Letters to the Editor

• This is exactly the danger with Occam's Razor

  [Read the article: We are meant to be here]
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  To believe we have been visited by UFO's you have to make these assumptions:

  1. Intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe - likley it does, the odds dictate it, but we have no evidence....

  you parse up a bunch of made up conditions (based on your prejudices), add them up and figure because there are at least 5 or 6, that therefore aliens are less likely than if there was 1 condition. Of course I do not need to explain that this is faulty thinking at its worst.

  What prejudices do you harbor, you ask? Why is it a stretch to grant that the universe is probably littered with advanced life, for instance?

  I have repeatedly stated in the past on these posts that I have personal first hand knowledge that aliens have been and continue to be around our neck of the woods due to my past association with a para-NASA research group. The luck of me, I got to see firsthand dozens of photos of structures on the moon and Mars. I also heard a lot of interesting info from people connected to the inteeligence communities. Some of the images I mention are out in the public domain, but the media lockdown on viewpoints other than bemused skepticism discourages people (save for the really curious and brave) from being curious enough to go dig these images up themselves. Really, there are several books to be written about mind control and mass hallucination and how it is being used to steer the average rube clear of the data that is floating out there even today. But that is neither here nor there. We could argue about this all millenium.

  Short of being taken up in a ship yourself, I am sure you would deny any and everything about the field of alien life even though much of the scattered evidence out there would, if similar types of circumstantial evidence were applied to a crime in a court of law, would be enough to convict someone of said crime, whatever the crime may be.

  Frankly I do find it funny how arrogant humans are in this regard. A mere 100 years ago, if someone said planes would cross the Atlantic in only hours within the next 50 years, they would have thought that person mad. Imagine if a society is 100 MILLION years more advanced, you STILL think they cannot cross from star to star?

  I really do think the audacity of that reality, thatsomeone is so advanced, we seem like insects to them, is what scares the rubes into denial.

  [Of all people, I myself am preparing to publish a new method by which we ourselves may be able to reach the stars within three decades, I am intending to soon field test the concept by posting a blog site to prove out the idea.]

  The other thing that bugs me is a canard put forward by Carl Sagan himself, that since something seems amazing or ludicrous to us, it must be ludicrous to EVERYONE. For instance he said, 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. BY WHOSE FUCKING ARROGANT BELIEF SYSTEM?!? What is so extraordinary about the possibility of a universe teeming with life from end to end?!?

  But really, keep parsing out those limiting conditions and adding them up to make yourself feel more comfortable in this big scary universe.

  Permalink Thursday, July 5, 2007 04:16 PM

• How conceited and self absorbed

  [Read the article: To Pixar: We love it. But next time, could you add a girl?]
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  do you have to be to be a female that makes up imaginary monsters from whole cloth?!?

  Today's Monster: "the big bad old boy network is preventing women from something"

  If women put half as much talent into actually trying to produce something as they do in making excuses for theor lack of drive or talent, then they would all be getting somewhere.

  The reality is that in a free market economy, gender is one of the last things to worry about in somebody making it big in a business.

  But one cannot help that women in general have less talent than do men. (this apparently seems to be the case these days, what else could it be???)

  NOBODY will pay for LACK OF TALENT. I went art school. While the boys were plotting how to take over the art world, the girls were all but making doilies and macrame (and these were seriously talented girls). Women apparently just do not have the drive in them to produce and succeed like men do.

  NOBODY will indulge a dilletante playing with her finger paints.

  Sorry, but reality just hit you in the ass again.

  God, I am sick of the excuse making of you women.

  Permalink Thursday, July 5, 2007 04:32 PM