Alan is a member of your staff, right?

Right?

1. so your answer to our disagreement is to just chalk it all up to one fact: You don\’t have a sufficiently rarified imagination to believe in the undin. I do. But if that is the case, should you be writing about a field in which your imagination is not up to par? You\’re like a non-math layperson talking about quantum physics and topology. maybe you should stick to writing about stuff you actually understand.

2. To be completely comprehensive about this, I\’m not just talking about your lack of imagination and suspension of disbelief. You also failed to reason out things rigorously. The undin\’s choice of toilet as a point of attack makes complete sense:

a. he\’s a sea creature. where would he feel most comfortable to attack? surely, somewhere with water: toilet. Also, if you were an intruder, like the undin, what part of a house would you naturally gravitate to? Surely, the room with the least number of people together. Surely, the room in which it can lie in wait silently and bide its time and maybe attack one person at a time: toilet. When i proposed the sewer system as a way of travel for the undin, I may have pushed the envelope. But is it retarded? No. I just have imagination.

b. the toilet, in my opinion, holds a very important significance for the human psyche. it is, after all, where we take a dump or urinate. It\’s a very private place, in other words. One where we keep our secrets. Just the fact that the undin attacks us in this very private of places, attacks us at our most vulnerable, speaks volumes about why the filipinos who watched the film were scared of using toilets for weeks. A monster that attacks us at our most vulnerable? This is not retarded. This is horrifying. This is brilliant psychological crugsetting by the writer who wrote this.

onetamad, you\’re obviously an educated person, no question about that. you write, after all, with impeccable grammar. That is not what is at issue. i just hope that, when you don\’t understand something, you do some research or soul-searching first. Don\’t immediately label it as retarded. Think first.

1. so your answer to our disagreement is to just chalk it all up to one fact: You don’t have a sufficiently rarified imagination to believe in the undin. I do. But if that is the case, should you be writing about a field in which your imagination is not up to par? You’re like a non-math layperson talking about quantum physics and topology. maybe you should stick to writing about stuff you actually understand.

2. To be completely comprehensive about this, I’m not just talking about your lack of imagination and suspension of disbelief. You also failed to reason out things rigorously. The undin’s choice of toilet as a point of attack makes complete sense:

a. he’s a sea creature. where would he feel most comfortable to attack? surely, somewhere with water: toilet. Also, if you were an intruder, like the undin, what part of a house would you naturally gravitate to? Surely, the room with the least number of people together. Surely, the room in which it can lie in wait silently and bide its time and maybe attack one person at a time: toilet. When i proposed the sewer system as a way of travel for the undin, I may have pushed the envelope. But is it retarded? No. I just have imagination.

b. the toilet, in my opinion, holds a very important significance for the human psyche. it is, after all, where we take a dump or urinate. It’s a very private place, in other words. One where we keep our secrets. Just the fact that the undin attacks us in this very private of places, attacks us at our most vulnerable, speaks volumes about why the filipinos who watched the film were scared of using toilets for weeks. A monster that attacks us at our most vulnerable? This is not retarded. This is horrifying. This is brilliant psychological crugsetting by the writer who wrote this.

onetamad, you’re obviously an educated person, no question about that. you write, after all, with impeccable grammar. That is not what is at issue. i just hope that, when you don’t understand something, you do some research or soul-searching first. Don’t immediately label it as retarded. Think first.

Now put yourself in the refrigerator’s shoes.

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@alan
He did admit the undin was scary. Compared to, say, the aquarium or the pump. Which are still retarded.

“Yes, a toilet and its sewage system, because it could possibly allow you to travel in the house without being seen. Now, is that so retarded? You didn’t even put yourself in the undin’s shoes.”

I’m sorry. The suspension of my disbelief does not, cannot go that far.

again, as i said, what scares one person may not scary some other. you can’t just call something retarded, just because you don’t understand the mythos. your attempt to demystify this undin character to me seems a very boring approach. i actually find it fascinating that a seemingly illogical monster could inspire such a reaction from filipinos regarding toilets. something deep was touched. fear was created. and your reaction to it was to dismiss it as retarded? hello.

2. the undin, as a sea creature, likes to swim in water. if you were an undin and you hunted someone down into his house, into an out-of-water environment, what part of a house would you think you’d use to maximize your decreased advantage? yes, a toilet and its sewage system, because it could possibly allow you to travel in the house without being seen. now, is that so retarded? you didn’t even put yourself in the undin’s shoes. now was that so hard to understand?