The Men Who Stare at Goats

[Nickdfresh]

New film parodies actual US Army Special Operations and Military Intelligence's dalliances in the paranormal from the 1970s into the War on "Terror."


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[ZahZoo]

Looks like a fun movie... I think I'll go see it!

[High Life Man]

Awesome cast! Hoping this one will be great.

[FORD]

The sequel will be filmed at VH Links. I think we all know what the title will be.....

[hideyoursheep]

The sequel will be filmed at VH Links. I think we all know what the title will be.....

[Sensible Shoes]

Opens tomorrow? I may have to go. The music sounds like it will be wonderful too.

[Seshmeister]

I hear that unlike the book it's a bit of a Hollywood cop out and pulls it's punches...

[Sensible Shoes]

Which means I'll probably be fine with it. Sesh you're such a poop.

[Seshmeister]

I'm the opposite of a poop, a poop spelled backwards...

[Nickdfresh]

I hear that unlike the book it's a bit of a Hollywood cop out and pulls it's punches...

They still goof on the "Jedi" almost "warrior monk" ethos some were trying to create in the 1970s through the War on Terror. But I think the conflict is that the director sort of believes there might have been something to the "remote viewing" (military psychics using special protocols) aspects whereas the writer thought it was all bullshit. I think there were three camps in US military intelligence at the time.

The complete skeptic nonbelievers who thought everything was a waste of time and money. The absolute believers that thought using remote viewing could yield results when used in conjunction with other intelligence sources and methods and they could provide speculations to fill in the gaps. And the people in between which may think there might be something to it, but there's not way to effectively control or channel it. so why bother?

There's another book on this call Secret Warriors that was written in the 1980s that goes into how the USMI commander, Gen. Stubblebine (nicknamed either "spoon-bender" or "Lee Marvin," because of his uncanny resemblance to the actor and for his love of the Uri Geller shit) was into the psychic stuff and was afraid the Soviets might have an advantage due to some of their claims. Some however hate the writer...

[Seshmeister]

The annoying thing about all this silliness was that it allowed conmen 'psychics' like Uri Geller to say that they had worked for the CIA/military which then gave them credence.

[Panamark]

If someone could tell me how to get theses little buggers to stop
bleating, and more impotantly how to stop their fricken tails from
vibrating left to right, I would seriously think of moving on from my
LLama fetish !!!!!

[Nickdfresh]

The annoying thing about all this silliness was that it allowed conmen 'psychics' like Uri Geller to say that they had worked for the CIA/military which then gave them credence.

That's the problem with it all. I think there might be something to the ESP stuff, but there are also a number of bullshitters and charlatans like Geller and Ed Dames (a former US Army MI Officer that keeps making "sun spot kill-shot" claims and sounds more and more like a doomsday cult leader than a serious researcher), and it's far to imprecise to really gauge to begin with...

[Seshmeister]

If someone could tell me how to get theses little buggers to stop
bleating, and more impotantly how to stop their fricken tails from
vibrating left to right, I would seriously think of moving on from my
LLama fetish !!!!!

You buy a big pair of boots and then push their hind legs down the space in each boot.

Very similar to the sheep method, surely all Australians know this...

[Seshmeister]

That's the problem with it all. I think there might be something to the ESP stuff, but there are also a number of bullshitters and charlatans like Geller and Ed Dames (a former US Army MI Officer that keeps making "sun spot kill-shot" claims and sounds more and more like a doomsday cult leader than a serious researcher), and it's far to imprecise to really gauge to begin with...

Well there has been tons of research and there has been no proof in a good study.

No one has ever came close to claiming the million dollar challenge.

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