barracuda wrote:I'd postulate a crypto-variation of the
aquatic ape hypothesis, that is, a parallel evolutionary offshoot of
Homo that remained in the water when our ancestors returned to land. The potential habitat of such a species is abundant, depending on the course of their adaptation to the ocean environment, pretty much a variant of the subterranean theory. I realise this idea has holes, but they all do, don't they, now?
Hmm. Space seals, p'raps. Mermaid creatures.
All those things are certainly true, but if we are going to dismiss all UFO photographs as fake, we sort of need to clarify the reasons why, and reassess the general thrust of the thought processs here, as a huge body of the modern evidence and reports come in close association with photography of one sort or another. I feel that to dismiss the photographs is a mistake. As well, many of the ancient reports, such as Ezekiel, describe craft that seem to have been, well, crafted.
Thoughtography. The human mind can imprint images on film. Possibly also whatever light sensitive cell is used in digital photo cameras. If they can make you see it with your eyes, they can make your camera record what isn't there.
I consider elvish cosplay to be essentially an offshoot of the soul-crushing "furries" subculture, and so I don't readily support such activity for moral and aesthetic reasons.
I liked the elves. Certain types of costumery are very fetching on women. Elves, matadors, jesters, them blue overalls mechanics wear.
A quote from tricky Dicky Shaver's "Vermin From Space":
"We are all slaves, and worse than slaves we are debrained slaves to a thing the ufos come and go for... something that hates all earthmen like poison. That "something" is a creature than KNOWS the vermineers work of old. Freedom, the way we use the word, is an ignorant's word... we don't have it any time, ever. If we knew we wouldn't use the word... freedom doesn't exist on earth.
"They are vermin! They deny us any slightest part of our own ancient science. They do it all secretly to us... They do not exist to so many people but they do exist... in our skies are more of them.
"You think you know about the UFO, you dont. They are not marvellous people from marvellous planets come to help us in or need. They are evil, furtive, hiding; enslaving the mind from a safe distance...
"You want to have them wonderful and come to help us all. You want ot pray to "God" and thank him for sending us aid from the stars. Go Ahead, that does not make it true. I wish it was true, but it isn''t."
And from Charles Fort's Book of the Damned:
"I suspect that after all, we're useful--that among contesting claimants, adjustment has occured, or that something now has a legal right to us by force, or by having paid out analogues of beads for us to former, more primitive owners of us-- that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon this earth, a cult or order members of which function like bellweathers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received--from Somewhere Else--is our mysterious usefulness.
"But I accept that in the past, before propreitorship was established, inhabitants of a host of other worlds have dropped here, hopped here, wafted,sailed, flown, motored--walkes here, for all I know,--been pushed here, been pulled; come singly, have come in enormous numbers; have visited occasionally, have visited periodically for hunting, trading, replenishing their harems, mining; have been unable to stay here, have established colonies here, have been lost here...
"The answer that occurs to me is so simple that it seems immediately acceptable, if we accept that the obvious is the solution of all problems... I think we are property
"I should say we belong to something
"That once upon a time, this earth was No-Man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonised here, and fought against themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something...
"Nothing in our own times--perhaps-- because I am thinking of certain notes that I have--has ever appeared on this earth from somewhere else so openly as Columbus landed upon San Salvador, or as Hudson sailed up his river, but as to surreptitious visits to this earth, in recent times, or as to emissaries, perhaps, from other worlds, or voyagers who have shown every indication, of intent to evade and avoid, we shall have data as convincing as our data of oil- or coal-burning aerial super-constructions.
"Why not missionaries sent here openly to convert us from our barbarous prohibitions and other taboos and to prepare the way for a good trade in ultra-bibles and super-whiskeys; fortunes made in selling us cast-off super-fineries, which we'd take to like an African chief to someone's old silk hat from New York or London."
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -- Lawrence of Arabia
