to question my h mental health?

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My h spends many hours watching sci-fi documentries and dramas.

He now believes that we are all from martians.

In his words that is what the scientists say has happened.

The amount of time he spends watching these programmes causes arguments anyway, but now that it appears to be filling his head with rubbish, am I BU to say that this is not acceptable?

hiddenhome !!! What the bejayzuz is that!

This is one of those weird threads where you don't know whether to laugh or be concerned .

I suppose it would depend if he is normal in other ways or emotionally detached.

Obsessing about sci-fi, could he be high-functioning aspergers or something like that?

Or perhaps just eccentric?

hiddenhome......what is that??

Fruity Popcorn

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It's not a myth. He did work in a swiss patent office. It certainly wasn't to his potential at the time, since patents aren't a thing to do with physics. He was a technical examiner third class and had just been refused a promotion before publishing the paper that eventually won him the nobel prize. He went back to his job at the patent office while waiting for a bit of recognition! He was a man who produced theories few are far between, some brilliant and some of which turned out to be a load of old rubbish... So far but who knows if they will make sense one day?

Do they have popcorn on mars?

Popcorn would ming on mars

Perhaps that's where life started - all the popcorn started to evolve - they do look like little brains if you look at them carefully....

The thing with my h is he a) doesn't say a lot and b) when he does speak he means passionately what he says.

I always say I can do whatever I want until I get a 'No' and then I listen, as No is rarely said and when it is it is meant.

So the fact he was so passionately telling me about it last night, means that from his POV it is fact end of.

I wonder what the implications of us being from Martians is - is that just our heritage, like being Cornish, would probably not have chosen it, but will accept it

Or are we now going to Mars to see where we came from?

I don't know where the knowledge takes us.

"There are some who say the Catholic angle is filling your DD's head with just as much shite as the martian documentaries though; it's just been validated by many more years of history in that way of thinking, and more people believing it. If you find one acceptable, and not the other, I'm bemused".

I know, all that Christian shit about love and forgiveness; a tradition that has had an enormous impact on every aspect of our culture blah de blah. All just as daft as the space alien stuff. Right

hiddenhome - angler fish? Certainly looks a bit like the one in Finding Nemo (learnt everything I know from cartoons emoticon - well almost! Why does my phone not have the right brackets for doing smileys? So annoying...)

somewherewest, there's nothing you can say that will make me consider Catholic beliefs as deserving of any more merit than the belief we're Martians.

I didn't say either belief doesn't come with random benefits to human society (Catholics - gave us some beathtaking buildings, say, or Martian beliefs, gives us some fab sci fi movies).

But don't try and pretend the OP has a right to call Belief A "rubbish" and Belief B "not rubbish".

They are just as "daft" as each other IMHO; I never said they were "worthless", which is essentially what you're trying to imply.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster folk could start a country-wide set of free educational courses for children to learn to play the piano. It wouldn't make the belief any less "rubbish" or "daft".

Forgot to mention: just because a set of random beliefs has been dressed up through centuries of lore doesn't make them any more or less true.

I cannot believe I'm having to defend my right to place Martian beliefs and Catholic beliefs in the same group here. Gah!

Just in case I've got nothing better to do with my time than invent stories about Einstein?

Well gosh I don't know. The cosmological constant springs to mind?

It's amazing how he managed to come up with the theory of relativity with only the patent office library for reference. I'd love to meet him.

Truth be told though, you'd have got me if you'd asked me to explain any of his equations. I love physics but I was too bad at maths to study it as much as I'd have liked.

I thought they had found bacteria /evidence of water on mars . Perhaps that what your DH is on about ? I also read about the bacteria found in ICE at the pole , is that the same thing ?
Bacteria is still a "life form" .

I get the starwars/startreck/battlestar galatica thing .

Its like in old 1960s startreck they had things like automatic doors (not availiable in 60s ) and things they could talk to each other in different places ,body scanners and injection pens , now we do have automatic doors on almost every supermarket /shopping centre and mobile phones , mri`s and epipens !

So your dh does have his "validation" of his beliefs ....more so than God believers. But to each their own and all that .

Think hes just being a quirky boy ! .