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SHHHHH! ... PARANORMAL GOSSIP
I guess this is how Haunted Rumors get around. You have to question yourself.
Is It real or a case of Paranormal gossip?
THERE IS ALWAYS TALK ABOUT EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAUNT GHOSTS, YOU DON'T THINK PEOPLE ARE GOSSIPING ABOUT YOU?
And I hope when you finish reading this your gossiping about me!
By The Anomalous pARANORMAL tEC
Your face is on a web site, your ghost capture Youtube is being played continuously. And people are talking about you and you don't know it. Are they laughing at you? Respecting you? Or possibly calling you... asshole of the century?
Is it real is it fake? Are we all deluding ourselves with paranormal babble-ghostly talk?
You've written an account of your personal Paranormal encounter. It becomes a Paranormal Bestseller book that blows all others out of the dead zone. And you wonder who is critiquing it and giving it a bad review. And people are talking about you and you don't know it.
So why does it hurt when you see it in print? The bad paranormal review. The bashing of your group as frauds or ghost photo hoax's.
I wonder what they are saying, thinking about me just for exposing something about myself. Was I confident? Was I real?
How many of us wonder what Troy Taylor is up to? Is he hunting ghosts right now this second? Or Jeff Belanger hard at work writing his next book? I wonder if Jason and Grant or doing another season? Is the Great American Necromancer Lisa Lee Harp Waugh talking to the dead at this very second? If you know and tell someone what you know then that's gossip.
I imagine that the dead do talk about us too. Ghost Chatter?
The Top Ten Things The Dead Gossip About
1. The living "Who Me?"
2. The neighbors"There goes the cemetery!"
3. Who Died "Oh my ...awkward!"
4. Cause of Death "Truth or consequences!"
5. Who did what "Chain rattler secrets revealed!"
6. Strange occurrences"Something went "BUMP" in the light!"
7. Romances "Guess who is spooking... Who?"
8. Sex Life " Let's play hide the ECTOPLASAM!"
9. Health problems " Sheet Rot!"
10. Politics " Who's Haunting Who?"
Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. It forms one of the oldest and most common means of sharing (unproven) facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information transmitted. The term also carries implications that the news so transmitted (usually) has a personal or trivial nature, as opposed to normal conversation.
Over the last decade, paranormal gossip has come to the attention of a few of us as a avenue of paranormal study, particularly in light of its relationship to both overt and implicit power structures. Yes that's right. Like rats in a haunted maze.
The term Paranormal Gossip is used to specifically refer to the spreading of dirt and misinformation. And many wonder how much of what we say do and promote as our findings and documentation is actually real? Paranormal Gossip is the key to answering the question in all infinite proof. Ghosts are real!
Especially if it's coming from individuals in our own community. But hey that's life.
What about a certain radio Paranormal program star who everyone laughs at him to his face. Did he ever think it is a mockery? Or the Estranged ghost hunter who absconded with all the money. Or the sad ghost hunter who has never seen or documented anything and had others do it for him. Is it all a hoax that paranormal gossip plays on us?
As (for example) through excited discussion of scandals and hoax's and doctored ghost photos video's and general bullshit. Some web sites carry "haunted gossip columns" and don't know it. Chat boards, Blogs, forums and private memberships afford paranormal gossip to spread like wild fire. All this which details the social and personal lives of paranormal celebrities or of élite members of certain haunted communities.
What about the guy who writes article only to try to get attention. Or the woman who just wants to be come a Big time movie star?
I don't know how many times moderators kick people out for having a different point of view. Then the paranormal gossip begins again. Someone new to pick on an expose and forever research.
I love the bold people in the field of paranormal research. My deepest respects go to the Ghost Hunter and necromancer Lisa Lee Harp Waugh. She's one of those Ladies that stands right up to the world and says write what you want about me. Just spell my name right.
You got to love her for that. Waugh's ideas and beliefs are whatever she wants. And yes, she's doing it because she is having a good time, and really likes what's she's doing.
But I digress, I don't know if that's true or not. Yes it is only my personal opinion. And you know someone will probably take that out of context. A great controversy will occur and the ghosts of paranormal gossip is haunting us to the max.
The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for godparents, i.e. a child's godfather or godmother. In the 16th century, the word assumed the meaning of a person, mostly a woman, one who delights in idle talk, a newsmonger, a tattler. In the early 19th century, the term was extended from the talker to the conversation of such persons. The verb to gossip, meaning "to be a gossip", first appears in Shakespeare.
One popular etymology (or folk-etymology) connects the word "gossip" with "to sip": the tale tells how politicians would send assistants to bars to sit and listen to general public conversations. The assistants had instructions to sip a beer and listen to opinions; they responded to the command to "go sip", which allegedly turned into "gossip.
This Soviet war poster conveys the message: "Don't chatter! Gossiping borders on treason" 1942
Real Paranormal Gossip
Paranormal Gossip might be viewed as a form of haunted workplace violence, noting that it is "essentially a form of attack." Accordingly, many ghost hunting groups have formal policies in their ghost hunter handbooks against gossip. Sometimes there is room for disagreement on exactly what constitutes unacceptable gossip, since paranormal gossip may take the form of offhand remarks about someone's tendencies such as "He always takes a long lunch," or "Don’t worry, that’s just how she is."
