Good Soldier Svejk posted:

The peanutties aren't bringing space communism though
They're the "there is a coming cataclysm and it's gonna suck and we can't save you all but we can maybe give you telepathy I guess" ones

my bony fealty posted:

is like if they took Carl Sagan or Brian cox and told em to just talk about aitee for as long as they want. that's his role and that's why he's fascinating and, even if you recognize what he is (and I think all of us in this thread do) - he's a great storyteller with a personal hook. If storytelling is a big part of what makes humanity great then of course the powers that be are going to find the best bard they can manufacture to pass it along to us.

valp posted:

The biblical rapture is just aliens taking people off-world before the apocalypse, you can do that or you can stay on earth and hope you mutate into an X-Man when the solar flare hits.

Failson posted:

I miss weirdness like the Toynbee tiles:

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



Also could have sworn one said "100,000 waiting dead, waiting on Jupiter" but that could just be my bad brain.

Failson posted:

I miss weirdness like the Toynbee tiles:

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



Also could have sworn one said "100,000 waiting dead, waiting on Jupiter" but that could just be my bad brain.

Rickshaw posted:

Unrelated but same energy, you might like the mayday mystery: http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/

endocriminologist posted:

Did Chaos Magick Break Reality?

What the hell is going on? Coronavirus, societal collapse, monoliths, aliens, what more do I need to say? Did William S. Burroughs actually achieve his goal of breaking reality? Let me explain. William S. Burroughs was a member of Peter J. Carroll’s magickal organization, The Illuminates of Thanateros. They practiced chaos magick, a system of magick that denies all fixed models of reality. Basically they are encouraged to believe in whatever reality they want. Burroughs was also an author who often used the cut-up method to write his novels, a technique that involves cutting up newspapers and magazines, putting the clippings in a hat, and then randomly pulling them out to create sentences. Burroughs believed the cut-up method was a form of chaos magick that destabilized language, which he claimed was the main control mechanism of reality. Burroughs’ goal was to utterly destroy and dismantle all control systems and he thought his cut-ups could help him achieve this.
https://preview.redd.it/t8vs6iipdw561.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=47f50bf4b8defd8e57d1cf2375b20cfdb5e1fbdc
Burroughs’ cut-ups sometimes seemed to predict the future. They also seemed to generate synchronicities, one of them being the 23 enigma, which has since been popularized by the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23. It seems randomness can help one get closer to the transcendental. To understand this idea better, think about how people flip a coin to decide someone’s fate. Or how people randomly pull out tarot cards to communicate with spirits. Burroughs was in contact with Robert Anton Wilson, and Burroughs told him about the 23 enigma. Wilson started seeing the number everywhere too, and this inspired him to incorporate the idea into his most famous book series, The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Ironically, the Discordian Society is a group of people who “worship” the goddess of chaos, Eris. It has been described as complex joke disguised as a religion or a complex religion disguised as a joke. They also deny the knowability of objective truth.
https://preview.redd.it/ejwteyfsdw561.png?width=391&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cb90ffc7f41fafb29f92754498c58d2aa3f4e9b
Wilson was in contact with Kerry Thornley, and when they started talking, Wilson fell in love with the idea of the Discordian Society and the Illuminati because he saw it as a way to bring the left-wing and right-wing together. And so he wrote three books about it. Wilson and Thornley would also initiate Operation Mindfuck, which was basically their attempt to enlighten the masses by spreading so many fake conspiracies and disinformation, people’s brains would essentially short circuit, causing their rigid belief systems to dissolve. However, Thornley started to believe the Illuminati was real after strange things started happening to him. The FBI questioned him about being a double for Lee Harvey Oswald during the assassination of JFK. At first he denied this, but eventually he came to believe he really was.
https://preview.redd.it/gp4njnrudw561.png?width=311&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d529518eed438d9762a29b97544fc925c43f86b
Coincidentally, Thornley befriended Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, wrote a book about him defecting to the Soviet Union called Idle Warriors, unknowingly lived down the street from him, and unknowingly lived in his old work place which was turned into an apartment. The coincidences go on and on. And they get stranger. But anyways, Thornley started believing Wilson, or at least a clone of Wilson, was his CIA handler and that he and Oswald were a product of MKUltra and a Nazi breeding experiment.
https://preview.redd.it/t77ia7uwdw561.png?width=494&format=png&auto=webp&s=728fbcd70f518b54d2cce5603c6111f946e39d81
Wilson and Burroughs were also friends with Joseph Matheny, the creator of Ong’s Hat, the first alternate reality game. An ARG is a game that uses the real world as a platform and transmedia storytelling. They can be so immersive, some people have no idea they’re playing a game. Matheny spread a rumor about an interdimensional portal existing somewhere in New Jersey, and people who believed the story was real, traveled from all over just to try and find it. Oddly enough, many people reported strange synchronicities in the area it was said to be located. On one occasion, Matheny was confronted by the Navy asking him why all these anomalies were popping up. Oddly enough, US spies are now using alternate reality games to study human behavior. Some conspiracy theorists also claim AI is creating ARGs to manipulate people’s beliefs.
U.S. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (For Work, They Swear) | WIRED
There is also an obscure group of Discordians who play an ARG called r/TheGame23. These people believe life is literally a game and the universe is like a cosmic ARG. They claim the stories we believe are real create reality. They choose to deny all narratives and write their own.
https://preview.redd.it/03ujqglzdw561.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c138d1c489c892c37cb4d81f8e4c5c1e411f41e
But either way you look at it, it seems we are moving towards the dissolution of consensus reality. There is no true narrative. No one agrees on anything anymore. Someone standing right next to you might live in an alternate universe. And it all started with chaos magick. So was the emergence of chaos magick a symptom of the coming Age of Aquarius? Some say the Mother Goddess will make herself known again during the Aquarian Age. Well then, I find it interesting that chaos is associated with Yin, or the feminine principle. Perhaps all the craziness we are living through is simply a part of a natural cycle. If that’s the case, the only way to stay sane will be to embrace the change. Thanks for reading.

