Should we all be homeless preachers?

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23 Apr 2004, 05:13 PM
Parcher D.O.D.

Should we all be homeless preachers?

Well, they had a new program about Elizabeth Smart and Brian Mitchel, the guy who worked for the Smart family once, was a homeless preacher who had taken a lot of L.S.D. in his past and eventually abducted Elizabeth at gunpoint. He then tied her up and denied her food until she succumbed to Stockholm syndrome, a curious psychological phenomenon where the abductee sees the abductor as a protector and will do anything to please him/her.

She became a wandering vagabond wearing a veil. The thing is, the guy that taught me guitar and gave me a lot of my philosophy that I still follow (Scot Lacy) looked a lot like this guy. He was a guru of sorts and wore not robes but an old mexican blanket thing with a hole in the middle for his head and baggy rastafarian type clothes. He looked like a street preacher and had a fiery intensity in his eyes.

You've got to wonder . . . the greatest men have been slightly crazy. Should we all wander aimlessly and preach? I'm not sure about MItchel's desire to have many wives (he re-wrote the Book of Mormon) but something about the wandering minstrel/troubador/preacher intrigues me.

How 'bout it? I probably find this kind of psychological situation interesting because I normally talk to people that are rather closed minded and don't even believe that post traumatic stress disorder exists just like Patton didn't (my one critisism of him). They believe that it's all just cowardace; that the patients with it should be shot.

Anyway, I think that this case speaks volumes about cults in general. They all feel threatened (with torture in Hell) even if no physical threat or torture or sleep depravation is used. Also, while we're on teh subject, do any of you pervs find this girl hot, or will she be in a few years?

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/US/West/03...h.smart.ap.jpg http://i.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/...beth.smart.jpg
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/us/...beth.smart.jpg

I must add that I'm not into it. Maybe in quite a few years. Oh, and I know the news is old. It's just that it's still news and I don't believe all that occured was covered in previous posts.
23 Apr 2004, 05:40 PM
Nick

I think anytime you become one character-type to the exclusion of anything else and you get all wrapped up in being "not-of-this-world," you are in danger of becoming little more than a living clown with a permanent makeup job. And while the greatest men may have been slightly antisocial, I don't think too many of them were certifiable. Truthfully, I don't see how making a conscious decision to permanently wander around helps anyone.
23 Apr 2004, 05:45 PM
lithium

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Originally Posted by Parcher D.O.D.

Also, while we're on teh subject, do any of you pervs find this girl hot, or will she be in a few years?

Err... possibly the most interesting troll bait I've ever seen.
23 Apr 2004, 06:27 PM
Dolemite

The second I saw the title of this thread, I knew it's author would be Parcher. Then I looked right and was proved correct.
23 Apr 2004, 07:05 PM
Parcher D.O.D.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

The second I saw the title of this thread, I knew it's author would be Parcher. Then I looked right and was proved correct.

Thank you . . . thank you. :D

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Originally Posted by lithium

Err... possibly the most interesting troll bait I've ever seen.

Thank you. I felt it needed to be said, since so many twentysomething men are always talking about Duff and so forth. I think Duff is kind of hot, btw, but I still wouldn't hit it. That's just gross! :yuck:

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Originally Posted by Nick

I think anytime you become one character-type to the exclusion of anything else and you get all wrapped up in being "not-of-this-world," you are in danger of becoming little more than a living clown with a permanent makeup job. And while the greatest men may have been slightly antisocial, I don't think too many of them were certifiable. Truthfully, I don't see how making a conscious decision to permanently wander around helps anyone.

True. I think John was a bit of a clown jumping out of the bushes and shouting, "Repent, for the kingdom is at haaaand!" I feel that we need to reach an equilibrium with the Earth where there are no losers, but begging is not the answer. The log cabin equilibrium is cool, the muskrat one is not.

Still, we would all be happier if we would live like the Amish. It must be pointed out that they don't wander homeless however.

EDIT: For clarification, the muskrat equilibrium is my name for a tribe of folks that live nomadically and only periodically live in a tee pee or a mud hut, the construction of which a beaver or muskrat is capable.

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And while the greatest men may have been slightly antisocial, I don't think too many of them were certifiable.

Is Mitchel certifiable? He didn't kill the girl. Of course, he DID take a lot of L.S.D. I know plenty of people that have done this and they get along in society just fine. I've done it too.

I can't imagine snatching a 14 year old from her home, but I can imagine using the power of persuasion to entice a quite young woman (the "Bang Bus" scenario). Isn't that what every guy that uses "game" to get chicks is doing?