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You are correct of course. That "random experiment" only shows that people could easily have built those structures. Just like the written records from ancient Egypt "claimed" they were built. So it proves nothing and is obviosly nonsense. Those structure must have been built by aliens! The dates when all the pyramids were built and for which kings is also recorded in the historical record. But those historical records are all wrong. The Egyptians who wrote those accounts were fantasising under the influent of hallucinogenic compounds. After they saw aliens build a pyramid, they falsely recorded the structure being ordered by the previous king and created fake work records to support the lie.
No, the real answer is in the movie Stargate. The pyramids are actually interstellar space craft.
"Assume nothing. Question everything." The Thinking Atheist
So why are you assuming that aliens and/or hidden agenda must be involved as soon as their is something we don't know yet? You immediately stop questioning and assign unknown things to those two things, instead of searching for a rationale explanation first.
Who says' he's sane? There nothing like a good old false dichotomy to prove a point eh?
So basically you are saying that if person is against nonsense and are fighting for real truth in lie heap he is insane...OK! Then i rather be insane than puppet of BS. Monkeyape lifestyle and belief you are one maybe gives you nice experience but you will soon realize something is not right..no wonder there is saying that unbelievable truth hurts more than believable lie.
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So basically you are saying that if person is against nonsense and are fighting for real truth in lie heap he is insane...OK!
The point is: You aren't. You claim to fight for real truth, but in reality you do not question your sources or consider other options. You have already your explanation for everything and anyone who questions that is a "puppet of BS". That is not how fighting for the truth works.
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Monkeyape lifestyle and belief you are one
This has nothing to do with believe at all, it is a biological fact that we are apes.
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you will soon realize something is not right..no wonder there is saying that unbelievable truth hurts more than believable lie.
OK, let us play that game, tell us what the truth is and what the lies are. Back up your claims with facts, not some conspiracy theories from Youtube. Show us a proof for one of your claims, since it is the truth you must have evidence that, after serious research, make you believe what you claim.
No, there are monkies, apes and great apes. The great apes include chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans and humans. Yes, we have a common ancestor/ancestress, depending on which sex one prefers to focus on. (ha, ha) The apes also had a common ancestral link. So did the monkies. Further back in time, those three common progenitors split from a common ancestral link.
So basically you are saying that if person is against nonsense and are fighting for real truth in lie heap he is insane...OK! Then i rather be insane than puppet of BS. Monkeyape lifestyle and belief you are one maybe gives you nice experience but you will soon realize something is not right..no wonder there is saying that unbelievable truth hurts more than believable lie.
I'm saying that anyone who adopts a view of reality that has no evidence to support it, and then interprets all alternative arguments and evidence in the light of that fantasy cannot be fully wired properly.
You claim to be against nonsense, and then you proceed to produce vast quantities of the stuff. Your entire argument is based on this false dichotomy - If we don't understand something, an external malign influence MUST be at fault.
There is no must about it. You offer one hypothesis. When someone offers a hypothesis as an explanation for a given phenomena, the next step is to offer evidence to demonstrate that your hypothesis has merit. This allows others to look for holes in your evidence or offer counter hypotheses with associated evidence, we can then asses these various explanations and select the one that appears to be the most consistent with our current understanding of the world.
This is how rationality mostly proceeds - in small tedious baby steps.
What you are doing is offering a hypothesis, but no evidence. When we ask for said evidence you simply repeat your hypothesis in different words, point at other people repeating your hypothesis, shrilly declare that we are all ignorant and mislead, attack our motives for deliberately misunderstanding you. Everything except do what you should be doing to support your argument.
These are all the hallmarks of religious argument, not scientific argument.
Another material that should make most people question this idea further:
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Is there anybody out there? Astronomers and dreamers have been asking this question since the dawn of humanity — and yet, the mystery remains. Are we the only life forms in the universe, or are neighbors like us lurking just beyond the reaches of our solar system? NASA has made it a mission to discover the truth. In March 2009, the space agency launched the Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery program designed to look for possible life-supporting planets. In just the first 16 months of operation, Kepler has discovered 2,326 potential planets. s o u r c e
Recently there have been rumors about finding another planet(s) not just to find ETs but also further home for humans. Just imagine if we would actually succeed finding extra Earth to live on - even other lifeforms would be extra happy! Earth in current state is kinda messed up - ask anyone.
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Yeah, so what's your point?
NASA is looking for planets like ours. That must automatically mean ET phoned home and built a pyramid or 10 around the world. Is that what you are saying now?
a NASA Discovery program designed to look for possible life-supporting planets.
A useless endeavour if the purpose is to find life. Earth life only exists in one place - here. But of course, people are driven by the ridiculous belief that life on other worlds will be just like here (and hence, can only exist on planets and moons that are just like Earth) and all intelligent beings in the universe must be bipedal humanoids, because we are the apex of evolution.
A useless endeavour if the purpose is to find life. Earth life only exists in one place - here. But of course, people are driven by the ridiculous belief that life on other worlds will be just like here (and hence, can only exist on planets and moons that are just like Earth) and all intelligent beings in the universe must be bipedal humanoids, because we are the apex of evolution.
That is not what scientists believe. Most (all?) of them are well aware that there can be different forms of life and that life on other planets would evolve different as it has done on Earth. There are some nice documentations about possibilities how such a life could look like, for example this one: http://youtu.be/zHzPEpHYtXQ
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That is not what scientists believe.
Randicus didn't say scientist, he said "people" indicating, to me at least, it was a generic term intended to indicate laymen and their beliefs.
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Most (all?) of them are well aware that there can be different forms of life and that life on other planets would evolve different as it has done on Earth. There are some nice documentations about possibilities how such a life could look like, for example this one: http://youtu.be/zHzPEpHYtXQ
Until we actually find "life" on other planets we have no idea what it will look like.
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