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Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by diamount
Originally posted by SaturnFX
A website owner that has a ET forum suddenly has a sighting...clearly this is just hype to increase traffic and discussion in the forum..total hoax and didn't even need to use a camera.
Indeed. Even though SO is a founder/owner of this site doesn't mean he should get as many stars as someone who posted a similar story. It's a great ploy to increase traffic - guess I better equip my flame shield.
Maybe one should be less paranoid. I liked the part that said "suddenly has a sighting." Seeing as his registration date is over 8 years ago, "suddenly" really doesn't cover it. It's no wonder that some choose not to post their experiences here with attitudes like this.
Originally posted by diamount
It's a great ploy to increase traffic
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by diamount
Originally posted by SaturnFX
A website owner that has a ET forum suddenly has a sighting...clearly this is just hype to increase traffic and discussion in the forum..total hoax and didn't even need to use a camera.
Indeed. Even though SO is a founder/owner of this site doesn't mean he should get as many stars as someone who posted a similar story. It's a great ploy to increase traffic - guess I better equip my flame shield.
Maybe one should be less paranoid. I liked the part that said "suddenly has a sighting." Seeing as his registration date is over 8 years ago, "suddenly" really doesn't cover it. It's no wonder that some choose not to post their experiences here with attitudes like this.
Originally posted by Diplomat
Cuz they ain't space aliens! lol
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by diamount
It's a great ploy to increase traffic
The technology sitting on my desk right now -- HD-quality 1080p video production machine with 3D motion video effects software -- could create a much more compelling "ploy" to increase traffic than my mere words.
Seriously. If the intent were to deceive for the purposes of traffic, we could crank out a stunning video of such quality few could debunk. But we don't and we won't.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by Diplomat
Cuz they ain't space aliens! lol
Do you have any salient speculation on what else may have caused the observed phenomena I documented?
I don't remember ever saying 'suddenly' Besides it's just awfully convenient for this to happen now, if it would happen to anyone else the skeptics would be barking for photographic/video proof but they are quite silent at the moment. No offence to SO, he (among the other ATS founders) I respect greatly for making this site for obvious reasons.
Originally posted by Aquarius1
reply to post by diamount
I don't remember ever saying 'suddenly' Besides it's just awfully convenient for this to happen now, if it would happen to anyone else the skeptics would be barking for photographic/video proof but they are quite silent at the moment. No offence to SO, he (among the other ATS founders) I respect greatly for making this site for obvious reasons.
This thread is a good example how everyone should be treated when a controversal topic is put up on ATS whether it's Skeptic Overlord or Joe Blow, it is great to see members posting reasonably. The naysayers here never offer proof, just saying it isn't so or you are lying doesn't get it. I have had my own sightings and don't care to post about them, no one likes to get beat up.
Thanks for sharing your experience Skeptic Overlord.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by dplum517
It will now be much easier for your imagination to accept the infinite reasons of why alien beings would want to come here.
I remain skeptical. My primary reasons are that we represent a relatively mundane existence when compared against the wonders of the galaxy available to an interstellar species. Even very advanced technology -- if it exists at all -- capable of traversing the stars will be exceptionally "expensive" in terms of the cost of energy required. I can't imagine any intelligent species wasting that energy on us when the entire galaxy calls.
But I can assure you that if you look into history you will come to find "they" or whomever has been here since our existence and is possibly responsible for our being here.
Again... referencing the above post... I remain skeptical as to the potential value we might represent to any advanced interstellar species.
Also, I tend to reject any notion that our existence here might be due to any off-planet influence as evolution tells us differently (unless you subscribe to the possibility that all life on earth was seeded).
Originally posted by lbndhr
Who cares what the doubters and skeptics say, what is superb is, we gained a doubter/skeptic into the believers the knowers side. You will be made to feel you are a nut, this is A tipical of the doubters and skeptics, hold tight to what you have discovered. You probably feel dumbfounded but stay vegilant to the attacks because with time comes ease of acceptance within self....peace
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by Diplomat
Cuz they ain't space aliens! lol
Do you have any salient speculation on what else may have caused the observed phenomena I documented?