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president bird, our people yearn for freedom
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Jul 2, 2021 23:58
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the respectable aliens just buzz our primitive military for laughs, and maybe to encourage our science to advance faster by demonstrating what's possible and being vaguely threatening while doing so it's the sickos we're gonna have to watch out for
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Jul 3, 2021 02:19
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Vomik posted:aren’t nuclear weapons literally the same reaction as how stars are powered? what would a more advanced weapon look like? I’m sure there has to be military research into that yeah i mean it's still ultimately just heat, radiation, and kinetic force tho. i think if you're FTLing somehow you probably understand space-time on a level where you can weaponize that understanding and just shear things apart thru gravity or spatial expansion or something
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Jul 3, 2021 02:39
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Rah! posted:think about it... bonghitz is an alien quoting all of the best cspam posts to mark them for reposting in space cspam
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Jul 3, 2021 03:00
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space cspam has the full piss tape btw
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Jul 3, 2021 03:01
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The Protagonist posted:If humans ever developed an interstellar abduction program every abductee would be given a hot slice of pizza the alien abductions aren't the result of a "program". it's just that most of the aliens hiding out on earth are intergalactic sex offenders
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Jul 3, 2021 18:58
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:oh god the aliens are going to be devout christians aren't they mormons
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Jul 4, 2021 03:10
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Wheeee posted:Raised By Wolves is part of soft disclosure parsed this as Dances With Wolves at first. is kevin costner connected to the reticulans???
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Jul 4, 2021 03:42
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Objurium posted:white phosphorus please do not warcrime birds
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Jul 5, 2021 03:10
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endocriminologist posted:aliens created the neanderthals to be their perfect children. sadly, natural evolution had other plans and made the perfect suck and gently caress monkey - me, and also the rest of us. p sure that's bonobos
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Jul 5, 2021 20:25
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personally i don't buy into cattle mutilation or abductions as bird-adjacent, at least until one of those little grey perverts admits to it
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Jul 5, 2021 23:20
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splifyphus posted:they could save us, but watching us kill a planet is just better entertainment value. the prime directive states they can only interfere if it would make better television. if this was how things worked trump would still be prez
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Jul 6, 2021 04:56
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that's just the gundam wing boys earth is about to become extremely anime
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Jul 6, 2021 19:20
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SavageGentleman posted:"Oh no, everyone can see my butt, good gracious me, how could that happen" etc. the evidence for unidentified aerial perverts simply continues to mount
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Jul 6, 2021 20:31
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Bilirubin posted:space garbage, probably elon or aliens
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Jul 6, 2021 20:37
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do u think the aliens will take elon to mars if we ask them politely
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Jul 6, 2021 20:43
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Vernii posted:If disclosure (or even first contact) happens, I kind of expect the conspiracy theory crowd to have a pretty ugly fracture. In particular, the crowd that have conditioned themselves to reflexively always believe the truth is being hidden will probably decide these particular aliens are fakes and part of a larger government conspiracy. And then there will be the people who decide that the aliens are clearly in league with the government to do some nefarious plot. oh absolutely. everyone who has tied their entire worldview up into a particular kind of bird, or the birds having a specific ideology/religion/dimensionality/etc. is going to be massively hosed up by any contact and resistant to disclosures that don't agree with their preconceived notions. especially the new age part of the ufo community is going to have a lot of trouble adjusting to a more mundane kind of alien if that's what we end up getting
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Jul 7, 2021 04:49
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Jul 7, 2021 18:56
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Nichael posted:I am in discussion with my advisory committee on what the next step should be against the Birds: the entire state of delaware wants to know: is chris c**ns a bird???
