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@MazeToMetanoia @RyanSprague51 thank you for writing this, this is so beautiful! also i really like the Walter Russel illustrations you picked.

Saw @RyanSprague51 was watching Contact and Arrival back to back last night and it sent me straight to my keyboard. I've been sitting with these two films for most of my life. I finally wrote about them. mazetometanoia.substack.com/p/because-i-ca…

@Thirphaseofmoon @YoungGun8140 that's a great idea, and you should also give credit to the hard working people who are the sources for videos you post as well.

@YoungGun8140 You sould check your source and give credit! This was posted on Thirdphaseofmoon over 13 years ago! Source LINK: youtube.com/watch?v=yz3yIv…

Man records UFO flying up close for two minutes in Nellis USA. I’m not sure of date/time. #ufoX #uapX BUT I ASKED GROK TO UNBLUR AND UPSCALE IT WHICH IS THE PHOTO.

@D1gitalD1rtb4g those are all really useful! yes, countering with a known set of steps or tools is really good, it helps with the destabilizing effect or the often high levels of urgency one encounters when confronted with new information.

@ccellsseashells I think helping orient individuals in the maelstrom if information would be a strong step towards stabilizing the inability to form consensus/conclusions/shared knowledge/paradigms.

If absolute cognitive sovereignty requires perpetual doubt and the suspension of final conclusions, at what point does this internal process become functionally paralyzing or socially unsustainable for collective action?

@LegacyProgramVP thank you for researching this! i was looking for better info.

In conclusion, it is my assessment with the evidence and context presented that all of the individuals, except for four died or are missing, have no connection. The four that I feel might be connected only by similarities of their disappearance are McCasland, Garcia, Casias, and Chavez. Of the four, only McCasland and Garcia were carrying guns. Could those be with the intent of ending their own lives? Regardless, those four are odd as they all disappeared after leaving their homes on foot, leaving everything behind. But the other 6 are not related and that’s been proven.

🚨 BREAKING: The 10 Missing/Dead “Scientists”: The Real Story Is Not What You’re Being Told I have officially completed my deep-dive into the current story about 10 supposed scientists that have gone missing or have died mysteriously over the past couple of years. And it’s not what it seems. I will start with the timeline: 1) July 30, 2023 - Michael David Hicks: Long-time NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist who worked on planetary missions and asteroid studies. 59 years old. Cause of Death: Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease with Morbid Obesity being a contributing condition. Despite what multiple news sources claim (like @DailyMail), this was found with a little digging. (Link: mensjournal.com/news/missing-n…). This suggests no foul play. Died of natural causes. Obituaries and funeral services can be found online. Not connected to any of the deceased/missing individuals.

i wish we could collectively agree that "i talked to a guy who talked to a guy who described a picture, which we won't show you" is not UFOlogical research. it is the shape one expects "content creation" (accursed phrase) or a product to have.

@Nathanielilee @FenixAmmunition please don't conflate the actions of individual immigrants and the actions of nation states. you do see the thinking error, right?

Could be linked to the UAP program that Trump is discussing releasing info on. Someone could be deleting potential witnesses. We've also imported mass amounts of undocumented foreigners from all over the world. It's highly likely some of them are Intel. They could be snatching our scientists.

Okay, what actually the fuck is going on with this?

@D1gitalD1rtb4g what do you find helpful / what ways of dealing with that landscape are you exploring?

@D1gitalD1rtb4g it's so challenging right now, isn't it! so few sources of news etc. are shouldering the burden of proof. there is a lot of active disinfo and propaganda. it's probably natural that even though i am actively aware of those tactics, they still impact me. it feels so wrong.

he may personally want to reveal information, within his legal constraints, for magnanimous reasons. but any time he opens his mouth, with all due respect, i go into it aware that it's going to be very hard to tease out signal from noise.

i will never believe anything Lacatski says, and the reason is because of my respect for him. my strong impression is that he is a brilliant person who is very gifted at manipulating conversations and public opinion. it is in fact his profession to do so.

@mrjeffknox oh have you seen 'on the beach'? lesser known '50s post-nuclear war film with a good cast.

continuing with my doom and gloom playlist

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

@ObserveByProxy7 @Starlit_forest oh thank you so much!

