tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post8259623322686106941..comments2024-03-21T22:36:54.451-04:00Comments on HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COME: Hallowe'en Countdown 28: The London UndergroundLC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-63538512696636458492011-10-08T17:03:03.564-04:002011-10-08T17:03:03.564-04:00Yeah, I think the EMF EVP stuff will come up in a ...Yeah, I think the EMF EVP stuff will come up in a later post. 'Measuring ghosts' sounds like a 'seemed like a good idea at the time' thing. Next thing you know, they will be trying to measure angels, demons, gods ...LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-31442329196509602242011-10-07T17:01:23.453-04:002011-10-07T17:01:23.453-04:00I agree... I'm under the impression that scien...I agree... I'm under the impression that science has become the new religion for many people, if not, yet, the masses.... sort of a variation of a "brave new world". On the other hand, we have a rather large group of religious fundamentalists trying to maintain relevance and a "piece of the pie"... in other words, it's becoming increasingly distasteful in either direction one looks...<br /><br />So, let them eat chocolate!Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-21357154788595185612011-10-07T01:19:19.534-04:002011-10-07T01:19:19.534-04:00That brings in the Steve Jobs angle, somehow, I th...That brings in the Steve Jobs angle, somehow, I think. Seriously, though, there are several things going on here. First the daily reality that Jobs helped create, while amazing, is in fact generating its own virtual/spiritual dimension. Secondly, tvs and cell phones and computers and gadgets are emitting radiation that possibly has an impact on the physical health of our bodies and our minds (I don't normally subscribe to way out theories on this stuff, but since we are talking about it, the health impact of computer generated EMF is something you brought up). Thirdly, the rise of digitial recorders and tools creates the illusion that we can debunk, rationalize and measure these things normally relegated to the realm of spiritual belief. That just moves the goalposts of spiritual belief and/or merges the capacities of said gadgets with our spiritual belief. In other words, we may trick ourselves into believing in something because we think we understand it or have explained or measured it, and we may even become addicted to, or believe in the tools that lead us to these semi-miraculous revelations. I think with digital measurements of the unknowable, there is always another boundary to cross, and that is taking us to further and further extremes of what we think we can rationally understand. Before we know it, rational understanding will be well into the region of pure faith.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-90255038712217806012011-10-06T20:20:51.232-04:002011-10-06T20:20:51.232-04:00Hey, if I'm not good for a laugh then I'm ...Hey, if I'm not good for a laugh then I'm good for nothing! ;-)<br /><br />But, yeah, you've nailed it... scientific explanations for things that go bump in the night are far more creepier than our ghosties and our bogeymen. At least the ghosts intimate a possible survival after death... whereas scientifically we don't have a chance in hell to survive past tomorrow... Let's face it, we dance on the edge of doom... may as well eat some candy! ;-)Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-8071693649710402432011-10-06T15:09:58.162-04:002011-10-06T15:09:58.162-04:00Thanks for making me literally laugh out loud, Dia...Thanks for making me literally laugh out loud, Dia. Yes, the thought had occurred to me that the scientific explanations for ghosts are actually scarier than the basic belief that there are a bunch of pissed off dead guys wandering around in old houses and freaked out dead women and children hiding under our beds and in our closets. In a sense, the latter are pretty straightforward tales about actions, consequences and the complexities of human nature when exposed to violence and suffering. The former - that we are surrounded by banal machines that we think of as happy helpful tools and are actually emitting waves of energy that are damaging our health and our psychology and we don't even get it - yes, that is Hallowe'en every day.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-80690651388079681982011-10-06T14:48:21.032-04:002011-10-06T14:48:21.032-04:00I don't know, sweets... infrasound, electromag...I don't know, sweets... infrasound, electromagnetic fields:<br />(http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/emf-dangers.aspx), radio-frequency fields... it sounds as if the hounds of hell are upon us in the most insidious ways.<br /><br />Who needs a separate holiday when every day is Halloween? ;-)Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-72556979274155549152011-10-04T00:27:45.592-04:002011-10-04T00:27:45.592-04:00Yes, it's awful - I think the fluffers, who wa...Yes, it's awful - I think the fluffers, who walk between the stations at night in the dark and gather balls of hair that accumulate after flying off people's heads from the platforms, have the worst job in the Tube. Now add to that the fact that they walk through incredibly creepy lonely areas with histories of hundreds of suicides and accidental deaths.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-84384334461297994432011-10-04T00:13:05.425-04:002011-10-04T00:13:05.425-04:00I've been on two trips to London, used the Und...I've been on two trips to London, used the Underground both times without any notion of it's ghastly history. Yeek. -J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com