Lunatics Among Us
This story of a woman attacking the Paul Gauguin painting “Two Tahitian Women” on April 1, 2011 got skipped over in a lot of newspapers or was a blurb in others.
The 1899 painting is worth an estimated $80 million dollars.
What was even less covered, and I thought was worth commenting on, was what the suspect in the attack, Susan Burns said in her statement to the police. “I feel that Gauguin is evil. Continue reading
People Believing In Strange Things
Maybe you’ve seen these people?
The New York Times front page story on the people who believe in Harold Camping’s prophecy about the return of Jesus on May 21 and the end of the world on October 21, points out that the children of these doomsayers are somewhat confused by their parent’s strange beliefs.
The idea of knowing doomsday’s arrival by interpreting or unlocking the secrets of sacred text has been around for a while.
The Times has a second story about a New Yorker who gathered about a dozen believers to prepare for the end of the world in 1925.
The United States has quite a history of biblical Doomsday prophets. A very notable occurrence happened Continue reading
Maybe you missed the Associated Press article about new laws being passed in Romania to punish witches (yes, witches) and fortune teller’s with fines and imprisonment if their predictions do not come true. Continue reading