I just found out about a fascinating, if rather creepy, character in the history of Catholic missionaries: Roberto de Nobili. Born in 1577, he eventually joined the Jesuits and set off to India. In India, he observed that the only Indians who had come over to Christianity were members of the lowest caste. The reason […]

Received these comments today in regards to my comment’s on Sophia Stewart and satellites ruling the earth in 2010:
I think you might be taking Ms. Stewart’s comment “satellites are going to rule the earth” a little too literally. In the quote she is comparing the rise of the satellites to the internet, in that […]

I just got an email, part of which included the following:
I’m doing a personal project for school about serial killers and their way of thinking and I belive you could help me. PLEASE CONTACT ME!! I would be verry glad to know your way of thinking!!
Hm… maybe this is just poorly worded, but they seem […]

So last night I listened to the interview with author Daniel Pinchbeck on Coast to Coast AM. It was very instructive. Not so much because of any information Pinchbeck conveyed, but to hear the difference in “paradigms” between him and host George Noory.
Noory is a great interviewer, I will give him that. But I’m […]

A farm worker in the Czech Republic died recently when eight tons of manure fell on him and he suffocated. This has to be one of the worst most inglorious ways to die I’ve ever heard of. The best I’ve ever heard was getting struck by lightning on the summit of a mountain.

As a follow-up to my deconstruction of the meaning of “conspiracy theory” I looked up the word origin of “paranoia” which is perhaps the most commonly used follow-up term. Paranoia comes from the Greek prefix “para-” meaning “beyond” and “nous” meaning “mind.” So paranoia meant madness, it meant that you had gone beyond your mind. […]

As a follow-up to my deconstruction of the meaning of “conspiracy theory” I looked up the word origin of “paranoia” which is perhaps the most commonly used follow-up term. Paranoia comes from the Greek prefix “para-” meaning “beyond” and “nous” meaning “mind.” So paranoia meant madness, it meant that you had gone beyond your mind. […]