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Debunking a single photo? Occam's Razor, my dude. Is it more likely to assume that a) ghosts are real, and your dad happened to catch a beautiful clear color photo of one; or b) your dad is messing with you (or someone's messing with him)? Is there any other evidence?

What's the name of this hotel, which clearly doesn't have any kind of vested interest or financial incentive in maintaining its reputation as haunted?

edit: OK, after literally minutes of searching I found the app that this came from. It's called Ghost in Photo (how original!) on the Play Store. Here's a shot of my office wall with your "ghost" on it, made with the app. Is that debunked enough for everybody?

Looking briefly at your profile you give the impression of a bright teenager who's in the radicalization funnel towards some sort of Neo-Nazi ideology. Maybe I'm completely wrong, and if so I apologize.

One thing you've got to realize is that Nazism itself was built on deliberate falsification of fact to serve what was thought to be a "greater" truth. It's modern proponents continue that shameful tradition. If you are genuinely interested in the historical problems with Denialism I'll recommend Deborah Lipstadt's book: https://www.amazon.com/History-Trial-Court-Holocaust-Denier/dp/0060593776

I got AZ yesterday and ran my phone's magnetometer over the site using this app and found nothing.

BTW, did you notice the woman at 9:35 with a quarter stuck to her arm? I don't have any American money available, but do quarters attract each other? I think that just shows how easily people can fool themselves.

What this particular theory is clever pausing and a blurred image our of context. In reality it is a ‘pasta firework explosion’ for Barilla’s.

https://d3nuqriibqh3vw.cloudfront.net/images/barilla_natale_anno.jpg

They ran it in the Winter of 2010, when this was filmed.

Heres an actual stock image of times square from January 2011 complete with corona and pasta advert.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/new-york-city-jan-7-nighttime-71745475

1977

Pretty sure if this was real we'd all know about it by now. 1977 and nothing? I'm sorry nobody can hid underwater shit like that for this long. Maybe something else was found maybe nothing was?

The lost city of Atlantis was a story in the same way Homer was and the same way most religions are.

The Gravy Pages are pretty good as all-round debunking: Link

Furthermore, in my past experience of AE911, (large) parts of their membership is questionable at best and fallacious at worst.

Did a quick search and some guy suggested to check the wiring or the connection on the starting motor.

But here's another question: She has the keys in her hands... what need does a mystical being have of making her car start on its own? Of all the people in the world that actually need help and yet don't get it... why would something so banal happen to her?

There's also false memory.

That can be a problem. Just presenting facts and evidence is not a good way to convince people that their cherished beliefs are wrong. You have to somehow get your friend to start questioning their beliefs on their own. Asking neutral sounding, but probing questions is one technique that is suggested often.

https://theconversation.com/why-people-believe-in-conspiracy-theories-and-how-to-change-their-minds-82514

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-have-a-conversation-with-a-conspiracy-theorist-w-1829393744

Well, here are some posts from Tripadvisor from people who live in or near some of these zones, and who have visited them.

They say that to say that the government has no control is a complete mischaracterization/mistranslation.

The zones are nothing more than "bad parts" of the city that need redevelopment and extra policing, just like every big city has.

This whole idea of "muslim-only no-go zones" is being made up by anti-muslim racists to scare you into joining their anti-muslim crusade.

Just by reading the comments below the article, someone posted this pic which looks pretty similar to the aliens in the article's photos, so...guessing this is pretty BS. Aside from that, I'm too lazy to look any deeper. Good luck.

So I'm not completely sure which genetic testing services you are referring to. But I can try and give you a general answer.

Right now, most of the economical testing services use what we in the lab would call "microarrays." I think this 23andMe description describes this process better than I could.

The catch with microarrays is that they only detect the genetic sequences that you make probes for. It's like only scanning a book for how the words in a specific sentence are spelled. Some companies make up for this by keeping your genomic DNA and testing it on new arrays as new genetic correlations are discovered.

What I expect will come in the future is whole-genome sequencing. Right now, this technology is hideously expensive. You may have heard of the $1000 genome, which is one effort to bring costs down and enable individuals to access their own genetic information better. As the technology stands right now, it can still be difficult to tell if a DNA change is in your genome or was the machine making a technical error. So it's like reading the entire book, but with random letters swapped out. It's currently lower fidelity than arrays, but that will certainly change as the technology gets better.

Even if your parents don't get a whole-genome sequencing, though, the microarray testing can still be useful, just keeping in mind that it only tells part of the story. Also, if their DNA samples are well-preserved, there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to go back and do a whole-genome sequencing a few decades after they've passed.

One thing (well, two things) he didn't take into account are the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lands being built at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The estimated investment is $1 billion, but it's expected to be extremely beneficial to the theme park arm of Disney.

Anything by Mark Roberts.

He has really impressed me /convinced me the "truth" movement is unfonded. He debates anyone, anywhere, any time, and beats them; including the ae911 big wigs like Richard Gage (see Gage shaking as he shows his profound lack of structural engineering knowledge near the end of this debate - 23 minute mark).

