Just out of interest, has anyone actually read changing Images, and if so, did you read a book, a text file, or that goddam scanned PDF.
(Sorry guys I appreciate having it, Its just hard for me to read it for some reason. I think the idea of reading photos instead of looking at them is fucking with my head.)
I have a few questions.
Whats gained by faking alien abductions? There must be a list of possible answers, cos I can think of several things.
At what point did the possibility of alien spaceships become unreasonable, or obviously impossible, by the standards of accepted mainstreal science?
Did it actually become "unreasonable" and "impossible".
So, Dream's End starts looking closely at a topic and comes to a conclusion, that the "alien" craze really covers up the acute part of a campaign of mind control, one that involved all manner of abuse that would be fitting for Jonestown. He also suggests--like HMW, but more calmly and believably--that there's a larger cultural mind control project** that is, in some ways, different from all previous cultures' means of generating consensus. I'm not sure if I agree with that latter bit, but still.
I dunno if SRI''s report is "cultural mind control" or cultural yoga and self assessment.
And until I read it I'm not gonna be able to comment.
One piece of advice that might be worth considering is that you are not living in a movie. If there is a "plot", you are not the star. You are most likely the dead body at the start of the movie. If you act like it is a movie and you are the star, then you will end up as the dead body at the start of the movie.
If you act like its life, and the only world you are the centre of is your own, then maybe you will sus shit out.
If you think its movie written by god for your benefit, at some point your critical thinking skills will go out the window.
I suspect that is what happened to DE, tho whatever caused it ...
I have a few opinions on this whole thing. Some of them would crack you up and some might cause outrage among some people, tho if you think I'm talking about you being outraged you are probably wrong, I doubt those who'd be outraged were involved. But who knows. I often wonder if its got nothing to do with aliens or SRI or scientology, or even TD or anything remotely connected to whatever we think it is.
Sometimes I wonder if the net became self aware and is playing practical jokes on everyone.
Not very often tho, the probability of that having anything to do with the whole saga is under 1% IMO.
Then I wonder why I'm wasting my time and energy wondering about it.
I'm not doubting the validity of his research, possibly one or two of his conlclusions, but what if that actually had nothing to do with it. What if he pissed someone off who lived next door to him, and they decided to fuck his life up? And that was part of it.
I think its getting to the point where we need to get the last of this td/jb/de mess out of the way and actually focus on his research, and the targets of his research, which is what would have happened if this mess hadn't happened. I'm really hoping thats what this latest thing has been about, and even if it wasn't, thats what the people that value this board need to make happen.
If he was targeted because of his research and its exposure here, then perhaps its time we paid it some serious attention again, like we would have if he hadn't imploded. And do something useful with it, if there is anything useful to do with it. If he was targeted thats why, to stop us as well as him doing his thing, cos it seems that while he may be a jerk, perhaps he was pushed to behave like a jerk specifically to divide him and his ideas from the people on this board.
If so should we let that happen?
And who cares if he was a prick. If he was well then fuck him. If he behaved at his worse, but really wishes he hadn't maybe he deserves a second chance. Thats not really up to me, and its irrelevent too. Cos whatever useful things he did uncover, we on this board haven't really got into them IMO. Not the way we could. And if he was targeted thats why.
Are we gonna continue to let that happen?
It often seems to me that when his ideas come up we get in this don't go there spiral over the whole ugly mess when he left, or got booted, and what lead to it.
Are we gonna continue to let THAT happen?