A channel to the cosmos?

[ruskiblog]

After dinner last night my host father asked me if I believed in Darwin's theory. Um, yes? Well, he doesn't. I think he said it was because there are still monkeys around now, so clearly they didn't become us. Even if my Russian was good enough to argue about evolution, I think I might leave this one alone. He went on to explain that there's

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[anonymous]

That does sound like quite a show. Incidentally, the claim that aliens built the pyramids always comes off to me as being racist. No one claims that the Mycenaean Greeks were too primitive to have built the palace of Knossos or Troy.
--rich

[ruskiblog]

Huh. I never thought of it like that, but it makes sense. Russia does have its own disinct brand of racism. But then a lot of people here are also profoundly spiritual in a horoscope/dream-interpretation/spiritual-healing kind of way. So the whole pyramid thing didn't strike me as particularly out of character.

[mingerspice]

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