> > > "Maybe I'm just confused, but isn't the ME supposed to bring > > > *good* things?" > > > > It's the wahing machine effect...without the soap. > > Think of it as "meditation for the masses" by remote.
Yeah, that's the ticket. That'll enable you to believe that you and other butt-bouncers are SO powerful that you're influencing the weather. I prefer to think of it as the random workings of a random universe, and the equally random attempts by insecure human beings to place them- selves at the "center of the action," as if it all revolved around them. My bet is that if you spent a little time read- ing Christian blogs from the Midwest, you'd find them (or their idea of "God") taking credit for the same "cleansing floods." Same thing for the fundie Islamic blogs. They ALL want to believe that 1) *they* know what's "really" happening, and 2) that it won't happen to *them* because they are <insert name of fundamentalist belief system or organization here>. To me, all of these claims are just different "flavors" of the same stupidity.
