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Near the top of this site's homepage (and at every other web page and web
article), you can see a picture that's kinda like our logo. It depicts some of my favorite Mysteries, which incidentally happens to be those that have
been sensationalized by the media ...
Here's a reproduction of the picture ... In the picture, these sensational
Mysteries have been placed in a certain order of importance:
Firstly, there are UFOs and ETs/Aliens (including the Roswell UFO Crash), followed by Cryptic Creatures, such as the Loch Ness Monster.
Next, we have Phenomenal Places (e.g., the Bermuda, or Devil's, Triangle just off Florida and near the
Carribeans; the Devil's Sea off Japan), then Alluring Artifacts (such as Leonardo's Mona Lisa), and finally Mystifying (or Marvellous or Mysterious) Monoliths or Megaliths (like Prehistoric Stonehenge, Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, Ziggurats, Easter
Island Statues). Perhaps, this particular ordering of the Mysteries form an
informal classification system, or 'Taxonomy' of Mysteries.
Of course, this short list is, by no means, exhaustive ... there are plenty
more Mysteries!
"Unexplained Mysteries, Real or Hoax?"
Uploaded to YouTube by: akatsuki202
Date of Upload to YouTube: March 27, 2008
Info/Description: photographs and clips of the Paranormal mysteries of the unkown aliens, spirts,
demons, angels, ufo's,giants, sea creatures and more!
Tags: aliens spirts demons ghosts angels ufo's giants seacreatures
unexplained mysteries real or hoax random
4.0 Caveats to Mysteries Explorers, Investigators & Students
In this web site, our aim is to see whether we are any nearer to understanding
the 'Mysteries', and even perhaps to see whether we are close to 'solving' them or reaching
some other kind of closure.
Please note that, although I am not a scientist, I am quite Science-grounded so
that this site is also Science-grounded ... and I embrace such ideas as are
embodied in:
Occam's Razor, or the principle of parsimony — to look for the simpler explanation or solution.
The following brief note from Louise B. Young's The Unfinished Universe (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986) is rather interesting and
pertinent:
... it sometimes happens that the same set of facts can be explained in two or
more different ways; when this happens the simplest explanation is preferred. A
principle known as "Ockham's razor" (proposed by William of Ockham in the
fourteenth century) says that it is unsound to set up more than one hypothesis
to explain a phenomenon when one will suffice. And this principle has been
respected throughout scientific history. The significance and elegance of a
scientific theory are measured by its simplicity and the degree to which it
makes sense out of what appeared to be unrelated and disorderly facts.
the cautionary exhortation of the Nobel-prize winning physicist Dr. Richard Feynman — that the easiest person to fool is ourselves, and that we
should be aware that we do not get caught up in 'cargo cult' sciences and
practices (of the advertising people, politicians, educationalists,
sociological sciences, especially);
the admonition of CSI (previously CSICOP) founders Dr. Carl Sagan and Professor Marcello Truzzi, to any investigator and explorer and student — that
"Extraordinary
claims require or demand extraordinary evidence (or proof)"; and
the mind- and eye-opening presentations and writings of Dr. Michael Shermer, Executive Director of the Skeptics Society and Publisher of the Skeptics Magazine — e.g., how our "cognitive bias" (which could be
inborn-innate, learnt, and even suggested to us by another person) make us
believe in "strange things" or "weird ideas", such that these bias affect what
we think we 'see' or 'hear' or 'perceive', especially when we fool ourselves in seeking
and seeing familiar patterns such as faces, figures and pyramids on Mars ... or
the Madonna on bread buns and glass fronts and tree barks ... or the Loch Ness
'monster' and plesiosaurs and so-called 'paranormal creatures' or 'cryptids
(cryptozoological creatures)' and also UFOs and ETs/Aliens in vague photos and
videos (usually at someone's suggestion) ... or even hearing the word 'Satan'
and 'Hell' in reverse-playing music or songs (and this recognition can
dramatically increase after someone's suggestion of the keywords to listen out for)!
However, note the following caution from Dr. David Noel Friedman (who is described as a "Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar for Over 50 Years") and Dr. Pam Fox Kuhlken in their book What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? (Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdman's Publishing
Company, 2007):
Two favorite mantras of mine are "Be skeptical", which you have to be if you're
a scholar, and "Be especially skeptical of the skeptics", because skepticism is
too easy a position to assume. If someone routinely says of every new
discovery, "It's a fake", then they dismiss it and it's over for them. They
never have to change their minds or consider new ideas. The fact is, every new
discovery may open a door we didn't even know was there.
I'll tell you something about spotting fakes, though. The fact that we have
found something we haven't seen before or don't understand doesn't necessarily
indicate a forgery. On the contrary, if it's a fake, we would expect it to
conform very precisely to authentic material that has already been found.
