magicians

i'm writing up another article for interfaithfamily.com. this one is about the wrassling bartlebee and i have done over the definition of god. it's a lot more fun to write than the others. more me. should be posted in june although the other two should be posted now and don't appear to be up yet, so...

in my piddling about, i come across Arthur C. Clark's Three Laws of Prediction:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

don't you see! if we get enough elderly distinguished scientists together ANYTHING is possible! if they say it's possible, it IS. if they say it isn't THEY'RE WRONG! (almost certainly and probably)

so here's my proposition: does anyone know any distinguished but elderly scientists who might want to start a proto-magician think tank? it would be a lot more fun than speaking to the elks club. i'd provide the iced tea and mah johng.

we could get them together and toss fantastic ideas at them until someone says, "possible!" (or "impossible" it really doesn't matter) and then hire a bunch of lab monkeys to work it out. they could wear capes and scowl at politicians and generally feel bad ass instead of painfully-arsed. insert metamucil joke here!

power to the elderly! magicians unite! someone buy me a milkshake!