A short but interesting piece on indirect realism and its discontents. Or malcontents? Note the weirdly strident tone: "The stakes could not be higher". Dude. Note also the mention of the old hippie (?) philosopher Gibson. Never heard of him before!
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
Krigskrediter
Okej, min rubrik är "click bait", men jag kunde inte låta bli. Dock lite överraskad över att La France Insoumise tillhör den anti-ryska vänstergruppen i EU-parlamentet. Trodde de var pro-ryska?
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Atheist pinko aliens
First, I thought that this was a *very* crude hoax, bordering the outrightly ridiculous. There is *no way* this can be a real interrogation of a space alien made by Project Blue Book. And, of course, it isn´t. It´s posted on YouTube by a film production company. In other words, it´s science fiction.
The alien is an atheist materialist (albeit with some New Age ideas), while the interrogator is presumably a Christian creationist (with traits of a Cold War anti-Communist). The conversation between them resembles a debate between atheists and Christians on the web, with the script-writer clearly being on the side of the former.
There is a thinly veiled attack on Donald Trump in one of the episodes. Apparently, he started the nuclear war which exterminated most of humanity. The few surviving humans evolved into space aliens! There is also an explicit attack on AI, perhaps inspired by "Terminator 2".
The mini-film ends with the interrogator´s assistant saving the alien from being killed by the Cold Warrior. The alien boards his UFO and swiftly steers it out of the hangar and away from prison planet...
Not the most interesting production around, perhaps, but still kind of funny watching.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Encounter at Farpoint
Copilot Designer has huge problems imagining the Socorro UFO case. This was the closest proposal...
Home to Socorro
I always considered the Socorro incident to be one of the best UFO cases on record. However, it´s also one of the most "physical" UFO cases, which is compatible with both the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (nuts-and-bolts) and some kind of earthly explanation. The fact that the military were so keen on investigating the case can likewise be given both sinister and more mundane explanations, the most obvious being that what police officer Lonnie Zamora saw in 1964 was a classified NASA test flight. The White Sands Missile Range is in the same general area of New Mexico.
The explanation favored by the content-creator who posted the video linked to above is that it was all a hoax, orchestrated by students at the nearby New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Zamora had previously worked at this university and was apparently not popular there. The problem with this scenario, as even the content-creator admits, is that it would have to be the hoax of the century!
As far as I can tell, none of the "natural" explanations can give a credible account of how the UFO could move away from the area with incredible speed, once it was up in the air...
Fairies?
Ironic lawfare?
The shenanigans around Robert F Kennedy Jr never end. After first trying to keep him off the ballot, the Democratic Party now tries to keep him *on* the ballot in certain states. The irony.
And yes, I know that the GOP threatened to keep Joe Biden on the ballot in some other states.
Democracy, American style! Ever new since the 19th century...
Finders Keepers
An interesting presentation about the Finders, a shadowy American group somewhere midbetween counter-cultural collective, child trafficking ring and CIA front operation. They were briefly featured in the media during the late 1980´s, but the police investigation against them was quickly dropped, the media changed their narrative (apparently, the Finders were weird but not Satanists), and very little was heard of the group...until previously classified FBI files were released in 2019. With all the concrete CIA-related allegations redacted out, obviously. Which kind of proves the point anyway...
What makes the Finders interesting is (of course) that they came to temporary prominence during the "Satanic Panic", which according to Skeptics was just a mass hysteria based on baseless conspiracy theories. But here, we have a group with Satanic overtones abusing children while working for the CIA. And since nothing ever happened to them, it´s plausible that somebody in the Agency had their backs...
Must be some kind of anomaly, right?
Listen, Ashtar: A letter to my younger self
HA HA HA. An old Amazon book review? Previously posted here in 2019, it seems.
I speak in love
Time for some tuff talk.
Why will Hamas defeat Israel? Think about it. The Palestinians have lost at least 40,000 people in the ongoing Gaza War. Most of Gaza is rubble. Hamas doesn´t care and are probably prepared to sacrifice just as many. And many Palestinians still support Hamas. Indeed, the "moderate" Fatah is willing to form a coalition government with them!
Israelis can´t take it when six hostages are killed.
So who do you think will win in the long run? Or even the shorter one...
Kommunal demografi
Snart kommer det här att bli det "bästa" eller "enda" argumentet för massinvandring. Alltså att "folkutbytet" faktiskt är nödvändigt. Från vår ofrivilliga grannblogg.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)