I’m coming clean on Extraterrestrials, page 224

I remember reading this topic a while back and considering it to be nothing more than an extended joke that just would not go away.

After some time, I learned about John Lear, what some of his stances are in how things exist, etc. Reading over what he says, a lot of what he says seems logical. I have even had to reform my belief in God in a manner that both allowed me to escape the boundaries and restrictions of the Bible and, yet, did not violate my preprogrammed state. If you want details, I could go into it, but I'd rather not stray onto a tangent.

Continuing to read Lear's comments (I went through all 83 pages of his topic, although it took me a month of casual reading to do so), I noticed that "sleeper" kept coming up again and again. I do not agree with everything Lear says (since that would be foolish since even he does not know everything that he says is one-hundred percent correct in every aspect), but I do respect him and understand his perspective. Lear occasionally provides evidence backing up his beliefs, and his credentials as a pilot are indisputable. He is a man that has had a challenging, yet rewarding life, and he takes all of it in stride.

So, I come back to this topic, read some pages, and am still having a hard time understanding where exactly your ground lies. From what I can tell, you have out-of-body experiences where Milton (and maybe some others, dunno) tells you information about what is beyond the realm of current human perception.

What is annoying me about your position is that it is very hard for me to approach it with solidity. Anything that I say can be negated through precise usage of your style of typing or a couple of smilies (I see that you use them a lot, which turns on a red light from previous experiences). Also, you have near unlimited time to reply to any individual's response, making it infinitely easier to appear in the manner of which you want to appear (as do we all; it is a fact).

Basically, what I am asking is the simple question of: Why should I believe anything that you say at all? If you are being told information, then you should be able to observe from the perspectives of other persons that your information is of high ridicule and will be seen as nothing more than an entertaining story. If you say that I should take everything you say "with a grain of salt", how can you allow those who are much more impressionable than myself believe in what you have to say? John Lear presents his facts, but he has stated many times before that there will never be anybody to believe fully in what John Lear says except John Lear. You present your ideas on ATS as if they were fact. If any other random person were to say half the things you have said, they would have been banned-on-site for spewing false information or presenting imaginative scenarios as fact. What are your "credentials" that make you "worthy" to make such comments well-knowing that you may be altering the perspectives and even lives of those who read them?

I am turning twenty in less than a month, and I feel as if I know more about the subjects of flying spacecrafts, extraterrestrials, 9/11, The Illuminati, underground bases, false flag operations, propaganda, hidden symbols, etc., than most people my age, and it concerns me because there is not only "scientific opinions" in each area, but there are also undeniable facts that turn every subject completely on its head. The first two are spoken about 0% seriously in my age group (decades above, even), the 9/11 thing is too unorganized to produce any real results, most of the people don't even know that the Illuminati actually EXISTS (some deny it to this day, no matter how many facts I present them with), underground bases are apparently an "impossibility" despite the fact that it has been proven that we have the technology for it, false flag operations are inconceivable despite the fact that again, it has been proven, propaganda apparently "isn't important" and "is a natural part of life", and hidden symbols, not matter how similar and abundant, do not exist.

I feel like I have had a lifetime of information crammed into me at such a young age. Then, I wait 4 months and look back, and realize that I haven't even started. As each month goes by, I learn more and more about how everything is through facts (and put the opinions on the side until they are backed up with something). As each month goes by, I look at the world and become more disgusted as to how people treat each other--but then, I look back 4 months, and realize that I used to have some of those traits. It makes me wonder just how much I will really know when I'm, say, 50, or 70, if I live to be that old. But then, I just have to wait another 4 months from there, and then I will realize that I truly know nothing at all.

I may only be almost twenty, I may not have the experience of John Lear or The Three Amigos or Alex Jones, and I may not be famous or have tons of experience and credentials behind my belt, but I am already so sick and tired of believing in things, only to have to murder those beliefs later on in life. I've already killed probably over three-fourths of what I have previously believed, and I have literally become tired because of it.

Therefore, I ask you, what reason should I, or anybody, believe what you have to say? Why should anybody believe your comments to be the truth? If you have nothing to back up what you post, why do you continue? I'm going to bed. I hope to see an answer shortly, but I am a patient man, so I'll wait as long as it takes for you to respond.