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Jul 7, 2021 19:04
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WEH posted:I agree completely, but if that's the case I am confused why more people aren't making noise now that it's admitted at the highest level. I suppose if I'd seen something and been made fun of for years the extent of my response might be "yeah, no poo poo" i think the pool of people who have seen weird lights in the sky is very broad, but most of the folks who had closer encounters have already felt compelled to disclose it at least anonymously despite the stigma. personally i have definitely seen the classic "three orange lights which make sharp turns" thing a couple of times, but who knows whether it was birds
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Jul 7, 2021 20:40
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Hirsute posted:would the anal probe aliens be more interested in a human with 2 buttholes or no buttholes they steal a butthole from one human to give it to another. tihs is why they're here
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Jul 8, 2021 02:12
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Slavvy posted:Maybe we should sweep the solar system for someone else's confetti turns out it's just bullshit for an alien gender reveal party. novelty ancient-style space probes colored beige (to signify the 39th gender) and littered across the galaxy
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Jul 9, 2021 02:50
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Jul 9, 2021 08:35
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Ben Nerevarine posted:my droney! my droney!
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Jul 9, 2021 21:49
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july aiii lmao
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Jul 10, 2021 15:17
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https://i.imgur.com/rOsqjL7.gifv
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Jul 11, 2021 19:06
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Psycho Society posted:Peter watts password is definitely “2edgy4u” ya blindsight kinda sucks due to its need for edge even though it has some interesting ideas. i find watts' conception of aliens to be as limiting as star trek, just in a totally different way
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Jul 12, 2021 01:04
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my bony fealty posted:Lue should simply read theory. idiot 
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Jul 14, 2021 04:26
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Rah! posted:i gotta say, i did not expect the career military dude to have degrees in microbiology, immunology, math, and chemistry. And advanced research in tropical diseases and parasitology? he just wants to grill, and also make first contact with aliens
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Jul 14, 2021 05:43
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it's simple. birds are ancient daoist wizards. all of these pilots and radar operators cannot recognize the true nature of a bird, as they have not even begun to cultivate their spirit
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Jul 14, 2021 21:30
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Not to get too much into epistemology because it's not really why any of us are in this thread but my life to this point has been based on reason and evidence over the convenient or pleasant belief, and I don't think there's anything that can change that short of aliens coming down and doing blow off their saucer while levitating me with their minds they must dive into the depths of hedonism before they may split worldly pleasure from their dao..smdh here
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Jul 15, 2021 00:26
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I don't know about all that, I've just never been able to give myself over to speculation much beyond philosophy yeah i mean the trick is to have a mind that's both open and closed. new atheism is sort of like a defense mechanism...you close your mind entirely to the supernatural and religion because you can observe the flaws in what is being believed around you, and observe the way that it hurts people. you address these things on a battleground where you're sure to have victory - picking at details, throwing doubt on this passage or that, essentially subjecting it to reason until you are satisfied that you have no reason to listen at all. this is basically what drives most "new atheist" writers. religious fundamentalism is a similar process of closing your mind, just along a different set of principles...i'm sure you've noticed at some point that the most zealous new atheists are former zealous fundamentalists. ultimately though, if you retreat fully into having a closed mind you end up looking and sounding like NDT or mick west on UFOs - that is, your "rationality" has led you to a point of irrational dogma, where you aren't actually doing the rational thing and genuinely evaluating evidence. this is really common in more mundane things too, like peer review for grants and papers in science; the number of senior scientists who wholeheartedly believe that something in their field is "impossible" while the folks in another related field routinely observe that "impossible" thing in a slightly different context, such as a different type of organism, is enormous. it's up to you where you draw the line between reality and woo-woo batshit stuff, but imo if you draw that line too soon you'll end up excluding things that are really part of reality, as well as forsaking any understanding of the symbolic/philosophical layer of religion and the supernatural which informs how a lot of people behave. you will be too busy defending your position and talking about how actually birds make 90-degree instantaneous acceleration turns all the time to contemplate anything that's fringe or metaphysical. this would be fine except valid scientific concepts start out as fringe, or even metaphysical, all the time. atomism was metaphysical, until the atom was actually observed. many many ideas have been fringe and then totally overturned the previous mainstream. being willing to admit to possibilities isn't the same thing as throwing your mind wide open and simply believing in anything.
