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Originally posted by MerkabaMeditation
reply to post by zysin5
Learn real latin and not some online translate tool. The message was for DAVID64, he uses latin in his subtext to "seem smart" ....
Originally posted by nerbot
I don't believe you have ever seen an alien. The way you write and speak makes me think you are just kidding yourself and trying to enrol others in your wishful thinking.
reply to post by MerkabaMeditation
I don't owe you anything, and I certainly don't owe any of you any proof. This post is not for you. I'm not going to spend my day watching videos of me sleeping so that you can be satisfied with "proof".
Originally posted by Ismail
Oh, I understand.
You don't need proof of a phenomena that has been haunting you for forty years, so we don't either.
I mean if capturing world-shattering evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial beings would also necessitate having to watch a few boring hours of you actually sleeping, what's the point right ?
I'm not on a crusade to prove anything, accept it.
Originally posted by zysin5
The TAC clearly states, hoaxes are grounds for the Ban Hammer.
Might want to move this thread to the grey area.. No proof needed in those threads.
So, your claim is that anyone that can't prove anything it's becuase they won't do it - and therefore it did not happen? Get off your high horse. How many things in your life have you no proof for, accepting what other people are saying you are (Yoda wise he is)? I'm not on a crusade to prove anything, accept it.
Originally posted by Ismail
I don't understand how you could possibly expect to get anything out of a discussion where everyone accepts your point of view without question. That is called a monologue, not a discussion. So yeah. I do get that people question your experience, and I don't get that you don't.
He's "afraid it isn't good enough" for him.
No one has ever proved alien abduction, but you are threatening me with a ban or moving me to another forum because I have no proof of my own abduction - like any other alien abduction ever in the history of mankind?
Originally posted by Ismail
"Named must your fear be before banish it you can"
The same thing happened to me, but I do have proof !
Originally posted by MerkabaMeditation
reply to post by Ismail
I'm not clicking on that, buddy...
Originally posted by malkovichmalkovich
OP, I think you might be misunderstanding the governing philosophy of the reasonable majority of people who read and post on this forum. Essentially, it's about a persistent curiosity to try and get some answers about the UFO mystery and work out what might lie behind it. Whether that turns out to be a collection of hoaxes, misinterpreted natural phenomena and optical illusions, or a history of extraterrestrial visitation covered up by governments, or anything in-between or outside those bounds, what really matters to people is trying to dispel the veil of mystery - trying to shine light in the darkness, establish if not a definitive overarching Truth, at least a collection of things that are true, in other words to do what human beings have been trying to do for as long as they've existed: investigate, work stuff out, find answers..
The reason your post and others like it attract some criticism is because they seem to come from a standpoint of almost anti-curiosity, where you claim to experience a long history of truly exceptional, mind-blowing phenomena that lie well outside the bounds of commonly known and understood experience but then display absolutely no desire to investigate it. And your attempts to even understand it seem limited to abstract, hypothetical speculation about the psychology/intentions of your supposed abductors. You have to understand that to a community of curious people who want to replace mystery with knowledge and try to figure out why and how stuff works, your resigned, matter-of-fact attitude to truly extraordinary events seems crushingly, depressingly nihilistic - the antithesis of the spirit of inquiry and human progress.
Further to that, a lot of self-proclaimed abductees such as yourself couple this uncurious acceptance of their experiences with a kind of self-righteous, morally superior tone toward anyone who requests evidence - as though any kind of position besides total, immediate credulity is mean spirited and cynical and narrow minded. But that's not fair. People who are slow to believe are not bad people - the advancement of human civilisation has largely been the work of individuals who refused to take someone else's word for it and wanted to find the evidence. There's a latent culture on this site, probably absorbed from religion, that ascribes greater human value to the believer than the questioner - that demonises the skeptic as a proud fool enslaved to their own human ego and neglectful of their spiritual side. This is contrasted with the enlightened, aware, more highly conscious state of the believer or experiencer or whatever...
But that's a really dangerous and specious dichotomy to be promulgating. Sure, there are arrogant, close-minded materialists who refuse to look beyond the ordinary and have no imagination to make creative discoveries. It's certainly fair to say that human progress has also depended to some extent on leaps of faith and people being prepared to look at things differently. But if we ever get to the point where people can waltz into a public forum and say "been abducted repeatedly by aliens, they tend to stare at me from close range: anyway, let's discuss - what are the reasons for their staring?" and the initial outlandish premise is just accepted, and a discussion ensues about alien-staring motivations with complete acceptance of the scenario then....we should all give up reading or investigating this subject because all standards of evidence are moot and basically anything anyone says is true (which, given the history of ufology means that pretty much EVERYTHING people can imagine about them is true, all at once.)