A Message to Humanity: A Genuine Communication from an Extraterrestrial Race?

Factual Questions
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I don’t see the point in declaring it anything OTHER THAN a hoax without any proof.

I’m from Missouri (really). You have a fantastic claim, I say, “That’s nice. Show me the proof.”

Better to be skeptical than gullible.

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Genome, with all the nonsense I’m bombarded with every single day on the internet, from making my penis so big it could chop down trees to making millions by helping out some poor chap in Nigeria, I don’t have time to investigate every single claim out there to verify its truth. As has been said many times before, it is up to the person making the extraordinary claim to provide proof.

I can say that the universe is guided by the intelligent design of an invisible pink unicorn, and I found this out by communicating with a spirit on a Ouija board. Using your logic, is this a hoax? Do you have any proof it isn’t?

C’mon, use your bullshit detector.

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Sure, one’s mind shouldn’t be closed, and (especially here) there is an occasional knee-jerk skepticism that can occasionally be as unhelpful as credulity. However, countless extraordinary claims are made on a regular basis in this world, and if one were to entertain the thought that any or all could be true, then one would be simultaneously allowing the existance of an enormous amount of unknowable and possibly contradictory phenomena.

If you haven’t heard of it before, let me introduce to you Occam’s Razor:

So really, which is more likely?

  1. The message is true, and there are (a) telepathically-communicating (b) invisible © aliens that can be contacted by (d) astral projection, just waiting for us to welcome them into our hearts, or
  2. the guy who “channeled the aliens” is a hoaxer or insane?

Entertaining number 1 is to believe instantly four different extraordinary phenomena that have yet to have any demonstrable or observable validity. A huge leap of faith and acceptance of multiple unknowables. Entertaining number 2 is simple and explicable.

I myself have seen something totally inexplicable (to me) but I’m not going dogmatically to insist that it was a paranormal event, though it seemed so at the time. It was frustrating to be told I was probably wrong about what I saw, but I’m prepared to concede that it’s way way way more likely to be explicable through currently existing and observable forces, and that I misinterpreted it, than it was to have been a poltergeist.

BTW, welcome to the boards!

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genome, General Questions is for questions with factual answers.

There is no question here. This is closed.

I suggest you spend some time reading the boards before you begin to post.

Please read forum descriptions carefully before you make your next post, or you risk losing your posting privileges.

-xash
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