Comments on: Divine inspiration

By: David

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:13:58 +0000

When I was 12, I was over at a friend’s house. I complained of a splitting headache (never had had one) and went home. My dad looked some things up in his medical concordance. He called the pediatrician and said, “I think my son has meningitis!” Of course the pediatrician laughed at him. The headache persisted through the night. At 7am, running a fever of 103, my parents rushed me to the emergency room. By 8 my fever was 104. I was thrashing, sweating, and delirious. To this day, I swear a good friend of the family from another city was in the foyer of the hospital when I arrived. Of course she was 200 miles or more away at the time, but I asked my folks a few days later (I had the viral, wait it out with ice packs on your head kind of meningitis) why had Becky been there when I arrived? They all looked at me like I was crazy. But I would have SWORN she had been there, I heard her, saw her, everything. I can tell you in exacting detail what the foyer of that hospital looked like, I can tell you how many nurses there were. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that someone was there who was not there!

By: Ben

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:50:01 +0000

It is cool.
It is just something I have done.

The media beats it up a lot, making old folk anxious sells papers.

The whole issue of drugs and how I feel about them confuses me, so expect polarised and contradicting opinions.

Feel free to ask more questions when you have them.

By: Adam

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:07:35 +0000

Wow, and thanks… I must admit that my knowledge of those sort of things isn’t that good.

… but I do hear that like most addictions it’s a case of getting out of the situation – that is to stop hanging around with other users and stop going to the places where you used.

Seriously, thanks for being able to talk about this – it’s good to hear from someone that’s been through it and got out the otherside, as opposed to being fed information by the media, which is sometimes nothing more than speculation.

By: Ben

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:26:09 +0000

True.
I dunno how I feel about that.

By: justine

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:20:50 +0000

oddly enough, ben, we’ve never really discussed this in much detail

By: Ben

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:55:14 +0000

I’m fine talking about it.

I got started by swapping some weed for some meth with a random on a train ride into the city one night.
Drugs in general started at school tho.
Serious meth use started with parties and raves about 2 years after the first use.
From using at parties and raves, it became a 3 or 4 times a week thing.
Pretty heavy use for a while.
I quit pretty much because I got bored.
Quitting initially was just a matter of not being around the other ppl I used with.
It took along time for the cold turkey symptons to set in.
Still get desire to hook up every now and again. I miss the rush and the lifestyle, but not the expense, come downs and lifestyle.
The song "Passener" by the Deftones ft. Maynard pretty uch sums up how I feel about meth.
I don’t mind you asking any questions, I have no shame about my problems.

Glandular was far more painful and debilitating then using meth or the withdrawals.
Keep in mind, I quit smoking easily.

By: Roo

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:46:45 +0000

Journée chargée!

No need to actually learn…

By: Adam

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:43:30 +0000

Wow, I did not know that… I’ve never had either (withdrawals or the fever) which is worse?

More to the point, Crystal Meth, I hear that can really mess people up… are you OK to talk about it a bit more? I mean, how did you start, how did you stop?

It’s completely cool if you don’t want to talk about it here though.

By: Adam

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:41:33 +0000

I wish I knew how to say ‘busy day’ in French… and I wish I had the motivation to learn it too.

By: Roo

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:13:52 +0000

No, it’s not the French! It was just a busy day yesterday.

C’est la vie.

By: Ben

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:53:35 +0000

Yeah, I have had something like this.
I was also going thru crystal meth withdrawals and glandular fever, so I was hallucinating most of the time.
I ended up getting MRI’s, CT’s and x-rays.
During the "seizures" I would hear and almost see things, have very strong sensations of a presence moving near me.
I would be sure there was cold rotting corpse next to sometimes.
I’m extremely rational most of the time, I was aware that I was hallucinating, but I can see how it would be easy to mistake this experience for reality.

I would wake up and be barely able to move, like I was restrained, or be throwing my head around. Auditory hallucinations were normally of some one running in the hall or footsteps coming into my room. Visual hallucinations were fleeting and minor, barely percievable at most times. The sensations were the most impressive, very strong and realistic.

By: Adam

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:01:42 +0000

You would also expect the lord’s money to require no insurance of any kind… I mean insuring anything to do with the church against an ‘act of god’ has to be a bit dodgy.

By: Seraphine

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:11:12 +0000

I heard a pastor refer to his church’s money as "The Lord’s money." He kept it in insured certificates of deposits. I thought to myself, it it’s The Lord’s money, he should buy stocks with it instead. I mean, come on, The Lord! Talk about sure things!

By: Adam

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:31:10 +0000

Tell you what, that’s probably going to be the last time I use a fancy bit of French in my comics… it’s left this place like a ghost town today.

ville fantome.

By: Adam

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:29:35 +0000

Nice link… I had heard it mentioned before, but not in the context of aliens.

Sort of makes sense really.

By: Adam

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:28:03 +0000

I love the idea of a history teacher that specialises in fiction.

I’m not sure about the marijuana, though it wouldn’t surprise me, that lot were all about the party.

By: Mike

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:25:12 +0000

About alien abductions, I may have mentioned this before, but some scientists think sleep paralysis might be an explanation. It’s pretty weird, you wake up and can’t move and feel like someone’s sitting on your chest sometimes. If I hadn’t heard about it before it happened to me, I would’ve been freaked out.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:54:35 +0000

I heard they used to burn pots of marijuana around the Oracle. But the history teacher I heard this from was occasionally full of crap, so it’s hard to say. Yours sounds more feasible.