Survey Time

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: James Palmer <jrp36 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> To: UA list <UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Survey Time
> Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 11:02 PM
> 
> Right.  It's half past three in the morning, I'm bored, I'm writing an
> essay on Yeats, so my mind is naturally turned towards the strange, and
> a question has popped into my head.
> 
> What kind of experience of/opinions on 'the occult' in Real Life do you
> all have?  I'm interested to see whether there's a higher proportion of
> 'believers' here than elsewhere in RPG's. 
[snip]

	There are stories about my maternal grandmother.  She was half Apache, and
my dad claims she had *strange powers*.  I recall being in her "house"
(actually just a boxcar that had been dragged onto a lot and had walls put
in and some plumbing) when neighborhood girls would come over for help with
problem kids.  My dad also tells stories about her putting an 'X' on a map
of the neighborhood and the people who lived in the crossed-out house
moving within a week.  And other witchy stuff.
	My mom swears that grandma is now a ghost looking out for her.

	Me, I'm a skeptic who wants to believe.  I think nothing would be cooler
than a world full of secret magic, hidden psychic powers, ghosts, aliens,
and all sorts of supernatural occurrences.  I also don't believe in a
single one.  I'd like to, but without unimpeachable evidence I can't and
won't.

Kevin "Professor Bobo" Mowery _____________________ profbobo at io.com
"The entire dismemberment of Vash Gar reveals an ignorance of anatomy so 
deep that I begin to question whether the author does, indeed, have a
body."
                       --ratmm's Norb on the "Seven Stars MSTing"
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