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Enough with the crystal skulls already/ June 27

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Enough with the crystal skulls already

Gene Steinberg said:
Well, we don't research everyone's claimed degrees, but if you have concerns/qualms, indulge yourself. But remember, a degree only means that the person passed all the exams, and got the thesis OKayed. It doesn't promise brilliance. :)
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Not at all - trust me, I deal with graduate students all day. I know that a degree is just a degree. I just find the practice of inflating one's educational background to be a cause for concern. It's happened before.
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

I smell a rat. But, to keep from being "declared" delussional by the "science squad" I'll stop there. DMT is a legitmate area of research and anybody be they believer or skeptic is a fool if they simply "dismiss it" out of hand with no questions asked. No, I have not taken it but a even a quick look at books and the history of ayahuasca and other drugs would show at the very least something for medical science and others to take seriously. Name calling and "I'll save you the trouble" just sounds like somebody with an agenda. But, I could be wrong and in that case I am sorry. I'll tell you what I find more insane than the so called wacko on the corner fighting giant bugs. It's a so called inteligent person who thinks that all we are is chemicals and brain farts and that there is nothing at all that we don't or won't soon know about the world. No mystery and no such thing as a soul or a God or a reason for the universe. Now, stay with me cause those are not the things I find insane. If that's your worldview you are welcome to it. No, the thing I find insane is that somebody like that with a matereilistic worldview would listen to a "paranormal" podcast and come on a "paranormal" board and get upset with all the "paranormal" belfiefs and questions being bandied about. That my friend is obsessive and delusional to the extreme! Oh wait, I forgot. The "gaudians of scientific orthadoxy" are trying to save us poor deluded sky god fearing, ufo watching, mind expanding experiementers from ourselves. Much as the midevil church tried to beat and bludgeon the poor sinners into heaven. Well, thank Darwian for you folks. Without you I might have to think for myself and come to my own conclusions about the meaning of the world and the universe. How silly that would be.
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

tyder001 said:
I smell a rat. But, to keep from being "declared" delussional by the "science squad" I'll stop there. DMT is a legitmate area of research and anybody be they believer or skeptic is a fool if they simply "dismiss it" out of hand with no questions asked. No, I have not taken it but a even a quick look at books and the history of ayahuasca and other drugs would show at the very least something for medical science and others to take seriously. Name calling and "I'll save you the trouble" just sounds like somebody with an agenda. But, I could be wrong and in that case I am sorry. I'll tell you what I find more insane than the so called wacko on the corner fighting giant bugs. It's a so called inteligent person who thinks that all we are is chemicals and brain farts and that there is nothing at all that we don't or won't soon know about the world. No mystery and no such thing as a soul or a God or a reason for the universe. Now, stay with me cause those are not the things I find insane. If that's your worldview you are welcome to it. No, the thing I find insane is that somebody like that with a matereilistic worldview would listen to a "paranormal" podcast and come on a "paranormal" board and get upset with all the "paranormal" belfiefs and questions being bandied about. That my friend is obsessive and delusional to the extreme! Oh wait, I forgot. The "gaudians of scientific orthadoxy" are trying to save us poor deluded sky god fearing, ufo watching, mind expanding experiementers from ourselves. Much as the midevil church tried to beat and bludgeon the poor sinners into heaven. Well, thank Darwian for you folks. Without you I might have to think for myself and come to my own conclusions about the meaning of the world and the universe. How silly that would be.
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We know Tyder, we know.

What do you mean by "I smell a rat" though?
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

We know Tyder, we know.

What do you mean by "we" know? Ya got a rat in your pocket? :p
 
I know when I've been insulted. I don't have to take it here. I can go anywhere and be insulted. I've been thrown out of worse places than this. :p
 
Terjarv said:
I'm so confused right now
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You and me both! I've got 666 genuine crystal skulls on order (coming by Purolator on Friday) for my bathroom and I still haven't been able to calculate their proper positioning in space-time for optimal resonance and harmony. Wait...these skulls exist in higher dimensions too. That's gonna screw up all my math:mad:
 
OMG! Space aliens just channeled a rant right through my keyboard. It wuz cosmic! :p

Seriously, Angelo.. NO, I didin't call you Shirley. ...Ohhh, it's been a long day and I've got to come back down to earth...OK, now where was I? Oh yeah. Seriously Angelo, I meant to say that it appears that perhaps the person who started the thread had a personal agenda. But, I could be wrong. That's what I meant by "I smell a rat." AS for the "You've said that before tyder" I have one thing to say to you....:p
 
tyder001 said:
OMG! Space aliens just channeled a rant right through my keyboard. It wuz cosmic! :p

Seriously, Angelo.. NO, I didin't call you Shirley. ...Ohhh, it's been a long day and I've got to come back down to earth...OK, now where was I? Oh yeah. Seriously Angelo, I meant to say that it appears that perhaps the person who started the thread had a personal agenda. But, I could be wrong. That's what I meant by "I smell a rat." AS for the "You've said that before tyder" I have one thing to say to you....:p
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I just wasn't sure what you were talking about - I was confused about "the I smell a rat" comment. Thanks for clarifying.
I guess that was a bit of an insult, eh? Sorry.
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

bitfiend said:
Warning accepted. I'll withdraw voluntarily... The research your friend is doing isn't research at all, and his AMORC Rosicrucian order is a mail-order religious scam on par with Scientology but less successful. :/
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Go ahead, prove it--debunk Stephn Mehler. At least he keeps an open mind about all those wonderful, mysterious (appearing) mysteries this show is about.

