FOLK HEARTH

WHAT IS PROPAGANDA

“Propaganda is information presented in a manner that is misleading and emotionally charged in order to shape your perception of a situation to serve a specific damage.”

Its how its dressed up and curated to make you see things a specific way and to illicit specific and intentional emotional responses

HOW IT WORKS

At its core, propaganda is not defined by whether the information is entirely false, but by how it is framed, selected, and delivered. It works by exploiting normal cognitive shortcuts—your brain’s tendency to favor emotionally resonant, simple, and repeated ideas over complex or uncertain ones. Rather than inviting you to evaluate evidence, propaganda nudges you toward a conclusion while making that conclusion feel like your own.

The Line Between Leadership and Dictatorship

I compose this for current and future clergy as the elders/leaders of this Church, as well as members and non-members alike because I have concluded this is something we all need to be mindful of and I hope is truly thought about.

Introduction

I have often found myself thinking about these things deeply—so deeply that it keeps me up at night asking myself:

1. Are my thoughts, views, and opinions actually my own?

How Science, Technology, and Culture Created the UFO Mythos

This isn't saying life elsewhere in the universe or some other universe is impossible. What this is stating is the whole thing we're given is complete bullshit.

Late 19th Century: The Observation That Started It All (1877–1897)

The story of modern UFOs and alien belief begins not with extraterrestrials, but with human perception and misinterpretation. In 1877, during a particularly favorable opposition of Mars, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli carefully mapped the planet’s surface.

• Through his telescope in Milan, he observed a network of faint linear markings across the reddish disk. He labeled these features canali.