They also believe, as you said, that the earth is a living organism that is aware of us.
I like how your thinking
Gaia... FTW
They also believe, as you said, that the earth is a living organism that is aware of us.
aliens coming by our small, insignificant ball of rock
Oh so how you've had to endure the same arguements from the same people for over 60 pages is about my opinion of you?
Nope. You have DECIDED that I am attacking peoples belief (sic). What I am doing is ARGUING with people's STATEMENTS about their beliefs. They are free to believe whatever they like.That you've decided to attack peoples belief simply because you personally have decided they're unsubstantiated and/or absurd is all about my opinion of you?
You're talking about ME right now, aren't you? Or am I hallucinating/I think you've just proven yourself unfit to judge anyone else, your view is too skewed in your favor. You apparently think everything is about you.
The thread has gone almost 80 pages and it has not done so because the MAJORITY of the posts say "Yes - I believe in aliens!" or "No - I don't believe in aliens."No, it's right there in the title, "Aliens Yah or Nay" no need for elections, just the ability to read and comprehend english is all that's required, no elections necessary.
You aren't asking very nicely.First of all I'm not telling you that you shouldn't be here. I'm asking you to be more respectful of peoples views.
I can see how in your current "I think I know Anti's mind" mode, you think you know what I think I see. But you're wrong.I can see though in your current "it's all about me" mode, where you would see it as me telling you you shouldn't be here.
You can call it attacks on people, but i would call it argument with the way they phrased their statements. Like (for instance) I didn't call you a self-righteous prick. I said you seem like a self-righteous prick. Can you see the difference?I did come in and vote and leave an explaination and then I didn't say anything for several pages while I watched people like you and Bill diligently attack everyone with demands for proof and suggestions of how poorly you thought of whatever reasoning brought them to form their beliefs.
Well that's ok. This thread (according to you) is not about fun and active sharing of their beliefs and experiences. Each person is supposed to make a simple, short statement in the affirmation or the negative and then go away quietly.I've spent much of the 70 pages fighting against that because if you'll look around what was once a fun and active thread with people openly sharing their beliefs and experiences has been steadily dying off.
Nobody is being forced to have their beliefs picked apart and put on display.Likely because most people don't want to be judged by someone like you and have their beliefs picked apart and put on display.
I didn't go silent because of the reasons that you suppose. I have a life outside of this thread. Sometimes I have to do things for DAYS AT A TIME.It rallied briefly when you went silent for a little bit because you were acting persecuted and wondering why everyone was hating on you.
I don't give a fuck if everyone hates me. But judging by the karma that I recieve DAILY from this thread, I'd say that not EVERYBODY hates me. So I have no persecution complex. I am simply arguing with anyone who makes unsubstantiated claims as if they are facts.So I tried to encourage a lighter mood by posting some pics claiming them to be proof even though clearly they were not. Unfortunately you got over your belief that everyone hated you and started attacking again.
Quote me calling someone a fool. I can argue with your ideas without making a judgment of you as a person. A reasonable person can have an unreasonable belief. But the reasonable thing to do when someone shows you exactly how your belief is unreasonable is to CHANGE YOUR MIND or restate your belief in a way that resolves the conflict.I say you're too personally involved to objectively judge what you're doing in this thread. Lets ask Bombadil.360, LegalizeDK, Hubbleman and everyone else's opinion you've attacked if they feel you're just trying to have a conversation and haven't called anyone a fool.
Why are we spending so much time on your conception of what I am doing here? What does this have to do with aliens?Some how I just don't believe they'll come to the same rosey conclusion you have.
Let's think about that for a second. You are trying to break me down. You are fighting with your conception of who I am. You are not arguing with my statements or ideas. You are battling the simulacrum of "Anti" that you have in your own head. The real guy who logs on under the name "Anti" is completely unknown to you. You are reading my words and imagining all sorts of things that just aren't in my mind.Where have I said that I have you all figured out or asserted that I'm definately smarter then you think I am? I have no conclusive statement from you as to exactly what you think my level of smartness is.
Who's making things about them?I would have to have such a conclusive statement to be able to definitively state I am smarter then you think I am. I probably am because of dismissive comments you've made of my views such as suggesting I am telling people to be so open minded their brains spill on the floor, suggust you don't think much of what my level of smartness is.
I never said I had the self appointed right to demand anything.I wasn't speculating who was elected to run this thread. The topic of who was elected to run this thread has never come up. You positioned yourself as having the right to challenge any opinion you decide is unsubstantiated and/or absurd. To which I questioned who elected you to do that. I then merely suggested you could be a little more respectful of people's opinions, If I was trying to run the thread I wouldn't be making suggestions. I'd be doing like you and saying I have the self appointed right to demand you behave more respectfully just like you have appointed yourself judge of peoples beliefs and demand they prove things to your satisfaction.
I'm the only person who is allowed to judge for me what I think about any given person, idea, statement or experience.Oh so what, are you the only person allowed to judge people then?
Get over yourself. You have either completely misread my statements or you are being imprecise in your characterization of events. Everybody is free to judge for themselves anything they damn well please! How much clearer can I make this point?It's fine for you to judge everyone else but how dare anyone judge you?
I didn't say I was driven to be disrespectful. I specifically asked how many times I must answer the EXACT SAME QUESTION from the EXACT SAME PERSON before I stop answering it with a bunch of smiley emoticons.Get over yourself. I would have stopped had you left it at you could see what I was saying. You didn't though, you went on to try and justify it by suggesting you were driven to this point of being disrespectful after 60 pages of argueing with the same people about the same things.
Why should I automatically respect other people's opinions? If you walked into a clan meeting, would you automatically respect everybody's opinion?Which unfortunately turned out to be bullshit, since your very first post on page 3 in this thread had you being disrespectful of people's opinions.
Conversations about aliens usually don't involve cranky old dudes named HempKat trying to get dudes named Anti to play nice with the other children.No I was fine with you answer that you could see where your way of responding was dismissive. What I didn't like was the bullshit rational you gave in an attempt to justify yourself. Conversations don't usually include rationals of why people think they have the right to disrespect other peoples positions. Nor could it be said that's how conversations work.
Yeah. The thread grows by 5-10 pages a day! Everybody's abandoning ship! it's like a ghost town every time I log on.....Yeah okay me pointing out your bullshit rational was in fact bullshit isn't advancing the "Aliens, yay or nay" discussion one whit but then again neither is you judging everyone's opinion as absurd to the point they give up on the thread.
You had to? Was this one of your sworn duties that you were elected to perform?So yeah captain obvious, I had to go off topic to try to get you back on topic.
#1 - You are trying to tell me that I'm derailing the thread by attacking people... and you are derailing the thread by attacking me.What on earth makes you think I should be humble when calling you out on your bullshit? Why should I be humble to the guy openly agreeing that he is being dismissive of people's beliefs and then coming up with some weak ass lie, that's so easily disproven, to attempt to justify it?
Get a new translator. Just because I don't hold people's hand when they spout nonsense does NOT mean that I am going out of my way to stab my middle finger in their face and screaming "FUCK YOU!"No shit Sherlock, that's why it says "translation". Captain Obvious strikes again.
Once again... repetition seems to be necessary in this conversation.Oh that's rich, self righteous prick, and coming from the person who has deemed himself judge over the absurdity of other people's beliefs.
I'm just wondering, has anybody been converted from one side of this now debate? I haven't, I'm still they maybe out "there" but not "here" visiting or studying.