. The condition is "Nucking Futs."

[Locknar]

Actually I think BGen McAuliffe said it best - "Nuts!!

[ThatSoundAgain]

This gets me thinking about setting up a combined kiss-ogram and vampire-curse-ogram service in my local area. I'd go around kissing and / or ranting to people at their doors. I'd just need some costumes.

How's that for a business plan?

[ksbluesfan]

Hey, she likes Wayne Gretzky. She can't be all bad.

Then again Mark David Chapman liked John Lennon....

[MelBrooksfan]

This gets me thinking about setting up a combined kiss-ogram and vampire-curse-ogram service in my local area. I'd go around kissing and / or ranting to people at their doors. I'd just need some costumes.

How's that for a business plan?

During my high school blood drives, I always thought they should wear vampire costumes when they went to pull kids out of class to donate.

[thaiboxerken]

I'll be going to Vancouver Island this summer. Maybe I can pay her a visit and see if she can terrorize me in the night.

[MelBrooksfan]

I'll be going to Vancouver Island this summer. Maybe I can pay her a visit and see if she can terrorize me in the night.

Pack some garlic.

[LostAngeles]

...
I wonder what hatemail from Christian vampires is like?
...

Dear Mr. Lancaster,

Like the Romans did to our savior, your piles of lies and filth have pierced my side and now my blood pours upon God's sacred earth, dirtied and descrated by your hateful sins. You lap it up like the dog you are! The Bible says you wicked shall be punished in a lake of fire and brimstone and I will sit from my perch in the eternal darkness and laugh. Judges 1:19!

The Word of God shall strike you down and I shall be His dark instrument. Some night, you will feel a chill up your sinful, Christ-hating spine and you will know it is I. And when I have worked Christ's bidding, I will go and drink deep of the communion wine and celebrate my oneness with Christ.

Your Brother in Christ and Darkness,

Lord Vartwyork

Or something like that.

[kmortis]

During my high school blood drives, I always thought they should wear vampire costumes when they went to pull kids out of class to donate.

When I was in college, a Romanian fraternity brother told me that the nth grandson of Vlad Dracul would act as a draw for the local blood bank (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=812128). Heh...

[MelBrooksfan]

When I was in college, a Romanian fraternity brother told me that the nth grandson of Vlad Dracul would act as a draw for the local blood bank (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=812128). Heh...

That's actually really cool that he'd get into it like that to bolster donations.

[Tamazon]

Robert, perhaps it would be more heartening (for me at least) for you to tell us how many letters you've received from people who were once fans but are no longer thanks to your site.

Please tell me it's lots and lots.

[Zep]

This gets me thinking about setting up a combined kiss-ogram and vampire-curse-ogram service in my local area. I'd go around kissing and / or ranting to people at their doors. I'd just need some costumes.

How's that for a business plan?Make sure you don't get your customers mixed up. The vicar's wife may just LIKE the kiss-o-gram!

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

For once, I am speechless.

[streamlet]

I put on my most serious face:

If anyone feels threatened by this individual, fear not! I'd be happy to cast a cleansing spell by channeling MY favorite Digimon character, Hikari the Eighth Child, Holder of the Crest of Light! (at least I think I could; it's been a while.) Good digi mojo vanquisheth bad digi mojo!

:woowoo

[Roadtoad]

You know, I wouldn't waste much time on this whiny little child. The idea that this sort of mindless silliness is sent out in support of a fraud like Sylvia Browne confirms just what you're dealing with. These people dwell in a fantasy land, and the only thing missing is unicorns (probably pink), half-mad mages, and a knight in shining armor in serious need of an atttitude adjustment.

It further underscores something Randi has said: The fight is worth fighting. There's value in getting you facts together and taking on the woos. Good job, Amigo.

[Moochie]

I think she really does live in Vancouver. If you want to know how to recognize her, here's a self-description:

I look very similar on the TOS as i do here. This is probably from laziness! lol. I wear a lot of black here. I even have a black leather trench coat. When I was in astral state in my sleep. I looked down at myself and saw that I wear black on TOS!

I'm lucky, I'm not ugly in this incarnation. I was in my last one. I wsa a dude and kinda ugly! Although I remember thinking that I was so great looking. I WAS WRONG!

I don't like my nose now, but I think that if that is all I have to complain about then I'm sittin' pretty! lol

So, just figure out what she looks like on The Other Side and that will correspond with what she looks like here. Then you will know her when you see her. Simple, see?

(She keeps promising to eventually post a pic on the gosylviabrowne forum but says that she currently has no way of doing so. Funny, though, she was able to post one of her daughter!)

