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"Contrast the way UFO belief operates with historical celestial apparitions, such as the aerial phenomena associated with the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal..."
"... on October, 13, 1917. On that day, approximately 70,000 people reported witnessing a variety of celestial phenomena. The people ranged from devout Catholics to atheists and skeptics who were there to disprove the testimonies of witnesses. But the institutional church influenced the interpretation of that event, and the devout welcomed their interpretation. The UFO community is not as trusting. It is characterized by suspicion of conventional authority, be that the Catholic Church or the U.S. government. Rather than being defined by a hierarchy, UFO belief has been shaped by pop culture. For decades, films and television series such as 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' offered cosmologies populated with advanced intelligences. These stories did not create belief in UFOs, but they helped establish a cultural vocabulary through which anomalous experiences could be understood. Most significantly, 'The X Files' popularized the idea that governments conceal knowledge about nonhuman intelligence.... Each new file release, leaked testimony or declassified video generates further interpretation rather than closure. The two most famous catchphrases from 'The X Files' — 'I want to believe' and 'the truth is out there' — express this perfectly...."
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If someone is out there, it's scary.
If no one is out there, it's scarier.
Alien abductions are real. They're unattached infant memories of having a diaper changed.
The last post on this subject bewildered me in one way. Talk of UFOs immediately veers into “belief” and is often attached to the subject “aliens” although neither belief nor aliens is necessary to observe a flying object one is unable to identify.
For contrast consider the implied obverse: people exist who don’t believe that any flying objects are unidentifiable.
Almost every Project Blue Book investigation is about observers, eye witnesses, to something unidentified. Only the fictional version has a fetish with alien beings. Yes there are “kidnap” accounts too and other oddities but the main theme was flying craft.
“ But the institutional church influenced the interpretation of that event, and the devout welcomed their interpretation.”
The Virgin Mary had been appearing to three peasant children once a month since May of that year, 1917. They were roundly dismissed by families and friends; the local bishop was skeptical to say the least; civil aithorities persecuted them. And then The Virgin told the children that on her last apparition in October, she would effect a great sign. This is what Catholics call the “ miracle of the sun”, seen by approximately 100,000 people including hostile reporters and scientists. The church investigates supernatural phenomena for years before making a determination, and finally determined that the events at Fatima were of supernatural origin. No one is required to believe it, of course. But to imply that the church was spinning this to exploit the ignorant masses is just bunk.
People are pushing the UFO stuff as a distraction.
It is just the entities running our simulation messing with us.
Joe Bar said...
If someone is out there, it's scary...If no one is out there, it's scarier.
Or, the Gospels are historical and spiritual truth, and that feels really good.
As humans, being the top of to food chain, many believe we are also the top of the dimensional life chain. Aliens, whether real or not, just reinforce those who cannot imagine life outside the third dimension.
Physics theories like Space-Time Relativity, String Theory, Kaluza-Klein theory rely on dimensions beyond the third.
The Gospels are real. God is real. Jesus is real. Mary is real. And so is the promised life after death.
The bezos post dismissing Christians again
The internet has confirmed my recollection that "Felipe Fernández-Armesto has indeed described the belief in a spirit world as a significant and important development in the history of human thought."
I may well live long enough to see in the Washington Post clickbait along the lines of "The Matrix files reveal a hidden truth about a growing religion/Belief in the Matrix is on the rise — fueled by declining trust in institutions"
Aerial phenomena as a glitch in the Matrix and all that.
YES, exactly what Caroline said at 5/16/26, 8:08 AM.
What is it with people who speculate on UFOs, with very limited data, rejecting an institution like the Catholic Church, which is far more skeptical and demanding than any of the UFO religionists?
"...Belief in alien life is on the rise — fueled by declining trust in institutions" ....."
Well, if any intergalactic aliens do eventually show up, by God I'll vote for'em.
Joe Bar said...
If someone is out there, it's scary.
