XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: nospam@here.thanks   
      
   On 27/02/2015 03:58, mur wrote:   
   > On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:04:13 +0000, Steve O  wrote:   
   > .   
   >> On 20/02/2015 21:41, mur wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:51:06 +0000, Steve O  wrote:   
   >>> .   
   >>>> On 15/02/2015 01:49, mur wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>        I gave you more info than your brain can handle about your own   
   questions   
   >>>>> when I answered them for you, then challenged you with questions about   
   your own   
   >>>>> questions that are obviously beyond your mental ability to deal with.   
   Then I   
   >>>>> totally fried your overly challenged little mind by explaining something   
   to you   
   >>>>> about FTL, which I was afraid would happen when I gave you the   
   explanation.   
   >>>>> You're just not mentally "up to" considering the topics and details I   
   challenge   
   >>>>> you with. They would require you to think way beyond your mental comfort   
   zone   
   >>>>> and probably well beyond your ability to think at all, so you do what   
   you always   
   >>>>> end up doing which is try desperately to find any excuse to  wuss away   
   from the   
   >>>>> challenges that are defeating you so badly.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If crop circles are supposed to be evidence of aliens trying to   
   >>>> communicate with us through wheat, then why are they communicating so   
   badly?   
   >>>   
   >>>       You can't think anything about it on your own?   
   >>   
   >> Yes I can, it's just flattened wheat.   
   >> Nothing to do with aliens at all.   
   >> Get over it.   
   >>   
   >>> Start with the most basic of   
   >>> basics. They are doing it, or they are not. If they're not then they're   
   not, and   
   >>> that's the end of it. If they are then they are and they must have reason   
   to,   
   >>> and that opens up a whole lot to consider.   
   >>   
   >> No it doesn't.   
   >> Why the hell would an advanced civilization, who has somehow managed to   
   >> use their immense intelligence to cross vast interstellar distances,   
   >> decide to communicate with the indigenous population by putting cryptic   
   >> markings into cereal crops????   
   >> I mean, come on, it's a no -brainer, how much sillier can you get?   
   >>   
   >>> Try to think of some reason or more   
   >>> than one why they might do that on your own if you can. If you can't then   
   say so   
   >>> and I'll tell you why I think they might.   
   >>   
   >> There isn't any reason for them to do such a thing at all.   
   >> Now go ahead with your explanation.   
   >> I'm all ears.   
   >> (ears, wheat, gettit?)   
   >   
   >      In general people are afraid of the idea of xts coming around,   
      
   Not me, I would love to see proof of alien life.   
      
      
   and have   
   > written many stories about them being our enemies. If they do come around and   
   > want to openly deal with humans at some point in the future, when we're   
   ready,   
   > they might very well be doing things to get us used to the possibiliity of   
   their   
   > existence without being too scary about it. Crop patterns would be one good   
   way.   
   > There are possibly others as well, but if you can't get this far with it   
   there's   
   > no point trying to "discuss" any others with you.   
      
   You're wrong.   
   Crop patterns are a terrible way of doing it because they are so easily   
   falsified.   
   When you say there are 'other ways', do you mean that they have used   
   other ways, or just that it is possible to use other ways?   
      
   >   
      
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