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I guess I just really need a rest from the lies and masses out there processing the oceans of propaganda today. I've had a browse, been several places where there are usually headlines that lead me off down my daily path, but they're falling on deaf eyeballs today, and I'm finding myself preferring stuff where I can very peacefully have no opinion at all, just listen to the strains of the real poking through the confused processing of men still too anchored to consensus to try to speak of this stuff without the baggage.
Yes. I am beginning to think that very much of the talk of alien visitations are really visits with parts of our own greater intelligence, recountings of dreams where metaphor seems to take various shapes. Truth is alien to this species in this incarnation of its consensus, so I don't find it at all surprising it would try to come through and be imprinted with the images of sage and kindly aliens showing us what we are too conditioned and lazy to just know straight up.
I keep remembering Libby, who oft insisted to me that she knew a woman who could walk through walls, insisted she'd seen her do it. Insisted. Said that same woman held that she could go to the moon for tea any time she pleased. Libby was very important to me. She worked with me when I was a very young girl. We were aces together at our jobs. I knew Libby as well as I've ever known anyone, and she was almost never off the subject of truth. She may have had her delusions and her resentments and pain too permanently acute to bear this world, but lying was never something she could do, wouldn't even try to pull off. So I remember this about her when I listen to these people, see ways they can be telling the complete truth, even if some of it is metaphor they have mistaken for actuality.
Or, maybe I only flatter myself, but I think if space aliens were going to visit with anyone on earth, they'd've picked me. I'm still not 100% on the story my mother tells about me being born here. Keeps seeming to me the only cogent explanation would be that I was brought here in a space pod, maybe switched in the hospital with my mother's daughter, but my DNA seems to too closely resemble my father's....
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Tongue firmly in cheek...
ReplyDeleteYou know, I used to love how with-it sarcasm and satire made me feel, but somehow I have managed to see that it's maybe even worse boneheaded and dangerous than those we think are dangerous boneheads. For instance, what dangerous bonehead has ever responded positively to sarcasm in your experience? So doesn't the persistence of sarcasm indicate thinking well of ourselves is more important to us than any other thing? It ALWAYS persists despite continued proof that it only worsens things... even if we want to count the temporary relief we get from frustration we get out of it. Is it worth it?
ReplyDeleteI mean, I don't mean to sound cranky... I think I'm just reminded too much of the bottomless twaddle yonder... that I endured for too many years... focussing on endurance, rather than the injunction not to waste time with bad associations.... So, maybe my sense of humor is not what it could be... but the guy's piece just made me mad.
ReplyDeleteI've been working behind the scenes to help a guy, whose stuff is really good, get the partisanship out of his work, and my mind is really on this stuff.
No shit, BB2, they ARE gearing up for WWIII.
I want us to be more effective against it this time.
Regarding aliens here's my 2 cents: I'm certain that they don't exist in our solar system; beyond that I'm not sure but what I do know is that the next star system from ours, Alpha Centauri, is so far away that even if they did exist there for example they could literally never get to earth because of the immense distance. Since nothing with mass can even approach the speed of light it would take thousands of years for the hypothetical aliens to make the journey. Regardless of how different they might be from people on earth I seriously doubt that any being even if it lived long enough to make the journey would want to waste thousands of years flying through space to get to earth. So I think that even if they exist, for our purposes they may as well not because we'll almost certainly never be aware of them.
