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Dec. 16th, 2015 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynBeen reading RationalWiki lately, mostly for entertaining stories of horrible BSery passing itself off as mediumship (the history of people who claimed to manifest ectoplasm is a fascinating read in Things People Are Willing To Stick Up Their Noses). Ran across a couple of accounts of mediums who purported to channel the spirits of very specific dead people and were not particularly good at it, including saying or doing a number of things that should’ve been obvious giveaways (”hey, dead guy, what is the name of the person with his hand on your shoulder in this photograph? he was in your unit and you knew him very well- what is his name?” “...”).
If I die, and somebody claims to be in contact with me for whatever reason, don’t bother asking about the spirit world or the other side or anything like that. You won’t be able to verify it anyway, so it’s not worth bothering. But you have my permission to ask me about medical things. I have a reasonable amount of that knowledge for someone who didn’t actually go into the field.
More importantly, there are only a handful of facts I know which I have ever actively wished to un-know, and every single one of them was medical. Most of them are in the RG642-RG648 section of the Library of Congress classification scheme. A few of them are elsewhere. If the 'spirit' you're talking to is willing to share information on Sufficiently Disturbing Medical Facts with you, it might be the medium faking it or it might be some other being, but it won't be me.
If I die, and somebody claims to be in contact with me for whatever reason, don’t bother asking about the spirit world or the other side or anything like that. You won’t be able to verify it anyway, so it’s not worth bothering. But you have my permission to ask me about medical things. I have a reasonable amount of that knowledge for someone who didn’t actually go into the field.
More importantly, there are only a handful of facts I know which I have ever actively wished to un-know, and every single one of them was medical. Most of them are in the RG642-RG648 section of the Library of Congress classification scheme. A few of them are elsewhere. If the 'spirit' you're talking to is willing to share information on Sufficiently Disturbing Medical Facts with you, it might be the medium faking it or it might be some other being, but it won't be me.
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Date: 2015-12-17 12:37 am (UTC)...
Do I want to know how you got so knowledgeable about that particular subject matter? >.>a (Also, apparently my library has only the RG648 stuff in that range right now. How odd.)
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Date: 2015-12-17 02:18 am (UTC)