This is hilarious, and also emblematic of Pasulka's whole schtick. She likes to say ambiguous, meaningless things to seem wise without ever committing to a conclusion that could be disproved.
Joe Rogan is having the most frustrating day ever when alien author Diana Pasulka won’t give a straight answer about how aliens lie to humans and then Joe’s coffee machine breaks:
Joe Rogan is having the most frustrating day ever when alien author Diana Pasulka won’t give a straight answer about how aliens lie to humans and then Joe’s coffee machine breaks:
Quote:PASULKA: “Aliens can deceive humans through their dreams.”
ROGAN: “How do you know if it’s aliens though? If I’m having a dream about Godzilla that might just be my imagination.”
PASULKA: “I’m trying to explain…”
ROGAN: “I’m trying to ask you how are they deceiving us?”
PASULKA: “I just told you.”
ROGAN: “Are they manipulating us telepathically or through a dream? Those are two very different things.”
PASULKA: “It could be either.”
ROGAN: “But how do you know you’re not just having a normal crazy dream. How do we know if it’s being manufactured by an entity?”
PASULKA: “We don’t know what’s true vs what’s false.”
ROGAN: “Then how are you sure this is deception and not just our imagination?”
PASULKA: “I don’t know.”
ROGAN: “So how are people saying they lie?”
PASULKA: “They say deceitful things.”
ROGAN: “This is very frustrating.”
PASULKA: “I know you’re frustrated, but I wouldn’t want any of these experiences to happen to me?”
ROGAN: “You wouldn’t want to meet an alien?”
PASULKA: “I wouldn’t want to meet them.”
ROGAN: “You’re literally a person who writes books about aliens. I’d meet them. I’m not scared. They just interact with you. I’m down with that.”
PASULKA: “Is that coffee you’re drinking?”
ROGAN: “Jamie this coffee is ice cold.”
JAMIE: “I boiled it twice.”
ROGAN: “It’s literally ice cold. Maybe it’s the aliens deceiving us.”
Starts at 10 minutes mark
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"
