Magical Realist:
I offered my point of view on the topic being discussed just like everyone else does here everyday. Why am I not allowed to do that here James?
Did somebody stop you doing that? No, wait, your opinion is still right there, available for all to see, for what it's worth.
Why are my posted views so upsetting to you personally?
It's not your views. Your views are just the usual rubbish we get from the people whose minds are so open their brains are at risk of falling out of their heads. I think, if I'm honest, that two things upset me, just a tad. The lesser of the two is that a guy like you, who seems normal enough in most respects, somehow got sucked into this abyss, and fell so hard that he is unable and/or unwilling to extricate himself; it sort of saddens me - the waste. The more upsetting thing is that you want to pull other people down into the hole to keep you company. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, they say.
Are my views so dangerous that they have to be sequestered and contained by a barrage of angry overdefensive questions?
You're just upset because I come along now and then to inject a dose of reality into your fantasy world. I can see how that must unsettle you.
I'm a respected member of this forum.
Nah. You're mostly a laughing stock. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you've kind of made it your goal to be the poster boy for how not to think about stuff.
I have many friends here who care what I think about things. Why shouldn't people give a damn about what I think? It's a discussion forum where lots of beliefs and opinions are posted daily. Am I suddenly not allowed to do that here just because you disagree with me?
Again, I'm not sure where you're getting this message that you're not allowed to say what you think. You do very little else on this forum, other than cutting and pasting videos and tellings us all about how you've found another piece of woo to add to your collection of dubious beliefs.
That's because over the past 70 years the thousands of sightings of ufos have shown ufos to be some sort of disc shaped or oval shaped craft that flies at supersonic speeds, stops on a dime, makes sudden turns, and even disappears only to reappear somewhere else.
Disc shaped like the planet Venus, you mean? As for the supersonic speeds thing, there's never been any good evidence for that, and you know it. Nor for the unphysical manoeuvering. And the fact that these things disappear and appear at random really ought to tell you something important about the "witnesses".
I have posted numerous credible compelling accounts of this over and over here.
Nah. You've posted an endless stream of low-quality nonsense, mixed in with the occasional outright fake.
There is no other logical conclusion to make but that they are craft piloted by some unknown but advanced intelligence. That's what the evidence shows.
You know the evidence shows no such thing. Which again only leaves the question of
why you are like this.
I get it. You're on some sacred mission to save all the masses of stupid people out there who don't know how to think like you do.
You continually insist on calling your co-believers stupid - something I am careful to avoid except where there is clear evidence. Do you include yourself in that description, too? The fact is, smart people can be really good at believing things that are wrong. That's because they start believing for reasons that have nothing to do with rational argument or evidence, then they construct clever rationalisations to try to shore up the belief.
It's not about
what I think that's important. I'm more interested in getting a message across about
how to think. I'm not asking people to believe stuff just because I believe it. I'm trying to help equip them so they are capable of making a sensible judgment on their own. I'm a supporter of reality-based beliefs.
So you're gonna show them how to think and what to conclude on the subject of ufos. That's an awfully big burden to take upon yourself. Why don't you just trust that people can think for themselves and decide the issue based on their own examination of the evidence. That's what I assume. I'm not trying to tell people what to think or believe about the issue.
The people who are stuck in the woo rut that you're stuck in are demonstrably not well equipped to think about this stuff for themselves. Mostly, I find that they don't have a good idea about what does and doesn't constitute evidence, or about where to draw the line between reasonable deduction and unfounded flights of fancy. Critical thinking is a learned skill, and I like teaching it.
I believe in ufos simply because that's what all the evidence shows.
Nah, I'm not buying that for one minute. It might be plausible if it was just the UFOs, but with you it's all kinds of woo. Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. Ghosts. The Yeti. Demons. Pixies. Leprechauns. Extra-dimensional pyramid power. If it's woo, there's a good chance you're buying it. If your beliefs had anything to do with evidence, you would have recognised them for bunk long ago, especially after I helped you to see your errors. But something deeply emotional is obviously stopping you from using your brain when it comes to this stuff. It's as if your Mom left you when you were little, or something, and you only had an ET doll to keep you company.
That they are real craft beyond the capabilities of any human to manufacture or pilot.
A "craft" is not a UFO. A craft implies that something has been identified as a vehicle. You know you've never cleared that particular hurdle.
That's an astounding prospect that has huge implications for our species and the future of our planet.
Not so far. 70 years these little green men have been visiting, you tell us, and what have we to show for it? A few mutilated cows, some frightened farmers and a squad of guys wearing tin foil hats. Huge implications indeed. LOL.
But they still remain a mystery. And that's why we keep studying them. To learn as much as we can about them with the hope that one day we may eventually figure out what they are and who's behind them and maybe even make contact with them.
What? We haven't made contact? No close encounters, then? No abductions? No probing? No sexual experiments on humans? No human-alien hybrids hidden in Area 51? Are you telling me the X Files wasn't a documentary after all?
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