Mnesis Gnosis Praxis

 Those are three things worth considering. And belief might well be the enemy of knowledge. Faith, you can stuff in a dumpster and forget about. Faith is the ruin of many a poor boy (or girl). Most of the time the stuff offered as "evidence" for some belief is worthless. Faith, of course, is pulled out of thin air-- a whim. A dream. A vision. And almost always very toxic. One should avoid everything that is labeled "faith-based".  But hope and charity are still virtues. But faith is the poison that brings crusades and jihads and book-burning, and holy war. There is no such thing as a holy war. Never. Ever. 

To summarize: faith is shit. 

Meatball!

 I refer to an R. Crumb comic skit. UAPs are all too much like that. And nobody ever did figure out how meatball worked. But if you got bopped, you were briefly a celebrity, and you felt so special. And now the FAA promises to protect us from alien invaders from the distant stars by cracking down HARD on RC airplanes flown by kids and adults having fun being kids again. That'll scare the crap out of ET! We're going to slap fines on people having fun with a hobby! Fucking morons all the way down, and as far as the eye can see. If I wasn't affected by any of this shit it would be funny, but I can't wall myself off from the asshole monkeys, and the critters are both stupid and dangerous. And they breed like rats. Fuck the world. I want to get OFF. Or at least far away...

I should mention that back in the eighties I went on a "high IQ club" binge, and got into Mensa, Intertel, and Three Sigma. And I was not impressed. I don't do that anymore. I was so disillusioned. I met lots of crackpots, and alcoholics who were NOT recovering. 

Is It the X-FILES Then?

 Too bizarre. I think this is where you end up when hardly anyone has an adequate background in the sciences, or at the very least, an understanding of scientific method, and some familiarity with what is currently known. The Germany of the 1930's was awash with nonsense like "world ice" and bizarre racial "theories".  An ascendancy of nonsense here does not bode well. Let's face it, people are poor observers, period. Fighter pilots and other aviation professionals are no exception. 

Those who "want to believe" are all too likely to end up believing crap. 

Backing Off From The Triple DIgits

 It's not a cooling trend, except that mornings will be in the low seventies F and the daytime highs will only "nudge" triple digits. Planet Earth is being subjected to an extinction event that you can ultimately blame on too many babies. I've never been keen on babies. I've had sense enough not to be responsible for excess babies, so I feel quite pure, and superior, to the mindlessly selfish baby machines running around out there. I seem to have been gifted with an intrinsically "Gnostic" outlook. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, "Everyone must get sterilized". Heh. Heh. 

Today we have VERY significant congressional hearings on flying saucers. NOT. It's going to be more like bullshit artists on parade. Although, if there are alien beings from distant stars or even other dimensions floating around, you can be confident that they are complete and total idiots.

Another Record High?

 I believe it hit 104 F yesterday. I thought that today it would be not quite so hot, but we started off close to 80.