Aliens found on Mars!

[pErvinalia]

In reality, most skeptics are simply closed minded bigots who push the official narrative in virtually all things. They are not really 'truth' seekers, or 'fact finders'. They tend to be lazy-minded naysayers & contrarians,

Lying to prop up the particular nonsense du jour that you happen to be peddling is unedifying for such a remarkable space cadet as yourself. Only a few days ago you had a totally different view of skeptics:

"A true skeptic shows general curiosity regarding their environment, and when the preponderance of evidence makes a conclusion likely, they accept it and don't procrastinate, pretending to be an intellectual fact finding skeptic, when infact they are merely a poseur, an imposter skeptic, a camp following groupie.

If there is someone who does not show a general curiosity regarding their environment they are not, and can not be, a skeptic;"

So which is it?

Oh, and I don't think someone who refers to them self in the third person and claims to live on an asteroid can credibly comment on the intellectual worth of others..

[Rum]

Rum views this thread from a great height. Pondering the mysteries of the universe and with unique insight into how it *really* works he shits upon it, malodorously and with great enthusiasm!

[NineBerry]

NineBerry has a banana.

[Sean Hayden]

You try the banana.

This door is locked.

You try the banana.

You need a key.

[Brian Peacock]

Brian Peacock agrees with Sean Hayden, for he has the mark of the ancients upon his fundament.

[JimC]

I think Galaxian has had one too many alien probes applied...

[pErvinalia]

[laklak]

I just ate a banana. Really, like maybe 10 minutes ago. Coincidence?

[rainbow]

I just ate a banana. Really, like maybe 10 minutes ago. Coincidence?

I had a coincidence today.

[Galaxian]

I just ate a banana. Really, like maybe 10 minutes ago. Coincidence?

No! certainly NOT a coincidence. It was strictly an evidence of 'cause & effect'. As the good Nobel Laureate, Albert pronounced, "God does not play dice with the Universe!".
Nevertheless, exceptions are sometimes made in the case of oranges & mandarins (the fruit, not the Chinaman [the human, not the porcelain model. {the tabletop showpiece, not the one showing off a Gaultier dress)]}. Oranges & mandarins have a 27.38% probability that eating them is a result of coincidence.
That is due to bananas' strong susceptibility to 'morphic resonance', as discovered by our friend Rupert. Since bananas are the world's most consumed fruit, their morphic resonance is much stronger than that of oranges & mandarins, tipping their influence in the Multiverse over the critical tipping point, thus making their coincidental eating most certainly the result of cause & effect.

[pErvinalia]

Nevertheless, exceptions are sometimes made in the case of oranges & mandarins (the fruit, not the Chinaman [the human, not the porcelain model. {the tabletop showpiece, not the one showing off a Gaultier dress)]}.

Ok, I can pay that. That was genuinely clever..

[pErvinalia]

I think I've just realised that Galaxian is actually a really good troll. I'm actually serious. I doubt that someone who was a conspiracy theorist could make a post like that last one of his (the bit after the mandarin stuff). He's well educated enough to know that such a comment could only be seen as a massive pisstake of conspiracy theorists. Therefore, he's unlikely to be ridiculing himself that much, ergo, he's not an actual conspiracy theorist.

Unless of course he is trying to throw our trails off from the fact that he is a secret Joo illuminatiist. Damn you, tricksy Joo illuminatiists!!

[Galaxian]

I think I've just realised that Galaxian is actually a really good troll. I'm actually serious. I doubt that someone who was a conspiracy theorist could make a post like that last one of his (the bit after the mandarin stuff). He's well educated enough to know that such a comment could only be seen as a massive pisstake of conspiracy theorists. Therefore, he's unlikely to be ridiculing himself that much, ergo, he's not an actual conspiracy theorist.
Unless of course he is trying to throw our trails off from the fact that he is a secret Joo illuminatiist. Damn you, tricksy Joo illuminatiists!!

Thank you for the compliment. Your finest hour was setting up RationalForums.org, which I still miss.

[Hermit]

That is due to bananas' strong susceptibility to 'morphic resonance', as discovered by our friend Rupert.

We have a thread about Sheldrake. Early on Hermit opined "He makes some good criticism of scientific practice. Pity he mixes so much paranormal stuff into it. Sorry, insofar as he does that, he does not sound a lot more coherent than Deepak Chopra." Hermit picked that name at random from the range of con artists working the New Age mine. After a bit more reading Hermit discovered that Chopra approves of Sheldrake for wanting to end the breach between science and religion and was generally well disposed to Rupert's more outlandish hypotheses. No morphic resonance required for this coincidence. Also, when you speak of "our friend", include Hermit out, thanks.

[pErvinalia]

I think I've just realised that Galaxian is actually a really good troll. I'm actually serious. I doubt that someone who was a conspiracy theorist could make a post like that last one of his (the bit after the mandarin stuff). He's well educated enough to know that such a comment could only be seen as a massive pisstake of conspiracy theorists. Therefore, he's unlikely to be ridiculing himself that much, ergo, he's not an actual conspiracy theorist.
Unless of course he is trying to throw our trails off from the fact that he is a secret Joo illuminatiist. Damn you, tricksy Joo illuminatiists!!

Thank you for the compliment. Your finest hour was setting up RationalForums.org, which I still miss.

That you are a secret Joo illuminatiist?