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posted on Jul, 3 2023 @ 11:06 PM
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originally posted by: mtnshredder

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: mtnshredder

You and I rarely agree, but I agree with your statement. However, those things are easy to say, but do you have a solution to the problems you cite, or are you just echoing things we already know?

Honest question, mtnshredder.

ETA - I am far more direct, and far less tolerant (of rhetoric), than I ever was before.

So...I expect an answer, a rational answer, not just another complaint. Okay?





First off it’s not a complaint it’s a statement of observation.

Cure? You ever heard the term “you can’t fix stupid”?



I am far more direct, and far less tolerant (of rhetoric), than I ever was before.


Yeah well join the club.
What I expected from you …. Crickets
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(post by mtnshredder removed for a manners violation)

posted on Jul, 4 2023 @ 01:15 PM
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I am beginning to wonder if there are anymore than 50 or so regular members here who post content , lots of old accounts seem to have come to life again
since the takeover but with the speed that AI is moving anything is possible ,

Covid really showed who was who on the boards
wood butchers one day medical 3xperts the next lol



posted on Jul, 4 2023 @ 01:23 PM
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a reply to: midicon

What does aligned with Twitter and Facebook mean?



posted on Jul, 4 2023 @ 02:34 PM
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a reply to: mtnshredder

Dude...I was being a little tongue & cheek there. Sorry I didn't make that more clear. I should have stuck an emoji in there or something. We're all good (I hope). No issues with you.

ETA - Sorry for not responding sooner, I don't check daily much anymore.


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posted on Jul, 5 2023 @ 10:39 AM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Holy crap, it's been a long time since I was on here to comment..... I didn't know where to start, so I figured I'd start here?


The community here has definitely changed since the last time I was regularly active, pre-2020. Lots of disruption at home, job changes, personal issues all lead to that with me and I'm sure countless others.

A big thing I've noticed however is the source(s) of information used for topic anymore. With the excessive amount of censorship that has been brought down through search engines, youtube, and the like, it's increasingly difficult to obtain information to dissect (at least from what I'm seeing) unless it conforms to whatever mainstream narrative is being pushed and prevalent at the moment. It seems like another social media site or two has taken over in regards to the types of things we normally discuss on here.

Anymore, YOU have to be the one to research, dig, write, create video, etc.; with the way videos, articles, and information is censored, pulled, and/or burried, the best chance and formulating a hypothesis on something or stringing something together is on US - Generally, a vast majority of us are information gatherers. When there isn't much information to gather, we don't seem to have that much to talk about.

Not to mention a certain amount of tiptoeing that appears to be being done here as of late.

It feels good to be back, but......... it feels different.

Looks like I have to put my Indiana Jones hat back on and start going off the deep end to try and liven the party up.

LOL



posted on Jul, 5 2023 @ 11:23 AM
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A big thing I've noticed however is the source(s) of information used for topic anymore. With the excessive amount of censorship that has been brought down through search engines, youtube, and the like, it's increasingly difficult to obtain information to dissect (at least from what I'm seeing) unless it conforms to whatever mainstream narrative is being pushed and prevalent at the moment. ...


Boy, ain't that the damn truth!!!



posted on Jul, 5 2023 @ 11:27 AM
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I migrated from the History Channel UFO forums back in the early days when Ancient Aliens was popular.

When the forum was being scrubbed, a few mentioned that I should apply to ATS and thus my adventure began.

In those earliest days, it was all UFOs and US vs China threads.



posted on Jul, 5 2023 @ 12:18 PM
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a reply to: Arnie123

I can't remember exactly where I saw it (possibly the 'Decorum' thread) where someone, one of the moderators I believe, laid out the roadmap for how we got to where we are now. I thought the point they made was really good...(paraphrasing) one of the challenges we face now is the fact that many of the great mysteries have been either decoded or debunked (and that politics among a select few others are the only CT's left). Part of the reasoning behind my OP was the hope of re-calibrating that lens.

I personally believe we humans have taken a far too simplistic view of ET. It's almost as if ET is either going to be some loveable being like Mork (Shazbot Na-Nu, Na-nu), or it's the end of the World. I find that more than a little ironic, especially in light of our own space exploration efforts. On one hand we send out probes saying we come in peace, yet on the other we send probes to places like Mars with the expressed intent of making Mars and/or the Moon "colonies' of Earth, and for the benefit of Earth.

ET must get a pretty good belly laugh out of humans on this microscopic blue orb under his stellar sized microscope!

In any case, I still think we have things to learn, things to explore, even in the realm of UFO's and Aliens...IF we could just get off our self-centered perspective of things.



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posted on Jul, 5 2023 @ 12:22 PM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That is, if they have bellies ...


Cheers



posted on Jul, 5 2023 @ 12:23 PM
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originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That is, if they have bellies ...


Cheers




True!



posted on Jul, 7 2023 @ 04:32 PM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

If anything, have been missing out on sensible, skeptical and methodical discussions with a bit of banter thrown in. Member way back when. We all know the kind of esoteric, weird, forteana, cover ups, agenda activity, aliens/ufo/uap odd news that made this site the place to be.
Those sorta got dissolved into social media. Those discussions in groups and pages became the new gardens of fertile and fun. Probably still are.

We no doubt all have our "group chat" on messenger, where things get a little more loose around certain topics. That may well get us a stern face of disapproval from other people we know, especially the memes!

As 21Wires Patrick Henningsen coined in 2015, "Politics is the new Hollywood." Entertainment and the serious side of the world's interaction have become one and the same. We don't know where one finishes and the other begins. Never have we faced so much information. Clown world and identity politics dominating every moment of every day on the screen, in the scroll feed.
It's overwhelming and need to get a sense of reality. So I looked at 4chan, oh a paranormal board... oh dear. How to summon a succubus and have a life time supply of ai generated CP. Yeah no thanks.

After a binge of Curse of Skinwalker Ranch, season 3. Was like, man...this reminds me of ATS. I'm going back in!



posted on Jul, 8 2023 @ 05:48 AM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk


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