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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 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What am I being enslaved to do, though?

[–] Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same stuff we're already doing

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

I was thinking this sounds a lot like the Epic of Gilgamesh.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Calculating the question whose answer is "42".

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Enrich billionaires

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

Previously unreleased Sonic movie concept art

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How would he know to volunteer that information if he was undiagnosed?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago

First thing I thought was schizophrenia.

[–] q181c@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone with that hairdo obviously has amazing judgement and should be trusted wholeheartedly

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Was it about toupee that he refused to get rid of?

[–] Klox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this looks like the alien, in resident Alien show.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so SCRIN aliens of command and conquer.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

funny thing the franchise planned thier return to earth, but was scrapped by EA being greedy.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And EA went with a very odd alternative.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Edit: My question was answered elsewhere....

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was it about the toupee?

[–] Poojabber@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No lol, i was asking how you knew he was schizophrenic if he was undiagnosed.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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 points 1 month ago

If something exists then it can be measured. It does not depend on a person's ability to see.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

*lose. Not loose.