Hi Tom, yes you bring up good ideas but I think others here judge me from the old MSNBC Space Science days when I threw around a lot of ufo stuff. Thing is .......it's still just that ....UNIDENTIFIED.

I have defended myself several times by stating that I do NOT believe it is "aliens" or some off world intelligence rushing in to save us. On the contrary, I have posted the pictures and the evidence about crop circles which truly mystify me. There is an energy that goes with it that CAN grow 75 lb. cabbages!

And I can tell you from personal experience, that this energy IS intelligent and to some degree......communicates with us. On a face to face basis, I could tell you the stories, and give you the documentation, but right now I don't feel like listening to RL demeaning my intelligence or my research with his offensive remarks. His mind is closed and he is an anathema to further discussion on this. After what I;ve been through this week, I only want the POSITIVES in my life.

>"I can think of several more impressive ways an intelligent plasma, or any entitity capable of manipulating such forces, could influence its environment to communicate in ways other than by flattening wheat"

Yes, but it would be intrusive and possibly mind-shattering. I have a friend that says no-one will ever notice or take it seriously until the circles start showing up on the sides of walls or on the pavement.
Yeah, that might get someone's attention.

The energy is BENIGN, sometimes playful and at times incredibly life changing. Your
"You have to remember that many of the professional crop circle investigators have their entire lives and reputations bet on the premise that these patterns aren't being made by human beings."

I KNOW most of them or are in touch with them and they are just as puzzled. They look at the EVIDENCE when they aren't man-made.
They have no explanations, only theories, and there is a unwritten code between us that involve the SYNCHRONOUS EVENTS that surround a circle going down.

And forget the Rapture. Only George W. Bush and Ralph Reed believe in that crap. Maybe even pat Robertson, but hey....he hasn't even been invited to the convention, which he has attended since 1988. I can tell you from here in Central Florida, that natural disasters will affect EVERYONE.....and no-one is gonna be raptured out of it.

We is here to do the time and to learn,..... hopefully........