Sunday, December 30, 2007

Sorting out the fact from the fiction

Here are my stars for this week:

OK that's how I started this post earlier today. I've now given up looking for the said astrological predictions and am prepared to concede that they never existed. I don't know if anyone else does this but I sometimes have very vivid dreams that are so detailed, it takes some time for me to realise they were dreams. When I say "some time" I mean days, even weeks.

So last night I obviously dreamt that I was reading my stars and they went something like this -

"on Tuesday you will find out that you are going to lose the flat you have been living in for many years, where you are very happy, which is owned by a close relative. They will kick you out for no good reason but the next day you will find a much better place and realise there is a reason for everything."

I can remember laughing at the prediction - and all day I've been meaning to blog on it (let's face it there's not much news around) but now I realise, it never happened.

And that is not the only vivid dream I had last night. I woke up in shock because my 10 year old nephew had disappeared and the police didn't seem too bothered, even though it had been 2 weeks! Turned out okay though because I turned detective and discovered it was Todd Grimshaw from Corrie who'd kidnapped him. We followed him into the deep dark forest and rescued Daniel. Corrie will never be the same again for me now and I'll always be suspicious of that Todd.

Tell me I'm not the only one - please!
Posted by Anne McLaughlin AKA IndyGal at 17:16:17 | Permanent Link | Comments (3) |

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Scientists or master illusionists?

The Daily Express today, I hear, has excerpts from some book that gives answers to all those awkward questions children ask their parents. As an example, if your child asks you 'do ants have brains?', the answer is yes - and not just that because, apparently, it's a fact that ants have 250,000 brain cells each. What a lot of rubbish. How can anyone possibly know that?

You know, I think these scientists make it up half the time. I mean, for a start, an ant is tiny so they'd have to open up this tiny creature and get into its even tinier brain. Then, they'd have to count each one of the 250,000 brain cells. It's not possible. I mean come on, if is WAS possible and it did actually happen, who was it that counted them, how could they see something that small and how long did it take? I want to know.

Like I said, I think they make half of it up for a laugh. They do it on the basis that those of us with a normal human brain (one million brain cells apparently!) won't question those with boffin brains.

How many times have you heard scientists challenge people like astrologers with the words 'prove it'? Not that I am necessarily convinced by astrology but today, I am issuing a challenge to the world's scientists - YOU prove it!

I want concrete evidence that an ant has 250,000 brain cells. The reputation of the scientific community is at stake. And I bet you any money it's the Virgo scientists who reply first - they always take everything so so seriously ;-)

Posted by Anne McLaughlin AKA IndyGal at 16:26:23 | Permanent Link | Comments (8) |