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The ceremony of the bread and the wine is, essentially, cannibalism. And it seems to be motivated by the same kind of reasoning. By eating the fallen "god" (in this case) you take on his attributes (namely, eternal life).

In the end, though, all history books -- regardless of who writes them -- are fiction. You have a few blips of raw data. What goes between is "your" interpretation. You weren't there. You don't really know what the participants were thinking or truly being motivated by. Even memoirs are...

I must be a terrible person, but I still feel myself tending toward the "manifestation of the collective unconscious" for abductions. Reading Jacobs' book -- THE THREAT -- I see nothing particularly imaginative in these reports. Encounters with the Alien/Other are depicted in a rather...

Of course that's exactly why we need to terraform Mars. We need a backup planet. You don't want to fiddle around with where you're living. What if you screw it up worse? Mars would make a good testbed. It's far enough away that 60 minutes can't get to it to do an expose'.

Well, I'm glad we got that all cleared up.

Okay, okay, I'm a crass imperialist. I admit it. But let's cut the crap and start terraforming.

Well, I for one am not trying to say that the bible does not contain some degree of historical truth in it. Again, if you can read between the lines and squeeze it out, then fine. But that's not easy. I am saying that, in most cases, the bible (and books like it) are not documentary...

Maybe it's their "stargate"? Seriously -- and of course this is speculating up a dark alley -- but what would a ring-shaped flying structure be used for (in practical terms)? (Unless, of course, you're a large, tubular-shaped alien.) Scanning? Really something like a "gate" or port?

Assuming the hybrid-thing is true -- and not a collective unconscious myth icon -- then you have to consider: (1.) As already stated, are they genetically related to us in the first place? (2.) Or is this just performance art designed to acclimate us to their future, full-time presence...

Well, if it was a smoke-ring, it seems to be trapped in suspension somehow and very stable. One half of it even seems to be partly within the cloud. The various dynamics of the cloud, you would think, would disrupt any strange thermal suspension effects. To all appearances, it is just...

Sometimes...I do get the nagging impression that we live under a nondisclosure agreement. We can ask questions. But the answers we think we have are all strictly our own.

Great vid! I think this is the fundamental problem we face when exploring the paranormal. We think the universe is an objective reality -- and on some level, maybe it is. But our every perception of it is subjective. And all of our subjective perceptions color what we think we see. In...

Yes, I think this is another valid theory -- and it may even be a sort of Unified Paranormal Field Theory. I mean, it sort of ties together ghost-sightings and remote viewing... A traumatic event might send out psychic ripples that can be sensed in various ways. Some of us might tap into them...

I suppose it's like the abduction scenario. This would be easy to have fun with and try to poke holes in it...except for those nagging impressions of my own. Because of my own quasi-experiences, I dunno. I end up relating to the kid.

Jacobs/Hopkins on hybrids The thing that I find most troubling about this idea* -- and maybe I'm just lacking in imagination here -- is that (assuming the traditional ET model) the Greys (or whatever) would presumably have a totally different biology and they would have evolved from a...

Maybe. Maybe not. How can we project our values or perspective onto the Alien/Other and think to understand what motivates them? Around my house, there's this squirrel. The really odd thing about this squirrel is that she initiated contact with me. (In effect, she tamed me.) Now I give her...

I can see it now Sarah Palin will declare herself to be the two witnesses and will be installed as Reich Chancellor for life. :D

I think Socialism is the last of our problems. The biggest problem is that after the Feds absorb all our bad debts, then the next big bubble to burst will be the United States itself. Think Weimar Republic.

Actually -- what I think you're saying here -- I find very interesting. And it fits with what I've discovered in a completely different area. My wife introduced me to Chinese astrology. Now, Chinese astrology is very different from Western astrology. Western astrology attempts to be predictive...

Caveats Of course, this is a vision for humanity as a species. And as a Singularity implies, the new world will be very different from the present. It does not promise the survival of any particular nation or creed... (In fact, it almost certainly promises that they won't [survive].) It...