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"I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

7.1 Alien Views and his weblog on Blogspot, submitted by the Odd Emperor

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
-- notebooks of Lazarus Long

Alien Views?
Boy I'll say, not the ones from outer space mind you but the really strange views from inside a person's head. This site is one I classify as "spewing". Not that I rightly understand what the author is spewing about. His prose is as random as his type faces or the annoying colors he uses. That's OK, the page author apologizes for the excessive load time, "this is ART and art takes time."

I’ve gotten to know page author and “poet laureate" of UFOlogy” a bit better than I’d like to over the years. He’s fond of sending page after page of threatening sounding emails. And the insults, don’t forget those.

Other than that the guy doesn’t seem to have much to say. Spending most of his time getting into pissing contests with people. He also sits around imagining a better world to live in, one where aliens will swoop down and save us from the Bush administration and our awful selves. (Well to be honest, someone needs to save us from the Bush administration.)

More seriously, I think this fellow’s heart is in the right place. His goals are sound, laudable even. He’s written some nice sounding philosophy suggesting that people ought to be nicer to each other.

But, It’s his methods I question. Page after page of intimidating, scatological insults? Not just to me but to everyone who differs with him. It would be funny if it weren’t for all the pathos.

Updated February 13, 2006

7.2 UFOs (unidentified Flying objects) Select cases and moments from UFO History

This page has got some good stuff on it. Difficult to read and a little cluttered. But a very nice selection of UFO related material from the "old" days of UFO research until today. Kind of one man's journey through the business of Unidentified flying objects and related issues. A gathering of materials and opinion covering a wide range of thought and beliefs. Not for the closed minded!

7.3 The Stargazers' Mothership Info Fellowship of the Ring of Ambassadors from Beyond!

One thrilling subject after another! From the "Coming Economic Worldwide Crash" to answering the question that must be on everyone's mind, "is there sex in heaven?" Or how about, "did you know that the movie Shrek is actually about Jesus?" Or what about the heartwarming story, "Jesus came and danced with me" (a TRUE out of body experience.)

- And don't forget, the free end times clip art heaven! Hope they have desktop publishing in the afterlife! I wonder if they all use Macs up there?

7.4 Truinsight

Amid a muddle of strange color combinations, big flashing text and huge background pictures (all of which gives the Odd Emperor a royal headache) is the content for this site, such as it is. As of this writing they are crowing about a number of alleged structures found on the Planet Mars via hideously blown up photos taken by NASA space probes. NASA the evil government agency which seeks to hide the fact that Mall of America and Wal Mart have been building new shopping opportunities on the Martian surface for the last several years.

How else could you explain all of the strange shapes and angled lines in the Tithoniat region? As photo artifacts created by applying unsharp-mask filters and blowing up a smudge 1000 times? - naaa!

7.5 The Revelation of the Future!

The Odd Emperor is not above stealing links from other web pages, far from it! This gem is one I skimmed it out of Something Awful.

First off, we are treated to a picture of a glorious heavenly city (which looks just like the set from Logan's Run.) we hear a HEAVENLY CHORUS (those of you at work better turn your speakers down.) Soon, a couple of angels fly across the page and words fling out of the opposite side, right up their butts!The Odd EmperorI nearly fell out of his throne. That's what heaven is like? Ew!

The rest of the site is devoted to telling the truth about bible based prophesy, for example; "These signs include: a dramatic upsurge in "famines, pestilences and earthquakes in [sic] divers places" (Mt.24:7). This should seriously deter anyone from even thinkig about getting their open-water scuba permit, or perhaps the author was referring to sky divers? High divers?

7.6 Inexplicata, the Journal of Hispanic Ufology.

I'm not often impressed with UFO sites. Inexplicata is a very refreshing exception. It's a peer reviewed journal, just like the eggheads use! Now you might ask, why does the field of Ufology need a peer reviewed journal when there are so many channelers and alien contactees to tell us what UFOs are all about?

Frankly, the field of Ufology needs a peer reviewed journal like Bigfoot needs a better deodorant. UFOs, whatever their source deserve to be studied. At the very least they are a broad based sociological phenomena which may actually originate outside the witness. In other words for you non-eggheads, UFOs might effect the physical environment on some level. Still to hard to understand? OK, UFOs could be real, we don't understand what they are yet, one peer reviewed journal is far more important than a hundred magazine articles or segments on the TV show Sightings.

