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Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs Seeing Is Believing on ABC @ 8PM EST
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Eminem: Where can I find sites confirming this is a hoax?
As for UFO's and aliens on earth, they could be real or fake. I'm not a paranoid "believer" however I find things like the Art Bell call very interesting. On the other hand, there's simply not enough evidence to confirm. I will say that space is a HUGE, endless place - damn near all of it still undiscovered to us - so the possibility that there is life in another galaxy/solar system is very very real. Furthermore it isn't dumb to think that the planets in our solar system once had life or still perhaps does.
Can't speak for anyone else, but it sure would be nice to know if we found life on another planet somewhere before the end of my life.
As for UFO's and aliens on earth, they could be real or fake. I'm not a paranoid "believer" however I find things like the Art Bell call very interesting. On the other hand, there's simply not enough evidence to confirm. I will say that space is a HUGE, endless place - damn near all of it still undiscovered to us - so the possibility that there is life in another galaxy/solar system is very very real. Furthermore it isn't dumb to think that the planets in our solar system once had life or still perhaps does.
Can't speak for anyone else, but it sure would be nice to know if we found life on another planet somewhere before the end of my life.
Spectral Glider
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Red Mercury said:
It comes from man, of course. In the early days, it was obsessions with god, many gods, or devils. The idea of greater forces existing and/or controlling things has always been a human idea. And if you ask me, it comes from boredom or disillusionment with current life, or perhaps born out of hope that maybe things are different elsewhere. It's why there is such a strong belief that when you die you are going to a "better place." As for the big eyed alien look specifically, notice how it started as something people are familar with, and that is something kind of human looking. Then what do you do to make it look different? Why give it bigger eyes and then slowly shift other facial features from there.
I always wondered why the aliens would have two arms, two legs and two eyes just like humans. At the very least you would think other life from distant planets wouldn't also look like they had descended from earthly apes.
In that sense I am very skeptical. I do believe there is other life out there, somewhere. But what I doubt is the billion to one shot that they are thousands of years more advanced than us and have discovered earth through some space time continuum or something and are visiting it regularly. I also wouldn't be entirely surprised that if the day came that a spaceship is found, it is shaped like a brick and has absolutely no lights on it whatsoever.
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How did I know the content of your post before I even came in?FoneBone said:
In any case you're slightly off the mark; his status as a biased MSM hack makes him a douche, but he's a fuckwit for doing a UFO story.
Hitokage said:The long run. The great escape. The eternal download. That flirt. Relaxing drive. Go for the kill. Boring post. Give me a call. ...while we're speaking of forgotten English. Besides, the final judge in language is popularity, unless you want to label most of modern english defiled* already, since a great deal of words have been so successfully altered and mutilated. It's linguistic evolution at work.
* Funny you use "defile" when referring to the promiscuous bastard child of languages.
After you're done trying to subtly "own" me
, I'd advise that you head over to Merriam-Webster.com and look up all the words you italicized (bolded above). All of them have entries as nouns...except for "reveal" (which does have an entry as a noun, but it's unrelated to what the verb "reveal" means and hence the word cannot be used in such a manner, such as in "the big reveal").Yes, I realize that popularity ultimately determines linguistic convention, but I wasn't mistaken when I said that the word "reveal" can't be used as a noun if we're speaking of proper english. Obviously, people can do whatever the hell they like, and I don't really care-- I've just always found that particular phrase funny, partly because of the butchery of the language, and partly because of the context I've always heard it in (typically on makeover shows).
Hitokage said:That only means the usage hasn't been popularized yet.
<grumble grumble>
Yeah, but that's the point-- as of now it isn't correct. Ten years from now, perhaps you'll have a point.
Can I just go around making up phrases and using words as different parts of speech, and then when people tell me I'm mistaken, I can just say that "it hasn't caught on yet"? (I'd also like to check on the etymology/usage of those words as nouns to see whether they were around as long as the verbs have been, or if they were only "popularized" and added as nouns later, as you say)
Cyan said:It has been popularized. Dictionary.com is far from the final arbiter of popular language. In general, if you say "the big reveal," people will know what you mean. No one except uppity grammar mavens will correct you.
It's still a hysterical phrase.
"And now for...the big reveal." :lol Gets me every time.
Maybe it's just that I picture all the expectant family/friends waiting to see the "new look"-- I mean, the whole scenario just cracks me up, so I guess that's where a lot of it comes from.I wasn't being a grammar whore, btw-- I just find it funny, not offensive in any way.
DOWN WITH "BIG REVEAL!"
EDIT: Btw, I commend myself for having pegged you as a "big reveal" proponent from the get-go!
Red Mercury said:Anyone watching this? I don't have high hopes, but I'm a sucker for this stuff. Here is the official press release thing - Link
Maybe it'll live up to Sightings quality?
I HATE YOU RED!
Yesterday I read this it said it's on tommarow at 8:00pm est.
This got me furious because I could of watched it yesterday!
You told me it's today I used to love sightings and waited all last night and today to watch it.
I never watch Tv but should of known they wouldn't play cool shit like that on a friday night!
FUCK DAMN SHIT AND OTHER EXPLICITIVES!!!
YOU RUINED MY 8-10 block of time!
boredJonathan
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KiNeSiS said:
Um. Huh? I never gave a date, or said Today or Tomorrow. I included a link which says "Feb 24th'". Sorry if you got confused and stuff. Maybe it'll pop up on the torrent sites?
Honestly though, while it was remotely interesting to watch I was overall pretty dissapointed with it. It gave a good look at Roswell, or at least the most skeptical look I have seen in awhile, but beyond that it was pretty average. No where near 'Sightings'!
Red I was busting your chops I'm not mad.
I'm dissapointed that I didn't see it because stuff like this is rare on TV today.
It's cool that you found out it was on.
Hopefully it does come on that sucks that it was dissapointing.
I love the supernatural any one know any cool sites?
I need my supernatural and or alien fix.
I'm dissapointed that I didn't see it because stuff like this is rare on TV today.
It's cool that you found out it was on.
Hopefully it does come on that sucks that it was dissapointing.
I love the supernatural any one know any cool sites?
I need my supernatural and or alien fix.
in 1997 and 1998 i listened to alot of Coast to Coast AM when Art Bell was hosting the show every night. some of the 'information' and 'theories' presented by Bell's guests scared the living shit out of me. one of them said that when you die, the 'light' that people who have NDE's claim to see, is actually a trick. it is the Grey Aliens drawing you in. they capture your soul and store you. they are like our masters or something. I would listen to this crap while i was laying down, falling sleep. man it was fucking scary. it really freaked me out a couple times :lol
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It sort of depresses me to think that by the time my time is up, I may never know much about anything that isn't within our galaxy. Things like that make me wish I were born a few thousand years from now.Diablos said:
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