Mass Hallucination, Hysteria & Miracles
Sound thinking and critical reservations were abruptly cast aside in New Delhi during the early morning hours of September 21st, 1995. Statue idols, it seemed, had taken to drinking milk being fed to them by spoon. By what bizarre urging the first pilgrim to report this phenomenon was compelled to test whether a milk offering […]
Marked as: Belief Systems • Bunco • Reality Frames • Science — 4 comments (RSS)
Among the Brain-Washed and Abused
This post is a follow up to an earlier post detailing some of my encounters and conversations with people who believe they have been abducted by aliens. Some who have followed previous writings of mine may find some informational redundancies but, while continuing my narrative, I also like each article to be able to stand […]
Marked as: Abnormal Sociology • Belief Systems • Bunco • Reality Frames • Science — 8 comments (RSS)
Among The Abducted
This is the first report of my experiences with individuals who feel that they have had personal contact with extraterrestrials. More are forthcoming. Where appropriate, names have been changed… Laughlin, Nevada is the kind of place where vegetarianism is deviant. Even the lentil soup comes served with large chunks of sausage in it… Thick, greasy, […]
Marked as: Abnormal Sociology • Belief Systems • Bunco • Reality Frames • Science — 1 comment (RSS)
Last Train to Transcendental
Here again we return to infinity (if it can be said possible to return to something which one can’t leave). If you hadn’t heard of it before: there are different types of infinity – different sizes of infinity. This area of mathematics has fascinated and fixated mathematicians for literally millennia, though perhaps one of the […]
Marked as: Math • Reality Frames — 1 comment (RSS)
Comfortable Delusions: An Interview with Ray Comfort
The banana, Ray Comfort famously declared, is “the atheist’s nightmare”. Observe, if you will, the compelling evidence for God’s Creative Hand at work. A banana: Is shaped for the human hand Has a non-slip surface Has outward indicators of inward content: Green — not ripe enough; Yellow — just right for eating; Black — too […]
Marked as: Belief Systems • Bunco • Reality Frames — 3 comments (RSS)
Life on Planes
I spend some amount of time traveling by air; it’s never enough to satisfy me, but the time-and-space aspects of it always fill me with giddiness. Pondering those aspects gives an excellent opportunity to examine our place in the larger picture of space, for it’s not such a common event that a person can noticeably […]
Marked as: Math • Reality Frames — 1 comment (RSS)