(For part 1 of this post, click here.) "'Aliens' is a code word for something that exists, something that's evidently wiser than we are or wise in a different way, and we don't know what it wants or is able to do. Really, what's the difference between an 'alien' and God? Different people give … [Read more...]
An Alien Abductee in Israel – the Strange Story of Ariel Semmel (Part 1)
Director Ariel Semmel is convinced that aliens have abducted him, runs the headline in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. And he's made a documentary film about it. My friend Professor Yaakov Ariel was kind enough to send me a link to the article by Nirit Anderman, which appeared on the Haaretz … [Read more...]
Arguments or Horse Laughs? – The Debates of Martin Gardner and Marcello Truzzi
Dana Richards (ed.) Dear Martin, Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skepticism. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2017. "Ben Azzai ... used to say: Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Amy
(This is the second installment of my review of M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. For the first installment, click here.) “The UFO phenomenon/subculture is a reflection of ourselves, our fears and desires, our ghosts. In some curious way, it, … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Roy
M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. This is a book that's brilliant in spots, fascinating in long stretches, intelligent and thoughtful throughout. It contemplates the paradoxical reality of a subculture committed to what to our cultural mainstream … [Read more...]
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