time portals – Lee Duigon

‘How We Waste Our Faith’

leeduigon(patty)November 5, 2020

I admit it now: Tuesday I was too keyed up, and yesterday I was too depressed, to write my weekly Newswithviews column. After all, the only story in town was the election–and what could I have written that wouldn’t have been obsolete and out of date overnight?

But I thought you folks out there might want a Newswithviews column anyway, so here’s one from the last day of 2015:

https://newswithviews.com/Duigon/lee335.htm

Yeah, we waste our faith on unworthy objects of worship. People who think the Bible’s just a lot of silly stories believe every word they get from science fiction; and physicist Stanton Friedman says we ought to believe in UFOs because people who’ve been to college believe in that.

Win a tin-foil hat if you can think of any argument feebler than that!

‘A Misplaced Faith’ (2015)

leeduigon(patty)February 25, 2018

You might enjoy the conversation Linda and I had about belief in “space brothers” and the like. People have learned to take science fiction way too seriously.

https://leeduigon.com/2015/12/26/a-misplaced-faith/

The inane belief systems they cobble together to replace Christianity–like having a new roof put on your house… by the Three Stooges.

Time Traveler Wrecks Two Businesses–and His Car

leeduigon(patty)December 25, 2015

If you can’t get a real time machine, like this one from George Pal’s 1960 movie, don’t try it with your car.

Sorry, but I’ve just gotta post this news item.

This past Sunday, a 40-year-old man–old enough to know better? nah–drove his car into a tax preparers’ office and from there into a casket company’s office in a strip mall in Pensacola, Florida. He told police he was attempting to travel through time by driving his car through a “time portal” ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3373459/Man-trying-travel-time-smashes-car-two-Florida-business.html ).

Might he have consumed a bit more science fiction than was good for him? Or maybe he just missed the portal.

There is a strong suspicion that this driver might be a bit tetched, a few oars short of a trireme, but I have another theory.

I think this guy bought into the post-modern creed, energetically promoted by universities and collidges throughout the land, that reality itself is only a social construct. Reality isn’t really real. It’s only whatever you think it is.

The man’s car would tell you otherwise. Gee, talking cars would fit right into this scheme of things.

As an aside–funny, isn’t it, that businesses dealing with death and taxes were right next door to one another.

And aren’t you glad this had nothing to do with your Christmas week?