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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 18, 2023

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I think the strongest evidence for the fact that they are not secretly aliens or demons or inter-dimensional travelers in contact with us is that the people who supposedly know keep on with their lives.

Allegedly members of congress know of all this, and yet they still continue seething and coping about January 6th, Ukraine, late term abortions, etc. if you knew for a fact that biblical demons were in fact interdimensional intelligences phasing through our existence, would you still put on your suit every day and go to work to argue with people?

if you knew for a fact that biblical demons were in fact interdimensional intelligences phasing through our existence, would you still put on your suit every day and go to work to argue with people?

Yeah, because unless the interdimensional imp is phasing in and out right now in front of me, the work still has to be done: chop wood, carry water, as they say.

If you were introduced to the interdimensional demons, and wanted to chop wood and carry water afterwards, what type of work would you do?

There may be fairies at the bottom of my garden, but I'm the one who has to scrub the bathroom.

If you have fairies at the bottom of your garden then you should pretty quickly realize that you never need to work again. Everything can be monetized. The fact real aliens haven’t been I’d the biggest evidence they don’t exist.

Everything can be monetized.

Yeah, they tried that back in the day and some prominent names ended up with a lot of egg on their faces 😁

"Undeniable real photographic evidence" which, to modern eyes, looks so obviously fake it's astounding how anyone believed it for five seconds. I think the UFO video is the same kind of thing.

If you have fairies at the bottom of your garden then you should pretty quickly realize that you never need to work again. Everything can be monetized.

Tell me that you're Jewish without using those words. I kid, I kid.

...but at the same time, I am experiencing a bit of a cognitive disconnect here. How does the existence (or nonexistence) of fairies relate to the bathroom needing to be cleaned? Also, how do you know that we haven't been monetizing the existence of aliens? ;-)

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Fairies are tiny, and afraid of iron. Few mythical creatures are easier to enslave and force to clean your bathroom than the fair folk. Then you can start pimping them out to others with dirty bathrooms and watch the money roll in.

What else would you do?

I don’t know, but I find the idea that you find out about the confirmed existence of a vastly more powerful alien species that has been visiting earth and continue, with perfect poker face, with the temporal political concerns that everyone who doesn’t know cares about is unlikely.

I’d spent every waking second with my wife and children, and probably spend a lot of our time together in Church, praying.

I’m assuming that the aliens are actually biblical angels or demons.

You’re right, I should be doing that. I’m imperfect. I’d equate actual knowledge of the reality of aliens with Moses seeing the burning bush, Noah talking to god about a flood, or Mary being visited by an angel.

Not necessary for my point but: I actually do spend pretty much 100% of my waking time with my wife and children. We are both effectively retired and structured our life in this way on purpose. We also do go to church at least once a week and spend quite a bit of time talking about theology and our beliefs.

Edit: now that I think about this more, I think that covid was a sort of “seeing god” moment for my wife and I. Neither of us would ever even consider trading time with our children for a job. I guess my thought is that knowing the truth of alien life would have an even stronger effect, so my assumption is that because I don’t see any of the people who would know the truth of this acting like they just talked to god, that they probably haven’t met him.

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