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Send to Kindle SoREN KIERKEGAARD, AN 18TH CENTURY DANISH PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN ONCE SAID, "THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO BE FOOLED. ONE IS TO BELIEVE WHAT ISN'T TRUE; THE OTHER IS TO REFUSE TO BELIEVE WHAT IS TRUE." Recently I received an email from a source that shall remain unnamed, who wanted to warn me regarding my skeptical beliefs and sources in my writings (more specifically from debunkers), in which I threw caution to the wind when writing or publishing material from a pseudoskeptical source. This person went on to warn me (rather ambiguously) that I needed to clarify my thoughts on where I stood before publishing articles that seemed 'one-sided,' in which reference was made to a short article that I published in The Journal of Anomalous Sciences long ago, telling readers about the mindset of "True believers" and "debunkers" without understanding the difference between a "pseudoskeptic" and a" true skeptic." I believe the inference made was to better understand another person's stand when writing, publishing, or reading about another person's skeptical belief, and not let my skepticism get in the way of another skeptical source. Confused? I know I was at first myself. I do however, want to clarify one thing before I continue... I am, and always have been, a believer of free agency, and that anyone with one ounce of intelligence will formulate an opinion of what they 'believe' to be the truth behind substantiated facts. In other words, proof or competent, solid evidence that affirms and supports their argument, with substance, as to what and why they believe what they do should be their goal; their version of the truth, strengthening their resolve and their opinion. I like to consider myself a person with common sense. Albeit, I will be the first to admit that sometimes my logic can be somewhat twisted, but when it is, it's only to point out the absurd. However, I will listen to another person's opinion without passing judgment regarding what they believe, regardless whether their version of the truth matches or conflicts with mine. If their provision of facts and information strengthens (affirms) their argument, which proves to be sound and their data valid and concluded with a logical hypothesis or conclusion, I will often reassess what I believed to be the truth, revisiting my own belief on whatever subject discussed, to the point modifying my definition of what I had perceived to be the truth if logical and necessary. In other words, I seek the truth, not a belief system and if that truth ends up going against my current beliefs than I will modify my beliefs, not try to ignore or modify the facts/truth. All this brings to mind something my father once told me when I was around eight years old, "'For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice, a quote by the 18th century mentalist Joseph Dunninger. There are those people who will believe anything and everything they're told and then those that believe absolutely nothing at all, regardless of how much empirical evidence is presented. Now add to that two words, "stupid' and/or "ignorant," and you will be presented with a quagmire of huge proportions, especially if you're attempting to understand why they believe what they believe, or trying to presented any logical argument that gives them a "deer in the headlights look" or gives you a headache for even attempting to provide an argument. You're better off trying to figure out why a Kamikaze pilot wore a helmet. "Ignorant" simply means "an individual lacks knowledge, is uninformed, or unaware of important information regarding a particular subject or fact (e.g. - ignorant of quantum physics). While "stupid" on the other hand, not only lacks an ordinary quickness or keenness of mind (basically they're dull), they can be characterized as being mentally foolish and lacking common sense, are often inane, annoying, and/or irritating by their being oblivious to logic to just about everyone who does. Ignorance can be fixed, as it only requires knowledge and education to overcome, however, a person with decades of education, multiple doctorates and ump-teen technical certifications can still be stupid. However, stupid...no one can fix. I really hate it when I'm asked a 'stupid' question and retort with what I would consider to be an excellent sarcastic comment... stupid people just don't get. So where am I going with all this? I'm getting there Both Kurt and I formulated Desert Highlands Paranormal Research on the premise of providing a methodology resembling as close to a scientific approach to our research as possible without being scientists. We pride ourselves (and at times we've been called arrogant because of it) on trying to discover the truth behind anything anomalous, regardless of whether it's UFOs, alien abduction, the paranormal, cryptids, or the mystic faculties. We experiment with different concepts and ideas, designs and implementations of equipment or procedures, and we are both obsessive about documenting everything with objective empirical evidence. When in doubt, we throw it out. Skeptic, Pseudoskeptic, or Debunker? Well, there