JDawg said:Arguing semantics again when you are defeated. Fine, I'll show you...
bah
you are a child
move along
JDawg said:Arguing semantics again when you are defeated. Fine, I'll show you...
do you see what i want to focus on? it is not the veracity of the purported event but an oft repeated facet of ufo sightings.
civilians arriving at the scene witnessed _______________
i did not ask for an opinion on the roswell case. nor did i put forth my own. it was an example introduced to indicate that this alleged secretive behaviour and conduct of govts is not a factor in how the public initially learn about ufo incidents.
they are first hand witnesses. the alleged coverups (if any) are usually subsequent to the discovery
the belgium flap was initially presented to show jdawg that not all govts are secretive. it was a response to this question...
the nature of most discussions in this forum is one in which posters are painted into their respective corners. you are either a ufology kook or a pseudo skeptic. deal with it
a well reasoned discussion requires ground rules, a statement of position, mutually agreed upon definitions.......
lacking this. we find ourselves in a morass of confusion.
i do not mind
craterchains (Norval said:It's all just information aquisition and control.
STDD
snake river rufus said:me:h ....shmit, your name's wasted on ye. shoulda called yourself 'cold-logik' o something likemthat!
Do birds make tools, or have a written form of communication?
me::and that is what you rate as the critera for intelligence do you? Actually i have heard some species of birds do USE tools. Seeing they have no flexible thumb dont see how they could make them, but they do make intricate nests, and can fly.
can you??
You humans who are so self-superior-thinking really are the most ignore-ant when it comes to really feeling interelationship with Nature.
While you are daydreaming why not tell us what makes a lifeform intelligent.
Duendy: Nature IS Intelligent
Gustav said:they are first hand witnesses. the alleged coverups (if any) are usually subsequent to the discovery
Depends on your use of the term "intelligent" I guess.duendy said:Nature IS Intelligent, not just birds. you have grown OUT of Intelligent Nature and then after your cultural indoctrination about how better you are than rest of life, slagit off and have no inkling of its Intelligence. you just presume intelligence is the privilege of humans with their technology and written word.
Duendy that is probably your most stupid comment yet...duendy said:T
he written word has been one of THE most insidious inventions of man that has in man ways DIMINISHED human intelligence.
The written word is leading to the destruction of nature? Right. How?duendy said:in that it has created a mindset for many which is cut off from Nature!
which is most definately NOT intelligent. and is curently trying to destroy Nature which includes mny other specis it views as unintelligent
and there meaningless.
Yes i do...regarding BEING in it. i know what you are aiming at. that we know so much more right? and i agree this is marvelous. you know knowing how incredibbly vast the universe is etc etc. but what has notably happend in mainstream science is that the emphasis on objectivity has atrophied the subjective awareness In Nature.....BEING Nature has been seriously atrophied.shaman_ said:Depends on your use of the term "intelligent" I guess.
me::well, human kind didn't just drop from planet X did they? Aren't we Nature? So, why is it many so-called 'educated' humans strut about thinking they own Nature and that they are vastly superior to it, EVEn whilst congratulating a/their mindset bent on destroying Nature?
Also, the thinking that humans are above the than animals tends to be pushed by some religions.
me::Exactly! a myth which unconsciously motivates the 'athiest' and/or 'agnostic' positivist scientist
Modern science has gained an appreciation for the complexity of nature, not the opposite as you seem enjoy thinking.
me::you don't know what i am thinking, otherwise you wouldn't have misjudged me like that.
For a kick off, when you say 'modern science' i wonder if you mean what i man. ie., science which understands a multidisciplinary approach? Science that unerstands that matter/energy is living, and not 'dead'--a blind force.
The science i criticize is not science but sciencism. An entranced fundamentalist attitude which stifles open-minded research. a good example is Dinosaur's reponse to some scientists from Spain wanting to discuss about 'OBE's in a sciece forum abaove. Dinosaur is compltely outraged, and wants it demoted to the 'pseudo'scince forum, or 'worse.....! That
No doubt, with your distorted view of science, you will disagree.
me::again you make judgments. unthought out criticisms. i have much reason to have a distorted view of te science i am saying is sciencism. As i have said elsewhre, it is hardly harmless as it currently backs up the pharmacracy which is distorting the very understanding of human nature!.....etcetera
Duendy that is probably your most stupid comment yet...
me;:you mean about the written word? how so? ae you no aware how te written word has been ued to dogmtize us into divisive religions which hve been the cause of mny ppeople bing persecuted, tortured, and all the wars.......of the divisive philosophies etc etcetc. Of millions of kids to this day being indoctrinated bythe written word. Of Africans haven their history totally altered and dismissed by the phonetic alphabet and its insidious uses......i am not demonizing language as such, but inthe abuse of it by power elieges and thier lackeys
The written word is leading to the destruction of nature? Riiiight. How?
me::hah....well i know that some scientists are seemingly even superior to thew written word caue they reckon THEIR language is more precise. well, it maybe, butas i say, they have contributed also to the utter respect for peoples and Nature.
ALso consider syntax. how a language IS. do you not think this doesn't have an effect on psychology?
Duendy do think early man had a better intelligence of nature ?
Mr Anonymous said:Oh, and Gustav? If you could possibly find some way of addressing your responses in such a way as to presume the person your talking to has a biological age somewhat over and above their given shoe size, that would be simply marvellous. It's a recourse I haven't in the slightest found necessary to accost you with and, incredible as it may seem, what made the likes of Einstein and all the other genuinely intelligent, significant thinkers of the 20th and 21st Century the figures of stature there ideas inevitably lead them to become wasn't their capacity in debate to stamp their feet, pout, sneer, lambaste everyone one else as being an idiot and cast aspirations on the sexual practices of those inclined to find their proposed case not wholly conclusive and simply dared to intimate as such out within ear shot....
Mr Anonymous said:Think nothing of it old man, forgotten and done with.
Mr Anonymous said:Mmmm.... And yet you, and people of your sort of disposition towards these things, invariably get to "know" the intimate details of every last little aspect of these so called "cover-ups" - but don't at all find that in the least little bit inconsistent with the term cover-up.
Mr Anonymous said:but if your case really is as pre-eminently obvious as your tone seems to continually imply
JDawg said:If you provide less than all of that, the best I can do is say "well, maybe." But I will never agree, not without what I consider proof.
If I valued your opinion I would be offended.Gustav said:i wonder if these brits know that, in america, what passes for "frightfully british" is considered to be the province of fags.
Ophiolite said:If I valued your opinion I would be offended.