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GarandMarine:
Eh I suppose I'll share my second unexplainable incident.

A few years back I went out into the desert to get some quiet time. I was in the Sonoran desert 100+ miles from jack and shit. I went OUT. The intent was to seek a balance in my life that I desperately needed at the time (I was about a hop, skip and a jump from suck starting my sidearm at that point, the abuse from my ex-wife was still fresh) now this retreat matches several Native American traditions commonly referred to as a "vision quest". I prefer the Lakota Sioux term Hembleciya (Crying for a dream). The final night before I returned to my base I slept under the stars (dangerous in the desert, never know what might crawl in your sleeping bag seeking heat, but I was stupid at that age) and received my dream. It was a very powerful dream, and I have never felt a similar one before or since. I was running with wolves, as one of them, across beautiful lands I have only ever dreamed of. Sometimes I was with the pack, other times just a single companion joined me, and for other parts of the run I was alone. Night turned into day, day into night again, as the run continued. When I awoke from the run to my immediate right were four canine paw prints. They were massive and in the shape characteristic of the North American Grey Wolf. There were four prints, perfectly preserved, as if the animal had been facing my bunk. Now some facts.

1. The prints were large enough that they could not possibly belong to a coyote.
2. No tracks lead to or from the tracks by my bed roll. Even if it had been the Arnold of coyotes there would have been more tracks.
3. I was not Dehydrated, nor had I imbibed any hallucinogens
4. The furthest South pack of wild North American Grey Wolves is in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park, a very significant distance from my location in the America South West.

I offer no explanation. I have none. I simply have what happened.

TRVA123:
I'm glad you shared that, your descriptions are really vivid.

lepetitfromage:
I'm also glad you shared it. It's not only interesting and thought provoking but descriptive enough that I could put myself in your shoes. Or..uhh..sleeping bag. But that doesn't quite sound right....  Ohh, you know what I mean  :-P



And Kris- I feel the same way! I am 100 times smarter about various things now than when I started posting. And I still have a long way to go!!

GarandMarine:
Am I going to be receiving an angry email/PM from big cheese? (which is what I shall hence forth be refering to little cheese's husband as. I just thought of that and am quite pleased with myself for being clever.)

But yeah between those two incidents which lack any form of ready explanation in the course of my investigations I have concluded that there are in fact some things I cannot explain. I am content with that I suppose, but don't have nearly enough data to progress on this train of thought.

Carl-E:
My faith lies in Godel's theorems. 

Completeness; any logically valid statement made in a logical system can be proven within that system, and

Incompleteness; there are true statements within a logical system that cannot be proven within that system.  (they tend to be meta-statements)

Which is why I consider myself agnostic (literally "without knowledge") - what's commonly called "unknowable" isn't provable, and you really shouldn't worry about it one way or the other. 

I'm a humanist. 

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