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Strangely enough I've been in that situation, the first time was in college and a crazy country bumpkin pointed a shotgun at me for being about 20 feet away from his driveway. I was picking something up that rolled down the street, and I didn't even see him 20 feet away until he cocked the...

I agree to a certain extent, there isn't much new in ufology where hard empirical evidence is concerned, because there doesn't seem to be anything new with the stance of those in scientific institutions. And I personally don't think we should expect that stance to change any time soon. But I...

Like that Byrds song, I do think there's a time for everything, and likewise a time for force. But I can't help feeling that the western world generally errs on the side of too much force rather than too little. So I kinda feel that the pacifist stance in general is the one that will bring...

The idea of empowering the average man so that they are better equipped to resist the coercion of the powerful has much appeal to me. But I can't help but feel that empowerment through weapons is like slaying Frankenstein's monster and replacing him with the werewolf. It is prolonging a cycle...

Well I doubt the institutions will change, but I do think there have always been individuals outside of the institutions who are living the idealistic concept of science that is described in that video. But those members of the institution of science are mostly clock-punchers, celebrities and...

You're right, I agree with the video in principle. It's mainly his assertion of "unscientific" concepts that is hypocritical and inaccurate.

The examples you gave are not examples of science or scientists. They are examples of technicians and humanitarian organizations. I work at a software company, my co-worker is on a team developing an open-source chess engine. Is he a scientist? Not to most peoples' consideration. What I...

Ok, just stop for a moment and consider this: Do you think that all the civilian citizens of Nazi Germany were inhuman Jew-hating monsters? Do you think that all the people who lived in the South US during slavery were terrible human beings? No, by a GREAT majority they were simply...

Interesting video. Too bad the video's description of science doesn't reflect science in reality, even in the slightest. Perhaps at one time in history the highest goal of science was to understand the reality in which we exist, but today science is simply a business, or another branch of...

Mantid encounter #1 I'm familiar with that state, I associate it with a different level of consciousness (for lack of a better term). For myself it's happened often in the time when I've just awoken, where I feel totally normal and lucid but I'm still in some sort of altered state. For...

Don't know, but one possibility is that the intelligence exists among us, ala Mac Tonnies. It would serve to keep us feeling secure and avoid panic to give the public the impression that this intelligence is something "out there" that pays a visit, and then leaves.

I guess not so much dropped it entirely, but rather dropped it as the "end-all-be-all" of the ufo mystery.

Mantid encounter #1 I for one would really like to hear the second mantis story.

Nice show, I like all the speakers but I feel like it was sort of a preaching-to-the-choir episode. I think the audience for the paracast is generally more informed regarding these topics, and the informed public has for the most part already dropped the ETH, Roswell and MJ12. There are no...

This is a compelling idea. However, if "alien abductions" are in reality hypnotically implanted by human agencies using some sort of advanced human technology, it seems that it would have malfunctioned more than just once in the history of abduction literature.

Yea I agree, but I still don't enjoy watching those kinda things. Just an aesthetic choice I guess. Ah thanks for that link! Someone was telling me about this movie... they said that it was being directed by David Bowie's son, is that true?

This post is almost completely false, top to bottom. Unfortunately this is a subject that americans are WAYYY to indoctrinated to ever look at rationally, so we'll just agree to disagree.

Ok I gotta contribute some music to the thread. This is an old manchester band called The Chameleons: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=""...

Yea I really liked that movie (Pan's Labyrinth), but it was a little more violent than I expected. I'm not really into the graphic violence.

The wondrous success of capitalism is a mythology, and people in the west not only believe in this mythology, but worship it. This wondrous social and economic model is one of the direct causes for the wondrous social and economic implosion on the horizon. From a psychological standpoint...