dragonslayer697/11slurpee

we don’t know it yet, but we live in a star wars universe.

[dragonslayer697/11slurpee @unicornderek]

no talent pure existential crisis

[The Disney Beat @DisneyBeat101]

The Brave Little Toaster is coming to Disney+ on May 25th!

[sui ☄️ @birdabo]

UFO conspiracy theorist right now:

[UAP James @UAPJames]

AUDIO: 1965 Gemini VII Mission UFO Sighting

“It looks like a box with a handle that’s disintegrated.”

[dragonslayer697/11slurpee @unicornderek]

It might not be “true”, but it might be the best way to conceptualize the UFO phenomena from a modern Christian lens and maybe it has been doing that for a long time.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

The pseudepigraphal literature, including 1st Enoch (typically what we refer to as “the Book of Enoch” — there are 3 but the 1st on is the famous one), operated within a fundamentally different literary framework than modern historical narrative. 1st Enoch is a pseudepigraphal, apocalyptic collection of narratives and visions ascribed to Enoch. This was a genre that deliberately attributed writings to ancient figures to claim authority rather than to deceive readers about authorship.

Understanding the genre’s intention requires recognizing its theological purpose. As a collection, 1 Enoch offers a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later 2nd Temple period (1st Enoch almost certainly doesn’t predate this time), which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world.

The primary message was the soon-coming divine retribution of enemies and the judgment and eradication of evil that permeated the cosmos, with the author’s truth and authority relying on his heavenly journeys during which God gave him divine revelation of the coming redemption of the righteous.

Rather than presenting factual history, pseudepigraphal works employed symbolic and visionary language to convey theological truths about divine judgment and redemption. Topics like angels, demons, the spiritual realm, and the coming Messiah are all being fleshed out by this type of work.

1st Enoch offers an embellished textual tradition of Gen.6, and the pseudepigraphal accounts parallel the Septuagintal tradition, reflecting the interpretative biases of the period. This interpretative expansion, albeit not literal reporting, was the genre’s defining characteristic.

The New Testament’s engagement with 1 Enoch further illustrates this point: Jude draws from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with Jude 14-16 detailing a “prophecy” made by Enoch regarding judgment on sinners and the ungodly, drawing on 1 Enoch 9:1, Jude cites Enoch not as historical documentation but as authoritative theological witness to eschatological judgment. The pseudepigraphal genre was never intended as literal history; it was visionary theology dressed in ancient authority.

The question remains, if we take Enoch seriously as actual history then why not the myriads of other pieces of ancient Jewish a Pseudopigrapha, a vast literary catalogue: the Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Daniel, Apocalypse of Elijah, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, and multiple versions of Baruch (2, 3, and 4 Baruch) and Ezra texts (including the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, and Vision of Ezra)? The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs represent a major collection, along with individual testaments attributed to Moses, Job, Solomon, Adam, and the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), why not toss them in as well? All the same genre and vein that Enoch finds itself in.

The collection extends to works attributed to David (More Psalms of David), Jeremiah, Isaiah (including the Vision of Isaiah), Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and multiple works attributed to Solomon, including the Psalms of Solomon and Testament of Solomon. The Sibylline Oracles, Eldad and Modad, and the Book of Jubilees also claim ancient authorship. Some of these documents in their earliest iterations are as early as the 3rd century BC (through others the 4th or 5th centuries AD).

Sure, read 1st Enoch. But don’t confuse it for something it isn’t.

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

Hey Mick if you zoom way into the videos you can also see a really clear angle of Bigfoot riding your mom

[Fringe @fringedotcom]

This podcast was so good and so refreshing!

Throwing in my two cents as an abductee and a Christian:

Fallen angels (spiritual beings that can take physical form) created hybrids at many different levels, which eventually led to a breakaway "alien" civilization, living side by side with us on this planet, with fallen angel technology and knowledge. Their technology allows them to traverse realms between the unseen realm and the physical realm.

Fallen angels which are the least physical are at the top of the hierarchy, and the hybrid "aliens" are the most physical at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Demons (spirits of the Nephilim) and other non corporeal beings can inhabit/possess alien bodies just like they can posses human bodies. They're all on the same team, carrying out the fallen angel/satanic agenda.

The craft and the "aliens" carry out physical abductions of humans and they also take humans out of body into the spiritual realm.

