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News Briefs 03-09-2015

  • A deadly match between 2 of the world’s most venomous creatures –no, I’m *not* talking about that angry tycoon…
  • Russian idol 3 times as old as the pyramids –the ones in Egypt, you know. Because TDB has never heard of Graham’s books, apparently…
  • Cracking the Maya Code: Timeline of Decipherment –Linda Schele FTW!
  • How ​Oliver Sacks helped me deal with my hallucination-inducing headaches.
  • Treating Intellectually-disabled people with anti-psychotics is pretty cray-cray –and f#$%ed up…
  • Interview with the man who was picked by Kennedy to be the first black man in space –and why he was forced to quit.
  • Seth Shostak’s op-ed on UFOs is further proof the people more fanatically devoted to the ETH… are the skeptics.
  • Minneapolis deputy’s 1979 UFO encounter still ‘extraordinarily important’ –and still more recent than YOUR ‘Wow’ signal, Seth!
  • When aliens stopped Terrorism.
  • Radio Misterioso with guest Paul Kimball: Canadian para-conferences, hauntings, synchronicities, and a mysterious EVP during the show!
  • A Trojan Feast’s Joshua Cutchin announces his next project –I ‘smell’ another hit coming 😉
  • Can a video game turn you into a vegan?
  • Is the feeling that we’re immortal innate in humans?
  • Be careful your love of Science doesn’t turn into a religion.
  • 23 ways to tell you’ve read waaay too much Robert Anton Wilson.
  • Red Pill of the Day: Auschwitz museum installs gas-chamber-like showers to keep visitors cool –Banksy approves.

Thanks to Bob Ross, godfather of ASMR and master of the happy little trees.

Quote of the Day:

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”

~George Bernard Shaw

  1. news
    Your last 2 links are broken so I looked them up via google.

    Antipsychotics: They prescribe them a lot here in the US for kids who really just need better parenting. I have heard many a story of kids fed these drugs regularly like M&Ms just so the keep quiet. Awful.

    Vegan game: If the cow is harvesting humans, I assume it’s to eat them, therefore you play as the meat eater. But cows don’t eat meat, aren’t you supposed to make the cow the good guy? The lack of logic in this is hilarious and it made me laugh. It also strangely made me hungry. If they wanted a more effective campaign they could have just forwarded all their friends the King Rat video from Modest Mouse against whale hunting:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7KDOAj4Xo

    Gas chamber: …wow…that marketing guy got fired. They should have just said fu k it and built a gray brick building around it while filing museum attendants in one but one for the real experience -_-

  2. Atta Boy
    Interesting article about the Basque separatists’ vision, but I blanched at the 911 example and especially mention of Atta. There were plenty of reasons not to have an alien intervention in 911 – it would eventually become “Exhibit A” in how certain cliques of oligarchs brutally manipulate world events – an example that I imagine certain of the more spiritually advanced alien groups might want to see revealed in the harsh light of day and the harsh light of internet research that followed 911.
    Just ask any self-respecting commercial airline pilot if what people like Atta allegedly did on 9/11 was even remotely possible especially for someone who was according to his flight teachers a “miserable” student pilot.

    http://pilotsfor911truth.org/

    http://dailygrail.com/comment/reply/15526#comment-form

  3. Anti-psychotics
    The article doesn’t reveal what constitutes “intellectual disability.” That could be a broad spectrum. Two of my relatives have worked at county homes for what used to be called MR/DD (Mental Retardation/Developmental Disability), and it wasn’t uncommon for the clients to get violent. When that happened, the workers weren’t allowed to do anything but block the attacks.

    IMHO, the article doesn’t provide enough context to determine how bad the practice is, or whether it’s bad at all.

    On an unrelated note, I thought this was fascinating:

    “The drugs were no better at reducing behavioural problems than the placebo. Because the placebo reduced aggressive behaviour by 79%….”

    If I’m reading that right, and it’s not a misprint/misstatement, the *placebo* eliminated 4 out of 5 expected incidents of aggression. I knew there was some validity to the Placebo Effect, but 79% effectiveness is remarkable if true.

      1. Greta Woodrew’s books present
        Greta Woodrew’s books present a convincing case that she was in noumenal contact with certain aliens, and there are passages “channeled” that say there are many, many races of beings – some of whom are technologically impressive but spiritually bankrupt relative to homo sapiens. It is these types that indulge in things such as rough and inconsiderate handling of abductees such as was described by Jim Sparks. In such a melange any kind of behavior can be expected.

        http://www.amazon.com/On-Slide-Light-Greta-Woodrew/dp/0026313901

        http://www.amazon.com/Memories-Tomorrow-Greta-Woodrew/dp/0385238878/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=02GY5V7GBQGQ6GJDRRXM&dpSrc=sims&dpST=_AC_UL480_SR312%2C480_

        1. Channeling
          I’m still of the opinion that channeled material should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt.

          And not only because of potential charlatanry by self-appointed mediums, but by the possible deception of the entities they get in contact with.

    1. Great input
      Thanks for sharing. Oh, and in case we missed it, welcome to The Grail! 🙂

      Oh man, the placebo effect… someone should make a Youtube video about that.

      (Maybe that person will be me)

      1. Woodrew was case apart – not
        Woodrew was case apart – not at all your typical flaky “channeler,” but an intelligent businesswoman who just happened to be plugged in to “out there.” “Channeled” is perhaps the wrong word – it was more like she was temporarily “inhabited” by a crowd of ET’s who called themselves the Ogattans. All sorts of unusual phenomena manifested around and through her.
        Puharich was a champion of her. When he took her to a scientific conference in Iceland she blew away the staid, conservative scientists attending with her metal bending just as a for instance. She could make the silverware on the dinner table bend just by rapping on the underside of the table with her knuckles. She was sort of a big deal back in the 80’s.

          1. Greer
            Such an authority *sarcasm* 😉

            Having said that… I’m not opposed to his ideas about ‘individual contact’ and self-realization. I just have a problem with the role he has given himself as ‘mediator’ in that process –mediators often turn into ministers…

        1. Puharich…
          Also endorsed Geller 😛

          (For the record, I don’t think Geller was a complete fraud, but I guess the pressure to rely on a fickle ability in order to make a profit often made him resort to gimmicks)

          1. Greta Woodrew (Smolove) was
            Greta Woodrew (Smolove) was nothing at all like Geller. She abhorred grandstanding and only reluctantly gave “demonstrations.” She was not a performer in the least bit and never made any money at it. You might find her very interesting.

            Mu understanding of Puharich’s endorsement of Geller was that is was an endorsement of what was discovered during the Stanford tests – not anything later on when he clearly began to perform magic acts for money.

            As for Greer and all his baggage, he is articulate and gives clear articulation to ideas a lot of us already have. For that alone I find him admirable as I find you admirable for all that you do.

          2. Aw…
            Sugar-coating will get you nowhere with me, bubba 😉

            Well… almost nowhere 😛

            Yeah I feel there’s 2 phases about Geller: The one when he was being investigated by Puharich et al and the one when he became a public performer. Of course skeptics would saynhe only managed to bamboozle Puharich…

            I will look into Woodtew’s work.

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