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Monday, July 17, 2006

Inside Ramtha

Posted by on July 17 at 15:11 PM

Ah, Ramtha. Remember Ramtha?

I was in Olympia this weekend, where they can’t forget the 35,000 year-old Lemurian warrior because he resides inside a South Puget Sound woman named JZ Knight. (The Z stands for Zebra.)

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So this weekend, the Olympian did a special report (part 2, and 3, and 4) on JZ and the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. Sadly, there’s little investigative journalism. (JZ has apparently been pursuing a program of careful public relations, and she invited the Olympian to visit an introductory seminar.) There are, however, some funny pictures:

Blind archery!

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And some choice quotes:

Christie, who is the music technician at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, recently began using her [telepathic] skills with the state Lotto game. “I’ve consistently seen two out of six numbers, just about every time,” she said. “(Eventually) that number will move to three, then four. Then the big one will hit.”

Also revealing: “38 percent [of Ramtha’s students] earn an annual income of under $20,000.” It costs about $1,500 per year to maintain your active membership at the school.

In a cheerier side of the South Puget Sound, here is a picture of a portion of the door of the state legislature. It portrays a clear cut:

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I like that JZ's only using her cerebellum when channeling is somehow a selling point. Yes, it's no doubt demonstrably untrue, but it does give you an insight into the school's brand of wisdom: "Almost completely unconscious, and proud of it."

J.Z. Knight "channels" Ramtha.

"Channeling is ventriquilism done very poorly"

Penn & Teller


I think P.T. Barnum said "there's a sucker born every minute" that ratio seems to have increased to at least three suckers born every thirity seconds.

That's because the population has been increasing exponentially.

If a sucker was born every minute in 1870, there *should be* a mathematical way to figure out the time-to-sucker ratio in 2006.

There is a raitional equation that would show this "population inflation", and it's useful in ecology, but Slog doesn't let me format it numerically, but text-wise it would be:

{population 1870} is to {population 2006} as {1 SBpM*} is to {x SBpm}

wherein we try to find x, which will be the current rate of suckers born per minute, or *SBpM. First we plug in the numbers I found on wikipedia's census page. There was a census in 1870, reporting 38,558,371 people in the US. Unfortuantely, the latest current data is from 2000, listing 281,421,906 people in the US.


That's an increase of 729.86%, so it can be rationaly stated that the SBpM has increased likewise, meaning there are roughly 7.3 suckers born every minute in the US, or one roughly every 8.22 seconds.


Time for me to start a porno site.

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