endocriminologist posted:

Did Chaos Magick Break Reality?

What the hell is going on? Coronavirus, societal collapse, monoliths, aliens, what more do I need to say? Did William S. Burroughs actually achieve his goal of breaking reality? Let me explain. William S. Burroughs was a member of Peter J. Carroll’s magickal organization, The Illuminates of Thanateros. They practiced chaos magick, a system of magick that denies all fixed models of reality. Basically they are encouraged to believe in whatever reality they want. Burroughs was also an author who often used the cut-up method to write his novels, a technique that involves cutting up newspapers and magazines, putting the clippings in a hat, and then randomly pulling them out to create sentences. Burroughs believed the cut-up method was a form of chaos magick that destabilized language, which he claimed was the main control mechanism of reality. Burroughs’ goal was to utterly destroy and dismantle all control systems and he thought his cut-ups could help him achieve this.
https://preview.redd.it/t8vs6iipdw561.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=47f50bf4b8defd8e57d1cf2375b20cfdb5e1fbdc
Burroughs’ cut-ups sometimes seemed to predict the future. They also seemed to generate synchronicities, one of them being the 23 enigma, which has since been popularized by the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23. It seems randomness can help one get closer to the transcendental. To understand this idea better, think about how people flip a coin to decide someone’s fate. Or how people randomly pull out tarot cards to communicate with spirits. Burroughs was in contact with Robert Anton Wilson, and Burroughs told him about the 23 enigma. Wilson started seeing the number everywhere too, and this inspired him to incorporate the idea into his most famous book series, The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Ironically, the Discordian Society is a group of people who “worship” the goddess of chaos, Eris. It has been described as complex joke disguised as a religion or a complex religion disguised as a joke. They also deny the knowability of objective truth.
https://preview.redd.it/ejwteyfsdw561.png?width=391&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cb90ffc7f41fafb29f92754498c58d2aa3f4e9b
Wilson was in contact with Kerry Thornley, and when they started talking, Wilson fell in love with the idea of the Discordian Society and the Illuminati because he saw it as a way to bring the left-wing and right-wing together. And so he wrote three books about it. Wilson and Thornley would also initiate Operation Mindfuck, which was basically their attempt to enlighten the masses by spreading so many fake conspiracies and disinformation, people’s brains would essentially short circuit, causing their rigid belief systems to dissolve. However, Thornley started to believe the Illuminati was real after strange things started happening to him. The FBI questioned him about being a double for Lee Harvey Oswald during the assassination of JFK. At first he denied this, but eventually he came to believe he really was.
https://preview.redd.it/gp4njnrudw561.png?width=311&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d529518eed438d9762a29b97544fc925c43f86b
Coincidentally, Thornley befriended Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, wrote a book about him defecting to the Soviet Union called Idle Warriors, unknowingly lived down the street from him, and unknowingly lived in his old work place which was turned into an apartment. The coincidences go on and on. And they get stranger. But anyways, Thornley started believing Wilson, or at least a clone of Wilson, was his CIA handler and that he and Oswald were a product of MKUltra and a Nazi breeding experiment.
https://preview.redd.it/t77ia7uwdw561.png?width=494&format=png&auto=webp&s=728fbcd70f518b54d2cce5603c6111f946e39d81
Wilson and Burroughs were also friends with Joseph Matheny, the creator of Ong’s Hat, the first alternate reality game. An ARG is a game that uses the real world as a platform and transmedia storytelling. They can be so immersive, some people have no idea they’re playing a game. Matheny spread a rumor about an interdimensional portal existing somewhere in New Jersey, and people who believed the story was real, traveled from all over just to try and find it. Oddly enough, many people reported strange synchronicities in the area it was said to be located. On one occasion, Matheny was confronted by the Navy asking him why all these anomalies were popping up. Oddly enough, US spies are now using alternate reality games to study human behavior. Some conspiracy theorists also claim AI is creating ARGs to manipulate people’s beliefs.
U.S. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (For Work, They Swear) | WIRED
There is also an obscure group of Discordians who play an ARG called r/TheGame23. These people believe life is literally a game and the universe is like a cosmic ARG. They claim the stories we believe are real create reality. They choose to deny all narratives and write their own.
https://preview.redd.it/03ujqglzdw561.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c138d1c489c892c37cb4d81f8e4c5c1e411f41e
But either way you look at it, it seems we are moving towards the dissolution of consensus reality. There is no true narrative. No one agrees on anything anymore. Someone standing right next to you might live in an alternate universe. And it all started with chaos magick. So was the emergence of chaos magick a symptom of the coming Age of Aquarius? Some say the Mother Goddess will make herself known again during the Aquarian Age. Well then, I find it interesting that chaos is associated with Yin, or the feminine principle. Perhaps all the craziness we are living through is simply a part of a natural cycle. If that’s the case, the only way to stay sane will be to embrace the change. Thanks for reading.

