Reflections on life at “De Witte Wand”…
I know, it sounds almost like an old joke, but I thought something quite interesting happened a few days ago.
Scene: The UN International Centre in Vienna
Dramatis personæ: The Secretary-General of the United Nations: Ban Ki-Moon, and the Diva: Conchita Wurst.
Watch it and wonder. I really think the UN gets what human equality and respect for diversity means – unlike the Catholic Church.
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…no matter how many times he assured his audiences that such stunts were a result of subterfuge and legerdemain, he found there were always believers. They came up to him in the street and asked him for stock tips; when he insisted that he was just a magician, they nodded — but winked and whispered that they knew he was truly psychic…Although Randi had known he was gay since he was a teenager, he kept that to himself. “I had to conceal it, you know,” he told me. “They wouldn’t have had a known homosexual working in the radio station. This was a day when you had to keep it completely hidden.”…Randi now sees himself, like Einstein and Richard Dawkins, in the tradition of scientific skeptics. “Science gives you a standard to work against,” he said. “Science, after all, is simply a logical, rational and careful examination of the facts that nature presents to us.”
Thanks, Matt. That’s a good article you refer to. I hadn’t realised that the US authorities were pursuing Randi’s partner, trying to deport him.
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