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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 1:59 am
(January 24, 2018 at 8:03 pm)Cinjin Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 7:49 pm)Khemikal Wrote: In the most generous interpretation, cutting out all of the anal probings during happy hour in rural america (it was your boy Jimbo, not aliens, sorry Cletus!).....many people report seeing UFOs.
I'm completely comfortable dismissing thousands of UFO sightings if the subject is aliens..because even if there were aliens they're not likely to be the explanation for very many of those ufo sightings.
Do you have any favorites? I'll take one credible alien craft over mountains of ufo accounts. Quality, not quantity. "Too much" bad evidence is still bad evidence.
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(January 24, 2018 at 5:21 am)Succubus Wrote: Aye, a little research tells me he has an inordinate fondness for polls, mostly shallow drivel, or about him. We have a new (recently resurrected) attention seeker.*
*May contain limestone!
Ok, yeah I'm good. That's enough. I don't know why I bothered. Tiberius was right.
At least Khemikal made an attempt at a rational conversation while maintaining his position. Which was all I was hoping for.
We really are all just a bunch of angry atheist dicks waiting around to pounce on someone who has a differing point of view. Never mind that I was polite and that I made every effort to clarify my position without insult.
Succ,
I'm sorry I posted a thread that was all about me in the Introduction forum, I thought that it would be polite to do so and I thought that was the exact point of that particular forum. I would've talked about you, but I just don't know a whole lot about your life.
I'm sorry that I find levity in polls. They amuse me and they're always just meant to be fun and pointless, as I THOUGHT anyone could clearly see.
I'm sorry I've been using this site to apparently "seek attention" rather than have interesting conversations. As you can see, it's difficult to even get one off the ground unless it's a circle jerk and the topic is one in which we all agree.
I hope you can forgive me Succ. I'll do my best to return to glib responses and making people feel stupid. Sadly, I am every bit as guilty as you on this offense.
Have a good circle jerk. I would have enjoyed a quality debate on the topic, but as it is now, I just don't care anymore.
Yeah I really don't get why some people got so angry and mean about your opinion on aliens having visited earth lol. I definitely don't think there's ever been aliens here or that there ever will be... but the last thing to cross my mind as I read your post was to feel any sense of anger towards you. People are special.
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 5:29 am
Much less, actually.
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 5:51 am
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(January 24, 2018 at 8:03 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Ok, yeah I'm good. That's enough. I don't know why I bothered. Tiberius was right.
At least Khemikal made an attempt at a rational conversation while maintaining his position. Which was all I was hoping for.
Oh, no what happened? You claim to have seen many convincing cases that aliens are visiting us and when we asked you to be more specific you are feeling ridiculed. What am I to guess? Do you find Batty and Barney Hill abduction to be convincing?
Or is it all the cases together somehow make sense? I mean I once listened on youtube conversation between Stanton Friedman and Seth Shostak and Shostak asked Friedman "What is the case that proves ufos are visiting us" and he answered, half insulted, that there is not one case but many cases together - I mean how can that make any sense?
So yes it's actually UFO people that usually act like dicks, like look how they act toward Philip Klass start at 24 min
Or how Klass debunks Roswell
He gets attacked by UFO people that he is arrogant, that he is an egomaniac while they can't dispute that he shows how their claims are not true and that they are distorting reality. It's no different then with Christians and Dawkins.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 7:22 am
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(January 25, 2018 at 1:59 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yeah I really don't get why some people got so angry and mean about your opinion on aliens having visited earth lol. I definitely don't think there's ever been aliens here or that there ever will be... but the last thing to cross my mind as I read your post was to feel any sense of anger towards you. People are special.
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 7:32 am
Interesting how people assume that other life out there must be more intelligent that us. What if the opposite is true and we are the most intelligent beings out there?
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 7:42 am
(January 25, 2018 at 7:32 am)Joods Wrote: Interesting how people assume that other life out there must be more intelligent that us. What if the opposite is true and we are the most intelligent beings out there?
The Universe would truly be a waste of space.
But who says all alien life is more intelligent than us? Most people agree that most life would be simple things, one celled critters. The ones that might be bored enough to visit us would have to be at least as smart as we are, or just got lucky.
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 8:46 am
(January 25, 2018 at 1:59 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yeah I really don't get why some people got so angry and mean about your opinion on aliens having visited earth lol. I definitely don't think there's ever been aliens here or that there ever will be...
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 9:46 am
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 9:56 am
(January 25, 2018 at 7:22 am)Succubus Wrote: (January 25, 2018 at 1:59 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yeah I really don't get why some people got so angry and mean about your opinion on aliens having visited earth lol. I definitely don't think there's ever been aliens here or that there ever will be... but the last thing to cross my mind as I read your post was to feel any sense of anger towards you. People are special.
Succie!!! My love, the most wonderful person in all of the forumsssssss. Such a good, standup, beautiful man you are! ❤❤❤❤❤
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RE: Extraterrestrials
January 25, 2018 at 2:11 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 7:20 am)chimp3 Wrote: There is no evidence that ET's have visited earth.
(January 23, 2018 at 7:37 am)chimp3 Wrote: (January 23, 2018 at 7:28 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: There's no evidence they would want to visit Earth.
To go from Alpha Centuri to earth , a ship would have to travel 20 million miles an hour for 10 years. Through the Oort cloud. All that just to beam up a few rednecks.
I don't believe ETs have visited earth either, but there's more evidence for that than for the Oort cloud.
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