For a change of pace, today I am proud to present a guest blogger, the noted Australian defender of psychic phenomena, Mr. Victor Drainit.
Victor, an accomplished plumber who has unblocked several major clogs, is known for his lucid and balanced approach to the field of afterlife investigations. His work is often cited in peer-reviewed journals, and he is widely respected by all sides for his impeccable research. Known to friends and foes alike as "The Thunder from Down Under," Victor enjoys boxing with kangaroos, throwing another shrimp on the barbie, and racing across the postapocalyptic wastelands in a desperate quest for oil. He also likes to garden.
It is an honor to have him with us today.
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Hello, I am Victor Drainit, and I'm pleased to be offered this opportunity to appear on Michael Prescott's blog.
ARE YOU AWARE that the brilliant US television series MEDIUM is now the highest rated TV series in history and that last week's episode was seen by MORE PEOPLE than the total audience for the World Cup? The debunking skeptics HAVE NO ANSWER to these facts.
TOP scientists including Charlie Sheen agree that on 9-11 the Pentagon was hit by a missile fired by a flying saucer that was piloted by the invisible extraterrestrial parasites that are EATING MY BRAIN. This fact is NOT in dispute.
I challenge any closed-minded flamboyant extroverted materialist debunking skeptic to PROVE that the invisible extraterrestrial parasites do NOT exist. Here are my terms: I will put up $500 trillion of my own funds and the skeptic will put up a matching amount. The loser will forfeit the full amount of the wager, to be paid in a money order drawn from the Bank of Xenu in the star system Rigel-4.
Must double meds ... must double meds ... must double meds ...
HIGHLY CREDIBLE witnesses report that the ghost of US President Alexander Hamilton has been seen wandering the halls of the White House. This fact is NOT in dispute. The ghosts of US Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Jefferson, and Daniel Webster have also been witnessed on multiple occasions by high ranking US government officials and statesmen. NO ONE denies this!!!
On my Web site, "A plumber presents the facts about the afterlife," I give 349 reasons why invisible extraterrestrial parasites are EATING MY BRAIN. Reason # 297: As a plumber, I often use a mechanical "snake" to invade clogged pipes. Similarly, the extraterrestrial brain-devourers assume the form of snakes and then infest my neurons at the subatomic level. This fact is ENTIRELY CONSISTENT with the latest developments in quantum physics and is NOT in dispute.
Readers often ask me, "Victor, what will happen to those closed-minded flamboyant extroverted materialist debunking skeptics when they 'cross over'?" HIGHLY CREDIBLE sources such as the invisible extraterrestrial parasites that are EATING MY BRAIN have told me that such individuals will wander in the outer darkness for EONS, mumbling and grumbling to themselves like shopping-cart people, searching fruitlessly for their meds, which they must have left around here someplace, damn it, I just had the goddamn prescription refilled yesterday ... After CENTURIES of torment they will ONLY GRADUALLY rise to the higher spheres, where they will be met by invisible extraterrestrial parasites who will EAT THEIR BRAINS. These facts are NOT in dispute.
A recent survey that came to me in a dream reveals that 99.87% of the world population ACCEPTS THE REALITY of invisible extraterrestrial brain-eating parasites. The narrow-minded skeptical debunkers HAVE NO ANSWER to this fact.
Readers often ask me, "Victor, how EXACTLY do you define a closed-minded flamboyant extroverted materialist debunking skeptic, and how can we, your readers, recognize these people and avoid them?" This is an excellent question and I am glad I made it up. The closed-minded, narrow-minded, materialist, debunking, extroverted, materialist, flamboyant, closed-minded skeptical debunking skeptic can be identified easily, as follows. If a person disagrees with me, Victor Drainit, on ANY issue whatsoever, THEN HE QUALIFIES as a closed-minded materialist debunker skeptical skeptic. It does NOT matter if he accepts the reality of psychic phenomena and life after death. It does NOT matter if he has written dozens and scores and even hundreds of essays supporting these positions. All that matters is that he has criticized ME, Victor Drainit, because I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE, and no one enters the kingdom except through me, for I AM the resurrection and the life, forever and ever, amen. NO ONE disputes this.
