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originally posted by: jondsilva426
a reply to: Spruce
"Everything is a trigger. Specific trigger obviously depend upon the individual. Once you see behind the curtain the harassment escalates"
I know this sounds ignorant and well, I admit that I am. When you speak of seeing "behind the curtain" are you referring to the curtain being the illusion of reality?
BTW thanks for the response.
originally posted by: jondsilva426
a reply to: Spruce
"Everything is a trigger. Specific trigger obviously depend upon the individual. Once you see behind the curtain the harassment escalates"
originally posted by: Spruce
a reply to: bdizzi90
The first thing you should do is see a doctor to eliminate other possibilities.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: sanitizedinfo
All right. You oblige me to be blunt.
- A few people genuinely are spied upon or stalked. They fall into three categories: (i) individuals suspected by the authorities of being criminals, spies or terrorists; (ii) people who are being spied upon by private investigators for very mundane reasons — suspected marital infidelity, etc; (iii) people, often celebrities, who have become the victims of a lunatic who has conceived some obsession about them. People in these categories, if they know they are being spied upon or stalked, also know the reason for it. You won't find them posting on this thread, which is about something else altogether.
- Some people — a tiny subset of the population — suffer from full-blown paranoid schizophrenia (or whatever the DSM is calling it these days). Many are active on the internet, and it is they who are the origin of 'TI' and 'gangstalking fantasies. Needless to say, they are completely deluded; tragically handicapped people who live lonely, miserable, often truncated lives because of their delusions.
- A much larger subset of the population reads or views the schizophrenics' fantasies on the internet or in the popular media and gives them credence. Many slowly come to acquire a delusional mindset themselves. It is in this context that I invoke drugs. Drug use — not just coc aine, but also marijuana and amphetamine use — promotes paranoia. After a couple of snorts or tokes or hits on the crack pipe, some users become — for the time being — almost as paranoid as the genuine paranoiacs. However, not everyone needs the help of drugs to be infected by others' delusions. A great many are susceptible to the power of suggestion.
- There may also be a few idiots who make up paranoid fantasies to wind up the suggestible. They need not concern us here.
- Every single person who believes they are TIs or being gangstalked is delusional. Whether or not drugs are to blame in individual cases I obviously cannot say, but I regard it as a strong possibility in many cases. The others are simply suggestible, or out-and-out insane.
I trust I have now made myself clear. Obviously I am not going to argue the topic, since I don't believe that victims of a delusion are open to rational persuasion. Thank you for your attention.
You contradicted yourself in the post. First you said there are people who are spied upon and then you said every person being gangstalked delusional.