Accoding to ER are:
>"....the believers so desperately need the phenomenon that they can no longer critically examine the data and make an honest attempt to find alternate explanations for anomalous phenomena."
Complete and utter bullshit.
This is a Flame and you know it.
You are using EXACTLY the same type of discourse that Tom uses to railroad any REASONABLE political discusion.
You are guilty here of the same thing by lumping everything and everyone together without examining individual cases that have merit.
Everything is based on your mother's experience with the religious charlatan.
But here. Let me use YOUR words to explain what you (and others) are doing to the general discourse on ufos, whether the witnesses are presidents, astronauts, radar controllers, air servicemen, or a league of thousands of normal witnesses:
>"The perfectly legitimate tactic of criticizing [ufo sightings and investigations] soon gives way to criticizing a policy solely because it is being proposed by the other side. From there, it evolves to criticizing all the policies of the other side, until eventually, the other side is being attacked for its very existence and it's potential responses to situations that haven't even happened yet. The "other side" soon finds itself not only defending itself from attack continuously, but defending its very right to exist. This is a long way from just having two voices on opposite sides arguing a difference of opinion on policy.
Deliberately setting up this caustic environment is a favorite tactic of propagandists who know they cannot survive in an atmosphere of tolerance and civiliy. "
You said it better than I could have.
I rest my case.
The "believers"
The whole thread (43 posts)
- The "believers"
- The "unbelievers"
- Lindy, please.
- The whiners
- there is something to what you say, but......
- "Nothing, nada, zip?"
- Hey, I'd love to do healthcare here. I've done a lot of it on other forums. (n/t)
- Lindy's all tangled up in her Religion
- And you're all tangled up in your self-importance (n/t)
- I knew when you attacked ER and his reasonable, non-hostile comments...
- re: I knew when you attacked ER and his reasonable, non-hostile comments...
- Oh, everyone is just against you and your ideas, aren't they?
- re: I knew when you attacked ER and his reasonable, non-hostile comments...
- I knew when you attacked ER and his reasonable, non-hostile comments...
- And you're all tangled up in your self-importance (n/t)