Why can't we all get along?

[Open_Mind2007]

I have noticed that there are an awful of insulting going on when people try to make some type of point that others do not agree with. The worst i noticed is that guy calling himself InterestedInItAll. This guy always has some remark about peoples lack of vocabulary or the fact that he believes everyone is an idiot but him. I thought this forum was supposed to be safe from people who choose to pull childish antics like that and aren't we all here for the same thing; to be understand this issue and hopefully learn from one another and not be so close minded when it comes to other point of views. This is all i have to say and if anyone chooses to say anything negative, just to let you know i do not respond to school yard antics. I only wanted to say that maybe we should all just chill out and stop being so negative towards one another, I believe that is an obstacle that the paranormal field must overcome in order to get somewhere.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

I have noticed that there are an awful of insulting going on when people try to make some type of point that others do not agree with. The worst i noticed is that guy calling himself InterestedInItAll. This guy always has some remark about peoples lack of vocabulary or the fact that he believes everyone is an idiot but him. I thought this forum was supposed to be safe from people who choose to pull childish antics like that and aren't we all here for the same thing; to be understand this issue and hopefully learn from one another and not be so close minded when it comes to other point of views. This is all i have to say and if anyone chooses to say anything negative, just to let you know i do not respond to school yard antics. I only wanted to say that maybe we should all just chill out and stop being so negative towards one another, I believe that is an obstacle that the paranormal field must overcome in order to get somewhere.

This post will be seen as insulting to some and create more of what you appear not to like. I noticed the use of "childish" and "Close minded". These can be seen as insults. Be careful not to become what you hate.

 

[CapnG]

This post will be seen as insulting to some and create more of what you appear not to like. I noticed the use of "childish" and "Close minded". These can be seen as insults. Be careful not to become what you hate.

He's right, you know. There's a difference between a discerning mind and a closed mind.

But no, let's all get along. Let's hold hands and sing songs and board the happy gnome train to fairy land. Passionate debate about controversial subjects is too negative.

 

[interestedINitall]

I have noticed that there are an awful of insulting going on when people try to make some type of point that others do not agree with. The worst i noticed is that guy calling himself InterestedInItAll. This guy always has some remark about peoples lack of vocabulary or the fact that he believes everyone is an idiot but him. I thought this forum was supposed to be safe from people who choose to pull childish antics like that and aren't we all here for the same thing; to be understand this issue and hopefully learn from one another and not be so close minded when it comes to other point of views. This is all i have to say and if anyone chooses to say anything negative, just to let you know i do not respond to school yard antics. I only wanted to say that maybe we should all just chill out and stop being so negative towards one another, I believe that is an obstacle that the paranormal field must overcome in order to get somewhere.

Do I really need to defend myself here? This is obviously someone with whom I had a private message correspondence. Yes, if I remember correctly, he called me a string of expletives that would be filtered out (thankfully) here in the forums. Now he's out here under another name and trying to get everyone to "gang up" on me - very "junior high cafeteria" style.

How incredibly transparent.

 

[Open_Mind2007]

Who are you talking about?......me? As far as i have known i have never had any personal correspondence with you or anyone else for that matter. This is the first time I have written anything, i have been visiting this forum for months and have yet to add anything until now or is this your way of attempting to make trouble for me. You sound so intelligent yet you act like such a child sometimes. Your spend so much time insulting maybe you should put youe efforts elsewhere maybe in adding something beneficial to a conversation. I am sorry if i have insulted anyone...never meant to.

 

[interestedINitall]

Who are you talking about?......me? As far as i have known i have never had any personal correspondence with you or anyone else for that matter. This is the first time I have written anything, i have been visiting this forum for months and have yet to add anything until now or is this your way of attempting to make trouble for me. You sound so intelligent yet you act like such a child sometimes. Your spend so much time insulting maybe you should put youe efforts elsewhere maybe in adding something beneficial to a conversation. I am sorry if i have insulted anyone...never meant to.

Right, you keep telling yourself that. Whatever gets you through the night.

I have an idea - I'll just add you to my ignore box and you can do the same to me. That way you can stop trying to win friends and influence people through these clumsy attempts to scare up a posse and lynch those you don't like and I won't have to struggle through your posts.