Peer reviewed journals help REAL researchers keep up with actual research into this very strange phenomena. Sightings is just around to sell you stuff.

7.7 hallindsrical.com

There was a time that I was deeply enamored with Hal Lindsey. I think it was about three months in High School when I joined a bible study class. At the time I was concerned for my eternal soul you see, not to mention that my girlfriend was a devout Christian and she urged me to take the class.

Anyway, around that time I happened upon several books by Hal Lindsey, "The Late great planet Earth". "Satan is Alive and well on the Planet Earth" and so on. The books impressed me so much that I split up with that girlfriend, quit the Bible study class, and stopped worrying about the afterlife.

Why? Because I realized the message in the new testament books of the Christian Bible are not about hell, damnation and the end of the world, they are about the here and now. About how neat it would be if people were nice to each other once and a while.

Hal Lindsey doesn't seem to realize this and continues to spew out end of the world babble talk backed up by news-feeds which somehow prove that we live in the end times and the world is about to fold up into some Armageddon slime pit, something that good Christians like Hal seem to be rubbing their hands together in glee about. This site has a number of the same news sources that most people can get by calling up Google or Yahoo news along with a small amount of commentary urging people to buy Hal's books.

And you wonder why I broke with Christianity? Not because of the girlfriend, I'm still friends with her.

7.8 Starbuilders

Starbuilders is the web page of the fastest growing religion in the world. The Universal Life Church. You too can be an ordained minister of this church, just fill out the handy on line form! I did, think they will ordain me?

Looks like they wont!

Rats! they actually need me to register Odd Emperor as a legal name. I mean, why? Can't a fictitious person be a bogus minister? I'm going to nip off and sulk now.

7.9 Chick Publications

I know you've seen them. Those little tracts that litter the bus stations and phone booths. They used to be in airports but after 9-11 it's getting difficult for people who are not actually taking flights to get into a terminal.

I'm talking about religious tracts, I'm talking about CHICK tracts. Like "Bewitched", "Party Girl", "the Trick" and " The Death Cookie". Those little pamphlets that entertained us, informed us and hopefully, scared the living crap right out of us.

Why? Because these tracts Informed us that we are all going to HELL, for ETERNITY. That we would SUFFER horrible HELLFIRE unless we believe exactly like Jack Chick who truly belives such things.

Best part about this site? All of his tracts are displayed in their entirety...ah bliss! Thats what I'm talken about!

7.10 Dreamscapes
The Researchers Website
THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES MEGASITE ON PLANET EARTH!

Well, only a little hyperbola it turns out. This site does have a huge amount of stuff on it. Almost all of it links (and we know what happens to link sites after a short time, boy does the Odd Emperor know!)

The site layout is not too bad, the annoyance level is around seven on a scale from one to ten (one being "not annoying", ten being "slap your breaker panel OFF and throw your PC in the nearest dumpster before this site BREEDS!") This site is a little annoying in that it has a number of animated gifs and odd background pictures that really slow it down. The good news is (and the reason that the Odd Emperor did not give this site am eight or nine is that the crappy midi music on the site is optional!)

But, did I mention that there are a LOT of links on this site?

7.11 Delphi Associates
For the Enlightenment of all Beings

Not to be confused with the Scientology operated Delphi Academy, methinks...

This is the page for a fellow by the name of Sean Morton (his middle name is David but from the little © symbol next to it I guess he believes that people need his permission to actually display it.) No problem! I can play along!

According to the site; Sean© is a prophet, Sean© is a holy man, Sean© is a government conspiracy watchdog, radio talk show host, writer, director, producer, stock market guru,and best buddy's with people like Anthony Michael and Farrah Fawcett. He's also had his picture taken with Robin Williams, the cast of "Married with Children",Sting, Moon unit Zappa, and Adam West!

Wow! that makes this guy SO much more credible right? (Lets not mention that most of these people charge money for the privilege of having their pictures taken with a fan...lets also NOT suggest that Sean© did anything like that...)

