Originally posted by Hanslune
you tend to believe lots of marginal information.

But I commend your change of face.

Hey but Sky it was channeled, are you coming around to the idea that channeled materials are not valid?

No.

Or do you have criteria for determining what is or what is not valid?

An ancient text describing ancient aircraft is more valid than a 19th Century text describing ancient aircraft.

What parts of original Mahabarat and Ramayana do you find compelling? Considering no supportive evidence has been found?

An example of relevant passages were recently posted by spacevisitor in my "Ancient Extraterrestrials" Thread.

Originally posted by Skyfloating
An example of relevant passages were recently posted by spacevisitor in my "Ancient Extraterrestrials" Thread.

Actually, no.

Spacevisitor merely quoted from a pro-Billy Meier website where these claims were being made.

Not that I dispute them, necessarily. But I myself wouldn't rely on a proven liar such as Billy Meier or his sidekicks to provide my evidence for me.

Spacevisitor, in his eagerness to please you, even quotes the Meier site's musings on James Churchward's "The Children of MU," claiming Churchward was "translating" "milleniums old" records.

It's an established fact that Churchward couldn't translate the Mayan he was attempting to translate that resulted in that book (the theory behind which Churchward arrived at prior to even visiting any ancient ruin) and these "millenium old" records actually date to the common era.

As I said, I don't necessarily dispute that the Mahabharata - and other Vedas - contains the phrases Spacevisitor's source attributes to them (in fact, regarding the Mahabharata, I'm certain it does,) but forgive me for not taking the word of a proven hoaxer that wants me to think he was visited by Pleiadians over a thirty year period, and then switched their origin to another universe (and their name to "Plejarens") upon discovering that the Pleiades are too young for what he has claimed these aliens told him.

BTW, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Drona Parva are all available online for free at Sacred-texts.com, among other Vedic literature.

Harte

Howdy Sky

Puzzling

You’ve stated that you believe this document, the VS is a hoax (which we agree on) However it is claimed to be a channelled document. Yet you also say that you don’t believe that channel documents are invalid- so how is this one invalid and others valid?

You then offer as your ‘criteria’, a statement: “An ancient text describing ancient aircraft is more valid than a 19th Century text describing ancient aircraft.”

Yes that might be true but we don’t have that here do we? So again under what criteria do use to determine which documents are real and which are hoaxes? Why in your eyes is the Channelled VS a hoax and other channelled materials true?

As Harte said, it is far, far better to check phrases from the original, far to often bogus translations are used to support belief. I mean you can provide evidence directly from the M & R? When people throw quotes at me from old documents, my first response is to check the primary source-you do that too don’t you? Or if it agrees with what you want to believe do you then just accept it and not checked

Lets have those quotes from the M & R.

I know they are there as I remember ones about flying humans.

Aside: One of great weaknesses of the fringe movement is its inability to separate itself from those who are obviously damaging to their own case. Billy comes to mind, along with Sitchin, Daniken and others. The AAT has been given such a bad reputation for poor scholarship - that it will take generations to recover.


[edit on 10/12/08 by Hanslune]

To be more precise: I give more credence to what was written on Vimana thousands of years ago than to what was written in the 19th Century. Why? Because its closer to the actual event.

Agreed, in general materials written near to the date of the event may contain better data. But what detailed information do we have on Vinama that makes us think they are not just human imagination?

And: Why is it so hard to accept that someone may see some channelings as valid and some not? Or does one HAVE TO see them ALL as valid?

Okay, some are valid and some are not but HOW do you determine that? What is your criteria to determine whether a channelling is made up nonsense or an accurate accounting of x, y and z? For what reason do you reject the VS but accept a new age channeller on Atlantis?

Valid is what is usuable to good effect, experience-able or repeatedly perceivable.

I presume this is some sorta of criteria? So how does VS fail the above and a new age Atlantis channeller pass? To me this seems like a fancy way of saying, "whatever fits what I believe".

Anyway, there's plenty of info on the Mahabharata right here at ATS, including links to particular pages, and book and verse given.

Good point and excellent suggestion Harte, the M & R is a daunting read.

Originally posted by Harte

Originally posted by Skyfloating
An example of relevant passages were recently posted by spacevisitor in my "Ancient Extraterrestrials" Thread.

Actually, no.

Spacevisitor merely quoted from a pro-Billy Meier website where these claims were being made.

You obviously didn’t read that post very well Harte because it weren’t quotes from Billy Meier website.
As stated there,
They were from the book: UFO CONTACT FROM THE PLEIADES.
Written by Wendelle C. Stevens in 1983.

Originally posted by Harte
Not that I dispute them, necessarily. But I myself wouldn't rely on a proven liar such as Billy Meier or his sidekicks to provide my evidence for me.

Did you come to that conclusion yourself after studying his work or do you say it just because so many others say it so it must be right then.

Originally posted by Harte
Spacevisitor, in his eagerness to please you

Why do you give this sneer Harte?

Originally posted by spacevisitor

Originally posted by Harte

Originally posted by Skyfloating
An example of relevant passages were recently posted by spacevisitor in my "Ancient Extraterrestrials" Thread.

Actually, no.

