THE OBJECTS IN THE SKY INCIDENT

On this blog I have publicly renounced and denounced, all my beliefs in religion, UFO's, ghosts, spirits, Gods, the after life, etc, etc.

During the month of September, 2007 something happened that was to make me question once again "Life, The Universe, and Everything"... on the 14th of September something happened - to date I am totally "Gob Smacked" (to use an english expression of speechless)

On that date - 14th September at 9:20pm - I went outside the back of my office to smoke a cigarette, as I have done many, many times, every day throughout the years. From the patio at the back of my office every star is familiar, and the night sky always looks the same, boring even, but this particular night it was not the same...

This particular night there were two stationary bright points of light hovering in the night sky that were obviously not stars - they were not there the day/night before... in fact they were so "bright" and "obvious" that I ran back inside the office and dragged a member of the public (a girl) who was visiting at the time outside to witness what I was seeing...

As we both watched these bright elements in the night sky, the upper left element faded from view - and then moments later the second object - the lower right object - faded from view - I saw it - she saw it - there is no doubt about our eyesight.... we saw it... It was a clear night with no clouds, and the view is westward out over the atlantic ocean which is about 5 miles from my office. There is an airport nearby (about 20 miles away) - it's a small airport that does accept international flights, but the habits and flight patterns from the airport are very familiar to me. The lights we saw were not aircraft - I am familiar enough with aircraft (I used to work with aircraft as a designer at the BAE Aircraft company) to know that... and they were completely stationary yet "distant" - I would have to estimate that they were "at least" 50 miles distant - there was no sound, and the points of light were just too big to be a stars or planets - and they just faded into nothing... Satelites are frequently visible from the patio, but they move across the sky and are much smaller points of light.

The witness (the girl) has changed - she is not so friendly to me as she was before this experience although she continues to be a client. I have changed also - after all I don't believe in this stuff anymore - I have publicly stated that... but this experience is causing me some pretty huge conflicts.

So what on earth happened? The image below I created using PhotoPaint to illustrate what I/we saw... it shows the relative sizes and positions of the objects from our "urban" view point, and is in fact exactly what we saw - Click the image to see it full size

I explained to my wife what happened and showed her the picture of what I saw and basically she told me I must have been drinking, which was not true, but then I did manage to get the witness to say a few words to my wife, but the girl doesn't seem to like talking about the subject anymore.

So I am kinda confused - these things don't exist, I don't believe in UFO's, I publically stated that in this blog... so what on earth did we see?

There must be a rational explanation, right? Well to tell the truth it's been eating away at me that I simply cannot logically explain what I saw, and it seems that no one really believes me either - kinda makes me feel like Hale Berry in the film Gothika - I can see how someone could end up turning crazy over these kinds of things. And I can't seem to forget it either - every night I go out the back to the patio I am reminded again - every time I see the girl, a client, I am reminded again... every night I look to the same patch of sky...

I get the feeling that this is going to be tough to resolve...

I HAVE CHANGED - FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

About 3 months ago, in fact when I started this Blog as a means to "get things off my chest" as the saying goes, I never imagined that what has happened would happen. My rants and rages, mostly stupid, mostly random rage and outright arrogance is visible and certainly "annoying" to some and downright blasphemy to others...

Certainly I have made enemies and lost friends as a result of this blog - I ask myself frequently the question "Do you know what you are doing?"

The WORD is a powerful medium - now I can give real honest credit to that fact - even more so than pictures/images, videos, the WORD - well written, well placed - can change a nation... no... even more so.... it can change the world.

I don't have the WORD - there are many much better than me that have it - I search for it, I can see it, I can feel it, it is there - but I can't grasp it...

Damn this life - why does it have to be so painful - we all hurt, somewhere hidden away - the most famous, the richest, the poorest, the most beautiful and the most ugly - the human experience is a difficult one... I am sure that everyone on this planet has at some point asked the question "Why"

YOU who reads this - you are there, living with all these same questions, doubts, and uncertainties - I know you are there - my experiences of life from the cradle to the present time tells me you are there - can I reach out over the distances, the cultures, the attitudes, the blindness and touch you and say "Hey, you are not alone" ?

I would like to - but with human nature being so diverse "what is convenient" to you might not be convenient to me - and vice versa....

So I am left with this blog - I have changed so much since I renounced religion, UFO's, ghosts, spirits, and all the other junk - instead of saying "It is God's Will" I now say "It is our fault"

If some decision or experience in my present life turns out bad or causes me stress I now say "It my own fault"

Gone are the days when I could just brush situations away and say "It's Gods Will"

The first 3 months without religion or beliefs are/were difficult - I was without "control" - no one to answer to, no responsibility for my actions apart from myself - and myself was "greedy" - myself was "lustful" - myself was "me" - I felt I could do what I wanted and there was no "remorse" - no punishment - I felt like a predator without bounds, and all the people and situations that exist were mine for exploiting - I felt I could do what I wanted because I have no soul to worry about...

Damn it - how wrong I was....

