#belief

I don’t identify with the term ‘pessimism’. I see myself as ‘rationally realistic’. My husband, an ‘eternal optimist’, would probably disagree. I’ve written before about the version of pessimism that I carry through life (which can be summarized as ‘hope for the best / plan for the worst’). The prior post I wrote included a link to an Alec Benjamin video for his song “I’m not a cynic” in which…

Like an obsequious waiter runs the attendant Equator round the fat gut of our obscenely glutted world. This great gobbed globe of God’s glory, spat by Him into space and spinning in spirals and falling forever further from Faith’s Face. ***** A religious poem? I don’t know, I like the sound of it though. Anyway, the continuing and global nature of the drift away from Faith suggests it is all…

Born on this day, August 7, 1928, James Randi (1928–2020) was the true heir to Harry Houdini. He spent his first career amazing audiences worldwide, famously stating: “Magicians are the most honest people in the world: they tell you they’re going to fool you, and then they do it.” In the second part of his life, he turned his master skills against deception. He dedicated his life to unmasking…