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originally posted by: The Shrike
We've had some fun trying to make james1947 see the errors of his way and he's really beating a dead horse thanks to your logic.
originally posted by: james1947
originally posted by: The Shrike
We've had some fun trying to make james1947 see the errors of his way and he's really beating a dead horse thanks to your logic.
Lol, y'all are rich, you jump up and down, insisting on something that you can't even back up with any kind of reliable evidence, and you refuse to view the real world. Then you congratulate each other on a job well done?
Dude, do you understand that I put forth a scientifically sound hypothesis, and then provided supporting data / evidence that actually elevates it to a theory, meanwhile you have provided nothing of a reasonable confidence level to either support your position or to disprove mine. You have done nothing but argue against science and mathematics with rhetoric and general BS.
IF you are so sure about what you believe provide some evidence and we can all evaluate it.
Tell ya what; I'll have much of my stuff online by Monday...how about you do the same.
Criticism related to the Drake equation focuses not on the equation itself, but on the fact that the estimated values for several of its factors are highly conjectural, the combined effect being that the uncertainty associated with any derived value is so large that the equation cannot be used to draw firm conclusions.
originally posted by: james1947
originally posted by: BiffJordan
a reply to: james1947
To me the Betty Hill map is no proof of anything, and is easily debunkable without using science and math,
You do understand that that is all I'm asking y'all to do. Debunk the map. But, you haven't, and it seems that you can't....which make it "un-debunkable"...just what you asked for!
I'll give you your point on this. I don't have the science to debunk the map. It's simply my logical mind that tells me it's rubbish. And it would be an inconvience to spend my time trying to scienfictally and mathematically disprove a map than an old lady made of the cosmos while under hypnosis. Especially after watching the Stan Romeneck Story on Netflix and seeing his hypnosis math on interstellar travel which I've read was debunked as direct copy from someone else's work. So I have a history of not trusting hypnosis because it's not a reliable source of information to me. A person could simply "act" like they are remembering an experience when in actuality they are just reciting memorized plans to credit their story with legitimacy.
therefore I do not consider it even in the conversation of "un-debunkable abduction stories". I don't need to qualify anything to you,
Yet, you asked for proof of an undebunkable abduction event, I provided evidence of just such an event, yet you refuse to accept the obvious...so why ask IF you will not consider ALL data?
Anyway, I'm not asking for you to "qualify" anything, only engage in scientific discussion about evidence I provided.
Abduction stories are no different than the search for Bigfoot. They search in the woods and don't find anything, and UFOlogists search the skies and don't find anything. The Betty Hill story is no different than the Patterson-Gimlin film.
Just because you've not seen a thing doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Have you ever seen the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights? Now I don't mean one of the knock-off copies, but the real deal. If you answer "NO", then One must ask; "How do you know they exist?"
The abduction experience isn't one that comes with an abundance of physical evidence. In fact the most common way for us to know if we've been abducted is the "missing time" property. And, that is difficult to nail down without the aid of technology. Unfortunately (depending on how you look at it) the use of technologies typically leads to cessation of abduction events...nobody wants to be detected and recorded...
Anyway; debunk the map...I dare you!
originally posted by: wylekat
a reply to: one4all
You've been abducted? I have some questions- I am completely unsure if I have been abducted, but according to someone (I forgot who) on here, I've been going on trips my whole life...
I'm confused. So you've met someone on here who has knowledge of your personal abuductions? Can you explain this? How do they know this and why do you trust they are legit?
Are there encounters where there is no trauma, and one goes home giggling about what they just experienced?
I was visited by a grey 25 years ago. I woke up to his grinning face, and tried to slug him (I missed- he disappeared). Would I still be taken, and likely knocked out to the point I'd never know?
I should have asked this first: What species takes you? I have a rendering I did of an alien my wife saw while a ship hovered 20ish feet away from us- got a really detailed description (this was the non traumatic encounter). I named him Beldar, thanks to his head.. Wife says he was built like a bodybuilder, and had turned on the cabin light, yet. Oddly... I didn't see him- but I was concentrating on the ship, construction- or trying to, while being an absolute fool. I was trying to hitchhike for all I was worth.
So you and your wife have both seen or been abducted by aliens? Do you have any kind of evidence to back this up? I don't think it's fair to expect people to just take you at your word, this is one of the craziest forums on the internet and I've read some of the most outlandish fiction passed off as truth here. It's as if people have dreams and don't realize they are dreams.
This guy look familiar?
