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Published: December 11, 2002 (TheOnion.com)

CARTHAGE, MO—An embarrassed God admitted Monday that He was late for the Saturday wedding of Patrick Moore and Dina Roble, arriving halfway through the ceremony but catching “most of the important stuff.”

“It was one heck of a day,” God said. “Yes, I can be all places at once, but it’s just so hard to keep it all straight sometimes. It’s been crazy all month, and this thing just came up so fast.”

The ceremony that forever joined Moore, 28, and Roble, 26, in holy matrimony was held at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church on Gorman Avenue in Carthage. Neither bride nor groom was aware of the Lord’s tardiness.

“Religion is very important to my entire family, and Dina and I plan to raise our children in a Christian environment,” Moore said. “So it was important for us to have our wedding in a Roman Catholic church, and be united under the eyes of God.”

God admitted that His eyes were upon the couple for a little less than half of the ceremony—”which is a lot,” said God, considering the length of the Roman Catholic liturgy.

“The Catholics go through everything at a wedding,” God said. “There’s a sermon and readings and even Communion. With the songs and the procession and the ’I do’ stuff thrown in there, it takes so long. And the whole time, it’s stand, sit, kneel, stand, sing, recite, sit, stand, sing, kneel, sit.”

God added that the ceremony’s liturgy of the Word—which includes readings from the Old and New Testaments, a responsory Psalm, the “alleluia” before the Gospel, and a Gospel reading—is nothing He hasn’t already heard “billions of times.”

Calling Himself “free of sin,” the Lord blamed His late arrival on poor directions provided by the couple.

“I was running a bit behind and, admittedly, I probably should have left a little earlier,” He said. “But I really would have made it on time if I hadn’t been stupid enough to rely on that map Patrick included in the invitations. It was barely readable. Then, I come to find out that East Gorman is a totally different street than Gorman Avenue. They run parallel. So, for about 25 minutes, I’m cruising up and down East Gorman like an idiot, looking for 299—and, of course, there isn’t any.”

Finally, at 11:30 a.m., halfway through the ceremony, God located the small brick church. He slipped in unnoticed during the middle of the second reading.

“I came in the back, really quiet, like a thief in the night. Nobody turned around or anything, so I doubt they noticed,” God said. “Besides, I am in a form no human eyes can discern, so I’d have to be pretty clumsy to get busted.”

God said He does not feel a need to tell Moore and Roble that His spirit was not fully looking over them as they became husband and wife.

“Why point it out?” God said. “I got there for the exchange of the wedding vows, so, really, is any harm done?”

Among the parts of the wedding God missed were the prelude, in which Roble’s sister Tammy sang “Come And Journey With Me”; the processional; and the opening prayer, in which God was personally thanked for attending the ceremony.

“It was such a beautiful day,” Moore said. “Everything was absolutely perfect. We were married in the presence of our friends, our family, and, of course, our God. What more could we ask for?”

Even Father Michael White, who officiated the ceremony, was unaware of God’s absence, despite making numerous direct references to Him throughout.

“We always start off the ritual by welcoming God into His house and into the lives of the soon-to-be-married couple,” White said during the beginning of the ceremony. “He is as central to this as the bride and groom.”

God said He has “no regrets” about His tardiness.

“I really don’t mind weddings—they’re better than the funerals,” God said. “But I’ve already been to 892,245 of them in the past month alone. It’s not like I really needed to hear one more organ rendition of ’Nearer To Thee.’”

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New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 15, 2026 Jeffrey Mishlove reflects on Forays into Hyperspace, the memoir of physicist and consciousness theorist Saul-Paul Sirag, a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area consciousness movement of the 1970s–90s. Mishlove shares personal memories of their close friendship, their time at the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, and Sirag’s development of a higher-dimensional, mathematical approach to understanding consciousness. The discussion offers a rare insider’s view of a formative era linking physics, parapsychology, psychedelics, and the foundations of modern consciousness studies. 00:00:00 Introduction: Forays into hyperspace 00:01:46 Jeffrey Mishlove’s alter ego and the book’s origin 00:02:55 First meeting with Saul-Paul Sirag in 1971 00:04:30 Life milestones and shared history 00:05:27 Hyperspace & Sirag’s mathematical view of consciousness 00:06:29 Childhood, religion, and early hardships 00:08:27 Science, religion, and the meaning of his name 00:10:02 Arthur Young and the Institute for the Study of Consciousness 00:12:07 Bay Area consciousness, physics, and cultural figures 00:16:14 Conclusion: Why this memoir matters

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 16, 2026 Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD, received a doctoral degree from the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for a parapsychological dissertation. She is author of Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science with Spirit. She resides in Glastonbury, England, where she served on the Town Council. Her website is https://www.psi-researchcentre.co.uk/ Here she describes magical practices dating back to neolithic times in Britain. She explains that certain sites were used for burials, initiations, and ritual activities. These were carefully coordinated with the seasons and the movement of celestial bodies. She describes her own experience inside an ancient chamber of initiation. She also discusses how people’s experience of supersensible worlds is shaped by the mythology of their culture. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on August 15, 2020)

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In psychological terms, 

mens rea (Latin for “guilty mind”) refers to the cognitive and volitional state of an individual—their intentions, knowledge, and awareness—at the time of committing a prohibited act. It represents the “culpable mental state” required to establish criminal responsibility, distinguishing intentional wrongdoing from accidental or involuntary harm. 

Key psychological components of mens rea include:

• Intention (Purposely): The conscious desire to achieve a specific criminal result.
• Knowledge: Awareness that a specific outcome is practically certain to result from one’s actions.
• Recklessness: Conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk.
• Negligence: Failure to perceive a risk that a reasonable person would have recognized. 

In clinical psychology, mens rea assessments often involve evaluating if a defendant had the capacity to form specific intent, often impacted by mental illness, cognitive impairment, or intoxication. 

Levels of Mens Rea (Culpable Mental States):

• Purposely: Acting with the specific intent to cause a crime.
• Knowingly: Acting with awareness that the result is almost certain.
• Recklessly: Disregarding a known, high risk.
• Negligently: Failing to meet a reasonable standard of care. 

Mens rea focuses on the internal psychological state, whereas actus reus refers to the external, physical act. 

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“Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling – the equality of all lovers.”

~ Martin Buber

Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship. Wikipedia

Born: February 8, 1878, Vienna, Austria

Died: June 13, 1965