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I understand the good intentions, as I'd said. My point is that David is a grown man, a professional. Fundraisers for good intentions are great...when they can help Darfur refugees or hungry kids. For a research project, I'm not so sure. There are lots of ways to fund serious research...

This whole thread strikes me as peculiar, like a strange Spanky and Our Gang "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" episode. Frankly I find it a little unseemly and condescending, notwithstanding the obvious good intentions.

The point of distinction, I think, rests entirely with the belief that the planet is sentient, that it is or is not an intelligent thing. To be frank, I have never even considered that as a possibility. But I am interested in how one would come to that conclusion and what the ramifications of...

First, let me say that I appreciate your setting a context that this is a belief, so I wouldn't condescend by asking you for a "proof". But I find this an intriguing proposition. Exactly what do you mean; that the planet is capable of forming and acting upon rational thought? What led you to...

Good idea, planting that notion. Within 6 months we'll have an Archbishop of The First Church of Crop Circlery, in 9 months they'll be organized as a not-for-profit, within a year they'll be wearing funny hats and within 18 months they'll excommunicate their first heretic for claiming crop...

God save us from sincere people with warped beliefs. Inevitably they end up being elected to high office.

The physical world is nothing if not a compilation of various bits of "solid evidence". Crop circles, however, are simply more bits of physical evidence which are very far away from being even remotely "paranormal". There is, at the least, very compelling evidence that these are man-made works...

LOOK! If you're going to introduce facts into this then how are we expected to pretend to follow the gibbering pseudo-science?

I'm hoping the good news is that there won't be any more discussion about crop circles on The Paracast for a few years. I find few topics more useless and time-abusive than one dealing with pretty drawings in fields, and I really don't enjoy the breathless quest for meaning most of the "experts"...

I'd imagine people wouldn't talk about it in public if they were only occasionally awake in the middle of having sex. It's generally accepted that both parties should be awake and participative, except in instances in which one party has an air valve attached.

Seems that whizzing sound was your crack flying over heads. Guess one must be a '50s kid to appreciate it?! For me, that may be the only thing I've read in this whole thread that made me laugh, or, more accurately, not frown. So, thanks for that. It's welcome in a "room" full of...

Appreciate the links, by way of context and background. You're clearly a very creative and thoughtful guy. What is almost immediately striking is that you seem to have fundamental connections of intelligence and strong "artistic" predisposition with, at the least, Messrs. Biedny, Streiber...

He's on, like, over 100 radio stations weekly as well as his television appearances. He'd need a "hook", I suspect, to appear in his jam packed schedule. Based on what my company paid him to appear at a business conference some years ago he's certainly a brilliant man and a marvelous speaker but...

Hope springs eternal, I guess. I never said I didn't expect insults. However, I would have expected there to be a modicum of respect and even leeway for differing opinions in a forum such as this. What I'm seeing is that that is not necessarily true . In fact, the back-and-forth between several...

I found your post as far from ironic as I can imagine. It was sarcastic and unnecessary. And I'm still unsure what precipitated it. My point is this; Rob is entitled ( I thought!) to express an opinion, even one with which you or I or even David disagree, without being subjected to a personal...

Chuckleberryfinn, is there some personal animosity between you and Rob? I was really put off by the tone of your note and definitely by the content. And why did David Biedny "thank you"? I never understood why message boards almost always seem to sooner or later lapse into attacks on persons...

There's still a good deal of debate about the impact mankind has had on what is otherwise a natural cycle. And the important question is why that debate is so rabid and irresolvable. And personally I think we can thank Al Gore for that. He opted to put a political spin on the topic, used bad...

i understand. I wouldn't tell these guys here either. How about you just tell me?;) What I've come to from long, sometimes painful, experience is that you share private information of any sort only at your own peril, and certainly you only share it with persons in whom you have explicit trust...

Is this hairy guy from the same kabbalah sect that's all the rage now with Madonna et al? He somehow made creation of all things tiresome and boring. The only prediction that's certain to be accurate is that on December 22, 2012 a lot of people are going to (1) look very foolish and/or (2) drag...

I can imagine you would; it's a frustrating area of concentration, I'm sure, filled with charlatans, phonies, self-dubbed "experts", nuts and near-nuts. The notion of having listeners fill-in is not, for me, very appealing. The balance offered by Gene and David is part of the show's appeal. A...