{"id":4601,"date":"2021-03-28T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2021-03-28T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T00:10:54","slug":"speech-for-mensa-convention-10-29-72-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4601","title":{"rendered":"Speech for MENSA Convention, 10\/29\/72 (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
 Here, to follow up on John&#8217;s 1970 speech to the Humanist Society, is one for a MENSA convention in NYC in 1972. He touches on some of the same subjects, but is more concerned with the connections between paranormal and religious experiences. A few corrections about Charles Fort: he was not a &#8220;little man,&#8221; but six feet tall and stocky; he died in 1932, not 1931; the quotation &#8220;If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?&#8221; (with which John closes <em>The Mothman Prophecies<\/em>) was written by Damon Knight, in his biography of Fort; it was Aaron Sussman who proposed the title <em>God Is an Idiot<\/em>, which Fort rejected, preferring Tiffany Thayer&#8217;s suggestion <em>Lo!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post the speech in three installments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA1-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA1-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4604\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4604\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA2.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA2-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA2-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4605\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA3.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA3-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA3-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA3-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4606\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA4.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA4-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA4-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA4-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?attachment_id=4607\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA5.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA5-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA5-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MENSA5-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, to follow up on John&#8217;s 1970 speech to the Humanist Society, is one for a MENSA convention in NYC in 1972. He touches on some of the same subjects, but is more concerned with the connections between paranormal and religious experiences. A few corrections about Charles Fort: he was not a &#8220;little man,&#8221; but [&hellip;]<\/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-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}