You can lead a horse to water...

For you to admit that we cannot see electricity would lead you open to admit that there are other things that we can believe in while not seeing them.

However I am sure that you will continue to try and wriggle out of it - so I will leave you to it. I have far more important things to do.
Off for a while, so don't think that you have won!!

Annie Anthrax wrote on Apr 29^th, 2013 at 12:23am:


First choose a physicist who has a cherished wife and family.  I've heard this kind of thing before.

I believe in spirits, nothing like a shot of brandy in a hot lemon to get you over a cold 

Here is a story, draw your own conclusions. At my small business I used to work most of Tuesday night then rock up at 9.00am Wed. Apparently I was grumpy then, according to my employees, so started taking Wednesdays off.

So this particular Wednesday I was driving my Mum and an aunty visiting from Holland through the Adelaide Hills and at about 3.3pm came to an intersection where I could either turn directly for home or take a more roundabout more scenic route. *Something* made me take the direct route and when we got home the phone was ringing—a bit of computer trouble I could fix over the phone but that employee was really strung out, so good I did get home early.

Coincidence? Telepathy that got through because that employee was totally stressed? Dunno, never had that feeling before or since.

Selective memory there, mantra and by that I mean you remember the cases where that happened, but not the many more times you thought of someone and they didn’t get in touch because that is not worth remembering.

mantra wrote on Apr 29^th, 2013 at 9:02pm:


Me too.

With me it's invisible gremlins. Not always downright evil, but always mischievous. Their entire motivation for living is to enjoy 'schadenfreude'.

It amuses them to make people negatively stressed in some way. They like engineering little 'accidents' and 'upsets'. 

It's they who are responsible for 'Murphy's Law'.

I've been the victim of countless, almost impossible negative little 'coincidences' in my lifetime ~ for Their vicious and delinquent entertainment..

I can cross a road in the middle of the Nullabor Desert and get hit by the only vehicle within 300 miles.

I can dive amongst a crowd of beach-side swimmers and be the one the shark targets.

I'll be the one whose parachute doesn't open.

Etc.

But I've learnt to beat these imps at their own game - sometimes.

I learnt to look where there is hiding room whenever I dropped something. Sure enough, a coin, a remote control, whatever, would be hiding exactly where I couldn't see it despite a 350 degree view of the floor or ground.

And so often the dropped object would have traversed an impossible distance to get to this one small place of concealment.

After quite awhile, They woke up to the fact that I'd worked out their little strategy for annoying me ... and so They started making my dropped objects STAY where they had fallen onto the carpet or ground... while I was looking in the hidden places ...

Does buttered toast fall face down... ? Helloooooooooo...? 

Does the phone ring just when the most interesting part of a movie is playing on TV ... huh?

Etc etc...   

And how many times have you brought an electronic gadet home from the shops with a sticker on it saying "Quality Control Passed" ~ and it doesn't work. If I could have a dollar for every time that's happened to me ... Had to send back a tumble-dryer the other week.

Ever 'lose' things ... and you know damn well where you put it, but it's not there any more ... ? And then hours later you find it EXACTLY where you first looked ... ? 

Gremlins and imps.

Yadda wrote on May 26^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:


I kept saying "So far so good" until I landed on a fat Muslim screwing his fat girlfriend (Fatima) in an open field. I bounced. They didn't survive.

I'm now in hiding from a 'Death Fatwa' their imam laid on me ... 

Yadda wrote on May 26^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:


Thanks for that hot tip, Yadda. During my drinking days I used to surround myself in an alcoholic 'glow' which kept not only the gremlins away but everyone else too ~ including the mosquitoes.

Yadda wrote on May 26^th, 2013 at 6:14pm:


I wasn't thinking you are naive. i don't know how you came to that conclusion.

I think I've been mistranslated.