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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Unidentified Flying Object! You have never seen something that you couldn't identify? I have. Many times. But (big "but"), that doesn't translate automatically to believing in flying saucers, little green men, ghosts or sasquatch. Just interesting phenomena that are currently not understood. In my book, weird is wonderful and mysterious is marvelous. How boring life would be without a few mysteries to solve.
And don't be sad for our country alone. The world is full of folks that believe all kinds of bs. Our country is no more immune than any other.
Maybe one day, if we survive, humans may run out of things to stir our imagination, but I don't think so.
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I absolutely believe in life on other planets, and I absolutely believe it's possible that we've been visited by entities from those other planets.
But there's a difference between believing in its existence and believing in some vast conspiracy that the government is farming alien orbs under the ocean surface and that this conspiracy must be exposed, by government officials, on the taxpayer dime, just to prove that the government person(s) attempting to expose this insanity actually DOES something while employed by the taxpayer.
Time can be better spent investigating why clothes driers collect lint that has to be manually removed, and not chemically disintegrated instead.