• GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    UFOs, Bigfoot. Wow it’s like a whole lot of nothing happens when pocket HD cameras were invented.

    Shame really. I was looking forward to 4K UFO footage.

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      UFOs are confirmed real though, it’s just very difficult to film a super fast moving object in the distant sky. You can barely take a decent picture of a flying bird without thousands of dollars of equipment, let alone a super fast tic tac thingy. And allegedly there is better footage/evidence that the US government has managed to get on UAPs, and Congress is working on getting it disclosed as we speak

      *Guys I didn’t say aliens are real, or that every UFO sighting is real, just that UFOs are real and there are legitimate sightings. The navy has confirmed this, and the scientific community and defense industry are taking these things seriously. We still have no idea what they are though. Hence the unidentified status…

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        UFOs are just Unidentified Flying Objects. This can be anything fron weird weather patterns that manifest weirdly on camera to birds (as you mentioned) that the Air Force/ govt mistook for being potentially something else. Just because a flying object is unidentified doesnt mean it’s an “alien” or anything more nefarious that anyone else may suggest.

        This video did a good job at explaining why the US government has historically hidden “evidence” of “UFOs,” (at least for me anyway). A major reason being to prevent public panic at the height of Cold War tensions.

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          The Air Force? There are definitely UFOs. Now are they local? Or otherworldly? Not sure.

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            In this case op is clearly referring to aliens.

            Otherwise saying UFOs are confirmed real is bit of a conundrum. It’s like saying not knowing the contents of this closed box are confirmed real.

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              The problem is the terminology doesn’t match. When others use UFO to refer to any unidentified object, and they have proof, that proof doesn’t mean alien UFOs have proof.

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                UFO absolutely holds connotations of aliens, and has for half a century. That’s why the term UAP began use, to separate official documentation for the implication of aliens. And OP clearly referring to aliens.

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              Was definitely referring to aliens. Catching “balloons of unknown origin” aren’t as exciting unless it’s shot down by a F22.

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              Well yea. Failing to identifying what it actually is makes it unreasonable to say it’s not an alien craft.

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                That’s debatable. Are you saying that a closed box has an equal chance to contain an alien than any other object? Is it reasonable to say there is a chance that any closed box is containing an alien? I would say the answer is no.

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                  That’s a weird way to phrase a question. It’s unknown. Being unknown it could be remote controlled, secret, or not of this world. What is in there? Only who or what is inside would know.

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            I think people sometimes get confused on the term. “UFO” does not mean the same thing as “alien spacecraft”. Anything in the sky that can’t be identified is a UFO.

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          They’re talking about that one guy who (I think) was in the Navy and was addressing the US Congress, or something.

          It’s a nothing burger and likely just a distraction tactic for other American political stuff.

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        I want to believe but I’m certain most credible accounts were people seeing experimental aircraft. I’m sure the SR71 and F117 were both seen as UFOs of their day til they were somewhat declassified.

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        That’s right! Corridor Digital is all up on the CGI UFO’s lately. They just made a hoax Tesla 3 cam vid

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    Image Transcription:

    Black text on white background reading

    '“GOD: Performs miracles”

    “HUMANS: Invent camera”

    God since that day:’

    Below is an image of Pingu from the TV show of the same name sitting in a chair, flippers folded, legs swinging and eyes narrowed in anger, with the text alongside him reading “well now I am not doing it”

    [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

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    Honestly, the fact that ghosts and monster sightings appear less when we have MORE cameras, leads me to some very depressing conclusions.

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    Axchuatlly, one of the miracles for mother Theresa’s canonization was that someone took a really nice picture inside of one of her houses of pain and suffering

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      I live in a town where a nun was given sainthood. One of her miracles was that a guy with bad eyesight prayed to her and his eyesight improved marginally. I’m not joking.

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      Well yea. Failing to identifying what it actually is makes it unreasonable to say it’s not an alien craft.

      The Hitchens Narrative that Mother Theresa was a monster is still active I see…

      BadHistory has an informative article on this.

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        Kind of weird to call it the “Hitchens Narrative” when there are a bunch of other people who contributed much more to modern criticisms of Mother Teresa than Hitchens did. But I guess calling it the Chatterjee Narrative might draw attention to the fact she was doing a white savior colonialism at the time. 🤷‍♂️

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            I don’t know why you’re insisting on making this about Hitchens when it’s really not. The editor of The Lancet visited her hospice and had criticism of it as well, and some random claim made by Hitchens has no bearing on the fact it was a racist enterprise to begin with.

