What? No Takers?

Huh.

Healthy Debate

It feels good to broach a subject that conjures enough interest to respond. My question to those of you who have or have not voiced an opinion would be: Would you want to be given credible evidence of an encounter with aliens, Demons, God or other, or would you prefer to hold on to the hope that all such anomalies are a hoax, and that all other worldly manifestations would remain so. For me- bring it on- my curiosity will always trump my apprehension.

The Fourth Kind- the movie

We recently watched this movie- panned by critics- and I must say it stretched my ability to resist the suspension of disbelief. If you haven't seen it, I might suggest you do before you read further and draw your conclusions based on my observations. I'll run a few lines of nothing so you won't be tempted to cheat....





Nome, Alaska- October, 2000. In a nutshell, Abagail Tyler, psychologist (purportedly real) hypnotises residents and concludes they have been abducted, supposedly by aliens. Yup. Purported actual video and audio footage parallels actors' reenacting same. Things like levitation, images from the sky, Sumerian speech, murders, suicides, goings on of this nature. The alien speak even includes "I am God".
Here's what I think. Wait- here's what I have found that other people think and with that I have my thoughts on their motivations.
Critics- plays out to be reality based, like Blair Witch, Emily Rose, therefore unoriginal and uncreative. Motive: supposing it's a hoax movie, actors come out as too blatant in identifying film as real- unbelievable because they don't want to be weighted down with the possibility it is real.
Friends (not all)- don't believe in aliens (either here or anywhere) and believe this kind of thing is the work of the Devil or Demons. Motive: fear of God, His nemesis, Evil, failure to accept any concept not biblical based, belief that ancient cultures were influenced by the evil side and played with the devil. To people like this- young earthers, new testament junkies, scared rabbits- anything pre-Christ was open season for Beelzebub. Poor delusional souls. (But that's just me).
As for the "I am God" phrase, take into account these beings, either terrestrial or extra, can tap into the minds of people at will, wouldn't they want to fool their subjects into terror in the most effective way? Wouldn't this phrase do the trick?
Anyway, I might add that most of the "facts" in this story have been debunked, if not denied, so if you're really worried, I'd say the story is steroided up enough and simplified enough to give the viewers the entertainment they want, likely leaving out any circumstances that could cloudy the water or give credence to any more "earthly" explanations.
Amy found the concepts and movie frightening while I found it scary as a flick and fascinating as a possibility. My suspension of disbelief, as I said earlier, was stretched. I guess if I had a similar experience I'd be scared shitless like any other-
If aliens read blogs, or demons read blogs- in particular, this one- go ahead, abduct me! I want to see what this whooey is all about.
PS- look for a post soon to be penned (that's a laugh) giving my readers a glimpse into my mind on the subject of God, science and the other unknowns of the universe!

Polarizing Effect of Polarized Political Views

Today, and following historical preference, political bias runs in a line. Imagine political viewpoint as a straight line, maybe infinite (consider how radical one might be), running from left (far) to right (far), and place yourself. Don't forget to align your position with a party, following party line politics, to left or right of the pinpoint that is exact center. In the interest of fractioning wholes, you can never declare the center spot. Divide enough and you have no choice but to be claimed by a side. This is linear politics. This is us or them. This is bi-polar. No matter how diverse your beliefs, you are forced by any one of them to be an "us" or a "them". With or not. Friend or Foe.
Now try to imagine the political universe as spectrum- the key word being "spectrum"- a sphere of viewpoints with a disc as the bisecting agent, blurring the pinpoint division of line politics, and load up the disc with similar considerations that can weave the fabric of liberal and conservative and negate the "walk left or walk right" mentality of "enemy at the gate" perception. Lest we work for political solidarity and unity in a common goal, our future system of government will become as polarizing as the battle raging everywhere over God. (a viewpoint still to come........).

Just to see if anyone reads..........

Loo for some controversial drubbing of a handful of subjects, such as political bi-polar disorder, religious redicularness, my thought on young-earthers, - stuff like that. If you don't have an opinion or an argument, in the future I'll try to warp the senses more with even more far-fetched dialogue on more far-fetched idiocies. I'll continue to push until someone responds, even just to yell at me (do that by using all CAPS!)

Toyota, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Hyundai...............Euro Cars

Before you junk your Toyota, do a little digging and pull the recall stats on the major car manufacturers of our time. Go back a ways- before recalls were invented. Look up Pinto, Vega, any AMC piece of crap. Step into the 90's and see what comes up. Consider the state of American car companies and ask yourself if any of them has hard feelings over the fact Toyota is now the world's largest car builder. I'm not saying Toyota doesn't have some problems- big ones- but given the timing, the opportunity and the local stat sheets, a few well placed bytes could go a long way toward feeding the fire burning in Japan. We all must hope that Toyota's problems will be corrected and that the fallout lasts only a few weeks. Meantime, given the general business tactic to knock down the top guy is going strong in this country, we might want to keep a close eye on Caterpillar and the guy down south who was paralysed while operating a Cat scraper (25mil)

APPARENTLY NOT!