Here's a funny story.

[lucas]

So, I live in Bloomington, Indiana. and every Sunday, there's a no-limit Hold'em tournament at a bar near my house. It's a free tournament, but they take donations for the homeless.

This week, they ran a table which had  $20 donation, and the winner got to choose one of many fabulous prizes. So, I got in on that table, and I ended up winning a TV, which I am going to give to my brother (who is about to go to Georgia Tech for architecture. I'm so proud.)

Anyways, the tournament organizer needed to go to Wal-Mart to pick up the TV, so I drove him there, and then to his home in Nashville, IN (I believe Rex lives there. Corect me If I'm wrong.)

It turned out he was insane. Not like "kinda wierd" insane, but like "thinks he's an undercover federal agent" insane.

He told me that the bar we play at used to be a homeless shelter that he ran, but it was shut down by the city because of "religious differences". Because it was a fucking cult. People were taken to deprogramming centers. The cult was called ASHRAM.

Then he told about how Nixon asked him to go undercover and investigate conditions in mental hospitals, but he didn't do that until 1990, because he's was busy pretending to be homeless on a secret mission from an archbishop. But he finally got himself into a home for the criminally insane, on a murder trial.

He told me that there was a movie, based on his experiences investigating the mental hospital from the inside. That move was called "Minority Report".

He founded the Drug Enforcement Agency, apparently. He told me that he was thanked in the academy award acceptance speech for "Ghost", a movie which I don't think won any academy awards.

He has as 250+ IQ.

He has a website. http://www.cia-stargate.org

It's insane.


but...he bought me a TV.

[SockhopShindig]

He has a website. http://www.cia-stargate.org

It's insane.

Holy fucking shit.  Not only is the website insane, but it's extensive!  I kept clicking on links until I got to a page where he was selling a Monk's Collar as a cure for Erectile Dysfunction.  Oh and I like that he put "S.J." after his name, but doesn't mention it or what it means elsewhere on the site (although who knows, maybe I missed that page).

I'm curious though - how long did it take you to realize he wasn't joking around and that you were in the car with a seriously unbalanced person?  And what was it that pushed him over the line from "trying to be funny" into "crazy" ?

---Patrick

[Lady_Death]

Corect me If I'm wrong

correct  

im confused by this story.  interesting though.

[rex]

Nah, dude.  I don't live in Nashville.  I live in Columbus, which is about 15 minutes or so away from Nashville.  My grandmother lives there, however.  So there ya go...useless pieces of information about my life.  Whooooo.

rex.

[InTheYearof39]

No one has a 250+ IQ

[girl]

No one has a 250+ IQ

...so did you not notice the whole "he's insane" angle?

ps - lucas, you always meet the coolest people.  every time i see the door on eric's building that says "pooper," i smile.

[danny_ross]

"You haven't lived until you've sipped wine at sunset on a California beach with an immortal Zen Master who planned the invasion of Panama."

Amazing.

[bing]

that website is tight.

[sergei]

i had an experience some what like yours. One day i went fishing with 2 friends and they meet this guy who worked with them for a day becuase he owed the boss money. so after fishing i went with him to get beer, to make a long story short i ended up carrying two 24's into a drug dealers house he just met, the guy pointed a gun at me, him adn the other guy decided hed sell for him, then outside the guy i was with told me if i told anyone he would cut my throat, he threw me agianst a wall and then he calmed down, so after my 2 friends walked around trying to find me i got to my firends  house and my friends where happy to see me, then the guy told us he was in the CIA and he had a gun on him , he was showing us, then we tryed to dtich em but he kept following, he told us he was in teh NYFD and he was at 9-11 ...eventually some cops came when we where on teh beach and we ditched em...it was similiar to your story but alittle different...just thought id share...

[lucas]

I'm curious though - how long did it take you to realize he wasn't joking around and that you were in the car with a seriously unbalanced person?  And what was it that pushed him over the line from "trying to be funny" into "crazy" ?

