A theme in a lot of the things that we describe as creepy is something about being watched. You don't know why they're watching, you don't even know that they're watching. But you get a whiff that maybe they're watching and maybe that watching has something to do with some ill intentionsThat's the cars. Like it feels like they're watching the neighborhood and that they have some kind of plan. It can also be Helicopters or people pressing their face against your window at dusk.
David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What defines a mystical experience? Why do they defy expression and yet feel like a state of knowledge, a glimpse into the window of some undiscovered aspect of reality? Is Tamler right that David has a little mystic inside of him just waiting to burst forth from his breast?
Plus – another edition of VBW does conceptual analysis and we’re sticking with ‘c’ words – this time the definitive theory of ‘creepy.’
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