Subject: Re: A Definition of UFO Skeptic
From: John Griffin
Date: 04/01/2005, 17:36
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors

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


"Michael Davis" <mdavis19@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
altheim wrote:
"Michael Davis" <mdavis19@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
[snips]

Well your problem is that we (TINW) are all debunkers here, as well
as being skeptics. You can think of a debunker as a skeptic with
attitude and no fear of calling a fraud a fraud or a nut a nut. We
don't suffer from the misguided sense of political correctness and
outright credulity that allows people like you to give the benefit
of the doubt to every babbling loony who wanders in here. You may
not like our attitudes and how we express them, but whining about
how we say what we say doesn't make what we are saying any less
valid. HTH. 


In a way, this is quite reassuring for now, by your admission, we
know you have no real interest in the subject matter and we can
safely ignore you.

Translation: You are in denial. You are just going to ignore and
deny reality because you don't like the tone in which it is
explained to you. Hey, isn't denial what you were just raging
against the skeptics about? Hypocrite much?

Hypocrite?? You should talk. You admit that you have no interest
in the subject matter of the paranormal and ufo groups and that
you are here solely as debunkers and you call *me* a hypocrite?
No, I don't think of you as a "skeptic with attitude"; it is a blatent
conceit to award yourself such an accolade, you are nothing
but a Troll.

What are your other targets - caravanners, fox hunters, colitis
support groups perhaps?

They're just toying with you. They'll do that with anyone, once they find 
out that it's so easy to slip clues past him.

No one said he has no interest in discussing the myths and misconceptions 
you "credulators" have misfiled as fact and information. However, it is 
amusing to see somone think it's logical to say that only those on one 
side of an issue are legitimate commentators. I haven't heard anything as 
silly as that since some believers in God told me to shut the fuck up 
about the God myth because my views didn't agree with theirs.

Anyway, discussions involving only those who see only one side of a 
question are disallowed by natural law on usenet. They can go either of 
two ways; either death by boredom or enlivenment by diverse opinions. 

I wonder what's the record number of "Me too" posts in one thread...