This is written by Jedi Warrior - Mike Good.  Hopefully I will have his blogging account fixed soon.  Read on:

Oh dear, what’s become of my beloved UFOlogy? It seems like a cross between All Star Wrestling and a twisted version of the Keystone Cops, where the protagonists take themselves so freakin’ seriously that they completely miss the point that it is actually slapstick comic theater. It is like a preposterous shooting gallery where the only visible targets are brightly displayed on the shooter’s own feet. It is like a three ring circus freak show, sans ringmaster.

Would you like some proof?

Well, first you have your amateurish hoaxes like SERPO and Billy Meir’s laughable photographic imagery. After that you have your objective truths, like Roswell and Stan Romanek. Then there is the blatantly hallucinatory, like the Face on Mars and crop circles. What about the almost clever but too good to be true fabrications like MJ-12? Then we have the extremely clever but too good to be true fabrications like the Isaac/drone mess. And of course, we swoon with the truly psychotic spurious fear-mongering of David Icke, and his ilk, warning us about evil reptilian leaders bent on global domination and dining on, not just lady fingers, but whole entire ladies and gentlemen as well.

Let’s not forget the megalomaniacal paranoid ranting of narcissistic pathological liars like William Cooper or Phil Schneider, or the merely pathetic narcissistic pathological lying of people like Dan Burisch. How about the credulous uncritical sycophants who actually believe their bilge? Then there are their diametric counterparts, the fascist “skeptics” who don’t believe in anything but their own intellectual superiority. Next are the rational materialist UFOlogists, with their slide rules and micrometers, insisting on the nuts and bolts reality of UFOs, despite the utter absence of nuts and bolts. And how about those squabbling children, the abduction researchers, bickering about whether aliens are evil trolls or misunderstood alien hippie love muffins?

Is that enough for you?

Hell, I was just getting started. But you are probably already bristling about at least some of my characterizations. If you are, then you are making my point for me. Thanks. You guys rock.

UFOlogy is a wannabe study. It is a disorganized pile of subjective data, some probable, some bogus, that we UFO nuts utilize to flesh out our individual subjective prejudices. We each dip into this eclectic, discombobulated stew of collective consciousness to fill our mind bowls with whatever crap we think we can stomach. Then we go to the pages of this magazine, the cyberspace message boards or to cheesy UFO conferences and get into pugilistic fisticuffs about whose crap tastes better.

Um, yeah, so that is why I write about this stuff.

Confessions of a UFO Philosopher

Well, now that I have alienated nearly everybody, the four of you left reading this can begin to discern my point. If the above rant upset you, it is because I took strong points on each of the subjects I mentioned. If you are mad at me, it is because the strong points I took differ from your own. It is possible for you to take any one of three positions on each of those subjects: believe, disbelieve, or choose not to decide.

If you stand outside of the UFOlogical three ring circus for a moment, you will recognize that nobody making those claims has a monopoly on the truth. In fact, if you are looking for truth, you will find it as elusive as compassionate conservatism. That is because truth is relative. You can only recognize “truth” through your personal consciousness. And you can mold your consciousness pretty much any way you like. We all do.

So, isn’t there an objective truth? Sure: Somebody really did kill John F. Kennedy. It wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald. Only uncritical, brainwashed bubble heads believe that. But, at this point, we cannot directly witness that objective truth. We can only reconstruct an abstract substitute version of what we think the truth might be from this distant point in space and time, and more importantly, in our subjective consciousness. That means that the ultimate truth is probably unknowable and whatever subjective “truth” we choose to believe is just that: a choice.

Even a direct experience is open to interpretation and subject to the vagaries of your conscious mindset. Do you think that if Phil Klass saw a UFO, he would define it as such? That is why truth is relative. And that is why choosing to believe or disbelieve anything pertaining to UFOs is a crapshoot. Believing or disbelieving any of this stuff is taking potshots at a target skillfully placed on your own foot. It is a willful act of self-generated ignorance.

Oh lordy, so now that there are only two of you left reading this, you diehards may like to know my point is this: the only intellectually tenable position to take is, choose not to decide. Once you get there, you are no longer a UFOlogist but a UFO philosopher.

Decrapulating and Rebooting

The upside of all this, is that you no longer have to participate in those pointless debates about whose theory is better. That’s because choosing not to decide is the best theory of all. It prevents you from being wrong. It prevents you from having to reconfigure your less than accurate belief systems once new evidence presents itself. It prevents you from denying evidence that does not fit your subjective prejudices. It prevents those painful perforations in your foot.

The most important question we can ask regarding the UFO phenomenon is: What the hell is it? Unfortunately, we operate at a decided disadvantage because we are still trying to work out what reality is. Conventional wisdom portrays reality as a huge assemblage of billiard ball particles having an accidental party that, just by some inexplicable stroke of luck, spontaneously created itself. No magic, no rhyme or reason, just chemicals and billiard balls doing their thing.

But quantum physics tell us differently: quantum reality is a universe completely foreign from Newtonian ideas of atomic particles, gravity, light speed and the concept of an objective reality existing outside and separately from our conscious experience. Quantum data suggest matter is only a transitory phenomenon riding on the crest of a wave of generative consciousness.

Our supposedly “external” reality is as erroneous as Donald Trump's hair-do. We cannot have aliens, UFOs or even Donald Trumps without our conscious minds informing, actualizing, cogitating, sublimating and recreating them again. The "out there" suddenly becomes "in here". Our concept of reality becomes inside out. Ultimately, the only reality you can know is the one that flows like an experiential river, through your senses and between your ears.

So, when we try to put clothes on our UFOs or aliens, try to decide who they are and what they do, we are only participating in a fantasy game of "dress-up". We give them self generated disguises, imaginary outlines, and visionary hallucinatory obfuscations that we like to think explain them. Then like little Jack Horner, we pat ourselves on the back for being so darned clever.

Baloney. Matter is not some dead, external "stuff" that exists in an objective “out there”. It is malleable clay that we mold into whatever our collective consciousness, our consensus thinking disposes for us. What the hell is it? Nobody - and this means you – knows.

Cool! Now that it is just you and me, we can get down to the real point of this article. Since it’s just the two of us, would you like some ice cream? I am buying. You do believe in ice cream, don’t you?

* Thanks to Simpsons character, Montgomery Burns, for the title to this article.