TL Fort wrote in
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Swamp gas!

Tracy

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"Ignus Fatuus (the flame) - As anyone in the paranormal realm will know,
ignus fatuus means "foolish fire" as well as "fire of mystery." It is
often said that in graveyards the ignus fatuus will try to mislead
investigators from the truth. Since lies and deception always surround
truth, it was felt that the ignus fatuus should surround the triangle,
which represents truth. Some feel that the ignus fatuus is in fact the
guardian of truth, that separates those who are meant to find the truth
from those who aren't."

The above paragraph refers to an emblem that the paranormal club had
created as its logo.

The above was gleaned from
http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/paranorm...12002_logo.htm

The description of Ignus Fatuus (essentially swamp gas) in the above
definition seems to indicate a character similar to the entities in "The
Mothman Prophecies", i.e. an entity that knows the truth but presents it to
us mere humans in a fashion that is indecipherable.

Unfortunately, when looking for a more lengthy discussion on swamp gas,
ignus fatuus, etc., I was rather dumfounded that I could only find links to
paranormal and music related uses of the word. Even some of the sites that
I visit for dictionary type references did not have a definition available
for the word.

Further studying yielded the following:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w1/willowis.asp

The Marfa Lights present an enigma when it comes to such phenomenon.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/marfa_lights.html

The closest that I came to seeing UFOs was near Washington D.C. While
traveling at night, we observed an odd triangular configuration of lights
moving across the sky above us. We stopped the car and got out to examine
them. Marveling that they were definitely different, I came to the
unfortunate conclusion that they were, in fact, the wing lights on an SST.
Being from the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area, I had never seen an SST in
flight, as they weren't permitted this far inland. Washington D.C. and New
York were the 2 airports that were permitted to handle these planes in the
United States.


Dr. Artaud








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To know and to be, this is not even a question, there is no alternative.
You see it clearly in the loneliest little avenues between particles and
waves, shunned even by the gregarious quark and unknown by the various
strands of time, so big it cannot be seen, yet so little it is immovable,
lies the fabric of the ultimate reality gripped in the tiny fist of the all
or nothing."