If no one is out there, it's scarier.
Whatever created the universe made it so that if there are others out there they are so spread out by both space and time it will be essentially impossible for us to meet.
In Stork They Trust
And shes a professor of religion who knows nothing about the subject
I don't trust Google news, Microsoft News. (MSN)
MSNBC - again Microsoft. now BS Now. No Trust.
Those 2 are far far left. No trust.
Is belief in aliens and their spaceships really on the rise though? In the early days of the space age, we thought all things were possible. Now the realization is sinking in that intergalactic, and even interstellar, space travel is unlikely and that we may, for all practical purposes, be alone in the universe.
It's not only religion that is losing trust, it's government, so when we see those lights in the sky, we figure it's something Uncle Sam (or Uncle Vlad or Uncle Xi) cooked up.
It's all good times and fun until they break out the anal probe.
Who's fueling whom?
It makes just as much--or little--sense to say that declining trust in institutions fuels interest in the inexplicable things people observe or claim to observe.
"For decades, films and television series such as 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' offered cosmologies populated with advanced intelligences."
More importantly, they encouraged the notion that it was somehow possible to cover intergalactic distances in a curiously unspecified but apparently brief period. Kirk boinked babes on six different planets in less time than it took Columbus to get to the Bahamas.
Geographically nearly all so called UFO sightings are in the U.S. Probably a sign of poor mental health more than anything.
Funny how things have changed over my lifetime. The press used to pride itself on challenging the rich and powerful. We weren't supposed to "Trust the man".
Now, the MSM spends all its time trying to paint anyone who wants to question authority with the Kook brush. Crazy peasants believing in UFOs, Gosh what's next, questioning the validity of the J6 commission or the SCOTUS?
Anyway, large numbers of Republicans may not believe in God, or Jesus Christ, but they do believe in Israel. And isn't that all that matters?
My impression is that large numbers of people, who don't care about politics or religion, just latch on to UFOs as something fun to talk about. I'm too serious, I just find it dumbx2, but the same sort of people used to got to fortune tellers or believe in astrology.
I would love to see evidence of alien contact, but the reality is quite otherwise.
It's a fascinating topic to discuss, but there are only 3 facts available for consideration: there are mind-boggling numbers of extra-terrestrial planets, life appeared on Earth, no single scientifically verifiable instance of alien activity has ever been observed.
However advanced your technology is, you can't exceed light speed, so you're doomed to stay in your own cosmic backyard.
If there are aliens who know better, where are they?
In 1917 they asked 70,000 people? I'm skeptical.
"Alien abductions are real. They're unattached infant memories of having a diaper changed."
Somebody's parents were messed up.
Are there aliens in this galaxy? I used to think yes, of course there are. The galaxy is an immense place. This is it's size (maybe, sort of...):
Width (Diameter): 100,000 light-years
Thickness at spiral arms: 1000 light-years
Thickness at the central bulge: somewhere between 10 and 30 thousand light-years
How many stars? Estimated between 100 and 400 billion.
That's big, and a lot of stars.
I used to believe, "Of course there's intelligent life out there!" Now? There likely isn't. Why the change? The study of things that cannot actually be studied in any meaningful way. Too many uncertainties, but...
First, The Fermi Question, over and above the class of questions known as Fermi questions: "Where are they?" This question comes from an earlier question he gave to a group of students- "How many civilizations are there in this galaxy more then 50 thousand years older then us?" The answer IIRC was about 50. We know how to travel at 10% of light speed, it's a trivial engineering problem to do so and build generation ships that can do it. If 50 or more existed, not only would there be overwhelming evidence they were out there, but we would be them.
Fermi's students didn't use the Drake Equation (aka the Greenbank Equation) N = R∗ × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L. But no matter how you guesstimate, no matter how many other factors you throw in, everyone always comes up with an N far greater then 1.
