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In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If you think you have seen crazy, some American comes ant tops it.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

HEY!

SHUT UP!

^Let_him_go_spend_40_months_looking_for_it^

Y'ALL, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[–] pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we also ask him to keep an eye out for info about the Egyptian Tribe who settled the Grand Canyon while he's looking around?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, I heard from a 2004 episode of Art Bell about the Hopi Elders that Native Americans built the pyramids. So maybe it was the Havasupai that live in the Canyon that had people leave and come back? I dunno, it made no sense at all beyond selling books to conspiracy nuts.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

And Rep. Anna Paulina Luna was just on Joe Rogan saying she recently saw proof of non-human UFOs. And that UFOs are from interdimensional beings.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf, they're kinda not actually denying it anymore since the pentagon released the tic tac video (among others) and actually admitted "yeah this is real and we have no fucking clue what it is." They're just called UAPs now instead of UFOs.

And the interdimensional theory isn't a fabrication of her mind, it's one of the leading theories, along with "actual aliens" and "us from the future." It's not even the wildest theory thrown around, some think the crafts themselves are alive, and the biological looking things we call aliens are the drones. Of course, all just theories.

Now does she "have proof" of any of that beyond what the pentagon has already admitted? Likely not, but someone probably does have some more info than we know, she just ain't in the club.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

She is a Russian asset. She is not credible.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/751710-anna-paulina-luna-says-kgb-documents-will-help-congress-find-truth-about-jfk-assassination/

They are saying weird shit about aliens for other plots, like bombing Seattle and San Francisco and blaming it on aliens coming out of the ocean. The aliens are people. They aren't real. Please, please, let go of the notion that there is any kind of sky daddy coming to save you. There's no god, no religious figure, no celebrity, no politician, no aliens who care about you or us or want to save us. There's just you wanting to take care of you, and yeah it would be a relief to not have to do that and struggle, but that's not happening. Let go of sky daddy.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

let go of the notion that there is any kind of sky daddy coming to save you.

And you prefer the equally improbable idea of "we're entirely alone in the universe?" While also discounting the possibility that there could be anything but benevolence (like malevolence, or indifference, even fully autonomous and devoid of the will necessary to ascribe them any of these attributes)?

I prefer the Robert Anton Wilson approach of agnosticism to most things (in life, not just this): "I don't know, and you don't either."

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Genuinely, WHAT

I never said aliens in the universe don't exist! Read again! I never gave any statement on the existence of life outside this planet, or of aliens as a scientific concept.

I am saying this specific "spaceship" coming for us that contains "aliens", the entire idea of these "aliens" MAGA and billionaire fascists are talking about, is NOT real. THOSE aliens are fake. THOSE people are genocidal liars. That's why they are the only ones talking about it.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Alright then:

Genuinely, WHAT

I never said what she said was the absolute truth! Read again! I never gave any statement on this specific "spaceship" coming for us that contains "aliens" that MAGA and billionaire fascists are talking about.

Sorry to "chopped and screwed" your comment, but same same. I never said this bitch was some alien ambassador, I said you can't entirely discount the existence of UAPs anymore like people have been since (well, actually before, but) 1947.

Go project your political bullshit on someone else, this conversation is about the potential existence of UAPs. And they're NOT the only ones talking about it.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Okay why not, but release the Epstein files first then we can talk

[–] who@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Surely he means figurative giants, as in "standing on the shoulders of giants", right?

Right?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everyone those are frost giants! Praise Odin! We should name a day after him. Maybe in the middle of the week.

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago

Can we praise Thor after?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nephilim? Like Diablo III nephilim? Fucking weirdo

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, probably biblical nephilim.

Offspring of humans and angels if I remember right.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Ahhh, yes. I'm confusing them with Nephalem, half-demon-half angel.

His is still more weird, like what angel is going to fuck a human

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah sure, where else would you hide this sort of things?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago
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