Fortean times

My favourite magazine - Fortean Times - (based on the philosophies of Charles Fort) has arrived so let the weirdness commence!

Charles Fort (1874-1932) was a true skeptic, one who opposes all forms of dogmatism, believes nothing, and does not take a position on anything. He claimed to be an "intermediatist," one who believes nothing is real and nothing is unreal, that "all phenomena are approximations one way or the other between realness and unrealness."

A few quotes from the man himself starting with my favourite:

"I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."

"A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them - or they'll march."

"If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."

"The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property."

"If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?"

"One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable"

"We shall pick up an existence by its frogs."