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caseagainstfaith
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When I first heard of crop circles, I was still in my gullible stage of life -- a rather long stage I'm afraid. I saw some TV show on them, Unsolved Mysteries or something like it. Whatever, the show made some claims that I now know must be BS. But, the show claimed things like the grains were bent as if they had grown that way, they weren't bent over. And that there was (allegedly) no known way to fake it -- that a fake would break and show obvious signs of being forced over. But that allegedly, there was not tracable sign of being forced.
So, at the time, I thought maybe there was something supernatural about them. As I said, I was gullible.
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| Quote: | | Reminds me of the monster-in-the-woods by our school story I told that caused panic and an emergency meeting and an angry phone call to my Mom when I was in 3rd grade. |
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josephpalazzo
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| caseagainstfaith wrote: | When I first heard of crop circles, I was still in my gullible stage of life -- a rather long stage I'm afraid. I saw some TV show on them, Unsolved Mysteries or something like it. Whatever, the show made some claims that I now know must be BS. But, the show claimed things like the grains were bent as if they had grown that way, they weren't bent over. And that there was (allegedly) no known way to fake it -- that a fake would break and show obvious signs of being forced over. But that allegedly, there was not tracable sign of being forced.
So, at the time, I thought maybe there was something supernatural about them. As I said, I was gullible. |
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caseagainstfaith
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| josephpalazzo wrote: | | Quote: |
So, at the time, I thought maybe there was something supernatural about them. As I said, I was gullible. |
Indeed, you were... |
I've got a good friend who's overall a good guy, but into the woo-woo stuff. I don't see him that much anymore, but, I was over at his place last weekend. And crop circles came up. He is aware of the guys who admitted to faking them, and he acknowledges that there are fake crop circles. But, he says there are real ones too, and said some of the same kinds of claims that the TV show I saw years ago said. He said the fake ones are obvious and you can see that they are just knocked over. But that the real ones have the grains interleaved and are allegedly chemically different than the grain right next to the circle not knocked over.
I asked my buddy who is making the "real" ones and why? If aliens are trying to send a message to the people of Earth, you'd think they could come up with a better way. He said he didn't know, he just knows there is something supernatural going on.
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josephpalazzo
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| caseagainstfaith wrote: | | josephpalazzo wrote: | | Quote: |
So, at the time, I thought maybe there was something supernatural about them. As I said, I was gullible. |
Indeed, you were... |
I've got a good friend who's overall a good guy, but into the woo-woo stuff. I don't see him that much anymore, but, I was over at his place last weekend. And crop circles came up. He is aware of the guys who admitted to faking them, and he acknowledges that there are fake crop circles. But, he says there are real ones too, and said some of the same kinds of claims that the TV show I saw years ago said. He said the fake ones are obvious and you can see that they are just knocked over. But that the real ones have the grains interleaved and are allegedly chemically different than the grain right next to the circle not knocked over.
I asked my buddy who is making the "real" ones and why? If aliens are trying to send a message to the people of Earth, you'd think they could come up with a better way. He said he didn't know, he just knows there is something supernatural going on. |
Hah, the familiar, "I just know", which is on the same level as, "in my heart of heart, I just feel it". Most often, it is followed by, "You just don't understand", or "what do you know". |
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