whats going on?

[smiths]

i've been way for a while - totally off news, TV and the internet - and it has been lovely,

its amazing that as you move away from it all the world suddenly seems more positive and peaceful,
no wonder some people just ignore it all and try and maintain an ignorant and happy state of being

anyway, what have i missed in the last 6 weeks, the main stories, incidents, intrigues?

any must read threads?

[Sweejak]

It turns out that everything we've been talking about has been wrong.

[beeline]

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Lots of heat-related deaths.

[barracuda]

Here's a couple of my personal favorites...

Double rainbow thread - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28824

Al Quada's first english language magazine - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28719

Hugh's weirdest post ever - viewtopic.php?p=350740#p350740

Have Any Materials Been Recovered from ETs/UFOs? - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28942

The Wikileaks threads are interesting also.

[smiths]

ahh,

i watched and listened to the rainbow video which i thought was fantastic, beautiful,
and it really is fascinating how disconnected people are when they use a guy like that the way they are,

and then i read hugh's post which was genuinely one of the funniest posts ever,

talking of disconnected ...
whilst we were away i was at Kings College cambridge with my wife, son and a friend,
we were inside the main chapel and my eight year old son who is going through a slightly religious faze had knelt down on the floor of a small side chapel and was praying,
two girls of about 18 stood at the back behind him and one turned to the other and said, "whats he doing?"
i know a lot of the population has rejected religion but to have the degree of ignorance so great that someone visits a church and doesnt recognise prayer when they see it seemed mighty odd to me

[82_28]

The case of the face on Mars has finally been closed and was done so by an RI member.

Some kind of an oil spill.

[Sepka]

talking of disconnected ...
whilst we were away i was at Kings College cambridge with my wife, son and a friend,
we were inside the main chapel and my eight year old son who is going through a slightly religious faze had knelt down on the floor of a small side chapel and was praying,
two girls of about 18 stood at the back behind him and one turned to the other and said, "whats he doing?"
i know a lot of the population has rejected religion but to have the degree of ignorance so great that someone visits a church and doesnt recognise prayer when they see it seemed mighty odd to me

Jack London recounts similar stories in People of the Abyss (1903), as do (with less dramatic flair) Charles Booth and Henry Mayhew in their works on the Victorian poor. I've heard similar tales told of Cockney children evacuated during the Blitz. One likes to think that abysmal ignorance is a novelty, or at least somewhat rare, but that doesn't seem to be the case. We simply don't see these people too often because they have no interest in the things that attract the educated.



And Hugh's post - if only I could believe that he had a sly little smirk on his face as he said that...