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No wonder you wear your tin hat so proudly. Once you see a few strange things, nothing feels real anymore. What's a conspiracy? What's real? What if reality is the greatest conspiracy of all?!
You're right. He always talked in the third person, to himself. Strange chap.
I know. I often wonder whatever became of that lad.
Yes, I do, @CASINOROYALE. I like the Josh Gates involved shows for their entertainment factor, as he and his team have great chemistry and are great to watch. On top of that I think it's interesting to study how other countries and their cultures interpret what happens in their worlds, and how their experiences are often connected to something mythical or spiritual. One of my favorite episodes is the island of dolls, which is genuinely unnerving whether you're a believer or not.
I also watch some paranormal related stuff from time to time (a lot this Halloween, actually), but far more for entertainment than anything else as I find most of it to be over-produced reality TV with little utility as a genuine collection of evidence on the paranormal. I watch for the history of the places and locations, which are interesting, and also for the study of how people can trick themselves into believing certain things which is the biggest takeaway.
Very well said! A part of me, the kid in me at least likes to think Yetis and aliens are real. It’s pretty cool to see evidence that these creatures could potentially exist. Although they never really find anything I do enjoy seeing the different cultures of the world. It’s pretty interesting and very entertaining.
@CASINOROYALE, I'm a lot easier on those who believe in things like aliens and Yetis/Bigfoot than I would be believers of most other things (basically, most of the paranormal) because there is a lot of thought the believers have taken into those beliefs that aren't completely refuted by science. In fact, science sometimes bolsters such beliefs.
While I don't think there are any creatures roaming around in our world today that look like Bigfoot (essentially a 7 to 8 foot bipedal ape-man), the description of these animals aren't far removed from what our species evolutionary adapted away from. There is a lot of thought placed in the idea that a bipedal ape that is very human-like was a creature that was around a long, long time ago, perhaps even as humans began developing towards what we are now as well. So, for that reason, there's a lot of thought to back up a belief in a Bigfoot, as the believers would've possibly been proven right about the existence of such a creature if they were around for the existence of apes that fit that description. I think those creatures have now been extinct for a long time, as I simply think that we'd have encountered one by now. Still, I respect the believers more than I do most others for thinking as they do because some science is there to give their viewpoint some support.
Now, a question: do you think the Patterson-Gimlin footage of Bigfoot is real?
The alien believers are another similar case as the Bigfoot believers. While I think most of the UFO sightings could be downplayed as being advanced military crafts doing aerial exercises (like a lot of Bigfoot sightings could just be upright bears), the belief in such a thing is again not something that is too extreme to me. We're in our small little slice of the universe in our tiny solar system, so I think it would be ridiculous and a bit out of touch not to at least imagine the possibility that other planets in other solar systems in other galaxies could house other species of "aliens" we haven't yet encountered. We can't be the only intelligent life out there, so I don't dispute that with these particular believers. We can still debate what Roswell was, if we've ever been visited by other lifeforms and if the government has ever found an "alien" craft crash landed on earth, but the core idea of these people, that we aren't alone out here in space, is one I believe as well beyond the particulars.
Now, the Moth Man, Jersey Devil, Banshee and other things? Not as easy for me to swallow, but I understand the desire to imagine a world that is full of undiscovered wonder and fantastical notions of monsters and haunts. ;)
My thoughts exactly! ;)
One of my favorite episodes is the mermaid episode. You actually hear a girl wailing/screaming while they are on a boat in the dark. It’s super loud. Almost wonder if it was faked but I don’t see Josh Gates altering the show like that..
@CASINOROYALE, I definitely trust Gates and co. more than I would others, but so many of the top shows have been found to have fabricated evidence or lied to manipulate the truth of what they captured on an investigation. That's almost inevitable, sadly, as the networks want their shows to do well in the ratings and to get ratings you have to make it seem like your shows' "stars" are capturing real evidence each episode, or at least the possibility of evidence. With the pressure to get results, the investigators them amp everything up, get dramatic and make it seem like they are having a possession or are hearing or feeling something they're not to give audiences some drama and entertainment to leech off of. The placebo of going to a haunt is also a factor for some investigators (who actually believe), where the stories about there being ghosts at a location make their minds perceive there to actually be something paranormal going on. This is aided by electro-magnetic fields, which play with your body and manipulate you.
I've read a lot of posts around certain corners of the internet from some notable paranormal teams who claimed that big networks had contacted them about making a show around their unit of ghost hunters, and every team I found turned those networks down because they knew that the network would make them lie to create suspense in the program and that didn't morally sit right with them. Largely because these paranormal teams understand that you're often going to go out to a location and get nothing of substance recorded, and certainly nothing to make TV audiences lose their minds, and that is part of why these big ghost hunting shows are viewed with such skepticism.
There is an inherent desire to fudge facts either by the network and their team who edit the shows to be more dramatic and substantial in content than they are, or the investigators who purposefully dramatize things to entertain and make it appear as if they had been contacted by ghosts. Sometimes you can have investigators upset at their network for editing their footage to manipulate audiences too, so it's not to say that all investigators lie. But there is a big suspicion on my part of anything that is televised as being a major paranormal show, as I'm skeptical of most things. As with reality TV, there's always an aspect of a writer's room and a script to follow that gives the programs a feeling of artificiality.
I'm not familiar with the Destination Truth episode about a mermaid, but I do recall when Josh and co. went to Japan's Aokigahara forest (aka "Suicide Forest") to do an investigation, where they encountered some genuinely unsettling stuff. I'll have to rewatch that one sometime.
I'd have thought so. Nothing sinister.
I've never been a believer in this particular conspiracy theory, I have to say. I don't think that it stands up to any level of scrutiny at all.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5386759/Time-traveller-2030-PASSES-lie-detector-test.html
Wow. Never imagined that :-D
The reason why "lie Detectors" aren't used by the British police is because they are unreliable and can be easily fooled. ( The
Lie-detectors, not the police ) ;-)
So if the test failed, you basically couldn t trust that either.
As for the predictions, I love how conveniently relevant some of them are. Like the comment that bitcoin is going to be bigger than current money in the future, when bitcoin only became relevant again until recently. It's such an obvious current events focused hoax to appeal to our current climate and get those clicks. Has anyone checked out nutter independent media outlets like Infowars to see if the loons have taken the bait on this? Because I've seen Alex Jones argue for hypotheses far more wild than this one.
So, here I am, collecting all the scores of the five OMEN films in digital format, merging them to one track per film, and getting ready to print them on a disc (for my music installation) at a quality of 320 kbps for some and 256 for others. Checking the total amount of disc space required for all five tracks, I discover it is:
666 megabytes!
I'm neither upset nor scared, but it is one hell (see what I did there?) of a coincidence. ;)
By the way, has anyone ever heard of what happened to special effects guy John Richardson after shooting THE OMEN?
I am driving a forklift at my new workplace, and they have several diesel trucks. On my first day there, I got truck no 666. Nothing to worry about, perfectly normal.
So that was you in YOLT! Knew it!
Yes. YOLT is my new workplace.
I hope no-one there is called Heller. Could be a bad omen.