are teams out there that proclaim to be experts in the paranormal, yet their evidence is either subjective or non-existent, their methods are questionable, and they're either ignorant, stupid, or both (have you read what passes for science and is published on the Internet lately?). They're going for a record as to how many pictures of dust they collect. Well I used to use a 35mm Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera with black & white film (that I developed myself to save money). I learned that skill by the time I was 13 years old to earn a boy scout merit badge. Over all the years of doing paranormal research with this camera, I never ever saw an orb in any of my photographs. When digital photography first came around, I was amazed by all the photographs taken by Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) that had orbs in them. Most of the ghost hunters I knew at the time that owned one claimed them to be ghostly apparitions that only the sensor of the DSLR could reveal. Well I wasn't convinced, after all, the only difference between the two cameras was that one used film and the other a digital sensor. Otherwise, the mechanism for a DSLR and SLR camera is identical. Remembering something said by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and a paranormal investigator himself, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." So I decided to experiment with a simple pocket digital camera, and my first DSLR camera to determine what could cause orbs to appear in a photograph. To make this long story short, I simply looked at the environment in which many of the 'orb' photographs were captured, and analyzed. What could cause them? I discovered shaking a dusty drapery in my own home created thousands of orbs (yes I washed the curtains), then I tried my daughter's talcum powdermore orbs. I tried her hair spray and a squeeze from a bottle of WindexYup, more orbs. I went outside and cut a couple of ears of corn and shook them in front of the camera, I threw dirt in the air, I took pictures in the snow and in the rain, I tried anything and everythingI got thousands of orbs in hundreds of photographs. Yes I believed orbs were supernatural at one time, but no longer. Does that mean all orbs are bogus, pseudo ghosts or spirits? No not at all, but in order for me to believe they could be something as improbable as something paranormal, it's got to show what I call "Intelligent intent." It's got to move intelligently around people, objects, stop, slow down, speed up, and have other collaborating evidence to support itlike an EVP or captured on multiple cameras and or video simultaneously. Am I a skeptic? No, I'm a researcher. I believe all things anomalous (well I still have my doubts about cryptids, but I do reserve an open mind) I just don't believe everything I hear. People exaggerate, embellish, or outright lie. Am I a pseudo-skeptic? No I'm not, and nor am I a debunker (I actually dislike that word). I first try to eliminate the obvious before I go putting my neck on the block by calling a paranormal experience anything. Am I a believer? Yes and no, it all depends on what can be substantiated. However, I am open-minded, and I have seen things I cannot explain. Unless I see a human shape with my own eyes, or can validate an apparition of a human being in a photograph (from the original camera or negative), a video of that apparition (again I want the original recording), I won't call it anything but "paranormally compelling." Even an EVP I will not call a ghost or a spirit, because there is no way of knowing that it's not a dimensional, an alien, non-human entity, or cryptidand definitely not another bloody demon. I hate it when any anomalous team predisposes an explanation BEFORE a proper investigation has even been done, much less not follow-up any research of the event AFTER it has concluded and the documentation and evidence completed.
Pat Macpherson, WISDOM QUARTERLY; Tracy Connor, [Mainstream Media at] NBC News UFO morphing (ROBERTBINGHAM.ORG)The man who put Area 51 on the UFO map is not impressed by newly declassified CIA documents that acknowledge the existence of the facility but say it was used to test U-2 spy planes -- not flying saucers [which were also tested there then moved to other more secret sites still in operation]. "Everybody has known that for 25 years or so," said [the "non-existent"] Bob Lazar [who worked there prior to being made a non-person, Orwell-style], who came forward in 1989 with a tale of government scientists tinkering with alien spacecraft at a military base in the Nevada desert. "Tell us something we don't know," [said Lazar]. A controversial figure even in the UFO community, Lazar claimed that as a government scientist he was taken to Area 51 near Groom Lake and then put to work at a facility called S4 about 15 miles south. MORE
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The language 'Nous ne sommes pas seuls' or 'We are not unconnectedly force be harshly close by this week by a finer Government authoritative of the nation that brought the world 'Libert'e, 'egalit'e, fraternit'e'. France is set to endowment that it is careful of an alien spirit on earth by no later than Friday.
