Bogosity

Every Walt Disney movie has a bad guy: An evil genius or crime boss who is smart enough to have built up an evil empire but so incompetent that a bunch of kids can outsmart him / her. Similarly, Christianity has a suitable evil bad guy who is strangely easily defeated – at [...]

Mike Arthur asks a ninja, er, I mean bogologist Out of interest, do you not think the whole “evil spirit possession” is possible?.

When people say “possessed” I tend to think of a being that is a mind that can think and function in a human being and move in and out of human beings.

It’s an [...]

The story goes that a missionary family recently returned from Papua New Guinea became concerned about their daughter’s weight-loss. When confronted about this, the daughter described voices in her head telling her that she didn’t deserve to eat. The leaders at the home church discerned an evil spirit of guilt in the girl [...]

In the movie Momento, the main character loses his memory every day (I think) and at one points writes a note to his future self with a lie in it so the he tricks his future self into killing someone. He sees his future self as someone else to the point that he is [...]

Carrying on from my last post, I’m wondering if being dead is a solitary thing (which it would be if there is no afterlife) or if it is communal. If you relate to others after you die, do you have access to every person that ever lived and will live simultaneously or do you [...]

I was talking about this on a plane with a work colleague not long ago (cheerful air travel chatter eh?). I reckon you can split up a number of possibilities:

Consciousness: this could range from nothing (i.e. you don’t exist, to a kind of energy field / presence, to a kind of ghostly memory of [...]

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)