Posted on 05/02/2021 5:13:44 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Possibly. Do you have any evidence of that or is it just a supposition?
Wow, that must have been a heck of an experience! Not something you'd expect in the ordinary course of a regular day on the job.
Bring. It. On. I am so sick of the way the world has gone.
That wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
“There are many thousands of people who claim that ETs have communicated with them.”
That doesn’t surprise me - we humans are a superstitious lot.
Hundreds of millions of humans - a majority in fact - believe (with zero evidence) that death is not final - that we live forever! Not only that, but in this “afterlife”, we are young and healthy again, all our wishes come true and we enjoy eternal peace and joy! Isn’t that wonderful?
It seems that through natural selection, a strong tendency toward hope and optimism have been passed on as a survival trait. Apparently, we function and survive better when we have faith in a joyous future - so much hope that we want to cling to life - and fight to survive!
The fact is that although we like to think we are rational, we humans mostly believe whatever makes us feel better, cope better.
Just to be clear—these humans are not “superstitious” and they are not “making it up”.
_Something_ happened to them, they do not understand it, and they are trying their best to explain it.
Some claim it is positive, some claim it is negative, some claim it has neither characteristic.
What we humans are is very complicated—and our belief systems are very complicated.
And—the universe itself is very complicated and does not always obey human beliefs or human science.
While individual experiences should not be blindly believed, they should not be blindly dismissed either.
“Just to be clear—these humans are not “superstitious” and they are not “making it up”._Something_ happened to them, they do not understand it, and they are trying their best to explain it.”
You can’t really speak for all people - it’s fact that a huge percentage of people are extremely superstitious - superstitious enough to believe in a spiritual afterlife for which there is no proof.
And plenty of people make things up for various reasons - people tell “tall tales” all the time.
Many people also believe they experienced things that didn’t actually happen - delusions, hallucinations - or simply an inability to distinguish between dreams and reality - or inability to know where their imaginary.
Sure, it’s POSSIBLE that some stories of alien abduction are true - but given nobody can prove it - it’s far more likely that it didn’t happen.
Just like BigFoot. All these BigFoots running around and not one skeleton, not one captured, not one case of slam dunk proof? Give me a break.
My questions would be: "How long have they been misleading us? Who have they been working with?"
Aw hell. I got it all wrong. I thought a giant tic tac hovered over the U.S. capitol and pooped out a Pelosi.
if they were that widespread not even the media could hide it .
Haven’t you learned anything about the LSM? If it is not reported by the LSM most people do not believe it happened. Therefore the media actually hide a lot of things by not reporting them to the general public. Another tactic is to bury the report where most would not look. Another tactic is to lie about what happened. Oh the media can hide lots and lots of things. And they do every single day of the year.
Considering that most sightings do not get reported because of the stigma associated with this phenomenon that a lot of sightings do not get reported to anyone. Except in the rare cases like the Phoenix Lights where it got wide *local* reporting because too many people reported seeing the same thing.
Ask any pilot how if they report a UFO what happens to their careers after making a report. Their careers are essentially over. So this stays on the hush-hush due to people saying this does not happen.
Maybe if these things were reported on every single day, you would think differently. But because of your mindset, out of sight out of mind, you believe this doesn’t happen as frequently as you assume. A website you might want to look at to open your eyes is the MUFON website where they do report on this phenomenon everyday.
And full disclosure, I believe because I have seen one at a very close distance. It wasn’t reported because I was 5 at the time. My brother saw it too but for over 25 years denied he ever saw it. Then he revealed to my younger brother what he saw but told no one else. Vindicated yes, but damage was done. So it is no wonder why people don’t report these things more frequently.
Another instance you might check out is the O’Hara Airport sightings by hundreds of people that never made the news. Just because the news does not report on it does not mean that it did or did not happen. I would be more worried about witnesses saying one thing and the news saying something else like it was a weather balloon.
Just like BigFoot. All these BigFoots running around and not one skeleton, not one captured, not one case of slam dunk proof? Give me a break.
Because it is easier to believe that it didn’t happen or doesn’t exist than it did happen or does exist. Give you a break, nah because you have never been or put yourself in a situation to determine the truth other than sit on the couch eating potato chips and render a decision as you watch biased television. You might as well believe there is a sky fairy in the sky most call god. You can’t prove that god exists, no one can. Yet people believe in the magical sky fairy. What you have a book called a Bible? That was written by humans. No proof of the magical sky fairy. Proof that things happened once upon a time but still no proof of the sky fairy.
If you go around life looking for “proof” you will miss a lot.
“Prove” you are in love.
“Prove” you are happy.
“Prove” you are good.
Most of the interesting things in life—that really matter to actual people—cannot be “proved”.
It turns out that “proof” is a matter of perspective and cultural norms and technology.
Try “proving” that a cell phone works to someone in the year 1500. There would be nobody to call.
For that matter try “proving” that the Earth is round to a primitive tribe.
Try “proving” to the locals in 1600s New England that your wife is not a witch.
No proof? Can you answer these questions:
Have you ever read the Bible or earnestly sought out God to reveal the truth to you? You may not think there is proof of God's existence but there are millions of people who do not doubt He does. The Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" It also says, "The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork." There IS proof - loads of it - if you honestly look for it. I hope you will.
[The aliens removed those pesky Christians in a twinkling of an eye.]
Yep.
Now, the Global New World Order can enjoy “peace and security” under the “new messiah” dude.
Peru
Sardinia
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[Cronkite first promoted the war in SE Asia, then turned against it after the resounding victory over the Viet Cong during the Tet offensive.]
“And even Cronkite now says the war is unwinnable”.
“Joker, you still here?”
“If you go around life looking for “proof” you will miss a lot.”
You completely misunderstood.
I don’t go around looking for proof, because I am perfectly content not knowing things that are beyond our scope of knowledge.
We have no way of knowing who or what might populate remote galaxies, or what their technology might be. We have no way of knowing anything about the past or the future, other than what we can learn from science.
You are welcome to guess at these things but you can’t KNOW them - yet you seem to be claiming knowledge.
A rational person is fine with not knowing what can’t be known. A superstitious person is uncomfortable not knowing, so he pretends he knows things he can’t know - filling in the blanks with his imagination.
I ask you for proof not because I need it - but because YOU need it in order to back up your claim of knowledge.
Belief is a claim of knowledge. You believe in all sorts of things you can’t prove - and that’s the very definition of superstition.
I think Cronkite did it in anticipation of Nixon getting elected, knowing it would then become the albatross around Nixon’s neck.
I’m Not understanding your post.
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