Back in 2002 this Sean© person took a page out of some other cult's playbook and sued the author of the Ufowatchdog.com for liable because they allegedly dared to suggest that he may not be the actual living messiah or something to that effect.

The Odd Emperor thinks that people should be very careful when they do stuff like this. I can remember one cult's holy technique of using the courts to harass its critics as its holy guru instructed, and how this brought the entire Internet down around the cult's ears as a result, not to mention the US justice system.

Somehow though, looking at this fellows bio I get the sneaking suspicion that I've seen this all before, say the biography of a certain science fiction writer turned UFO cult guru back in the 1950s who allegedly gave up writing for the religion business..

I am also reminded of the old adage, "be careful what you wish for, you might get it."

Here is a short but amusing conversation with Mr. Sean Morton

7.12 RealSightings

So if I take my favorite digital camera, photograph the moon or something, transfer the file into a lossy format like jpeg, then blow the picture up with some crappy picture cruncher like Microsoft Photo Editor I will get all sorts of goofy errors in the photo that will show up as splotches.

Nu uh! You will have, in your hot little hands the ultimate proof that someone has taken huge chunks out of the moon, that there are strange creatures flying around in your back yard (we think they look like bugs but the camera believes they're rods.) You will have proof the the bird, airplane or Mothman that just flew overhead is really a strange spacecraft from another world. Aint technology wonderful?

Yep, this is another "I took photos and think all the unfocused blobs are actually aliens" webpage. Real sightings strive to tell the truth. That the authors of this page have utterly no idea how a camera works. (shhh! there's this little man…inside the camera box with a paintbrush!)

7.13 UFO Wisconsin

How do you label this one? From the look of the site I would be tempted to classify this as just another whacky UFO page. But despite its appearance and the fact that the site author has joined a sort of paranormal porno network, the actual content on this page is pretty factual. That is to say the author is factually setting up information that witnesses of UFO events have submitted, whether that information is accurate is quite another matter.

But these are CHEESEHEADS! What more do I need to say?

7.14 The Lunar Faces

Remember the Faces of Giza?
It was a site that I reviewed several years ago. I discovered that the author had updated the page so, being a gentleman I updated my review as well, and sent him a copy. To make a long story short, the site author was none too please that I think his arguments are a lot of hogwash but that's why I'm the Odd Emperor and he's just this guy you know?

In the course of events I took a peek at my old friend the Internet to see if this fellow has any other pages which are in need of a review and I found this little gem.

Lunar Faces purports to tell the truth that random collections of rocks can sometimes depict faces and other familiar objects. So what's the big deal you might ask. Everyone knows that.

Apparently not this fellow! He thinks that someone carved a bunch of faces, letters and whatnot on the Moon including one that looks startlingly like characters out of the Star Wars movies.

Star Wars characters that are millions of years old? Now that's weird!

7.15 The United States UFO Information and Research Center

"The United States UFO Information and Research Center is an initiative designed to provide support, structure, and an information base to unify local grassroots efforts in UFO research."

Sheeit! With that level of garble talk, this person could make a pretty good living in any fortune 500 company, I hear that defense contractors are a pretty safe bet. You should take a look at this organizations mission statement. They want to , collect information about aliens because this will make them understand humans all the more better. Hu? Am I missing something?

Actually, despite the impressive sounding wordage on this site (unless you are a corporate cube-hog wherein it all sounds SO familiar), this web page has very little going for it. There seems to be a constant plea for donations which will open up a number of pasworded PDF files allegedly containing back issues of newsletters, the ones from the mid 1990s are available and some of those are a real hoot!

They also want your donations to help build a big fat UFO shaped theme park. They only need 33 million dollars! Why? So that people from all over can experience having probes shoved up their...

..aw never mind...

...Well, as of November 2003 this page passed beyond the pale, to the place all web pages go eventually...

7.16 UFO Watchdog

UFO Watchdog is a webpage devoted to telling the truth about UFOs and the people who see them. Why is this significant you might ask? Because this site actually does.

Let's face the terrible facts. Many people have an innate desire to be liked by others or to get attention. Many people want to make money. Some want both things. Others see UFOs (in both senses) as a way to get the attention they crave and make a lot of money. So, some people lie about their experiences, others confabulate or, fill in the blank portions of real experiences with flights of fancy.

