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News Briefs 25-07-2006

We’re touching every base today.

  • Sex in space is more complicated than you might imagine. Think zero-gravity wetspot…
  • First men on the Moon used a ballpoint pen to fix a broken switch in the lunar module, allowing them to return home. Hopefully the broken switch had nothing to do with my first story.
  • They also saw a UFO, apparently. Here’s a long history by skeptical space historian James Oberg.
  • I’m not too sure what’s more astounding – that Google Earthers found this bizarre scale model of Chinese-Indian landscape, or that another Google Earther found the real patch of land that it is based on. Do you people know what the sun looks like?
  • American woman claims lineage from Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and scores a big book deal in the process. TDG comment deferred to Michael Prescott.
  • Vatican announces a commission to review the Marian apparitions of Medjugorje.
  • Cast and crew of The Ghost Whisperer describe phantom appearances.
  • Hallucinogens, psychedelics, entheogens, drugs – it’s a question of terminology (and intent).
  • Mysterious flying cryptid alert over at Cryptomundo (with photo).
  • Also over at CM, Loren Coleman goes in search of giant spiders. A special story for Frater Ijynx.
  • Japanese researcher creates an android copy of himself. I could use one of those at times…
  • Ice-age theory turned on its head by new study.
  • In India, it’s raining fish.
  • Live death freeze to be shown on television.
  • EU ministers agree to continue funding of embryonic stem cell research, while scientists describe Dubya as being out of touch and hypocritical after his veto. As usual, you can trust Jon Stewart for a massive takedown.
  • Indigo teen‘ says she can read people (with video).
  • Trust your gut – intuition is a handy ‘sixth sense’.
  • Killer Dragon‘ eludes cryptozoological team.
  • First footsteps of Polynesians’ ancestors tracked.
  • Archaeologists begin to worry about possible damage to ancient sites from the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
  • The fight for Stonehenge has taken to the air.
  • Egypt to move giant Ramses statue from downtown Cairo, into the safety of a museum. Certainly looks impressive where it is at the moment though, I remember walking past it vividly.
  • Archaeology Magazine thinks that Semir Osmanagic is running a pyramid scheme.

Thanks Pam.

Quote of the Day:

I think it’s important to promote a culture of life…A society where every being counts, every person matters.

How many Iraq citizens have died in this war? Umm. I would say 30,000 more or less…

President George W. Bush (on stem cell research, and the Iraq war, respectively)

Editor
  1. dubya quotes……..25-07-06…….
    Thanks Greg for putting together those two quotes, which clearly show, that his’ speechwriters are just as dumb as he is…. Badeye

    1. The Daily Show
      Hi Badeye,

      I appropriated the quotes from a comedy segment by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, as linked to in today’s news. But yes, it brings some wonderful clarity to the situation…in his own words, so to speak.

      Kind regards,
      Greg
      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things

  2. Descendent of Jesus and Mary
    I’m right behind the woman who says she is the descendent of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.If I’d thought of it first I would have claimed it.

    Years ago I read that the Queen of England is descended from that pair by way of William the Conqueror.
    In which case if she is, then so are my kids.

    Only I wouldn’t tell them about it.

    shadows

    1. This is a Fairy Tale About Descent From Jesus And Mary Magdalene
      shadows

      This fairy tale goes back to the Merovingians, specifically the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. They based their clain to Divine Right Kingship it. After they supported the Bishop of Rome with an army, he started calling himself The Pope and agreed with the Merovingian Kings. The last Merovingian King of the Franks was Childeric III. Many European Monarchs, including the British Monarchy, trace their linage through Childeric III in order to the claim divine right to rule. But, their claim is based on a fairy tale!

      cnnek

      {You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can’t Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}

      1. classic
        This is a classic example of propaganda. As I’m sure the Merovingians knew if you tell the same fairy tale often enough, people will believe it. A drawback, for the propagandists, is that after enough repetitions, they start believing their own lies. Recent examples are Nazis, Stalinists, East German communists, Neo-Nazis.

        There are much more harmless versions of this in everyday life, but I don’t want to list them here. People might think that I equate harmless fairy tales about their mom and dad with mass murderers 🙂

        1. Anything to do with royalty is a fairy tale
          I don’t like royalty, I don’t approve of a system where by right of birth someone gets to live far above the rest of society and is exempt from society’s laws.
          If you look at the airheads of the British Monarchy today and see their lives compared with the lives of the ordinary people it is a scandal.
          They have done nothing to deserve it except be born into that family.

          The relative of my children who traced the family trees back so far spent hundreds of thousands of dollars doing it, money that could have been put to better use if you ask me.
          She did it to prove that she had royal blood and was an absolute slave to the whole idea of everything royal.
          For the money she spent she could have provided a scholarship for some of the young aborigines who need to come to the cities to go to school.

