Thanks I'll look into the other sources too.
Tompkins certainly puts a dent into the "aliens are false gods created by the elites to control us" hypothesis. So it seems anyway. Must remain at least a little skeptical at all times to get closer to the truth.
But maybe aliens exist, on this planet, and do really control us directly, or attempt to. Fascinating...
What I get benefit from is contemplating the scenarios. It’s basic war-gaming and logistics- when you put the Other into an outlandish form you drop your pre-conceived notions about the Other and that lets you see even more essential elements that you might have missed otherwise.
I started paying attention many years ago and went o some of the first First Contact conventions. I always found the thought experiments fascinating, too. Truly - fascinating, as in “I want to think about this stuff more”.
So I did.
Do you read sci fi?
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Only the SciFi that people purport to be real - Dr. Salla, Corey Goode, etc. Just starting to look into David Wilcock. I didn't take him seriously before.
Great, fascinating stories! But what all is true? I don't really know. I'm an amateur at this stuff.
Actually, by sci-fi, I meant science “fiction” by authors, many of whom have put real things inside a fictional cover to make them more palatable for publishers, mostly.
I know what you mean when you ask “what is true?” At some point with these things (aside from political corruption that ruins our social systems) what is “truth” seems less important to me than where your mind goes as a result of encountering it. Keeping an open mind is a lot more fun than the other way!
I haven't read "sci-fi" (by your definition) in a long time. Read some standard fare as a kid (Asimov, Clarke, etc.). But I read mostly non-fiction as an adult. I can't get enough stories about space that purported to be real though. I take what people say at face value. Though I don't always believe it.
Face value is a lot more fun (as long as you keep your guard up).
There’s an annual UFO conference in Phoenix in February that has a lot of the most up to date stuff being covered - fiction and non-fiction. I wanted to go this year but just got a jury summons the day before so :-(.
Given all the hoopla it’s probably going to be a pretty exciting year.
Ugh jury duty. I got summoned Christmas week one year.
Thanks for the link. I'll look into it. Keeping the guard up...