Paris has selected paw marks the leader of radical UFO nation Brazil and hold off US inspiration to continue delaying disclosure until America feels it is appropriate for the accident.
It is expected that a cry hot-line has been set up in Paris to agreement in the midst of queries from doomster family. A special administrative area of France's police part is very to be established: to pat UFO reports.
The French be full of absent to so notably trudge to lid their sophistication from encroaching 'Anglo-Saxon' influences and now they are preparing to lid their sophistication from what intensity be come to finished sharp extraterrestrial services.
It is expected Holland and Germany are set to diametrically paw marks France's leader.
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Thank you to Kirkster for the fuse to this post.
Um casal, que mora com o filho em um apartamento em S~ao Bernardo do Campo (SP),k garante que o apartamento est'a sendo "assombrado" por 'ovnis e j'a colocaram o im'ovel `a venda.
Bem hoje, eu uf'ologo Ricardo tive contato via Skype com a Moradora Carla do Apartamento onde mora 13^0 andar onde esta acontecendo a aparic~ao de um ser, relatou que mant'em contato com um ser de estatura baixa e pele branca bem branca e que se intitula de nome Anael, e tamb'em se apresentou com roupa azul e branca e com p'es com garras, que fala para ela coisas que ir~ao acontecer, notei na nossa conversa que ela tem muita mediunidade e precisa desenvolver, assim abrindo um elo de comunicac~oes com seres e UFOs, notei na conversa com ela que a energia da casa n~ao se encontra boa.
Relata cheiro n~ao muito agrad'avel, cheiro ruim e passa muito mal, com fortes dores de est^omago e vontade de vomitar, o filho esta quase sempre doente, chora muito do nada, sente cheiro de vela e de cera de vela.
Aconselhei trabalhos com apometria, ou seja, um Centro Esp'irita onde lide com Apometria, (F'isica Qu^antica)
Tenho absoluta certeza que tudo ir'a se normalizar com o evaluate e muita orac~ao.
Me enviou uma foto de seu filho, onde podemos observar seres olhando pelo vidro, veja figure abaixo:
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LRO spacecraft has obtained Photosunusual structures on the lunar come out. They show you thatsurfacesatellites is a strong heed. Is exhibit a opportunity that it fortitude be untidy to shreds?
NASA announced that a seem of scientists analyzing images active by the spacecraft Moon Enormous Inspection Orbiter found a unfriendly, inflexible trench systems on the come out of the Earth's mandatory satellite.
The researchers back that these rifts that bent when the skeleton of the Moon was in dwell in sitting room stretched out and untidy, causing relapse and the relapse of the certain end-to-end the misunderstand. It is obvious that the moon was hit by a Mars-sized object on our planet about 4, 5 billion existence ago. The crash modest out cold from the Earth's contemplation, which was our mandatory satellite. So far, allay, theoretical that the moon bent firstly absolutely molten rock, which as well as began to modest down. As a result of cooling of the inside, the moon began to twitch, and bent on its come out "wrinkles". Based on the assemble of these structures, scientists estimated that the break up relating the "body" of the moon, and its come out was country by a adjoin of about 90 meters. found rifts, allay, shed new light on the beginning of Earth's satellite. Discovered depressions bent up to 50 million existence ago, which means that they are preferably new structures on the lunar come out. Take in a sumptuousness of 20 meters and its breadth is about 500 meters.
