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What If Aliens Are Just Costumes?
I don’t remember why I thought of this earlier today and I wonder why it never occurred to me before, but how do we know that all these so-called “alien encounters” with UFO-entities, etc aren’t simply just people dressing up in costumes and playing crazy malevolent tricks on people who have been heavily-drugged?
Almost seems like the simplest, if not the sexiest explanation.
I mean, if you were on a TON of drugs you’d never experienced before and woke up in some strange contrived environment with all factors in someone else’s control and somebody dressed like this came over and started doing fucked up things to you…
Didn’t the hashshashiyyin, the assassins, have some kind of crazy initiation ritual where they dosed participants with crazy amounts of hash and then sent them into environments designed to simulate heavenly delights of many supple virgins etc etc.
I mean, if you followed that kind of shit up and systematically attacked someone psychologically you could EASILY make them believe any kind of crazy alien cover-story bullshit and do whatever damned thing you wanted to to them, no sweat. I don’t think people realize just how commonplace psychological conditioning and suggestion are in our lives: they’re the cornerstone of society and they’re extraordinarily powerful - never mind when you get drugs involved.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
there are those that suggest that the alien abduction experience is military….
or it`s an artifact of a certain type of human brain archetecture.
or…..it`s us from the future.
or, something we can`t even begin to understand.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I’ve never heard anybody just simply suggest that it were rich people getting their rocks off by torturing the underclasses in a very creepy pagan-ish way.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
The best thought I’ve read along these lines is that the typical Gray alien may or may not exist but most abductee memories are actually screen memories masking some other event and not anything like an actual alien encounter.
As a child I lived in a remote area of Arizona for about a year and had a strange experience along with three other children. We were walking in the desert but not too far from the houses and we turned around for no real reason and we were sure that we were seeing a Moose running away from us at extraordinary speed.
The two younger boys were facinated and amazed at the speed and clearly saw a visible object. I saw a watery blip like the alien in Predator. It raced straight along the ground before it shot straight up and disappeared but my mind told me it was a Moose and I went along with the younger boy’s story.
I used to watch a lot of nature specials so I knew the territory of the Moose was not far Southeastern AZ and I started to question this incident in my mind but it was hard not to be drawn in by the boy’s enthusiam about the Moose and for a split second I wasn’t sure what was real and what wasn’t.
The older boy was watching us and the blip and was sure the he had not seen a Moose and I don’t think he saw a blip either. He told us it wasn’t a Moose and I was so glad he said that because it freed my mind to realize something weird was going on. I said something supportive of his statement but was immediately afraid and decided to avoid thinking about this and go along with the younger boys. The older boy seemed pretty shaken up by this and was happy to avoid the subject too so we went on with our day like nothing happened.
So, using this experience as a guide, I say that many/most encounters like are encounters with masked entities, human or otherwise. This may be one of the non-psychological reasons why we like to put on masks. Were reinacting a spiritual encounter of some sort that we really don’t even remember. Maybe were trying to remember by these festivals and parties. In our culture we would see Grays and people of other cultures would see a Wolf or a Bear etc.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I didn’t see your comment before I started writing mine. I can go along with your point too. Besides other survival based psychological reasons this could be a source of class hatred. I think I’m paranoid because you control the means of production but I’m really paraoid because you scare me at night with your alien costume.
Sorry my 1st post was so long. It seemed really interesting to me when I was writing it.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am
masks.
i have just finished colin wilson`s book about the alien experience called alien dawn and in it he comes away as boggled as i have been as to the depth and complexity of something that dogmatic science denies even exists.
i am now going back into wilson`s biography of p.d.ouspensky, an exploration of the masks we wear when exploring the self.
i am in the middle of an alien experience/abduction.
i met a woman and we fell in love. she told me two weeks ago that she has promised herself to a married man who is leaving his wife in a month.
i am with her every day, and even though i told her to not come around unless she decides, she still comes.
she is an alien. japanese. beautiful like a creature from another planet.
she is so competely beguiling that she even asks me if we will be happy together in five years or ten.
i`m hoping that this is just a dream and that i will wake up with missing time and some blurry recollection of moments in another place.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:44 am
Whoa Julia, nice post, deeply creepy. Seeing things that are trying to hide. Very hard to write these things down, big kudos 2U.
[Wonder if that’s why so many people say Predator is the best Arnie film - actually touches on something really real]
They /may be/ creatures of our (collective) imaginations but that doesn’t deny them power and existence.
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Love the last picture. In the UK, seems there’s a fashion for using funny-looking-stand-ins-for-people to sell banking/insurance right now. Really winds me up.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:09 am
Tim,
This is such a strange but believable idea that I would bet 100 bucks that someone has tried it before.
The UFO / Alien phenomena could mostly be pranks, and then rumor and heresay based on those pranks as the details get distorted over time and retelling
Every so often though you hear a story like Julia’s that makes you go “there must be something really strange going on in the background of reality”.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:46 am
I think eventually “aliens” will attack the Earth and we will all have to pull together to fight them off. Kind of like how we all have to pull together to fight global warming.
But really, its not so bad. World Government has to come eventually. What is so bad about it really? We all have government now, its just more or less regional.
There would probably be less war. Because all war would be more like terrorism or criminal activity. Eventually people will mellow out.
Probably what it would mean is that most of the world would enjoy a similar standard of living as people in the west…eventually.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Based on what starting premise? Wars are really never fought over national territories, are they?
And how would that be better?
Again, based on what evidence and what trends which seem to indicate that people now are mellowing out? I just don’t see it in action really…
April 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am
Well,
You have short stretch of time in which to gauge if people are mellowing out. Less than 30 years. Over the course of civilization people are mellowing. Most people don’t have to carry weapons around wherever they go, like they did five or six hundred years ago.
Wars are fought to decide which is the best form of government. The wars of the 20th century were to decide between facism, communism or parliamentarianism.
Different countries are like little “cultures” in a petri dish. Its evolution baby. Meme wars.
The eventual goal is to find the best paradigm in which to rule the world. Only its not some omnipotent power brokers deciding all this. Its more like the mammals supplanting the dinosaurs. Its the course of nature. evolution creating better more efficient designs.
If your nation’s way of life is weak it can’t win a war against a nation that runs things better.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:21 am
I think it would be cool if there was a “United States of the World.” Not that everything should be Americanized, but it would be great to be a world citizen and be able to call the whole planet your home. That viewpoint is evolving.
But its not the case yet. But think about this: Imagine if it were relatively easy to live and work anywhere in the world? As easy as moving from Illinois to California?
At one time, like 500 years ago if you were living on this continent, you could not move as freely, because you would be intruding on the territory of another little tribe and could be killed. You couldn’t just head out across the continent.
Think about it.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I don’t think humans are more efficient than dinosaurs or that our displacement of them reflected on their place in the evolutionary chain of events. Dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor and we only displaced them chronologically, we didn’t out compete them. If some nation is weakened by famine, earthquakes, volcanos etc. that doesn’t mean they had a weak system or their conqueror had a better idea.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 am
Yeah, this is kind of retarded. It basically says that if you have guns and shit, then you’re “better” than somebody who doesn’t, simply because they didn’t “evolve” the ability to make guns.