Griffin

@chrbaxter_yt This made me miss my old dual sport

@samuel_costner That is not a natural formation, that’s for sure.

Page 83 of the UFO files. What do you think it is?

Well said. I still find it bizarre that Vallée's Passport to Magonia is considered a seminal text in ufology, and yet people who are supposedly serious UFO researchers still scoff at religious interpretations of the phenomenon. I also find it incredibly telling that this animosity is almost always directed towards one specific religious tradition.

@griffindaughtry x.com/i/status/20525…

Jacques Vallée and John Keel, two of the most widely read ufologists of the twentieth century, both concluded that the thing we call the “UFO phenomenon” is both deceptive in nature and consistent with what ancient and medieval Christians identified as demonic beings (amongst other religious interpretations of spiritual entities), though neither Vallée nor Keel is/was a Christian. And, according to @dwpasulka, Vallée has an extensive collection of books on angels and demons, which he considers highly relevant to his research. It should also be noted that Christians have been involved in ufology since at least the 1960s, though their analyses vary. Furthermore, when contemporary Christians call UFOs or aliens “demons,” this is, in large part, due to the limited vocabulary - especially in the West - available to describe and label these beings. While I at least understand why the knee-jerk reaction to any mention of angels and demons exists in the secularized West, no one seems to complain about the same analysis (“these are nefarious spiritual beings, who are here to deceive”) if the perceived antiquated good guy/bad guy language is dropped. The reality is, as @WesleyLHuff recently and correctly stated on the Shawn Ryan Show, that scripture, for the most part, only “whispers” about these matters. Much of the language needed to discuss the beings that populate the unseen world is either 1. not given in scripture, or 2. has been reduced to a sort of linguistic binary due to a loss of cultural and historical context and nuance in the process of translating these texts. (I will not get into the “demons are the departed souls of nephilim” argument here, but people can explore that further in @DRMSHPhD and @Muddamalle’s work, or with the dudes from @blurrycreatures.) All of this to say, I think the response to the Christian claim that the UFO phenomenon is “demonic” needs to be met with a little bit more charity from the rest of the ufology community, especially when the Mount Rushmore of the field is effectively coming to similar results, though they would never use the same language. While I agree that the subject is a bit more nuanced than the vocabulary allows, it should be acknowledged that there are plenty of intelligent and well-meaning Christians interested in this subject who do great work. Many of them have a far more sober and grounded understanding of this subject than a lot of the New Age crowd. And yes, there are still plenty of Christians who prematurely label a whole host of things as demonic without understanding what it is they are condemning or what the word itself means. At least they are more open to the idea of an unseen reality than materialists, which is ultimately what many ufologists are attempting to bring to the public’s attention, isn't it?

Jacques Vallée and John Keel, two of the most widely read ufologists of the twentieth century, both concluded that the thing we call the “UFO phenomenon” is both deceptive in nature and consistent with what ancient and medieval Christians identified as demonic beings (amongst other religious interpretations of spiritual entities), though neither Vallée nor Keel is/was a Christian. And, according to @dwpasulka, Vallée has an extensive collection of books on angels and demons, which he considers highly relevant to his research. It should also be noted that Christians have been involved in ufology since at least the 1960s, though their analyses vary. Furthermore, when contemporary Christians call UFOs or aliens “demons,” this is, in large part, due to the limited vocabulary - especially in the West - available to describe and label these beings. While I at least understand why the knee-jerk reaction to any mention of angels and demons exists in the secularized West, no one seems to complain about the same analysis (“these are nefarious spiritual beings, who are here to deceive”) if the perceived antiquated good guy/bad guy language is dropped. The reality is, as @WesleyLHuff recently and correctly stated on the Shawn Ryan Show, that scripture, for the most part, only “whispers” about these matters. Much of the language needed to discuss the beings that populate the unseen world is either 1. not given in scripture, or 2. has been reduced to a sort of linguistic binary due to a loss of cultural and historical context and nuance in the process of translating these texts. (I will not get into the “demons are the departed souls of nephilim” argument here, but people can explore that further in @DRMSHPhD and @Muddamalle’s work, or with the dudes from @blurrycreatures.) All of this to say, I think the response to the Christian claim that the UFO phenomenon is “demonic” needs to be met with a little bit more charity from the rest of the ufology community, especially when the Mount Rushmore of the field is effectively coming to similar results, though they would never use the same language. While I agree that the subject is a bit more nuanced than the vocabulary allows, it should be acknowledged that there are plenty of intelligent and well-meaning Christians interested in this subject who do great work. Many of them have a far more sober and grounded understanding of this subject than a lot of the New Age crowd. And yes, there are still plenty of Christians who prematurely label a whole host of things as demonic without understanding what it is they are condemning or what the word itself means. At least they are more open to the idea of an unseen reality than materialists, which is ultimately what many ufologists are attempting to bring to the public’s attention, isn't it?

I think it's time to start writing again.

The baby is also pulling for the Habs, it seems.

My upstairs neighbor, who has been an absolute nightmare to live beneath for the past year, is a Sabres fan. Aside from the stomping, woodworking (yeah…), and crying baby, I’ve never actually heard him vocally make noise until Buffalo made the playoffs. So yeah, Go Habs…

Heretical. Everyone knows Southern Baptists have the best food.

I went to high school in a Winn-Dixie. AMA

@Canes Martinook to cook it, Slavin to pray for it

You can invite two #Canes players, past or present, to dinner. Who are you choosing?

@corylav Gotta give a little wiggle room for the lefties

@griffindaughtry I mean, if you're a lefty. You'll never get in A range that way, but I get it.

D siren. 😐

@corylav Might have to give him a +, Cory. It’s been a while since we’ve seen one that good

A on the second period siren. Put that one in the how-to tape.

@tomsa592 @Canes

@Canes So your playoff motif is Stranger Things mixed with

Time to bring the storm.

C.S. Lewis is officially Critter approved

@MasynZyn This guy raked

Before Shohei Ohtani, we had Adam Wainwright

@BuffaloByGodDan My home for 7 years. I miss it every day.

Sylva, North Carolina

@HumansNoContext Posts I see 5 times a week

Bro thought it was someone else’s for a second

@DrunkYosef20 Don't remind me

Storm Brew inflation is wild. Used to get a tall boy for $5