I’m positvie most people that believe in UFOs have a genuine desire for wanting to know and understand the very nature of this phenomenon. Who or what are they? Where do they come from? What are their intentions? Among many other questions arise in probably most of you.
I am also among those people. I want to know. I want to understand. There’s a strong feeling or desire for wanting to know the truth and wanting the truth to be uncovered. An “anxiety” of sorts, you may call, that just doesn’t let my mind rest. I’m like everybody else in that regard. Not an author, nor a whistleblower, nor a current or former military/NASA/government officer, nor a ufologist, nor a contactee/experiencer/abducted one, nor a self-proclaimed professional on matters related to space/safety/defense/military/astronomy/science, etc.
Just a simple mortal man.
I also care a lot about truth and objectivity and have a strong form of “hatred” towards individuals who lie and deceive others on serious matters, I have no compassion for people like this, cause they either cause hundreds of other people confusion, more questions and thus more suffering, or they cause hundreds of others to elevate their ego by posing as figures of unquestionable authority that “confirm” what they are already convinced of, causing them to attach themselves to their (fairly questionable) beliefs even more, to idealize the so called authority (which can be a complete fraud), to misperceive any opposing force as “the bad guy” (thus, becoming prejudicial) and reject truth.
Because of this,I am not the kind of person who easily attaches to anything others say, nor do I have knowledge nor a strong and solid foundation on what this phenomenon is all about, thus, I am open to learn, but also to revisit that which I learn, to question it and/or myself critically and/or to disregard it entirely upon new information or findings, making the way I learn more “flexible”, as in two steps fowards, one back, then two more steps forward, one back again, and so on.
With that said, as someone who knows little to nothing and wants to research about this more seriously and cautiously, there seems to be an ocean of authors, whistleblowers, experiencers/contactees, among others, each with a different view on what aliens or UFOs are. Some say they’re indeed aliens, some say they’re grey aliens, some others speak of “Norse” aliens, others insist they’re demons in disguise, some say they’re humans from the future, some say they’re inter-dimensional beings, some others that they are bio-machines or androids, that UFOs are extraterrestrial, demonic or man-made machines, etc.
Upon this, I can’t help but feel troubled, overwhelmed, anxious and in a state of terrible uncertainty. Who do I believe? In whom do I trust? How can I be certain this one individual is saying the truth and not trying to just sell utter BS books for the sake of easy money and fame and not for the truth? How can I be certain when every body else says something so different? And everybody else also believes what they want to believe as long as their chosen “hero” says what they are already convinced of, and make up their own conjetures based on what they believe.
Do I have to read each and every UFO author that there is just to be left with more questions than answers? That’s not even the most terrible thing, but when one of these are caught for the fraud they are, people will run to their defend, and make you feel bad or assume things from you that is outright lunatic (I remember having someone telling me something along the lines of “you must be working for the Men in Black” or some BS like that for just questioning him/her)
I hope I am making myself understood here.
Long story short, I believe in the UFO phenomenon, want to learn about it but I’m also cautious, and unfortunately I feel troubled and overwhelmed by the amount of contradictions that there are between speakers of this phenomenon (making them fairly untrustworthy), what their intentions are and those who, in their delusions, run to their defense.
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