--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > > <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > > > Dang, the Edgster telling it like it is. I have hi-lighted > > > some of the parts I most enjoyed, and which I felt were > > > most right on. > > > > And another skeptopath to add to the list. > > Thank you Sister Aloysius.
Lessee now, Sister Aloysius is supposed to be the gal who thinks doubt is a terrible thing, right? So your comment assumes inflexible certainty on my part and a great fear of doubt, right? A small sampling from previous posts of mine on crop circles: ----- I think ETs are *less* probable than that they're all made by humans. I don't think they're messages from the Space Brothers, but I really have no clue whatsoever what/ who might be creating the ones that don't seem to have been made by humans. I have no idea what other possible causes there could be. None of the explanations I've seen proposed seem likely, and I haven't been able to dream any up on my own. I don't *believe* any of the currently available explanations for crop circles. I don't *disbelieve* any of them either. I. just. don't. know. I think being able to take the "don't know" position at present is crucial if we're ever to have a hope of figuring any of it out. At this point we don't have enough hard information, or perhaps even the conceptual tools, to put this stuff into boxes and label them with anything but "Who the hell knows?" ---- Yup, that's Sister Aloysius, all right. Not a bit of doubt, ironclad certainty as far as the eye can see. <cackle> Just as a little bonus, Curtis to me from two posts in a previous discussion of crop circles: ----- Your answer was useful. It shows that you have an unqualified "I don't know how they appear" where mine contains the bias that "I don't know how people did this." This is where I find the topic useful, to uncover such biases in my thinking. I don't really have a solid reason for making that assumption, but I don't feel compelled by the information of the site to challenge my bias. ----- Regarding the crop circles: I found that my ability to assess the claims of unusual findings at some sites is severely limited. Although I am skeptical of claims that people know what any of this means (i.e. UFOs), I understand my limits in evaluating their reporting truthfulness, or accuracy, and what any of it may mean. I am willing to move the whole topic of unusual findings at circle sites into the "I don't have a clue" bin. ----- Curtis is a *genuine* skeptic about crop circles, not a skeptopath. He also took the time to do his homework and read some of the factual material about them, looking at several of the sites I recommended and digging up a bunch of his own.
