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Obverse Obsessions

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Gene Stewart

An artist named Stoneham painted The Hands Resist Him, a painting called ‘haunted’ that sold for $150,000 on eBay.  It shows a creepy boy and a large female doll standing in front of a set of French doors, with hands … Continue reading →

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Teach Change Via Fact

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Gene Stewart

We live as ants amidst ruins we don’t even see. /// Academia’s stability is its fatal flaw.  Tenure and established texts ensure a hostility to changes in curriculum evidence should bring.  College and university campuses should be places of continual … Continue reading →

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Stealing the Virgin Frescoes of Innocent Mirth From the Temple of Universal Corruption

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Too much of science ends up having been debunkery, meaning plausible explanations without merit once actual research is allowed, once actual evidence is considered, once open discourse is permitted. Megalithic structures such as those of Ancient Egypt, with impossibly precise … Continue reading →

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Brighten Up

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Nothing hidden is lost.  Nothing found is new.  To reveal is to re-veil what is found, to put it into a new guise.  Reality is a solid, eternal amidst the flicker of firelight and thought. —  Frater Aujen Tetari, erro … Continue reading →

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Ghosts, Okay, But Ghost Clothing?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Gene Stewart

This was a famous point raised by a Scottish professor when asked his objection to thinking ghosts are real. All he said was: Ghost clothing. Clothes are not alive and don’t die, so how can they produce a ghost? That … Continue reading →

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Mermaid: The Body Found — Some Conflicting Reactions

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Gene Stewart

On DSC CH last night there was a documentary that had me going for a bit. It concerned a navy sonar “accident” that beached a pod of whales on a beach in South Africa. Supposedly, a couple brothers, young teenagers, … Continue reading →

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Why Science Is Afraid Of Ghosts

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Gene Stewart

Accounts of hauntings are accounts of people’s inner lives manifesting. Some panic or fall apart, some ignore hauntings, and some play or communicate with the spookiness, learning to live with it. All hauntings test people’s reactions, responses, and coping abilities. … Continue reading →

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