While outlandish stories and theories abound on ATS, there are some very valid and convincing arguments.
I myself have posted a few wild theories.
The notions are very real to me, but perhaps not to others.
I have at times battled over some minuscule detail, only to be berated, upon giving an answer.
Now I will go out on a limb here and state, for the record:
I believe in aliens, and that they have visited Earth, and either have influenced us, or are still doing so.
I also believe in accelerated human potential, and that we as a species ore on a precipice, either of destruction or enlightenment.
If "you" believe what I have stated, it is actually immaterial to me.
I believe it.
That is what matters.
That being said, there must be some basis for why I believe what I do.
Either I can prove it or I can't.
I have all the proof I need to believe in something.
Again, your opinion on whether you believe me or not is immaterial.
On the same token, I cannot expect anyone to believe me without proof, or would I try to make anyone believe.
I can only ask questions on the assumption that what I am asking or stating is correct in the eyes of those I ask.
So in that respect, there are a lot of stories on ATS, and it makes for interesting reading.

Perception is 9/10ths of reality.
You must fel the other 10th.

[edit on 9/6/2009 by reticledc]

This is absolutely a rediculous thing to post here on yedda.com????

ATS what they heck is that?

There is no such web site as Above Top Secret dot com!

And...and this is a big and...if there was such a site as Above Top Secret dot com I doubt it would have such a thing as a disinformation agent.

In fact I checked in the dictionary and asked at the bar there is no such word or agent known to anyone anywhere in Martian history.

What are you going to post next?

That there could be life on planet Earth? Ha

I will believe that one when I see it.

Oh well the moon is about to come up, time to go to the beach and work on my tan!

A lot of people on this website are way too gullible and just want to believe anything that's different. Some of them get over it and some never do.
It happens anywhere and everywhere in life though.

As with getting to the end of your life,so as with getting to the truth.
Experiencing and learning until you get to the answer.

Without the crap in either,would we fully appreciate the knowing at the end?

Good post, this site is far from its title of denying ignorance. I've read discussions where the site owners will let the most ridiculous discussions by people who have no idea what they are talking about go on and on but have shut down threads on intelligent people trying to have rational discussions about controversial subjects. Just look around the borders of this website to see who is pulling the strings here....the same people who want to keep you all happily buying crap you don't need, watching crap to rot your brain and eating crap to slowly kill you.

I actually haven't been 'enlightened' at all by my time here; my search for answers began long before I ever posted here, and while there are sometimes bits of data (intriguing and informational), most topics and concepts I have had knowledge of for some time and nothing I have ever read here 'changed my world'.

That said, what I have learned a great deal about here is people. About behavior, belief systems and so on.

And I've learned alot about the workings of the 'fringe' community as well (UFO and so on).

Something that I have noticed is disappearing threads.

I use an RSS reader to skim news sites and only view the stories that sound interesting.

There have been quite a few stories that I went to view and they were not available.

I can understand closing redundant threads, but why outright deletion?

Thanks for responding everyone, and I looked at the other links and yeah I'm not surprised.

Have the mods ever commented?