this evening I attended a church service in nearby Thun. I say Church service, but it is more a housegroup with a service. Tonight there were 7 of us. I have not been in months to this group, and a special call had gone out to get more of us there.
Anyway, the vicar came, and started the service. He stood in front of us, we 7 were sitting in a circle on chairs. And then the strangest thing, that I have never noticed before, as generally I see him in front of 100 people at our main Church. The vicar never looked directly at any of us. His eyes were roaming the room, looking into corners, looking over us, looking at the floor, looking at the ceiling. Anywhere but us. This was totally weird, I was so amazed watching this performance that I could not really concentrate on what he was saying. He did spend a lot of the time addressing the floor, which was less weird than when he was looking all round the room, but only slightly.
When I got home my husband suggested that maybe he has a glass eye, but I don't think so, and actually at the table afterwards, he could look at whoever he was addressing, on a one to one basis.
is this some sort of disorder? Or has he high anxiety or something? he never seems particularly nervous, always in control, regardless of what happens.
It was totally weird, like he could see lots of people or spirits there that we could not. Not something I want to experience again in a while.
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- 2009-11-05 @ 21:50:21
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- 2009-11-06 @ 17:43:55
maybe he was, should I ask him do you think?
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- 2009-11-06 @ 17:58:31
I think if you felt uncertain and uncomfortable, it would be a positive move to ask him gently about it.
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- Bushka
- 2009-11-05 @ 21:52:29
Couls justbe a simple human explanation -m such as, he might have been anxious OR worse, feeling 'guilty' about something? Classic behaviour....averting the eyes!
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- 2009-11-06 @ 17:44:21
a guilty Vicar - whoever heard of such a thing?

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- Bushka
- 2009-11-06 @ 20:00:49
Saints will tell you they are not without guilt.....
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- 2009-11-06 @ 02:37:26
I think maybe like spokesperson He might just be a little more nervous is a small group. And if that group was all women that could have been the reason
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- 2009-11-06 @ 17:44:59
well there were a couple of men there as well. So he was only slightly outnumbered

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- 2009-11-08 @ 01:00:51
Hmmmmm then there really isnt an answer to what was going with him
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- 2009-11-06 @ 08:17:48
Maybe he's a spooksperson!!!
Sorry I couldn't resist the pun
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- 2009-11-06 @ 17:45:18
I hadn't even thought of that one
spokesperson
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I wonder if he was just very nervous. Sometimes people are more nervous about smaller groups than they are of standing in front of large crowds.