"Widdershins" <sinistre@liripipe.com> wrote:

"altheim" <altheim@freeuk.com> licked the point of a #2 Yellow Pencil, and

wrote:

"researcher" <crbjlrnld@yahoo.com> wrote:

Michael Davis wrote:

altheim wrote:

This isn't a debating forum. This is Usenet. It is an entertainment
forum. I find debunking UFO kooks to be entertaining. HTH.

"It is the responsibility...  We are not smart enough to decide which
pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not."

That's a nice collection of quotes you have there. The two I like best
are:

--Albert Einstein
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such trifling investments of fact."

--Winston Churchill
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is

proof

against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting
ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

It doesn't matter a hoot, within the confines of these newsgroups,
whether or not a snippet of observation can be proved, the
pleasure is derived from the conjecture.

So, you admit to not really caring about seperating truth from
fantasy. God to know.

It never ceases to amaze me how easily you folks arrive
at the most contrived conclusions, so long as they suit your
purposes.

Of course I care about the truth but the expectation is
that that will be the ultimate fruit of debate. In such a
field you cannot reasonably expect to have it handed
to you on a plate.

--
altheim