Examples of gossip, "tattletailing to the Ghost Team without intention of furthering a solution or speaking to co-paranomal investigators about something someone else has done to upset us." Paranomal group email can be a particularly dangerous method of gossip delivery, as the medium is semi-permanent and messages are easily forwarded to unintended recipients; accordingly, a Mass High Tech article advised employers to instruct employees against using company email networks for gossip. Low self-esteem and a desire to "fit in" are frequently cited as motivations for paranomal group gossip. Some negative consequences of haunted gossip may include:
* Lost productivity and wasted time, on a ghost hunt
* Erosion of trust and morale, Lack of spooked enthusiasm
* Increased anxiety among ghost hunters as rumors circulate without any clear information as to what is fact and what isn’t,
* Growing divisiveness among ghost hunters as people “take sides,"
* Hurt feelings and reputations,
* Jeopardized chances for the gossipers' advancement as they are perceived as unprofessional, and
Attrition as good ghost hunters leave the group due to the unhealthy haunted atmosphere.
Among the three main types of responders to haunted or paranormal persons conflict are attackers who cannot keep their feelings to themselves and express their feelings by attacking whatever they can. Attackers are further divided into up-front attackers and behind-the-back attackers. We must note here that the latter "are difficult to handle because the target person is not sure of the source of any criticism, nor even always sure that there is criticism."
It is possible however, that there may be illegal, unethical, or disobedient behavior happening in the haunted paranomal community. This may be a case where reporting the behavior may be viewed as gossip. It is then left up to someone but as ghost hunters we have no one in charge to fully investigate the matter and not simply look past the report and assume it to be paranomal gossip. All illegal, unethical, or disobedient behavior that is reported to the appropriate personal should be taken seriously until otherwise proven innocent.
Informal networks through which communication occurs in an organization are sometimes called the haunted grapevine.
A recent study found that lying takes longer than telling the truth.
Various views on gossip
Some see gossip as trivial, hurtful and socially and/or intellectually unproductive.
Some people view gossip as a lighthearted way of spreading information.
A feminist definition of gossip presents it as "a way of talking between women, intimate in style, personal and domestic in scope and setting, a female cultural event which springs from and perpetuates the restrictions of the female role, but also gives the comfort of validation." (Jones, 1990:243)
In early modern England
In Early Modern England the word "gossip" referred to companions in childbirth, not limited to the midwife. It also became a term for women-friends generally, with no necessary derogatory connotations. (OED n. definition 2. a. "A familiar acquaintance, friend, chum", supported by references from 1361 to 1873). It commonly referred to an informal local sorority or social group, who could enforce socially-acceptable behaviors through private censure or through public rituals, such as "rough music" and the skimmington ride.
These include accounts of the rituals that shamed or celebrated women’s sexuality: women washing a neighbour’s private parts with soap and water, or ‘polling’ pubic hair. In Thomas Harman’s Caveat for Common Cursitors 1566 a ‘walking mort’ relates how she was forced to agree to meet a man in his barn, but informed his wife. The wife arrived with her “five furious, sturdy, muffled gossips” who catch the errant husband with “his hosen about his legs” and give him a sound beating. The story clearly functions as a morality tale in which the gossips uphold the social order.
Gossip in Judaism
Main article: Lashon hara
Judaism considers gossip spoken without a constructive purpose (known in Hebrew as lashon hara) as a sin. Speaking negatively about people, even if retelling true facts, counts as sinful, as it demeans the dignity of man — both the speaker and the subject of the gossip.
According to Proverbs 18:8: "The words of a gossip are like choice morsels: they go down to a man's innermost parts."
Gossip in Islam
Islam considers backbiting the equivalent of eating the flesh of one's dead brother. According to Muslims, backbiting harms its victims without offering them any chance of defense, just as dead people cannot defend against their flesh being eaten. Muslims are expected to treat each other like brothers, deriving from Islam's concept of brotherhood amongst its believers and non believers.
Gossip in Christianity
Christianity condemns all kinds of gossip that seeks to use information to harm another person. The Epistle to the Romans associates gossips ("backbiters") with a list of sins including sexual immorality and with murder:
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1:28-32)
Jesus also taught, in Matthew 18, that conflict resolution among church members ought to begin with the aggrieved party attempting to resolve their dispute with the offending party alone. Only if this did not work would the process escalate to the next step, in which other church members would become involved. In no case did Jesus authorize exposing faults to other people besides the person at fault. Since "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23), Christians are called to loving forgiveness and the spread of positive information rather than evil gossip that destroys relationships.
Gossip in Hindu Jain and Budhism
Gossip is Hinsa (violence) as even a thought against some one is a paap (sin)
The Southeastern Michigan Alliance of Paranormal Investigators Society (SMAPIS) crew scours the data collected from grandma's attic in episode one. A warble picked up from the digital voice recorder seems proof-positive through the eyes of SMAPIS founder, Rodger Graham, that his grandmother is speaking to him from beyond the grave. Get the behind the scenes tour of the SMAPIS headquarters in this second installment.
Known to many for his work of ghost hunting and honest interpretations of haunted evidence and documented accounts of being a gossip monger. The pARANORMAL tEC is at your service to always give you his opinion and set tongues wagging. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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