re: â€œWhat men want is not knowledge, but certainty.â€

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re: â€œWhat men want is not knowledge, but certainty.â€

The Acrimonious Academic — 7/31/2007 4:13:19 PM (archived)

That is why guys like Rush Limbaugh and other cult leaders are so
popular - they provide CERTAINTY, even if it isn't based in reality.

The same reason so many people are UFO believers over programs
like SETI - Those annoying scientists are waiting for real, solid
evidence of alien intelligence, while UFOphiles already know they
have their proof, and it doesn't take much, as we have seen.

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THIS should be WORLD NEWS, yet hardly a peep from the press - Lindy - 7/21/2007 4:52:26 PM
- Crop Art (most incredible) - Lindy - 7/23/2007 12:40:36 AM
  - For your viewing pleasure - Lindy - 7/28/2007 10:33:28 PM
    - New formation in Wiltshire - Lindy - 7/30/2007 12:09:01 AM
  - Thank You so much, Lindy - Jody - 7/24/2007 4:59:41 AM
    - The aliens are not here for all of us - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/24/2007 2:11:35 PM
      - Who says they're "aliens"? - Lindy - 7/24/2007 3:28:47 PM
        
        Another sign of pseudoscience - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/30/2007 1:51:04 PM
        
        â€œWhat men want is not knowledge, but certainty.â€ (n/t) - Bertrand Russell - 7/30/2007 10:49:22 PM
        
        re: â€œWhat men want is not knowledge, but certainty.â€ - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/31/2007 4:13:19 PM
        
        If you think....... - Lindy - 7/31/2007 6:18:34 PM
        
        Let me guess who is better qualified - New Age Vapors - 7/31/2007 6:34:32 PM
        
        LOL - Lindy - 7/31/2007 7:40:24 PM
        
        re: Another sign of silliness - Lindy - 7/30/2007 3:18:58 PM
        
        You missed the main focus of my post - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/30/2007 3:44:20 PM
        
        re: You missed the main focus of my post - Lindy - 7/30/2007 4:18:46 PM
        
        If Albert Einstein came back from the dead... - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/30/2007 4:27:20 PM
        
        Aren't we talking about the same thing from two different positions? - Lindy - 7/30/2007 4:41:44 PM
        
        Don't try to twist my words, thank you - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/30/2007 5:43:25 PM
        
        Just as I thought - Lindy - 7/30/2007 6:25:30 PM
        
        So where are they? - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/30/2007 6:39:50 PM
        
        re: So where are they? - Lindy - 7/30/2007 8:41:30 PM
        
        I can say this much about an invasion from space - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/30/2007 9:22:17 PM
        
        re: I can say this much about an invasion from space - ER - 7/31/2007 1:02:11 PM
        
        Quote from Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long - New Age Vapors - 8/3/2007 3:35:25 PM
        
        re: Quote from Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long - Lindy - 8/3/2007 4:25:28 PM
  - They are playthings scattered on the nursery carpet to train us to play with the big boys (n/t) - Michael Glickman - 7/23/2007 1:47:59 AM
    - After seeing those slides and listening to that compelling yet eerie music... - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/24/2007 5:30:58 AM
      - ...and do you believe in miracles, too, now? - Jody - 7/24/2007 12:22:12 PM
      - You believe? You BELIEVE?? - Lindy - 7/24/2007 6:05:57 AM
- It probably will make world news soon... - Buck Galaxy - 7/22/2007 8:23:17 PM
- "very strange design" - RobVG - 7/21/2007 11:55:09 PM
  - Adolescent aliens (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/22/2007 8:24:47 PM
  - "so simple grade schoolers could do it' - Lindy - 7/22/2007 2:32:31 AM
    - Must have been those pesky inter-dimensional beings... - RobVG - 7/22/2007 3:53:14 AM
      - Proximity/Curiousity... - Lindy - 7/22/2007 5:11:39 AM
        
