{"id":308,"date":"2004-01-18T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/18\/"},"modified":"2004-01-18T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T03:58:00","slug":"308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/18\/308\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Update &#8211; Sound Bites from The Amazing Meeting 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just remember, when you hear the term &#8216;New Age&#8217; that it rhymes with &#8216;sewage.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Michael Shermer: On average, those Mormon boys that go out to witness convert about 1-2 people every year. That&#8217;s not enough, but it&#8217;s OK, because they can fill their needs internally through <em>breeding<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Julia Sweeney, speaking about the poster of Jesus she had on her wall as a young girl: &#8216;Oh my god, that Jesus was sooo hot! I have to admit he helped me to discover the pleasures of my own body.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Me: They made fun of the &#8216;cold fusion&#8217; guys, but that made me wonder, &#8216;hey, what if cold fusion had been <em>real<\/em>?&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Michael Shermer again: &#8216;Good and Evil are good <em>adjectives<\/em>, but they&#8217;re not good <em>nouns<\/em>.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Bob Park: &#8216;The greatest discovery of modern medicine is not vaccines or antibiotics, it&#8217;s the double-blind test.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Me: &#8216;If the placebo effect works for me, that&#8217;s good enough!&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Julia Sweeney: &#8216;Sister Wendy. Now there&#8217;s a cool job&#8230; six months in a silent convent, and six months as a television star!&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Lance Burton (while doing his straight-jacket escape): &#8216;I&#8217;ve heard (or read) that Houdini could dislocate both of his shoulders to do this trick. I don&#8217;t have any idea whether or not that&#8217;s true, but it sure would help.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t recall who said this: &#8216;Epistemological Hedonism &#8211; if it feels good, believe it.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Update &#8211; Sound Bites from The Amazing Meeting 2: Just remember, when you hear the term &#8216;New Age&#8217; that it rhymes with &#8216;sewage.&#8217; Michael Shermer: On average, those Mormon boys that go out to witness convert about 1-2 people every year. That&#8217;s not enough, but it&#8217;s OK, because they can fill their needs internally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/18\/308\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}