Hmm... I see she's one of the "lol" brigade. LOL!

M.

[AudioFreak]

Ok I can't even remember my last prank and frankly I think it sucked so I don't care. I'll start over. My happy pills aer keeping me HAPPY! But I'm really dizzy and I do feel little high soooo. Yah.

OMG I'm so sorry. I've been feeling quite sick for the past week almost. I'm on a new medication and it's really screwing me up. I feel like I'm drunk ALL the time. It was fun at first but now it's just annoying. Oooooo I feel drunk.

It's Wednesday and I still feel cruddy from that. It took me over an hour this morning to be able to sit up with out feeling sick to my stomache. I wonder if it's my new medications or soemthing else that's wrong with me. That's the only thing that's concerning me, the fact that I'm passing this off as side affects to my meds when it really could be something else. Perhaps I will see the doctor!

I think we can officially say we've got a, literally, sick puppy who's having a hard time adjusting to her meds and in combination with her lack of touch with reality, love of fantasy and affinity for pulling pranks, well... we enevitably end up with something like the OP.

Harmless? Comical? Embarassing? Sad? I vote yes for all. A woman like this clearly needs the guidance of REAL psychiatrist (we can only hope that's how she's getting her meds) instead of the woo provided by Browne and her ilk.

[AudioFreak]

Too bad we can't nominate that e-mail... I'd vote for it.

[Miss Whiplash]

I saw this posted by LadyV today:

Thank you. No it's just that with my new meds I've been feeling a little scatter brained and this cold is making me feel run down and not wanting to type a lot. That was all.

Maybe her new meds will help.

[Correa Neto]

You know, someone must tell her bats from Myotis genus are not hematophagous... OK, better also tell her the meaning of that word.

[MelBrooksfan]

I saw this posted by LadyV today:



Maybe her new meds will help.

Or, at the very least, that cold will sideline her for a bit.

[Z]

These people dwell in a fantasy land, and the only thing missing is unicorns (probably pink),

Well, we do have hcmom...

half-mad mages,

That would be me...

and a knight in shining armor in serious need of an atttitude adjustment.

CFLarsen.

We complete them.

Scary, huh?

[neon]

Good crimony toast, that person needs some help. And they're getting that, but none too soon. It does take time to get used to medication. Here's hoping it works.

[clerihew80]

Hey, I got an e-mail from Monica. Surprisingly, it was quite cordial - friendly, even! She wrote about her favorite TV shows, favorite candy, what she likes to dress up as on Halloween, etc.

She claims that the person who wrote the letter was her "tulpa," Myotismon. According to Wikipedia, "a tulpa is, in Tibetan mysticism, a being or object which is created through willpower, visualisation, attention and focus, concerted intentionality and ritual. In other words, it is a materialized thought that has taken physical form."

Myotismon is angry at Robert Lancaster because, without Sylvia Browne, Monica wouldn't have realized that she had created a tulpa. Myotismon also thinks that RSL has a crush on Sylvia Browne.

The "doom" that she referred to is "the fact that when the scematic of incarnation is complete all dark souls will be "rinsed clean" by God and absorbed back into the Godhead thus loosing their individuality."

[Pythra]

Myotismon is angry at Robert Lancaster because, without Sylvia Browne, Monica wouldn't have realized that she had created a tulpa. Myotismon also thinks that RSL has a crush on Sylvia Browne.
Of course.

[thaiboxerken]

She claims her invisible friend wrote the email. Hmm.. Multiple Personality Disorder comes to mind here.

Why wouldn't RLS have a crush on Sylvia Browne? She has smooth skin, a nice and toned body, lovely nails, a great perfume of cigarette smoke and a voice like angels in a choir (that chain smoke).

[Zep]

Hey, I got an e-mail from Monica. Surprisingly, it was quite cordial - friendly, even! She wrote about her favorite TV shows, favorite candy, what she likes to dress up as on Halloween, etc.

She claims that the person who wrote the letter was her "tulpa," Myotismon. According to Wikipedia, "a tulpa is, in Tibetan mysticism, a being or object which is created through willpower, visualisation, attention and focus, concerted intentionality and ritual. In other words, it is a materialized thought that has taken physical form."

Myotismon is angry at Robert Lancaster because, without Sylvia Browne, Monica wouldn't have realized that she had created a tulpa. Myotismon also thinks that RSL has a crush on Sylvia Browne.

The "doom" that she referred to is "the fact that when the scematic of incarnation is complete all dark souls will be "rinsed clean" by God and absorbed back into the Godhead thus loosing their individuality."