Spacevisitor merely quoted from a pro-Billy Meier website where these claims were being made.

You obviously didn’t read that post very well Harte because it weren’t quotes from Billy Meier website.
As stated there,
They were from the book: UFO CONTACT FROM THE PLEIADES.
Written by Wendelle C. Stevens in 1983.

I didn't say it was Meier's website.

How do you quote what I say and then proceed to pretend that I didn't say that which is right there in the quote you provided?

Wendell Stevens is one of Meier's mouthpieces.

Ask Michael Horn about it. He's another one.

Originally posted by spacevisitor

Originally posted by Harte
Not that I dispute them, necessarily. But I myself wouldn't rely on a proven liar such as Billy Meier or his sidekicks to provide my evidence for me.

Did you come to that conclusion yourself after studying his work or do you say it just because so many others say it so it must be right then.

Do you think I never investigate any claims? You must skip many of my posts.

I started out debunking Meier's claims of "prophecy" myself. Got about halfway through them (they're listed at Horn's "They Fly" website) when I ran into Ike's pdf where he had done the same thing. Do you know this paper by this person "Ike?" A link to it is in several Meier threads here. I found it myself, this was before I joined ATS.

Skipped the rest.

There must be a hundred Billy Meier threads here at ATS. Check them out. Meier made the entire thing up. No question about it.

Originally posted by spacevisitor

Originally posted by Harte
Spacevisitor, in his eagerness to please you

Why do you give this sneer Harte?

This is my perception.

Why did you link to a pro-Meier site? Can you not spend a few minutes to find a site that has at least a small possibility of being legitimate?

Are you not aware that you can quote from and link to any page of the Mahabharata you want through Sacred-Texts.com?

There are also many websites that give the same info Mr. Stevens did that actually include the book and verse of the quoted Mahabharata verse in question.

Including the very website we are on right now.

Harte

[edit on 12/11/2008 by Harte]

Professor Harte

Do you know of a non-UFO site that has a collect of the M & R quotes?

Skipped the beginning.

Originally posted by Harte
Wendell Stevens is one of Meier's mouthpieces.

You are twisting the facts.
US Air Force Lt. Col., USAF (Ret) Wendelle Stevens is an investigator and sorely not a mouthpiece of Meier as you call it.
And he studied the case very thoroughly.

Having spent 8 years on this case, 7 trips to Switzerland and 81 days on site, interviewing 29 eyewitnesses, 5 photographers, 4 recorders of the spacecraft sounds, and dozens of observers, I feel that I am as qualified as anybody in these United States to draw some conclusions from what I have learned.
Somebody not of this Earth is indeed visiting Switzerland, and those extraterrestrials were contacting Eduard "Billy" Meier living in Hinterscbmidruti.

Originally posted by Harte
Not that I dispute them, necessarily. But I myself wouldn't rely on a proven liar such as Billy Meier or his sidekicks to provide my evidence for me.

Billy Meier is not a proven liar, but much of his work is sorely falsified to make it look faked and him a liar.
I assume you aren’t interested in reading a brief written to Wendell Stevens in February 1989 by a security agent then whose name is not published in the book for obvious reasons of course about how and what measures where used to make Billy Meier look a liar.
Just as they done and still do with anyone who comes forward with so called interesting Ufo information.

I never can and even will claim here that all the things Meier said are 100% true, but who of which case is?
Look for instance to your own matter of interest, Egyptology, can you claim here that all what is said or written in books by the Egyptologists about the Egyptians is 100% true?
That all what Hawass and Co and those before them are telling and claiming is true?
I am convinced that that’s absolute not the case, and even worse, they definitely are twisting some facts, or as you mostly put it, they lie, no doubt about that.

Originally posted by Harte
Do you think I never investigate any claims? You must skip many of my posts.

Shore I have skip many of your post, just as you probably skipped many of mine.

Originally posted by Harte
I started out debunking Meier's claims of "prophecy" myself. Got about halfway through them (they're listed at Horn's "They Fly" website) when I ran into Ike's pdf where he had done the same thing. Do you know this paper by this person "Ike?" A link to it is in several Meier threads here. I found it myself, this was before I joined ATS.

Can you give me a link because I really don’t know of someone named “Ike”.

Originally posted by Harte
There must be a hundred Billy Meier threads here at ATS. Check them out. Meier made the entire thing up. No question about it.

Not for me.

Originally posted by spacevisitor

Originally posted by Harte
Spacevisitor, in his eagerness to please you

Why do you give this sneer Harte?

Originally posted by Harte

This is my perception.

Why did you link to a pro-Meier site? Can you not spend a few minutes to find a site that has at least a small possibility of being legitimate?

Then your perception is wrong because the reason why I linked to parts of the book from Wendelle Stevens was because the thread name is about Ancient Extraterrestrials and the book is also about Extraterrestrials and I was just reading it again.
So I found it a bit funny, nothing more.

Originally posted by Harte
Are you not aware that you can quote from and link to any page of the Mahabharata you want through Sacred-Texts.com?

Believe it or not but even my housecat is aware of that.

Originally posted by Harte
There are also many websites that give the same info Mr. Stevens did that actually include the book and verse of the quoted Mahabharata verse in question.

Really, you must be joking, right?