Advocatus

I think that most of them are common or not so common aerial phenomena which the viewer misinterprets because of unfamiliarity or simply because deep down he “wants” to see an alien spacecraft.  For example, Kenneth Arnold’s original description of his famous sighting — a formation of crescent shaped metallic objects (not saucers), which seemed…[Read more]

Another option would be are they are seeing something at the limits of perception, out the corner of the eye, or in a dimly lit room, and they are simply misinterpreting what they are seeing because they have an emotionally charged reason for wanting to see something.  How can you “know” that a disembodied presence making a chair rock is one of…[Read more]

Just when I had thoroughly gotten used to low-sugar diet, I had congestive heart failure.  Now I’ve got to get used to a virtually salt-free diet.

“Life After People” was one of my favorite series on the History Channel.  I wish they’d do more things like that and keep beating the UFO dead horse.

It so happens I plead guilty to a fan fiction story about a planet which was in the middle of an environmental crisis just like this, and they frittered around until it was too late to do anything…[Read more]

In America, most Christians are taught from an early age (by their pastors and priests) that atheists are hateful people, that we’re perverts who reject God because we want a license to keep doing whatever we want.  For a lot of Christians the idea of not believing in God doesn’t even compute.  Pauls’ epistle to the Romans says in black and w…[Read more]

Here’s an issue which is annoying me.  Sometimes the status line will say that a topic has been updated since I logged in last, but the update does not actually appear on the thread.  For example, I just received an email telling me that Patrick D had posted an update on his topic “Avengers: Endgame”.  I was looking forward to replying to his up…[Read more]

Patrick D wrote: “Being a cynic and skeptic, I have no problem ridiculing nonsense. I may  respect an individual,  but feel no obligation to respect any idea, especially the more absurd religious claims.”

Mankind has always wanted easy, magical solutions to all its problems.  Christians claim that if everyone would give their hearts to Jesus, ev…[Read more]

Satchidananda wrote: “Those of who are of the Dark / Service to Self Orientation will Perish in the Flash and these souls will then be taken by the Logos to another planetary setting to further continue their Lessons towards Integration and Balance.”

You mean Trump’s going to perish in the flash?  How soon?  How soon?  (I wish this forum had a da…[Read more]

Now, I completely agree with you (as a card-carrying Trekkie!) that it’s highly probable that alien life forms may exist somewhere out in space.  But the question of whether they exist somewhere is entirely separate from the question of whether the UFO’s that people frequently witness actually are aliens.  I don’t think that’s anywhere near p…[Read more]

That’s weird, Patrick, because I got an e-mail notifying me of your reply and including the full text.  Let me see if I can… AH!

Patrick D’s reply —

Perhaps we may be given more information.

I remain fascinated by the question, in which I’ve had an interest for over 40 years.  I still believe that it’s logically impossible that we are the o…

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Wow, I can’t imagine what you’re going through, Jay!  I used to get premonitions every now then, both good ones and bad ones.  For example, premonitions that my car was going to break down today, that someone close to me was going to have an accident, or that I was going to win the lottery or meet the love of my life.  When I was under the in…[Read more]

I’m a comic book fan from way back, and at first I was so excited that they were starting to make movies about these characters I had read about.  The problem from my perspective was that they would change the characters far too much in the process of making a movie.  A certain amount of alteration you could understand.  After all the ch…[Read more]

Whether it was implied or not is one of those things that rests in the eye of the beholder I guess.  I myself have been fascinated by UFO’s since I was a teenager.  In those days I thoroughly believed that they did represent alien visitors.  I would stargaze every night in the summer, hoping to have my own close encounter.  As I grew older, I lea…[Read more]

As you can see from your Wikipedia article, you are certainly not the first person to get mired in these thoughts.  How do you know that you’re not a brain in a vat?  How do you know that we’re not all residents of the Matrix?  Every generation comes up with a new version of the same idea.  It’s like walking a labyrinth.  It’s a puzzle that you’…[Read more]

Patrick D wrote: “Is english your second language” The acronym  UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object.It does not even suggest such an object is an alien craft. “

I don’t believe Truthseeker did suggest that he was talking about “alien craft” (unless he edited his post in retrospect).  He used “unexplained aerial phenomena” which is a leg…[Read more]

Patrick D wrote: “Before making a claim  about the bible  as the word of God,  the claimant needs first to prove the existence of  god. Slight problem there; as metaphysical questions tend to be, the existence of god is an unfalsifiable  claim. IE God cannot be argued into or out of existence.”

In PGardner’s defense, I think what he was atte…[Read more]

TimB wrote: “And, yes, it is a puzzle that a slave owner penned the immortal words “All men are created equal…””

Easy.  He didn’t think of slaves as men.  🙁

Could you tell me a little bit more about this “7 fallen angels” theory?  Are you by any chance talking about the seven senior demons who were said to each be in charge of one of the seven deadly sins (lust, gluttony, sloth, pride, and so on).  If so, what does this have to do with Jason?

Tom Shillerson wrote: “What if I told you… your cats aren’t “real.” Cats are inter-dimensional beings who can pop, turn and twist through time and space…”

I’d probably say that you’ve obviously been partaking of legalized marijuana already.  🙂

I had a cat once, a black cat, who figured out how to catch birds.  She realized that she couldn’t…[Read more]

I’m a cat person, too.  I know that Lausten’s cats are the best in the world because all cats are the best in the world.

That reminds me of a joke.  We know that the world is not flat, because if it were by now cats would have pushed everything off the edge.  🙂