{"id":4838,"date":"2025-03-11T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now-3\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:38:09","slug":"believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Believers: Everyone on Earth is convinced. What now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Believers: What\u2019s Next When Everyone is Convinced?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/UFOs\/comments\/1irnafu\/skeptics_what_evidence_would_convince_you\/\">this post<\/a> and it got me thinking. The reality is that the government doesn\u2019t reveal classified information simply because there&#8217;s a widespread belief in something\u2014this applies even to our elected officials. UFOs still seem to remain elusive and unresponsive, even to those who already believe. So why is there such a focus on convincing others? <\/p>\n<p>Religious individuals often feel compelled to persuade nonbelievers to validate their faith, but someone launching a satellite doesn\u2019t seek the approval of flat earthers before investing millions. The emphasis on convincing everyone makes the belief in extraterrestrials resemble a religion more than an exploration of reality.<\/p>\n<p>So, I pose this question: If everyone believes but nothing changes, what\u2019s your next step? And why not start taking that step now, regardless of whether others believe or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBelievers: What\u2019s Next When Everyone is Convinced? I recently came across this post and it got me thinking. The reality is that the government doesn\u2019t reveal classified information simply because there&#8217;s a widespread belief in something\u2014this applies even to our elected officials. UFOs still seem to remain elusive and unresponsive, even to those who already&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Believers: Everyone on Earth is convinced. What now?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}