I'll post this here, was intended for the Hatman thread. It's regarding the blind acceptance by some of our posters of beliefs and the ideas of people such as Simon Parkes.
I've watched a couple of Simon Parkes video on youtube. I felt he applied no critical thinking, was just rehashing other stuff that has been doing the rounds for years and bought nothing new to the debate.
At least Icke bought us the Reptilian royals and wore purple. I hate this blind assumption that these are interdemensional beings, the shadow people are seperate from our reality, but just appear in our reality for the hell of it. I mean I'm assuming that crossing into our space time continuium would require a fair amount of energy, no?
There is no evidence that this is the case, shadow people could be a product of the brain. A bacteria, intelligent dust, a ghost, or simulcra. As Bob Rickard himself once said re: UFO's "The longer I do this job the more I realise there are no simple answers, and there's certainly no one answer.'
Rickard also talks about as Forteans we are here to observe how people react to mysteries and I think there's a fair amount of us here who no longer subscribe to that impartiality.
I get pretty frustated that stuff gets blindly posted here labelled as fact just because a group of people are making a living saying any old stuff on the telly or the net.
At least in the old days with the likes of Velikovsky, Frazer, Elaine Morgen, even Von Daniken had theories. You know they actually presented evidence that support their theories.
Nowadays it's just 'I dream't about it, so it's got to be true as I've got special powers" Most of us even the most uncritical of forummers laugh at Derek Acorah and Icke but take this guy Parkes seriously. What's that all about?
I want to believe in ghosts, (I've seen a few), UFO's,(ditto), Interdimensional gas stations, glitches in the matrix, Shadow people, etc, but I need to keep looking for the evidence, not just accepting.
As Bob says,
"Like everybody we don't want to delude ourselves, we don't want to delude other people or our readers. I don't think there's anything to be gained by that. We do want to find out as near as possible as we can to tangible truths, facts, but we also know that you can fasten too quickly onto something then you resist better evidence when it comes along that might change your mind in some direction".
http://www.2atoms.com/weird/rickard/rickard2.htm