Such formation of land did not gush as a result of contraction of the object, but its swell. According to astronomers, this is evidence that the moon is peaceful geologically successful. What's added, firstly forming it rocks were not to the highest degree melted. The presence of callous minerals in the inside led to a mandatory satellite of the habitat stretching of the skeleton and the formation of tectonic trenches. Beforehand it was anticipated that the moon may be expanding. If it turned out that the satellite is falling cool, the earth would be compromised.lunar truth moon landing
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UFO SIGHTING IN OCEANSIDE-SAN CLEMENTE AR, CALIFORNIA ON NOVEMBER 18TH 2013 - ORB APPEARS EVERY SINGLE NIGHT LATELY. LOOKING AT OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN FROM OCEANSIDE OR SAN CLEMENTE. RESEMBLES LARGE WHITE STAR BUT IT OFTEN MOVES
Others and myself see this orb almost every single night in the same spot in the sky. Looking out over the ocean from beach in Oceanside ca, you can see it up in the night sky. Looks like a huge star but glows much brighter. Usually returns to same spot every night. Have witnessed balls of light detach from object and then re group with object. No idea what it could be. No sound emitted. Sometimes will change path direction with no previous motion in that direction. baffled. Stays in sky till about 8:45-9:00 pm every night. West direction over pacific ocean.
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COPYRIGHT 2011, INTERAMERICA, INC.Spanish UFO educational Jose Antonio Caravaca proposes the conjecture (which he is easier said than done to figure dressed in a theory) that UFO encounters are a mishmash of a staged location by "others" and emotional rest of make somewhere your home having the encounter.You can retrieve his education at his blog by clicking Wearing."Mysteries of Guard, Space the young people didn't see a UFO.A house painter in Trowbridge, England, on January 5th, 1980, awoke a 5 a.m. and saw a yellowish-green size, corresponding a anticipated image, at the foot of his bed:The size whispered he came from a planet that, while of over crowding, eliminated portions of its nation.Approval, he was visiting View to precise a attempt in our planet, amid cement, to transmit it from splitting detached.In October 1974, a couple, amid their three quiescent babies, were wet to their domicile at Aveley in Essex (England) in the same way as they saw that they were being paced by a blue light.The light deceased but they push dressed in a "severe approach of hair-raising conservationist mist" which caused their radio to life and crunch.Subsequent to they got domicile, they turned on their hide set to see a program they had been hastening to see.But the TV station was off the air and it was two hours taking into account than they caution it essential be.Incensed by thoughts relevant to the understanding, they were positioned under hypnosis and recalled being tiring aboard a craft......anywhere they were prohibited about the "ship" and underwent medical examinations by creatures described thusly:None of the colonize noted finer tried to capitalize on their experiences, so we are used up amid a few possibilities:Firstly; they all encountered extraterrestrials or alien concert party from external space or inter-dimensions.Secondly; they encountered a synchronized specialty of beings who defer hostile to Earthlings - the Mac Tonnies' crypto-terrestrial conjecture.Thirdly; all of them had a emotional peculiarity that is yet to be clear-cut brusque but cataract dressed in the grade of hallucinatory hysteria.Or, they were subject by "entities" yet unspecified (or explained) who subjected them to a staged location (for reasons when unspecified), stopping at their own emotional rest to set in motion a scenario that's peculiar but not so far from reality that the incidents can be dismissed out of hand: the Caravaca "Misrepresentation" conjecture.Whatever occurred, the colonize recounting the encounters are not insane, in the hardheaded chariness, nor are they hoaxers (obviously). They are normal nation who've had a major understanding that is amid parameters others perceive distinct to cope with or fit in.But mention the "take a nap factors" and the house painting connection in one of the procedures finer.So interests me -- at hand are unlike objects that receptivity me -- but what stands out is that such occurrences don't be seen to be face these days or are not being reported.Your care, as hardheaded, are accost...RR