Where to start your journey? The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by Barrow and Tipler. Buried in this is a philosophical point. In order for a universe to exist, it must be observed. Which means there must be an observer within the universe. Which means a universe without intelligent live cannot exist. And then this can be boiled down to what is referred to as the "Ultimate Anthropic Principle". One intelligence is necessary and sufficient for a universe to exist, and we are that sole intelligence. Also compatible with Genesis 1.1: "And God created the heavens and the earth."
Contemplating the existence of aliens can lead you down many rabbit holes.
"In 1917 they asked 70,000 people? I'm skeptical."
They were all in one place, Fatima, it makes it sound like the phenomena were seen worldwide, obviously factors of social pressure, etc, were involved.
"The study of things that cannot actually be studied in any meaningful way."
You mean that it's just one more form of theology, where "truth value" derives solely from authority, no matter how you dress it up with "math" and "logic"? You can't prove a negative, and absence of evidence without an impossible comprehensive examination of the space involved, is not evidence of absence, but you can't prove a positive without evidence either, the best you can do is say "If my reasoning is correct, then there is X probability of whatever."
When did this blog become a haven for Bible thumpers? I guess when all of Trump's other supporters abandoned him. Not to worry though, Netanyahu has Trump's ear and probably Hegseth is being drilled in his Bible Study classes on the "He shall strike through kings" doctrine all week, and it will be a long weekend with markets closed, coming up, so I guess the Bible thumpers are in the ascendency right now, and the battle with Gog and Magog is on!, we are being used by a foreign nation to co-opt our military. I remember raising an eyebrow when George W Bush started talking about his Bible study classes, but it all makes sense now.
My belief in government is growing.
I believe we are run by ruthless hacks who seek nothing but wealth, power, dominance, recognition and a means to fulfill their debt to the devil.
I forgot to throw weird sex in there.
The next closest star system to us with a Sun-like star is Epsilon Eridani, located about 10.5 light-years away. Slightly further out, at 11.9 light-years away, lies Tau Ceti. Both stars are excellent, nearby analogs to our own Sun.
If we could travel at 50,000 miles per second or 100 million MPH, it would take 39 years. How fast is that? Its about to Sun and back in 2 hours.
"In order for a universe to exist, it must be observed. Which means there must be an observer within the universe. Which means a universe without intelligent live cannot exist."
Sounds a little self-important. Was there no universe here before humans evolved to be "intelligent"? At what level of intelligence did the universe pop into being? I guess you can get around that by arguing time doesn't exist, but then everything is possible, a theory that should be called "Optimism".
BTW, at 1/4 the speed of light:
a 1-ounce object striking a spaceship releases approximately \(8.36 \times 10^{13}\) Joules of kinetic energy, which is equivalent to a 20-Kiloton nuclear explosion. This is enough energy to instantly vaporize the object and shatter or critically compromise the spaceship.
Anybody else notice that some formerly "normal" commenters became mildly mentally ill after getting the vax shots several years ago?
Yes, Full Moon. when did you get vaxxed?
imTay said...
When did this blog become a haven for Bible thumpers?
Which way would you have it? Is it supposed to be a haven for Godless Atheists only?
The post and the article start out talking about Our Lady of Fatima. Perhaps you say it's bullshit, I absolutely believe it's real. Same with Our Lady of Guadalupe, Lourdes etc...
There are 100 million Catholics in Mexico, Central and South America combined. Our Lady of Guadalupe is real to them, and they don't vote for Donald Trump. People have held faith long before Donald Trump became part of our politics. One has nothing to do with the other.
There is certainly a lot more eye witness and consistent documentation to back up God, Jesus, and Mary. More than UFOs.
FullMoon said...
Anybody else notice that some formerly "normal" commenters became mildly mentally ill after getting the vax shots several years ago?
I for one have NEVER claimed to be 'normal' and I am in the minority of Americans that avoided and refused the clot shot.
That alone makes me abnormal. But thank God I didn't.
