World wide, conspiracy theorists and mass media alike are keeping a nervous eye on the United States, particularly in the post 9-11 political climate. Many fear that America is turning into a “Big Brother” state, with surveillance routinely conducted on citizens suspected of being terrorists. When we aren’t watching the U.S., we are decrying the [...]
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Faked Documents - Who Cares?
Posted in Opinion on Jul 25th, 2007
The headline reads, “Leaked ‘Top Secret’ Government UFO Documents Proven Frauds”. The article then goes on to show how the infamous Majestic Documents have been proven to be fraudulent, via forensic linguistic testing. So what? Will this news ignite a controversy? Will it seriously harm UFO culture and belief? No, not really. The controversy has [...]
Faking the truth
Posted in Metaphysics, Opinion, paranormal on Jul 10th, 2007
Wikihow.com just published an article called How to Cold Read, explaining how to fake a psychic reading. In and of itself, it’s not bad. The author puts it in the context of party games and the like, which is where it belongs. The problem arises when unscrupulous individuals use this sort of trickery to dupe [...]
Achievement Through Common Sense
Posted in Metaphysics, Opinion, Philosophy on Jun 28th, 2007
Faithful rejoice! Echinacea really does work against colds, sex is good for your health, and love is better. The full moon can be dangerous for you! Science has proven it! Hoo-Rah! Myths, fables, folk remedies and superstitions flourish in our culture. We, the believers, will debate the merits of our particular topic, trading advice and [...]
The Power of Thought Pools
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy on Jun 18th, 2007
A thought pool is when a large group of people all tend to think in the same way, about a particular thing, usually a way of life or way to live life. It is larger than a meme, which is a viral idea. It’s also larger than a meme complex, which is a group of [...]
UFO’s in History
Posted in Alt History, Opinion on May 23rd, 2007
In a previous post, “Government UFO’s“, I made brief mention of ufo’s in history. Matthew Hurley, from UFOArtwork.com, has gone one better, and written an entire book on the subject entitled “The Alien Chronicles”. On his site he has many historical illustrations, frescoes, as well as some of the earliest known photographs of UFO’s. It’s [...]
World Tipping: The Domino Effect
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy on Apr 19th, 2007
Here’s a lie we’ve been told since we were little and have probably told ourselves:
Remember that childhood rhyme:
Stick and stones
May break my bones
But names will never hurt me?
There is power in words because there is consciousness and intent behind them. That means, with enough of us, we could make a lever out of our thoughts [...]
We recently watched UFO: The Secret Evidence, presented by defense journalist Nick Cook. In the Channel 4 production, Mr. Cook gives a fairly good overview of the modern UFO phenomenon, starting with Roswell and extending through the decades to our modern day. Overall, I found it quite good, except for one small point: Mr. Cook [...]