It’s because the UAP scene is otherwise full of people who are willing to believe in almost anything with minimal, flimsy evidence.
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paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s frustrating that the UAP scene is infested with grifters.
sploosh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Existence is scary and we grab on to things that make us feel better.
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They don’t though, they grab on to things that terrify them… wait, are conspiracy theorists just psycological self masochists?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, there may be that. But to the point about comfort. A lot of the UAP community is focused on the metaphysical these days. The whole thing is considered a phenomenon and not just flying space ships. So they leave room for a wide range of reasons for it all apart from aliens from distant galaxies.
So it’s basically an answer/ key to understanding existence and the afterlife for them.
But yeah. Then there are the people who think it’s some secret collusion plot with 8 races of aliens and ruling earth or something.
The variety of personalities actually lead to strife too.
I find the scene interesting because there are laws being passed about UAPs. And I can’t help but be curious about the scene now that I’ve observed so much of it.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It makes sense though, doesn’t it? A community of people that refute reality in favor of what they want to believe, gets taken by people willing to use that against them?
Play stupid games…
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Take away the grifters and the idiots, and there is no UAP scene