There's a t-shirt out there that says "I Wanted to Believe But Government Says That They Were Real"
Observable, reproducible processes, phenomena in the near frame, or signals, signs of unknown origin and fidelity? There is an inferential pattern to secular faith.
Tau ceti is where they found the face hugger
There are complex engineering hurdles star trek came up with inertial dampeners for instance
"RCOCEAN II said...
Yes, Full Moon. when did you get vaxxed?"
Yep, got the first two. Required in order to buy groceries, get into Home D and auto parts store. More inf o came out, skipped the rest, hoped for the best. Only got the virus twice afterwards. First time, pretty decent flu, second time, surprisingly tested positive entering hospital while accompanying someone else to E.R.
And, Like Gusty and others here, always been a little off, but hide it well.
As a pre-teen spending summer near rez, wise old Indian shook his head and told me "Kid, it's always a full moon when you are around." Pretty sure that was a compliment.
“ There is certainly a lot more eye witness and consistent documentation to back up God, Jesus, and Mary. More than UFOs.”
All of those seem very camera shy, for some reason.
Of course weyland yutani already knew
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
"..neither belief nor aliens is necessary to observe a flying object one is unable to identify.."
how many UFOs are metors (or planets)?
how many are tanker planes?
how many are spy planes?
and finally.. how many are Unfocused Objects?
"..There is certainly a lot more eye witness and consistent documentation to back up God, Jesus, and Mary. More than UFOs..."
i think it's interesting; that:
a) GOD *must* not be real, because you can't Prove he exists..
b) Aliens *must* be real, because you can't Prove they DON'T exist
FullMoon, vaxxed twice and got it twice. About normal, and a data point showing the uselessness of the shots.
My wife and I- unvaxxed- got it twice. First time she got it from someone in church, and passed it to me. Second time was when the version that was supposedly as infectious as measles was going around. I got it from a twice vaxxed person who was showing to symptoms the night of our troop meeting, but had symptoms and tested positive the next day. Another data point showing that asymptomatic infections could spread. From the vaccinated. My wife started symptoms the day after I did. And a BTW- we both recovered completely a day before my twice vaxxed buddy. As soon as he called and told me we started taking the recommended ivermectin dose. from the Front Line Critical Care Alliance, now the Independent Medical alliance. (https://imahealth.org/)
I guess the whole thing can be wrapped up with the observations that the credible reports about alien appearances seemed to have dropped off at about the same time that everybody started carrying around a high-resolution camera in their pocket.
Mike.
There is anothr interesting phenomenon out there. I read it in Science or Scientific American,(before it became a AGW advocate), and that is balls of plasma. There is an interesting phenomena around active fault lines. And that is that they produce plasma that glows or reacts to sunlight. It can jet off in random directions and disappear entirely. It may or may not appear on radar. I think that may depend on density.
We have not now, nor have we ever been, visited by intelligence from another planet. There is simply no objective scientific proof.
imTay said...
When did this blog become a haven for Bible thumpers?
Remember Tim thought we were all going to die in an "exponential" COVID apocalypse if we didn't lock everything down and hide indoors.
Are you actually an atheist?
The dumbest people in this world are atheists who think they are smarter than people who believe in the bible.
Tim is afraid of God.
I understand that the Webb Telescope has shown that the cosmos is a lot bigger and stranger than previously thought. Not billions and billions, but trillions and trillions of stars......I believe that both cosmologists and quantum physicists are agreed that their particular area of study is incomprehensible by the human mind. There are small limited areas that make sense, but most of it is mystery......I don't rule out the existence of God, but I don't see much in the way of Divine Providence in human affairs, but, of course, I only understand these things as a human.....I was just reading about the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Reading about the lives and struggles of those who found God in that era is not in any way inspirational. They were all men of integrity, intelligence, and faith, and they were all lunatics--as, of course, we all are.
