Category Archives: Superstition

Monkeys on the Internet

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Barry Pomeroy

We have all become aware of bad behaviour online, and from that, we have learned that our neighbours, who we always guessed were tolerant, joyful, and open-minded, think quite differently than us. Given cause to reflect on our own public … Continue reading →

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The Bible is Perfect. No Wait, It’s Not

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Barry Pomeroy

Many Christians trouble themselves over whether the bible, the book they rely on for so much of their understanding of both the physical and spiritual the world, is perfect and the writing of god, or whether it is flawed and … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump and the Conspiracy of Nonsense

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Barry Pomeroy

The internet is so effective at the promulgation of conspiracy theories we almost think it might have been made for that purpose. Marshall McLuhan suggests that each of our technologies simply extend our own abilities, just as a spear extends … Continue reading →

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The Locked Room at the Top of the Stairs

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Barry Pomeroy

What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create…a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody … Continue reading →

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The Vast Edifice of Culture

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Barry Pomeroy

The vast edifice that is culture is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings. It is as beautiful and as tenuous. Over the many centuries of struggle since we first began to bang rocks together we have tried to build something … Continue reading →

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What Meat Means to Argentinians

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Barry Pomeroy

Most of the people I met in Argentina were by times bemused and horrified that I was a vegetarian. It proved to be a challenge and I think, although she was very graceful about it, a bother for the mother … Continue reading →

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Proof of Alien Life, or at Least of Human Silliness

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Barry Pomeroy

There has been a lot of excitement lately, in scientific circles at least, about the star that experiences periodic and unexplainable dimming. Conjecture about the causes of the phenomena range as widely as the people who are doing the dreaming … Continue reading →

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Gaming the Luck System

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Barry Pomeroy

Many people believe in luck, and at nearly any moment you can see them jumping across raging torrents or betting in cascinos. What they believe in is difficult to define. Some, certainly, believe that they have some integral luckily component … Continue reading →

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Seeing Ghosts, or the Old Man in the Barn

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Barry Pomeroy

Once I told Darryl, a pompous Queens University student about the old man in the barn, my favourite story about the nature of reality. Darryl already knew how reality worked, so he was the perfect victim. I told him of … Continue reading →

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The Palimpsest that is Our Lives

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Barry Pomeroy

I was listening to the radio today before I got out of bed and it was one of those days of poor reception. I was tuned to CBC in the foreground of the transmission, while in the background, for all … Continue reading →

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