Check out the Dogon tribe. I think that's how to spell it. They have relatively acurate astological maps in a cave, and no telescopes! They also have a story of their alien origin, and are sort of the discoverers of a "new " star.
I'm not sure what you mean by: "if anyone can find me one example, in all of history, of the typical 'grey alien abduction alien anal probe' story, i'll admit defeat."
1.Defeat to what?
2.How exactly would seeing an 'anal probe'resolve the issue for you anyway? =)
3.Isn't: "the idea of people seeing and experiencing what the larger cultural forces tell them they should see" really just the old unsolvable riddle: 'Does Art imitate life, or does life imitate art"? And of course this can be boiled down and reduced even further to: "what is reality", to which I have discovered the answer!Which is of course: "I don't know".
4. What does it mean when you say: "scientists...", "...have reproduced 'abduction' scenarios by triggering certain biochemical responses, i.e. produced every emotion/sight/sensation that abduction stories report simply by using light and sound to trigger certain responses". Are you being sarcastic here? This sounds like the craziest experiment I 've ever heard of.
I disagree with Lorne on this issue. Ive heard your argument before but I think its a cop out. There are simply too many reports from too varied of a population to be social hallucination.
Not to say that some or many of the reports arent exactly what you say; some sort of unexplained physiological hallucination that later is rationalized through the scope of our modern mythology. Certainly it does come into effect.
I think its sort of related to many ant-drug arguments. Many drug-war proponents dismiss psychotropic hallucinations as purely chemical misfirings in the brain. While I and people like me beleive that the hallucinations are often real phenomenon that we usually cant percieve.
I think that in some but not all instances people are being abducted by non-human super entities. I beleive that.
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Check out the Dogon tribe. I think that's how to spell it. They have relatively acurate astological maps in a cave, and no telescopes! They also have a story of their alien origin, and are sort of the discoverers of a "new " star.
I'm not sure what you mean by: "if anyone can find me one example, in all of history, of the typical 'grey alien abduction alien anal probe' story, i'll admit defeat."
1.Defeat to what?
2.How exactly would seeing an 'anal probe'resolve the issue for you anyway? =)
3.Isn't: "the idea of people seeing and experiencing what the larger cultural forces tell them they should see" really just the old unsolvable riddle: 'Does Art imitate life, or does life imitate art"? And of course this can be boiled down and reduced even further to: "what is reality", to which I have discovered the answer!Which is of course: "I don't know".
4. What does it mean when you say: "scientists...", "...have reproduced 'abduction' scenarios by triggering certain biochemical responses, i.e. produced every emotion/sight/sensation that abduction stories report simply by using light and sound to trigger certain responses". Are you being sarcastic here? This sounds like the craziest experiment I 've ever heard of.
>:)
It's a contour drawing. (not blind)
I disagree with Lorne on this issue. Ive heard your argument before but I think its a cop out. There are simply too many reports from too varied of a population to be social hallucination.
Not to say that some or many of the reports arent exactly what you say; some sort of unexplained physiological hallucination that later is rationalized through the scope of our modern mythology. Certainly it does come into effect.
I think its sort of related to many ant-drug arguments. Many drug-war proponents dismiss psychotropic hallucinations as purely chemical misfirings in the brain. While I and people like me beleive that the hallucinations are often real phenomenon that we usually cant percieve.
I think that in some but not all instances people are being abducted by non-human super entities. I beleive that.
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