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rorylee said:
same **** all over again.. and only from skeptic people.. i think u can make sense of what im saying but would rather waste time on spelling or grammar issues then the current ones at hand cause its all you can come up with. keep wasting ur time, i dont mind seriously it brings a smile to my face =] or again tell me what didnt make sense to you and ill rephrase?
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Everything. The whole bloody lot. I cannot tell what point you are trying to make because your presentation of it is atrocious. Rephrasing it won't make any difference if you post it the same way.

PROTIP: when everyone is telling you to use proper spelling, punctuation and grammer, IT'S NOT A CONSPIRACY AGAINST YOU.
 
EHocking said:
The part you quoted was the opinion of Uri Gellar.
He's a self-promoting fraud that has never made a crop circle in his life.

His opinion on this subject, and just about every other subject, is not worth the electrons it takes to transmit.
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I laughed when the text mentioned bending a spoon in a crop circle. That guy loves that one particular magic trick so much he'll pry it in every situation. What a tool.

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@Rorylee
Gradually add research and comparison to you process and I think you'll find it gradually harder to believe in woo. It's easy to believe in something when you have the impression that a lot of vague evidence exist, but you'll find that a lot of what is considered evidence by non-skeptics is also based on other people's speculations, or on an analysis done by an under-qualified enthusiast. It's less fun than reading awesome things about mysteries, but then you have the satisfaction of being sometimes right on your own merits instead of hoping someday proof of you being right by chance will emerge.
 
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EHocking said:
The part you quoted was the opinion of Uri Gellar.
He's a self-promoting fraud that has never made a crop circle in his life.

His opinion on this subject, and just about every other subject, is not worth the electrons it takes to transmit.
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ahhh k i wouldnt have the slightest clue on his rep

Sledge said:
Everything. The whole bloody lot. I cannot tell what point you are trying to make because your presentation of it is atrocious. Rephrasing it won't make any difference if you post it the same way.

PROTIP: when everyone is telling you to use proper spelling, punctuation and grammer, IT'S NOT A CONSPIRACY AGAINST YOU.
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others seem to understand it but you dont? isnt that telling you something? and its not everyone its just ppl who have a problem hearing the truth.
 
Sledge said:
I get so sick of this attitude that spelling, grammar and punctuation don't matter. If your thoughts are important enough to share with the world, why would you not want to present them in such a way as people can tell what it is you're saying? If someone spoke out loud in the way you're typing, you'd give them a very wide berth, not engage them in discussion on their fascinating views.
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:bigclap

Although, I should point out that this goes for everyone, and not just people espousing nutty ideas. Seriously, it's not that difficult to choose the correct word from it's/its, who's/whose and there/they're/their and so on.
 
And to the OP, we can't even reliably predict earthquakes. So there's no chance we can "control" them at this point.
 
Rorylee,

I am also having difficulty understanding your posts. Your lack of proper spelling and punctuation - as well as the grammatical errors - leaves little, if any, room for facilitative communications. Just what claims, if any, are you attempting to make? What evidence, if any, are you offering as support for those claims?

Please restate your claims as claims, and your supporting evidence as proof. For example, you might state that "Harp seals cause crop circles" and offer photographic evidence from "Scientific American" as evidence to support your claim.

Thank you,

Fnord
 
rorylee said:
same **** all over again.. and only from skeptic people.. i think u can make sense of what im saying but would rather waste time on spelling or grammar issues then the current ones at hand cause its all you can come up with. keep wasting ur time, i dont mind seriously it brings a smile to my face =] or again tell me what didnt make sense to you and ill rephrase?
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The lack of punctuation and the missing capital letters on the first word of sentences make your posts annoying to read. That, along with the textspeak and the amount of spelling errors (intentional or not), combined with the general disregard for grammar pretty much scupper your arguments before you even finish your point.

ETA : What is "ill rephrase"?
 
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It's amazing what they're doing with something that can only heat up the ionosphere these days. I wonder if these same geniuses can make a time machine out of a toaster.
 