@ccellsseashells @Starlit_forest This is the one I read - a translation with commentary by Elias Rowan. The commentary is minimal, which I appreciated so I could make up my own mind without being hastily nudged into a certain viewpoint.

My personal critique of Gnosticism (something a lot of UFO apologists seem to lean towards). For those who believe in Gnosticism as truth, I have a few concerns. The idea that one must obtain divine knowledge to escape the soul trap feels overly simplistic. It appeals directly to human ego, the idea that there is something you can acquire through your own effort and intellect that leads to liberation. This runs counter to most traditional spiritual frameworks. Instead of transcending the physical through intellect, they call for the death of the ego itself. You die to self. You pick up your cross. The premise is that perfection is not achieved through acquiring anything, including knowledge. Now let’s follow the Gnostic idea all the way through. Say Earth is a kind of farm and something is harvesting human experience. Say you gain the knowledge and escape. The question becomes, escape to where? I want to stay intellectually honest here because I can’t fault anyone for wanting out. Anyone who has felt deep pain or a lack of hope understands how easy it is to believe something malevolent is running the show. That feeling is real. But the human experience also includes the laughter of a child. An animal curling up beside you. Love that can completely undo you in the best and worst ways. So we have to be honest about what we’re escaping to. It is not enough to use intellect to leave the farm only to end up somewhere worse or unknown. The alternative has to actually be better. So what are we escaping to, and why? This is where the farming logic starts to fall apart for me. If something is harvesting human emotion, why is so much of that emotion negative? A farmer does not make his livestock miserable. You feed them well. You give them shelter and comfort. You protect what you are trying to harvest. That is not what we see here. Negative experience is not occasional. It is constant and systemic. If something is running this operation, it is doing a poor job of maintaining a stable, high-yield harvest. That alone is worth thinking about. Then there is the test argument. The idea that only the purest souls find their way back to source. If we follow that honestly, making the farm a place of intense suffering is not good test design. It is not a test at all to want to escape something terrible. Every living thing does that. It is instinct. A real test, if we are being honest about it, would be the ability to recognize a trap and choose to leave somewhere that was actually good. That would say something meaningful. Wanting to escape misery does not tell us anything about the soul. It just tells us the thing is suffering. So either the ones running the system are incompetent, or the suffering is intentional for reasons that have nothing to do with purification. Neither option really holds the model together. So let’s assume the suffering is intentional. That would mean whatever is running this is not harvesting emotion randomly. There is a preference, specifically for the negative. That is a choice. And that tells you something about the nature of what is doing the harvesting. This is where the model quietly asks you to accept something most people skip over. If malevolent entities are in control and the only way out is knowledge you acquire yourself, then you are completely on your own. There is no rescue. No one coming back for you. Just you, your intellect, and a map you cannot verify. I understand why that appeals to people. If you have experienced enough pain, it can feel more honest than believing in something good. Belief in something benevolent can feel naive when your experience seems to contradict it. But I would ask you to apply the same level of honesty to the destination question. Escaping a bad situation into an unexamined one is not freedom. It is just another version of hope. And hope dressed up as logic is still hope.

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Bloomberg: President Donald Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame his party’s midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cuts to domestic agencies and health-care entitlements. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@ObserveByProxy7 @Starlit_forest i was actually just looking at reading the gospel of st. thomas and was searching for a quote, when your post came up and i went hey! i already follow that person. do you perchance have a translation you like? i'm looking for one right now.

@ObserveByProxy7 @Starlit_forest i really resonate with this! thank you so much for sharing. for an approach to connection with the divine which also embraces the created, i really like Kabir. god in everything. sing and enjoy being alive as worship, etc..

@CorvusFlies he's very much a morally facile, complicit enabler.

I used to respect Rubio, even though I might disagree with him. I no longer respect him.

even if you for some reason only watch more mainstream hollywood sci fi, this is just not historically true: E.T., close encounters, sunshine, pi, the fountain, the matrix, the abyss, blade runner...

various animated works by Karel Zeman and Sabin Bălașa. Piotr Kamler's incredible 'chronopolis'

counterpoint: there are far too many sci fi films which are visually inventive on that level to list. angel's egg mechte navstrechu metropolis solaris stalker dark crystal alien on the silver globe (unwatchable but culturally significant: unrealized jodorowsky dune project)