A skeptic struggeling for an answer

Hi all, apolgies of this is the wrong place to post.


I like to believe that I am a skeptic. If something sounds too far fetched, then I'll search for a psychological/scientific answer to shot the theory out of the sky. I pride my self on this outlook. Then I learned of crop circles and I am dumbstruck. Is it really the work of a crazed farmer, running around in the dead of the night with a tape measurer and a combine harvester? Or is it proof of alien activity?

If I was asked to discuss this subject in class tomorrow, I would say that crop circles are the handy work of clever farmers, knowing the media and tourist attention would boost his income.

What do you think?

Is there any other 'non paranormal' answers?

Should I just give up and accept that this one can't be answerd with a rational scientific answer?


Ziva

Hi there

Ok, let me start by saying that I do not belive in alien abduction. I am a Psychology student who is writing a thesis on 'psychological explainations for alien abduction claims'. My reason for joining the site is for research purposes.

Let me tell you my explanations;

1. People are lying in attempts to liven up there mundane lives.
2. Hallucination during the sleep paralacis stage
3. Fever*
4. People so despreatly want to belive it, that the actually talk themselves into thinking that it's real.


*It is my theory that 'alien abduction' is like a tangable fever. A Hysteria. If you have a community of poeple and one contracts a disease, the others will start to become paranoid. The will think they are displaying the same symtoms as the diseased. They will belive that it is happening to them. The 'claim' for alien abduction is just like this, only on a more wide spread basis.


I don't dicount the fact that 'other' beings may exist. I just don't think that people have been abducted.

I am not here to cause offence. I am here to conduct research. Who knows, maybe my research may change my outlook on the topic. So please respect my opinion.