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Originally posted by rusethorcain
Originally posted by laymanskeptic
reply to post by THEDUDE86
Originally posted by THEDUDE86
reply to post by laymanskeptic
please go talk to your god
I don't have a god...
Sad. I wonder why you get the idea people WANT aliens to exist. They simply agree that it is entirely possible and even likely given the mass of photographic evidence and witness testimony.
Any thinking person would come to the same conclusion.
Naturally if you STOP thinking you will definitely run out of answers...as you so sadly have.
There is medication you can take that will improve your mood and re establish that vital sense of attachment to the world again. All the best with your recovery.
Originally posted by NWOnoworldorder
reply to post by laymanskeptic
well...i dont know what to say...ive always believed that we may not be alone...but well..if u say they dont exist then it must be the truth..right??
Originally posted by Gloster
NO!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!......no turtle nijas? come on!! Im going to create a big robot myself and he will crush all humans... ill make him create more tsunamis BWAHAHAHA and throw cars at all the humans HAHAHAedit on 14-3-2011 by Gloster because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by bhornbuckle75
reply to post by laymanskeptic
You make far too many assumptions in your thought processes. You assume that Aliens, or Supernatural beings COULD or even SHOULD do something.
Lets start at the top....God. Whether he is real or not, your reasoning in doubting him is not logically valid. There have been PLENTY of HUGE disasters before....why should this one be the one that causes you to doubt him?! The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake in Japan wasn't as strong as this one, (it was a 7.9...which seems almost as strong, but by the way they rate Earthquakes, a full point difference is HUGE) yet it killed 140,000 people. It doesn't seem that this Earthquake's death toll will come anywhere near that. (not from the numbers released now anyway...I hope that doesn't change). Anyway I've always thought that if God made the rules for how the Universe works....in order to break those rules he would have to work in a way that opposes his own creation. This may not be possible for God. He seemed quite specific when making the Universe. If he were to change one natural law...even for an instant it would have ENORMOUS effects the Universe over. Now having said this...who's to say he didn't bend the laws a bit? Perhaps he cannot stop nature because in essence he IS nature...yet maybe he can dampen it a bit. Perhaps he held back countless other Earthquakes, in Japan, till he simply could not bend the natural laws any further, and he was forced to let this one past. I think its remarkable the death tolls have not been coming back exponentially higher than they are. By looking at the past 7.9 I mentioned THIS earthquake should have killed 140,00 EASILY....We should be looking at millions killed by one this strong...yet so far that does not seem likely. Considering this, it seems at least plausible that some force was looking over Japan.
Now on to benevolent Aliens...of course Aliens don't have to be benevolent...but since you made this a factor we will only consider those type. This ones easy...Did you ever watch Star Trek? Star Fleet were the Aliens in it, more often than not....looking over a culture of less developed people suffering from a disaster. Yet they had a Prime Directive that made it impossible for them to intervene. Sure....generally they found a way to bend it a bit. But they always would fall just short of doing anything that would directly influence the natural evolution of an entire species that has not made official first contact. Why would you imagine that Real Aliens would not have such a law? It seems a plausible enough thing. And again....perhaps they DID intervene behind the curtains...to make the death toll much less than it would have been otherwise....
this of course brings us to another point...why would you believe that Aliens would have the technology to stop an Earthquake of this magnitude....even if they wanted to?!?!edit on 14-3-2011 by bhornbuckle75 because: missing a single word...now fixed
Originally posted by GrOuNd_ZeRo
And what do we need massive robots for? I don't think the flying/transforming kind could even do much to help.
Originally posted by fill0000
I am a firm believer that ET would opt out / stay far away from trying to help or save humanity if it came down to choice. Why would anyone want to help us, we are just fleas on a dog, in a methodic sense.
OP, you are been very closed minded on your assumptions, one has only to try anticipate the scale of our known universe to realise that the chances of our race been the only intelligent life form is now becoming a very arrogant, irrational and primitive way of thinking.
Originally posted by J2288
because they did not fly in and help, they don't exist?? pretty selfish view on things op.
Originally posted by UFOSONEARTH
That is just like... your opinion man xD
And something I don´t care about, is your opinion lol.
Originally posted by laymanskeptic
Originally posted by bhornbuckle75
reply to post by laymanskeptic
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seems like you are making more assumptions in your normal state than i did in my emotional state lolz
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yeah i get that "prime directive" argument, loud and clear. in fact i think theres nothing wrong with that argument. it would be nice if it weren't for occam's razor: If aliens are a non-factor, then cognitive economy tells us that assuming they exist is unnecessary.
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i thought their intergalactic cruise vessels can create an instant impenetrable electrogravimetrodynamic relativistic forcefield along Japan's east coast that will stop the deadly waves... With their anti-gravity engines running on zero-point energy, that would obviously be no sweat right? right?
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Making more assumptions? No not at all. You were making a judgement based on assumptions (that Aliens and/or a God was disproved by their/his inaction). I was simply showing that you failed to consider a myriad of other possibilities by speculating on a few....I was not assuming any of mine to be right....only that they were plausible and that by not considering any other possibilites, you were making assumptions by which you were basing a belief system. That is faulty logic. Its like saying If Bob Liked Karen He would Buy Her Flowers For Her Birthday.....Bob Did not Buy Karen Flowers....Therefore Bob Does Not Like Karen. That statement is ONLY true if the first part of it is True. In this arguement....just like I did with yours....I would simply suggest various possibilites in which the first statement was untrue...such as Perhaps Bob Was In An Accident, And Could Not Get Flowers....or Perhaps Bob Does Not Agree With Traditional Symbols Of Affection....These would not be assumptions on my part...they are speculation, meant to make you see that you yourself are making a huge assumption by balancing your belief structure all upon a single assumption....That Bob Not Getting Her Flowers For Her Birthday Was Proof That He Did Not Like Her.
As for "If aliens are a non-factor, then cognitive economy tells us that assuming they exist is unnecessary." that is some really horrible butchering of those concepts. None the less you are right in the sense that Assuming Them To Exist IN CONTEXT OF THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE is INDEED unnecessary!!! Of course...by the same method of cognitive economy one can just as rationally, and logically assume that Assuming Them To NOT TO EXIST IN CONTEXT OF THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE IS UNNECESSARY!!!! LOL!!! You pretty much proved my point for me.....Thanks For That!
Now...for your last point.....wow....Although I'm not sure how serious you were being with this last part, I'll address it anyway....Do I even have to bring up ASSUMPTIONS again?!? Dear Child...you are assuming that you understand the nature of their technology!!!! That takes one Super Large Pair of Very Irrational Gonads!!!! That actually impresses me a bit!!! I rarely hear such bold Assumptions!!! LOL!edit on 14-3-2011 by bhornbuckle75 because: Whoops said something slightly wrong...fixed it, though
Originally posted by dodgygeeza
A pseudo intellectual and sensationalist attempt at rationalism based on unrelated events. Sorry, but although trying to appear like the barer of "bad news" on Abovetopsecret in amongst the paranoid and gullible might get you stars and flags (and a sense of self-satisfaction) by individuals who consider themselves to be intellectually superior to those who would dare to think about outside our world, it certainly won't work on everyone.
Dismissing the idea entirely like that is worthless and foolish, especially when you patronise us by associating the idea with superman.
It would be like ants deciding to believe that humans don't exist just because the rain washed away their nests and we refused to help them.