[extropy-chat] Please don't feed the trolls!

[Samantha Atkins]

On Feb 14, 2006, at 7:33 AM, spike wrote:

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> Welcome to ExI Peter!
>
> Since the UFO discussion wasn't going far, I decided to let it
> burn out by itself.  A poster suggested we read six books on
> the topic, then we would believe.  I know the ExI chat regulars
> well enough to be confident that if a flying saucer landed in
> their back yard, little green men got out and handed over six
> books on UFOs, got back in and flew away, even then they wouldn't
> invest the time in reading those six books.  They may cut back
> forthwith on the recreational pharmaceuticals, and puzzle for
> the rest of their lives over where those six books came from,
> but they wouldn't invest the time to read them.  I wouldn't.
>

As I have no evidence of personal psychosis and haven't taken  
anything recreational remotely that strong in decades, I would of  
course read the books.  But I would wonder about the motives of these  
furtive aliens.  I would not assume that what the books said was true  
without corroboration.

- s