Otherwise it wouldn't convince anyone. Who would take a chance like that? And
the argument that fakes turn out to be clumsy is self-defeating, because that
would mean that a fake attempts to be exposed, when it actually intends to
elude detection.
Of course, I recognize that there is such a thing called 'Faith' ... so that in areas (e.g., the 'origin of man') where both Science and
Religion (or any 'belief system') have something to say from each's
perspective, it is up to each individual to decide whether to seek for the
"extraordinary evidence" (a laDr. Carl Sagan and Professor Marcello Truzzi; see above point #3) or to rely on 'faith'. The decision is yours, and only yours, to make ... and, of course, you reap the
consequences thereof! That's the 'You reap what you sow!' principle ... or, as we call it in Computer Science, 'GIGO' — Garbage In, Garbage Out. (By the way, here's a Biblical definition of faith — 'Now
faith is the substance [reality] of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen.' Check it out, man! That is, Hebrews 11:1 KJV. Don't be like a
certain denomination, whose members are usually highly ignorant
of — and are even proud of their ignorance — of
the Bible! They will read every other extra-Bible book and commentary that
explains the Bible, but they don't read the Bible itself! Such schlepps,
schmucks, and
clods!)
Although I am a Charismatic Christian, it is not my intention to use this web site to 'evangelize' or to 'convert' you in any
way, shape or form ... if you want to hear the 'Gospel of the Kingdom of
Heaven' (aka 'Gospel of the Kingdom of God') and also the 'Gospel of
Salvation', there are plenty of other resources available, both online and off
... but this website is not one of them! That is, I didn't design this site to be a Biblical or Bible or
Jesus or Charismatic site ... but if you find any material on this site that is
relevant for your 'salvation', 'awakening', 'liberation', 'enlightenment',
'freedom', 'kensho', 'satori', or some such state of being, then power to you!
(As far as I am concerned, I take on what Christ has said: "No one can come to
me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last
day." John 6:44 NIV)
Besides all of the above useful guidelines (Occam's Razor, etc.), my usual
caution to anybody who cares to listen ... and thus this caution is repeated in
this site as well ... is to become aware — and also to
beware — of the following:
"A possibility is not equal to a reality!" — Paul Quek;
"... speculation does not make something true." — Dr. David Noel Friedman and Dr. Pam Fox Kuhlken, What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? (2007); and,
let's not all of us fall into the trap that I refer to as 'The Fringe', various aspects of which are discussed in web articles in our 'Articles' section.
One more thing ... although we are Science-grounded, we reject the usual 'pure
objectification' stance, on the ground that it is de-humanizing ... also, it is extremely boring! After all, this site (plus a simple blog) is not an encyclopedia. Neither are we an academic website! Even quantum physicists
continue to acknowledge that pure 'objectification' may be an
illusion — the observer, or the experimenter, or the
measurement process, actually influences the results (outcome; output; data) of
the observation, experimentation or measurement process in some way, sometimes
dramatically! In this website, it should become clear that we literally love
the human process of discovery, exploration, study, examination, investigation ... and
though the results must also be duplicable and verifiable by any other
qualified observer, experimenter, explorer, invesitgator, scientist, etc ... we
do not 'objectify' to the extent of making the human being unimportant or
unnecessary. It's pure stupidity to do so! It's also immoral and unethical. So,
let's revel in those who have gone before us, along the journey of finding out!
And, if anyone still haven't discover that, then all I can wish for that person is: "Have a nice day!"
"ufo...NASA most shocking story"
Uploaded to YouTube by: ulrir
Date of Upload to YouTube: February 11, 2008
Info/Description: a huge ufo was following one of the nasa rocket for a few minutes during a
space flight.
great story, good footage
Tags: ufo nasa aliens ovni mysteries ship space
5.0 Postscript
As you can see from the above video clips from popular video hosting sites such
as YouTube and Google Video, there are many 'Mysteries' that are doutbful at
best, hoaxes at worst (at least one of the so-called 'giant' skeleton pictures is a fake, as
discussed in a web article under the 'Articles' section of this web site) ... Hence, the need to be Science-grounded ... to
be anchored to reality ... to undertake only truth-based investigations ...
which is why those guidelines we mentioned before (Occam's Razor, etc.) are
important.
Okay ... without further ado, let's have a look at the 'Mysteries of the World' ...
Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am
in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That
would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this
website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in
... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever
really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the
Mysteries of the World
.
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond.
[...]
— Katya Walter,
Tao of Chaos
Sub-title:
Merging East and West
(1994, 1996)
Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda,
Our Secret Planet
(2005)
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viewpoints pertaining to each 'Mystery' — including the fringe
AND the mainstream.
We will, of course, come to a conclusion (eventually!) about each 'Mystery' ...
even if that conclusion may eventually turn out to be 'as yet unresolved' or
'unexplained to our satisfaction'.
