Gingerbread Man on 4/9/2009 at 01:30
So the Ministry of Defence in the UK has released half a Gigabyte of PDFs which contain UFO sightings etc. The files cover 1981 to 1996, and has lots of lovely (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident) Rendlesham Forest to read. That's in file defe-24-1948, if you like.
hooray ufos!
I still don't know what to think of it all.
Tocky on 4/9/2009 at 02:48
I don't want to believe my own crazy shit so I really really don't want to believe others crazy shit. I do look up in case crazy shit happens but it never does. No, that would be too easy. The crazy knows that the next time I'm going to hunt it down and take it apart so I can understand once and for all that it is some crazy shit. I'm going to annihilate that crazy. I'm going to piece it back together so it looks sane. And then I'm going to piss on it and giggle. I will never ever wonder what it was again.
The fag tag didn't take long did it? Tears were flowing down someones cheeks trying to keep from blinking just to jump on the keys and pound that one out.
Gingerbread Man on 4/9/2009 at 03:06
You know, it's kinda like ghosts with me. I mean, it's one of several places where Science trips over itself and shorts out for a second, and you are forced to acknowledge that there might actually be ghosts, even though you know there aren't. It's all moot, anyway, because the overarching problem is that you know you're scared of ghosts regardless.
Enchantermon on 4/9/2009 at 03:45
So do the aliens like hitting the slopes with other people's equipment or something? I'm just wondering why I should keep watching my skis... ;)
Oh, and just for the record...I ain't 'fraid o' no ghosts. ;)
Seriously, though, I don't believe in aliens. Never have. Microorganisms? Sure. Sentient aliens? No.
crunchy on 4/9/2009 at 03:47
I'm still trying to figure out what this has to do with snow!
damchoo Enchantermon!
Tocky on 4/9/2009 at 03:48
Not believing in ghosts is easy. Just watch one of those fake ass ghost shows. If I believed in anything outside the realm of science then I could no longer go walking in the woods alone at night and for some reason that is a primal thrill. It loses nothing when a screech owl screams right next to your ear and gives a jolt of adrenaline. Even for that moment you don't believe in ghosts though. I suppose you might if you had seen one and not been able to explain it away as a brain fart.
Odd things happen but just normal odd things for the most part. You see eyes glint in the outer range of your cap light and go look but never get close enough because it is of course an animal and not stupid. But some strange things happen just at the edge of normal. I saw a king snake once that must have been fourteen feet. I was standing in broad daylight when an armadillo trundled across a bare open field and ran straight into my leg, then looked up as if he still couldn't see me, jumped waist high, and ran in the other direction. A deer hopped a fence and began to nibble rye grass a few feet from me. Every so often it would jerk it's head up and look at me but not see me somehow and go back to eating. This too was daylight with nothing between us. Then I began to whistle a tune and it bounded the fence startled. Maybe I'm the ghost.
The really really not normal I'm just not going to give credence to. Much like the buttmunch who keeps fagging the tags. Dammit I just did. Plus the blow one was mine.
CCCToad on 4/9/2009 at 04:13
Actually, at my uni we have had some ghost incidents. One room is supposedly haunted due to a death that happened in it, and the people that lived there each year all reported weird occurances with the electronics, and the people next door would hear furniture moving around when nobody was in the room. I lived a couple doors down, and every few nights my electronics (laptop, TV, etc) would turn on with no input from me. Strange thing is, my equipment has never done that at home or where I'm staying now.
The fact that I don't believe in ghosts, far from helping me dismiss it all, just made the incidents even more unsettling.
PigLick on 4/9/2009 at 04:23
tinkles high keys of a piano
They hate that
Tocky on 4/9/2009 at 05:06
Or just tinkle. They hate that too.
The no explaination thing is the screwy part. I sympathize with folks like that. It's like your brain is in a jar somewhere and there is stimuli being fed into it and some jester sneaks in and alters the feed for a prank so that the whole ordered world is called into question. Poor brain don't know it's in a jar in the first place. The scientist doing the normal feed just keeps running the normal scenerios so he doesn't know either.
Or like a ghost story I once read where the belief in a thing called it into being. The scary part was that everyone had the ability and all that held that incredible power in check was the disbelief of others. A sort of power in the hands of a world of demented gods if you will. But that gets into the area of that Carlos Castenada shit and all you have to do test your power against everyone elses is to jump off a cliff. And then go splat because there are laws against that shit.
That was a long way around to say find the explaination because there is one even if you don't know it. Except a normal one unlike the ones for entertainment. If any aliens are reading this then my apologies.
I gotta get some sleep because that work shit won't go away no matter how much I believe I'm a billionaire.
Morte on 4/9/2009 at 06:05
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
You know, it's kinda like ghosts with me. I mean, it's one of several places where Science trips over itself and shorts out for a second, and you are forced to acknowledge that there might actually be ghosts, even though you know there aren't. It's all moot, anyway, because the overarching problem is that
you know you're scared of ghosts regardless.
Science works just as well with UFOs as it does with everything else, it's just that there's absolutely nothing tangible there, just a bunch of people shouting I SAW A LIGHT IN THE SKY IF YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS IT MUST HAVE BEEN UFOS. Except in the cases when you find the explanation and can even find the pilot dropping the flares or whatever. Then it's obviously a government cover up.
Quote Posted by CCCToad
Actually, at my uni we have had some ghost incidents. One room is supposedly haunted due to a death that happened in it, and the people that lived there each year all reported weird occurances with the electronics, and the people next door would hear furniture moving around when nobody was in the room. I lived a couple doors down, and every few nights my electronics (laptop, TV, etc) would turn on with no input from me. Strange thing is, my equipment has never done that at home or where I'm staying now.
The fact that I don't believe in ghosts, far from helping me dismiss it all, just made the incidents even more unsettling.
Sounds like the place had shitty wiring to me.