Failson posted:

I miss weirdness like the Toynbee tiles:

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



Also could have sworn one said "100,000 waiting dead, waiting on Jupiter" but that could just be my bad brain.

Rickshaw posted:

boomer /pol is on the case

That Spooky Witch posted:

i am convinced the birds can feel the good vibes we put out and resonate with those, gently caress the pessimists who think they feed off misery; you're thinking of capitalists

Wheeee posted:

any ancient civilization that’s catalogued the billions of worlds in our galaxy and seen millions of sapient species at various stages of development probably isn’t going to give a poo poo one way or the other about humanity beyond the curiosity of observing and subtly toying with us primitive screwheads

people talking about making contact with aliens and being inducted into some galactic federation like some monke offering a field biologist some leaves as if it’s in any way our equal or has anything of value to offer beyond the simple observation of its existence to satisfy our curiosity

Rah! posted:

ur close to the truth mr 1984 sir

thats when tiny lue hacks ur mainframe and suddenly u get framed for "indecent exposure" for the "crime" of absorbing p'nti data streams from the sun (ancient transmitter) i was not "perineum tanning" or "butt chugging the sun"! society is sick

Sleekly posted:

yeah i think we would be fascinating, if a monkey gave me some some leaves i would absolutely teach it how to use a guitar or something

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

The peanutties aren't bringing space communism though
They're the "there is a coming cataclysm and it's gonna suck and we can't save you all but we can maybe give you telepathy I guess" ones

PokeJoe posted:

I've never seen a monkey put a dick drawing on a rocket and shoot it in to space

Bilirubin posted:

Jazerus posted:

you just keep posting this poo poo and it reflects more on you than on what a hugely advanced sapient civilization "probably" would be like

Wheeee posted:

you aren’t asking questions, you’re projecting your own idealistic ideology which you seem convinced is somehow intrinsically correct onto things that we don’t even know exist and which may be beyond our comprehension if they do, and you’re ignoring that they’ve seemingly already been here for thousands of years (or more!) and have sat idly by as billions of humans have lived brutal, truncated lives

and that only reflects on you

munce posted:

100% real genuine non-cgi ufo battle videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ziHYMIwyg

Boat Stuck posted:

Wow the UFO thread is something else.

Wang Commander posted:

So I've been Max Titering a full Moderna dose every 3 weeks since my second dose back in February. I had to get some blood work done for my annual physical and they said my blood looked unusual in the tube, like visibly. They thought it was excessive lipids at first, but my cholesterol was normal, so they ran some more tests and it was antibodies. Anyway my doctor says my blood is way too viscous now and it explains why my blood pressure is up and they're worried about my kidneys between the inflammation and the thickening! I haven't come clean about the boosters yet so if you see a preprint about an insanely excessive antibody production with the Moderna vaxx it's just me and my boy Max.

Jazerus posted:

nah i just have no clue what an advanced civilization looks like and don't feel comfortable with assuming they're big brained space weirdos that think of us as ants, or that they're space hippies recruiting for the galactic federation, or any of that poo poo. it's a question that, if you choose to engage with it, only provides insight into what you think humans would do in that position, and it seems to me personally that super-advanced humans would probably not have anywhere close to a unified perspective

Wheeee posted:

You’re still making uninformed value judgements and thinking you’re in a position to look down on me for not adhering to your personal ideals, and it’s not the first time you’ve done so in this thread.

quote:

even if you were my equal it would be pointless and irritating.

Wheeee posted:

I’d like you to continue to share your perspectives on this wacky UAP stuff