Ha! I note that a few of our inveterate skeptics have finally shown up, and the sheer vitriole of their personal attacks on me for launching what is clearly a whimsical, although satirical, thread indicates that I am quite correct: they DO have an emotional need for all that "unscientific" stuff they don't believe in. Yes, they need someone to despise and look down on so they can feel superior.

Well, here I am! Spit upon me and revile me. Enjoy your delusions of academic grandeur while you still can, you self-important, pedantic, bean-counters...you are all getting older, and the days go by ever faster. Soon you and your opinions will be dust in terms of this material world you place so much reliance upon.

And Ohh-Ahh...YES, doctors ARE attracted to illness because they need it in their lives! Ever so much. They'd be out of a highly paying job without it. It's a damned shame they are NOT equally attracted to teaching the public more preventive medicine...or a lot fewer people would be getting ill in the first place in modern society. Doctors have become the servants (willing or unwilling) of pharmaceutical companies and high-tech medical industries, and it will be seen as quite a scandal at some point in the future (as the era of the medical "leeches" is now seen in retrospect). Doctors are presently causing a great deal of illness as well as treating it...and that's good for business if you are in the business of manufacturing drugs.

Meanwhile, the cheery and amusing contributions from those of us who really don't take you all that seriously will continue to roll in and brighten up this most enjoyable thread.

And, believe me, if I really wanted to provide an airtight scientific definition of something in print for this forum...I would...I'd just look it up in one of those bloody boring count-the-angels-on-the-head-of-the-pin science books or encyclopedias from which you chaps regurgitate every single thing you think you know all about. A parrot does the very same thing when it says, "Polly wants a cracker!"

This does not prove that the parrot is intelligent, but it does prove he has a good memory and a big mouth, and he knows how to use both of them.

As for the "dickheads" in this town...they are NOT people who have any interest in New Age stuff...or in ANYTHING unconventional. No indeed. I'll tell you what the local dickheads are interested in, Ohh...Ahh. They are interested in beer, hockey, football, SUV's, casual sex, Reality TV, and junk food. Not one of them would give a second of his time to anything New Age or spiritual, I can assure you...nor would he be interested in Wolfgang's science stuff either. If it isn't featured in the 6 O'Clock News or the pages of Penthouse, it doesn't exist for the local dickhead. That includes both New Age AND scientific subjects.

Ohh-Ahh, I don't take you seriously. I never have taken you seriously, and I think that is what really bothers you. Given your general attitude, why would I take you seriously? You have nothing but derision and contempt for anything that you are not already committed to and totally familiar with. I have a great deal of respect for science, having begun this life as a very scientifically-minded atheist in an atheistic family. I now respect both science and spirituality, and I am curious about new information from either field.

You don't show an iota of respect for anyone who is different from you. Why would you expect the people you deliberately insult and ridicule to take you seriously? You act like a jerk. You think I started this thread to make fun of you? You're right. You deserve to be made fun of for your pissy attitude toward other people.