XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism
XPost: sci.skeptic
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:30:16 +0000, Steve O wrote:
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>On 27/02/2015 04:09, mur wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:58:37 +0000, "Alex W." 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.
>>>
>>> The funniest part of it is even when the pranksters own up
>>> and demonstrate how it is done, the True Believers refuse to
>>> acept the evidence....
>>
>> I'm not a true believer that any of them were made by xts. But then
I'm also
>> not a true believer that none of them were.
>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Be fair.
>>> They also communicate by abducting inbred countryfolk and
>>> sticking probes up their recta....
>>
>> Also by making their air vehicles visible to people at different
times. If
>> they do exist and people have ever seen any, I feel confident it was
deliberate
>> on the part of the xts.
>>
>Ah, you mean like the 'teasers' mentioned in "The Hitchiker's Guide to
>the Galaxy?"
>
>---
> From the book "Hitch-hiker's guide to Galaxy" by Douglas Adams..
>
>'Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I indended',
>said Ford. 'I came for a week and got stuck for fifteen years.'
>
>'But how did you get there in the first place then?'
>
>'Easy, I got a lift with a teaser.'
>
>'A teaser?'
>
>'Yeah.'
>
>'Er, what is...'
>
>'A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise
>around
>looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz
>them.'
No, I don't believe it would be like that. You seem able to consider one
possibility, but though it may seem like a realistic one to you it seems very
unrealistic to me.
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