Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...

[Succubus#2]

For reasons that he refuses to acknowledge Bell needs the supernatural to exist as more than a narrative, more than a concept.  

Please stop making up shit about what I "need." What you say is not true.

I think we should believe things that can be proven. You can't prove your assertion. Don't start insulting me as a way to avoid acknowledging this.

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People fail to realise just how 'Well connected' the artists of that day realy were to the more esoteric things happening at the times.

A very smart guy I know is the same age as me, and was also raised in a small town with no culture. He points out in his memoirs how pop culture in those days -- more than now -- made comfortable reference to high-level things. 

He recalls ads he saw in Life Magazine that assumed the reader would know about Dostoevsky, and references in The Addams Family to baroque music, etc. I remember similar things. There was a Bugs Bunny cartoon where a famous symphonic conductor appeared, identified only by first name. Kids all over America must have yelled, "Mom, who is Leopold?" And the cartoon writers assumed that mom would know. Those little hints were important for little kids who could pick up on them. 

I wonder if there is anything like that in pop culture now. The Big Bang Show, which was supposedly about smart people, limited its culture to comic books. It's anti-intellectual, assuming that smart people are satisfied with kid stuff.

I'll be surprised and alarmed if I haven't been Ninja'd here but this post looks very much like a live action real time meltdown. Impeccable grammar but utterly devoid of content, style over substance is all I see.

Bel, you're not a thinker you're a dreamer, an anachronism. Everything about you screams new agey pop philosophy. The sort of shite I endured much of and agreed with in the 70s, hoping for a knickers on the floor encounter, event, situation, experiencing.
But then to your credit I don't recall you ever referring to or quoting any of the post modernist wankers; Derrida, Foucault et al. But hay, that's faint praise.
Ok, time to get back in character.

The supernatural? Define it or shut fucking up!
If you can't define it then what is it you're defending?

Everything from Astrotherapy to Zombies needs an energy source in order to function. What is that energy? And why hasn't this thing spotted it?



Show your work.