Suspended boy shoots 4 at Ohio school

Yet another - like duh, are americans born stupid or do they just turn out that way for their bad education...

How many more die in school shootings this month Mr. President? Even your own damned useless police personnel are busy shooting and killing people - anyone over there see the message here???

I am annoyed - annoyed that these shootings continue - my anger is really directed at the perpetrators, and the seeming lack of a solution - I am not against Americans, what I am against is their gun culture that has a direct bearing on the loss of innocent lives... kids are killed whilst at school ??? What the hell is that ???

"In God We Trust" - I think you need a new god, the one you currently believe in is a twisted masochist...

To the victims and families of these kinds of crimes, I would like to express my sincere and deep horror and shock, but I feel my words would be too weak and clumsy to really and truthfully express my feelings in a way that might help...

My family are Americans... I am not, by my own decision and choice - but why is violence increasing ??? We all have more, and know more, than our parents ever did - shouldn't that make us all somewhat smarter ??? Well I guess not, and it's not just the U.S. either - reading the daily world news is more a test of "How Strong Is Your Stomach Today". Pakistan - hundreds killed and maimed by what seems 2 suicide bombers, and you can be sure that the injuries caused by those kinds of attacks are pretty horrific... damn - I have no answer....

SOUTH WEST AIRLINES ARE SICK

"Have airline employees replaced high-school deans as the arbiters of appropriate dress, or have skimpily-clad passengers forced flight attendants to act like Mother?A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines Co. employees made her cover up on a recent flight."

These girls/women are dressed totally normally for our times, whoever is the decision maker within Southwest needs to be fired without pay - they are making a spectacle of themselves far worse than any of these girls/women have ever done - better yet, boycott this airline - book a flight with another airline who doesnt expect women to dress like muslims...

It's A Sick World - To Be Continued....

You all may remember the case a few months back in the U.S. where a teacher was accused of displaying "Porn" to some 7th graders at school? She was arrested and put in jail awaiting her trial and the U.S. legal system was ready to put her away for 40 years. (40 years is the the maximum penalty for such crimes). In other words a 40 year sentence for her would have meant "life". Well yes, they have a totally pathetic and absurd legal system there - you can kick a child in the face and cause real physical damage and the punishment would only be 20 years in jail.

But wait there is more - the teacher was finally aquitted and the charges dropped - spyware/malware on her computer was found to be responsible - did the authorities go after the makers of the spyware/malware and charge them with displaying porn to 7th graders? Of course not.

The teachers career has been destroyed, she undoubtedly has suffered stress and trauma all for nothing - were those that arrested and charged her and hauled her in front of a judge ever charged with any crime? Of course not.

What is the crime here?

Well apparently under U.S. law the exhibition of nudity to minors of age is considered such a terrible and dreadful sin that the punishments reflect this. That is to say, aggravated robbery, assault, etc. are much lesser crimes with lesser punishments.

Lets see, did those 7th graders go home traumatised, injured, hurt etc... are they all now suffering bi-polar attacks, kidney failure, migraines and suicidal tendencies? Of course not but we are told that children suffer when they see nudity and that the law is there to protect children.

Protect them from what?

In every second of everyday in every country around the world 50% of the worlds population, adults and children, of all ages, see a penis, the other 50% see a vagina. We all have one or the other. The penis and the vagina are very real objects - they are not fantasies - every animal on the planet also has one or the other. The penis and the vagina have been with us since the dawn of history. Yet to see a penis or vagina that is not yours is a crime of such terrible proportions...

LOL

So I guess those 7th graders went home and said, "Mom, Dad, guess what, today I saw a penis/vagina - now I feel so bad, I have suicidal tendencies, migraine, a backache, and I've developed Bi-Polar disorder - my future life is a mess, I will never be able to find employment, I will never be able to live a normal life, my whole life is in ruins, I am traumatised beyond belief..."

Yeah, total bullshit, but there are plenty of people in the U.S. that think like that, the law-makers tell us we should think like that. God forbid that anyone under the age of 18 should ever be so unfortunate as to see a penis or a vagina.... You can lie to a child, you can teach them absurd fantasies, you can mould and indoctrinate a child with false history and education (Creationist) - you can raise a child on misleading facts - so long as it is all in the name of a religion it is not only considered legal but encouraged - but if a child sees a nude person, a true and real object that is 100% relevant to all humanity, this is breaking the law big time - somehow our cultures seem to have such matters "in reverse" don't you think?

By the time I was in 7th grade I had already seen several vaginas, if someone were to tell me that the owners of those vaginas had been put in prison for 40 years, now, that would have caused me trauma - the vaginas I have seen have not affected me in the slightest.

