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Aliens in Florida
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This is one of my biggest problems. Why can't people view this, or attempt to view this sort of thing, in a positive light? Does that somehow discredit what they are saying? Really, I am very interested in this, because I think fear and awe are mirror images of one another, in the sense that they are both emotions which can be conjured up in the face of the unknown and the unnatural. The contactees of the early fifties seemed to go towards the awe side of things, with wacky consequences. In later years, things took a more sinister turn, and people went towards the fear side of things, with sinister alien plots in conjunction with government - conspiratorial, and powerless in the face of the unknown.
Now, I would like to ask this question:
Does negativity or positivity have any effect on how people percieve such a thing, or does it somehow call their statement into question in some manner?
aNorthernSoul
Professional Breather
Weird. I would go for a visit.
Conor: I did not mean my sentence in a negative or positve way.
Regarding people's reactions turning more negative....I suppose the turn in movies over the years also may've contributed to people feeling more fear about them. (not to mention perhaps there was some negative encounters being reported, who knows).
Not only that, but information is easier and much faster to exchange in this world now, so all kinds of stories are out there for various reactions to be elicited.
But some of the books and movies WERE a bit frightening imho: Whitley Striebers Communion (book and movie). Fire In The Sky. etc..
Regarding people's reactions turning more negative....I suppose the turn in movies over the years also may've contributed to people feeling more fear about them. (not to mention perhaps there was some negative encounters being reported, who knows).
Not only that, but information is easier and much faster to exchange in this world now, so all kinds of stories are out there for various reactions to be elicited.
But some of the books and movies WERE a bit frightening imho: Whitley Striebers Communion (book and movie). Fire In The Sky. etc..
jkoci
Watcher of the Skies
Angel of Ioren
Friendly Skeptic
There's something wrong here. If you have bipedal, cloven footed creatures walking around your house at night, would you be that nonchalant about it? C'mon, it must have been a slow ass news day in Florida for them to waste time on that.
bobheck
Disco still sucks.
Oh I know, I agree. But, the guy is hanging himself right out there and saying "come stay with me and see for yourself". I just wish a real reporter would go, and report, documenting, that it is indeed BS and not let this thing drag on till we have another damned self-perpetuating myth.
Ron Collins
Curiously Confused
How about, "Do the negative or positive feelings of the observer play into the manifestation of the event?". Who knows.
Ron Collins
Curiously Confused
I know this is gonna sound judgmental and all but there was something.... shifty about that guy. I just didn't believe that he was being honest.
The physical description is a bit odd too.
1) Blood Red
2) Cloven hooves
3) Wings maybe
4) Big eyes
Yet he did didn't say "Devil" He went right to "Alien". What does that say sociologically about myth evolution in our culture? Maybe that as we become less of a devout Christian religious society that people wanting to be taken seriously avoid the religious connection and move to something that society considers more plausible? Just a thought.
The physical description is a bit odd too.
1) Blood Red
2) Cloven hooves
3) Wings maybe
4) Big eyes
Yet he did didn't say "Devil" He went right to "Alien". What does that say sociologically about myth evolution in our culture? Maybe that as we become less of a devout Christian religious society that people wanting to be taken seriously avoid the religious connection and move to something that society considers more plausible? Just a thought.
Angel of Ioren
Friendly Skeptic
A very good thought. It's a whole lot of attention seeking.
A religion of the future, projecting hopes and dreams and fantasies onto what the future may bring ie. alien contact, robots (those two seem to be the most prominant).
And then there's the whole conspiracy thing which has also entered into the mythology of our day, regardless of the validity of the theory. And it's not just an Alex Jones thing - he's just an extreme example. But even ordinary people view politics as a rigged game, and extreme disillusioinment (well they do in my country any way - Ireland).
Mythology, does not mean "that which is not real". In my understanding of the word it means that which is important to us.
And, with regards to aliens, it is an evolving mythology, friendly space brothers at first, sinister grey dudes later on. It all started around the end of WWII, but there were reports of air ships in the nineteenth century, so a general mythology of the future had already taken hold.
It is a very American mythology as well (not taking into account the indians, who of course are very important as well). Think about it, the frontier, all that it promises, the American dream and all that, putting faith IN THE FUTURE.
Who knows?