papersack posted:

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-05/dicastery-doctrine-faith-supernatural-phenomena-norms.html

The Vatican thing came out and it's just a policy update. No ontological shock I see.

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

They've been revealing themselves for a long time.

Just not to big crowds

They're a bit shy

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Today has felt super weird all day
and the dot is very broken

anybody else just felt really off?
Like not even the relief of it being Friday is lifting my spirit

poisonpill posted:

what’s the church’s stance on gay aliens

Tighclops posted:

What the gently caress is spirituality

euphronius posted:

if anyone does not want to talk about spiritual experiences together I am down. I am happy to say nothing

Tighclops posted:

What the gently caress is spirituality

coconono posted:

a bunch of miserable lies we tell ourselves when the lights go out

The Protagonist posted:

Victor Vermis posted:

I think about this sighting at least once each week.

It might be a balloon.

It better be a balloon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0Tem-0obQ

Sleekly posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6i4xoSl2A

the guy who failed to stream that one time is trying to parse the vatican press release and its honestly utterly worthless commentary but i cant help but like this goofus

Victor Vermis posted:

I think about this sighting at least once each week.

It might be a balloon.

It better be a balloon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0Tem-0obQ

Victor Vermis posted:

I think about this sighting at least once each week.

It might be a balloon.

It better be a balloon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0Tem-0obQ

D-Pad posted:

So my wife had an incredibly interesting experience today.

I have long believed that the vast vast vast majority of psychics, mediums, fortune tellers, energy healers, etc are charlatans, con artists, or well meaning but brain dead idiots, however I've always had the feeling that there may be a few real ones amongst all the trash. Sometimes you hear a story that really hits you in the "what if". Anyway my wife has a coworker who told her about a woman who does reiki type massage work and scheduled a session for this morning just to check it out. She had quite the profound experience and was afraid to even tell me about it for fear I would make fun of her or not believe her but I ate it up.

After starting to lay hands on my wife this woman ends up telling her all kinds of things about herself that she could not possibly know. My wife doesn't do social media and these are things that her coworker for example definitely does not know about only a few close friends and family. She was not asking my wife leading questions or any questions at all she just started stating all these incredibly personal details with 100% accuracy. I won't go into details because of the private nature of these things but they were not at all the type of more general stuff you sometimes see from a really good mentalist, I was honestly blown away and it affected my wife enough she was crying while telling me the story. Also a lot of these details were not related to each other in the sense that you will see a good mentalist confirm a more broad statement and use that to start making more educated guesses as the person confirms them. In addition to that some other weird things happened. My wife was wearing a sleep mask but she multiple times saw colored lights coming from the bottom where she could just barely see and this was in a dark room without any kind of setup she saw to produce lights. My wife asked her if she opened a window or turned on the lights and the woman just giggled and didn't acknowledge the question otherwise. At another point my wife very clearly felt a hand on her right elbow while the woman was on her left side and had both her hands placed on other areas of her body. My wife had not heard the door or any person entering the room and asked the woman if somebody else had come in the room because of what she was feeling. The woman seemed to express genuine surprise and told my wife she was surprised she was feeling that as most of her clients don't but that she has a spirit guide who likes to help her in her work. At that point the hand stroked down her arm and my wife said her right hand involuntarily curled closed and it felt like she had a very intense sensation that she was holding something very warm.

What I found most interesting that really sealed the deal for me is my wife told me this woman is completely blind in one eye and only has 20% vision in the other due to a degenerative disease. After the session was over she invited my wife to ask questions and my wife enquired how she had learned or was able to do this. The woman said she was raised in a very strict christian household and thought this kind of thing was bad growing up but she started a regular massage therapist school and found that during massages she started to feel zaps in her hands and as her loss of eyesight progressed it got more intense. She would also throw up uncontrollably after sessions where this happened. She decided to go with it and took some more esoteric classes and embraced it and now she's where she is with it now. Loss of eyesight being entwined with this type of thing is a trope as old as humanity and I've heard more than once that throwing up after these types of things is associated with the real deal.

My wife is not the woo type at all (she's a doctor), I was surprised to hear she went to a reiki type session at all. It was very obvious in the way she told the story that it was a profound experience and really made her question some things. The woman also gave her some really great advice about handling the issues she somehow knew without being told. I'm going to reach out to schedule a session Monday and will report back. I wish I could go into it blind because now I feel like my expectations have been built up way to much but I am planning on doing some meditating beforehand and going into it open minded as possible with the fewest expectations I can manage.

Edit: one other detail I forgot. My wife said at multiple points during the session when she closed her eyes her entire vision would go from black to a full on color, usually green. She asked the woman about this after and was told green was the color of healing.

