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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:00 AM
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You know that tinfoil hat stuff?
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:03 AM
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1. Cool. Someone making money off of idiots and fools
P.T. Barnum would be proud.

Maybe you should post this in the 9/11 Dungeon, there's probably an market there for it.
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BridgeTheGap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:08 AM
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2. You'll be sorry when they abduct YOU!!! ;-> n.t
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:11 AM
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4. If Aliens abducted & killed me and I find out there really is an afterlife.
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 10:11 AM by cobalt1999
That would be some serious egg on my face. :)
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:44 AM
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10. God only loves men, when you get abducted you don't get to go to the real heaven
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 10:44 AM by ThomWV
I thought everybody knew that - when aliens abduct you then if they don't bring you back and you die then god doesn't really want you so then you have to go to this other place, you know the one - Nostradamus predicted it.
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ipfilter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:11 AM
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3. Wow.
I can't figure out if that site is serious or a joke.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:32 AM
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18. I couldn't either
Mr Pip had shown me that site a few weeks ago.

I'm like...c'mon...is that a joke?


I'm now leaning more toward it being serious. Yes, there are probably that many crazies in the world, including the guy who owns the site...


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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:30 PM
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26. It's serious.
So, so serious.
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BridgeTheGap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:14 AM
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5. There is absolutely no warranty info listed at this site. I'm contacting consumer protection! n.t
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:17 AM
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6. ............
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 10:26 AM by seemslikeadream
The gagging of Sibel Edmonds
The outing of Valerie Plame
The war in Iraq
COLLUSION: INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE AND THE WAR ON TERROR.
Iran/Contra - George Bush Sr.
BCCI
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
IBM and the Holocaust
Operation Mockingbird
The Manhattan Project
The Catholic Church covering up the pedophilia by priests
Enron
Watergate
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
Live American POWs in Vietnam
Internal Combustion
philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States
"Fixing" of intelligence around the desire to invade Iraq --- October Surprise
"Black Box Voting" and computer hacking of elections -- See: VOTESCAM
Operation Gladio
MK-ultra.
COINTELPRO: The FBI's War on Black America
Watergate -- including "black bag jobs" and "The Huston Plan"
Operation Paperclip
CIA coups on democratically elected leaders all around the world ---
CIA-backed death squads in El Salvador
Operation Northwoods
Savings & Loan Theft and Embezzlements
The Drug War is also an obvious conspiracy
CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine connection
Operation Phoenix, torture program in Vietnam
GULF WAR ILLNESS
Control Room -- Propaganda of the Iraq War
Watergate
The Other Side: An Interview with William Blum
1990 Testimony of Nayirah:
The Mafia
The Dreyfus Affair
Echelon
Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial aircraft before 9/11
Corporatocracy
Hitler really was out to exterminate Jews.
Bernard Ebbers convicted of fraud and conspiracy 180 billion dollar loss to investors.
Secret CIA Prisons
Secret Bombing of Cambodia
Operation Midnight Climax
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation Ajax
General Motors streetcar conspiracy
De Beers was charged by the United States Justice Department with Sherman Antitrust Act
Indonesian occupation of East Timor
USS LIBERTY
Suppressing Sarkhan
London Police Found Guilty of Health and Safety Failures in Brazilian's Shooting Death
Brzezinski What's most important to the history of the world the Taliban or collapse of Soviet Empire
Curveball REVEALED!!
Subpoenaed: Rice, Hadley et al. in espionage case



edit


Madoff 50 billion

Stanford 8 billion

AIG

water on Mars, come on now water on Mars :rofl:
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:18 AM
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7. "A record of success"
Me sides!
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:14 AM
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15. Indeed, only two failures to protect in 9 years...
The helmet still works for people being abducted by aliens, but not by their alien-human hybrids who are now integrating into our societies.

So if you got abducted wearing the helmet it must have been those pesky hybrids and not a lack of medication.

-Hoot
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 07:10 PM
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32. 2-in- 6,763,178,978
Thems pretty good odds.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:41 AM
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8. Thank you for posting this
"I have been abducted by aliens for years and found
stopabductions.com by a happy coincidence. The Thought Screen Helmet, invented by an expert, hasstopped the unwelcome visitations and has raised me and my family`s quality of life. Therefore I highly recommend it."

Suddenly, my day is much brighter. I have not one abduction under my belt, knock on wood.
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:51 AM
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12.  "invented by an expert" - I LOL'ed
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 10:53 AM by NeedleCast
You know, if there are aliens, and they've developed FTL travel, do people really think fucking VELCRO helmets are going to stop them? It's kinda like threatening to drain the Pacific ocean with a pint glass. Reminds me of the movie "The Rundown."

"You're threatening me? You're threatening me with...pee?

What would the alien overlords thing when the flying saucer returned with no abductees and the ships crew had to explain that despite vastly superior technology they were thwarted by...aluminum foil and a cloth strap.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:39 AM
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21. More's the pity...
You haven't lived till you've been abducted at least once in your life...




:7
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:42 AM
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9. An Unholy Alliance
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 10:43 AM by seemslikeadream
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newfie11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:46 AM
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11. save your money on the hats
just put aluminum foil on your head. :shrug:
:sarcasm:
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:36 AM
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19. Oh sure, that's good for short term protection...
but people have to think about the future too.


Aluminum pie plates and metal colanders are durable.


I, however, prefer a cast iron frying pan.




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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 10:56 AM
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13. ROFLMAO, I love this line
"Although the thought screen helmet works well without a ground for most people, some people wearing the helmet report a buzzing sound."
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zazen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:09 AM
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14. watch, though--it'll probably turn out to protect them from cancer-inducing EMV radiation
Science progresses through accidents and mistakes. Maybe we'll find a statistically significant lower rate of cancer among these wearers 20 years from now!


