have you ever seen something weird

[Brian37]

Alex Jones does not count. He is just nuts.

But the more I think about it, I just found another word I hate "Weird". It merely is a stupid way of saying "it caused me awkward pause".

Basically it is feeling sudden unsureness or uneasiness. Part of our evolutionary fight or flight mechanism.

I have seem some lights moving erratically in the sky before. It's a big leap to go from that to Aliens however. So that's about the weirdest thing for me, far up moving lights. Kind of disappointing on the strangeness scale.

That really can be anything(accept little green men).

Most of the time it is simply some sort of aircraft.

There was a case in Az that was reported by several people about "lights" in the sky a few years back. Again, I would never in good conscious fill that gap with green men woo.

And you can perpetrate a hoax and if cleaver enough do it on a huge scale.

Just like stage illusionists can get tons of stage hand or the audience in on the trick.

It still amounts to if you are stupid enough to fill in a gap because you don't know what naturally happened or know how a hoax was concocted, if you want to believe something badly enough, you will.

"Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer is a book I intend to read at some point. Although I'd suspect it would not be anything new to me, even if still entertaining.

I do find how the human brain ticks fascinating. Knowing biology and psychology is important in knowing how our perceptions can be flawed.