"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason."    - G.K. Chesterton.

BadUFO points to an example of the lunacy of the true believer.  Radical Lawyer/Ufologist Peter Gerstner intends to leap from the top of a 200 foot Bells Rock in Sedona, Arizona on the Winter Solstice of 2012 because he is certain that at that time and at that place a rift in space and time will open up.  Apparently, the immutable laws of physics - or magic - have chosen that time and that place for their deep physical/magical properties to manifest a "transdimensional vortex."

BadUFOs makes the gibe that "[w]hen Faith clashes with Reason, Faith wins out nearly every time."

I think that BadUFOs is missing the point of Mr. Gersten's mania. Mr. Gersten is not without his reasons, and he certainly has a logic that is internally consistent and defendable from his perspective, and he seems to have a firm grasp of the facts that are of importance to his reasoning. Of course, the only problem is that Mr. Gersten's logic is disengaged from the truth in that he is not properly apprehending the nature of reality.

In short, Mr. Gersten suffers from a bad metaphysics, not bad facts or bad logic.