the three-hour nazi space lizardry thought experiment

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You probably thought I'd exhausted myself on my space lizardry field trips.... Well, no. I'm still spending a fair amount of time listening to the people out there who are trying to make of all this secrecy and all these outright insensible things that keep popping up line up into some sort of cogent, if fantastic, explication of reality. They are using their intellects, so they frequently dip into idiocy, but the two guys being interviewed here are not people you'd ordinarily think of as clowns. One, Hoagland, used to be Walter Cronkite's righthand man, obviously is no dope, and obviously has in fact had contact with the right sorts of people to have been saying to him what he says they've said. The other, Farrell, is an Oxford PhD who is fluent in German and has spent his life studying ancient "myths" and what the Nazis were doing. Both have published a number of books.

I'm about to turn this on and listen to the whole three hours, unless it just gets too damn nutty, even for me... or a nap takes me... and I know some of you are big on listening to stuff while you putter, so here is something waaaaay out to play in the background if you are so inclined.

In case you have forgotten, the thought experiment part is to train yourself not to disbelieve—which is the same as training yourself not to believe—to listen to these people as though everything they're saying is true—just for the duration of hearing them. You can do this with Sarah Palin as well, if you're REALLY determined to train your brain to stop ruining your life, but, while long, this sort of thing may actually be easier to manage... your ego, probably, being less vigilant against Nazi war criminals and space lizards than it is against Mrs. Palin....

We're giving our own minds little breathing holes in their boxes. We're looking for ways that are not so painful we won't do the work. We're not working on belief and disbelief. We're working on ways to let our minds escape always defaulting to what they already think, ways to make the mental conditioning of living in this world loosen its grasp, ways to prepare ourselves to recognize reality, recognize what we see, stop being paralyzed by the mindfuckers....
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