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@jwayne I disagree in that existence of aliens influences perception on life itself -- scientifically and metaphysically. Peaters often talk about looking at things holistically and so too here I say that one can not separate metaphysics from physics. Religion "defines" where life comes from and what is its meaning, thus, it restricts physical/"scientific" knowledge that is compatible with it. Existence of aliens implies non-uniqueness of humans which is anti-Christian and so changes how we view origin of life and its meaning -- there are physical and metaphysical consequences.

That we are in state of intellectual, moral decay or that religion is "expression of metaphysics merely adapted to historical-geographical circumstances" whatever you mean by it, seems completely irrelevant to me, as even if one reject religion he has to consider its doctrine and principles irrespectively of human aberrations or cultural differences and judge its veracity based on those objective standards.

@jwayne said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

as soon as religion begins to extend itself into what is properly 'scientific' territory (i.e. the existence of UFOs/Aliens), and by that I mean in its historical role of censorship or conflation, then it is at the same time displaying a degeneration

To reiterate, religion extends itself to science and all else that exists. In fact, any worldview does so, and does it authoritatively. It is foolish, in my opinion, to try and pretend that science is objective and free from cultural or religious influences. Religion precedes science as it is a superset of it in a way, thus, censorship of the True Religion is not degenerative but healing and guiding future process.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

If you think could is the same word as don't and won't and then you should repeat primary school.

could and may indicates speculation and is not a scientific evidence of ETs and means that there are no evidence of life anywhere else outside of Earth. That a planet may be habitable by some form of life does not mean that it is or will be in the future. Again, this is no evidence for ETs and it is pure speculation.

Photos and videos are not evidence either as all of them have been shot with a microwave in 120p and can not prove that UFO was an alien and not a natural or supernatural event (i.e., meteor, plane or demon). In before, "you are religious fanatic so everything is a demon", you are clearly not objective either. You presuppose possibility of life outside of Earth (and more, that it's intelligent and super-advanced) which there's no evidence for: just coulds and mays and sci-fi novels; and treat anything positive for your case as truth and only truth. You don't care that there are never any remnants of UFO though many have crashed; or that their manoeuvres "break the laws of physics as we know it" and then claim that science can prove ETs. Or that gov. releases out of their own will documents supposedly proving aliens but then say "they don't want you to know about this". Literally, every scientist in high places believes in aliens (and most politicians as well, where do you think SETI gets its founding?) but somehow it is still contrarian to say that they exist.

You pretend that this is not ideology but every occult sect believes in aliens and rituals to contact them are identical to demon rituals. And every time aliens talk about religion it's freemason like trash "everyone is equal", "all religions are truly the same". It is ideology for you.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

Can't be produced by humans in this period of time does not mean it cannot be produced at all, either by us or someone else. There's evidence showing the latter has occurred.

This is complete anti-scientific nonsense that deserves nothing but ridicule. You can not "produce" gravity. It is meaningless combination of words. Gravity is attraction between masses that can not be "produced". And there is no "negative" gravity by the way, so please no anti-gravity nonsense.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

The UFO/alien topic is neither metaphysics or philosophy.

@jwayne said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

Of course not.

While it may technically not fall under the umbrella of either it has significant connotations that influence both. If aliens do not exist then it follows that most buddhist/hindu and islamic sects, for example, are false; while, if the contrary is true, Christianity must be false. Of course it follows from theological arguments that Christianity is True and aliens are not and any non-explainable events are most likely demonic (i.e., aliens is a metaphysical question).

It is unsurprising then that ET-believers often come from reddit and occult, and treat aliens as almost supernatural beings that will bring peace to Earth with superadvanced technology. From their writings it is clear that they seek metaphysical meaning and consolation in their existence. That's why spur out when someone points out ridiculousness of their ideology.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

Extraterrestrial Life May be Common around Binary Stars

"may"

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

Low-mass binary stars could make the best hosts for alien life because their combined energy extends the habitable region farther away than would exist around a single star

"could"

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

Low-mass twins could make the best hosts, because their combined energy extends the habitable region farther away than would exist around a single star.

"could"

I.e., they don't and won't. This is not science. This is speculation.

You don't want me to talk about probabilities but you brought them up with "binary stars are more likely to have life". And these articles do the same.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

It's easy to travel long distance if you can produce gravity. This is been known for a long time.

It is been known for a long time that gravity can not be "produced". What does it even mean? Do you want to create matter? What's next anti-gravity and using dark matter for fuel? ET-believer can not but claim such ridiculous things because the worldview is incoherent and based on sci-fi novels. How am I suppose to then "post science" if you come out with things like that? It's pure speculation, fantasy world. No reputable journal would ever talk about this nonsense.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

no obvious pathologies were present

Means nothing. Doesn't contradict occult, rituals, drugs, or hypnosis. Moreover, you can find dozens articles on Google scholar suggesting brain abnormalities.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

A memo from Air Force General Nathan Twining

a, b, c I have no problem with, and neither with "reports" or "sightings". That someone saw something and then says its UFO is not a scientific evidence. d can be true because at times these are demonic as can be seen by purely negative fruits or UFOs or one's "fascination" with it.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

Incorrect assumptions about astronomy from the 19th century don't answer the question about whether or not there is evidence of ufos. It's a strange argument.

