Lobe
an excerpt

The most common question I am asked would have to be this: If I can produce so much evidence to support my theories, why are they not taken more seriously? And who knows really, but my answerer would have to be this: Our society simply is not all that nurturing towards strange ideas. The very word supernatural is quickly dismissed as a weak man's refuge. Or at best, a mildly entertaining discussion. It has sort of become a catch all for ideas we no longer take seriously. For example, clearly there is nothing supernatural about the idea of aliens. No one suspects that they are anything but “flesh and blood” sort to speak, and yet there they are lumped into this category along with ghosts and fairies or anything else we wish to dismiss. If you believe in anything of the sort, you run the risk of being thought of as less intelligent regardless of how well you've thought your arguments through or what evidence you can produce to support it.

I once interviewed a man who had seen a ghost. It was some years after the fact and he had kept his story pretty much to himself. When I finally tracked him down and spoke with him, I asked him why he had not been more open about his experience. He said this to me: “I was afraid of what my wife would think. She's not really a big believer in that kind of thing and I wasn't sure how she would have reacted. I guessed she would have told me I had just imagined it, and after a couple of years, that's what I started believing myself.”

Society's expectations and opinions can bear a tremendous weight on us, yet I believe the issue goes deeper still. We wish to live uninterrupted. That is to say, small things that get in the way of our plans are not welcome. Why do we so easily dismiss homeless people or starving children in other countries. It's simple: They are an inconvenience. Therefor they do not matter. Therefore, they do not exist. How often do you ponder how easily it would be for someone to break into your house or run into you on your way driving home from work. If you are like most people, you avoid pondering such things. We don't ask a lot of things because, well... we really don't want to know. For instance, had anyone died in the house or apartment you now live in, before you took residence? What about the hotel bed you slept in on your last trip? Surly people die in hotels from time to time? Are there occults in your city and what goes on in them? Can people be possessed by demonic forces? Would you want to know if they could? The average American does not. To the average American, these are not issues because they do not exist.

Which brings me back to my ideas and their lack of acceptance. It is hard to convince people of what they do not want to believe or what they feel they will be rejected for accepting. Regardless, as always, I will keep up my searching for the truth no mater what I may find. And I suspect that only a select few will care to see it. But one day, mind you, the proof will be so overwhelming, that there will be no place to hide from it. Things will be there to be seen for what they are, and what an frightening day that will be.

An article written by Warg Crainwood
taken from the Bellevue Bugle