To want to SLAP people who claim that they do not believe in UFOs??

[hecate]

Unidentified
Flying
Object

That is - something in the sky that you cannot identify.

Could be anything. aircraft, bird, balloon, cloud....if you look up into the sky, see something and think "oooh, I wonder what that is" you have seen a UFO.

UFO does NOT mean spaceship and people who think it does are very very very very very very very very very very STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID

Totally with you Hecate.
As soon as I read the title I thought 'Of course not, just means something hasn't been identified'

(It could be the voices telling us though.....)

MONKEYS!

theres an alien spacecraft out my window now...no really there is...come look quick

oh oops its just a flying pig

Yes, people talk to me about ufos. And about whether grass feels pain when you cut it. and whether or not we are really living our life, or if we are actually at the end of our life having that 'seeing your life pass before you' thing. or if we are delusional, in a unit somewhere, talking to thin air because of course how would we ever know...

These are strange people. I should probably change my telephone numbers, stop answering the door.....

well i am a bit
they sound more interesting than half the conversations I have

So, have you had many incidents where this particular slapping would be warranted? I mean, do people often say stuff to you about non belief of UFOs? It sounds like it must happen to you all the time, which is strange. Are you Scully? Are you a freelance UFO identification officer?

Oh x posted, they do!

heh heh heh

(I must admit to wondering if trees feel pain as I had to hack a bit off my Mum's apple tree earlier)

My friend swears he has video footage of ufos. I've told him countless times it's wedding lanterns, so they are no longer Unidentified fos, but he still thinks it's aliens

Yeah, but I'm right and everyone else should change...

hecate that's an interesting point, because really every second that passes what happened the second before is now memory, and unless you truly live in the moment, erm.

Forgot what I was going to say, this kind of conversation requires a lot of wine, or some good green.

I think you should change your social circle. There are many things in the world I cannot identify. Some of them are flying, some even in the sky. They are not UFOs. I just can't be bothered to look them up in the bird book. I would never use the term UFO. I might think "I wonder what that is"... but do you know what I am aware that the limits of my ability to identify everything in the world are very finite.

I have no reason to believe that there are alien spaceships whizzing around, but then no reason to believe all sorts of things. But that's because I don't base my understanding of the world on belief.

So I might agree on the pedants issue, about people use the phrase "I don't believe in" when they really mean "I disapprove of" but other than that...

Do your friends really report everything they can't immediately identify? Who to? Why? Sounds nuts to me.

It is true that UFO stands for 'Unidentified Flying Object' but, culturally speaking, the term has come to mean objects of an extraterrestrial nature. According to Dictionary.com, a UFO is 'any unexplained moving object observed in the sky, esp. one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin.' therefore, one could argue that you are being a tad unreasonable!

HAHAHA! No, no, they don't report! They talk about stuff like this. I wondered why you thought they reported and then I looked and wondered if it was my post of 11:44:21 - I didn't say the crazy people in my life report , I was saying a ufo is classed as a ufo if you don't know what it is AND if you report it and the scientists can't identify it either.

No, I'm not unreasonable. Everyone else is.

heehee, sober. Funny you should say that....

lol sobernow

Do you have the bubble conversation Hecate?

The, maybe we are in a bubble, and the galaxy is just a small world inside a giant's bath tub.

Or how great do you think it would be to jump off a building into a massive loaf of bread?

Nope. Similar - gigantic scientists doing the equivalent of rats in a maze...and someone recently suggested to me that perhaps we are all just part of someone's computer game.

Not unreasonable. Anyway they don't mean 'don't beleive' really do they? They mean I can't be bothered to think about it so saying this means I don't have to.

ANyway...I do believe in UFOs - I mean the type that contain little grey men (and the long spindly bug-like ones). Because I want to beleive in them. Not for any real sensible reason at all.

Just re-read Communion by Whitely Streiber and although the man may be one pastille short of a tube, it makes compellingly wonderful reading.

i was about to come on and disagree
then i realised i used to rant about that very thing

'i want to believe'