"altheim" <altheim@freeuk.com> wrote:

"Michael Davis" <mdavis19@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

researcher wrote:

A Definition of "UFO Skeptic"

Someone that is fundamentally in denial and has a mind closed like
a steel trap.

Alternate definition:
Someone that is being used by the Government or other special
interest group to deliberately lie about UFOs or make up fake UFO 
stories to help cover up the truth.

Any Comments on this?

Yes, my comment is that you are delusional.

Whatever you may think of researcher on a personal level,
his definition of a Skeptic is sound.

His definition of a skeptic is just a stupid little snit.  His "alternate 
definition" is nothing but the raving of a paranoid nutcase.

A skeptic is a person who says "show me" instead of reflexively 
swallowing anecdotes and jumping to an desired conclusion. 

Alternate definition: A UFO skeptic is someone who understands the "U."

No one doubts the existence of UFOs.  If you have to believe they're 
"visitors," it would be more sensible to believe they live on the bottom 
of Earth's ocean or in the upper atmosphere than to believe they're from 
some hypothetical place at least four light years away.

As a matter of fact, look up "upper atmosphere entities" in google groups 
search. You'll find as much evidence for "airians" as there is evidence 
for aliens.

The true definition of a UFO skeptic is merly someone who listens to
all the baseless ravings flowing out of the UFO cult and then asks
"what evidence do you have to back up any of that?" Then when no real
evidence is presented, the skeptic quite correctly writes off the
ravings as the utter BS they are. HTH.

Sadly, it didn't.  Oh, well.  

No. That is the definition of a disbeliever.

When the disbeliever sees supporting evidence, he becomes a believer, but 
that won't stop him from being skeptical of the next batch of unsupported 
claims like the alien visitors stories. Davis's description is accurate.

Damn, I wish one of the UFOs would turn out to be something from some 
other planet. What a fascinating story that would be.