I am now living in Ruidoso, New Mexico. I hope to update this journal more often now.

I will continue to post interviews at http://belinda_subraman.podomatic.com

Here is a listener’s note:

I just heard your Podcast with Antoine Bacha. I challenge you or anyone else to make sense of that load of claptrap. The future and past are all just memories? Stuff that hasn't happened yet is actually a memory, huh? How does that explain the frequent difference between what I hope for and what I actually get? Why didn't you ask him how that lines up with various ideas about free will?

The guy heard voices while he was being tortured and we're supposed to believe that the voices he heard were something more than a dissociative response to extreme mental and physical anguish? Bull. There are perfectly good psychological explanations for what happened to this guy in response to torture. A load of gobble-dee-gook doesn't explain a damned thing.

The liberal application of rationality worldwide would go a long way toward ridding people of charlatans and crackpots like this.

"If I can get you to believe absurdities, I can get you to commit atrocities"---Voltaire


Here is my response:

For the Critic of Ideas

The implausible still interests me.
I am amused
when someone states
an interviewee is insane or mislead
when everything / anything
on a certain level is absurd
and over weighted.
Our earth games are just that.
At worst we see glimpses
toward wisdom as absolutes
and do not reach beyond illusion.
Free mouthed hypothesis
is in the same sinking earth boat
as its critics.

At best we can look on in a half smile
and wonder how anyone
could believe like that,
bring it no closer to us
and let it fall away…
laughing, if we must.