I let Halloween come and go without picking up on the theme. Until, that is, I saw this article in the Gazette about ghosts and how people reconcile belief in them with more conventional religion.
I take no position on whether such things exist, but it seems that West Virginia has more than its share of if not ghosts then at least stories about them. I guess our history--what with the Civil War and other armed conflicts, feuds, industrial disasters, and other mayhem--is a good climate for generating them.
I think it's interesting that in most ghost stories that I know about, the apparitions don't tend to be free rangers. Rather, they seem to be tied to particular places where certain things happened.
Sometimes I do think that events can leave a mark on places. Some places I've been to seem to be more loaded than others. I'm thinking about places like Harpers Ferry, the old state mental hospital at Weston, the old state prison at Moundsville, and an old family farm in Tazewell, Virginia.
There are, after all, more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
NOT ENOUGH OF A GOOD THING. It looks like the stimulus helped pull the US economy back from the brink--up to a point. Here's another argument for another one.
SELF DESTRUCTIVE HABITS. Gazette columnist Perry Mann ponders unbridled capitalism here.
SEALING THE DEAL. Here's E.J. Dionne on the future of health care reform legislation.
SPEAKING OF HAUNTED PLACES. Here's an item about a scientist who artificially designed one.
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2 comments:
Perry Mann made some excellent points. The older that I become, the more I question our nation's (world's?) acceptance of Capitalism as "The Way." I also question the U.S. equating Capitalism with Democracy. How can an economic system that is based on greed and oppression be equated with with a political system that stresses equality?
As for ghosts, a couple of years after I purchased my present house I was told that the ghost of a women who was murdered in it in the 1930s still resides within it. I have never met this ghost; however, the knowledge of her murder continues to slip into my consciousness on a fairly regular basis.
My brother used to be an MP at Ft Monroe in VA. One time when the shift was changing he met the guys who had gone before all shook up.
They claimed to have heard or seen something in one of the old houses went down in it and saw 2 guys dressed in 17 1800's dress that dissapeared.
My brother said he went in that house every time he was on that patrol hoping to catch a glimpse of something but no luck.
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