The difference between been open minded and paranoid

I often get told by believers that im too closed minded, on the contrary i am open minded, the ones who call me close minded are usually paranoid i.e so open minded that their brain has fallen out of the big gaping hole they have created.

Lets look at the following scenario. A man claims to have been abducted by aliens whilst in bed, under hypnosis the man recalls a dreadful encounter with aliens. The man then writes a book about his experiences to sell to you.

The standard open minded person will go 'why do most abductions take place in the bed? Could this have been sleep paralysis? Who was this hypnotist he saw? Was he qualified, and what was this hypnotists interest in aliens? What does this man have to gain from writing a book about aliens? Who benefits from him been abducted?

The paranoid conspiracy theorist will go 'Im buying that book'. Theres no critical analysis of the mans experiences, no attempt to try and prove them to be false. They are willing to take everything they read at face value and they believe his story because he seems sincere. Or in other words they want to believe his story so badly to add meaning to their otherwise empty lives.

The people who write books about their alien experiences are laughing all the way to the bank because theres people out there gullible enough to believe every word they say without trying to prove their claims to be false.

We don't live on the set of the X-Files here, im not saying all believers are like this, but some do really need to grow up and view every alien story with a skeptical eye. Being open minded is neither immediately dismissing nor accepting something to be true, being open minded is reading an abduction claim, working out whether it all adds up, whether theres any evidence to support the claim and then deciding whether it warrants investigating further or whether its just plain old BS.

What does every end of the world prediction have in common...

What do all the millions and millions of end of world predictions that have been forecast to date have in common.......none have come true

Does this not tell you something? Like maybe people making these end of world predictions are just pulling dates out of thin air.

Take a look at this site and look at all the stupid predictions people have made and notice that every one of them was wrong...

http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/9941/


When the world does eventually end the only people who have a chance of predicting it in advance will be scientists, not Pastor Bill West from the evangical we love god church, not some crazy old cook who lived hundreds of years ago, not some psuedo religious reporter.

If the Sun was to randomly go Super-Nova in thirty minutes, not a single person on this planet will be able to predict it in advance, Pastor Bill will be sat at home eating his dinner in blissful ignorance, the crazy old cook will still be in his grave, and the psuedo religious reporter will be living it up in his mansion, and i'll still be sat here to trying to persuade people to stop believing in this rubbish.

Humans have been predicting the sh*t will hit the fan since the beggining of time, its in human nature, and no matter how much time passes, people will still be trying to use religious texts to predict the end of the world, and no matter how many predictions fail bible bashers will continue to crunch numbers together and randomly splice words together from their sacred texts to forge new previously unseen meanings.

Im willing to bet that the next major threat to the United States will be labelled the anti-christ, and when Jesus doesn't return people will call it off as a false alarm and then wait for the next major threat to arise.

Why any conspiracy/abduction surrounding Greys sets off my bullcrap detectors...

Im not saying that i don't believe in UFO's, on the contrary there are some strange unproven sightings, i think there is a slim chance that these UFO's may be alien spacecraft. However if they are alien spacecraft, then i most certainly don't think they are occupied by little grey men with big eyes.

Neither do i believe ANY of the abduction accounts ever to have emerged, the vast majority happen whilst in bed (this alone should lead you to question its authenticity) anybody who says 'they screw with your head to make you think it was a dream' in my opinion needs help. It smacks of social paranoia and hysteria on the highest level.

If aliens were to abduct a humans they would first have to get to Earth, given the inherent odds against intelligent life developing and surviving to an advanced age there will likely be very few intelligent alien species in our Galaxy, making it all the more likely they will be thousands of lightyears away. The laws of physics prevent faster than light travel, to get to earth they'd need something more exotic such as wormhole technology.

Any alien race capable of developing wormhole technology would have spaceships so advanced that they would never crash onto our planet...ever, let alone dozens of times. There would be no malfunctions, no botched landings, no Roswells, their ships would be too advanced. Every record of a supposed crashed UFO describe occupants looking like the traditional grey...once again this smacks of mass hysteria, if we agree that alien technology would be so advanced that their craft would not crash then the aliens inhabiting the spaceships could not be greys.

Alien abductions, if aliens capable of travelling faster than the speed of light and breaking the laws of physics abducted you, you wouldn't know about it, not under regressive hypnotism, not in dream like memories, not in broad daylight, they would be advanced enough to permanently erase memory in the flick of a switch. I find so called probing scars and implants absurd in the least, what so greys can be break the laws of physics but they'll be damned if they can erase some simple scar tissue damage? So advanced they can cross star systems in leaps and bounds yet they have to resort to making implants that look like shards of glass...we are capable of producing tracking devices more advanced than that right now. Aliens would produce implants of microscopic size that you would never find.

In short anything that has ever had anything to do with greys has been unimaginative, science fiction b-plot dross that looks like its been taken straight out of a page of x-files fan fiction that anybody with any sense can debunk and prove to be absurd

Wake up, stop living the fantasy, if the UFO's we are seeing are spaceships, their occupants will not be greys.