Comments on: Skeptic Says You Are Stupid

By: Maine Crypto

Maine Crypto — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:57:19 +0000

sad!!

By: asrai

asrai — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:54:43 +0000

This is my first comment. He just seems like a very sad and angry man. After reading some of his other blogs I just feel sorry for him. It really sad that he hasn’t else better to do than criticize other people. I don’t criticize him for sitting around and blogging about video games (he has an informative one about fallout 3 LOL).

cryptogoji: no he hasn’t said anything else.

By: CryptoGoji

CryptoGoji — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:30:45 +0000

Yes, dunk_the_biscuit, polite to a point. I wonder has he said anything else about us in his blog since he got us all riled up??

By: dunk_the_biscuit

dunk_the_biscuit — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:17:58 +0000

Well, it’s so much easier to diss other peoples opinions and interests based on a shallow understanding, than it is to get out there, get your brain in gear and formulate your own…

Professional Layabout, indeed

And if this level of thought is the result of a philosophy degree then it certainly was worthless, wasn’t it?

Of course, if the intention was to get a group of people riled up enough to react (‘Hey – I’m making an impression in the virtual world. I have worth. I exist as a real person’)… Well, it’s worked to a certain extent. We’re even being polite about it…

By: fuzzy

fuzzy — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:24:29 +0000

ddh1969 – “He assumes that we are all a bunch of ‘bubbas’ running around looking for UFOs and strange creatures…”

Had a hog named ‘Bubba” oncet – had a wooden leg.
Caught the Elm Blight and died back in ought-32.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:48:28 +0000

shumway10973: I take issue with one thing you say:

“I have always felt sorry for any skeptic on any subject.”

Not me. A number of people here – things-in-the-woods, mystery_man, springheeledjack come to mind but there are others, oh right, DWA, he’s one – are skeptics. We tend to use that-other-s-word to describe people like this.

For whom, yeah, I feel REALLY sorry. Particularly since I among others get the strong smell that he wasn’t like this once upon a time.

The folks I see taking crypto seriously seem to me to be having fun. It’s a quest, you know? The folks I feel REALLY sorry for are, um, this guy and others like him and those on the opposite end, those who “desperately want to believe.” Skeptics look for evidence and suss good from bad. It’s FUN. And the exemplars of the proponents – Krantz and Meldrum and Bindernagel, funny how their names keep coming up, and I could add Rick Noll and Daris Swindler and keep on going for awhile – have a very strong skeptical bent.

Um, as for this guy? Everything else in your post, man, could be framed (maybe we could just substitute that-other-s-word in the sentence above) and sent to this guy. As sort of, I dunno, a coming-out present.

Now I will say this. Dwelling on something like this, from one of the most anonymous of the anonymous, well, it doesn’t reflect well on crypto. As a field, I mean. Who cares? You think George Schaller stays up at night looking for negative press online? It’s about the critters, not about guys like this.

IMHO.

By: Neworderedworld

Neworderedworld — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:19:06 +0000

Pfffssst… If it weren’t for our curiosity of the unknown we wouldn’t ever discover anything new!! We’d just be going round in circles chasin our own tails.

Some people just make it their jobs to purely discredit a certain potential field of discovery. It’s just not a balanced statement, it’s just ploughing in regardless with opinionated ignorance

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:40:00 +0000

I have read a couple of the books he mentions (x files not included) and there is mystery there. There are things we do not understand, no matter what side of any issue we look in from. If this person is unhappy with his life, I would suggest getting off the games, computer and t.v. and getting a degree that will do something for him. Get outside and do something that could be considered exercise, so he will be tired at night and won’t worry about those of us who do take these things seriously. Maybe a girlfriend would help too. I have always felt sorry for any skeptic on any subject. If this realm is so not worth your time, then stop wasting your time.

By: Cryptonut

Cryptonut — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:59:48 +0000

Right on the mark Fuzzy!

By: kamoeba

kamoeba — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:05:44 +0000

Great, another loudmouth to give us videogame players a bad name. I give him points for not posting some fake Suitsquatch crap on YouTube, but I have to deduct twice as many points for his being from Indiana.