---Patrick

Well, I was a little disturbed after the cult thing, but the breaking point was the Minority Report thing. At that point, I became actually scared. I remembered that someone told me once never to question someone's delusions, so I said that I'd never seen the movie. Even though I've seen the movie, read the short story it was based on, and knew that his story had absolutely nothing in common with the movie.

Really, for somebody good at poker, the MInority Report thing was a wierd bluff. It was like going all in on a Queen-Eight and praying the dude doesn't have something better. I mean, odds are I had seen, or at least heard of, Minority report.

I now have a great sentence that I can say, though. "I won a TV in a poker game, run by a schizophrenic"

ps - lucas, you always meet the coolest people.  every time i see the door on eric's building that says "pooper," i smile.

Apparently, Suki, you and I have very different definitions of cool people.



The thing that's really nuts is that he runs a weekly poker tournament, and has relationships with a buch of Bloomington businesses. Have they not talked to him for five minutes?

[InTheYearof39]

Oddness attracts oddness.......................at least, that's what I've heard.

[Nicole]

there you go again.

[lucas]

Ha ha. Nice Avatar...

[InTheYearof39]

there you go again.

There you go again on your own.  Like a drifter, you were born to walk alone.

[jesuit master]

Yeah...well here are some interesting facts about this strange priest as priest is what he is.

The movie about his life in a mental iinstitution was K-PAX and Maury Povich did a live interview years before the hollywood version.

His father is Dr. Donovan R. Berlin, as in Chairman of the Department of Defense Research and  Devolpoment Board and co-founder of the CIA, can easily be researched.

Speioberg believed, and does today, that the man was the real character. Cruise announced the movie MINORITY was about his life as it translates and that comment was attacked in the media by Mel Gibson as a publicity stunt by Speilberg.

Oh...and they realy did prosecute him as a mass killer and a homeless man. Indiana : State V. Berlin 1991

When hes not changing the world he hangs out with the homeless at the bottom of the world.

But I guess you know that...congratulations on winning my homeless poker game.
Enjoy the T.V.

[m welch]

Yeah...well here are some interesting facts about this strange priest as priest is what he is.

The movie about his life in a mental iinstitution was K-PAX and Maury Povich did a live interview years before the hollywood version.

His father is Dr. Donovan R. Berlin, as in Chairman of the Department of Defense Research and  Devolpoment Board and co-founder of the CIA, can easily be researched.

Speioberg believed, and does today, that the man was the real character. Cruise announced the movie MINORITY was about his life as it translates and that comment was attacked in the media by Mel Gibson as a publicity stunt by Speilberg.

Oh...and they realy did prosecute him as a mass killer and a homeless man. Indiana : State V. Berlin 1991

When hes not changing the world he hangs out with the homeless at the bottom of the world.

But I guess you know that...congratulations on winning my homeless poker game.
Enjoy the T.V.

Whoa.  What just happened?

m welch

[Jenna]

I think the answer to that would be "comedy gold."

[Jenna]

Mike, you have Lucas' phone number, don't you?  You need to call him right now. 

[m welch]

Mike, you have Lucas' phone number, don't you?  You need to call him right now. 

Oddly, I don't....

How'd that happen?

m welch

[Trevor]

This is a scary joke...right?

I have Lucas' phone number (because I'm better than Mike), but I don't think this warrants a call.  He'll discover it in the morning.

Seriously, though, that's a joke...right?

[Shotzi]

I kind of think it's real, which makes it totally awesome.

[Trevor]

I kind of think it's real, which makes it totally awesome.

Wait, so he talks about himself in the third and first person?

Man...

[Pleasedontrock]

Ooooobjection. This is highly irregular.

[Pleasedontrock]

Also this thread has one of the highest "view to post" ratios. I guess everyone likes a funny story, but most people don't have a lot to say about meeting the guy who co-founded the CIA.

[Shotzi]

Wait, so he talks about himself in the third and first person?

Man...

Who would go to this trouble for a joke?

Maybe I'm underestimating you crazy kids.