You're still coming off a bit too high & mighty if I was to give my honest opinion. Wow, you're a professor, wow, you got a degree...wow.. Fine dude, haven't you seen by now all of us are pretty much like "duh" when it comes to what happens next & the extent all the lies have gone? Haven't you realized that collectively no one knows the entire "truth" to our ET & corruption questions yet? There's nothing "new" about this "new age" esoteric stuff from what I've seen, most of it is thousands of years old. So what does that tell us? Well it tells us we haven't been told much of the truth by most institutional learning facilities either on purpose or not. And here you are finding any chance you can get to tell us how you're a professional academic.
Cool, it's awesome you're here and yes people shouldn't jump down your throat for being one of "them" just because you're at a university. Just like you shouldn't talk down to the rest of us assuming you're the only educated (institutionally or other-wise) one here. And you're glib interpretation of faith in light of the current subjects really does show where the anger comes from & I only buy "the dialectic I have cut my teeth on" so much too. So
that's how are "best" minds in the scholastic institutions "debate"? Great...and you're blaming the "kids in the Western World"?
"I am convinced that faith is what people settle for when the task of finding facts becomes too daunting."
Speak for yourself buddy, I think many of us can see that's your own frustration talking. Especially considering even the most ardent skeptic, atheist, material-reductionist, scientist has "
Faith" that the theoretical concepts in his hypothetical experiment will prove themselves to be true. Once he gets the data and can prove it, it's fact. That scenario had nothing to do with "settling" and there's many more practical instances of "faith" that have nothing to do with dogma, confusion, or fear.
It's just you're coming off like you think you're the only who understands discernment, and are scared out of your mind for one reason or another. It's cool man, we're all taking it in as we can, but attacking people who are trying to help isn't going to move you along your path of knowledge very easily.