Interesting that the new Spielberg movie coming out in July, "Disclosure Day" will be about an alien encounter...well...actually a visit. The writer of the story says that religious belief will play a significant role in this movie, which I'm sure will be a blockbuster hit. That is unless it shows religious belief to be a good, in which case the NYT and WaPo will jump in and proceed to rip it apart.
God is extra universal. Earth is but a proving ground. Religion is a role model with principles. Faith is a logical domain built on trust. Science is a philosophy and practice in the near-domain.
Fantasy is the fourth logical domain where the unexplained, the inexplicable evolve without an apparent fitness function.
you all Do realize, don't you?
that there are more hydrogen atoms in a water molecule,
than there are stars in the solar system?
"Anybody else notice that some formerly "normal" commenters became mildly mentally ill after getting the vax shots several years ago?"
I assumed the shot was a vaccine like previous ones I've had. I got two shots, then I found out how it was actually a highly experimental barely tested new approach. I decided to get no more shots. I caught it a couple times, nothing severe, just a cold/flu thing, but I did lose my sense of taste and smell for weeks. 8 weeks after the second shot, I had a clot in my heart that was 100% blockage, and would have been fatal, if I didn't go to the emergency room just a few blocks away. I collapsed walking in front door. They opened it up and put in a stent. The curious thing is that I had just been in for a check up right before Covid started, and and my heart checked out fine. Since then, scans have showed no significant plaque in my arteries. Where did the clot come from?
"Temujin said...
Interesting that the new Spielberg movie coming out in July, "Disclosure Day" will be about an alien encounter...well...actually a visit. "
Ah! There ya go. Spielberg's movie Jaws coincided with unusually high sighting of sharks, and reported shark attacks.
And AI says: UFO sightings reached an all-time historical high immediately following the release of Steven Spielberg’s previous alien blockbuster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Stars
rock star
movie star
TV star
sports star
porn star
shooting star
Stars
Ball lightning? Real or not?
As of right now, scientists admit it's real. Used to be they chalked up observations, such as the one I had, to imagination or exaggerated tales. Ah, but it was real. Saw it at or close to ground level. Disappeared rapidly. Have one friend, I know of, that saw it come through his front door and leave scorch marks across the floor. Seen by his mother. Who attributed it to God and a sign he should get married to the girl and not live with her in sin.
Observations that are real but rare will sometimes assume supernatural explanations. And while scientists now admit the reality of ball lightning, the explanations of what is it is are not proven and speculative. Have you seen it?
“ The dumbest people in this world are atheists who think they are smarter than people who believe in the bible.”
Ah, but be careful which Bible you believe in.
“ Spies were sent to the continent to arrest Tyndale, but he remained in hiding. Copies of his New Testament translation were printed in Europe and smuggled into England. In 1535, Tyndale was betrayed to the authorities, who tried and convicted him of heresy. On October 6, 1536, Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake.”
“ Despite dying peacefully in his parish, his theological push for church reform and the translation of the Bible made him deeply controversial. Because his teachings heavily inspired later reformers like Jan Hus, the Council of Constance posthumously declared Wycliffe a heretic in 1415.Consequently, church officials had his bones exhumed in 1428—44 years after his death—and publicly burned. His ashes were thrown into the nearby River Swift.”
And that was 50 years before Martin Luther came along. And you know what fun happened then.
Before the Covid vaccine there were MASH tents in Central Park to handle the hospital overflow, now they’re gone. Coincidence?
I got vaxxed, and then got Covid. Didn’t even go to the hospital, much less the morgue. Coincidence?
My wife got the two jabs and two boosters. I got the first two jabs after watching what happened to the early takers.
I don't know if either of us actually ever had Covid, though both of us have had cold or flu symptoms--especially her.
In fact, I think she has either 1) long Covid or 2) a reaction to the experimental not-really-a-vaccine vaccine. She is always congested, coughing and hacking.
She doesn't like my theory that her many and varied doctors have no idea what they're doing.
Alien abductions are real. They're unattached infant memories of having a diaper changed.