NUFORC posted:

I was on military leave for a week end during my basic training in the South African army. I was walking with a friend at around 21:00pm on a Friday night. We had been to a disco tech which was closed for some reason, and we were walking back to my friend's house in Emmarentia, which is a suburb in northern Johannesburg. We were both around eighteen years old and sober. My friend's house (parents house) was situated near a large lake, Lake Emmarentia.

As we approached the lake we were both astounded to observe a glowing orange orb, the size and color of a harvest moon, pulsing and hovering over this lake. It appeared to be pulsing and quite stationary. Suddenly it began moving fairly quickly across the lake, stop, go straight up, stop there suddenly, move horizontally, hover for a few seconds and continue these erratic up and down maneuvers for a few minutes, then suddenly in a lazy upward angle and in an Easterly direction it sped off, gathering speed very quickly, and as it did so the color of the orangy yellow orb paled until it disappeared and the last sight before it disappeared was that it was almost a see-through transparent white color. The faster it went, the paler it became, as I said, and then disappeared from view.

Nothing had been spoken during this sighting apart from right at the beginning of the sighting when we first saw the yellow orb, and to which we both said basically, “Wow, what is that??” After it had disappeared, as suddenly it, or another very similar orb reappeared and basically went through the same maneuvers, though the time was quite significantly less than the first one's maneuvers. It too sped off in a slight upward and Easterly angle and it too disappeared paling as it sped up until suddenly it was invisible. We exclaimed to each other that that definitely was a UFO, and we rushed back home, just a few minutes later and called the Rand Daily Mail, which was the cities morning news paper, and reported the sighting. They informed us that all through that week they had several people call up with similar sightings....I was on military leave for a week end during my basic training in the South African army. I was walking with a friend at around 21:00pm on a Friday night. We had been to a disco tech which was closed for some reason, and we were walking back to my friend's house in Emmarentia, which is a suburb in northern Johannesburg. We were both around eighteen years old and sober. My friend's house (parents house) was situated near a large lake, Lake Emmarentia.

As we approached the lake we were both astounded to observe a glowing orange orb, the size and color of a harvest moon, pulsing and hovering over this lake. It appeared to be pulsing and quite stationary. Suddenly it began moving fairly quickly across the lake, stop, go straight up, stop there suddenly, move horizontally, hover for a few seconds and continue these erratic up and down maneuvers for a few minutes, then suddenly in a lazy upward angle and in an Easterly direction it sped off, gathering speed very quickly, and as it did so the color of the orangy yellow orb paled until it disappeared and the last sight before it disappeared was that it was almost a see-through transparent white color. The faster it went, the paler it became, as I said, and then disappeared from view.

Nothing had been spoken during this sighting apart from right at the beginning of the sighting when we first saw the yellow orb, and to which we both said basically, “Wow, what is that??” After it had disappeared, as suddenly it, or another very similar orb reappeared and basically went through the same maneuvers, though the time was quite significantly less than the first one's maneuvers. It too sped off in a slight upward and Easterly angle and it too disappeared paling as it sped up until suddenly it was invisible. We exclaimed to each other that that definitely was a UFO, and we rushed back home, just a few minutes later and called the Rand Daily Mail, which was the cities morning news paper, and reported the sighting. They informed us that all through that week they had several people call up with similar sightings....

NUFORC posted:

I was a married 22 year old with three sons [ twins age 5 and the youngest just 2. I was visiting relatives in Greenville South Carolina on May 11,1972 at approximatly 9:30 pm. I pulled the car off the highway and drove to a clearing where my cousin's trailer was sitting.As i stopped the car the engine still running, i noticed a green light moving up vertically to tree top level. It seemed to float up and stop, then all of a sudden it jerked to the left faster than anything i had ever seen, stopped on a dime, floated up, it did this motion 3 more times [ like a climbing stairs motion ]until the object was directly in front of the car. It then began to float over the car, my heart was pounding and my head was spinning, i was totally stunned!

I cathered up all the courage that i could muster and jumped out of the car and looked straight up, there was nothing only blackness! I had my three small children asleep in the back seat.The one min. that this sighting took has changed my life forever, i no longer have the luxury of not beliveing.

NUFORC posted:

It was about 10:00 pm on a warm June night. I was riding my bike near the Ancient Oaks subdivision golf course in North Biloxi. This was shortly after the Pascagoula, Miss. incident involving so-called direct contact with a UFO. Anyway, I saw a small, saucer shaped object, glowing luminously and moving slowly over the golf course at treetop level. It continued this way for a few minutes then suddenly accelerated to tremendous velocity and took off almost straight up out of sight. I don't know if it was a natural phenomenon or artificial, but it was unlike anything I had ever seen.

