Strega

Simon, are you playing with words or making a point?. If it’s the latter, please try again

Ivy wrote: “The absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence….”

Of course. I could tell you my car is a Chevy but without a photo or sight of it by multiple unconnected sources, you’d simply believe or not believe me, as you chose. You might seek other methods of affirmation, but without any evidence, the statement is simply m…[Read more]

Some people have a mental disability that causes them to hear voices.  Some of those people are aware that there is a difference between the internal and external voices, and some are not.  Are the voices real?  Impossible to say for certain, either way.  There is a wonderful TED talk by a woman who has ‘trained’ her ‘voices’ to help with rem…[Read more]

The person you miss, is not actually the person she is now.  The person you miss has gone, and is unlikely to return.  The person she is now, is totally incompatible with you.  Not because of her faith. Because of her attitude about her faith.

She may at some stage mellow, or deconvert, and then she will be yet another person – who you may or ma…[Read more]

It most likely happened because she was terrified that you’d talk her out of her new comfort – sort of like an ex-smoker who gets all up in the faces of people who still smoke.

(Also, please could you use some paragraph breaks next time?  It’s a bit tough to read a huge block of text with no breaks!)