I don't know what happened when you were abducted, but I didn't have to take my pants off or anything. The whole business was handled very professionally, I thought. I mean, it was weird, sure, but not, like, pervy.
imTay said...
"When did this blog become a haven for Bible thumpers?"
I am not a believer, but some of the best people I know have deep Christian beliefs. I envy their faith.
No good deed for tyndals who told henry how to secede from the Church
Full moon,
Good heavens, what totalitarian location did you live in? Here in Washington state things were pretty bad, and our governor should have been impeached for ultra vires actions he took, but we certainly didn't have to get vaccinated to get into grocery stores. Yikes.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
“Geographically nearly all so called UFO sightings are in the U.S. Probably a sign of poor mental health more than anything.”
Actually, it proves American Exceptionalism. If aliens are going to travel hundreds, if not thousands, of light years to visit us, they’re going to visit the the best parts first.
"Kirk Parker said...
Full moon,
Good heavens, what totalitarian location did you live in? "
Lol, need I sat it? California, where we arrest lonely surfer alone on a ten mile beachfront. close churches, no visiting elderly relatives, no wedding receptions. etc.
Unless you are a politician or someone equally immune .
FullMoon said
"Good heavens, what totalitarian location did you live in?
Lol, need I sat it? California, where we arrest lonely surfer alone"
Well Full Moon, if you couldn't get into a grocery store without a vaccine passport, at least you could have grabbed a bite at French Laundry.
the result of the u washington's chris murray or imperial college's ferguson sorcery,
No vaccine was ever created for the 1918 Spanish Flu. The Spanish Flu disappeared. Coincidence?
Forget the X Files, today is for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Napoleon Solo is running in the Preakness.
Bagoh - the rate of men experiencing heart problems after the covid shots - shot up. Not a coincidence.
Sorry you had it too. Glad you were able to get help when you did.
I know California was terrible, but I didn't realize they were checking vaccines status before letting you buy food.
Your politicians there are hostis humani generis
David Grusch, the former United States Air Force (USAF) officer and intelligence official who has claimed that the U.S. federal government, in collaboration with private aerospace companies, has highly secretive special access programs involved in the recovery and reverse engineering of "non-human" spacecraft and their dead pilots, and that people have been threatened and killed to conceal these programs.
Nutcase theories are not facts. Who are these dead humans? Where are those dead alien pilots?
BTW, if any space aliens wanted to get in contact with Earth, the easiest way would be to send a radio message. Radio waves travel at the speed of light, and we have listening posts that pick any radio waves from outer space.
That no one has done so, just confirms the obvious. there may be "Billions and billions" of stars out there, and possible earth type planets. but they're 10s, hundreds or even thousands of light years away. The galaxy is supposedy 100,000 lights years deep and 1,000 light years accross.
You can be sure that any planet more than 100 light years away is too far to ever visit us.
but I didn't realize they were checking vaccines status before letting you buy food.
They weren't.
He/she's making it up.
I also live in Washington state and would make comparisons with my many friends living in California. We all agreed it was over-the-top, but nobody - anywhere - was 'carded' in order to enter a store.
Masks? Yes. Proof of jab? Nope.
"You can be sure that any planet more than 100 light years away is too far to ever visit us."
What if they travel at dark year speed? Ins't the assumption the aliens are far more advanced than us? Why would they be limited to our definitions of time, distance and speed?
Perhaps aliens have taken up partial residence in some earthlings brains. Some of the stuff artists do is beyond belief. https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/18htnxk/incredible_little_artist/
Portrait made with hammer and nails. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W4cF8Hpeg9w?t=2&feature=share
I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other regarding intelligent life in the universe but one thing I do wonder about- is everything we currently know about physics all there is to know?
Well the alcubierre drive could be a work around
FullMoon said...
“What if they travel at dark year speed?”
Indeed, what if they do: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-year-dark-faster.html
And then there’s that ‘Spooky action at a distance’ thing.
narciso said...
