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[Anonymous No.8045179]

>While listening to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" one day, Phil heard the lyrics change into a prophetic warning: "Your son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocele has burst, and it has descended into the scrotal sac. He requires immediate attention, or will soon die." Phil rushed him to the hospital and found every word to be true. The doctor scheduled the operation for the same day. Once again, the healing power of Phil's vision comes to the fore. In a sense the boy was "reborn", which was to have great consequences for Phil's subsequent actions.
>Another event was an episode of supposed xenoglossia. Supposedly, Dick's wife transcribed the sounds she heard him speak, and discovered that he was speaking Koine Greek—the common Greek dialect during the Hellenistic years (3rd century BC–4th century AD) and direct "father" of today's modern Greek language—which he had never studied. As Dick was to later discover, Koine Greek was originally used to write the New Testament and the Septuagint. However, this was not the first time Dick had claimed xenoglossia: a decade earlier, Dick insisted he was able to think, speak, and read fluent Koine Greek under the influence of Sandoz LSD-25.
How can we even hope to compete with this?

[Anonymous No.8045221]

This guy had to some serious shit going on which should have been explored in further depth. Anyone have a good book on the life of old mate dick and all his wacky adventures which is worth a read?

[Anonymous No.8045274]

>dude drug addicts are prophets spiritual hogwash is real lmao

Nothing against Dick though. He was a very talented fellow.

[Anonymous No.8045294]

>>8045221
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

is a whole bunch of collected entries from his diaries collecting these wacky episodes

[Anonymous No.8045296]

>>8045274
*tips fedora
Keep shilling for Demiurge, my fellow man.

[Anonymous No.8045311]

>>8045179
>Phil heard the lyrics change into a prophetic warning: "Your son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocele has burst, and it has descended into the scrotal sac. He requires immediate attention, or will soon die."

Sick beats. I'll be singing that in the shower for a while.

[Anonymous No.8045321]

> the lyrics change into "Your son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocele has burst, and it has descended into the scrotal sac. He requires immediate attention, or will soon die."
Would like to hear that

[Anonymous No.8045373]

If a labrador does it, demonrace unimpressed, if philip K dick does it, miracleman.

[Anonymous No.8046135]

>>8045179
>>While listening to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" one day, Phil heard the lyrics change into a prophetic warning: "Your son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocele has burst, and it has descended into the scrotal sac. He requires immediate attention, or will soon die."
This sounds like satire or very retarded new age religious promotion.

[Anonymous No.8046201]

Obviously the challenge for the thread is to listen to the song and try to figure out which bit would have turned into that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQK-UcRezE

[Anonymous No.8046231]

So he had schizophrenia?

[Anonymous No.8046247]

>>8046231
No. Appearantly he had occult powers.

[Anonymous No.8046260]

how do you die from an inguinal hernia?

[Anonymous No.8046261]

>>8046247
Unless he could summon a hot succubus or conjure an impressive number of tulpas at will, I won't consider him magically gifted.

[Anonymous No.8046269]

>>8046261
>summon a hot succubus
probably how his son got that hernia

[Anonymous No.8046290]

>>8046260
Well dude if the hydrocele bursts and descends into the scrotal sac, shit can get real. I heard a song about it on the radio a while back.

[Anonymous No.8046302]

>>8046269
Ah, at last, I truly see now.

[Anonymous No.8046305]

>mental illness is a competition
if you consider being retarded a mental illness, then it sounds like you're winning

[Anonymous No.8046307]

>>8046305
I'm on the top of the race then.

[Anonymous No.8046334]

>>8046290
lul

[Anonymous No.8046340]

>>8046307
If we learned anything from Dick, it's that retards make the best prophets

[Anonymous No.8046344]

>>8046340
Jesus couldn't write or read after all.

[Anonymous No.8046383]

>>8046340
I learned that from W. M. Miller.

[Anonymous No.8046402]

>>8045179
my wife's son had the same problem

[Anonymous No.8046417]

>>8046383
You'll have to expand on that bud

[Anonymous No.8046465]

>>8046417
If you liked Dick, you might find A Canticle for Leibowitz enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.8046565]

>>8045179
tl;dr

[Anonymous No.8046621]

>>8046465
Thank you