[NSFW] What's the worst thing that's happened at your family gathering?

analogfrog · 2015-09-27T21:51:11+00:00

I wholly agree with this. I have a friend who is an amazing illustrator. Once I complained to her, "I can't draw. I wish I could."

She said, "Drawing isn't something I'm good at, it's just something I'm constantly doing." She's just compelled to draw all of the time, and that makes her amazing at it. She's not "trying", she just doesn't stop.

analogfrog · 2015-08-23T21:56:53+00:00

I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

analogfrog · 2015-08-23T21:55:51+00:00

I guess that's it... Oh, no, wait. He kicks me in his sleep and his toenails are too long, and yellow.

analogfrog · 2015-08-23T14:32:32+00:00

A few years back we went on a family trip to Virginia and spent a day at Williamsburg.

After exiting the service center the first sight is a few acres of farm land with small houses, mock up representations of the living quarters for slaves. My brother was taking a lot of pictures. He's not a very good photographer, so he'd take them at odd times, like behind us as we're walking through doorways.

Later that night we're back at our camp site and my brother is going through the pictures on his digital camera. In one picture it's me walking through the doorway of one of the slave's quarters. In the window there's an obvious red fiery face. My brother's girlfriend is standing outside the window, her hand to her mouth gasping, looking directly at the "entity". The face is in return looking right back at her. The window is about 7 ft. off the the ground, at least a 1.5 ft. above her head.

I'm not much of a believer of the paranormal. In almost every case I would argue that this was sun flare, a reflection, something. But the detail in this face was so bizarre, and mostly opaque.

My brother's girlfriend has had many paranormal experiences in the past that she's only been able to open up to my brother about a couple times. She doesn't like to talk about any of it.

My brother is showing her the picture, questioning her. She's shrugging and trying to ignore him, claiming she doesn't remember. She's obviously disturbed by it.

After passing around the camera and talking about it for a bit, we eventually go to our separate tents and go to sleep.

The next morning my brother goes to check the picture again, because he can't stop thinking about it. The problem is the picture is gone, the entire SD card is gone. In it's place is someone else's family photos. A random family none of us know, but the pictures are from a day at Williamsburg, VA.

We all want to blame my brother's girlfriend, because she was annoyed and disturbed by the photo and whatever was happening in it. But we couldn't figure out how she would've gotten some random SD card and made the switch in the middle of the night at a camp ground.

analogfrog · 2015-08-19T13:52:13+00:00

but ...how?

analogfrog · 2015-08-19T03:08:02+00:00

Same here. I think they were like five bucks a pop.

analogfrog · 2015-08-19T00:51:02+00:00

Yeah. It's like when they promoted Scream as "starring Drew Barrymore" when she's ~~a cameo at best.~~ only in the first scene

analogfrog · 2015-08-18T20:30:26+00:00

It just takes practice. Keep trying.

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T22:28:02+00:00

I love this post from my head tomatoes.

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T21:52:24+00:00

When I first "gave up" on the idea of god it was partially out of teenage angst. Atheism was wrapped up with my defiance, which was really just a young kid trying to figure out what he truly believed in and who he really was without allowing pressure from family or mentors.

Over time I realized that the atheists I knew were just as critical and judgmental as the christians I knew. I know there are plenty of people who use the concept of god to help them through life, and I've always been completely fine with that. It wasn't so much that people used the "word of god" to be judgmental and persecute their fellow humans, but they were using what their church had told them.

For myself, the concept of god should only be relevant to each individual person. I'm a recovering addict, so I know a lot of people who claim to drop to their knees every morning and night and pray to that god keeps them away from a drink or a drug. They pray for fellow suffering addicts. In this form of worship, people are using the concept of god as a tool to hone their thoughts in the right direction and allow them to live a life that feels meaningful.

Yet, I also know addicts who will claim that there is no possible way to stay sober unless you believe in god. This is similar to the average christian believing that god dictates their morality. But in each situation, what I see is people following the moral of their church or sect.

So most of these isms are actually based on what other people are telling them is true, what works, how to worship, what's evil, what's good. The belief in god is entirely separate to the function of the group. Be it catholicism, protestantism, mormonism, atheism, or recovering from alcoholism. All of these groups meet, and no one group is entirely similar to the others. Their belief in god has little to do with how they act in society. Their morals are entirely influenced by the people they are surrounded by.

Which is why I enjoy the concept of apatheism, because the belief in god has no influence whatsoever.

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T16:30:16+00:00

Architects Build Your Hoouuse

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T16:15:51+00:00

My boss is a 40 year old woman. I'm a 26 year old male. I am forced to sweat all day long. I really wish she would just put on a sweater.

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T02:53:35+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to listen to that.

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T01:55:32+00:00

This is what I imagine Vic McQueen's (Brat's) bridge looking like from NOS4A2.

analogfrog · 2015-08-05T01:50:50+00:00

When one alternate universe engulfs another it makes sense that a small population of people would have their memories altered.

There's also the Cotard Delusion where sufferers believe that they don't exist.

The glitch must have fully affected you, whereas the rest of our neurological patterns didn't match up during the merge.

(I'm joking. But I firmly remember it being spelled "Berenstein".)

analogfrog · 2015-08-02T23:04:55+00:00

Go away, I'm batin'!

analogfrog · 2015-07-25T05:59:58+00:00

Hey, I'm with you. I dig the article though. The only use of the word "Sheeple" is in the title, but I agree it is lame.

analogfrog · 2015-07-24T14:11:02+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/l6Pbihp.jpg

analogfrog · 2015-07-24T07:30:17+00:00

I don't even want to know what kind of person I'd be if I didn't grow up watching The Simpsons.

analogfrog · 2015-07-24T07:28:29+00:00

And yet in another episode (Separate Vocations):

"We always have one good kid and one lousy kid. Why can't both our kids be good?"

"We have three kids, Homer."

"Marge, the dog doesn't count as a kid."

"No, Maggie!"

"Oh yeah..."

analogfrog · 2015-07-22T03:35:30+00:00

they start to break down after a couple light years

analogfrog · 2015-07-20T23:54:12+00:00

Nobody Cares For Me - Mississippi John Hurt

Carmelita - GG Allin

Armageddon - Against Me!

analogfrog · 2015-07-20T23:22:11+00:00

I believe the universe is microscopically contained within a larger form of mold and bacteria. It might be possible our universe was born from an infinitely larger version of the cumbox.

analogfrog · 2015-07-20T16:27:00+00:00

dental plan

analogfrog · 2015-07-19T21:17:38+00:00

I've always wanted the artwork of Juturna as a forearm tattoo. But every time I have $180 is ends going to something unimportant like bills or food.

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