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I found this assuming it’s the same man (who is now dead) and it appears from his many posts, he was a nutcase.
http://www.aliens-everything-you-want-to-know.com/AliensinHistory.html
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Thanks. I think he was a crackpot
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I think it’s John Mack….can’t find anything on a James..
http://www.greatdreams.com/john_mack.htm
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Mak, don’t waste brain space by trying to figure out the crazy. There is no logical answer to the crazy.
Sure you could point out that many rocket launches were indeed for putting satellites in orbit, you could argue there is footage of satellites deploying. There is the fact that a lot of tv and internet are satellite dependent. But you can’t drive logic into crazy with a 10 lb. sledge.
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I will remember this caution.
Conspiracy theorists are everywhere man
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The earth is flat; there are no satellites; there is no “outer space”, and and anyone who says otherwise is a liar and part of a global conspiracy to cover up the facts of reality. Hope this clears things up for you. Man, you really gotta learn to think outside the box, bro. 🙂
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and there is a dome on which the sun rests. About 3k km from the earth.
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Absolutely! Makes perfect sense.
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Well, all that I have to offer is that hopefully, someone develops a device that can eradicate all the foolish politicians from this planet earth! The cameras and satellites I can live with. The stupidity I find a nuisance! Have a great weekend, my Kenyan brother! 🙂
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i can contribute to that research
Have a great week Roger
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And you are omnipotent and all-knowing, your Holiness! 😉
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of late, my omniscience has suffered several blows with humans inventing new things on the go
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When I composed my original comment, I couldn’t remember how to spell “omniscience!” I appreciate your “showing me the way” it needs to be done! 😉 Naked hugs, my Kenyan brother!
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don’t you worry. i am the holy one 🙂
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Amen! 🙂 Naked hugs!
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Until the people who REPLACE all the politicians have a little taste of power. Then it is The Who* once again!
*”Met the new boss. Same as the old boss.” but we DO get fooled again. (See the Peace Prize President, Barrack Obama)
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the state exists so one set of people can lord it over others. in some states, there is a bit of fairness and freedoms. in others, not so much. and so every political struggle remains a class struggle and will continue for as long as we can’t have egalitarian societies
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We have a bishop telling us, that our many recent natural disasters are caused by the earth reacting to vast amounts of evil in this country. He’s not referring to our harming of the environment, but to “moral evil” such as the decriminalisation of prostitution and the legalisation of same sex marriages!
Then there’s a few white supremacists who claim that “white people” settled in New Zealand long before the Māori, but were wiped out by a wave of Polynesian immigration in the 13th century. Apparently the invaders systematically wiped out all evidence that a previous civilisation existed so that when “white people” returned the Māori could claim the ownership of the entire country and its resources.
Then there’s a few who claim that the Christchurch massacre never occurred, and some who claim it was organised by the authorities. In both cases the argument is that it was a ruse designed to fool us into accepting greater gun control.
While such notions can range from being humorous to to downright dangerous, I often use such notions in playing devil’s advocate. I find that most people have never challenged their own reasoning as to why they hold something to be true. It seems that most people assume something to be true for no better reason than that is what most other people believe. I like challenging such assumptions 🙂
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Me thinks you summed up religion quite well with this …
I find that most people have never challenged their own reasoning as to why they hold something to be true. It seems that most people assume something to be true for no better reason than that is what most other people believe.
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I’ve found the non-religious to be just as guilty as the religious when it comes understanding why they hold something to be true. The fact that they are more likely to be correct is a matter of good fortune on their part rather than a matter or sound reasoning. And I’m not exempting myself. Most of what I know is simply because of what I have absorbed from those I have come in contact with or what I have read, seen or heard. Even the most curious of us can seriously question only a fraction of what we learn. Such is the rate at which we absorb new knowledge that to some extent we must assume that “common knowledge” is correct. I suspect that the difference between the wise and the fool is that the wise understand that the foundation of their knowledge lies on shifting sand while the fool assumes the foundation of their knowledge is embedded in solid rock.
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guilty as charged but generally i a more willing to say i don’t know or i can speculate.
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The wise are also more…discerning…in their choice of sources? Or perhaps simply luckier?
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Well, there’s no doubt some are more discerning or have the skills to test assumptions, and I’ll recognise those people as wise. But I’m willing to bet that a very large percentage of the population got things “right”, not because of their choice of sources, but because the only source they saw was the one they grew up with. There’s no wisdom involved in being born into a society with fewer superstitions, so yes, luck and opportunity play a significant part.
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this is true too.
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both
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generally it is an in-group out-group thing
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Wow, Barry. Even our nuttiest nuts don’t claim that the First People wiped out a previous white civilization. Unless one counts the Mormons, the 19th century version of Cray-cray Scientology.
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A few seconds on Google brought up:
Lost White America
Do Europeans Have Claim to North America?
Did you know that Native Americans/”Indians” were not the ‘first ones here’?
THE WHITE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS: DO THEY PROVE THE BOOK OF MORMON?
I use OpenDNS on my home network, which I have configured to block out most hate/discrimination sites, so most sites along similar lines are not available unless I change my network configuration.
But I don’t think our nut-cases are any nuttier than yours – and you have a lot more of them 🙂
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Hahaha lol
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