ReplyDeleteAs for the matter of UFOs that many, many people around the world have definitely seen I am not doubting that they saw UFOs or thinking they're delusional but rather that what they saw wasn't extraterrestrial in origin at all. The best explanation I've found is that late in World War II the Nazi aeronautical scientists developed an idea for an aircraft that had the entire underside of it being able to create lift instead of a traditional airplane with wings. Well this design looked like a "flying saucer". Surely you're familiar with Operation: Paperclip in which the U.S. government at the end of the war rounded up as many Nazi scientists as they could find and brought them back to the U.S. like Werner von Braun so they could continue their work. Well I'm pretty sure that they must have captured the guys who created that flying saucer aircraft design and brought their prototype with them back to the U.S. to continue perfecting it. The war (in Europe) ended 8 May 1945 and people first started seeing a lot of UFOs in about 1947. That would have given von Braun and the rest of the scientists time to have gotten settled into their new surroundings and restarted their work, then in 1947 began flight testing. People see the flying saucers, assume it's from another planet because it's not something they're familiar with and the Air Force, trying to keep their secret technology a secret, deny everything and claim the people saw weather balloons or the planet Venus or some nonsense. Naturally this doesn't wash so people get suspicious and the Air Force to try to lead them down a blind alley probably helped foster the aliens meme to discredit people claiming to see strange flying objects in the sky. Over the years they've continued their development, accounting for the multiple variants of "flying saucer" that have been described by various eyewitnesses over decades. There you have it, flying saucers that are completely terrestrial in origin.
Dude, you are waaaaay behind in space lizardry researches! They can fold space and get here from millions of light years away in under an hour.
ReplyDeleteIf you go down to the bottom of my sidebar there are all kinds of interesting links to researchers like Joseph Farrell and Peter Levenda who speak about the Nazi Bell and Paperclip, have set out a lot of stuff that is in basic agreement on the matter of it being, if not completely terrestrial, definitely mostly terrestrial.
I like listening to the alternative science and history guys because they are more prone to telling the truth. Sometimes their ideas of what is true is pretty out there, but laced all through what they say is a lot of good stuff to hear. So we look at it as a thought experiment to just listen to them without agreeing or disagreeing, just hearing them. It's a way to help open our heads, loosen the knots propaganda has tied in our innate reasoning processes....
I'm pretty sure the guys who insist they've been visited by sage aliens mean they have been visited by their OWN greater intelligence and space alien visits is the only way their lower intelligence can process these events... because I know for CERTAIN the guys aren't lying. They may have it confused, injected their experiences with so much dream metaphor they can't tell from actuality, that they are deceived about the source, but they really, very seriously, aren't lying.
"I'm pretty sure the guys who insist they've been visited by sage aliens mean they have been visited by their OWN greater intelligence"
ReplyDeleteOr I've always thought it would be an interesting psychological experiment for them to use an Air Force flying saucer near some lonely stretch of desert highway waiting for some unsuspecting motorist to happen along who then sees the UFO land, then guys in alien costumes taser him, throw him in the back of a van which the inside is made up to look like he would imagine some high-tech "alien" spacecraft must look, shove a "probe" (tire iron) up his ass, shoot him up full of methadone and place him safely back in his car at the end of it all. Then keep him under surveillance to see if/how he describes his experience. Presto! Instant "alien abduction"!
Sounds like an awful lot of work to me.
ReplyDeleteSeems easier to just fly the saucers around and let people too "stupid" to nut up about it sound like maniacs. They don't grok that we have the technology to do that stuff. WE TRAIN THEM TO BELIEVE IT DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AT UNIVERSITY. So they're going to think they're aliens no matter what, and there HAS to be a better way to make them feel the aliens are malevolent than abducting people all over the place.
I have had dreams I outright could NOT tell from actuality. My sister is worse, has to ask people regularly if such and such happened or not, so it really isn't stretching it that so many people would have these abduction dreams and INSIST they actually happened. I insisted on the telephone with the office from bed that I had been there working my butt off all morning too many times. I did, of course, realize at some point that I was making these protestations from bed, which was proof enough for me that I was mistaken, but it wouldn't be like that with abduction dreams....
ReplyDeleteOh I was just being silly anyway (and I was thinking more along the lines of the saucers being flown by remote control because the insect-like maneuvers that they make would be way too much G-forces for a human or human-like pilot to endure.) Just with the van parked behind some camelthorn or something. :P I was serious about UFOs being most likely terrestrial and German in origin but I was just being silly about the abduction mess.
ReplyDeleteI had a recurring dream when I was younger that I was exquisitely tiny and inside the human body, and was able to see the internal organs at work, only they were mechanical, with pistons and belted pulleys and whatnot right next to muscle and bone. It was creepy.
... but Woody Allen would have LOVED it....
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