That way we're both happy.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Right, you keep telling yourself that. Whatever gets you through the night.

I have an idea - I'll just add you to my ignore box and you can do the same to me. That way you can stop trying to win friends and influence people through these clumsy attempts to scare up a posse and lynch those you don't like and I won't have to struggle through your posts.

That way we're both happy.

Or he/she could learn to be more Open Minded with you. It's in his/her name after all...

 

[interestedINitall]

Or he/she could learn to be more Open Minded with you. It's in his/her name after all...

True . . . but doubtful.

 

[Rick Deckard]

Well, that was a productive exchange...

 

[dreampsi]

You sound so intelligent yet you act like such a child sometimes.

(referencing interestedINitall) I am new to these forums also and don't post much. I listen to the show and enjoy it very much. I will have to tend to agree with Open MInd 2007, based on reading some threads. InterestedINitall, you do have a very intelligent mind, that is obvious, but your posts do tend to have an insulting tone to them (that is my opinion in the way I read them). It would be nice to see you apply your intellilect to a conversation without having harsh words directed personally to people and stick to the topic.

After reading this, it sparked a question in mind, which is not only for you (interestedINitall) but for others as well. I'm sorry I havn't read thru ALL the past posts as this may have been covered.

My question is this: What type of personal research have you done in this field? Have you went into the field to take pictures, video, done any experiments, ghosts, etc... We are all obviously interested in the topic or we wouldn't be here. For me personally, I have not persued anything dealing with UFOs. I enjoying listening to sighting stories and viewing pictues & video others have taken. My only field experience for 5 years is in dealing with ghostly phenomena and EVP research. Recently doing a video project involving scanning old family photos, I ran across a picture taken of a family vacation on the beach in Florida. In the upper left corner of the picture is such a clearly visible UFO (oval shape and gray) that I couldn't believe any family members ever noticed it. I have read stories about most pictures of UFOs being the kind where it was not visible when taking the picture but was where upon developing. THis lead me to an experiment. Go outside and take digital pictures of the sky and horizon each day in order to get a snapshot of one. I have done this for months with only one questionable object. It might have been a bird, but hard to tell. I used shutter burst to capture 5 pictures in a row. The "bird" object was not in the previous 2 or 2 after. These are taken in 2 seconds, so no bird could fly that fast thru them and not be in the other 4 pictures.

Just curious, but I would really be interested to hear of people's field research because actually getting out there and doing this stuff gives you a different perspective on what it is to try to find and cooberate "evidence".

 

[pixelsmith]

i agree with dreampsi's observations of a certain poster. what gets me though those posts is my visualization of he/she as A.LeClair's booger eating 12 year old. it makes me laugh instead of getting angry.

my field observations have been ongoing since Brad Stieger introduced me to UFOs about 40 years ago i think. since then i have seen only one close object and maybe 3 or 4 distant objects that i could not explain. the distant ones were star like in appearance but grew very bright at times and moved only slightly in any direction then vanished. i have already posted my recent sighting here.

my paranormal experiences include seeing a young man in my parents basement, that disappeared in front of my eyes, voices that have warned me of imminent danger, also last year while working late at night a pint glass on a table behind me broke with the loudest crystal-like TING i have ever heard, the glass broke in nearly a perfect circle around the glass about an inch up from the bottom, it didnt appear to be broken at all. in fact it wasnt until an hour or so later i finally discovered what made the noise. i picked the glass up and the base stayed on the table. the last experience was very strange too. i would rather not comment on that one at this time. i have only told David about that incident but i am afraid he didnt get the email. i will say this about it, deceased Mothers can be amazing.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

As for myself it would take too long to type up the details, plus I always feel like I am boasting so I prefer not to. Some details have been posted throughout the forums. Some under the username Mindsky. I'm not just an armchair researcher and I'll leave it at that for now. When situations arise here I mention some of my work. I'm sorry if this is vague, but I don't care much for ego flexing and that's how it feels to me. Plus I'm sure if you hang around long enough, you'll get a small idea of some of the things I've done. Either by reading what has already been posted, or what will be posted. Or if you send me a PM and ask more specifics (and narrow down to the topic, since I just don't deal with one), I'll respond. I'm more comfortable in a less public venure. It feels less like thrusting my chest forward etc.