UFO Watchdog tells it like the site author sees it, and he has a singularly bleak vision indeed. Not that I blame him! The field is littered with fakes, charlatans, cranks, crackpots, fakers, religious fanatics, hoaxers, jokesters, con men and just plain idiots.

Recently, the site author torqued off one fellow so much that he sued for a cool million and the watchdog site was temporarily yanked off of the Internet. No problem, he is back on the air now and continues to lambaste and mock the same kind of people I do.

What was that about wanting attention?

7.16 William Henry

This fellow's bio begins;

"William Henry is an investigative mythologist who lives in Nashville, TN. His primary expertise and mission is finding and interpreting ancient stories which feature advanced technology for raising of spiritual vibration and increasing spiritual vision."

The first thing I thought was. "What the hell is a mythologist? - it is a real field of study according to Webster's - "mythologist [n.] |ETYM| Cf. French . , An expert on mythology."

Than I discovered that Joseph Campbell was a Mythologist too! Wow that means William Henry must be just like Joseph Campbell!

Well no. First off. William Henry dosn't bother to disclose where he received his degree or even what kind of degree it is. That is almost unprecedented and gives (me) reason to doubt that he is formally trained in the field.

OK, so he's an amateur mythologist? That's cool, so am I!

Not so long ago he mentioned something about the venerable Subliminal Research Foundation in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he supposedly worked with a team of psychiatrists and psychologists to develop "self help technologies." Thankfully (and probably since the Subliminal Research Foundation doesn't really exist) he pulled that text off of his web page. Kudos for doing that at least!

The site itself is not too impressive, mostly advertising William Henry's new-age books and declaring that we are on the edge of a spiritual breakthrough, the same old song (and you have NO idea how old it is!) . He’s hawking a bunch of personal appearances and writing about “real” stargates, I can’t imagine where he got THAT idea!

He’s taken the cue from a bunch of other writers, short shifting and re-interpreting real archeological finds into his own unique worldview. He also lambastes ne Michael Heiser who apparently slighted Sitchin AND William Hennery by suggesting all of this fanciful interpretation of archeology is nothing but a bunch of self promotion and money making.

Oh the horror!

I hate to mention this but most accredited people in the field would probably agree, with Heiser! (Sorry!)

Updated July 13, 2004

Here is an interesting letter I received from one of Mr. Henry's ahh, fans... ya! That's the ticket!

7.17 Answers in Genesis

This is one of those pages which pretends to answer troublesome evolution related questions in a purely scientific manner, for the kids you know! We certainly don't want our children learning Godless scientific things like evolution and radio carbon dating. Why, they might grow up and get real jobs instead of being a good Christian truck driver like Dad!

That pretty much sums this page up. It's the home page to Creation Magazine so you can get the most up to date arguments to debunk Godless evolution!

I found one method particularly amusing. If you find yourself confronted with Mr. Poopy-Pants who insists that you throw away any circular Biblical arguments for creation or the flood and stick with science, you just tell Mr. Poopy-Pants that you will promise not to bring up the Bible if he promises not to bring up any scientific evidence. Your Bible based argument will always win because even if Mr. Poopy-Pants does not recant his Godless evolution nonsense, he's just going to burn in hell anyway.

Just as a personal note, when I write fiction I commonly start with a situation, say "The Earth was created" and then work out how it was created in a reverse fashion. In a general sense this same method is used in all arguments for the literal interpretation of the Bible. The logic train starts with "I believe that God said so" and pretty much derails at that point.

Science (not creation science but real science) does not work that way. In science you ask a question, for example "how old is this rock?" without any presuppositions. You then attempt to use physical laws by experimentation to determine the most correct answer out of the hundreds of possible answers that you will get in the course of your experiment. Only after finding the right test, one that has been verified many times by many people as being reasonably accurate can you reach any sort of conclusion. If you don't have a valid test than you have to stop and devise one. But you have to use exactly the same process that you are attempting on the rock, I.E. is this test valid? Why or why not? - and so on. If you skip even one step you are not doing what we call science and you might as well go back to learning how to tranform lead into gold. It's an irritating, painstaking process that is fraught with error and frustration but it is the only way we know of to find facts and physical laws. Science in fact is an error correcting system.

