Or get used to swimming in frigid waters! :)
I appreciate your reply. I don't waste time on shape-shifting reptilians, but that folks put it in this same "fringe" category as weather modification and weather warfare though this history is well-documented and immediately provable demonstrates to me this particular psy-op has been very well-played. Should you decide to put 'chemtrails' on your research to-do list, I'd be happy to provide you with some serious material to peruse.
Well, I have a separate category for Reptilian shape-shifters, Satanic Illuminati, Flat Earth, Young Earth, overt neo-Nazism and neo-Stalinism etc. - I call it "far-out" and strictly differentiate it from the "fringe".
To clarify: "mainstream" and "fringe" are changeable social categories: both are sums of knowledge-claims that are empirically, rationally and morally accessible - this means,
they can be tested in some (empirical, rational or moral) way and found to be right or wrong. Due to the complex network of personal, communal and societal factors, such tests are never perfect; so, some knowledge-claims tend to be dominant ("mainstream") and some marginalised ("fringe") in a particular culture and epoch because of such factors. Yet, since there is no fundamental difference between them, they can always be reevaluated and their cultural status changed: what once were "mainstream", may become "fringe"; what earlier were "fringe", may turn "mainstream". There is no clear border between them.
"Far out" is a completely different stuff: here reside knowledge-claims that, are, in the expression of physicist (and parapsychologist) Wolfgang Pauli, "
not even wrong": this means, they are so comletely detached from veridical experience and/or intellectually meaningless and /or morally inhuman that no proper evaluation can be performed.
Yet where is a border between "fringe" (that may turn "mainstream", and
vice versa) and "far out"? It is a question of an examination, which is performed by any individual; and such examination can also be wrong, of course. So one simply cannot make a kind of absolute and ultimate judgement what "right or wrong" and what is "not even wrong". Such categories can change as much as anything else.
But this unavoidable non-absoluteness is not a reason not to make examinations and evaluations: one's choices are inevitably fallible, but one have to and ought to choose something.
So,
according to my examination and evaluation that is based on it, Flat Earth and Young Earth, Reptilians and Illuminatis, neo-Nazism and neo-Stalinism are so far beyond empirical, rational and moral reach that are "far out" through and through. They are
not in the same category as parapsychology and itelligent evolution; as global warming, HIV-AIDS, GMO and vaccine skepticism; as capitalism, socialism, child liberationism, feminism and men's rights movement; as 9/11, JFK, HAARP or even Chemtrails / Contrails. The long list of the latter I may re-examine and re-evaluate one day; the very small number of the former is that is,
for me, is "beyond the pale". The possibility that I may re-examine and re-evaluate any of these issues is reaching zero (even it is, still, not exactly zero).
This is not Absolute and Ultimate Truth - this is just the result of the most fundamental, existential choices I made as a human being.