“Well the alcubierre drive could be a work around.”
Zefram Cochrane liked this comment.
Yeah, Space Aliens traveling faster than the speed of light. I mean why not? Personally, i belive there's a planet where unicorns shit goldbricks, everyone lives 1000 years and they all subsist on candy-canes and lollipops. I mean why not?
I mean, its possible.
Given the number of people who pay for and believe the Acela Corridor media (NYT, New Yorker, WaPo, The Hill, Politico, etc, etc.) why is it stretch to think a number of people believe interstellar aliens are visiting us?
I miss Art Bell.
Not even a mention of the Infinite Improbability Drive? No Chronosynclastic Infindibulum?
Mason G said...
"I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other regarding intelligent life in the universe but one thing I do wonder about- is everything we currently know about physics all there is to know?"
Not by a long shot. Every theory and every prediction is prefaced by, " As far as we know."
“ Bagoh - the rate of men experiencing heart problems after the covid shots - shot up. Not a coincidence.”
The rate of death from Covid went way down. Not a coincidence. And dying is very bad for your heart.
"Belief in alien life is on the rise..."
As is the incidence of university-educated morons.
.."The rate of death from Covid went way down. Not a coincidence. And dying is very bad for your heart."..
assumes facts Not in evidence. More people died WITH the vax than did without (including people that died BEFORE)
I had a heart attack 13 days after my covid vax (no prior symptoms, and an odd presentation, such that the ER didn't figure out what had happened until I had a second attack in the ER). I had a seizure and loss of consciousness 13 days after the booster. My cardiologist said, no more.
@Smilin Jack - sure! The death rate tanked after all the susceptible people died of it.
Why limit your focus to the ufo extravaganza? Mass communication has created an infinite variety of cults and cultisms. Humans haven't adapted to a world that is changing way too fast.
Forget the X Files, today is for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Napoleon Solo is running in the Preakness ........ And WON paying $17.80 and a $107+ $2.00 exacta..Both Horses came out of the WOOD MEMORIAL a race not noted for producing Triple Crown race winners. .22.66 first ....quarter took front runners out, SOLO layed behind speed and took off at top of stretch. My wager never placed as INCREDIBOLT never went above 5-1 and my morning line was no bet unless 6-1 or better. (LUCKY saved for the Belmont) The horse(INCREDIBOLT) ran an uninspiring 5th and was done from Post #12 AFTER 22.66 .
The sexual innuendo of alien gropers and groomers is embodied in Unwanted Flucking Overtures.
No vaccine was ever created for the 1918 Spanish Flu. The Spanish Flu disappeared. Coincidence?
Covid mutated and each mutation made the virus less and less dangerous. It started off being a horrific and terrifying threat. It took over a year for the vaccines to hit the market. In that time span, Covid went from being a stop-the-world nightmare to being something akin to the flu. Or less than flu. I don't know if I could prove it, but my strong feeling is that the battle against Covid was fought and won (by our immune systems) long before the vaccines were on the market.
I've read or heard that the Black Death was caused by superstitions about cats. People thought that cats were Satanic, so they got rid of cats. And so the rats thrived and they brought the plague with them.
Some people think that religion is similar to superstition. I've actually found it to be a fantastic antidote to superstition. When you have a religion, it's easy to reject false ones.
When Jesus was walking on water, some of the disciples in the boat thought it was a ghost. That was their immediate reaction -- they went to superstition. And then they saw it was Jesus. Which had to be mind-boggling. Christians would then start referring to a holy ghost, or a holy spirit. Jesus humanized the spirit world and made us less afraid of the unknown.
Fred
Not as bad as a heart attack. Or two. But I didn't have a serious gout problem til after my second shot. Then it was like somebody threw a switch. Eat a burger. Be in excruciating pain for five days.
Saint Croix,
It started off being a horrifically and terrifyingly EXAGGERATED threat.
FIFY.
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