I STILL call: Tequila.

Regardless, this person is in serious need of mental health but has yet to receive it.

[ThatSoundAgain]

Make sure you don't get your customers mixed up. The vicar's wife may just LIKE the kiss-o-gram!

That's what I'm counting on!

[Mobyseven]

I'm a little late to the party, but supposing this is really from a vampire, and supposing they really are as stupid as they sound...



...I suggest a Wild West style shootout. In the main road. At high noon.

Be sure not to pick an overcast day.

[juninho]

I've emailed David Soul right now.
RS Lancaster don't give up on us baby! :D

Top bloke David Soul, shared many a pint with him in the Artillery Arms when I was living in London - he's got a flat in the Barbican, or did have. Just thought I'd do a pathetic piece of name-dropping.

[Powa]

...I suggest a Wild West style shootout. In the main road. At high noon.
Ooh ooh! Hire Ennio Morricone to do the music!

[Locknar]

She claims her invisible friend wrote the email. Hmm.. Multiple Personality Disorder comes to mind here.

Why wouldn't RLS have a crush on Sylvia Browne? She has smooth skin, a nice and toned body, lovely nails, a great perfume of cigarette smoke and a voice like angels in a choir (that chain smoke).

Truth be told, I think any sane, rational person would have a crush on Sylvia...she must be one of the most lusted after people of our time.

If we are lucky, maybe Hef can get her in a Playboy spread.....:jaw-dropp

[AudioFreak]

Ugh... I never want to hear the name "Sylvia Browne" and the word "spread" in the same sentence again.

[ilikefrogs]

Truth be told, I think any sane, rational person would have a crush on Sylvia...she must be one of the most lusted after people of our time.

If we are lucky, maybe Hef can get her in a Playboy spread.....:jaw-dropp


I'm glad I haven't eaten lunch yet. You just ruined my appitite for the rest of the week...
:eek: :boggled: :covereyes :faint: :scared: :yikes:

[grayman]

Thanks Locknar! :mad: You mention "Sylvia Browne" and "spread" as about to apply Marmite to my toast.

Brand new jar wasted. Not hungry now anyway.

[LostAngeles]

She claims her invisible friend wrote the email. Hmm.. Multiple Personality Disorder comes to mind here.

...

Not to me.

I'm trying to think of how to explain this as some ****er's car alarm is practically blaring in my ear as they continue to take crap apart next door, so I may do this poorly.

Did you see the South Park episode, "Fun Times With Weapons?" The kids all manage to buy weapons and them imagine themselves as super-powered ninjas as if they were anime characters. Kind of like if you ever played, "Star Wars," and had sticks for lightsabers, or playing house, or cops and robbers, etc. etc. The, "grown-up," version of this is role-playing games like D&D and such.

Now generally, folks are mature and can not only separate the fantasy from reality, but don't really let the fantasy blend that much into their real life. There might be jokes made outside of the game about the game, but, to take an example from a game I'm currently playing in, I don't walk into class and talk about how I can kill a Nazi in a single punch as if I really and truly can do that.

From my experience, (because I used to hunt this kind of thing out to go WTF. I'm a recovering Train Wreck Syndrome sufferer.) we've got an adult who's taken a fantasy world and is blending it into her real life and her world view, likely as an escape from reality. Maybe a better way of putting it would be that she's using Digimon to paint herself a rosier world.

It's one thing to be a fan, it's a whole 'nother kettle of fish when you take your obsession to such a level. In particular?

She's got a Soulbond (http://childofmana.tripod.com/soulbondingfaq.htm)

...
Q: How do you tell the difference between a SoulBond, and an obsession with/crush on a character?
A: A lot of the time they go hand-in-hand. If you feel a deep empathy for a character, if you feel close to them in such a way that you can see life through their eyes, when things that would hurt them start hurting you and things that would make them feel good make you feel good as well, then you probably have at least a bit of an obsession with them too. However, the reverse is not always the case. Being obsessed with or in love with a character doesn't automatically mean you SoulBond them. (Again, see What SoulBonding isn't.) Basically, if you find that you don't just love and admire a character, but you start feeling as though they are "with" you somehow in your everyday life, that they are more than a character to you but a real person with their own unique feelings and emotions - not just someone that you "puppet", or act out fantasies with - then you SoulBond.

...

