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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: They've toned it down a bit recently and hopefully listened to reader criticism. Experimenting with different styles of font and background color is all very well and in the eyes of a keen designer, probably a lot more fulfilling than that boring unimaginative black-type-on-white-page, but what got lost in the enthusiasm was that it still has to be ''readable''. Combinations like red or yellow type on black background could make the pages horribly hard to read. FT went trough a phase of things like this.
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: They've toned it down a bit recently and hopefully listened to reader criticism. Experimenting with different styles of font and background color is all very well and in the eyes of a keen designer, probably a lot more fulfilling than that boring unimaginative black-type-on-white-page, but what got lost in the enthusiasm was that it still has to be ''readable''. Combinations like red or yellow type on black background could make the pages horribly hard to read. FT went trough through a phase of things like this.
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The Cathar Heresy revisited
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* PastLifeMemories: * Critical commentary has suggested other mechanisms than actual literal past lives might account for the phenomena. The human being has been described as "a story-telling ape", and human imagination has been cited as something that separates humans from animals. People remembering past lives might simply be using the active imagination to plot and construct "historical novels". [[note]]Creator/RobertAntonWilson pointed out that if time does not exist as we know it in the next world, we cannopt assume past lives are in chronological sequence. Any individual's "past life" could for instance be in ''their'' past, but yet to happen in ''our'' future. He proposed that some people who remember their "past lives" are likely to become science-fiction authors. (It is possible Wilson was not being entirely serious)[[/note]]. Another, more prosaic, explanation is that people undergoing "past life regressions" are simply being led on by credulous hypnotists asking leading questions, and a sort of ''folie a deux'' co-dependency arises where a hypnotic subject obligingly provides what the hypnotist wants to hear. Therapist and patient build a convincing narrative together. [[note]]This became a very real consideration during the "Satanic panic" collective delusion of TheEighties and TheNineties, where badly-trained therapists compounded the problem with less-than-rigorous regressions on suggestible people.[[/note]] The Arthur Guirdham case discussed more than once in [=FT=] is often cited as an example of this. [[note]]Dr Guirdham hypnotically regressed a random group of people who all claimed to have been incarnated together in the south of France in the 13th Century. Critics suggest Guirdham's methodology was sloppy, and that he and his patients managed to lead each other up a collective "folie-a-deux" co-dependent spiral, basically creating an imaginative fiction as a group.[[/note]]
