[UA] Re: Is God A Carp?

[Greg Stolze]

>> Agreed. I'm a practicing magickian myself (a long-time tradition in my
>> family). I just gotta laugh when I read something about talking fish or any
>> other "spiritual phenomenon". It's all in you, not in that which surrounds
>> you.
>That's one take and a more modern Hermetic one. I'm of a tradition that says
>that it's not all in you and there is 'stuff' surrounding you. The reason I
>mention it is that the event happened in a place loaded with people of that
>tradition and take on things. Even more importantly, one of the two witnesses
>was not of the tradition or even the religion (or language group) of the
>'entity' possessing the fish.

Whereas I'm a Christian skeptic who finds himself musing about the human
tendency to pattern-match -- the brain wiring that lets us see faces in
clouds, in ovarian cysts, and in rock formations like the one on Mars and
the one in North Dakota.  One rational explanation is that there was some
noise that sounded vaguely speech-like, and the human tendency to
pattern-match interpreted it as Hebrew.  (Remember those lawyers who were
finding all kinds of 'subliminal messages' in 'Suicide Solution'?)

-G.

80 to 14: The ratio of times Nick said "Cah" to the times he said "Twuck"
or "Trrucko" driving home from a visit to Martha's office.

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