        What- you can't see tourist dollars as a motive? - RobVG - 7/22/2007 4:52:40 PM
        
        Tourist dollars - Lindy - 7/22/2007 5:46:17 PM
        
        re: Tourist dollars - RobVG - 7/22/2007 7:28:15 PM
        
        Synchronicity - Lindy - 7/23/2007 4:35:13 AM
- So I say to all you nay-sayers..... - Lindy - 7/21/2007 4:59:37 PM
  - "It is time to listen to all the people who have been looking at this phenomenon for so many years." - Lindy - 7/21/2007 11:29:08 PM
  - My call... - TB - 7/21/2007 10:37:28 PM
    - Military operations - Lindy - 7/22/2007 2:45:10 AM
      - Same field last year.... Military operations - Lindy - 7/22/2007 11:58:47 PM
        
        Better. - TB - 7/23/2007 1:38:55 AM
        
        Why does he refer to it as a ball of light? - alcaray - 7/23/2007 1:20:50 AM
        
        re: Why does he refer to it as a ball of light? - Lindy - 7/23/2007 1:46:28 AM
        
        An astounding coincidence! - alcaray - 7/23/2007 9:17:14 PM
        
        Alcaray, this is for you - Lindy - 7/29/2007 9:17:22 PM
        
        re: the iron particals - alcaray - 7/30/2007 1:43:28 AM
        
        "Brought to the site in a tub" - Lindy - 7/30/2007 4:08:51 PM
        
        Uh... - podrock - 7/30/2007 10:05:24 PM
        
        re: Uh... - Lindy - 7/30/2007 11:06:40 PM
        
        re: Uh... - podrock - 7/31/2007 12:06:54 AM
        
        Ugh - Lindy - 7/31/2007 2:01:50 PM
        
        I tried . . . - podrock - 7/31/2007 3:07:22 PM
        
        Lindy, you told James Brown to go sit in a desert and think about communicating with aliens - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/31/2007 3:39:08 PM
        
        And you are just being a smart - Lindy - 7/31/2007 3:54:16 PM
        
        Yeah, but - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/31/2007 4:02:53 PM
        
        Why do you think it's hard to make iron spheres in a magnetic field? - alcaray - 7/30/2007 8:43:10 PM
        
        re: Why do you think it's hard to make iron spheres in a magnetic field? - Lindy - 7/30/2007 9:19:20 PM
        
        Some observations I took down as I watched. - alcaray - 7/23/2007 2:33:38 AM
        
        Check out this website: - TB - 7/23/2007 5:42:29 AM
        
        Circlemakers.org - Lindy - 7/23/2007 2:56:42 PM
        
        Lindy... - TB - 7/23/2007 7:43:51 PM
        
        Well........ - Lindy - 7/23/2007 7:56:13 PM
        
        Like the supernatural detector for a mere $800 - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/23/2007 7:48:21 PM
        
        re: Like the supernatural detector for a mere $800 - Lindy - 7/23/2007 8:02:22 PM
        
        I know I am stepping on a religious belief here, but... - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/23/2007 8:36:07 PM
        
        Which belief system were you referring to? - Jody - 7/24/2007 2:30:52 AM
        
        I'm from the Church of... - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/24/2007 5:32:49 AM
        
        I see.... - Jody - 7/24/2007 12:16:14 PM
        
        Straw men - Lindy - 7/23/2007 5:02:03 AM
      - more likely the frauds are in collusion with the frauds (n/t) - alcaray - 7/22/2007 9:24:35 PM
      - Where's ER when you need him? - Lindy - 7/22/2007 5:31:39 AM
        
        Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese. (n/t) - ER - 7/22/2007 1:43:46 PM
      - "DVD" my hat. - TB - 7/22/2007 4:42:38 AM
        
        Now here's a circlish mystery - The Acrimonious Academic - 7/26/2007 5:21:01 PM

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