          I believe that the Merovingians were weak kings and just plain weak people so who would want to be descended from them.

          But I support the woman who claims them as ancestors.Lots of people are getting in on this Da Vinci Code stuff so why can’t she.

          shadows

  3. I see Indigo people
    Did Sandie Bershad really say, “I see dead people”?

    I strongly believe in the existence of paranormal abilities – I also believe EVERYONE possesses these abilities to varying degrees, and it isn’t limited to recent generations – but the Indigo Children hype makes me extremely skeptical. Alarm bells go off in my head. I can’t explain it, it just evokes wariness in me. I just get the feeling that kids like Sandie have been groomed and heavily influenced by their parents, the majority of whom are believers in such phenomenon even before their children are conceived. I can’t help but wonder what influence their parents’ beliefs had during the child’s formative years.

    Maybe my skepticism comes from my own experiences. I was an extremely gifted child artistically. I even got tested for Aspergers! I don’t think my school quite knew how to handle a kid highly gifted at art, english, reading and writing and using his imagination. But like Sandie, I struggled when I hit puberty and entered high school. After puberty the Superego pretty much subdued the Id and ruled supreme for 90% of my teens and twenties. That artistically gifted child became a distant foggy memory. Today, I don’t see dead people, nor can I read auras. Maybe my adult bitterness at our fucked-up world and what it did to that gifted kid is blocking my Indigo talents, who knows?

    The thing that bugs me is this: Sandie believes that all people share her ability and can unlock it if they are open to being mentored by an indigo.

    Yes, I agree with Sandie that all people share her ability. But I don’t think you don’t need to be mentored by an Indigo specifically. Non-Indigo people (those born pre-1970s and without the so-called Indigo aura) are just as able. How does she think her own talents developed – just by being born at the right time, in the right demographic? It came from encouragement by her parents. Without that parental encouragement and grooming, I highly doubt she’d be as paranormally able as she claims to be today. And imagine what kind of a world we would live in today if every parent, across the Earth, gave their kids such positive encouragement?

    Maybe Sandie’s the real deal, she seems like a good kid … but the Indigo generation? I think it’s an overhyped brand-name, a revolution against the USA’s over-diagnosis of ADHD and ritalin. Or maybe I’m just old and grumpy and pissed off at the world for crushing that younger me’s gifts …

    p.s. and non-indigo kids are just as special!

    p.p.s. i also hope the indigo thing is an evolutionary leap forward into a better tomorrow … but i’m pessimistic. i hope they prove me wrong.

    1. I see a SCAM!
      LOL, I can’t help it, there’s always going to be some novel way to part gullible people from their money and I think this is what they are trying to do. Sorry I’m being such a curmudgeon. —————————–Truth is stranger than fiction.

      1. Hooruh for telling it straight!
        Nah, don’t be sorry. It’s good to have honesty! Like I said, I believe people are born with, and have the power to develop, paranormal abilities, to reach states of higher consciousness – that’s been the case since the dawn of human civilisation. I believe the Indigo Children craze is a brand-name fad. Every time I see the words Indigo Children, I keep expecting a TM at the end of it. It’s a revolt against the alarming number of trigger-happy doctors diagnosing kids with ADHD. It’s a serious problem, and claiming your kid is a Messiah doesn’t solve it.

        But I remember what happened to skeptical adults (my gods, am I one of them?!) in the Village of the Damned, so … hrmmm, there’s a posse of albino kids with hypnotic stares outside my house …… urghgrghhrhl ……

    2. The gifted child
      I was very interested in your comment Rick.What you mention about your gift as a youngster wearing off in your teens is very normal.
      In fact, most of the so-called genius kids are only geniuses in their pre-teen years.
      The few who actually go on and remain genius in later life is small.

      This ‘indigo’ business is just another bandwagon.I think it started when someone wrote a book about Indigo kids, naming such smart kids as ‘Indigo’.

      I have been watching 2 such kids in my family, both boys, one in my immediate famliy and one in my extended family.
      They amaze me in that they can look at me and appear to know what goes on in my head and how I actually feel.
      They have been like this since they were babies and always had a very empathic outlook.
      I sometimes fear for them.
      One is absolutely brilliant and steady, and the other is smart in a different way,but knowing about life, and sees and hears things that no one else does.
      They are not just smart at school, they know things or appear to know and understand things that we wouldn’t think they would or could.

      Sometimes I think that when puberty kicks in the hormones take over the part of the brain that has been so forward as a child,and it takes a long time to return to that state.
      Some never do.

      From what I know about you these past years I don’t think you have lost any of your smarts.They are there,maybe hidden, and slowly as you get older they are coming forward.
      I don’t mean to be too personal but sometimes it takes someone else to see us for what we are.
      And you are definitely special.

      shadows

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