J. Randall Murphy of
www.ufopages.com...
A few questions:
Why do you keep on referring to yourself in the third person on the Internet?
Why do you refer to your website as an organization separate from yourself, and the opinions you promote through it as independent of your own?
It is clear to all of us by now that "USI" consists of nobody but yourself and its "official position" consists entirely of your own opinions.
I've seen you do this on other forums as well as here. You refer to "J. Randall Murphy" as a separate individual other than yourself, essentially citing yourself as an expert authority.
I've also seen you refer to "Ufology Society International (USI)" deferentially in the third-person plural, as if it is a legitimate research organization instead of your own personal UFO-themed website.
I've seen you post on other Web forums under various pseudonyms and fake personas, also referring to "J. Randall Murphy" and your website as separate entities from yourself. I've seen you post under your own name as a "USI Field Rep," instead of the sole proprietor of your organization. You've done it here, you've done it on the Paracast forums, I've seen you do it in other places, like allexperts.com and the Wikipedia discussion pages.
It's not difficult to find these examples I'm referring to. I sought out and discovered these aliases quite easily, after seeing how you parroted the exact same arguments on the Paracast Forums as you have done here. You've even used the exact same language and phraseology verbatim, exactly as you have used them here. All it took was a few minutes on Google looking for "J. Randall Murphy," "USI," plus various keywords. It is obvious that these various postings are all you and nobody else.
I'm asking you now, why do you use these obvious, dishonest SEO techniques to misrepresent yourself and your website? It really is a feeble attempt, and transparently dishonest as well.
The actual truth is that J. Randall Murphy of
www.ufopages.com had a genuine sighting of a UFO ( alien craft ) and has since become the target of mockery and ridicule by members of the JREF forum. He has also found that little useful information comes out of the forum in the ufology section and the largest portion of commentary by the so called critics and skeptics amounts to cyber bullying. He would not currently reccommend the website as a place for young people or students to participate in a truly constructive debate.
You are egregiously misrepresenting your history here on the JREF forums. The mild sarcasm you have received at the hands of forum members has been a proportionate response to the stubborn arrogance and ignorance you have displayed from the moment you first showed up here.
Back in July you started a thread, ostensibly to discuss UFOs and UFOlogy within the context of "critical thinking," but you imposed the caveat that we all must accept a certain vague, meaningless definition of what "critical thinking" means. That caveat is of course preposterous, so your definition was rejected by consensus. Instead of giving the benefit of the doubt that we might know something you don't about critical thinking (considering what the JREF is all about), you obtusely insisted on your definition by your own misplaced authority.
Since then you have proceeded to tell us we're wrong about nearly everything we know, even things which you obviously don't have the first clue about (like the scientific method, critical thinking, formulation of hypotheses, basic math and physics, etc.). All along, you've posited your own opinions as facts without providing sufficient evidence to back them up. You've committed numerous breaches of informal logic. Perhaps some were accidental, but others were clearly dishonest. You've asserted your own personal redefinitions of terms and expected us to just pretend the English language means something other than what it really says. When these errors are pointed out, you hand-wave, dodge the subject, spout even more fallacies, and allege a conspiracy of persecution. Thus, you have arrogantly resisted every attempt by us to correct your mistakes and teach you the basics of critical thinking. In fact, the longer this discussion drags on, the further you seem to retreat from rational thinking.
Your own obstinacy and willful ignorance is what has earned you the mockery, J. Randall Murphy. Your credibility and that of your pretend organization, "Ufology Society International," was shot to hell long before you ever started to relate the hoax of your UFO sighting. If you showed even the least bit of intellectual integrity, I'm sure the criticism would be a
lot less harsh.
