Comments on: The Roswell Crash and Politicians’ Birthdays http://metaphysicalsf.com/2009/03/11/the-roswell-crash-and-politicians-birthdays/ The Speculative Fiction of John C. A. Manley: Where Spirituality, Science and Imagination Become One Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:33:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Len http://metaphysicalsf.com/2009/03/11/the-roswell-crash-and-politicians-birthdays/comment-page-1/#comment-21474 Len Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:31:24 +0000 http://metaphysicalsf.com/?p=256#comment-21474 Personally, I have always found that the biggest roadblock to getting involved in anything remotely political and the most easily used reason to "do nothing" is that "the truth" is so very hard to define, let alone discover. This type of email forward is yet another example. How do we really know anything? By experiencing it ourselves, or by being informed. By the news media, by other people, by reading about it. None of these sources are certifiable purveyors of truth. But nonetheless we are compelled to choose one and believe, even though if you are careful and compare notes, you can see that the facts are sometimes conflicting or at least ambiguous. Even when doing your own research into "debunking" this forwarded email you had to choose to trust the source of information (Wikipedia) that not all of these people were born nine months after the Roswell event. And so it goes... on and on. Personally, I have always found that the biggest roadblock to getting involved in anything remotely political and the most easily used reason to “do nothing” is that “the truth” is so very hard to define, let alone discover. This type of email forward is yet another example.

How do we really know anything? By experiencing it ourselves, or by being informed. By the news media, by other people, by reading about it. None of these sources are certifiable purveyors of truth. But nonetheless we are compelled to choose one and believe, even though if you are careful and compare notes, you can see that the facts are sometimes conflicting or at least ambiguous.

Even when doing your own research into “debunking” this forwarded email you had to choose to trust the source of information (Wikipedia) that not all of these people were born nine months after the Roswell event.

And so it goes… on and on.

]]> By: Realist http://metaphysicalsf.com/2009/03/11/the-roswell-crash-and-politicians-birthdays/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Realist Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:20:36 +0000 http://metaphysicalsf.com/?p=256#comment-35 I found this site in response to a email I just received that included the following idiots: Al Gore, Hillary Rodham, John F. Kerry, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer and Barbara Boxer. See what happens when aliens breed with sheep? No wonder they support the bill to help illegal aliens! I found this site in response to a email I just received that included the following idiots:

Al Gore, Hillary Rodham, John F.
Kerry, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles
Schumer and Barbara Boxer.

See what happens when aliens breed with sheep? No wonder they support the
bill to help illegal aliens!

]]> By: Colin Y.J. Chung http://metaphysicalsf.com/2009/03/11/the-roswell-crash-and-politicians-birthdays/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Colin Y.J. Chung Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:28:58 +0000 http://metaphysicalsf.com/?p=256#comment-28 John, Thank you for standing up for sheep. They certainly need an advocate in these uncertain times. :D John,

Thank you for standing up for sheep. They certainly need an advocate in these uncertain times.

:D

]]> By: Luca http://metaphysicalsf.com/2009/03/11/the-roswell-crash-and-politicians-birthdays/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Luca Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:22:32 +0000 http://metaphysicalsf.com/?p=256#comment-27 It'd be interesting to understand which genes came from the UFO and which ones from the sheep! It’d be interesting to understand which genes came from the UFO and which ones from the sheep!

]]>