Oh no! How can you be so banal? I mean on one side we have a possibility that we live in a matrix, that we are actually in the future surrounded by robots and who knows what kind of a world and we need to wake up and Geller can fly in the sky and he will wake us all up because he's the chosen one (and you can only imagine who chose him here in the matrix, that's why we need to wake up)
--- and on the other the side it was just a photographer who stepped in.
The the depression inducing banality itself excludes it as a possibility because it's so small compared to alternative.
Btw here's an interesting psychological study about UFO cult and people that believed how they were communicating with the aliens who are coming for them to save them from the inevitable disaster and how they were leaving their jobs, their money, their spouses and lot more.
I mean if you have time it's worth a listen
--- and on the other the side it was just a photographer who stepped in.
The the depression inducing banality itself excludes it as a possibility because it's so small compared to alternative.
Btw here's an interesting psychological study about UFO cult and people that believed how they were communicating with the aliens who are coming for them to save them from the inevitable disaster and how they were leaving their jobs, their money, their spouses and lot more.
I mean if you have time it's worth a listen
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"