Here, have a dinosaur comic that is very me. I'm the T-Rex, if for some reason you could not guess. Fie on all who cannot handle the steely embrace of logic! Fie
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Yeah, that kind of usage doesn't seem odd to me. One of the odd things I've encountered is when people say something like, "I know this is going to sound woo-woo, but it's like I know how to do this because of my experience in a past life." I'm just making that example up (though it's not far off from some things I've heard), and I'm not sure it quite illustrates what I mean -- basically, it's cases where I might have assumed that people were making an analogy or metaphor or something, and then the fact that they toss in the woo-woo line actually makes me think that they mean it more literally. And then they give no explanation of how that could be.
Also, someone said to me at a funeral (paraphrasing only slightly), "I know this sounds woo-woo, but do you ever feel like he's still watching over you? Because he is. He is still right there with you. I know these things because I almost died." Hmm, okay, I guess in that case she did give a reason to believe it (she almost died), although I didn't find it convincing. So maybe she was saying "hear me out" in that case.
Also, someone said to me at a funeral (paraphrasing only slightly), "I know this sounds woo-woo, but do you ever feel like he's still watching over you? Because he is. He is still right there with you. I know these things because I almost died." Hmm, okay, I guess in that case she did give a reason to believe it (she almost died), although I didn't find it convincing. So maybe she was saying "hear me out" in that case.
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