You might well have heard – and seen the video for – the song “Miracles” by the Insane Clown Posse. When I first saw the vid (I forget where), I didn’t pay very close attention (it being a style of music I hate), and had a reasonably positive reaction to what seemed to be...
Magic. Ghosts. Spirits. These are things that pop up in fairy tales and in children’s stories and tv shows & films. Sometimes even they’re debunked – for example in Scooby Doo (though I personally have never liked it) it’s always some guy with a mask and a clever contraption and some flashy chemistry –...
“Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you” …. Some things Richard Dawkins says I like. Some I don’t – for instance his indifference to Bill Maher’s anti-science woo-loving anti-vax nuttiness, because he made an anti-religion film, so it’s all ok. Also for instance – and it’s the instance that makes...