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              https://old.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mother_teresa_was_documented_mass_murderer/

              Actually Mother Theresa was beloved because she got people to stop dying in the streets.

              I think the real “White Savior Complex” is had by you, trying to stand up against the kindly dead lady like a good “Mighty Whitey”

              I hate to use reddit and give traffic to the ruins of what Spez destroyed as a source but please read the included link.

              Tl;dr - Mother Theresa was an amazing person, but Christopher Hitchens did a hit piece on her that became influential amongst many crowds, historians aren’t one of them. So now you get people parroting misinformation about “Religion bad so Mother Theresa bad”

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                Sorry, I’m not impressed by “ackchully recognizing racism is the real racism.” Carry all the water for the Catholic Church that you want, there’s not a combination of words out there that will convince me it’s a good idea.

                You also continue to ignore that Hitchens was not the sole source of criticism for Mother Teresa. Do you think I just picked a random Indian sounding name when I said Chatterjee? Aroup Chatterjee is a Calcutta native and told Hitchens many of the things Hitchens went on to criticize Mother Teresa for. You can read Chatterjee book yourself if you want, although I’m sure it doesn’t have the prestige of a reddit post.

                You are fixated on Hitchens like I give a shit about him. What Hitchens says or does has fuck all to do with Mother Teresa running a hospice with inadequate medical personnel and with people without medical training making medical decisions. Cry all you want about how it doesn’t count because it was in the third world, you’re not going to be able to convince me that the richest religious organization in the world whose leader sits on a literal golden throne is somehow unable to fund REAL hospices with medical care if they actually wanted to. It was and remains PR for the Catholic Church.

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                  If you had read the link I provided you would have seen a lot of my evidence. You do realize that hospice didn’t really exist anywhere, nor did the term palliative care even exist when Mother Teresa’s first centers were open… nor would they be a commonplace thing in any nation for thirty years.

                  Or how she provided transportation to actual hospitals, if someone wasn’t dying but still very sick.

                  Or that a lot of this care was provided in the 1950s and in a third world country, so it’s not like the region and time had Advanced medicine to begin with.

                  Or how she had literally been forced into hospitals by Arch Bishops and kept trying to sneak out to continue her work. (Very different from “Private plane to America for best care”)

                  Or how limits on painkillers had nothing to do with religious beliefs, that the Catholic church has never had a policy against painkillers, and in fact advocates for them for reducing suffering. But instead said limits were insisted upon by the Indian government?

                  Or how accusations that Mother Teresa or her organization laundered money while letting their own facilities hanging out to dry are largely baseless and have never had any actual evidence to support them?

                  Or how Christopher Hitchens, a guy who made up a fake Thomas Aquinas in a book where he argued that anything submitted without evidence can be rejected without it, is… even if you don’t care about his specific accusations, was still widely considered the prinary source of claims against her and therefore is absolutelt crucial to any discussion about the misinformation surrounding her?

                  Btw Hitchens claimed the Catholic Church was silencing him despite literally inviting him to speak against her canonization (as is customary for any Sainthood hearing. To have skeptics or critics give their case)

                  And… how is nonprofit charity work racist exactly? Is a food bank operating in a black neighborhood racist?

                  My friend, being rational means listening to science, which includes philosophy and history. It’s more complicared than “Sky Daddy Bad”

                  Back it up, I did my homework, if anyone is carrying water it’s you. I am only carrying facts.

                  And no I’m not a Christian, I just have no tolerance for easily debunked misinformation.

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    I didn’t believe in miracles or curses until I saw a documentary on a sailor on a large sailboat trying to get away from a funnel cloud coming for him. Everywhere he would go, that thing would follow him. That dude was cursed for sure, at least temporarily.

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      lmao I’m just picturing a sailor going out again and seeing the cloud appear out of nowhere and just like “god DAMNIT are you fucking KIDDING me?!”

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        From my point of view, it was hilarious but he was definitely reacting the way you’re describing. He lived to show the video so idk?

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      I’ve had that exact same experience once, except with a wasp.

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      Yeaaaa… if no one outside of a small group can get something to work, that thing probably doesn’t really work.