Jasin wrote on May 21
st, 2020 at 7:16pm:
Ahh, but Mr Sad Kangaroo.
You miss the point.
All those 'Conspiracies, UFO's, etc - be they unexplained, mysterious or just plain hoaxed.
Are an 'evidence' in itself, or there would be no Fringe for you to Mod.
They are evidence that the UFO's exist yes, and it's a fun discussion point.
Like, for example, we exist. Who is to say the same conditions that started life on this planet, if that's even where life originated and we're not just the evolution of simple bacterial life that travelled here on some space rock, didn't also originate elsewhere in the universe.
Life may be inevitable given the most common elements in the universe.
It would be presumptuous of us to think that we're the only life out there, or even the first life out there.
But that doesn't mean that the origin of the UFOs are alien.
If I were American I'd want their Government investigating these UFOs because what if they're not alien? What if they are some new tech from a competing nation that would eclipe the capabilities of their defence force?
I'd want them to know and be working on the cutting edge to match and surpass it for our safety.
But at the same time, the discovery of life originatine elsewhere in the universe would be a humbling moment for humanity, especially if it's intelligent life.
To ruin that discovery with "well, I don't know what that is, therefore it must be aliens"...
Come on...
Discussion on the topic is welcomed, encouraged even. But claiming something is something else without evidence simply because that's what you want it to be, or that's the only way you can be satisfied as having an answer, even an unproven and likely wrong one is better than it being an unknown, that's not good enough.
Light, I don't think even to this day, understands the difference between an opinion and a fact. Everything he believed or thinks is true, in his world IS true. No evidence is needed to decide and no evidence will change his mind.
This is a foolish and backwards way of thinking.
The truth is important, but even in the fringe, this forum exists for the no-mans land of where the truth and the unknown meet.
If we (as humanity, not those of us on the forum) don't stop looking across the boundary of what we know into the unknown our learning stops.
But the only thing worse than not seeking answers is accepting answers that are unproven. That's not learning and that's not discovery.
That's playacting the weak-minded who to their credit have the desire to explore and find out more, but not the capability to deal with not yet having all the answers. It's a form of weakness, one that is sadly the driving force for people like Light.
This leads people down the path of being unable to tell facts from conspiracies.
In some cases it can be a weakness overcome, in others, it just leads people to find less conflict to their ideas seeking out more friendly echo chambers filled with others like them who not only need answers but know the answers they already want.
The Fringe to me is where we can all talk about the things we don't know and propose possible explanations and discuss their merits.
The UFO footage could be showing Alien spacecraft on earth. But to say it IS Alien because you can't explain it, well that doesn't lead us to answers but worse stops us looking.
It's a failure all too common in the Fringe.
I won't stop anyone discussing anything here. I may add my opinion as to the quality of the evidence leading to a conclusion but that's it.
I will not moderate ideas only personal attacks that cross a line that thankfully nobody has done yet. I don't want to ban anyone from the forums and all ideas are welcome.
But just because you're free to share ideas doesn't mean they won't be scrutinised.
It's like free speech, you're free to say what you want, but that doesn't mean you won't be held to account for what you say.
Some people want to say whatever they want and not have anyone question it. Sadly, that's not a right people have and it triggers some to have a tanty and abandon threads or even the forum all together for somewhere that won't question them or even better, have an army of like-minded posters who will attack, on their behalf, anyone who does question their beliefs.