It's not strange. It shows that this idea lived long and it's for long (always) been devoid of evidence since it's an ideology and not scientific theory or even hypothesis.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

binary star systems which are far more common are more likely to have life on them?

Completely arbitrary percentages convince no one. As I said since it is not scientifically known how life started or what's truly necessary for it in planetary scheme you can not estimate probabilities - they are meaningless. "this planet is more likely to have life than that" is unscientific nonsense guided by ideological blind faith in aliens.

Moreover, even if it wasn't complete nonsense;

• probabilities one generally speaks of are extremely small and since universe is not infinite they still often do not suffice for reasonable postulate.
• where is the closest binary star system or any planet that has "high likelyhood of having life"? What's the probability that they would harbour life, and more, life more technologically advanced than us? And how can it be possible to travel these distances? There's a reason why ET promoters have to escape to scientifically sounding gobbledygook like "intradimensions", worm holes, etc.

@Hando-Jin said in Who likes talking about UFO stuff?:

high quality witnesses all over the world

kek and kek

@Hando-Jin

"You will know them by their fruits."

• "Heaven's Gate": the largest mass suicide in USA history undertaken to "meet the ETs".
• The Solar Temple: mass suicides and murders motivated by "transit" to other planet to meet ETs.
• Aleister Crowley was contacted by an "alien" (demon) called Lam. His drawing of it influenced the common depiction of aliens.
• Scientologies have their own alien called Xenu.
• Aum Supreme Truth/Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph is a Japanese occult and terrorist sect responsible for Tokyo subway sarin attack believes in space missions, astral travel, and reincarnation on other planets.
• Aetherius Society while did not kill anyone one (yet) promotes ET-belief and perform pagan-like worship of ETs.

UFOs/ETs is a pagan religion (i.e., demon worship) coming from occultism, New Age-ism, hinduism/yoga. It often engages in pagan worship, hindu inspired practices or mass suicides and murders; unsurprisingly, it tries to rationalise this with parapsychology or nonsense like "intra-dimensions". That's why all rituals to contact ETs are no different from demon rituals. Most of kidnapped people engage in those and they experience is almost always perverse and sexual and if persistent they spiral down into madness.

Not only is UFO unscientific, it is also harmful to individual and society.

@Hando-Jin UFOs are fake. Somehow they only kidnap occultist weirdos, weed smokers, and fetishists. No sane person ever had been kidnapped by UFO which says a lot.

That aliens exist is not a new idea, already in Ancient Greece Democritus and some Epicureans believed in many occupied worlds (i.e., aliens). Rightly, they were mocked by Aristotle and other smart people, and their ideas almost forgotten for houndreds of years in Europe until Renaissance.

Moreover, it is completely unscientific position to claim that they exists and especially that they ever visited Earth. It was widely popular that Marsians exist in 18th and 19th century, that with telescopes they can see canals and what not, that it is a matter of time till we have definitive proof of extraterrestrials (same talking point as today) -- Of course it was all fake.

It is statistically unlikely that life exists on other planets (especially those close enough to us); worse, there is no sound scientific explanation on how life started so speculating that life exist on other planets is pure fantasy. But even so, the distances that they would have to travel are too great for anyone to cross. Black holes and tachyons are fake and so are worm holes, so no Star Wars-like space jumps or whatever. Probably, that's why Ray didn't talk about it much.

If sci-fi would not exist, probably no one would think aliens are real.

Adam Curtis talks about UFO being gov. prop. in HyperNormalization.

Lastly, Christianity is not threatened by UFO because, unlike God, UFOs are fake. I will also mention for Christians reading that it is unquestionably a heresy to believe in aliens especially for Catholics.

@The-New-Sun

Introductory biology, chemistry, and anatomy textbooks can be found here.

A lot might be unnecessary in them, so ideally someone would outline which chapters are essential to cover by someone with no education in these subjects.

@brad Have you implemented some DDoS protection? What rate limit would you recommend to avoid getting banned?

To reduce server load and simplify the work of any person wanting to do data analytics/ML, I propose and request creation of archive of all topics every N days/months and making the link to download the archive available somewhere in the forum.

This Python script will archive and zip all topics.

If someone would like to re-post full topics to twitter (similar to thread unrolling but from forum to Twitter with basic censoring) this might be useful. It would only need a dedicated forum account to tag in topics to be reposted.

(Twitter integration is trivial and left as an exercises for the reader.)

Maybe some will find this a useful starting point.

After brief but traumatic experience with Twitter API I decided to use ChatGPT to simulate it instead so the code might be not fully correct or optimal as I wasn't able to test it properly. Also, there are many things that need to be added e.g. how to handle quote tweets, images, create tags and titles, or handle errors; that I felt inadequate to address.