If you are such a positive part of the solution, pick your topic and we'll have you on as a guest on the Paracast. If not, I'll gladly ban you because A) you have a bad attitude
or B) you asked for permission to ban yourself. Go back 2 coast2coast and continue surfing....
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

He's right about the Rosicrucian order - Brian Dunning lays out the facts pretty clearly:

What's Up with the Rosicrucians?

And those are facts, not opinions. Unfortunately, they sound like a new age scam to me. Mehler doesn't sound like a bad guy, but to say that the people he is associated with do not have an agenda or a reason to find something special about these skulls is dishonest. The more mysterious the skulls, the better for them. That's like asking a tobacco company for a scientific study on the effects of smoking in the 1950s.
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

I laughed out loud when he mentioned his association with The Rosicrucians. The Crystal Skull research community is even more of a laugh riot than the Crop Circle bunch. At least they have folks like Colin Andrews and Terje Toftenes who are willing to break ranks in the interest of the truth.


 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

Everyone knows that you find an ancient temple, place the skull onto the headless skeleton, take a few hits of crystal head vodka and a couple of hits off a crystal head bong and then you'll be able to download the knowledge of the universe without your head exploding.

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j.r.
 
guess that was a bit of an insult, eh? Sorry
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No problem Angel. I'm over it. My real challenge today was bringing my eight year old home from day camp. (he's also been accepted into the gifted class next year) Yes, I'm bragging. Anyway, he sees a sign and starts to ask me about abortion. He even knew about women getting their tubes tied. His mom has always discussed this kind of stuff with him. I was a casualty of being in the right or wrong place. :redface: From there to the egg and the sperm and then into theology and evolution and even how skin color is due to which part of the earth a person is from. I was proud and horrified at the same time. But, he's a little scientist (which he announced his intent to be at 4 years old.) Whewww.
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

Excellent. Another show on the crystal skulls! I was just watching a doco on them last night. Oh and now we have a scientist on talking about them. But it seems, at least to all of the junior scientists or the religio/scientific community that he is not Their kind of scientist. Quick ring Lance to get him to do a ring around and see if we can assertain:) whether his degrees are real or not. Sounds like we could lose half of the forum membership as well over this one :redface:. How dare our hosts bring on another perveyor of skullduggerry. Oh the shame, the embarrassment, the sheer Noorieness of it all. Someone please ring Biedny to special guest star in any future episode where the hosts feel the need to introduce any guest whose subject matter smacks of any potential woo. We could get Kevin Daly to help slap the woo out of them as an aside. Boo hoo the wooo woo that you do do. We could get ufology to run a poll on who creates the best insult directed towards a show host and get him to delete it after a few days. We could also get softbeard to donate some of his 666 crystal skulls, he has on order for the drug addled to create their own crystal skull head bongs. Just make sure you clean them as they might have remnants of softbeard attached to them. Nothing worse than a skull with soft pubic hair beard smeared all over them.
I am exited about listening to this show. Just like the last time these type of shows seem to spark the greatest interest. And by the way if you hadn't noticed yet it creates just the type of hype the show needs to flourish and grow. So keep up the good work men. I am sure that we can exceed 24 pages for this one. We may even suffer some banning casualties over this one. (oh well it's all for the greater good).
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

It really does always seem to suprise me at the venom directed at a "paranormal" show and a parnaomal show host for acutally doing a show about a "paranormal" subject. :p

Now, I'm not a fan of the Crystal Skull subject. But, it is legitimate esoteric subject and many here are interested. Also, I do agree you can't say well so and so is a scientist but the other guy isn't. I get tired of hearing people who are "not" scientist themselves calling men and women who actually do research names and casting inuendos. This is not a 'professional peer reviewed journal" this is an entertainment and exchange of ideas talk show about the (Gasp!) Paranormal.
 
Enough with the crystal skulls already

Oh yeah! That's right the show's name is the "PARAcast". Forgive me if i am wrong but doesn't the PARA part represent the paranormal? Therefore don't the hosts need to provide PARANORMAL subjects and guests who study these same subjects? Sometimes shouldn't these same guests have degrees or be some sort of scientist? Does the show have someone who vets theses same scientists as to the validity of these degrees? (i guess not). Perhaps it's better if they are not a scientist at all, making it easier to dismiss the entire subject out of hand.
Perhaps we could some guests on who study Homeopathy, maybe even an Astrologer or two. To me they would be interesting. But wait! What's that noise? Oh i know, it's the howling. The howling from the paranormanazis as they circle this thread bearing their teeth and waiting for posts like yours and mine, Steve, just so they can sharpen their fangs and claws to better savage any subject that contains material that doesn't have legit science attached to it.
Personally i think Christopher O'Brien should be chained to a tree and flogged with a cat o' nine sceptics until the flesh falls from his back. Then his critics can rush in and rub some colloidal silver into his wounds, leaving him there for the thunderbirds to pick at his carcass before the greys from uranus core out his anus and remove his sex organs so as they can enjoy some earthly sweetmeats with their space brothers the Pleiadeans.
 
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