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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 07:20 PM
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33. Yep. Darwin strikes again
That's how the genepool stays interesting!
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:18 AM
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16. Armed with the knolwedge from this page, I believe we're ready to conquor the galaxy
From the Skills/Tools page. If this is really all we need to stop alien psychic powers, we shouldn't have a hard time kicking their asses. I wonder if they have oil? I yearn to see the fear in the eyes of this alien master race when I arrive on their home world brandishing my felt tipped highlighter and yard stick (and protective helmet of course).

Required Skills

Dexterity, use of scissors, adept at cutting and shaping paper and plastic sheets.


Tools

Felt tipped Highlighter

Felt tipped pen or grease pencil

Scissors

Sharp knife

Yardstick and 18" ruler

Paper pattern which you will make
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:39 AM
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20. So apparently is every kindergarten child.
To think that Scotty on Star Trek made it all sound so complicated.
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zazen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:19 AM
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17. you know, there's serious scientific research on non-locality, remote viewing, ESP, etc. now
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 11:20 AM by zazen
What happens when our society ridicules stuff that might have some merit is that all the nuts _do_ come out. Sort of like chiropractic--well done, it really works, but it's been marginalized for so long by the medical establishment (whose neurosurgery and orthopedic businesses might suffer if we found out how often and inexpensively chiropractic worked) that it's a lot easier for jerks and quacks to enter the field as well as competent people who are willing to endure the ridicule to actually help people.

There is fascinating research going on about "non-locality" . . . but because this gets ridiculed, we don't draw better lines around it, and then you get people like this who seem to be looking for any huge new paradigm within which to give their struggling lives meaning. Their premise is that the laws of quantum physics operate everywhere and therefore aliens who could travel here would presumably use those laws in ways we can't fathom to move in and out of our holographic reality.

But if they're just transporting your holographic self, then what's all the fuss about coming back with scars and stuff?

Some speculate that what they're reporting is something called "sleep paralysis," which I've experience and _is_ terrifying. Your mind wakes up but your body's still asleep, so you're fully conscious but can't move anything, and you feel a pounding sound that feels like it's pulling you upward. This a documented condition some folks have. It was probably interpreted as witch abductions 400 years ago.

They also think that aliens are quietly interbreeding with us. Given the state of our world, maybe that's not such a bad idea!! : - )
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:41 AM
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22. So, where are the "serious scientific research" papers on this?
Some links to reputable scientific journals would help justify the "serious scientific" part of your assertion.

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zazen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:22 PM
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25. Go With Your Gut -- Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research (Sci Daily, 3/08)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2008) — "Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real and we should take our hunches seriously.

According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential.

There are many recorded incidences where intuition prevented catastrophes and cases of remarkable recoveries when doctors followed their gut feelings. Yet science has historically ridiculed the concept of intuition, putting it in the same box as parapsychology, phrenology and other ‘pseudoscientific’ practices. . . . "



There's a lot more, but this is as much time as I'll take with someone who uses mocking quotes for no other reason than to ridicule another member.

Have a better day.
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:26 PM
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30. What's that have to do with "non-locality" and ESP?
That article is just the same ideas presented in the book Blink about how the human mind forms snap decisions, how sometimes over thinking a problem leads to worse solutions than your initial thought and how sometimes the initial thoughts are wrong and more deliberation leads to better solutions.

Hardly groundbreaking or non-mainstream ideas and definitely not related to your original post.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:33 AM
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35. The hard science you cite refutes all of the WOO-WOO crap explanations.
You left this part out of your cameo, from the same article:

"Through analysis of a wide range of research papers examining the phenomenon, the researchers conclude that intuition is the brain drawing on past experiences and external cues to make a decision – but one that happens so fast the reaction is at a non-conscious level. All we’re aware of is a general feeling that something is right or wrong."
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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:33 PM
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27. Sleep paralysis is also responsible for stories about the incubus
and the more depraved succubus. And having had a few fits of sleep paralysis myself, I understand how freaky it is when you don't know what's going on.
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cobalt1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:28 PM
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31. Same with many ghost stories too.
Common human condition that before the idea of aliens became common popular lore was explain by gods, ghosts or, as you pointed out, an incubus.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:45 AM
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36. Sleep paralysis is the ass end of being a sentient being.
Yeah. Thankfully, it hardly ever happens anymore, but it used to be a an unhappily less-than-rare occurrence.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 11:44 AM
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23. Damn. I guess that makes my AFDB obsolete?
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 12:25 PM
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24. aliens do not like cheap perfume!
Edited on Thu Feb-26-09 12:29 PM by Maru Kitteh
Perfumes

Several abductees report that aliens do not like perfume. One abductee claims that they stopped an abduction by exposing strong cheap perfume to aliens.


:rofl: That settles it! I really AM an alien!
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 02:16 PM
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29. Do they have a cutoff point?
Say, $10.00 a bottle as opposed to $2.00 a bottle?


And what if it's an expensive perfume that we got on sale?


Also...I have a nearly full bottle of "Joy" that Mr Pip picked up in Paris for his mom back in 1955 or thereabouts. I wonder if it's rotted enough since then to be considered alien repellent....

:yoiks:





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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:18 AM
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34. I dunno. Are the laws of cheap perfume and wine different or the same?
Wine is said to become better with age.

Perhaps the cheap ass French perfume is actually ATTRACTING ALIENS.


Look around your neighborhood and report back to us.
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Veritas_et_Aequitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-09 01:34 PM
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28. You know... if that's all it takes to neutralize an alien,
any one of us could start an intergalactic war with nothing more than some tinfoil and a baseball bat.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-09 01:47 AM
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37. Isn't that an M. Night Shyamalan movie?
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