IMHO, the so called aliens were created specifically to interact with humans in the physical realm.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Many people mistakenly think that the main battles in society are between the haves and the have-nots. But what’s really happening is that the haves are trying to seize money, resources, and status from the have-mores—and they disguise this motive as concern for the have-nots.

You even saw this recently in New York, where Mamdani failed to win over poor and working-class voters. But he did win support from the upper-middle class. Then, when you move to the very top of the income scale, the dynamic flips again—the wealthiest New Yorkers were more likely to back someone like Cuomo.

So a lot of these political battles, especially around socialism, aren’t being driven by the poor. They’re being driven by people who are doing well, but who are angry they’re not at the very top. It’s less about the 99% versus the 1%, and more about the 9% versus the 1%. The bottom 90% aren’t really part of that fight.

I’m reading We Have Never Been Woke by sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, and he makes a similar point. He notes that during the Occupy Wall Street protests in the early 2010s, most of the participants were white, college-educated, upper-middle-class people—people who were objectively doing fine, but were upset they were in the top 10% instead of the top 1%.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[UAP James @UAPJames]

Rep. Burchett says he can’t comment on former Rep. Matt Gaetz revealing he was briefed on an alien hybrid breeding program while in Congress

“If they would release the things I’ve seen, you’d be up at night thinking about this stuff. I was briefed 2 weeks ago. It would’ve set the Earth on— This country would’ve come unglued if they would’ve heard what I heard. They would demand answers.

Unfortunately it keeps getting covered up and the people that know are dying or disappearing. For the record, I’m not suicidal and I don’t take risks.”

“I told the President: ‘Release it all.’”

[Engaging The Phenomenon @EngagingThe]

[Targeted Individuals] - MILABS, Staged UFO Abductions, Psychotronic Weapons, Psychological Warfare - (Clips from Danny Jones Podcast & Jeffrey Mishlove included).

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

I love this quote from Kierkegaard:

“To love another person is to help them love God.”

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why men no longer build great cathedrals.

He replied: "People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral."

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

Through the lens of cognitive science, the brain is not understood as a passive receiver of data...it is a generator of models, constantly anticipating and shaping the world it encounters.

So you live through imaginal constraints:
Mental framings that are simulations of the world.

When you plan your day, imagine a difficult conversation (or envision a future self) you are inhabiting the imaginal.

It allows you to shift perspectives, simulate futures, adopt identities.

And this activity is not beyond the reach of rational evaluation.

You can ask:
Is this story I'm telling myself adaptive or deceptive? Does it help me flourish?

Imagine a person who has long lived in fear, but begins to imagine themselves as courageous. Not merely pretending, but actively living into that image…then they are binding themselves to a vision that reorganizes their perception, their priorities, their behavior.

And if that imaginal frame leads them to confront reality more honestly…then it brings the person into deeper conformity with what is.

[UAP James @UAPJames]

General McCasland’s former aerospace colleague disappeared under strange circumstances in 2025

“Monica Reza developed a special metal that was used in rockets. It was a project the U.S. Govt funded, overseen by the General.

Within less than 1 year, both of them have vanished.”

[Eric Burlison @EricBurlison]

@disclosureorg I am not suicidal.

[Frankie Muniz @frankiemuniz]

23 years ago today this little gem was released. Wasn't the tagline like... Save the world, get the girl, pass math?

I wonder what Cody Banks is doing now. Hard to live up to saving the world twice before you're 16.

[Kelly Chase @kellychasemedia]

🚨 New today

"There is a particular irony in the way the materialist worldview polices belief. The person who reports a mystical experience, who takes seriously the possibility of non-material causation, who suspects that the beliefs and rituals of powerful people might actually matter—this person is subject to immediate social and epistemic sanction. They are unsophisticated, pre-scientific, potentially delusional. They need to be educated.

The person who insists that all of this is reducible to chemistry and evolutionary psychology, who treats the entire history of human metaphysical experience as a collective error, who considers the question of consciousness to be essentially settled—this person is rational, educated, adult. They have arrived at the correct position.

Notice what this asymmetry does. It takes the most consistent finding in all of human history—that reality has a non-material dimension—and frames it as a failing. It takes a very recent, very culturally specific, philosophically contested position and frames it as the default of reason. And it does so in a way that is socially enforced with considerable ferocity, particularly in educated professional environments."

Link to full article in comments ⬇️

[✒️ @Literariium]

This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.

“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”