I have also (shut up, you bunch. You know who you are) just about run the complete gamut of paranormal, in your face stuff. All I'm missing on my paranormal bingo card is being possessed, and meeting Bigfoot. Is this a normal side effect of being taken?
Do you take mind altering drugs or prescriptions? Have you ever had any mental illness in your life? I have to suspect this because it's so much more likely the case than you being a beacon for esoteric experiences. I mean no offense to you but you should be fair to the rest of us, we cannot simply take your word that you are living a sci-fi novel which the rest of us just live lives where we interact with only human beings, animals and nature.
ATM, It's all I can think of. What I'm going for is information. I've been trying to get all I can for some time now.
originally posted by: [post=23644503]BiffJordan[/st]po
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I don't remember if the Hill's claimed to have been probed with some kind of alien implant as other abductees have, regardless of that if people are probed with implants, why haven't they been removed and examined?
I did see a doc online once claiming to have studied an implant but nothing came of it, they found nothing interesting. Since the implant is something so common in abduction stories, why isn't that something we can cling to for legitimacy?
You say you'll have some work up on Monday, I'll read it and try to understand what you've put together.
originally posted by: BiffJordan
originally posted by: wylekat
a reply to: one4all
You've been abducted? I have some questions- I am completely unsure if I have been abducted, but according to someone (I forgot who) on here, I've been going on trips my whole life...
I'm confused. So you've met someone on here who has knowledge of your personal abuductions? Can you explain this? How do they know this and why do you trust they are legit?
Are there encounters where there is no trauma, and one goes home giggling about what they just experienced?
I was visited by a grey 25 years ago. I woke up to his grinning face, and tried to slug him (I missed- he disappeared). Would I still be taken, and likely knocked out to the point I'd never know?
I should have asked this first: What species takes you? I have a rendering I did of an alien my wife saw while a ship hovered 20ish feet away from us- got a really detailed description (this was the non traumatic encounter). I named him Beldar, thanks to his head.. Wife says he was built like a bodybuilder, and had turned on the cabin light, yet. Oddly... I didn't see him- but I was concentrating on the ship, construction- or trying to, while being an absolute fool. I was trying to hitchhike for all I was worth.
So you and your wife have both seen or been abducted by aliens? Do you have any kind of evidence to back this up? I don't think it's fair to expect people to just take you at your word, this is one of the craziest forums on the internet and I've read some of the most outlandish fiction passed off as truth here. It's as if people have dreams and don't realize they are dreams.
This guy look familiar?
I have also (shut up, you bunch. You know who you are) just about run the complete gamut of paranormal, in your face stuff. All I'm missing on my paranormal bingo card is being possessed, and meeting Bigfoot. Is this a normal side effect of being taken?
Do you take mind altering drugs or prescriptions? Have you ever had any mental illness in your life? I have to suspect this because it's so much more likely the case than you being a beacon for esoteric experiences. I mean no offense to you but you should be fair to the rest of us, we cannot simply take your word that you are living a sci-fi novel which the rest of us just live lives where we interact with only human beings, animals and nature.
ATM, It's all I can think of. What I'm going for is information. I've been trying to get all I can for some time now.
originally posted by: The Shrike
I know you mean well and we shouldn't make fun at your expense. But what you're trying to achieve is what Frank Drake did with his "Drake's Equation".
Criticism related to the Drake equation focuses not on the equation itself, but on the fact that the estimated values for several of its factors are highly conjectural, the combined effect being that the uncertainty associated with any derived value is so large that the equation cannot be used to draw firm conclusions.
My criticism is that Frank started with zero (or 1 if you count us) and ended with zero. When you deal with reality, theories go out the window.
originally posted by: BiffJordan
I'll give you your point on this. I don't have the science to debunk the map. It's simply my logical mind that tells me it's rubbish. And it would be an inconvience to spend my time trying to scienfictally and mathematically disprove a map than an old lady made of the cosmos while under hypnosis..
originally posted by: wylekat
a reply to: BiffJordan
we cannot simply take your word
Then, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU REFUTING IT SO DAMN HARD.
Answer me that. If I am simply some schizo nut- why is there a certain # of you who, against all reason, come on here and do your absolute level best to try to publicly humiliate me and accuse me of taking drugs or having mental illness?
Methinks thou all doth protest too much. Personally, I've had a gutfull.
originally posted by: BenutzerUnbekannt
Just out of interest... and after having refreshed my knowledge on the Hill case, but it's worth noting that:
(a) Betty was an avid (if not rabid) UFO "enthusiast";
(b) the Hill's hypnotic regression took place circa 2 years after the alleged event;
(c) renowned professional astronomers like Carl Sagan rejected the Fish woman's "star map".
