{"id":701,"date":"2025-03-09T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:12:17","slug":"believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Believers: Everyone on Earth is convinced. What now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Believers: So Everyone&#8217;s Convinced\u2014What&#8217;s Next?<\/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> that got me thinking. The reality is, the government isn\u2019t going to declassify information just because everyone is on the same page. Not even for our elected officials. UFOs also seem to stay elusive and wary of the spotlight, even among those who believe. So why is there such a fixation on winning over skeptics? It reminds me of how religious individuals strive to convert nonbelievers to affirm their faith\u2014but someone launching a satellite isn&#8217;t going to waste time trying to persuade flat-earthers before investing millions. The focus on convincing others it often makes belief in extraterrestrials feel more like a faith-based system.<\/p>\n<p>So, I pose this question: if everyone is convinced but nothing changes, what\u2019s the next step? And why not start moving forward now, regardless of whether everyone is on board or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBelievers: So Everyone&#8217;s Convinced\u2014What&#8217;s Next? I recently came across this post that got me thinking. The reality is, the government isn\u2019t going to declassify information just because everyone is on the same page. Not even for our elected officials. UFOs also seem to stay elusive and wary of the spotlight, even among those who believe.&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/believers-everyone-on-earth-is-convinced-what-now\/\" 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":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","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\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}