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4th March 2024, 09:15 AM
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John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, because...
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, because years ago I did a research project on it in grad school and got nostalgic, I suppose. Once one of the two books that nearly every literal Colonial...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
3rd March 2024, 11:34 AM
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"I have seen them in the cages of the park...
"I have seen them in the cages of the park menagerie, I have learned that all but one are in the Birch society, right now I'm in the process of investigating me...."
MAD magazine had it nailed.
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27th February 2024, 01:05 PM
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Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver (John...
Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver (John Voelker), mostly because I really liked the James Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, Eve Arden movie and the ebook was on sale for less than two bucks. It's...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
27th February 2024, 12:57 PM
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About fifteen years ago, I inherited a set of...
About fifteen years ago, I inherited a set of audiotapes, including almost all of the John D. MacDonald Travis McGee series, narrated by Darren McGavin. Had to buy an old Walkman to have something to...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
27th February 2024, 12:49 PM
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Cat Ballou. The movie is a full-on comedy, with...
Cat Ballou. The movie is a full-on comedy, with incidental music. The novel, The Ballad of Cat Ballou, is a dead-eyed, trying-to-be-serious melodrama, the characters flat, the dialogue dull, the plot...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
24th February 2024, 07:04 PM
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Some time around 2000 astrologists decided to...
Some time around 2000 astrologists decided to call themselves astrologers instead, so astrologer is the newer and preferred term, on the argument that it is more consonant with astronomer and might...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
18th February 2024, 06:38 PM
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18th February 2024, 12:30 PM
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th February 2024, 04:46 AM
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
9th February 2024, 06:44 PM
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My college roommate was a theater major. I was...
My college roommate was a theater major. I was majoring in chemistry but I had a car. During our first year I drove him to three auditions. He always got a part. I auditioned too and always got a...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
9th February 2024, 04:49 PM
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7th February 2024, 03:40 PM
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It involved standing outside the dressing room,...
It involved standing outside the dressing room, yelling " Master William, I beg forgiveness" three times, then when the leading lady asked from inside "Tell then the title, pray?" Then I had to say,...
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6th February 2024, 06:04 PM
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27th January 2024, 06:14 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
27th January 2024, 05:49 AM
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16th January 2024, 10:12 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
12th January 2024, 01:32 PM
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
9th January 2024, 06:28 AM
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
4th January 2024, 02:43 PM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
3rd January 2024, 11:33 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 03:27 PM
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On the cover,...
On the cover, (https://skepticalinquirer.org/volume/no-1-vol-48/) "Bigfoot Is Dead." Inside, "Is Bigfoot Dead." I did say "cover story." :D
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 03:18 PM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 02:16 PM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 02:07 PM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 12:41 PM
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You're welcome! Over time I learned that many...
You're welcome! Over time I learned that many writers and researchers whose work fascinated teenage me (Frank Edwards, Hans Holzer, Carlos Castaneda many others) turned out to be overly credulous,...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 11:32 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
30th December 2023, 11:31 AM
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AmyStrange was probably thinking of Jon-Erik...
AmyStrange was probably thinking of Jon-Erik Beckjord, who believed that Bigfoot was a paranormal inter-dimensional creature capable of dematerializing and mind-reading as well as time travel. He...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
29th December 2023, 03:29 PM
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
14th December 2023, 07:40 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
9th December 2023, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 467
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I know, right? Hebraic, Etruscan, Greek, Roman,...
I know, right? Hebraic, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, USMC? I liked the MAD variant "Shazoom" better: Strength, Health, Aptitude, Zeal, Ox (power of), Ox (power of another), Money. :boggled:
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
7th December 2023, 05:40 PM
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6th December 2023, 02:53 PM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
5th December 2023, 12:34 PM
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
2nd December 2023, 05:09 PM
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Just reread Robinson Crusoe (vol. 1 only) after...
Just reread Robinson Crusoe (vol. 1 only) after several decades. I had forgotten lots of the Dissenter-style Protestant meditations. Book holds up, though the part set in the Pyrenees gets carried...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
20th November 2023, 01:47 PM
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11th November 2023, 07:48 AM
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7th November 2023, 10:15 AM
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5th November 2023, 02:33 PM
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2nd November 2023, 07:20 AM
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
29th October 2023, 09:31 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
24th October 2023, 04:07 PM
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22nd October 2023, 05:08 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
17th October 2023, 10:23 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
17th October 2023, 09:52 AM
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
16th October 2023, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 77
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Three of my own true experiences:
1. In high...
Three of my own true experiences:
1. In high school one of my classmates was a big believer in telepathy. He used to test other students by having them sit across the table from him while he...
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