I shall try to be patient, but in your persistent refusal to actually note what I am saying you are looking very much like MR.
We all have personal little meanings for words, some common, some not so common. In many cases we think these meanings are generally held by the population at large. There is no intended deceit in this - it is just an aspect of language usage. It would have been helpful if he had been quicker to acknowledge the meaning he was applying in this case. It would have been helpful if one of us had asked for a definition of terms at an earlier stage.
He is doing it even in this thread.
He is changing the meaning of words and the meaning of his very argument on any given occasion for his own personal gain in the matter..
For example, he is now arguing that he used to believe they were aliens and now he believes they are "interdimensional being".. His words, in this very thread:
I used to think maybe aliens. We can't exactly rule it out. But more likely they are some form of interdimensional/transhuman intelligence that is engineering human consciousness into a new phase of evolution. So much to learn. So much to discover! Live long and prosper.
He is saying we cannot rule out aliens, but
he believes they are more likely to be "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence" - notice the play and adding on new meanings in that alone..
This is his new argument when it comes to UFO's, all those unknown lights in the sky.. He is now positing that they are "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence". So can you please explain to me why, when Paddoboy states that he has seen no evidence that those lights in the sky, ie, UFO's, are aliens:
The reality is that we have no hard evidence for Earth being visited by Aliens....
We have plenty of extraordinary evidence that UFO sightings have been seen and reported, but no evidence that they are anything other than illusions of an overactive mind, atmospheric phenomena, or some other possible Earthly explanation.
As in aliens being the traditional meaning of the term.. ET.. Little green men.. That MR, who has demanded he is not talking about "aliens", but really about "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence", then comes back with:
Like that morphing multicolored starfish-shaped craft viewed by the airport tower and pursued by the pilots of the Iraqui airforce in 1976? That one? Which you dismissed as ball lightning? lol! Or how about the triangular craft witnessed by thousands over Belgium in 1989? That one? Or perhaps you're referring to the saucer that was witnessed by airport workers, tower personel, and pilots hovering near Chicago O' Hare in 2008 that shot up thru the clouds leaving a hole in them? That one? Or maybe you're referring to the egg-shaped craft that landed in Zimbwe and had a person in a silver suit come out of the hatch that 64 children saw at recess in a nearby field and which then took off? That one? Need I go on?
In response to Paddoboy's comment.
Those very Iraqi airforce incident in 1976, the triangular craft witnessed by thousands over Belgium in 1989, or the flying saucer witnesses by airport workers, etc, that he is now arguing are "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence".. And yet, here he is, moving the goal post
again and arguing that they are proof they are "aliens" in its traditional meaning.
If we were to take MR's argument at face value that they are "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence", then paddoboy would be correct. That there is absolutely no evidence that Earth is being visited by "aliens". So which is he arguing now? Is he arguing for "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence" or little green spacemen that we commonly refer to as "aliens" that he is now arguing are visiting Earth in their flying saucers?
The very suggestion that we can change meanings of words to suit our argument when we feel like it is ridiculous. Clearly you disagree. The point of contention here is that MR is changing meanings of words in any given post. In one post, he is arguing that he didn't mean "aliens" and he means "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence" and a few posts later, he is arguing that the very lights and events he claims were from "interdimensional/transhuman intelligence", are actually proof that aliens exist.
Of course he should have done so, however failure to do so is not proof that he is intellectually dishonest, just rather poor at presenting a logical argument.
I disagree.
The only way we could argue that his chopping and changing meanings of words, each time he is asked to prove something exists when he claims they are fact, is not intellectual dishonesty, would be if he suffered from multiple personality disorder or was mentally retarded and had the thought processes of a 3 year old who has no grasp or understanding of commonly used words when migrating to a new country with a different language.
Of which I can safely assume, MR is neither.
I'm disappointed that you are unable to approach the matter objectively. You are convinced he is lying. I suspect he is just a muddled thinker. My hypothesis is better supported by the evidence of his many threads than yours.
I am convinced he is lying because he is actually lying.
Hounding him? Yes. All you needed to do was to make something akin to your last statement once, then act on it. Instead you have made lengthy post after post. Simples.
This has, I think included, throwing in the occasional bit of moderation. That's highly questionable moderator practice - moderating a thread you are involved in. No wonder the poor dear feels persecuted.
And if I had actually moderated him in this thread, you might have a point.. To wit, I haven't issued him with a warning or infraction in this thread. I told him that he would be expected to back up his claims with evidence and I told him that he had to critically analyse what he was posting to make sure that what he was posting here as "fact" was not in fact fake and failure to do so would result in moderation. That is a standard that applies to everyone.
It's late. I'm tired. If still relevant I shall try to respond in more detail tomorrow, but here is the Executive Summary.
Several of you are requiring of MR a standard of logic and critical thinking he is not capable of. You are then judging the consequent mish-mash of his posts to reveal dishonesty. He's not dishonest, he's just not very bright.
Sorry to break this to you, Ophiolite, but even not very bight people lie sometimes.
And arguing that people should be allowed to change meanings of words (and he is doing it to avoid providing evidence of what he claims are fact and to not lose an argument) is, in my opinion, pretty poor form. To wit, you are trying to provide him with an excuse to break this site's rules in regards to extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence and the very notion of employing the scientific method, because you are saying he should be able to change meaning of words to bypass posting in good faith, not to mention you pretty much just stated that we should be treating him differently or applying different standards to him because he is is not that bright. Sorry, we don't have different sets of rules for stupid people. And I do not believe that MR is "not very bright", nor do I believe he is stupid. I happen to believe that MR is very bright and intelligent.