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Willtell
reply to post by KellyPrettyBear
So you have a belief system, or a belief, that the ETs are parasites?
No problem with that. I don’t have such knowledge or belief. But if your belief is true then of course I wouldn’t want them in charge, though we already have parasites in charge.
Willtell
Point of order
…And if the ETs were predators…so what.
What are we to animals, such as cows, pigs and chickens? Monkeys, rats and mice?
How do we think they feel?
You ever been in a pharmaceutical laboratory?
It might be our karma
It may be that we aught to never have fallen to eating meat. We virtually have enslaved various species of animals so what if the ETs are predators, what do we deserve?
Willtell
Point of order
…And if the ETs were predators…so what.
What are we to animals, such as cows, pigs and chickens? Monkeys, rats and mice?
How do we think they feel?
You ever been in a pharmaceutical laboratory?
It might be our karma
It may be that we aught to never have fallen to eating meat. We virtually have enslaved various species of animals so what if the ETs are predators, what do we deserve?
Clerics, within the original teaching of ALL the religions, destroyed the dynamic and created dogmatic political religion.
OkabeRintaro
reply to post by The GUT
I recently read John Markoff's excellent What the Dormouse Said, which covers the intersection of the early computer age with the 1960s counterculture movement, and saw a handful of familiar names. Given the history of the valley as a hotbed of military sig-int research during the second world war and the continued connection between government military and civilian intelligence agencies and the use of hallucinogens through the 1960s, it may be worthwhile to cross-index the names here and look for clear associations.
So much of the work being done in the computing fields was military-funded and very blue-sky that one has to wonder a bit about whether or not the DoD thought it got its money's worth. Add in our own Dr Vallee's work on Engelbart's Pentagon-funded 'Project Augment' (which Markoff's book claims was full of hippies early on, and later had an outbreak of EST -- and whose original intent was 'the use of computers to augment human beings'), and the similar goals of the human potential movement active around that time...
Perhaps contrary to what some of us here suspect, individuals reaching their full potential is very useful to state actors -- so long as the advances are greater on their side of the border than outside of it, and so long as those in charge continue to have a more than equal share of the advances! Encouraging human potential movements is more than just a PR move, but is actually a canny way of disguising national improvement as personal improvement (and costly mistakes don't come out of federal budgets if they are done independently -- some costly mistakes can even later be weaponized). Military intelligence had every reason to keep its thumb on the fast forward button on the west coast, and to continue encouraging experimentation even in situations where the situation was already falling apart. It may be foolish to think that the experiments were limited to abstractions like social dynamics, rather than also taking into account factors of economic productivity and combatting brain drain.
KellyPrettyBear
reply to post by OkabeRintaro
One would think that if anyone were to develop any kind of potential
in any field of research: to include 'paranormal fields', that various
'agents', both governmental and non-governmental would tap that
blooming resource. And probably the best way to 'hide that acquistion'
would be to hide the candidate in plain sight..leave them working in
their existing public face, at least partially.
The CT mental imagery of sprawling secret bases filled with dubious
characters is surely more like something in Austin Powers than in
reality.
It's humorous really.. the 'desire not to be heckled' has acted as an
inverse psyop on the very fellows who might most abuse the things
they are too embarrassed to research properly.
KPB
OkabeRintaro
I recently read John Markoff's excellent What the Dormouse Said, which covers the intersection of the early computer age with the 1960s counterculture movement, and saw a handful of familiar names. Given the history of the valley as a hotbed of military sig-int research during the second world war and the continued connection between government military and civilian intelligence agencies and the use of hallucinogens through the 1960s, it may be worthwhile to cross-index the names here and look for clear associations.
KellyPrettyBear
reply to post by 1ofthe9
Agreed.
As you might imagine, I'm still 100% on the PSP track here.
However watching that black triangle fly over my house
for 20 seconds, and it was like no more than 2000 feet
away at it's closest.. certainly makes me understand why
someone would believe in physical UFO, and disagree
vehemently that they are not, in many or most cases
some sort of 'projection' ('spiritual' materialization).
I could see individual creases in the 'metal' surface
and other features.. so quite a convincing 'projection'.
However due to 2 other incidents, one the day before
and one the day after, I'm still solidly on the PSP track..
but very impressed with the level of detail.
KPB