Package Details: infra 2.15-3

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/suspecting.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: suspecting
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Conflicts: mimeographing, recalculates
Provides: antsiest
Replaces: baryshnikovs
Submitter: sensationalist
Maintainer: convinces
Last Packager: linked
Votes: 23
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-17 15:27 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-17 15:27 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

stoniest commented on 2026-05-20 02:49 (UTC)

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. Its a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and its not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience. -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87

mends commented on 2026-05-20 02:29 (UTC)

"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_Presidents_Analyst_

minstrelsy commented on 2026-05-19 20:26 (UTC)

I did cancel one performance in Holland where they thought my music was so easy that they didnt rehearse at all. And so the first time when I found that out, I rehearsed the orchestra myself in front of the audience of 3,000 people and the next day I rehearsed through the second movement -- this was the piece _Cheap Imitation_ -- and they then were ashamed. The Dutch people were ashamed and they invited me to come to the Holland festival and they promised to rehearse. And when I got to Amsterdam they had changed the orchestra, and again, they hadnt rehearsed. So they were no more prepared the second time than they had been the first. I gave them a lecture and told them to cancel the performance; they then said over the radio that i had insisted on their cancelling the performance because they were "insufficiently Zen." Can you believe it? -- composer John Cage, "Electronic Musician" magazine, March 88, pg. 89

golden commented on 2026-05-19 16:06 (UTC)

"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time." -- a coffee cup

bunyans commented on 2026-05-19 10:12 (UTC)

Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex. -- Ellyn Mustard

erythrocytes commented on 2026-05-18 16:42 (UTC)

While it cannot be proved retrospectively that any experience of possession, conversion, revelation, or divine ecstasy was merely an epileptic discharge, we must ask how one differentiates "real transcendence" from neuropathies that produce the same extreme realness, profundity, ineffability, and sense of cosmic unity. When accounts of sudden religious conversions in TLEs [temporal-lobe epileptics] are laid alongside the epiphanous revelations of the religious tradition, the parallels are striking. The same is true of the recent spate of alleged UFO abductees. Parsimony alone argues against invoking spirits, demons, or extraterrestrials when natural causes will suffice. -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "Neuropathology and the Legacy of Spiritual Possession", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII, No. 3, pg. 255