[fingers]

The following can indicate a delusion:

1. The patient expresses an idea or belief with unusual persistence or force.
2. That idea appears to exert an undue influence on his or her life, and the way of life is often altered to an inexplicable extent.
3. Despite his/her profound conviction, there is often a quality of secretiveness or suspicion when the patient is questioned about it.
4. The individual tends to be humorless and oversensitive, especially about the belief.
5. There is a quality of centrality: no matter how unlikely it is that these strange things are happening to him, the patient accepts them relatively unquestioningly.
6. An attempt to contradict the belief is likely to arouse an inappropriately strong emotional reaction, often with irritability and hostility.

See any connection here?

[Livia]

The only one talking sense on this tread and not coming across as a puritanical hysteric... is ElProximo.

[Peter Plunker]

Somebody thinks that Dave's kids go to private schools? Where on earth did they get that? I know exactly which schools they go to (or went to in the case of his eldest), they're far from private I can tell thee.

[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Peter Plunker

Somebody thinks that Dave's kids go to private schools? Where on earth did they get that? I know exactly which schools they go to (or went to in the case of his eldest), they're far from private I can tell thee.

Dave: "What about people that fly"

Andrew: "That was a film, it was called superman"

Care to enlighten us what Dave was thinking of?

[Peter Plunker]

Originally Posted by Claymores

Dave: "What about people that fly"

Andrew: "That was a film, it was called superman"

Care to enlighten us what Dave was thinking of?

He was thinking of the many people who have levitated/flew call it what you want. Joseph of Cupertino was the most famous, he's the patron saint of aviators.

[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Peter Plunker

He was thinking of the many people who have levitated/flew call it what you want. Joseph of Cupertino was the most famous, he's the patron saint of aviators.

Dave also said his friend levitates every day..........have we the Red Baron in our midst on the forum in the guise of the celebrated Peter Plunker?????

[fingers]

Originally Posted by Claymores

Dave also said his friend levitates every day..........have we the Red Baron in our midst on the forum in the guise of the celebrated Peter Plunker?????

They are all delusional and Mass delusion is a well known phenomenon.

[paper-cut-exit]

Originally Posted by Peter Plunker

He was thinking of the many people who have levitated/flew call it what you want. Joseph of Cupertino was the most famous, he's the patron saint of aviators.

He was talking about his friends being able to fly/levitate.

What a load of crap!

[fingers]

Originally Posted by Peter Plunker

He was thinking of the many people who have levitated/flew call it what you want. Joseph of Cupertino was the most famous, he's the patron saint of aviators.

He is also the patron saint of people with a mental handicap, test takers, and weak students.

[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Peter Plunker

He was thinking of the many people who have levitated/flew call it what you want. Joseph of Cupertino was the most famous, he's the patron saint of aviators.

Do these friends of Dave who levitate/fly every day do it for the salvation and greater good of mankind here on earth?????

[Peter Plunker]

Originally Posted by Claymores

Do these friends of Dave who levitate/fly every day do it for the salvation and greater good of mankind here on earth?????

I duuno, possibly. I just ate lasagne, was that for salvation or the greater good of mankind? What have you done today for salvation/the greater good of mankind?

[Jords]

I missed it, tuned in when it was the aftermath and Rachel was crying that she upset Andrew.

[paper-cut-exit]

Altho... i did see Dave hover inches off the ground in one of those vids right enough.

His arse happened to be attached to a wheelchair at the time tho... while he conned the public he has so much love for into believing he was a real monk that just happens to be wheelchair bound.

What a guy! "there's a lot of glory in a wheelchair" ya know!

[Peter Plunker]

There's that C word again.

[stonedape]

Have you guys seen religious people trying levitate? They basically cross their legs and bounce up and down on soft surfaces. Major LOL material. Or if they're an all out charlatan they'll do the old hidden chair trick or something similar.

We're on a rotating rock. If someone could remove their gravitational bond to earth they would continue to float up to space indefinitely in a tangential line. Same goes for any object they claim to make levitate. It wouldn't just hover. <3 gravity

ETA: I loved Andrew's astrology pwnage, and was waiting for some Dave destruction. Now on to Mario's alien conspiracies, which are ironically the most plausible of the three.

[Peter Plunker]

Originally Posted by stonedape

We're on a rotating rock. If someone could remove their gravitational bond to earth they would continue to float up to space indefinitely in a tangential line. Same goes for any object they claim to make levitate. It wouldn't just hover. <3 gravity

Physics fail.

[Vladimir]

Oh, I love Andrew now.

[stonedape]

Originally Posted by Peter Plunker

Physics fail.

Unless there's an invisible, silent force propelling them up and around (bad gas, maybe?) they/their object are not going to be hovering over the same point on earth,. And they're not typically talking about using a force to overcome gravity, they usually claim it has to do with removing gravity selectively...which is so ridiculous I don't know where to start. That's why I'm forced into theoretical fantasy physics.