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My dear friends, we love you so very much, Celebrate! It is the season where humanity temporarily sets aside their differences and shares their beautiful diversity, generosity, kindness, and compassion. In the fabric of the One Love that weaves us all together, we feel your hearts. We feel your joys. We also feel the tears of sadness some of you cry as you stop distracting yourselves with busyness for a few short days, and feel the pangs of longing for love, connection, and joy. Even this, dear ones, is love rising to the surface. We are gently holding you all, nurturing that light within you. This light is present within, even in the darkest times.It longs to rise up within you, fill you, and become a beacon to guide you. In the midst of hustle and bustle around you, or even in times of quiet loneliness, take a few minutes to connect with this Light. Breath deeply and take the time to look around you. Even in the middle of a crowded store, you can shut your eyes for a second,...

Well, first let me present two equations. It is clear to me there should be a few intelligent species out there. Even pessimistic numbers gives us one or 2 on our galaxy. *from XKCD  The Flake Equation The trouble with your question is the term ‘credible witness.’ A credible witness is not proof or reliable evidence. What the world needs is proof and evidence of aliens visiting us, not a few witness. We have had decades of ‘credible witnesses’ but still not a shred of physical proof. But I’m still waiting for concrete evidence. Keep in mind a UFO is an  unidentified  flying object. If I see a blimp or a weather balloon or a sundog or the planet Venus or a satellite flare and don’t know what it is, that’s a UFO. Simply reporting something strange doesn’t make it aliens, even if your report is reliable and credible. And, crucially, the people who are not reporting UFOs are amateur astronomers. Consider that amateur astronomy is a hobby that often means ...

im-basic-but-ur-the-bitch    asked: Hello, friend. I was wondering if you had any advice on adding a creep factor to a story? I'm trying to make a novella I'm writing creepy without it being obviously so. Like, you know how some things are unnerving and you can't explain why? I want it sort of like that. Congrats, @im-basic-but-ur-the-bitch​, your ask has been selected for one of my Long Posts™! TWO THINGS TO ADD THAT EXTRA CREEP FACTOR IN YOUR STORIES Hello, friend! The thing about writing with “creep factor“ is the fact that different things creep different people out. A person who might be terrified of old porcelain dolls is can be completely unfazed by masked murderers and vice versa. Keep this in mind whenever you write scary stories, so that you know that it’s not going to scare EVERYONE. This will help make sure that you’re not overwhelmed or daunted by making your story eerie, since you know that it’s not going to please all of the people that ...

Pushing fragile things off tables and breaking them: Self defense.  Destroying Christmas Trees: Self defense, I mean the tree attacked them.  Scratching their owner’s eyeball: Self defense.  Scratching their sleeping owner’s face: Self defense.  Jumping on their owner’s back and clawing into their spine: Self defense.  Admittedly yeah  A dog doesn’t do those things because a dog’s version of self defense is to be a good animal who loves you and doesn’t attack you unless you attack them first.  I mean if a cat feels that threatened by everything in their owner’s household maybe the owner shouldn’t have gotten a cat.  amphiaria Pushing fragile things off tables and breaking them:  Playing. Cats are well-known to like to play with small objects. Your cat does not know what “fragile” means and does not understand the distinction between toy and not-toy objects. Place fragile things out of a cat’s line of sight and r...

The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties. The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space. On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “ab...