[Have you had “anomalous experiences” like this skeptic did? I have; but those are other stories. Here’s one that was recounted in Scientific American, where skepticism is (appropriately) an article of faith. “Anomalous experiences” (aka synchronicity, serendipity, coincidence, fate, luck, destiny, Providence, etc.) are by definition non-scientific, as they can’t be replicated like all successful … Continue reading “Inner Light”? Or Just an ”Anomaly”??
[NOTE: On Garrison Keillor’s Substack, there’s a feature called the Back Room, on which he posts odds and ends from his decades of work. Yesterday the following popped up.] From TIME Magazine ESSAY — June 14, 1999 Faith at the Speed of Light BY GARRISON KEILLOR “Just In terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not … Continue reading Garrison Keillor, 1999: God & Bill Gates on the Far Side
Okay, I was told that a file folder was blown out of a dumpster near Joe Biden’s beach place in Delaware, and somehow it made its way into my inbox. I figured it was a gag, but opened it anyway. Across the top of the single page inside it said: ”Supremely Confidential— Eyes Only February … Continue reading Now Revealed: the REAL Reason for the Chinese Balloon Shootdown
It’s a busy, scary world today: horrible earthquakes; war in Ukraine, warming here, freezing there, the resurgence of orange hair, etc. . . . But here in my hideaway, busy following much of this, there are glimpses of something else. One is the last holdout of the lilies I got the Fair Wendy for our … Continue reading Meanwhile,Two Glimpses of Domestic Tranquillity . . .
[NOTE: Luckily, I didn’t grow up evangelical, but old-style Catholic, which had its own hallways of horror. But that’s another story, or stories. The theology underlying the Rapture genre goes back to about 1830, and the work of a British preacher/teacher, John Nelson Darby. It’s commonly called Dispensationalism, and has spawned innumerable sects, rivalries, splits, … Continue reading Another “Rapture” Movie Is Here; But The End Is Not Really Near