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Originally posted by tyranny22
You mean "becoming a failure"? Because "becoming fail" means nothing except to today's illiterate "txting" OMG-LOL-ROFLMAO-kids of the internet.
Originally posted by SneakAPeek
Can ATS make it mandatory for an age check appon signing up? Make the age limit 18. I can't argue that there are young-ins running around these forums like there are on youtube. I believe they are the contributing factor to the OP's original statements about the 2 types of UFO believers. All because most of those arguments are started by people under the age of 18.
Originally posted by Razer1073
Hate to bust anybody's bubble on here but I know that I speak for myself and probably speak for others like me. I am a witness to multiple sightings and feel a certain connection to whatever is out there...I couldn't really care less about what people think about the UFO forums, whether they tickle their fancy or not. The fact of the matter is is that those who KNOW, who have seen first hand usually couldn't care less about the tidiness of a UFO forum...
Originally posted by Aliensun
As typically happens on these threads, the OP and responders are taking a too narrow of a view on the UFO situaiton.
The debunkers are losing their players and, in fact their game. The automatic recourse is for them to become more vocal in their debunking and skepticism. (Some will probably resort to offering a hoax known to themselves in order to have it shot down.)
Since about the time of the increased sightings of triangles, and that most famous of triangle sightings in Belguim with multiple verifications, they have been effectively neutered.
All they can argue is that the triangles are our secret equipment. But that allows the automatic next judgment that those craft are nothing more than alien ripoffs. So they lose the game in over-time, anyway.
Of course, this perspecitive is not across the board into the general media/public. But it is growing. Basically, we, the pro team, have won the game. There is nothing left but the wrapup.
True, the full story is a long way from being fleshed out. That is the beauty of the UFO "myth" allowed to be created. But the answers will be forthcoming as the topics move on to questions about life out there: Titan, etc.
On ATS anyway, the game is over for the debunkers. Maybe they will yet get some last minute points, but the score is too lop-sided for them to overcome the point spread. We have won, fair and square., in the long haul.
That said, ATS is a business, not true referees. They know full-well what pulls in the crowds and the advertisers. If it takes debunkers, hoaxes and wild theories to fill the seats, they will allow such "entertainment." And we must allow that. Otherwise, there would not be an ATS...and that would be a shame.
Since about the time of the increased sightings of triangles, and that most famous of triangle sightings in Belguim with multiple verifications, they have been effectively neutered.