Q: I'm worried about you. Isn't this "SoulBonding" thing awfully like possession/Multiple-Personality Disorder/schizophrenia?
A: Firstly, no, it is not demonic possession. I'm not sure I believe in such a thing anyway, and even if I did, I very much doubt that any such demons would take the form of videogame characters and fluffy, half-animal half-sprite critters. =P As for "MPD", that's an entirely different issue. Many SBers seem to want to claim as much distance from Multiples as possible, but multiplicity - the existence of more than one person in one body - is not abnormal or disordered if the system exists healthily and works together (as most do), and has many things in common with SBing. What they appear to be is points along a continuum, and they are certainly related, thought to say that SBing is multiplicity is inaccurate. (Read this essay for a greater insight into the continuum between the two.) Schizophrenia - unlike multiplicity - is a true mental disorder, and is unrelated to SBing or multiplicity. Schizophrenics are unstable, unable to cope in everyday society, and often dangerous to themselves and others. SoulBonders are not that, and neither are Multiples.

...

No, I'm not kidding.

Welcome to the WTF?! side of fandom. Trekkies got nothing on soulbonds...

[Upchurch]

Yeah, "Bwahahahaha" works much better. He/she needs to practice up on his "Evil Vampire" routine.

I hate to pick the nits, but I believe the proper vampire evil laugh is "Mwahahaha"

[LostAngeles]

OK, I should probably explain soulbonds a bit better because the FAQ is crap. Thank the IRC channel for pointing that out to me.

Imagine you're a really big Star Wars fan. In particular, Chewbacca is the best thing ever. Chewbacca is everything you want to be. So Chewbacca becomes your, "soulbond." Chewie, for all intents and purposes, lives in your head with, "his own thoughts and feelings, " and can, "act independantly." It's like role-playing but doing it constantly and minus any responsibility for your actions, e.g. you act like a total ass. You aren't responsible because you're soulbonded with Darth Vader and it was actually he who did that.

Alternatively, if you've ever been going over a life problem and thinking it over and you get a thought in your mom's voice saying what your mom would probably say, it's like an extreme version of that but using a character you constructed from whole cloth. I mean, seriously. Using the movies, how could you tell what Chewbacca's feelings are on the fact that Dining Services keeps serving, "Peruvian," "Beef." (It's neither Peruvian or Beef.) If you had a soulbond, Chewie might be really upset or dispense sage advice on sucking it up, depending on how you played Chewie.

I'd say it's less schizophrenia and more of a really lousy coping mechanism that's getting spread through the Internet.

ETA: Before anyone asks, yes, I'm sure many regular folk have Jesus as their soulbond. But not everyone has had Jesus build their hotrod.

[grayman]

ETA: Before anyone asks, yes, I'm sure many regular folk have Jesus as their soulbond. But not everyone has had Jesus build their hotrod.

Caught the reference. What do I win?

28S0csmLbNM

[LostAngeles]

Caught the reference. What do I win?

28S0csmLbNM

In honor of the season finale of Heroes being broadcast tonight, Chris Claremont having been on last week's penultimate episode, plenty of references to his work, and my currently going through every issue of the X-family of comics...

...you can pick up your No-Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-Prize) at next TAM.

[RSLancastr]

Robert, perhaps it would be more heartening (for me at least) for you to tell us how many letters you've received from people who were once fans but are no longer thanks to your site.I hear from several such persons a week, Tamazon. Also from people who weren't sure one way or the other, and the site helped them get down off the fence.

You know, I wouldn't waste much time on this whiny little child.I didn't, 'Toad. About enough time to cut/paste her email into this forum, actually.

It further underscores something Randi has said: The fight is worth fighting. There's value in getting you facts together and taking on the woos. Good job, Amigo.Thanks!

She claims that the person who wrote the letter was her "tulpa," Myotismon.Mmm-hmm.

Myotismon is angry at Robert Lancaster because, without Sylvia Browne, Monica wouldn't have realized that she had created a tulpa. Myotismon also thinks that RSL has a crush on Sylvia Browne.I see.

So then, my site is sort of the 21st century version of dipping her pigtails in the inkwell?

[Paul]

But not everyone has had Jesus build their hotrod.
[Terry-Thomas]
I say, ding ding donga dong dong ding dong
dingy dingy, and indeed, son of a gun
[/Terry-Thomas]




@!&$£%^@!! grayman

[clerihew80]

So then, my site is sort of the 21st century version of dipping her pigtails in the inkwell?
Just to clarify: It's Myotismon who thinks you have a crush on Sylvia. Monica "told him that is silly, but he has his own opinions and is entitled to them, the same as anyone else is entitled to theirs."

Isn't insanity fun?

[Tamazon]

I hear from several such persons a week, Tamazon. Also from people who weren't sure one way or the other, and the site helped them get down off the fence.

That is most wonderful to hear! :D