• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      7 days ago

      A culture that stigmatizes intelligence, mainly. “My lazy ignorance is just as good as your hard-earned knowledge.”

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        I would encourage you to look into a recent documentary about the congressional testimony from numerous high ranking intelligence officers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Disclosure

        tl;dr Of the claims they make in the documentary, the biggest thing (to me) appears to be a massive siphoning of tax dollars into black ops programs that don’t report up through the government. Whether there are actual UFO/UAP programs is up to debate.

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        It’s mostly because of a highly credible and stable intelligence officer

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims

        Essentially he was tasked with finding where funds are going and it led him to a rabbit hole of black programs

        Keep in mind this doesn’t mean any of the implications of the programs are true, but the programs do exist, whether their purpose is legitimate or not is the question

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      The confirmed, filmed sightings of UAP doing things we understand to by physically impossible are behind it yes. I refer you to the US Air Force, and their publicly released footage.

      My guess, and it’s a left field one, holograms.

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        7 days ago

        My guess is that people’s intuitive interpretation of unfamiliar phenomena can be massively wrong.

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    oh no who will perform the totally real and actually effective exorcisms now??

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      Honestly, I see UFO stories as just the same imaginative human instinct that brought us saints & demons. They are definitely linked.

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    It was my understanding that these days, exorcists were more or less glorified guidance counselors for people who are a very specific kind of religiously mentally ill.

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    The Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, on Wednesday removed a well-known priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons.

    The archbishop said Rossetti’s statements “linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.”

    “It’s my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons,” Rossetti added.