Sledge said:
I get so sick of this attitude that spelling, grammar and punctuation don't matter. If your thoughts are important enough to share with the world, why would you not want to present them in such a way as people can tell what it is you're saying? If someone spoke out loud in the way you're typing, you'd give them a very wide berth, not engage them in discussion on their fascinating views.
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Hear! Hear! Even if a poster had a decent idea or concept, it would be instantly devalued by sloppy grammar and punctuation--which reflect sloppy thinking and understanding.
 
rorylee said:
but hey lets focus on when the earth was announced round!
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Ancient Greece, around 250bce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Eratosthenes.27_measurement_of_the_earth.27s_circumference
the fact that no one ever thought the world was flat also seems to have escaped you. The belief that anyone ever actually thought that the earth was flat was a literal invention only by Washington Irving in 1828. No one ever believed it before then, and its only people who don't know what theyre talking about who believed it since
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving#Impact_on_American_culture
:D
 
rorylee, you may not care much about spelling, punctuation and grammar, and perhaps your usual cyberspace haunts don't care if you're less intelligible than Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the JREF forums are more serious than most places on the internet. This is a forum meant for intelligent discussion, not juvenile textspeak and grade-school spelling.
And the plain fact is that the quality of your posts directly affects how you are perceived. If you can't even spell "people" correctly, most of the posters here aren't going to bother reading the rest of your post. After all, you didn't even bother to figure out how to phrase yourself correctly. Why should we believe that the actual argument is going to be any better?
No matter how intelligent you are, or how great your argument is, if you can't take thirty extra seconds to make sure that you haven't placed any horrible violations of the English language in your post, no one is going to take you seriously.
 
Spektator said:
Hear! Hear! Even if a poster had a decent idea or concept, it would be instantly devalued by sloppy grammar and punctuation--which reflect sloppy thinking and understanding.
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Absolutely. If Einstein were to somehow turn up here posting like rorylee, I'd say the same thing to him.
 
rorylee said:
i did but sadly you didnt understand it, not my problem. but hey lets focus on when the earth was announced round!
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Yes I am sad :o

I hoped to understand the relationship of Earth roundness to Haarp but I guess I'll never know now. Gloom, despair and agony are me.
 
Sledge said:
Everything. The whole bloody lot. I cannot tell what point you are trying to make because your presentation of it is atrocious. Rephrasing it won't make any difference if you post it the same way.

PROTIP: when everyone is telling you to use proper spelling, punctuation and grammer, IT'S NOT A CONSPIRACY AGAINST YOU.
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True masters use nothing but lolcats.
 
Sledge said:
Absolutely. If Einstein were to somehow turn up here posting like rorylee, I'd say the same thing to him.
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Yup, the presume someones intellectual quotient from their syntax paradigm works on everyone







except Hawking




and Daleks
:D
 
rorylee said:
i did but sadly you didnt understand it, not my problem. but hey lets focus on when the earth was announced round!
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The earliest recorded claims of a spherical Earth appeared around the 6th Century BCE in Greek Philosophy (Dicks, D.R. (1970). "Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle". Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. pp. 72–198. ISBN 9780801405617).

Now, please explain why you think that the HAARP project causes earthquakes and weather phenomena. Please cite evidentiary resources, too.
 
Sledge said:
Absolutely. If Einstein were to somehow turn up here posting like rorylee, I'd say the same thing to him.
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Spot on, Sledge, as far as it goes. But rorylee isn't trying to communicate or persuade, he/she is trying to provoke a reaction. That part seems to be working quite well.

ferd
 
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Marduk said:
Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Ancient Greece, around 250bce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Eratosthenes.27_measurement_of_the_earth.27s_circumference
the fact that no one ever thought the world was flat also seems to have escaped you. The belief that anyone ever actually thought that the earth was flat was a literal invention only by Washington Irving in 1828. No one ever believed it before then, and its only people who don't know what theyre talking about who believed it since
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving#Impact_on_American_culture
:D
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If you were a farmer in 1323 who would never travel more than 20 miles from your house all your life, I doubt that the shape of the Earth was of earth shattering importance.
 
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