 

[dreampsi]

A.LeClair, that is totally fine, I understand where you are coming from. I probably should have started a different discussion about that in a more appropriate area. I am still learning about this forum stuff. I guess my point was just to see the diversity of what people are researching and what they discover or want to share. I don't tend to think anyone is boasting at all when talking about their current investigations, but that's me. Thanks, though, and I will look at putting this in another area and trying to find time to read back to other posts.

 

[interestedINitall]

(referencing interestedINitall) I am new to these forums also and don't post much. I listen to the show and enjoy it very much. I will have to tend to agree with Open MInd 2007, based on reading some threads. InterestedINitall, you do have a very intelligent mind, that is obvious, but your posts do tend to have an insulting tone to them (that is my opinion in the way I read them). It would be nice to see you apply your intellilect to a conversation without having harsh words directed personally to people and stick to the topic.

I just find this funny - truly.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

A.LeClair, that is totally fine, I understand where you are coming from. I probably should have started a different discussion about that in a more appropriate area. I am still learning about this forum stuff. I guess my point was just to see the diversity of what people are researching and what they discover or want to share. I don't tend to think anyone is boasting at all when talking about their current investigations, but that's me. Thanks, though, and I will look at putting this in another area and trying to find time to read back to other posts.

I'm ok with anyone that doesn't see it as boasting. It's just something I can't shake personally. My own hang up if you will. It feels uncomfortable for me to do so, not that others shouldn't.

 

[musictomyears]

Take a look at the posts by interestedINitall on the Global Warming thread. Every single one is plain trolling. One of the mods suggested I should put interestedINitall on my ignore list, which works well enough. But I agree that it should feel safe to post at a forum, without the need for ignoring people.

 

[musictomyears]

last year while working late at night a pint glass on a table behind me broke with the loudest crystal-like TING i have ever heard, the glass broke in nearly a perfect circle around the glass about an inch up from the bottom, it didnt appear to be broken at all. in fact it wasnt until an hour or so later i finally discovered what made the noise. i picked the glass up and the base stayed on the table.

pixelsmith, this is the first time I have come across a third person to describe this phenomenon. It used to manifest a lot in the presence of my mother, shortly after my father died in a car crash. Years later, it also started to happen to me, after my grandma had passed away.

We never witnessed the glasses actually braking (we used to call it "as if cut by a laser"), but only ever noticed the final result. There must have been a dozen or so glasses like that, some of them very fine cognac glasses.

I also used to own a glass container that was shaped like a vase. One day, I noticed that its base had been twisted against its top, as if heated to the melting point, and then manipulated into a new shape.

 

[Raevenskye]

pixelsmith, this is the first time I have come across a third person to describe this phenomenon. It used to manifest a lot in the presence of my mother, shortly after my father died in a car crash. Years later, it also started to happen to me, after my grandma had passed away.

We never witnessed the glasses actually braking (we used to call it "as if cut by a laser"), but only ever noticed the final result. There must have been a dozen or so glasses like that, some of them very fine cognac glasses.

I also used to own a glass container that was shaped like a vase. One day, I noticed that its base had been twisted against its top, as if heated to the melting point, and then manipulated into a new shape.

wow! what do you think it was?has it happened since, or was that the climax of the incidents?

 

[pixelsmith]

musictomyears you have got to be kidding me. are you serious about the breaking glasses and how they broke? did you save the glasses? do you have any pics? has anyone else ever heard of such a thing?

 

[musictomyears]

wow! what do you think it was?has it happened since, or was that the climax of the incidents?

I can't say for sure what it was, but I do know that, at the time, I was experimenting a lot with spiritualist practises, such as using Ouija boards, healing, visualisation, meditation, and clairvoyance. I tend to believe that these effects are manifestations of manipulations by discarnate beings, since they seem to occur primarily shortly after deaths of close friends or relatives, or when engaging in paranormal research.

The exact same thing has not happened since, however many other somewhat unusual things have.