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[SPEC] The Tulpa Theory
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Xeronex
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 		[SPEC] The Tulpa Theory
Discussion on the whole Tulpa idea brought up by so many.
I just finished watching Entries 37and 38. Enttry 37 made me remember this old show called "So Weird" On Disney. There was one episode in particular, which was based on the Tulpa theory, which is now widely used as a SlenderTheory. I had gone back to watch it and it gave me some sort of development on the theory.

I believe that Alex, as a kid, had out good friend Slendy as an imaginary friend. He would run through the woods and frolic through fields of tall grass with him. The Operator symbol, as many believe, could be symbolizing his absence of a face. Alex would draw pictures of his buddy Slendy and use the symbol as his face.

After some time, Alex had forgotten about Slendy, and thus Slenderman was released into the world as a tulpa. Years later, Alex comes across his amigo in real life, but doesn't remember him. Slendy does though. And so, being Slenderman, he follows Alex and watches over him, kind of like a protector. This is where his friends come in. Slendy believes Jay and the others to be threats to Alex, which explains why they would get injured and not Alex.

And now, our beloved TiMasky! Very Happy I'm tying him in with the Tulpa theory as being Slenderman's enemy, and the one always trying to harm Alex, and those close to him. I think of him as a Freddy Krueger-esque kind of villian - playing with his victim before harming them. So Tim could just be another tulpa existance of Alex's.

All of this is just speculation. So feel free to criticize it as needed. Oh, and the "So Weird" video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz68EUbUFKE (The friends being harmful theory kind of fits in here for me; New friends being a threat to Alex.)

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 		Re: [SPEC] The Tulpa Theory
Discussion on the whole Tulpa idea brought up by so many.
All that was true except in the part about slendy not hurting alex. In the entry where Slendy goes into Alex's room at night and then in the next scene it shows alex bleeding from the head in front of the camera, I'm pretty sure slendy called it.
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 		Re: [SPEC] The Tulpa Theory
Discussion on the whole Tulpa idea brought up by so many.
ISMFOF wrote:
All that was true except in the part about slendy not hurting alex. In the entry where Slendy goes into Alex's room at night and then in the next scene it shows alex bleeding from the head in front of the camera, I'm pretty sure slendy called it.


Maybe Slendy wanted to be back with Alex in his head?

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 		You said you just watched Entry 38, right? If this imaginary friend thing is true, then how could there have been a legend dating as far back as the 1800s?

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Mariolee wrote:
You said you just watched Entry 38, right? If this imaginary friend thing is true, then how could there have been a legend dating as far back as the 1800s?

Did they say that the egend was from the 1800's? Or that it was true for that matter? Perhaps alex was just talking bullshit for whatever reason.
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Mariolee wrote:
You said you just watched Entry 38, right? If this imaginary friend thing is true, then how could there have been a legend dating as far back as the 1800s?


Well, it was never told to us that the legend was Slenderman-related. So far, all we know is that what Alex told Jay was a ghost story/folklore/myth.

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 		Are you guys honestly saying the stories aren't linked to Slenderman? There is no point for Alex to state the legend if it wasn't related to the Operator.

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 		Not saying they aren't linked. I'm saying there was no mention of our tall friend in the story, was there? It could be a "Tall"-Tale (Get it? Heheh) His mama told him when he was young to keep him from going into the woods, which is where the idea for Slenderman came from as a kid. Like someone said in the Entry #38 thread, about him taking the form of the stretched out, faceless people. Maybe that's the image that was planted in Tiny Alex's brain, and was the basis for it?

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Xeronex wrote:
Not saying they aren't linked. I'm saying there was no mention of our tall friend in the story, was there? It could be a "Tall"-Tale (Get it? Heheh) His mama told him when he was young to keep him from going into the woods, which is where the idea for Slenderman came from as a kid. Like someone said in the Entry #38 thread, about him taking the form of the stretched out, faceless people. Maybe that's the image that was planted in Tiny Alex's brain, and was the basis for it?


Now you're just stretching it. You have to use Occam's razor.

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 		Am I the only one who is less baffled by this theory and more baffled by the fact anyone remembers that show?

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Am I the only one who is less baffled by this theory and more baffled by the fact anyone remembers that show?

If you remember it, why wouldn't other people? I remember it. I actually liked it.

As far as Slender Man being generated by people's thoughts, I think he feeds on people's fears. He takes on aspects that generate fear in people's, such as darkness, hostility, mystery, threatening to children, facelessness, alien disproportion, amnesia. Things that do not generate fear in people's minds, such as gimme twenny dollas, splendor, delicious smoothies, and key lime pie, are not taken on.

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 		First of all, huge props, I've been trying to figure out the name of that show for a while now, but nobody I talked to could remember it that well.

And I think that this is an interesting concept to think about, and watch all the entry's, I just watched enttry #37 again, with this topic on my mind and it made it seem even more creepy, thinking that slendy had it uploaded through J to alex, almost like he was sending him a birthday shoutout, and once again, the whole showing up on his birthday, in his house, last year. Pretty cool stuff.

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Mariolee wrote:
Are you guys honestly saying the stories aren't linked to Slenderman? There is no point for Alex to state the legend if it wasn't related to the Operator.

I get what you're saying, and thats how I feel too. But you have to look at allthe possibilities.
We don't know whats up with Alex right now, he could be crazy for all we know. These stories he tells could just be to set J in a mood, or he is actually crazy and just talking a bunch of random shit because of slendersickness or something, or who knows what. But its still possible.
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ISMFOF wrote:
Mariolee wrote:
Are you guys honestly saying the stories aren't linked to Slenderman? There is no point for Alex to state the legend if it wasn't related to the Operator.

I get what you're saying, and thats how I feel too. But you have to look at allthe possibilities.
We don't know whats up with Alex right now, he could be crazy for all we know. These stories he tells could just be to set J in a mood, or he is actually crazy and just talking a bunch of random shit because of slendersickness or something, or who knows what. But its still possible.


All I'm saying is that this theory has a lot of holes in it, and requires using a radically different interpretation of the entries than usual. When that happens, the theory is usually wrong. For example, see Jessica as Masky in Entry 34 or 33.

People get so hung up on one theory that they bend the story just to fit it in, when what they should be doing is bending the theory to fit the story.

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Mariolee wrote:
ISMFOF wrote:
Mariolee wrote:
Are you guys honestly saying the stories aren't linked to Slenderman? There is no point for Alex to state the legend if it wasn't related to the Operator.

I get what you're saying, and thats how I feel too. But you have to look at allthe possibilities.
We don't know whats up with Alex right now, he could be crazy for all we know. These stories he tells could just be to set J in a mood, or he is actually crazy and just talking a bunch of random shit because of slendersickness or something, or who knows what. But its still possible.


All I'm saying is that this theory has a lot of holes in it, and requires using a radically different interpretation of the entries than usual. When that happens, the theory is usually wrong. For example, see Jessica as Masky in Entry 34 or 33.

People get so hung up on one theory that they bend the story just to fit it in, when what they should be doing is bending the theory to fit the story.


I'm not saying my theory is right, because you seem to be finding holes in it everywhere. Care to explain these holes?

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