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Originally posted by Chadwickus
Well considering that the latest "believers vs skeptics" battle has recently subsided, I gotta question the timing of this thread.
With that out of the way, your suggestion of controlling and weeding out anyone who doesn't believe in UFO's is borderline ridiculous.
Originally posted by thealiveone What i do think is that maybe it would help, to openly tell the people, who cannot in anyway be persuadet, to the meere idea that ufo´s and et´s even could exist, that hey we accept your oppinnion, however you are accually interrupting a conversation here, which is rude. Make any sence?
Originally posted by Chadwickus
How productive would a research group be if everyone agreed with each other and didn't debate against one another?
The scenario I'm visioning is something like a youtube channel, where a person posts videos of satellites and calls them light ships or whatever and anyone who says otherwise get's censored. Apologies if this isn't the case but it seems this is very much what you're suggesting.
Originally posted by chiron613
I think that part of the problem is that people don't distinguish between UFO's, and the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors. The two are not necessarily connected. The UFO's we see may be completely terrestrial in nature - either man-made craft of some sort, or craft by some unknown, but earth-bound civilization. Among many other possible explanations.
So it is entirely possible to be open-minded about UFO's, while at the same time refusing to consider the possibility of them being of extraterrestrial origin.
Originally posted by Malcram
I'm not saying that belief in ET piloted UFO's should be required, but that absolute DISBELIEF in even the POSSIBILITY of ET life anywhere and of the POSSIBILITY of ET life visiting earth means there is no productive reason for such people being here whatsoever. I'm saying that agnosticism (true skepticism) and an open mind should be the minimum requirement for participation in an Alien and UFO discussion. That's not too much to ask is it?
Originally posted by Jazzyguy
No, I don't think it's too much to ask since this is ATS, people come here for precisely that reason. If they absolutely believe that it's impossible for ETs to exist, they should stay away from ATS and stay with the mainstream forum or at least stop calling people names. Unless their real reason of coming here is to feed their addiction to conflicts.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
So where do we draw the line?
Don't believe in the NWO? Sorry you can't post here.
Don't believe in god? Sorry you can't post here.
Again, you will get people who appose your ideas and the few who do it stupidly won't last long.
Originally posted by Jazzyguy
Usually they do the "your belief is stupid", attacking the "post/belief" instead the poster, although what their real intention is to ridicule the poster for the poster belief in UFO, not even for poster's speculation.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
Ok I re-read your OP, my sentiments are the same, maybe I'm not seeing many of these posts from people who are completely closed minded about the subject so I don't get the full picture of what you're saying.
Having said that, I do agree that a certain amount of open mindedness is needed but not so open your brain falls out.