Hi dtd, welcome to the board.
Long story, but I'll try to make it concise and quick: Back in 2001, I moved up to Portland, Oregon from Southern California, I did so to meet up with my brother who is / was a MILAB. I was too, but only just slowly starting to learn what was happening. I moved up there to get answers, which he claimed to have. Well, out of the bezillion things he had to report, one of the things had to do with space. All he would say was this, (and this is a near quote, to the best of my memory) "I just know that if we had a spaceship and flew up there ouselves it wouldn't look like what they tell us it does."
This really messed with my head, let me tell you. I still don't know what to believe when it comes to space, but I'll leave off with a C's quote, (the Cassiopaen transcripts).
Q: (L) Can I ask a question? (A) Yes. (L) Does space have a beginning or an end?
A: To answer that for you would be like telling a four year old human child that there is no Santa Claus.
Let's all think of the implications of this, reading between the lines......
[EDIT: on a sidenote, I was thinking of something very similar to this topic tonight while driving.....I was thinking, What if there IS no President / Vice President, etc? We have an entire nation of almot 300 milllion people, taking up space on a huge landmass......who's really in charge of all of us? Is it really "the President" ?? Is there even a "President" ?? I've never seen him. Neither has ANYBODY that I perosnally know.
But yet, we believe he exists. Why?
We've seen pictures. We see him on T.V. He's in the newspaper and on the Internet. But is he really there at all? I have never seen the man and probably never will. But yet I believe in him.
Truthfully, to be honest, I don't fully. It does nag at me and I have weird feelings about the whole thing, not only about that, but about a LOT of things in this reality that we just automatically take on faith, not least of all the issue of space and this particular topic. Always keep in mind Orwell's "1984", and the fabricated enemies of the state that the public believed in but who didn't really exist. Also keep in mind M. Knight Shayamalan's latest movie "The Village.")
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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