FRINGE QUEST
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A survey of the weird, the wondrous, the wacko. Critical thinking welcomed.
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"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Howard Thurman
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination." ~ Rev. William H. Poole
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination." ~ Rev. William H. Poole
Happy Paranormal Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy Paranormal Thanksgiving!
"To make new friends is to find new stars in the sky." ~ Terry Teachout
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"To make new friends is to find new stars in the sky." ~ Terry Teachout
A friend: "I see no evidence of significant moral progress throughout recorded human history. Different ages have different notions of good and evil. Man is capable of great good and great evil. That's the unchanging human condition."
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A friend: "I see no evidence of significant moral progress throughout recorded human history. Different ages have different notions of good and evil. Man is capable of great good and great evil. That's the unchanging human condition."
Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus & Roy Haynes at The Open Door, New York (1953)
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus & Roy Haynes at The Open Door, New York (1953)
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The "Peace Plan"
Point 1. We re affirm Ukraine's sovereignty.
Point 2-28. We remove Ukraine's sovereignty.
Point 1. We re affirm Ukraine's sovereignty.
Point 2-28. We remove Ukraine's sovereignty.
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The "Peace Plan"
Point 1. We re affirm Ukraine's sovereignty.
Point 2-28. We remove Ukraine's sovereignty.
Point 1. We re affirm Ukraine's sovereignty.
Point 2-28. We remove Ukraine's sovereignty.
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"A turkey may be so prepared and preserved that, according to Artephius’s Key of Wisdom, “an ingenious Man may raise the fine Shape of a Homunculus out of its Ashes at his Pleasure, so he may, without any criminal Necromancy raise the Shape of any dead ancestor for study and labor.”
How to Brine a Turkey, by H.P. Lovecraft
This time of year all cabbalists, daemonologists, magicians, and the like share amongst their number one scrap of forbidden knowledge: that soakin...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"A turkey may be so prepared and preserved that, according to Artephius’s Key of Wisdom, “an ingenious Man may raise the fine Shape of a Homunculus out of its Ashes at his Pleasure, so he may, without any criminal Necromancy raise the Shape of any dead ancestor for study and labor.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
" ... what the AI proposed doing is pretty much what technology seems to be doing to children today. It seemed to be saying: If the devil wanted to destroy a generation, he could just give them all smartphones."
Jonathan Haidt: The Devil’s Plan to Ruin the Next Generation
I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling—and all too familiar, writes Jonathan Haidt.
www.thefp.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
" ... what the AI proposed doing is pretty much what technology seems to be doing to children today. It seemed to be saying: If the devil wanted to destroy a generation, he could just give them all smartphones."
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The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!
The strange and totally real plan to blot out the Sun, Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website, 3,000-year-old map of the Universe discovered at ancient Maya site, and much more:
www.dailygrail.com/2025/11/news...
The strange and totally real plan to blot out the Sun, Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website, 3,000-year-old map of the Universe discovered at ancient Maya site, and much more:
www.dailygrail.com/2025/11/news...
News Briefs 25-11-2025
Sing the Tuesday Grail news briefs with me! Thanks to Kat and Charles. Quote of the Day Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Ovid
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November 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!
The strange and totally real plan to blot out the Sun, Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website, 3,000-year-old map of the Universe discovered at ancient Maya site, and much more:
www.dailygrail.com/2025/11/news...
The strange and totally real plan to blot out the Sun, Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website, 3,000-year-old map of the Universe discovered at ancient Maya site, and much more:
www.dailygrail.com/2025/11/news...
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SSE: Annual Conference Call for Abstracts Now Open. Topics include: anomalous energy, consciousness beyond the human, healing, new physics, psi & parapsychology, synchronicity, UAP, and more. mailchi.mp/scientificex...
SSE 2026 Abstract Submission Now Open!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
SSE: Annual Conference Call for Abstracts Now Open. Topics include: anomalous energy, consciousness beyond the human, healing, new physics, psi & parapsychology, synchronicity, UAP, and more. mailchi.mp/scientificex...
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." -- Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), Archbishop of Recife, Brazil
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." -- Dom Helder Camara (1909-1999), Archbishop of Recife, Brazil
"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself ... Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, -->
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself ... Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, -->
"Our age has generated, and continues to generate, mythical material almost unparalleled in quantity and quality in the rich records of human imagination." ~ Jacques Vallee
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Our age has generated, and continues to generate, mythical material almost unparalleled in quantity and quality in the rich records of human imagination." ~ Jacques Vallee
Joan Miró (Spanish Catalan, 1893–1983): Constellation: Awakening at Dawn. 1941. Gouache and turpentine paint on paper.
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Joan Miró (Spanish Catalan, 1893–1983): Constellation: Awakening at Dawn. 1941. Gouache and turpentine paint on paper.
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." ~ Maya Angelou
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." ~ Maya Angelou
The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than the energy needed to produce it."
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than the energy needed to produce it."
"A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense." ~ Lawrence Lessing
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense." ~ Lawrence Lessing
“Explanations exist; they have always existed; there is a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.” -- H. L. Mencken
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“Explanations exist; they have always existed; there is a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.” -- H. L. Mencken
ASSURANCE by William Stafford
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
ASSURANCE by William Stafford
*** THIS *** YES
Don’t tell me you have proof. Show me the proof or shut up.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
*** THIS *** YES