Comments on: Evidentiary Ectoplasmic Encounters Explained http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/ Helping Mankind Overcome Religion Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:01:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: vagodin http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3518 vagodin Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:06:29 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3518 Back to ghosts for a moment. If xianity is true (I don't believe it is) how can there be ghosts that haunt? Do departed souls have a third option I missed? I thought heaven or hell was it. How do I get to become a ghost? I want to haunt a sorority house.

Back to ghosts for a moment. If xianity is true (I don’t believe it is) how can there be ghosts that haunt? Do departed souls have a third option I missed? I thought heaven or hell was it. How do I get to become a ghost? I want to haunt a sorority house.

]]> By: jdt http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3509 jdt Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:27:47 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3509 Sorry 'bout that. Time machine malfunction.

Sorry ’bout that. Time machine malfunction.

]]> By: Breakerslion http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3507 Breakerslion Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:01:25 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3507 I too, have lost all respect for A&E and HIST. One of them did a thing on "the quest for the Holy Grail, er, I mean, the Ark of the Covenant". It was obvious from the get-go that the "holy men" were demanding payment every step of the way, but this aspect of the adventure was being downplayed. It was like that old Billy Crystal joke about the bad commercial about the bad toupees from the 1970's: Billy-as-Spokesperson: "I'm not only a hair club customer, I'm also the President of the company" ... Billy: "What possible motive would I have for lying to you?" That program definitely caught my attention, and I started to notice how often these channels were pandering to the mumbo jumbo machine. PBS is no better, airing trashy New Age "medicine shows" from the likes of Wayne Dyer. Watch his act some time, he is a master at mass hypnosis. His gestures as well as his words are geared to convey the message that the path to self-actualization lies through a "power" outside the self. Pfui!

I too, have lost all respect for A&E and HIST. One of them did a thing on “the quest for the Holy Grail, er, I mean, the Ark of the Covenant”. It was obvious from the get-go that the “holy men” were demanding payment every step of the way, but this aspect of the adventure was being downplayed. It was like that old Billy Crystal joke about the bad commercial about the bad toupees from the 1970’s: Billy-as-Spokesperson: “I’m not only a hair club customer, I’m also the President of the company” … Billy: “What possible motive would I have for lying to you?”

That program definitely caught my attention, and I started to notice how often these channels were pandering to the mumbo jumbo machine. PBS is no better, airing trashy New Age “medicine shows” from the likes of Wayne Dyer. Watch his act some time, he is a master at mass hypnosis. His gestures as well as his words are geared to convey the message that the path to self-actualization lies through a “power” outside the self. Pfui!

]]> By: I Am http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3506 I Am Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:13:51 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3506 jdt: I read Jaynes because you suggested it way back in May when I first started the site. I posted about it twice. http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/06/18/unconscious-greeks/ http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/11/10/the-origin-of-consciousness/

jdt:

I read Jaynes because you suggested it way back in May when I first started the site. I posted about it twice.

http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/06/18/unconscious-greeks/
http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/11/10/the-origin-of-consciousness/

]]> By: Reluctant Atheist http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3504 Reluctant Atheist Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:30:59 +0000 http://evangelicalatheist.com/2005/12/30/evidentiary-ectoplasmic-encounters-explained/#comment-3504 jdt: Actually, I AM did a post on Julian James a little while ago. A great many (probably all, would be my guess) of these apparitions proceed from natural phenomena. Great example: "Nighilik (literally: "the one with the hook") is one of the hilap inue that are feared. Sometimes it attacks snow huts without letting itself be seen; it never speaks, and one can only hear its creaking in the snow out in the entrance passage. At times it causes the whole passage wall to collapse." http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/yukon/inuit.html Terribly inconvenient of the chap not to be seen, eh?

jdt:
Actually, I AM did a post on Julian James a little while ago.
A great many (probably all, would be my guess) of these apparitions proceed from natural phenomena.
Great example:
“Nighilik (literally: “the one with the hook”) is one of the hilap inue that are feared. Sometimes it attacks snow huts without letting itself be seen; it never speaks, and one can only hear its creaking in the snow out in the entrance passage. At times it causes the whole passage wall to collapse.”
http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/yukon/inuit.html
Terribly inconvenient of the chap not to be seen, eh?

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