@awawawhoami Non-Americans don't understand that in America the status quo is a mythic entity unchallengeable except by demigods of history, but that era is over now. The lands that lie beyond are still shrouded in the powerful shaping energies from the dawn of the worlds, though.
This was a long con for the Institute and nothing else. It's insulting at this point to pretend it wasn't. The unfortunate thing is now the said Institute will never escape that fact and all progress will be hampered by it. This is why this topic will struggle to gain authenticity among academics, because even our own experiencers turn it into a sideshow money grab. What a fuckin' shame.
@VesselOfSpirit This, and the repeated assertion that "no other proofs are necessary". If that were true, the discussion wouldn't even be happening. Therefore 9 is prime.
@boggs_is_cringe@aamkamal@maklelan He has chosen to privilege data in his biblical scholarship. His reasons for doing so have been very clearly enumerated.
I don't see the issue in stating that data indicates people don't come back to life, but still believing for oneself that they sometimes do.
@boggs_is_cringe@maklelan Is it a problem to have to choose between data and faith? This is the decision every religious person must make. Belief in things unseen.
Dan's field of study is biblical scholarship. Within that field, he believes data is superior to dogma. Must he take his work home with him?
@boggs_is_cringe@maklelan My read is that looking for personal truth is one quest, and looking for the best data-supported conclusion is another, and that one should not subsume the other. Dan's choice is to publicly discuss the latter, while acknowledging that it may disagree with his own faith.
@boggs_is_cringe@maklelan I just don't know if this attaches. I read Dan as saying data-based scrutiny is valuable even for assessing one's own beliefs, but that doesn't mean one's own beliefs should align with the data. One could feel, for example, that their belief is vindicated in some other way.
@GrantLavac@SignalsIntelUFO has done great work here, especially considering the other MJ-12 documents for which we have the source docs they were plagiarized from thanks to Stanton Friedman's research
@UAPLuigi@richgel999 Can you explain why its reference list is identical? Why it has not just the same numerical format but the same NUMBERS, just altered to add more "12"s? Why it uses the same diagrams?
They aren't similarly formatted documents, one copies portions from the other. Explain that.
Another blow to claims the MJ-12 documents are legitimate - believers in the theory now have to explain why the Special Operations Manual shares formatting, reference lists, diagrams and even identification numbers with a manual about projectors. It most likely copied from it.
A recently located 1954 Army projector manual appears to have been used as a template for the Majestic-12 SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual, the purported manual for recovering extraterrestrial craft and biological remains.
SOM1-01 surfaced in 1994 as photographs on an anonymously mailed roll of film. Some UFO researchers, including Stanton Friedman, have argued that it is likely an authentic government document.
The Army manual, TM 11-2323, shares SOM1โs issue date, packaging artwork and references, and more. Its Air Force Technical Order number and Army printing reference each differ from SOM1โs by a single digit.
Link to the full article in the post below.
The UFO over Iran flashes designs in green, white, and red, the colours of the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as RGB rainbow. It doesn't perform any maneuvers.
Consistent with an LED kite or suspended LEDs in my opinion. Yet to see those positively ruled out.
@MvonRen@randomtweetor Hm. Bit disingenuous to ask for something, be given it, then run away and refuse to watch the video. Maybe you think skeptics refuse to touch these sightings because you refuse to look?