That's the top-rated comment — by far — on the NYT article, "'Dog Suicide Bridge': Why Do So Many Pets Keep Leaping Into a Scottish Gorge?"
From the article: "The bridge’s location, hushed, lush and sometimes still, fits the description of what the pagan Celts called a 'thin place,' a mesmerizing spot where heaven and earth overlap. 'People in Dumbarton are very superstitious,' said Alastair Dutton, a local taxi driver. 'We grew up playing in the Overtoun grounds, and we believe in ghosts here because we’ve all seen or felt spirits up here.'"
Consider that the NYT news about Trump also feeds our hunger for stories about the supernatural. It was a "witch hunt." Dogs in Scotland are jumping off a bridge because of a ghost — "The White Lady of Overtoun." We like getting caught up in that sort of thing — like it, though we feel we loathe it. That's the way we are. Oh, not you, dear reader. You are above that sort of thing. No ghosts, no witches. Carry on.
March 31, 2019
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The Overtoun grounds. The White Lady of Overtoun. Before you know it, we'll hear that they've moved the Overtoun window.
Next they'll find the "farm" where children's dogs are taken.
My hearing is poor and ghosts, haunts or deities need to go way beyond minor scratching or moaning about to get my attention.
Anyone who has ever had a dog knows that dogs like to look at what people are looking at. People looking over the parapet are going cause the dogs to want to look, too.
Additionally, with the legend of the bridge, it is probably where unwanted pets get dropped off.
There are some uncanny places in Scotland. I spend a few years there a half-century ago, and saw a lot of things that weren't really there.
Of course, maybe the dogs read the Mueller report.
No ghosts, no witches. Maybe just an exorcist. Gadarene swine syndrome.
Jumping off or pushed off? What better way to cover up Dog-murder than a "suicide bridge for dogs"? Cats will often jump out of windows in pursuit of a bird, but dogs? I doubt it.
Here's a story they'll never run: "Why are so many reporters insistent upon jumping the shark?" -CP
“ Better than reading about Trump “ is an awfully low standard.
Half the Philippines is like that. Thin, that is, and open to the spirits.
It’s entirely unexceptional to see ghosts, or meet people who claim to.
Places, people, objects all can be accursed and must be avoided, and violations must be propitiated.
This is a leftover of ancient animism. There are a lot of parallels with the same sort of thing in Japan, where the mythological structure has been much more institutionalized (in Shinto) and developed in literature. But beneath it all is the same, or so it seems to me.
The dogs probably couldn't remember their favorite color. It happens.
Separately, AA wrote: "We like getting caught up in that sort of thing — like it, though we feel we loathe it."
Again, I ask: What is this "we" you speak of, Kemosabe?
I have spent many hours with my camera in the desert, on lonely seashores, on the tops of bluffs with no other humans in evidence, and in the woods. When working thus, I try to achieve full attention to my surroundings, and internal stillness. I have never encountered any ghosts, or other ectoplasmic phenomena at these times (or any other times), but I have discovered some remarkable, but easily overlooked, natural phenomena that lent themselves to being photographed, sometimes with gratifying results.
People who make a distinction between the "natural" and the "supernatural", in my view, are making a category error. The proper distinction is between the natural, and the imaginary.
It's the rainbow bridge.
other news:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/31/indigenous-pemon-targeted-deadly-battle-riches-venezuelas-el/
and for that he's been deplatformed at least once:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/31/chuck-ross-russia-collusion-hoax/
No interview with the mayor of Dumbarton?
And is the B silent?
Doesn't that top-rated comment ruin the very thing it praises?
I've been "ghosting" the NYT for 15 plus years now. It's a nasty job reading it, and I see that our host does read it on occasion.
There are some uncanny things to drink in Scotland. I saw a few things that were not there myself.
The depth of this post is amazing, Professor. Trump is one of those who have mastered the job of exposing con men. He has an almost supernatural ability to see and "know" what they are up to. It is like he sees from all sidesat once. He may be a friend to them, like he does to Rocket Man, BUT, he still has the ability to expose them. And they know he does.
Hence the instantaneous hatred for Trump among the Politician class. He is like a drug sniffing dog that is the only threat in the room to drug dealers. Since there is no way Trump can quit being himself, he has learned that he must always out wit them and win.
Other than that inner witchcraft detector, Trump is a really nice man that all the honest people who meet him love.
Too many haggis table scraps...
No ghosts, no witches.
The Wiccans of Wisconsin are going to get you.
If the NY Times was available through Kindle Unlimited I'd probably read it for the fantasy.
I'm sure, too, that Chuck would rather read about dying puppies than about the Mueller report.
Democrats and the press (but I repeat myself) are suddenly bereft of reasons to talk about Trump. Couldn't talk enough about the guy two weeks back. Now let's talk about dogs. Is there such a thing as worldview collapse disorder?
Like when they compared the ring cycle to trump?
How sad for the New York Times. I read about this bridge at least five years ago and the NYT readers pretend like they’ve been forced to read about Trump when they had the ability all along to ignore the absolute obvious
This is funny, last night, while watching Scott Adams on Youtube, my eye caught on the right side of my screen, "recommended for you",(cute) a video from 2012, Trump at the Scottish Parliament Committee speaking against Windfarms, he does not want them near his golf courses. In contrast to "Much better article then reading about Trump" The top comment under this You tube 3years ago: "you know you cant get enough of Trump when you've seen every video on youtube yet still search out more only to find that after watching the 2 hr paliamentary video you still want more. lol....too bad im canadian and cant vote"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzoqTiTimPA
They were told they couldn’t leap on the counter.
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