# James Otto Sweet Heart and Damning Suicides to Hell

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 19, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764 "2013-02-19T03:08:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/781 "2013-02-24T04:33:02Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> ^^^ Oh well. Only a person who has been there would know that.
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> God bless you always!!!
> 
> Holly

For someone like you, that’s true so I’m glad we agree on that.

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**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/782 "2013-02-24T04:33:37Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> I don’t harass. I just don’t sit here and let others get away with harassing me.

I’ve spelled it out for you at least twice - continuing to bless me with your imaginary sky fairy is harassing.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/783 "2013-02-24T04:36:24Z")

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I know I’m going to hate myself for asking this, not because of the question but because of the glib “answer” that’s likely to be offered. Here goes anyway: How is telling someone their recently deceased relative is burning in Hell _not_ harassment?

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/784 "2013-02-24T04:42:06Z")

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> [@Monty](#):
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> I know I’m going to hate myself for asking this, not because of the question but because of the glib “answer” that’s likely to be offered. Here goes anyway: How is telling someone their recently deceased relative is burning in Hell _not_ harassment?

On behalf of those who live there, we want to know too! :mad:😛

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/785 "2013-02-24T04:45:28Z")

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**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/786 "2013-02-24T04:45:47Z")

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> [@Monty](#):
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> I know I’m going to hate myself for asking this, not because of the question but because of the glib “answer” that’s likely to be offered. Here goes anyway: How is telling someone their recently deceased relative is burning in Hell _not_ harassment?

I never told a relative such a thing, but if they were to ask for my two cents about this issue, I would not lie to them.

> [@deltasigma](#):
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> For someone like you, that’s true so I’m glad we agree on that.

I was talking about you there, not me.

> [@curlcoat](#):
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> I’ve spelled it out for you at least twice - continuing to bless me with your imaginary sky fairy is harassing.

If you are sick of it, no one is forcing you to put up with it. Put me on ignore if you hate this right that I have so much.

God bless you three always!!!

Holly

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**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/787 "2013-02-24T04:48:43Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> I was talking about you there, not me.

D’oh. Really? You see I was talking about YOU not me too!!! :eek:

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/788 "2013-02-24T04:49:32Z")

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What is this shit?!! Who used up all the smileys?!

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/789 "2013-02-24T04:54:59Z")

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Well I saw the pic of James Otto and miss nut job here…OMG it’s hilarious. I highly recommend googling “James Otto and Holly”. Mr. Otto has the look of a guy about to say “Hey, I, um, think I’m gonna need that camera there…”:eek:

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/790 "2013-02-24T04:56:55Z")

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That was the same look I had when you grunted and dropped your dumbbell at Planet Fitness! 😉

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**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/791 "2013-02-24T05:04:32Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Well I saw the pic of James Otto and miss nut job here…OMG it’s hilarious. I highly recommend googling “James Otto and Holly”. Mr. Otto has the look of a guy about to say “Hey, I, um, think I’m gonna need that camera there…”:eek:

If you are trying to say that James was scared of me, you couldn’t be more way off. Earlier that day I told him at the twitter website that there was a chance that I wouldn’t get to see him and James offered to get me a ticket for the show if that was the problem. 🙂 🙂 🙂

God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Holly

P.S. The actual problem that day was getting there due to transportation issues.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/792 "2013-02-24T05:10:17Z")

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> [@living\_in\_hell](#):
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> That was the same look I had when you grunted and dropped your dumbbell at Planet Fitness! 😉

😕

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**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/793 "2013-02-24T05:11:22Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> ^^^ Oh I have a life. Who really needs the prayer are y’all who thought that I would let you get away with jumping on me for sharing a belief that y’all ended up on going for it. Well guess what? I am not a rug that you people can walk all over. I stand up for myself no matter how other people feel about it because I am the one who has to live with me and I am not going to live with a victim of flat out **harassment**!!!  
> OK there is definitely something going on with you. Thank you for letting me know.
> 
> God bless you two always!!!
> 
> Holly

> **[Persecutory delusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion)**
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> A persecutory delusion is a type of delusional condition in which the affected person believes that harm is going to occur to oneself by a persecutor, despite a clear lack of evidence. The person may believe that they are being targeted by an individual or a group of people. Persecution delusions are very diverse in terms of content and vary from the possible, although improbable, to the completely bizarre. The delusion can be found in various disorders, being more usual in psychotic disorder...

"Persecutory delusions are a delusional condition in which the affected person believes they are being persecuted. Specifically, they have been defined as containing two central elements:

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The individual thinks that harm is occurring, or is going to occur.
The individual thinks that the persecutor has the intention to cause harm.

```

According to the DSM-IV-TR, persecutory delusions are the most common form of delusions in schizophrenia, where the person believes “he or she is being tormented, followed, tricked, spied on, or ridiculed.” In the DSM-IV-TR, persecutory delusions are the main feature of the persecutory type of delusional disorder."

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/794 "2013-02-24T05:40:30Z")

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Just for the record again, since everyone (!!) who posts in this thread has no life (bwahahaha!), here’s the actual stats (as of this post) about how accurate that assertion truly is:

JOSH – 236  
Next closest poster in thread A – 30  
In thread B – 23

Uh huh. And the harassment card has been played (I love not having to read that drivel and only seeing snippets when others eviscerate it!)?? That’s like racists saying others are racists for calling them racists. I’ve never been so utterly amused. Poor James.

May some other nutjob stalker bless him so that his declining popularity can be reversed from all the damage this one keeps doing!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

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**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/795 "2013-02-24T05:50:47Z")

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^^^ I am the person that y’all decided to circle around. How many messages did you think that I was going to leave? None? It isn’t my fault that y’all choose not to get what it is that I say when I try to explain anything to y’all, but maybe that right there is just it. Maybe y’all just don’t want to get it. (shaking my head)

God bless you always!!!

Holly

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/796 "2013-02-24T06:10:03Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> If you are trying to say that James was scared of me, you couldn’t be more way off.

No, no, of course not. The two of you are clearly besties.

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**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/797 "2013-02-24T06:30:33Z")

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^^^ Me and James are whatever James says that we are. I leave it all up to him. 🙂 🙂 🙂

God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Holly

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/798 "2013-02-24T06:31:15Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> 😕

It was a lame attempt at a lame joke. ☹ Sorry.

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/799 "2013-02-24T06:33:17Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> ^^^ I am the person that y’all decided to circle around. How many messages did you think that I was going to leave? None? It isn’t my fault that y’all choose not to get what it is that I say when I try to explain anything to y’all, but maybe that right there is just it. Maybe y’all just don’t want to get it. (shaking my head)
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> God bless you always!!!
> 
> Holly

I only speak for myself. I am trying! I hope you stick around. I think you have something to offer. But you may have to modify your approach a bit. Think about it this way: you don’t wear your pajamas to church, but you are still the same person underneath.

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**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-otto-sweet-heart-and-damning-suicides-to-hell/650764/800 "2013-02-24T06:35:20Z")

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> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#):
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> ^^^ Me and James are whatever James says that we are. I leave it all up to him. 🙂 🙂 🙂
> 
> God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
> 
> Holly

Well, he doesn’t seem to be saying anything. Why does he never reply to any of your inane tweets?

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