Several reports of “ken sightings” have been received. Most claim he has been visiting local coffee shops with Elvis, so they are suspect, at best. After a month and a half of not posting to his blog, it is feared that foul play may be involved. However, after much searching, a reader of his blog was contacted and provided this anonymous statement:
Yeah, he’s done this before. He goes for weeks, sometimes months, without a post.
Authorities are not acting at this point due to his eratic behavior in the past.
On my way to Philly and stuck in Chicago due to weather in Philly. We’ve been here over 3 hours now. The last announcement was a couple hours ago and they said we’d leave at 3:45. It’s now 3:49 and we are not on the plane.
I realize delays are unavoidable but a half hour before departure when boarding has not yet begun it would just be nice for them to make another announcement. Everyone knows we will not be leaving when they said so how about some kind of update. It’s only common courtesy.
On the whole, scientific methods are at least as important as any other result of research: for it is upon the insight into method that the scientific spirit depends: and if these methods are lost, then all the results of science could not prevent a renewed triumph of superstition and nonsense. Clever people may learn as much as they wish of the results of science—still one will always notice in their conversation, and especially in their hypotheses, that they lack the scientific spirit; they do not have that instinctive mistrust of the aberrations of thought which through long training are deeply rooted in the soul of every scientific person. They are content to find any hypothesis at all concerning some matter; then they are all fire and flame for it and think that is enough. To have an opinion means for them to fanatacize for it and thenceforth to press it to their hearts as a conviction. If something is unexplained, they grow hot over the first notion that comes into their heads and looks like an explanation . . .
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No, this is not another post about The Incredibles.
The real quote is: “The phenomenon is known as the Jerusalem Syndrome, though psychiatrists disagree whether it can affect otherwise healthy people, or causes only those predisposed to psychoses to believe they have seen the Messiah.”
Then I looked at the seven stages of the Jerusalem Syndrome psychosis and I’m a little worried. Stage 1: that’s me most days. Stage 2: while I’m not touring Jerusalem alone, I do spend most hours of the day not talking to anyone older than 21 months. I skipped stage 3. I went through stage 4 in college, although it was not ankle length. Skipped stage 5. Stage 6: if you count my favorite coffee house as a holy place (and some would!) then I’m in trouble. Stage 7: THAT’S MY BLOG!!
I’ve changed the name of my blog! I am getting away from my intent when I started this blog and so the current name does not fit very well with the things I’m posting. Plus it’s long and confusing.
I’m moving to a shorter (but still confusing) name: Punctum Saliens. I think it fits the content much better and, of course, omnia dicta fortiora si dicta latina.
Ok, I hate that, too. Erudites and erudite-wannabees who sprinkle plain ol’ English with Latin phrases and no translation. So, for those of us who don’t read Latin, the above phrase means “everything sounds more impressive when said in Latin.” So it’s a little sarcastic and maybe ironic(?).
Punctum Saliens means “leaping point” or “starting point.” Much of what I’m posting now is new stuff that I’m just beginning to start hashing out for myself. My blog has turned into my platform for figuring out what I believe and so it’s the “starting point” for that. And it’s the “leaping point” because I’m going far beyond what I was raised to believe and what I’ve believed my entire life. I’ll be taking some flying leaps and may crash and burn once in a while but one of those leaps will land me right where I’m meant to be.
UPDATE: I just found out that this is a REAL product! I thought it was a parody of Microsoft trying to outdo Apple but it’s a REAL product! There’s a video on YouTube with What’sHisFace making cool, psychedelic handprints on the dang thing. Did I say this was for REAL?
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