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Beware the Aliens!
Jan. 12th, 2008 10:07 pmI love Wikipedia. Sometimes I get lost in it for hours. Today I stumbled from articles about hereditary diseases to childhood psychiatric disorders to demonic possession to alien abductions. How did I manage this? Just by following (not particularly central) links in the articles. I click on what sparks my interest. What does that selection say about me, I wonder. Anyway the last article, the one about alien abductions, linked to this site: Alien Survival Guide
This is a really cool site, really educational (in a way) and definitely entertaining. It's entertaining if you don't believe in alien abductions which I don't. (I hope I'm not offending anyone) In my experience the world is orderly, mundane, in a way not very exciting. Things out of the ordinary, supernatural, mystic / religious (sorry) are some kind of fiction. So I think the phenomenon is interesting, but I don't take it serious. This site didn't change that, quite on the contrary. I'm not sure if it's serious or some kind of parody. If it's serious, it's actually quite scary. The way they talk about being constantly in danger of being abducted and the way the refer to the aliens ("extraterrestrial scourge", "insidious", "gangly fingers", "intergalactic adversaries", that's only from the introduction), it's completely sensational and populist. They constantly mention research and studies, but you don't find any acutal citations. There's no real information about the owner of the site, but they do ask you to make donations. Very dubious. So I took everything with a grain of salt. The list of songs that supposedly can deflect alien mind control had me laughing out loud. The advise of shooting the aliens' heads off before they can paralyse you shocked me. First they tell you to be constantly paranoid and on edge and then they advise you to have fire arms at hand and to shoot when you feel threatened, just great. The scariest thing is there are probably people out there who feel and act exactly that way. Still, all things considered it was very amusing.
This is a really cool site, really educational (in a way) and definitely entertaining. It's entertaining if you don't believe in alien abductions which I don't. (I hope I'm not offending anyone) In my experience the world is orderly, mundane, in a way not very exciting. Things out of the ordinary, supernatural, mystic / religious (sorry) are some kind of fiction. So I think the phenomenon is interesting, but I don't take it serious. This site didn't change that, quite on the contrary. I'm not sure if it's serious or some kind of parody. If it's serious, it's actually quite scary. The way they talk about being constantly in danger of being abducted and the way the refer to the aliens ("extraterrestrial scourge", "insidious", "gangly fingers", "intergalactic adversaries", that's only from the introduction), it's completely sensational and populist. They constantly mention research and studies, but you don't find any acutal citations. There's no real information about the owner of the site, but they do ask you to make donations. Very dubious. So I took everything with a grain of salt. The list of songs that supposedly can deflect alien mind control had me laughing out loud. The advise of shooting the aliens' heads off before they can paralyse you shocked me. First they tell you to be constantly paranoid and on edge and then they advise you to have fire arms at hand and to shoot when you feel threatened, just great. The scariest thing is there are probably people out there who feel and act exactly that way. Still, all things considered it was very amusing.
