[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

[GREG LINDH]

    Phil,
 
  Personally, I like your posts.  Keep them coming.
 
 
  Greg Lindh
 
 
 

> From: prairiecactus at rtcol.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:24:53 -0400
> Subject: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!
> 
> Darren & late night Listoidians:
> 
> There exists today, a prevelant belief in outer space aliens living in 
> advanced technological civilizations. A majority of Americans inexplicably 
> believes that they have visited us. This belief is prevelant amongst the 
> vast majority of scientists. A NASA scientist who walked on the moon 
> believes they are living and working amongst us in all walks of life.
> 
> Belief in imaginary beings is an interesting psychological phenomenon. 
> Through the ages there has been much interest in elves, fairies, trolls, 
> dwarves, ghosts, succubi, incubi, mermaids, what have you. I don't think 
> though that at any time in history has there ever been anything like the 
> overwhelming cultural acceptance of the unsubstantiated belief in outer 
> space aliens. The only thing that even comes close is the belief in angels 
> in the 1200's, and maybe witches in the 1600's. Completely hypothetical 
> mental constructions, and yet they are believed by vast majorities. 
> Questioning this belief is like arguing the Immaculate Conception with a 
> Catholic. Neither side will ever win the argument.
> 
> I can understand that it's comforting to believe in advanced civilizations 
> in outer space. Humans are pack animals, living in bee hives. It's sad, 
> lonely and forlorn to feel we are all alone. Maybe one day these beings 
> will appear out of the sky and save us from ourselves, like Jesus or 
> Mohammed, or maybe they'll just kill and eat us. I hear humans taste like 
> pork.
> 
> And yes, the ancient Chinese conceptualized going to the moon, it was right 
> around the time they made mankind's first record of a solar eclipse.
> 
> Why do I feel like a heathen being proselytized?
> 
> Phil Whitmer
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:16:11 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just once, I'd like to read one of these articles that doesn't include the
> 
>>grains of sand analogy.
> 
> 
> At least they are using something similar to sound reasoning skills.
> 
> Here's an analogy for your "thought" process:
> 
> You have two books-- you read the first chapter of the first book, note that
> nobody has been mysteriously murdered yet. You toss away the first book. You
> read the title second book-- the word "murder" is nowhere it the title. You
> toss away the second book. You decide that, therefore, there is no rational
> reason to believe that any book anywhere might be a murder mystery.
> 
> The biological sciences are very, very young. And very, very little of Mars 
> has
> been explored. And yet you make the claim that "scientists are too dumb to
> understand abiogenisis" as if the current state of science is the end of all
> human knowledge when in fact it is barely the beginning. And that the few
> tinker-toys we have sent to Mars so far (as cool as they may be) preclude 
> that
> Mars ever did support life (or Venus for that instance.) You then take those
> very very, very early sets of data and reach the conclusion that there is no
> other life in the universe.
> 
> You may think that is rational thinking. But it is a very long way from
> rational thinking.
> 
> And THEN you make a post where you think that maybe the Chinese visited the 
> moon
> thousands of years ago?
> 
> And you praise ancient philosophers who spent their lives speculating on the
> nature of reality, while calling the people on the list who want to 
> speculate on
> the nature of reality "mental masturbators", and call the conversations
> "stupid"?
> 
> And you continue to construct straw men to attack for everyone who makes a
> misguided attempt at reasoning with you.
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