sc wrote:
I'm trying to make socio-psychopathology in theory understandable by the average joe (normal persons mind). Or at least with what I know of it as I have no ability to go to a class concerning it and raise questions intellectually. It does not always work out, but I have picked up on some of the theories on documentaries and my own plausible arguments..
It's based upon the idea that if:
1. The mind is culturally conditioned by certain possible realities of existences pertaining to Ufology it is more easily accepted..
2. Already believing of or susceptible to possibilities without rationistic thought.
That it is more possible that:
1. The mind will exaggerate and or imagine into so called sightings.
2. Even hallucinate them just as other conditionings of myths such as the super natural, that the false manifestations are sourced internally. Not externally. Such as so called claims of alien abductions.
The mind is certainly more susceptible towards anxieties and even paranoia of what is not known or could be possible subjectively, like the arguments that the universe is so large there must be other life. So it is better denoted that the manifestations can be psychological firstly then otherwise.
War of the Worlds broadcast, do people remember what happened when that went on the radio the first time?
Interesting point though, as to whether or not extraterrestrial sightings may have been exaggerated. However, this probably does not address the
actual existence or possible existence of alien life. It merely addresses the human mind's ability to "create" such events.
The Orson Welles broadcast of "War of the Worlds" was a good case in point. Such a thing happened (as no doubt many other supernatural things did) because the context wasn't fully examined (ie, the fact that there were tail-ends on the programs saying things about it being a drama program, or the fact that other news networks didn't pick up the story).
(Hopefully, this might get the topic back on track, rather than it being a flamewar between me and sc, or emp and sc...)
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12 Jun 2006, 12:20 am
