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Originally posted by Skyfloating
Every year millions of people just disappear without a trace. Ive always wondered why not too many people are asking more questions about this. Where do they go? Sometimes their cars or planes (steve fossett) disappear with them. As if they never existed.
Disappearing people in the U.S.
In the U.S. alone there are reports of over 10,000,000 people going missing per year. Out of this figure 500,000 are never found. Some of these people are victims of crimes but some are just gone. Sometimes it is not one person that disappears but a group of people. A man and his wife were sleeping. in a motel on a trip across the country in 1959. When she woke up, he was no longer by her side and had vanished, never to be seen again. Everything of his was still there, including his clothes, money, luggage, car, etc. Now let me ask you this, who would run off naked? This is a strange story indeed. Another couple was driving across country and was never seen again and this was in 1970. Their car vanished also. Were they the victims of some modern day highway men who killed them and scrapped their auto?
It has been estimated that a small part of these disappearances are due to crime and kidnapping. But what about the rest? A few theories:
* Someone does a "time-slip" and enters a parallel universe or another dimension.
* "Rapture"
* A less known theory is that it is possible to enter other dimensions while dreaming in your sleep. The idea is that if you practice "lucid dreaming" (dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming) there is the danger of entering another world or time-line...by which your existence and also your body disappear in this world.
* "Spontaneous Human Combustion" (a process investigated by some parapsychologists whereby bodies suddenly burn to ashes)
* Abduction by aliens
* Mass kidnapping by clandestine operations
* Other not yet thought of explanations.
Do you know someone who has gone missing?
Or do you know someone who knows someone who has gone missing?
How do you explain all the people disappearing?
Anyone have any good links, statistics or books on this subject?
[edit on 6-4-2008 by Skyfloating]
Originally posted by rapunzel222
altho i dont think that ALL aliens visitng/on earth are carnivorous...at least i hope not. but what can we say, given what we do to cattle? life on this planet, from a cow's perspective, must suck.
Originally posted by OhZone
Casaloma, has anyone searched thru the missing persons record for those people?
Charles Fort reported many cases of people just vanishing, like one simply told -"He walked around his horse". People were watching and he didn't show up on the other side of the horse.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
But answering that question may reveal some very new insights on why certain people are convinced of things that "dont exist" for others (see 9/11 for example).
Originally posted by Vanitas
Maybe - just thinking out loud here - it's because in their world those things objectively exist, while in the world of those who do not believe those things the same things objectively do NOT exist.
I am sorry to be harping on this (not that most people here would have noticed how repetitive I am getting ), and I am not even convinced about it myself - how could I be? - but this thought has been spontaneously recurring and clinging to the back of my mind ever since I first wrote about it, on another thread ("Glitch in the matrix").
Radical subjective objectivity... now there's a paradox if there ever was one!
But then, aren't apparent paradoxes the stuff this cosmos (I don't even dare calling it "uni-verse" any more...) is made of? ;-)
Originally posted by Vanitas
But then, aren't apparent paradoxes the stuff this cosmos (I don't even dare calling it "uni-verse" any more...) is made of? ;-)
Originally posted by Vanitas
MAYBE there is no single "common" reality.
Originally posted by coodeytar
So with this in mind, is it possibly not a matter of people disappearing, but of whether we perceive the presence or absence of those people? Or at what point they enter our perception. Whether they cross into our individual or collectivised spheres only in absence.
Originally posted by Vanitas
I'll be thinking about this.
Originally posted by Vanitas
reply to post by coodeytar
Indeed.
And I'll be glad to oblige.
Although I must say, nothing beats LIVE "brainstorming".