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30. Somehow magically doesn't know they you were "going to" or "have" posted this on ATS for any of the free world to see, essentially collapsing your silly little house of cards..... Or Maybe I'm the A.I. typing this? Who knows? (We are watching you)
Originally posted by tmk81
reply to post by Zenagain
30. Somehow magically doesn't know they you were "going to" or "have" posted this on ATS for any of the free world to see, essentially collapsing your silly little house of cards..... Or Maybe I'm the A.I. typing this? Who knows? (We are watching you)
You must not have read any further than the original post because the count goes to 31. Your 'silly little house of cards' is reflected in your understanding of this issue and your quickness to belittle what is outside of your intellectual grasp.
30 in Zenagain's post was refering to what you said at point 30!
Originally posted by Ian McLean
Please, let's keep this discussion civil.
I think it's important to be able to separate discussion of topics and issues from subjective opinion. Where personal opinion, experience, and questioning thereof may be brought into a discussion, it is certainly possible to do so without unnecessarily emotional prodding or response.
There's good points to be found in any genuine expression of opinion, and I admire tmk's willingness to discussion. Let's not let action/reaction of the discussion itself cloud the relevant issues.
I also want to point out that demands to 'PROVE' assume a common basis for judging validity of evidence (which can be a moving target indeed) and tend to ignore the valuable corroboration of logic that can be found by objectively examining consistency.
This forum is dedicated to the all-important highly speculative topics that may not be substantiated by many, if any facts and span the spectrum of topics discussed on ATS. Readers and users should be aware that extreme theories without corroboration are embraced in this forum. Discussion topics and follow-up responses in this forum will likely tend to lean in favor of conspiracies, scandals, and cover-ups. Members who would seek to refute such theories should be mindful of AboveTopSecret.com's tradition of focusing on conspiracy theory, cover-ups, and scandals.
Some here seem almost personally offended that they don't find the OP's story 'believable'. If so, I'd suggest to them that there are many other threads at ATS that may be more to their liking.
Originally posted by Ian McLean
reply to post by wmd_2008
Agreed that the OP probably should expect to get some flack, but is such necessary or civil? I say no.
As I mentioned, I find there to be a very interesting distinction, in the genre of outlandish sounding stories without proof, between those that are incoherent and contain many internal contradictions, and those which appear well thought-out and are consistent within their context.
Regardless of the overall 'believability' of a story or theory, I think it's valuable to be able to understand what someone is attempting to communicate. Think of it as practice in intellectual flexibility, and keeping an 'open mind'.
Some here seem almost personally offended that they don't find the OP's story 'believable'. If so, I'd suggest to them that there are many other threads at ATS that may be more to their liking.