-> Now, my own background includes working with hypnosis - and I'm  
-> quite struck with the very real capability of any repetitious  
-> movement like falling water to easily induce a hypnogogic state in  
-> suseptible people. 
 
-> Add to this the well-known `waterfall illusion' (watch a waterfall  
-> for 30 seconds, and then look at any nearby rock to experience  
-> this),  and it seems to me that you have all that's needed to lead  
-> yourself ...and others of a like nature... well astray. 
 
-> Interesting to note, too, that the full scientific method as we  
-> know it now was only finally detailed in the 1920's... 
  
There's a fine line between illusion and delusion. 
  
-> Judging by the vitriol the old-timers used in talking about, I  
-> concluded that his greatest sin was making money from it all. 
  
Bill Gates gets a lot of the same kind of vitriol. 
  
-> It seems that he became expert in managing streams and rivers,  
-> especially in the business of floating tree trunks down to  
-> marshalling ponds.  After WW1 he was given charge of a large  
-> forest, and spent untold hours studying its streams and  
-> waterfalls. 
  
Down there, you probably haven't heard of something that happened just 
a few days ago in Alberta, Canada. There's been a heck of a lot of rain 
there recently, so the rivers have risen and flooded a lot of 
buildings. In one place, a train was deliberately parked on a bridge 
over a river so as to weigh it down so it wouldn't be washed away. The 
town of Drumheller, which is known as the "dinosaur capital" of Canada, 
because it is situated in an area where a lot of dinosaur bones have 
been found, was threatened with major damage from the local river. But 
by sheer good luck a bunch of logs that were being floated down the 
river somewhat upstream of Drumheller got jammed together and partially 
dammed the river, reducing its flow. As a result, the town was spared 
major damage. 
  
Shit happens, but so, sometimes, do roses. 
  
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