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Jul 15, 2021 01:37
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idk why people assume that taking 100 years would be a problem even for actual aliens coming here in person...there is absolutely no reason to assume that a human timescale is being operated on. what if they live for 1000 years naturally? what if they had a human-ish lifespan but simply figured out how to disable aging? we are honestly not that far from being able to do the same ourselves, on a basic level. plus if there is no viable mechanism for FTL, presumably nobody is traveling long-distance frivolously, and anybody who comes to our system probably stays and establishes a family or bird polycule or whatever all of the arguments against the possibility of visits from some relatively nearby star are based on two things: lack of techno-signatures observed around nearby stars, which is sensible but inconclusive until we become the travelers and send a probe, and the belief that considering the possibility of nearby neighbors is putting earth in a "special position" statistically, which isn't really sensible. we either have neighbors or don't, and our situation is either common or rare, but there is no reason to think that any option is particularly more likely than the others unless you have a preconception that extrasolar life must be rare
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Jul 15, 2021 02:52
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Bob Socko posted:They don’t even need to inhibit aging if they have figured out how to travel at close to the speed of light. that sucks for all sorts of reasons tho. you might want to do it for intergalactic travel but it's not suitable for exploration or building sustainable societies in a local area, because you're basically cutting yourself off from the universe for millions of years even though it's very fast for you. either you get there and somebody from your society already did a slow-boat trip that took less "real time" and beat you to it, or you emerge into a context totally transformed from what you left behind due to millions of years of tech development, or you find that you're the last survivors of your species because everybody else died a really long time ago. not that a society wouldn't necessarily want to send a few ships out like that if somebody was willing to go, but it wouldn't be the usual strategy most likely Jazerus has issued a correction as of 03:48 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jul 15, 2021 03:18
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Lampsacus posted:But to say that those who still identify as atheist are losing out for being closed minded to religion is to miss that what they are saying is "i survived a social and family cultural system that supports, promotes and actions child abuse - i disavoy amd must learn to cope with what i was born into for the rest of my life". And to hear, "😄oh mate you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater" is to hear "child abuse is cool and good and i am looking down on you for disagreeing" its gross and disgusting and reprehensible. hey uh well i'm still an atheist. atheism and "new atheism" aren't the same thing. the main difference is that new atheism has a lot of reactionary poo poo in it and comes at religious beliefs/texts in much the same way that a fundamentalist preacher might - that is, as a bunch of disconnected passages to be thrown out for ridicule or veneration independently of each other. the new atheism lens of analysis is often pretty dishonest and pulls out individual sentences or sections of the bible to "debunk" or make fun of that are intended symbolically or otherwise non-literally, or are from an old/poor translation, or are mocked through a 21st century american perspective imposed on an ancient cultural context, etc. it just doesn't lead to any understanding of the actual content when really it is preferable to be an atheist who understands what exactly you are rejecting, philosophically, and why. this loops back around to the ufo/paranormal sphere of things in that you should generally be open to hearing things out if they aren't too wacky on their face. look at UFOs and well,  there are clearly birds doing things that are not scientifically understood at the moment. someone who assumes a priori that alien visitation is truly impossible as an explanation for bird behavior, and doesn't engage with the possibility, is not really being rational or scientific.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:30
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Lampsacus posted:You lost me at "are intended symbolically" you should be open to understanding those religions in the various ways that they are understood by other people even if you wholly reject their worldview and beliefs. absolutely that varies from literalist interpretations, which are generally self-contradictory and often both silly and sinister, to wholly symbolic/philosophical interpretations, which are not interested in literal self-consistency at all, and many points in between. this isn't really very complicated. i'm not trying to prove anything, and i'm not trying to tell you that you should be open to an organization that abused you and others, or other organizations of its type. like man, i'm not a fundie don't come at me in this circuitous, dualist kind of way where you basically assert that because i don't want to scour all religion from the earth i support religious abuse. this is why people don't like new atheists. anyway i've got a mothership to catch for aitee, later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGnuLXCruc
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Jul 15, 2021 05:58
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Charles Mansion posted:atlanteans ah, the secret war in bolivia
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Jul 15, 2021 16:21
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inferis posted:what is time? aitee
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Jul 15, 2021 23:05
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Jul 16, 2021 01:18
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