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- From: frice@stbbs.com (Fredric L. Rice)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.paranet.science,alt.religion.scientology.xenu
- Subject: Re: Are all believers crackpots?
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:46:08 GMT
- Organization: The Skeptic Tank
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- mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman) wrote:
-
- >jiri_mruzek (103344.3107@compuserve.com) wrote:
- fr> you can take a Schwinn bicycle and use it exactly
- fr> like I suspect you use the so-called "Nasca lines
-
- jm> You know that you can use some Schwine bicycle, exactly, as I use
- jm> Nasca Lines without being familiar with my actual report? No,
- jm> mister, I have more originality than you can imagine at this
- jm> time..
-
- >Hardly. The lines have abeen a topic of discusison for some years. Or rather
- >*were* a topic of discussion. Most of the "evidence" turned out to be
- >worthless, like Von Dannekin's published pictures of "alien landing
- >strips" that tuned out to be only a few meters wide ;-)
-
- I was surprised that this guy doesn't know about the hundreds of
- people who have tried to "explain" and "describe" the Nasca Lines as
- something mysterious and amazing. He seems to think that he's done
- something unique for some reason.
-
- And, yeah <smile> one wonders why aliens capable of traveling such
- long distances as required to travel between stars would need landing
- strips or navigational aids. }:-}
-
- >There is a common thread is the fascination with giant bird drawings
- >on the plains, beliefs that aliens helped construct the pyramids, or
- >the Great Wall, or whatever. That thread is the denial of the abilities
- >of man.
-
- It's often annoying how so many people want to negate entirely
- human accomplishment. When they do something great (like build
- a photocopier or some technological wizardry) they feel that because
- they themselves are ignorant of its functions, humans couldn't have
- done it themselves without some help from powerful aliens.
-
- >These believers are incapable of understanding how earlier
- >civilizations could have created the structures or designs- because
- >they're far too lazy to study real science, or anthropology or
- >history to learn the real stories, or the real mysteries of life.
-
- I think it's because they're resentful that others are capable and
- more intelligent than they are.
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