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originally posted by: trueskepticnumberone
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
However, the evidence being what it is (not exactly overwhelming), the people who personally feel that alien visitation is happening should be just as willing to admit that they might be wrong as I am to admit that I might be wrong.
So in your twisted logic, the people who have actually seen aliens, and the people who have actually been taken and communicated with aliens, are just as likely to be wrong as you?
Let's see, these people with direct contact, and, In many cases, military officials who have witnessed living aliens as well as alien bodies. Yet when they say aliens are real, their opinion is somehow no more valid than your guess that aliens are not here?
Somehow, in your mind, you have convinced yourself that these witnesses are no more informed on the existence of aliens than you are?
That is not rational.
originally posted by: trueskepticnumberone
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
However, the evidence being what it is (not exactly overwhelming), the people who personally feel that alien visitation is happening should be just as willing to admit that they might be wrong as I am to admit that I might be wrong.
So in your twisted logic, the people who have actually seen aliens, and the people who have actually been taken and communicated with aliens, are just as likely to be wrong as you?
Let's see, these people with direct contact, and, In many cases, military officials who have witnessed living aliens as well as alien bodies. Yet when they say aliens are real, their opinion is somehow no more valid than your guess that aliens are not here?
Somehow, in your mind, you have convinced yourself that these witnesses are no more informed on the existence of aliens than you are?
That is not rational.
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: trueskepticnumberone
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
However, the evidence being what it is (not exactly overwhelming), the people who personally feel that alien visitation is happening should be just as willing to admit that they might be wrong as I am to admit that I might be wrong.
So in your twisted logic, the people who have actually seen aliens, and the people who have actually been taken and communicated with aliens, are just as likely to be wrong as you?
Let's see, these people with direct contact, and, In many cases, military officials who have witnessed living aliens as well as alien bodies. Yet when they say aliens are real, their opinion is somehow no more valid than your guess that aliens are not here?
Somehow, in your mind, you have convinced yourself that these witnesses are no more informed on the existence of aliens than you are?
That is not rational.
Eyewitness testimony can be factual, or it can be made up. I would need verifiable evidence, not just witness testimony.
You may ask "why would some people make up stories that are not true", to which I don't really have an answer (because I don't pretend to understand the psychology behind why people do what they do), but suffice it to say that people do in fact make up stories for various reasons -- sometimes they don't even consciously realize that they are doing so.
Again, I'm not claiming that eyewitness accounts of close interaction and/or communication with aliens is necessarily made up, but independent verifiable evidence of such accounts would be needed for me to believe they are fact.
Otherwise, I'm just blindly believing something someone else tells me without having any method for verifying the validity of what they tell me. I'm not so closed minded as to blindly believe something I'm told without using any of my critical thinking skills.
I mean, I'm not necessarily a religious person (nor am I necessarily an atheist), but there have been enough people who said Jesus has spoken directly to them that if I were to blindly believe them, then I should definitely believe in Jesus.