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Sherlock Holmes May Not Have Been a Real Crime-Fighter, but His Creator Was

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Re: Sherlock Holmes May Not Have Been a Real Crime-Fighter, but His Creator Was

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There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

Is that weird? Tons of brilliant people through history have believed in God, spirits, and other supernatural stuff.

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There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

I think our period will be jokes about diets.

"The second paleo era"

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post #4

There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

Is that weird? Tons of brilliant people through history have believed in God, spirits, and other supernatural stuff.

True including Einstein,Edison,Newton and writers like Victor Hugo etc.

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There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

It seemed fanciful at the time and he was mocked for it quite a bit.

Re: Sherlock Holmes May Not Have Been a Real Crime-Fighter, but His Creator Was

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There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

But some matters that seem pseudoscience or para psychological that have been said in his work were actually in general sense.

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There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

There is nothing supernatural about faeries.

Re: Sherlock Holmes May Not Have Been a Real Crime-Fighter, but His Creator Was

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There's a lot about Doyle that was atypical. Brilliant mind. But he believed in some pretty supernatural stuff as well. Faeries and the like. Imagine what you believe in now that will seem fanciful in a century.

There is nothing supernatural about faeries.

Cryptozoology? I still think it can fall into the supernatural somewhat?
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