Comments for "And sometimes he's so nameless" http://jerome23.wordpress.com CJ's weblog: the idle thoughts of an idle fellow Tue, 07 May 2013 17:52:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Is it time to give up on “Skepticism”? by SocraticGadfly http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-skepticism/#comment-3966 Tue, 07 May 2013 17:52:38 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=4300#comment-3966 And, here’s a few thoughts I’ve developed on the “tar baby” between some Gnu Atheists and some Skeptics(TM)

]]> Comment on Is it time to give up on “Skepticism”? by SocraticGadfly http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-skepticism/#comment-3965 Tue, 07 May 2013 17:44:40 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=4300#comment-3965 I’ll add reason No. 5 to your list of reasons. Money/fame is why skeptics still insist on being separate.

Per your point, shouldn’t those who call themselves “scientific skeptics” instead seek to create fields of study within mainstream science?

Ahh, but the crusading glamor, the conventions, the swag, the money, would all dry up. After all, who’s ever heard of a James Randi of geology?

]]> Comment on Returning to my blog by Jason Wingate http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/returning-to-my-blog/#comment-3964 Tue, 07 May 2013 14:25:19 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=4453#comment-3964 Glad you’re about again CJ.

]]> Comment on Returning to my blog by Tom Ruffles http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/returning-to-my-blog/#comment-3963 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:41:56 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=4453#comment-3963 Good to hear things have improved, hope to be reading your trenchant views again soon!

]]> Comment on Is it time to give up on “Skepticism”? by Jason Wingate http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-skepticism/#comment-3962 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:01:11 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=4300#comment-3962 For what it’s worth CJ, you never appeared to me to be a “skeptic” anyway. I was fresh from the Somme of the Skeptiko forum when I discovered your writing. You were actually interested in coming to conclusions based on evidence. You could not have been a skeptic. Then you wrote about lots of that evidence, having sought it out, and the conclusions you reached were sound. I didn’t realise you identified as skeptical until much later on.

I always recall the vast difference in tone between the way Sheldrake talks of Chris French, and the way he talks of Dawkins. The new improved genius idea of Dawkins was — “I know, let’s be rude! We haven’t tried that!” As Karla says there is a strong dehumanising element. It’s that dehumanising, not the faith itself, that troubles me. Anyone can have any faith they like as far as I’m concerned.

I ran “A Priori Skepticism” through an anagram generator and… let’s stop there. :)

]]> Comment on Returning to my blog by Fortean UK http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/returning-to-my-blog/#comment-3961 Tue, 07 May 2013 11:55:55 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=4453#comment-3961 Good to see you back!

]]> Comment on How Sally Met Infamy: Psychic Sally Morgan Caught: or was she? by Bob Cash http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/how-sally-met-infamy-psychic-sally-morgan-caught-or-was-she/#comment-3956 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:39:51 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=2258#comment-3956 I noticed “Pat” said, “how do you know all these people are con artists?”
You joking, right?
1) An idiot pretends to get messages from something which does not exist. (Dead people et cetera)
2) She claims to see dead people.
3) Dead people talk to her..
What part do you think could possibly be real?

I have LITTERED the internet with the following:-

ANYONE claiming to be psychic is in one, or both, of only two states.

1) A CON ARTIST.
2) MENTALLY UNWELL.

I have tried to steer away from saying the people who believe such rot are also mentally unwell but what else could possibly be the answer?

Psychic Sally, Derek Acorah and ALL the rest have not challenged me (yet) or taken me to court. WHY NOT? Simple. Because they ARE CON ARTIST!

]]> Comment on How Sally Met Infamy: Psychic Sally Morgan Caught: or was she? by Bob Cash http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/how-sally-met-infamy-psychic-sally-morgan-caught-or-was-she/#comment-3955 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:33:22 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=2258#comment-3955 If you have been to see Sally Morgan there is little point in trying to hold a sensible discussion! Anyone believing in such GARBAGE can never be taken seriously!

]]> Comment on Re-Investigating Un-Haunted Houses by Carl Grove http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/re-investigating-un-haunted-houses/#comment-3954 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:34:00 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=3926#comment-3954 Chris, I’ve not received said email. I have been having trouble with emails lately. I have two accounts,
carlgrove@yahoo.co.uk and carl.grove2@mypostoffice.co.uk You should be able to reach me through one or the other.
Carl

]]> Comment on The Futurist Movement; Italian Art & History – a very short introduction by William Kentridge 1955 – | NLA Design and Visual Arts http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-futurist-movement-italian-art-history-a-very-short-introduction/#comment-3952 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:51:40 +0000 http://jerome23.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-3952 [...]  his character Soho has its origins in the images of industrialists from Russian and the early Futurist propaganda drawings, of George Grosz and German [...]

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