NUFORC posted:

My sighting was a long time ago and some details are hard to remember.One summer nite i was taking my sister to pick up some clothes from the garage of my parents house that had burned down .She was in the garage for some time and i had became restless and had laided my head on the car door from the inside of the car on the drivers side. Iwas looking up gazing at the stars it was a clear nite . Then out of no where a triangle formation of lighted dots drifted across the sky.There was no sound .

If i had not been looking up i would have never seen this event.I was startled and amazed at what i was wittnessing .I had to move to the other side of the car very quickly because the dots of lights were moveing at a pretty good drift. The amount of dots or disk that i saw were between 12 or14 moving in a northeasterly direction.The lights did not stop or move in any wierd manner, they stayed on a straight path . Their color was like a white silver more whiteish sort of like a full bright clear moon.

I did tell my father and sister and mother about this sighting and fact on that nite i had also yelled at my sister to come and see but she was trying to get her clothes and didn't make it out in time to see . I have waited a long time to tell anybody else because most people think your crazy . I also didn't know where to report such a matter until i recently got on the net and found this site.

NUFORC posted:

we were driving on a country road at night, it was clear and warm out, we had the sunroof open when I noticed a flashing light off in the distants. At first I thought it was just a plane, but noticed it was covering a lot distance in short amount of time. I told my 2 friends, as we talked more about what we were watching we wanted to follow it. As we were talking we noticed that it started to get closer. It came along side us above a corn feild, it had 3 lights in a triangle,they flashed on and off at the same time. They flashed very bright they did not fade they were on then black. We couldn't see an object just the lights. It followed us along the road 100 yrds away. We slowed down, it slowed down, we sped up it did the same. We stoped it did also. We then shut the lights off and it stoped flashing. We then turned the lights back on and it started flashing again. We then turned the engine off, we could hear no sound of the object, it just flashed on and off with no sound. By now we were scared out of mineds. We decided to go back to town, as we did this the object stoped following us, like it could hear what we were saying. At some point we became brave and decided to go back after it but it seamed to start following the railroad tracks until we couldn't see it any more. We returned to the same place for a week but never say it again, and we quite telling our story. No one belived us. Even to this day I only tell very close friends. I know what I say!

NUFORC posted:

I was stationed at Ft. Huachuca AZ in the Electronic Warfare School.

My wife and myself (I was 18 at the time) was driving outside the Fort. We used to drive to a place where we used to meet friends. Mostly a 'hotrod' thing that kids do..

I don't recall the road now, it was a while ago. It went to a shallow river/stream in the desert where the soldiers would meet to party under a bridge.

When we were about 3 or 4 miles outside of town, we saw a round bright object crest the hill behind us at about 100 yards. At first I thought it was a truck but as it appeared it was very low to the ground (20-40 feet at most..) following the road to the side. I saw it first in the driver side mirror. Then I turned around and saw it. The object was very bright. It was large about 50 feet in diameter. It was hard to tell exactly how large as it was so bright. It lite up the road. The light was a 'white' light. Very brilliant. I could not make out any detail as it glowed so bright.

My wife yelled to me to get out of there. She kept saying 'Go..go!'..I speeded up and the object came closer. We went to a side road and I spun the car around and the object went into the desert as if to cut us off.

I did a u-turn on the dirt road and and headed back in the opposite direction to the Fort. We were both shaken up.

I had never seen anything like it before.

I did not tell anyone as they would not believe us.

What I remember most that frightened me is the feeling I got. I can't explain it, but I felt it was 'hunting us'..maybe the wrong word but I knew that I could not stop and had to keep driving.

I do not want my name used or my identity revealed.

bij posted:

They are there to see - if you believe.

David The Gnome was disclosure.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

5.5 months since I quit. Adding Jimmy to the pile of people I know or have heard of quitting in the past ~8 months - all longtime/lifetime smokers, including myself, of course. There's something there, but what that is I couldn't say. My intuition tells me it's a prelude to something. Christ even my intuition is stringing me along with vague promises of something something eventually sometime soon soonish just wait just hold on its really happening. Sad!

[Well I had a gummy and a couple hits from a joint on 4/20 but that was all, nothing prior or since. Honestly don't miss it at all, which is still astonishing to me. High on 4/20 was plenty pleasant but, yeah, I'm just fine not using it.]

Tighclops posted:

If Jimmy Dore is cutting back on weed then I take it as a sign I should definitely consume even more weed

Bilirubin posted:

I really never indulge (unlike wine *sips*) although I had done once things got legal here for a while, and since I have other health issues that makes smoking forbidden and vaping questionable I'm fine with that

My partner however just scored a nice quarter of high end indica hybrid at a dispensary while we were in BC last week and I am psyched for her. When she told the owner that she had heard they had that strain he was like "yeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!" so obviously a fan too