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The conspiracy religion: UFOs and you[/color]
Posted by Alexandra Petri
May 3, 2013
It’s magnificent. How did it get there? (French National Center for Space Studies)
I am holding a pamphlet from the Foundation for Extraterrestrial Investigations.
“With every mind that is able to lift the veil of igannance from their eyes,” it proclaims, “the world is one step closer to what is right. There was a time when man believed that frogs were given birth by mud, simply because they were observed to be hopping about from its depths with such avid regularity. We once were sure that the world was flat, and that if one were to stray too far from the center, they would fall into oblivion off its edge. Not too many years past, it was deemed wholly acceptable to enslave a man, woman, or child, for no other reason than the color of their skin. One of the most amazing characteristics of the human race is our ability to evolve. We can evolve not only physically, but even more importantly we can learn to change the way that we think. Unless we feel it advantageous to live our lives within a flattened world where mud spawned frogs hop about the chained and shackled feet of our brothers, then let us not refuse to see the truth of our world as it is. We are not alone. We never have been.”
It must be nice to live in this world.
If you believe in conspiracy theories, everything is being taken care of. It is all very orderly and circular, bound up with “petro-dollars” and shadowy agendas.
In this world, the UFO enthusiasts’ Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (this week at the National Press Club) was a long-overdue shot of pure truth.
At the Citizen Hearing, Mark Cavener approached me to hear what I thought. He confided that he didn’t believe in UFOs, although he had a friend who “did this protocol that apparently came from government remote viewing technology meets Vedic meditation,” which they used to summon UFOs. The resulting video, he said, “was very impressive.”
“I’m not a believer,” he continued. “I’ve seen things with my own eyes that were, you know, have changed my life. Do I believe there’s things in the sky you can’t identify? I didn’t believe. It’s not a belief. I know there’s UFOs, being I saw one. I couldn’t identify it, and it was flying.”
In this world, the CIA is uncannily competent. Billions of dollars go into hard, scientific research into alternative energy and space travel technologies. The solutions to all of Earth’s problems already exist. They are simply being kept from us. Sinister people (probably affiliated with Goldman Sachs) run everything, and they are so good at it that no one knows of their existence. Anyone with evidence of this has the uncomfortable habit of perishing in car a accident or being scared into silence. It’s nice. It’s orderly. It’s almost reassuring.
“I’d like not to believe some of the things that I hear,” said Sarah, a Citizen Hearing attendee who wouldn’t give me her last name. I came upon her compiling a list of other things to look up, including Agenda 21 and something called Chem Trails. She is 70, with two kids and four grandkids, and has actually seen objects in the sky. She came all the way from Indiana and says it was entirely worth it. Her belief stems partly from personal experience and partly because “I’ve read quite a bit of literature, and the consistent themes seem to be: Get rid of your nuclear bombs, and you’re destroying the environment.”
“What would your explanation be? There are lights in the sky!”
Kim Carlsberg, the proprietor of UFO Sky Tours in Sedona (“SEE UFOS NOW ASK KIM HOW!” proclaims the brochure), is more direct about it. “Every morning, every human being on this planet” is living a lie, she says: that we’re alone. “It’s here. It’s on this planet every day.” (The UFOs on the brochure are blurry and greenish or pinkish. You can also take “powerful vortex tours.”) She says the UFO coverup is like “if you’re in a relationship and your boyfriend is having an affair all the time and you know it,” she explained. How does that make you feel? Nobody should have to live like that.
CONTINUE READING: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/05/03/the-conspiracy-religion-ufos-and-you/[/color]
The conspiracy religion: UFOs and you[/color]
Posted by Alexandra Petri
May 3, 2013
It’s magnificent. How did it get there? (French National Center for Space Studies)
I am holding a pamphlet from the Foundation for Extraterrestrial Investigations.
“With every mind that is able to lift the veil of igannance from their eyes,” it proclaims, “the world is one step closer to what is right. There was a time when man believed that frogs were given birth by mud, simply because they were observed to be hopping about from its depths with such avid regularity. We once were sure that the world was flat, and that if one were to stray too far from the center, they would fall into oblivion off its edge. Not too many years past, it was deemed wholly acceptable to enslave a man, woman, or child, for no other reason than the color of their skin. One of the most amazing characteristics of the human race is our ability to evolve. We can evolve not only physically, but even more importantly we can learn to change the way that we think. Unless we feel it advantageous to live our lives within a flattened world where mud spawned frogs hop about the chained and shackled feet of our brothers, then let us not refuse to see the truth of our world as it is. We are not alone. We never have been.”
It must be nice to live in this world.
If you believe in conspiracy theories, everything is being taken care of. It is all very orderly and circular, bound up with “petro-dollars” and shadowy agendas.
In this world, the UFO enthusiasts’ Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (this week at the National Press Club) was a long-overdue shot of pure truth.
At the Citizen Hearing, Mark Cavener approached me to hear what I thought. He confided that he didn’t believe in UFOs, although he had a friend who “did this protocol that apparently came from government remote viewing technology meets Vedic meditation,” which they used to summon UFOs. The resulting video, he said, “was very impressive.”
“I’m not a believer,” he continued. “I’ve seen things with my own eyes that were, you know, have changed my life. Do I believe there’s things in the sky you can’t identify? I didn’t believe. It’s not a belief. I know there’s UFOs, being I saw one. I couldn’t identify it, and it was flying.”
In this world, the CIA is uncannily competent. Billions of dollars go into hard, scientific research into alternative energy and space travel technologies. The solutions to all of Earth’s problems already exist. They are simply being kept from us. Sinister people (probably affiliated with Goldman Sachs) run everything, and they are so good at it that no one knows of their existence. Anyone with evidence of this has the uncomfortable habit of perishing in car a accident or being scared into silence. It’s nice. It’s orderly. It’s almost reassuring.
“I’d like not to believe some of the things that I hear,” said Sarah, a Citizen Hearing attendee who wouldn’t give me her last name. I came upon her compiling a list of other things to look up, including Agenda 21 and something called Chem Trails. She is 70, with two kids and four grandkids, and has actually seen objects in the sky. She came all the way from Indiana and says it was entirely worth it. Her belief stems partly from personal experience and partly because “I’ve read quite a bit of literature, and the consistent themes seem to be: Get rid of your nuclear bombs, and you’re destroying the environment.”
“What would your explanation be? There are lights in the sky!”
Kim Carlsberg, the proprietor of UFO Sky Tours in Sedona (“SEE UFOS NOW ASK KIM HOW!” proclaims the brochure), is more direct about it. “Every morning, every human being on this planet” is living a lie, she says: that we’re alone. “It’s here. It’s on this planet every day.” (The UFOs on the brochure are blurry and greenish or pinkish. You can also take “powerful vortex tours.”) She says the UFO coverup is like “if you’re in a relationship and your boyfriend is having an affair all the time and you know it,” she explained. How does that make you feel? Nobody should have to live like that.
CONTINUE READING: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/05/03/the-conspiracy-religion-ufos-and-you/[/color]