Spinning one’s wheels

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The painting is Sisyphus by Titian [1488/90 – 27 August 1576], a representation of a corrupt ancient king who was doomed to keep rolling a rock uphill to its purported destination, but once Sisyphus reached the uppermost point, he lost hold of the rock which rolled back down the mountain Sisyphus was contending with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

This is how I see some current UFO “researchers” handling inves- tigations of UFOs; they are traveling all over the place gathering “evidence” of various kinds.

In the good ol’ days, UFO researchers had to commit to such traveling as there was no internet or Google to provide access to places now available at the click of a mouse.

Today’s ufologists are foolishly bouncing of to destinations where someone indicates they saw a light in the sky.

A few fellows have documented, on Facebook, their recent trip to South America where some UFOs have been spotted apparently.

This kind of escapism is folly of a great kind, often spurred by a need to get away from a nagging spouse or aggravating circum- stances in one’s daily life, not a sojourn to find something worth- while.

All of us UFOers have to be thankful for the work of the early UFO investigators, Kevin Randle, Stanton Friedman, John Keel, et al. who traversed America and beyond to gather information not forth- coming by news media or anyone else at the time.

But today’s traveling monkies, I mean junkies, are just being foolish, economically and investagationally. Again, they are using UFOs to escape their utterly awful lives.

This is not UFO research but madness that we “normals” can disregard, utterly ignore.

RR

A respite from UFOs

This Parmigianino painting was featured in a Facebook group I belong to -- Smart Art,  painting provided by ‎Marina Viatkina‎.

It represents how I would hope what we perceive is actually a real reality -- the painting, not the mythos depicted:

Commentary by Marina Viatkina‎, I think:

"One of the greatest Italian Mannerism masters - Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) - was born ... in 1503 ?

This is his signature Bow-carving Amor painting (1534 - 1539, now kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria) from the legendary collection of Holy Roman Emperor Kaiser Rudolf II.

Though the Amor [or Cupid] is undoubtedly charming here, these are the figures of the two putti that bear the symbolic message of the picture.

Most scholars now agree that these two infants represent the eternal idea of the difficulty of deciding between heavenly and earthly love. "

RR