Hey gang, Just found the group tonight and joined right away. I've been a Skeptic and student of Randi for a while now. Nice to be among friends. Sincerely, ...
Hi John, Welcome to the group. I'm pretty new as well. Randi is a fascinating fellow. I first saw him on a Nova special about scams and frauds. I also read...
Hi Just joined the group as well. Many reasons...some have to do with what I see as the rise in the belief of superstition probably due to the state of the...
Hi John and Sharon, Welcome to the list. I hope you both will participate in the discussions and both learn and share. Let us know what your interests are. You...
Welcome John and Sharon from another list member Down Under. (I'm not sure where it says John. I thought it was just Sharon.) Where in the wide brown land are...
Wasn't Jayson Blair bad enough? The Times now prints this drivel on the op-ed page, as Op-Ed contributer Erin Sullivan hawks her astrological wares. Click...
Hey Sharon, Thanks for the welcome. I think this group will be interesting. At least we can meet others like ourselves. Yours may have been my first ever email...
Hi I don't know if anyone shares this peeve with me...but I really am becoming very annoyed with the amount of Alternate (Fringe) History that is appearing on...
I found this today from a discussion list (quote) : "cayce reading series 440 discuss the construction and adjustment of a wonderful device. i can understand...
I suppose I had a blonde seniors moment then!:-) I'm Sharon from Australia. 44 yo govt executive. Degrees in Law and Logistics and studying for my BA. Im into...
Hi I am not sure where he lives but I have heard (grapevine) he is here somewhere in Australia. Yep and its "behaviour" and "colour" :-)) Sharon ... From:...
While we on the topic of things Australian,I might as well jump in and introduce myself. I'm in Sydney too. I have been reading quite a lot of skeptic...
I knew that Americans often forget that the rest of the world exists, but this is a bit over the top, don't you think? I have been a member of this group for...
Sorry, I just realised that your statement, that Sharon's email may have been your first from Australia, may have been true at the time you posted it. Our...
Hi Amanda Another Aussie! :-) Sagan's book is superb (as are all of his works) I picked up a new copy in Bangkok last August and it was a pelasure re-visited...
Thanks for the info, Sharon. Ken Ham is always on the Christian TV channel here. Watch out for him! I think we'll enjoy ourselves here. Sincerely, John...
Hey Chris, It's nice of you to welcome us. We're both happy to be here. I don't know where Victoria is but I'm guessing Canada. If that's right you're probably...
Hi Chris I still love Monbulk Jam! :-) To your point (and not wishing to detract from it nor antagonise any other)...its not that Americans forget. If you are...
I have already posted a reply in which I apologised for accusing you of being 'over the top'. Perhaps I should not have bothered. Victoria is a state in the...
Hi Sharon, Yeah, Van Daniken was following a well trodden path, a path paved with dollars which are hard to come by if you are a real historian/archaeologist....
Mike Swaim
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... Hi Chris, John got a belated welcome. He had sent his message a few posts before Sharon's. As far as Denmark is concerned, I'm an American, married to a...
... If you follow the religious path further, the Bible contains its own alternate versions of events, and the Koran later misrepresents those fictions as...
Fabulous book. And Sharon -- yes, I HATE seeing pseudo-history (or pseudo-science) books mixed in with legitimate books. I cringe every single time I go past...
... The Blackwells bookstore at their headquarters here in Oxford, England, has a section for archaeology and a separate section for alternative views. It's a...
... Very well worn. Think of Donnelly, for example, and his starting the modern versions of the Atlantis nonsense in the 19th century. Von Daniken, who has ...
My father brought me up in the true tradition of divorce between church and state (in the Westminster system of governance) and it follows (rationally) the...
Chris, I don't really understand the "over the top" statement but I hope it's nothing serious. Thanks again for the welcome. I'm sure we'll enjoy eachother. ...
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