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In alt.paranormal.crop-circles Eric Hocking wrote:
Brian Sandle wrote in message ... The parent thread article continues to be discsussed on alt.paranormal.crop-circles, where our other replies, missing from nz.general, are. snip [...] So maybe we have a hint there of Eric Hocking's (subconscious?) need to suppress. HOw about keeping my name out of your bizarre conspiracy theories Brian and address the points of the discussion that I raise instead. Personal attacks are unbecoming at the best of times, but to imply that an atheist is consciously or subconsiously a papal apologist should be beyond even your most wild conjectures. Actually an atheist, or `a-theist' is actually reacting against theists, or followers of gods or supernatural powers. I don't think it is a personal attack, just an observation of possible sceptic motivation. Are sceptics witch burners? If we agree that witches ought to be burnt, then we need to find out (i) which of their creations are supernatural, (ii) which creations are part of their rituals, and though may be intended to portray the supernatural, are not actually created supernaturally. Then we have to decide whether (i) or (ii) or both are causes for burning. Or are some of them (iii) something not understood, like ball lightning. Then do we burn witches whom we think caused it, a sort of thing which has happened. Last evening we had a TV program about schools in the 1950s and punishments and admonishments were handed out on misunderstandings, it seemed. Maybe you feel, Eric, that if you can point to crop circles being `hoaxes' that you can defuse the situation. If some of them don't happen when naughty people are not supposed to go onto crop areas then that is a reason that all crop circles are `hoaxes', jokes or some sort of graffiti, and witches do not have to be burned. But you want to go so far as to remove the term, `fairy rings' from the scientific literature, which seems to indicate a hypersensitivity. |
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