In summary, in this thread James hangs his coat on the star map peg, but we must remember - first and foremost - it's the work of an amateur (school teacher Fish (not an astronomer)), and that amateur's work was heavily and reasonably criticized by actual professionals (Sagan). Ultimately it was debunked to the satisfaction of professional astronomers.
But here and now we have a recent sign-up on ATS (that's you, James), make giddy and bold claims about his/her own professional background, and ultimately attempting to make us believe renowned experts like Sagan were wrong. I know who I believe: James (another random on an internet UFO forum) vs Sagan. It's Sagan.
And just a thought on the 2 years between the alleged abduction incident and the hypnosis sessions. Betty was already mad for UFOs and aliens, so who do you reckon she 'off-loaded' this on to? Yup, Barney. Two years of listening to Betty drone on [and on and on...] about this topic surely influenced Barney. And plenty of time - if she was so minded - to put the various elements of her childish hoax in place.
As a postscript, hypnotic regression is not a science, hell, even polygraphs are more credible. Dredging up all manner of effluent from the sub-conscious and then presenting it as evidence is akin to seeing shapes and faces (and perhaps feces) in the clouds.
And as a final - final - postscript, the Fish 2D-to-3D dot-joining star map was so amateur and slapdash, there were countless other possible celestial matches, and - despite James' dubious statistical claims - the Zeta Reticuli match was unanimously dismissed by actual professional astronomers. Because it didn't actually match.
James, give it up. You won't convince anyone here. If you just want an argument then go down your local bar. Otherwise what's your point?
originally posted by: BenutzerUnbekannt
a reply to: james1947
My, you would make a fine flat earther, James. There's no point in slapping you down point by point as facts don't seem to penetrate your fanatical B&B dogma.
Anyways, this thread is about strong cases that are difficult to dubunk; the Hill case has been debunked over and over again. How about you take all your "research" and "scientific expertise" over to that thread. This thread is at risk of being derailed by your repeated assertions.
originally posted by: The Shrike
originally posted by: [post=23644503]BiffJordan[/st]po
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I don't remember if the Hill's claimed to have been probed with some kind of alien implant as other abductees have, regardless of that if people are probed with implants, why haven't they been removed and examined?
I did see a doc online once claiming to have studied an implant but nothing came of it, they found nothing interesting. Since the implant is something so common in abduction stories, why isn't that something we can cling to for legitimacy?
You say you'll have some work up on Monday, I'll read it and try to understand what you've put together.
Not "classical" probing but Betty did claim that a needle was inserted in her navel to test for pregnancy so the aliens must have been pretty stupid since your navel has nothing to do with pregnancy. It's just a remnant of where you were attached to your mother, but it doesn't indicate anything about pregnancy.
"If you stick a needle into a woman's navel, it doesn't go much of anywhere other than into her abdominal muscles and perhaps if you push it deeper in, into the abdominal cavity full of guts, or the diaphragm, but certainly not into her uterus, which is carried much lower in the abdomen. Why would super-powerful, super-intelligent aliens be sticking a needle to test for pregnancy into a basically inactive portion of a female's anatomy? Betty didn't say that the aliens were "experimenting", as in, "poking needles around to see what's in there". She said that it was definitely a "pregnancy test".
originally posted by: james1947
Well I guess "the boss" doesn't want to discuss this anymore, tis a shame as this is the case he's looking for. For some reason you think this case is debunked, but, you have utterly failed to "debunk" the "map". You haven't even tried, and for some reason wish to accept the lack of detailed analysis provided by big names that just happen to agree with your preconceived notions about alien abduction.
Perhaps IF y'all were a bit more open-minded, and could engage a little critical thinking...you might try to employ logic and common sense...oh well; you're on your own.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: james1947
Well I guess "the boss" doesn't want to discuss this anymore, tis a shame as this is the case he's looking for. For some reason you think this case is debunked, but, you have utterly failed to "debunk" the "map". You haven't even tried, and for some reason wish to accept the lack of detailed analysis provided by big names that just happen to agree with your preconceived notions about alien abduction.
Perhaps IF y'all were a bit more open-minded, and could engage a little critical thinking...you might try to employ logic and common sense...oh well; you're on your own.
He didn't debunk a single thing, including that navel needle pregnancy test thing, and like most debunkers, did zero actual research.