I was on Facebook and found this post shared in a group I'm in. That's my grandfather.
I could tell you a lot of stories but the most important one is that he was an undiagnosed schizophrenic. There are stories I can't even tell because I have to wait for more people to die first.
I've heard him on Coast to Coast and seen a number of interviews with him in the alien conspiracy industry. But not one of them ever mentioned, and he never volunteered, that he was an undiagnosed schizophrenic.
Remember this when you hear people speaking with authority about things they can't back up.
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Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 197d
What am I being enslaved to do, though?
Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 197d
The same stuff we're already doing
Unknown@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 197d
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 15 pts · 197d
It's a pretty sad place where believing that he's an aliens slave is more fulfilling than the reality that we're still just building pyramids for assholes.
Oh hey, I just figured out why religions exist.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 197d
I was thinking this sounds a lot like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 197d
Calculating the question whose answer is "42".
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d
Enrich billionaires
parlaptie@feddit.org · 23 pts · 197d
Previously unreleased Sonic movie concept art
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 197d
How would he know to volunteer that information if he was undiagnosed?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 197d
There are things one can know about ones self without an official diagnosis. And schizophrenia is definitely one of them.
JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 196d
First thing I thought was schizophrenia.
q181c@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 196d
Anyone with that hairdo obviously has amazing judgement and should be trusted wholeheartedly
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d
Was it about toupee that he refused to get rid of?
Klox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 197d
What did your grandfather do for a career? Did he grift and live on that? Or was it more of a compulsion/obsession/hobby?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 197d
He didn't start doing aliens for money until long until retirement. That's when he started writing his books, books I thought would never get finished, and being public about how aliens telepathically communicated with him.
As a career he was an engineer for defense contractors back in the day when all engineering happened on a drafting table.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 195d
this looks like the alien, in resident Alien show.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 195d
At first I thought you were talking about the old man with a bad hair piece. But then I realized you meant the blue thing.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 197d
so SCRIN aliens of command and conquer.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 197d
They didnt really come to enslave so much as was concerned the local wild life on their mining op was still alive and actively fighting each other and the scrin, baited them to building a space teleporter, and then kicked scrin out the planet.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 196d
funny thing the franchise planned thier return to earth, but was scrapped by EA being greedy.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 196d
And EA went with a very odd alternative.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 195d
cnc4, was so wierd and standalone. they thought they could target the asian market with that game, by making a wish .com starcraft. and they tried to money grab with tiberium ALLIANCE for some reason, i actually played and used the "free offers" get currency, eventually it became too hard without actually BUYING into the game so i abandoned it to focus on my classes.
Poojabber@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 196d
Edit: My question was answered elsewhere....
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 196d
Was it about the toupee?
Poojabber@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 196d
No lol, i was asking how you knew he was schizophrenic if he was undiagnosed.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 196d
Ah. Understandable. Dude was literally in the ER and the doc wanted to remove the hearing aid debris that was stranded in his ear canal. He is screaming that they can't do it because the aliens will stop talking to him telepathically. Even though the aliens had been talking to him telepathically for decades before he got hearing aids.
Eventually his wife, my grandma, has finally, after all these decades, had enough and told him that if he didn't let these docs remove the debris that was causing extensive pain that she was going to leave him. He would have died within days without her because he didn't know how to cook a TV dinner or have any other other essential life skills. He finally caved. The voices did not stop.
Poojabber@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 196d
Fair enough. I wasnt asking because I wanted to throw shade, it was a genuine question, as I have never knowingly been around schizophrenia, and I dont know that I could diagnose it if I was.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 196d
It's a unique disease. Very clear diagnostic criteria.
Though he didn't have one normal trait. Did you know that almost 90% of schizophrenics smoke? It's not diagnostic but that's a really high rate given that only 1% of the population is schizophrenic yet they account for 5% of smokers.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 195d
Controversial, but schizophrenia symptoms sometimes include seeing and hearing what others don't. For example, ghosts. If this guy was talking with ghosts, then he could know a lot of secrets since some dead have loose tongues. On the other hand, no one is stopping ghosts to be trolls and play pranks/tell lies. So, even if this guy is telling the truth, the original info source may not.
P. S. This is basically some critical thinking based on unpopular fact that ghosts do exist and that some people simply loose an ability to not see them.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
If something exists then it can be measured. It does not depend on a person's ability to see.
Bosht@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 195d
*lose. Not loose.