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Rebunking the Debunkers



I’m so bored with people who try to suck the mystery out of everything. What good comes from removing multi-layered complexity, paradox and im/possibilities? Simplicity, reduction and literalism are no substitute for the weird, the wild and the wonderful. It’s one thing to train a skeptical eye and apply a critical analysis to the arcane, esoteric and obtuse, but it’s quite another to categorically dismiss everything out of hand. There’s no science in that, no investigative prowess, no clever getting to the bottom of anything. It just becomes you perpetuating your fixations, and projecting your own insufficiencies onto everything else. And anyway, where’s the fun in devoting your life’s work to proving something’s not true, that it doesn’t exist? Go on. Chase that great big “NO!” in the sky. See where it will get you: nowhere, noone, nothing. Sounds like fun, right?

And what’s all this business about “debunking the debunkers”? Talk about infinite regress - an endless post-modern hallway of echoing “NO!” Person A asserts that XYZ isn’t true. Person B asserts that Person A is a liar. Does XYZ become true? Unlikely, deep in the heart of Negative-Land. Instead, we just end up in a super-negative circle-jerk, a downward spiral where nothing is true, and nothing is permitted, and nobody’s having a good time.

Of course, I’m not advocating you should “turn off your mind” and just uncritically accept everything and live in happy land. Because I think that’s equally pointless. It’s the same circle-jerk just turned around. What I think instead is that the best thing I’ve found is to embrace the rational and the logical, but then use it to overthrow itself. Sabotage reductionism. Harvest mystery. Implant paradox. Implode logic. Rebunk the debunkers.





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7 Reader Responses

  1. Anonymous Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 2:38 pm

    BEd shitting jesus, I am missing some great stuff over here. I have been so off the grid…which is a boon in many ways. Did I tell you that a friend of mine in Buffalo works for…what is the name…PSYCOPS or someshit? Aren’t they the kings of debunking?

  2. Aron Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    Oh, that was me incidentally.

  3. Occult Investigator Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 2:45 pm

    Committe for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. yeah, they are ALL OVER this shit… with that james randi dude. and yeah, youve seriously missed some stuff here, let me tell you.

  4. Debunker’s Debunker Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 9:54 pm

    Occult Investigator: your only (fair) advantage on this journal is that you are the ringmaster. Try not to abuse it.

    Mystics (amateur or “serious”) say that whatever helps (books, mantras, perfumes, tarots, shit) is like a ladder: you can dispose of it once you have reached the next stage.

    Boring people like Debunker’s Debunker think that Reason is like a broom, you use to clear weeds (so far, so good). But Reason is not enough so what next?
    You say myth, voodoo, Isis, shamans, Lucifer, who cares
    I say, maybe not all beliefs are equivalent; some are true, even only one is true!

    Quote for thought and amusement (Tom Robbins “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”):

    I believe in nothing, everything is sacred.
    I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

  5. Occult Investigator Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 10:02 pm

    mario: the whole point of me having my own website is that i get to abuse it however i want, and i dont have to be fair. you’re only here because i’m allowing it.

  6. Debunker’s Debunker Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 10:15 pm

    Occult Investigator: I don’t think that is the right spirit.

    I suck the mystery out of everything? These mystery suck!

  7. Jacob Says:
    April 28th, 2005 at 4:26 am

    I’ve never seen a troll with a cuter manner of writing.



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