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Thank you, Victor Drainit, for that cogent guest blog. You can hear more of Victor's opinions in your local psychiatric hospital.
Ouch, I'm wincing just reading it :-) . . .
Posted by: Matthew Cromer | July 19, 2006 at 08:09 PM
Why should Michael Prescott be a critizing Victor Zammit especially knowing all the hardcore skeptics he has to deal with the last thing he need is someone that is suppose to be supporting the afterlife to critize and poke fun at Victor Zammit.
Posted by: Leo | July 19, 2006 at 08:17 PM
Michael, remind me never to get on your bad side. :)
Posted by: T.B. | July 19, 2006 at 08:37 PM
"Why should Michael Prescott be a critizing Victor Zammit especially knowing all the hardcore skeptics he has to deal with the last thing he need is someone that is suppose to be supporting the afterlife to critize and poke fun at Victor Zammit."
Well, for starters, Michael Prescott isn't a criticizing Victor Zammit. Michael Prescott is criticising Victor Zammit. This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Critical thinking is a useful life skill, I would hope that Zammit would apply some.
Posted by: T.B. | July 19, 2006 at 08:40 PM
Leo,
perhaps Michael feels that Zammit is credulous and unjustifiably cocksure and that Zammit's approach actually harms the prospects of psi phenomena being taken seriously? Or maybe he thinks that Zammit's characterization of Michael as a "skeptic" is wildly off-base, demonstrates a total lack of judgement and casts severe doubt on Zammit's ability to fairly judge any evidence of mediumship or any other "paranormal" phenomenon. That would be my guess, anyway.
Posted by: Matthew Cromer | July 19, 2006 at 08:45 PM
I didn't read the rest of the post, but I seriously doubt that 1.5 billion+ watched an American program. That's not even counting the audience in the stadiums for the various games, as well as the followers on the radio.
No, I highly doubt that Medium has surpassed the World Cup.
Posted by: Althusius | July 19, 2006 at 09:31 PM
It's satire, Althusius.
Posted by: Matthew Cromer | July 19, 2006 at 09:49 PM
Sorry about that, I hadn't read the rest of the post.
Man, I made a fool out of myself.
Posted by: Althusius | July 19, 2006 at 11:11 PM
I'm waiting for Zammit's response to "naive skeptic Michael Prescott (hereafter referred to as "The Skeptic").
Posted by: T.B. | July 19, 2006 at 11:33 PM
>Man, I made a fool out of myself.
Happens to me every day! :-)
I must admit I waited several days before posting this item. I felt it was childish and mean-spirited. Which it is. On the other hand, I also thought it was funny. Eventually, funny won.
I try to be the bigger person, but sometimes the irrational urge to be an immature, anklebiting jerk wins out.
Now that's "total depravity!"
Posted by: Michael Prescott | July 19, 2006 at 11:38 PM
MIchael—a request. (I don’t know how to contact you by email, so I’m posting it here.) Read “Return from Heaven” by Carol Bowman.
I know that you dislike the idea of reincarnation. But I have a great respect for your capacity—and even enthusiasm—for changing your viewpoint when presented with good reason to do so.
Of all my many. many, books on parapsychology, this is one of my very favorites. It’s a wonderful mix of striking evidence, and moving accounts of people in the midst of life-changing, healing events. It’s intelligently and beautifully written.
I’m re-reading it for the fourth time, and I’d love to hear what you have to say about it!
Bruce
Posted by: Bruce Siegel | July 20, 2006 at 11:39 AM
Bruce,
I just noticed your comment. I'll get hold of a copy of Carol Bowman's book. Sounds interesting.
BTW, if you ever want to contact me, my email address is given on my "official" Web site, www.michaelprescott.net .
Posted by: Michael Prescott | August 05, 2006 at 08:50 PM