The big problem with comparing Science and Religion is that science is indefinite but produces real results. Religion is definite but arguably does not produce anything other than comfort and not even that much of the time.

But heck, if you have the Bible you don't need to do any of that silly science stuff! You just find your conclusions first (in the Bible), then run around and find proof for them. Hey; it works for believers in UFOs and Aliens.

But it's not science. As a matter of fact it's never been science, no matter how many time you say so.

7.18 WWW.Kahealani.COM: Angela Kahealani: Clairvoyant Psychic Reader, Healer and Counselor; Teacher of Meditation, Clairvoyance, Kundalini; consults at 1(808)635-6688

Hey; don’t blame me for this. It’s is exactly how the title block of the web page was set.

Why is it that people with names like Angelica and Angelique usually are not “Angel like”. Case in point; Angela seems to have "issues". The establishment, science, and medical people of all stripes other than those involved with distilling and manufacturing pure water products. The others she refers to as part of the “Big Brother fraud, AMA certified drug pushers, the FDA certified drug cartel” not to mention the “monopolistic cabal of the American Medical Association, The Pharmaceutical Industry, and their Drug Pushers and [sic] Vivesectors.”

Yes; just a bit hostile I would say.

She has a huge section regarding law, apparently a consuming interest. Her opinion on law in general seems to be that it all sucks despite the fact that she seems very quick to use select bits of the law to benefit herself. But than on the the same page she claims to not have a profit center, other than the pay as you go section.

Angela is also very insistent that no one steal anything from her.

Other stuff;

A big fat rip-off of the film “The Matrix” where she asserts that this Science Fiction fantasy movie is literally true.

A set of Angela's Laws, one which reads (A person should have) ‘No Witholds - Volunteering of Whole Truth." ” Witholds?" That’s not really a word, except in the lexicon of a particular, well established UFO cult. I wonder what sort of training she really had?

And finally; If you go to the [sic] CopyRight page you will hear a little sound file of none other than HAL 9000 from the 1968 film 2001: A Space odyssey. The original wave file can be found at http://www.palantir.net/2001/index.html (2001: A Space Odyssey © 1968 Turner Entertainment Co., a Time Warner Company.)

She also makes no bones about demanding money if one happens to find her web page interesting or enlightening. Why? I ask. If I were a Clairvoyant Psychic I could play the State Lottery a single time (State Lottos being a real conniving plot to wrest money from the unenlightened.) I would arrange to win big and retire. Too bad that no Clairvoyant Psychic ever thinks of that.

7.19 Ion Valve Industrys (It's Electrifying!)

Oh now this is rich.

Someone is ballyhooing a brand new invention that could revolutionize the electronics industry. It’s called the Ion Valve, better known as the Electron Tube.

I can see it now, computers that run like 286s but take up an entire building. Hordes of white coated technicians busily swapping out burned tubes by the hundreds. This could spark entire industries, solve the IT unemployment problem, heat entire cities using the waste emissions from the giant tube farms.

This could do away with the Internet and home computing forever, who wouldn’t want that?

7.20 Christianity Is Poison Forced Upon Children.

Gene Ray is at it again! Don't know who gene Ray is? Well!, you don't beebop around the odd corners of the Internet like the Odd Emperor does!

Gen Ray is the self professed "Wisest Human," Gene Ray is "above God," Gene Ray is the author of the very amusing site called "Time Cube". What is Time Cube? I reviewed the site about two years ago on page five of the Empire of the Odd.

Here is a relatively short webpage (for Gene that is). Simply stated it asserts not teaching time cube beliefs is wrong and everyone except Gene Ray is stupid.

You know, he's right!

The United States needs to adopt time cube, why not? We are the only country in the world that still uses English weights and measures, we are the only country that has daylight savings time and our time zones follow state lines, why not adopt a different kind of clock-face and split days into four parts? We could have two working days for every one! Think of how productive that would be!

The French did something like this back in 1793 when they rewrote the Gregorian calendar and replaced it with another--arbitrary one. they changed month names into things like "Heat" (Thermidor) or "Rain" (Pluviôse). They made a week ten days insted of seven.

The rest of the world ridiculed them at the time. We know the same thing wouldn't happen to the US.