(2017-10-07, 11:58 AM)jkmac Wrote: [ -> ]Pssst- you seem like a rational (well mostly) and thoughtful person, but really?
I suppose it's my own fault- by opening one's self to what 99% of population writes off as pure and simple craziness, I guess one has no hard defense against stuff that goes well beyond what one might glean from "main stream" psi accounts. And I guess that's because there ARE NO "mainstream" accounts. It's all wacko for most people. And most people can just write stuff like your story off as just one more crazy thing to ignore.
The bitch is, for people like me who DO buy into some of this stuff, where to draw the line? Where do you throw up your hands and say, "this is plain and simple nonsense".
I have no answer, maybe someone else can help me here. It's like taking a pill and destroying your immune system. You are now open to any sickness that is out there and have no way to fight it.
Again- it's my own fault I suppose.
EDIT- just wanted to add- I am not saying this topic is crazy-town (although it may be). I am asking how, once we enter this world of believing in marginally provable stuff,,, where to draw the line on accepting what may sound like nutty talk? I would say it comes down to evidence, but the problem is, MANY people think the evidence that we currently accept, is invalid.
When ppl decide what I present is outside of their comfort zone, crazy, zany and/or simply too wild to be true, then I have performed a service. They get to take my POV and the extreme POV ('can't possibly be true') and choose what they prefer. Who learns without contrast? No one.
How many times have you (pl) seen or heard something that was, according to you, "off the charts"? How many times, down the road, do you see those things come to fruition and remember "Yeah, hey, that nutjob on PsiQuest", a historical marker that assists in the validation? Often? Occasionally? Rarely? Once? One white crow.
From my POV, I wonder wtf are ppl doing with their time? How is it possible that anyone in their right mind would claim that ETs are non-existent? It's a non-starter.
If they exist, then why is it so improbable that they are communicating with us? If my POV, which is decidedly the POV of many ETs, is inaccurate then go find ET communicators and set your own parameters. Do you feel that you are not worthy?
It's is the time of the season to grow up. Old terminologies (reincarnation, afterlife, time, etc.) need to be released, new ones (simultaneous incarnations, energy transitioning and vibratory placeholders, Now) employed. As always, it is your choice but there will come a time, very, very soon, that if you have not chosen to jump tracks to the train of the Age Of New Information, then you will be stuck in that physical reality...while others will be 'stuck' in theirs.
We won't be able to see each other anymore. "Hmm, where did that nutjob go, oh well, back to arguing the insignificance of scientific significance..." as if Pssst never existed.