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He was apparently only going to get about seven years of free housing, food, clothing and health care. By simply not showing up at his sentencing, he will likely get more. Brilliant.

Dude's a genius. There's just no getting around it.

We don't know. We don't have any reliable way to know, at least not now. I don't care. It may have been a place in materialist-rationalist terms, or the legends may have some basis in fact, but it really doesn't matter to me. Certainly it exists as an allegorical construct, and a very useful one...

Waller, you would do well to learn the difference between truth and fact. They are not the same thing. Not by a long, long way. Wikipedia might be a good place to start. Facts are accepted, verifiable statements supported by other verifiable facts. Personal truths are not facts. George...

Excellent post, Thomas. I have some comments on why "The ETH" is no longer cool, and related psycho-political BS within ufoology, but I don't want to do a half-assed job so I'll wait till I have time to do it right. I'm not voting. I don't think we generally comprehend our universe or even who...

I was politely trying to suspend disbelief, while also wondering if Bill Moore has purchased any antique typewriters lately and thinking he'd have had to up his game to have produced this. Then I saw the Aztec nonsense. Please. It looks to be straight out of the existing literature, too. See...

That's just silly. Many, many people go by their middle names, and as in Strieber's case, are not generally known by any other. The point is, there is no question about who Whitley Strieber is. Not that he hasn't used sock puppets himself. A friend of mine caught him on a now long-defunct forum...

Well put. A pound of prevention is worth a ton of cure in this field!

Thanks, Mike. I was pretty sure of most of those, but this topic isn't something I'm likely to put a lot energy into. Strieber has wobbled off into his dotage on a fairly predictable arc. The details, while fascinating to some, don't matter to me. Mostly it's just sad at this point. I'm in no...

Coherence is a constant. Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is transformation. To wander the journey is to become one with it. By evolving, we live. Without beauty, one cannot believe. You must take a stand against stagnation. You may be ruled by delusion without realizing it. Do...

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So this is a fact then? An assumption? Your opinion? It's stated as a fact. Got any proof?

You are not assuming that if he had some Earth shattering evidence, he'd share it? Or that we'd know about it by now? I'm pretty sure you said something like that above, but I'm not bored enough to hunt it down. My point is, and the only reason I'm still wasting time on this, is assumptions can...

Your conclusions are only as good as your assumptions. I try to avoid assumptions. I don't think anything about what he might have, because we don't know anything about what he might have because he ain't sayin'. We don't know why he ain't sayin' either, and it's useless to make assumptions...

Heh. I knew you'd enjoy the trip. Scolding others for assuming he might have gotten something for his millions and millions while assuming his comments are coming from buyer's remorse is pretty funny. Sometimes I think Euclidean logic is just another rabbit hole in a universe strewn with them...

I disagree with some of your assumptions. I also disagree with this statement, which can't possibly be true since they don't all say the same things. Not by a long shot. Parsing nonsense with logic will get you nowhere useful, but enjoy the trip.

Maybe. My point is we don't know. Can't know, really. Dissing his opinion because we don't like his behavior gets us nowhere. That's not even logical. I said I find his statements are interesting. I also think it's interesting that you discount anything he says because of your dislike for him.

Maybe a little from Column A and some from Column B. Maybe getting here is, for them, a hell of a lot easier and less hazardous than we like to assume. We do an awful lot of assuming. So much so that many of our assumptions go completely unnoticed, or are just assumed to be unassailable facts.

I find his comments interesting simply because he has had access to information we would all love to get our hands on. What he has or has not done with that information is a separate subject; one we all have opinions on but which does not change the fact that he is an intelligent person who has...