Robert's website.

Edit: fixed video link

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/do-jews-control-the-media_b_753227

>Many of these individuals are Jewish only in the sense that their parents or grandparents happen to be Jews. They do not live Jewish lives or support Jewish causes. They certainly do not conspire to exercise any sort of “Jewish control” over the areas in which they work.

>Whenever there are allegations of Jewish “control” over the “media,” the primary examples cited are The New York Times and the Washington Post. Both were founded by families of Jewish origin. But neither has ever gone out of its way to promote Jewish causes or values. The New York Times was derelict in reporting on the Holocaust and generally opposed the establishment of Israel. It remains critical of many current Israeli policies (as does the Washington Post).

>Others too insist on conflating individual Jews, who as individuals may have influence in the media, with “Jewish control” over the media. Consider a recent column by Christopher Hitchens, who has called “for Jon Stewart and others to join me in calling for Rick Sanchez’s reinstatement.” Then listen to what he says: “If it then didn’t happen, it would help us to understand who really pulls the strings around here.” Who do you suppose he means by “who really pulls the strings?” The “Jews” who control the media? That certainly appears to be the implication. What is he suggesting? That Jews actually get together to decide who gets fired and hired? Or maybe they don’t even have to get together, because they all think alike.

>Hitchens knows enough individual Jews in the media to realize that “two Jews, three opinions” is a far more accurate characterization than some conspiratorial group-think by the Elders of Zion.

>All of Plato’s dialogs are considered to be non-fictional transcriptions of events and conversations that actually happened

Considered by whom? Please cite a source.

You seem to offer this as a fact. If it is an inference, I think it is faulty.

I see no reason to think e.g. The Statesman or The Laws are transcriptions. Who was taking shorthand during those dialogues? You provide no reason to conclude they are veridical--true, accurate--accounts. It is clear to me they are didactic works, just as the dialogues of Berkeley and Hume and Galileo and Schopenhauer and Heidegger (among many others) are didactic. There is no need for them to be non-fictional accounts. E.g. would (The Laws)[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1750/1750-h/1750-h.htm]--see Jowett's introduction--be of more value to Plato's readers then or today were its characters real people; would the dialogue be of less value then or today were its characters pure fictions? The entire question becomes irrelevant.

Definition of fascism 1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control <early instances of army fascism and brutality — J. W. Aldridge> fascistplay \ˈfa-shist also -sist\ noun or adjective, often capitalized

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

If you lean towards reductionism and the like (as can be seen from your submissions and replies) I'd suggest you to read Christof Koch's Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. An interesting read from the world's top neuroscientist with a similar world view as yours.

Thank you! You’ve been very helpful, I’ve also been somewhat comforted bythis comment on the study which highlights some issues with it.

> Nothing you said was actually making the point you're trying to make, so there was no need to respond to any of it in particular.

It's less that you didn't respond to it, and more that you repeated something I agreed with you on like a gotcha. Larceny is a legal term, always has been, and I never disagreed.

>Murder literally is. Basically every definition you'll find covers unlawful killing.

Murder literally <em>can be</em>, but is not <em>always</em>.

>Which is on contrast to the term "murder". For at least the last 800 years, murder has been specifically criminal: https://www.etymonline.com/word/murder

First off, literally no citation there. Secondly, the use of a word in one way is not the preclusion of its use in another. So not specifically or exclusively, no.

>What’s wrong with that?

As I said in all of my comments, not much. I'm just admitting that it's biased. Go back and re-read my other comments. I never said that because it is biased it is therefore more likely to be wrong or anything of that sort. In fact, I've acknowledged its bias and said that it's largely irrelevant. However, let's admit it's there.

> I would disagree that the website isn’t very popular. How did you find out about it?

It's a newly made website. It's not that popular. Proof: https://www.similarweb.com/website/c19study.com/

I found out about it on a right-wing forum.

Unfortunately you are linking to a source that is highly biased and is known for spreading misinformation. Most recently about COVID.

NewsGuard described them as one of the "super-spreaders" of misinformation.

https://www.newsguardtech.com/facebook-super-spreaders-europe/

Here, this is really worth watching: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqtvuzcL84M

The DMT experience honestly hasn't been explored by western science much, though it's starting to be taken more seriously. Here's a fascinating and very thorough article that takes it extremely seriously. Please read it. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Gallimore/publication/277281153_ESSAY_Building_Alien_Worlds-_The_Neuropsychological_and_Evolutionary_Implications_of_the_Astonishing_Psychoactive_Effects_of_NN-Dimethyltryptamine_DMT/links/5565af3808aec4...

That is a person in a sheet. You are being punked.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.just4fun.addghost&amp;hl=en_US

> 4 Dinosaurs did not exist in mythology in any culture before the 1800s

So, dragons are not present in any mythology. Giants, griffons, cyclopes -- all made up after the 19th century. Sure, whatever.