--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sundur@> > wrote: > > > > I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance > > to comment on it. Recently Edg commented that had Fred Lenz > > really been able to levitate that you would have gobs of people > > and press, and even the govenrment all over it. > > > > And I said that sometimes the things you expect the press and > > culture to jumb on, they don't. To me this is an example of > > this. If this is true, is this not as remarkable a feat as > > leviatation? I saw this story on a major media web site, on > > the front page, Tuesday or Wednesday. Is this getting more > > than a passing interest from the press, and culture. Doesn't > > seem like it. And then, why not? > > The only people really "into" miracles are those > who have never seen any. Show them one right in > front of their eyes and the first thing that most > of them do is find some way to "rationalize it > away," so that they "never saw it." > > That's exactly what Edg would do, and in fact did, > with the very story you presented. So would 99% > of the world's population. > > And the 1%? Even worse. People who have spent most > of their lives chasing miracles do not in my exper- > ence really want to find them. Much less the general > public. Finding something that indicates that the > world does not work the way you think it does is > not "uplifting," it's *threatening* to most of > the population.
There is another group. People so jealous of other people who *have* experienced such things when they have not that they devote years of their lives to stalking them and demonizing them every chance they get. :-) :-) :-) This group must constitute the "gap" between the 1% and the 99%. Fortunately, the "gap" is very small, as are the minds of the people in it. :-)