If the U.S. really wants to protect kids they should first stop their current "christian crusader" campaign and actually give their people an education, which, amongst developed nations, is currently ranked amongst the worst in the world. Since religious types seem to be achieving ever more positions of power in the U.S. it is no wonder that the U.S. legal system is becoming increasingly exaggerated and ridiculous. That the U.S. is making great steps forward in the quality of life is simply not true - freedoms of speech are being seriously curtailed, censorship is becoming the order of the day, a just and balanced society it is not, it's crime and violence levels are not so far removed from those in Iraq - yeah, how many kids were shot at school today Mr. President? Take care what you say and do when in the U.S. - someone can sue your ass off over nothing - and have you ever noticed how americans always include the "traumas" they have suffered when dealing with legal matters, the most trendy being migraine, depression, and Bi-polar disorders.... God is great when you can use him to validate a point and win even more $$$

Nudity and sexual matters in general are less of a taboo in Europe, so consequently there are much less sexually motivated crimes - also in Europe the number of religious people is much less than in the U.S. - obviously there is a link between religiously motivated people and sexual education... go figure... get your statistics from the link below.

http://atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.html

Where does all this leave us? Can we look to, and trust in, the world's "wealthiest" nation to lead us and guide us to a new era? No, I don't believe so, they have allowed too much religion to cloud their judgement. My brother in law, an american, has been telling me for years that they, (the americans) are a sick culture, and you know what? Lately I tend to agree with him.

Religious Education - Ergo "Education USA"

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Respect Religions & Beliefs - Part 2

Continuing on from my previous post "Respect Religions & Beliefs" I keep coming up against the same question - "Why respect a persons belief in an idea or ideology that is so glaringly absurd, faulted, pious, etc., etc?

My daily job is in the public service sector, I meet and deal with dozens of people on a daily basis - now if one of those told me in all seriousness that he/she had just been returned to earth after being abducted by aliens I would tell them they are sick or crazy and in need of medical help and I would ban them from my office for being unstable, deluded, possibly drugged, or drunk, and a danger to me, my family, and the other members of the public that might be present in my office.

Now if a religious nut enters my office to tell me that I should repent and embrace the word of the lord, that Jesus loves me and I will go to heaven if I take the faith, blah blah, what do I do?

In the past I have sat there quietly, wearing a false smile on my face and saying something like well ok, maybe I'll think about it...

well NO MORE OF THIS...

The respect has gone... I am not going to "tolerate" or "respect" these idiots just because someone has decided to label all these brainless fantasies "Religion."

I am going to tell them they are sick or crazy and in need of medical help and I am going to ban them from my office for being unstable, deluded, possibly drugged, or drunk, and a danger to me, my family, and the other members of the public that might be present in my office.

The bearded old man in the sky belongs in the same place as the alien abductors - IN THE NUT HOUSE !

Respect Religions & Beliefs

I have been hearing and reading this a lot, and it's usually the people with a religion or a belief that say it. I respect intelligent thoughts and beliefs - I do not respect narrow minded, blind idiots that believe in unquantifiable fantasies. I do not respect the rapist who thinks its cool to rape young girls, although he might believe he is justified in doing that. I do not respect the thief who robs although he might be able to justify his actions. And I will go even further, the people that make the statment "Respect religions and beliefs" are cowards and ignorant - afraid of true debate and facing the truth based on scientific facts. Yes the world is round, it is FACT, although it took you religious types many hundreds of years and many 1'000's of deaths of people who accepted the world was indeed round until religious doctines finally accepted that simple, scientific truth.

Muslims believe in stoning to death men or women for acts they consider aldulterous - let me ask you intelligent reader, Do you respect that? After all it is part of their religion, it is their belief that what they are doing is correct. Do you stand casually on one side and let that happen?

Have you ever seen a stoning? Do you want to see a real live public stoning? I will give you one.

http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm

Go on, click the link - I dare you to watch this and then tell me you respect the people and their beliefs that did this. Look at how they are shouting and enjoying this spectacle - they are LESS than animals.
Do you think this has anything to do with intelligence, justice, or is even remotely humane? Those people died slowly, painfully, their eyes hanging out of their sockets, teeth shattered, tissue and bone slowly rent apart, bleeding to death, brain tissue oozing out of fractured skulls - watch it, and then tell me you respect this practice and the people responsible.

But no, do you turn a blind eye because it is based on "religion" and we are taught to respect religions??? Do you say "If thats what they believe then thats up to them"

If thats what you think, if you do nothing, if you say nothing, YOU ARE A DAMNED COWARD

Are you going to answer with "Well my religion doesn't teach those kinds of things"

YES YOUR RELIGION DOES

I do not advocate violence, and in fact it is my experience that "speaking your mind" about religion sparks a violent reaction from those that pretend to be religious (they kind of forget their beliefs in these moments and convert into raging monsters). I have lived in many 2nd and 3rd world countries and have witnessed many things at first hand. You might win the argument during the day but don't be surprised if a gang of machete wielding "good religious people" turn up at your door during the night. Whether they are christian, catholic, muslim, etc. makes no difference. But speak up and speak out you must - harness the power of the written word, the photograph, the video, the blog. The barbarism of the religious and their religions has been with us for 1,000's of years, so it will not disappear overnight, but when religious fanatics and idiots are a small minority and intelligent, peacful and constructive human beings dominate the world, maybe we can say that humanity has progressed and advanced.

To be continued....