Phillip Underwood

Ignorance isn't bliss

February 19, 2006 |  0 comments
Image Credit: I plan on doing this as a biweekly thing, but – hey – every once in a while, I have a thought here or a thought there that I feel just needs to be written down and jettisoned into the cyber-ether. To digress for a moment, this column is generally going to be about current events in the paranormal community with the occasional human interest slant on views. In other words, I am more interested in how people relate to things – how they operate on faith – when a lot of the unexplained things in the world will…well…remain that way. But, as I said, I digress.

Here comes the soapbox.

Two days ago, November 2, was Election Day. It does not matter who I voted for, even though, if you really want to know, I can put it this way: if the presidential election had been the World Series, then I was the Cardinals. There you go. Again, though, that is beside the point. I have aired my various grievances in other forums and, often, to myself in the privacy of my own home. We lost. Let’s move on.

On the other hand, eleven states voted to uphold ignorance. It is illegal to marry someone of the same sex in these states. Now, if you read my inaugural column, you know I am very much a proponent of respecting the rights of the individual as long as those rights do not impinge upon someone else’s freedoms. Answer me this: by what mad gorilla logic does it affect my life if two men or two women who love each other want to get married?

Simple. It doesn’t.

What does this mean to the paranormal community? I could make all manner of tenuous connections between various political agendas and the paranormal community. But, in the end, they would be just that: tenuous. I will say, however, that no one understands the power of knowledge better than someone who, every night, looks to the skies for a sign, than someone who tromps through the woods looking for something they just feel in there gut is there.

And what is the converse of knowledge?

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