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- From: jbyers2@ti.com (John Byers)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.paranet.psi.alt.out.of.body,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: WHY STEVE REISER STARTED ALT.PARANORMAL
- Date: 21 Jun 1996 03:02:24 GMT
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- In article <4qbtor$i08@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>, dkettler@ix.netcom.co
- says...
- >
- ........
- >
- >For me, ESP, telepathy and other so-called paranormal abilities are a
- >fact. However, I believe it with or without proof because I have
- >personally experienced it and that is good enough for me.
- >
- >Steve
- >
- >--
- >author=sir@srv.net(Steven Reiser)
- >Home Businesses: USANA and Save Now Enterprise
- >http://www.srv.net/~sir/reiser.html
- >
- >
-
- Consider this quote from Carl Sagan's recent book, "The Demon-Haunted World:
- Science as as candle in the dark":
-
- Do we care what's true? Does it matter?
-
- ... where ignorance is bliss,
- 'Tis folly to be wise
-
- wrote the poet Thomas Gray. But is it? Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book
- _Circle of the Seasons_ understood the dilemma better:
-
- It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so
- long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your
- money as long as you have got it.
-
- ... If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are
- the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating
- our conceits?
-
- If this gives you pause for thought, read Sagan's book -- you may find it
- enlightening.
-
- -- John
-
-