The Zimbabwe schoolchildren were not lying or stupid. They likely experienced something unusual and genuinely believed what they reported?
But children are highly suggestible, especially in groups, and their interpretations are strongly shaped...
It is likely to me that they are/were mostly telling the truth as the observed it and as they later recalled it. You can tell the truth as you know it and be seriously in error, though. It is not belittling to any witness to point out that...
That's not the most common imagery at all. Judeism doesn't ascribe primate-like traits to the forms of its celestial beings, it doesn't even guarantee the ability for humans to understand what they perceive about some of its entities, and other...
I don't know if this has been talked about in another thread but I thought it would be good to make one just in case there isn't.
I guess in response to Obama's problematic comment on UFO's on Brian Taylor Cohen's podcast, Trump announced...
Possibly a similar thing re. Farmington, 1950. The local newspaper reported "Crafts Seen by Hu[n]dreds", up to 500 UFOs at a time, over a three-day period. And recorded that three people contacted the local newspaper. (My views in post #66...
We don't want to believe we are apes, beasts. Anthropomorphic deities go way back, as we know. Primates.
But by great invisible ape, I just meant great invisible anthropomorphic deity, or ancestor worship, or both.
You want something to make you...
That's not the most common imagery at all. Judeism doesn't ascribe primate-like traits to the forms of its celestial beings, it doesn't even guarantee the ability for humans to understand what they perceive about some of its entities, and other...
using personal morality standards to "mob rule" or terrorize populations to get what one personally wants, is certainly not exclusive to religion. Plenty of atheists engage in the same behaviors. Does it really matter if God is one's God, or...
Possibly a similar thing re. Farmington, 1950. The local newspaper reported "Crafts Seen by Hu[n]dreds", up to 500 UFOs at a time, over a three-day period. And recorded that three people contacted the local newspaper. (My views in post #66...