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A Protestant pastor in Bountiful, Utah
- Pastor Swope
- is an Author and has been a Christian Minister for more than 27 years in both Mainline and Evangelical Denominations. He holds a B.A. in Biblical Literature from Nyack College and an M.Div. In Pastoral Ministry with an emphasis on Pastoral Counseling from Alliance Theological Seminary. He has served as a short term Missionary to Burkina Faso, and has Ministered to the homeless in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. He is currently the Pastor of Bountiful Community Church in Bountiful, Utah He is also a freelance journalist for Examiner.com, has a column in the Tri-State Senior News and has also written for Fate Magazine. As a Seminary trained exorcist he has done consulting work with various paranormal investigators and television productions in the United States as well as investigators and writers across the globe
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You know you're going to have to talk about the stabbing.
A few quick thoughts.
(1) I suppose this could have happened as the result of just about any story. Maybe.
(2) On the other hand, there is a community of people who pretend that Slenderman is real, or that he is maybe really after all real. No one really entertains such fantasies about Lex Luthor, Darth Vader, or Sauron.
(3) Twelve year olds are usually able to tell the difference between reality and outright make-believe. Besides, Google, which they probably used to find information about Slenderman, shows very quickly exactly who invented the characters Lex Luthor and when, who invented Darth Vader and when, who invented Sauron and when, and who invented Slenderman and when.
So what is the slenderman actually based of?
"Who is that Slender Man actually based off?" Real child abductors.
There's no real mystery to creating a scary monster. First, take something that people are already afraid of. Then you make that threat vastly more powerful, so that we are helpless and hopeless before it. Finally, you twist it just enough to put it into the "uncanny valley".
If you start with fear of technology, you might end up with space aliens. If you start with fear of government control, you might end up with the Men in Black. Eric Knudsen started with the fear of child abductors and ended up with Slender Man.
Any new posts in the near future?
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