Magical Realist
Valued Senior Member
And they say there is no evidence for paranormal entities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0ZtXYw3QA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0ZtXYw3QA
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Well there you go, a television show on youtube is all the evidence anyone would need to be convinced. So magic and aliens - their existence is now fact, end of story. Thanks for clearing that up.
I really am interested - how old are you?
Oookay, while I would agree that age isn't something that needs to be discussed, I would hardly call what was said there an insult... and to be fair, the evidence in that video was... well... saying it was "iffy " is putting it mildly.
You banned me for saying Balerion was acting like a spoiled toddler. Now MY being insulted for being a child isn't enough? I'd say your bias is showing again. And as for the evidence, careful precautions were taken to ensure it wasn't hoaxed. What's your explanation for them?
You have a history of insulting people and several active infractions for doing so... Origin has no active infractions (and never has had any).
So whether what someone says is an insult or not depends on their history? That's a strange criteria. I would think the same standard of no insulting would apply to all members equally regardless of history.
You should really watch that video before judging it. That would be the scientific approach anyway.
Magical Realist I was really wondering your age. It was not meant as an insult. I personally do think that you are very gullible. I believe I was much more gullible when I was younger (lo those many years ago) and so was wondering your age. If you think it is none of my buisness simply say so and leave it at that!
edit to add: Kittamaru I read your reply and will not ask someone their age. I will assume all poster are middle aged women - asking ages in that case is very dangerous...
I took it as a insult. I get this a lot from Read Only whenever I post here. He/she always asking me how much college I have. I have no interest in justifying those kinds of insults with replies. Why would one's age even be relevant to this conversation?
Here is a skeptical take on the Scole Experiments.
From the article:
Unfortunately, the Scole Experiment was tainted by profound investigative failings. In short, the investigators imposed little or no controls or restrictions upon the mediums, and at the same time, agreed to all of the restrictions imposed by the mediums. The mediums were in control of the seances, not the investigators. What the Scole Report authors describe as a scientific investigation of the phenomena, was in fact (by any reasonable interpretation of the scientific method) hampered by a set of rules which explicitly prevented any scientific investigation of the phenomena.
I think it was more a way for Origin to understand your thought process better - typically speaking, the older one gets, the more critical and analytic they become (to a point) where as younger people (kids, teens, young adults) tend to be more susceptible to suggestive thinking and the like.
The implication being that being younger and therefore suggestible explains my belief in this phenomena. That's an insult. I analyze phenomena like this all the time, screening out the fakery and the illusional before buying into it. It's ridiculous that my age should even come up here. As if there is something predisposing me towards being deceived.
Such an inquiry could be made as an insult, or as a way of understanding where you are coming from; you have to remember, over the veil of the internet, a large part of conversational context (body language, visual appraisal, eye contact, vocal inflection, etc) is lost. Having looked at Origin's methods in the past, it makes sense that he would want to try to understand as much about the person supporting the claim as he would about the claim itself... truth be told, I would appreciate the same information, but I personally feel something like that is information to be volunteered rather than asked for.
Nope. It's just an insult. He should've known that when he said it. Hey, maybe it's his old age that's making him be this way. A cynical old curmudgeon who has lost all sense of social etiquette in conversation. See how that works?
Yes... but apparently you don't.
See, his comment was simple: "I really am interested - how old are you?" The only part of the entire post even possible insulting was that he was making fun of how a single video was apparently enough to sway you, even though you could not personally validate the contents of said video.
Now, you said: Nope. It's just an insult. He should've known that when he said it. Hey, maybe it's his old age that's making him be this way. A cynical old curmudgeon who has lost all sense of social etiquette in conversation. See how that works?
The difference here being that you are using insulting words and knowingly attempting to gain his ire... not to mention claiming he has no notion of social etiquette.
That is a mighty big difference...
So you would claim that calling someone a "cynical old curmudgeon with no sense of social etiquette" is the same as asking someone's age to understand how they think?