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Old 03-13-2019, 02:57 PM
 
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You read this huh? So let's just put this out there...Bower and Chorley are responsible for .001 of all crop circles reported....even MIT could not duplicate the circles the way the stalks were bent.
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Old 03-13-2019, 03:11 PM
 
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Could be they're adolescent aliens who stole the family rocketship and are just out for a joy-ride, causing mischief.

What if we go to, say Mars, and find some form of primitive intelligent life. We're more intelligent nd advanced than them, but you know about all our human weaknesses & short-comings like greed, jealously, fear, etc etc ….What makes anyone think a superior race of aliens who can come here will not have their weaknesses, too?
Good thinking.
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Old 03-13-2019, 04:15 PM
 
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You do know that Crop Circles have been debunked, right? Especially the ones in England. They were mostly all created by two guys named Bower and Chorley.
and even when they stopped making 15 a night the intricate crop circles were still being made
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Old 03-13-2019, 05:12 PM
 
Location: Swiftwater, PA
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Could be they're adolescent aliens who stole the family rocketship and are just out for a joy-ride, causing mischief.


What if we go to, say Mars, and find some form of primitive intelligent life. We're more intelligent nd advanced than them, but you know about all our human weaknesses & short-comings like greed, jealously, fear, etc etc ….What makes anyone think a superior race of aliens who can come here will not have their weaknesses, too?
If they did imitate us they would plant little flags claiming their new 'find' for their motherland! Of course their kids could go about causing mischief while their parents planted the flags and took selfies!

It is just ridiculous to think that we would fly so far simply to squash E.T.'s fields of Reese's Pieces!
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Old 03-13-2019, 08:25 PM
 
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and even when they stopped making 15 a night the intricate crop circles were still being made
...because loads of other people were jumping in on the spoof.
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Old 03-13-2019, 10:43 PM
 
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How does that saying go, "There's a fine line between genius and insanity.".
genius allows you to more easily make connections between things other people are far less likely to make-- einstein tied together, of all things, matter and energy in a tidy equation. he didnt even think it would be a big deal-- maybe help out a couple astrophysicists. buckminster fuller (for whom the buckyball is named, he also invented the protective domes they put over weather radar) wrote and article that claimed einstein was going to be a household name in the future. when the two met to discuss the article, einstein told fuller he thought it was remarkable-- and unexpected.

being completely nuts also allows you to more easily make connections between things other people are far less likely to make. its difficult for most people (even scientists) to tell which is which. not only did they assume einstein was nuts (he was probably also dyslexic-- a genius with a serious learning disability) but most of the scientists of the day thought the wright brothers were idiots. not only is there a fine line-- you almost have to be crazy to be a genius in the first place. maybe the best way to put it is that geniuses are "highly-functioning nuts."
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Old 03-13-2019, 11:07 PM
 
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Tell this to Transponder one day would ya?!
I have plenty of times. LOL
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Old 03-14-2019, 11:58 AM
 
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genius allows you to more easily make connections between things other people are far less likely to make-- einstein tied together, of all things, matter and energy in a tidy equation. he didnt even think it would be a big deal-- maybe help out a couple astrophysicists. buckminster fuller (for whom the buckyball is named, he also invented the protective domes they put over weather radar) wrote and article that claimed einstein was going to be a household name in the future. when the two met to discuss the article, einstein told fuller he thought it was remarkable-- and unexpected.

being completely nuts also allows you to more easily make connections between things other people are far less likely to make. its difficult for most people (even scientists) to tell which is which. not only did they assume einstein was nuts (he was probably also dyslexic-- a genius with a serious learning disability) but most of the scientists of the day thought the wright brothers were idiots. not only is there a fine line-- you almost have to be crazy to be a genius in the first place. maybe the best way to put it is that geniuses are "highly-functioning nuts."
Einstein was remarkably open to intuition. He tended to intuit his theories, seemingly out of the blue, then had to backtrack, to figure out the math to justify them. I think a certain amount of genius involves a gift for intuition. You could say, that what we call "intuition" is just the subconscious pulling together information you've come across casually, and forgotten about, but I think there's more to it than that.
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Old 03-14-2019, 12:08 PM
 
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genius allows you to more easily make connections between things other people are far less likely to make-- einstein tied together, of all things, matter and energy in a tidy equation. he didnt even think it would be a big deal-- maybe help out a couple astrophysicists. buckminster fuller (for whom the buckyball is named, he also invented the protective domes they put over weather radar) wrote and article that claimed einstein was going to be a household name in the future. when the two met to discuss the article, einstein told fuller he thought it was remarkable-- and unexpected.

being completely nuts also allows you to more easily make connections between things other people are far less likely to make. its difficult for most people (even scientists) to tell which is which. not only did they assume einstein was nuts (he was probably also dyslexic-- a genius with a serious learning disability) but most of the scientists of the day thought the wright brothers were idiots. not only is there a fine line-- you almost have to be crazy to be a genius in the first place. maybe the best way to put it is that geniuses are "highly-functioning nuts."
I love it.


Hi RuthforTruth.
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Old 03-14-2019, 12:57 PM
 
Location: Greenville, SC
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Einstein was remarkably open to intuition. He tended to intuit his theories, seemingly out of the blue, then had to backtrack, to figure out the math to justify them. I think a certain amount of genius involves a gift for intuition. You could say, that what we call "intuition" is just the subconscious pulling together information you've come across casually, and forgotten about, but I think there's more to it than that.
How Friedrich Kekule figured out the structure of the benzene molecule:

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists...m-omnibus.html
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