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Holy crap. Good stuff.

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this is a great thread...

If we're going to get to the bottom of the UFO mystery, we do need to better understand the ways that our eyes can trick us when witnessing aerial phenomena. Scientists still don't even understand why the moon appears as big as it does when it's close to the horizon, so there's a lot that we...

My mouth dropped open when I saw that you were really citing this. There are all kinds of allegations about the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and its motives, particularly its connections to pedophilia and the CIA. The FMSF's Wikipedia page goes into some of it (and anyone interested in...

What a stupid question. Obviously you'd summon an angel riding on a unicorn, so you wouldn't have to choose.

Happy birthday! We all chipped in on an undersea lair, but we're still working out the details.

The "disclosure any day now" phenomenon would be amusing if it weren't so sad. If you count Heaven's Gate, which you kinda have to, it gets downright tragic. But starry-eyed believers trying to make a buck or letting their imaginations run wild are not the only ones to blame for this "playing...

Playing Devil's advocate: I'm not sure what this proves. People who've been through terrible upheavals often react in strange and unpredictable ways. Sometimes it's because they're in shock and haven't realized the seriousness of what's happened to them. Other times it's because human beings...

It probably is in this case; I just like the word. Maybe not "protection" -- we're all adults here -- but certainly a particular kind of consideration. The UFO phenomenon is one that can apparently produce emotional reactions anywhere from "gee whiz" to "I've just been raped." Coming forward...

There is definitely that risk, and the risk of depression just causing one to become wacky in some other, non-transformative way. At the risk of romanticizing, I do see depression as a sane reaction to an insane world. (I also think that there are probably unknown environmental factors at...

Clearly you're not from Boston. :)

That's all well and good, but what about the subconscious knowledge that the walls could burst in at any moment and you could drown instantly? Bad vibes, man.

Something else important: Other people have spoken about how hard their experiences have been for them, but MikeC is the first experiencer to come on to the Paracast who is still in obvious emotional distress. If Gene and David continue to dig deeper into the accounts of the experiencers -- and...

I've been thinking hard about men in their 40s feeling compelled to come forward now with their experiences, and why this might be. Intuitively, this struck me as being dead on, and one need only look around this forum for anecdotal evidence of it. I can't speculate on what any non-human side...

I think you mean "shteal."

Try hanging around bars at closing time. Look confident but don't talk a lot. Follow these two tips and you'll do fine. It's getting the return customers that's tricky.

The feng shui would be bad down there.

Depression -- particularly severe depression -- is the worst thing I've ever experienced. I have an aunt who's suffered from both depression and cancer, and she says she'd choose the cancer any day. One upside to it, if there is an upside, is that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger...

Brandon makes a great checklist above. I would add two other questions, if we were to make the list open-source: a) Is this person always The Great Big Hero of every story they tell? b) Does this person talk so fast that you can't tell when they're stopping to take a breath? Neither A nor B...