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Quote: Perry Nium @ July 3 2008, 4:12 PM BST

Look at War Of The Worlds when it was first broadcast on radio in America in the fifties. Thousands thought it was real and went out on the rampage in blind panic. One man shot his own kids in preference to them getting abducted.

It was in the THIRTIES, before WW-II, a time when people were worried by what Hitler was up to.

No real evidence that anyone shot their kids, but the Newspapers of the time drastically embellished the panic stories to increase their sales.

Quote: Aaron @ July 3 2008, 5:56 PM BST

Pete, I'd like to offer you a challenge, if you're up for it?

No.

Quote: zooo @ July 3 2008, 5:32 PM BST

I don't know if it was in Fight Club or The Matrix, but there was a line about how we're just a lucky freak organism. Like a disease on the planet.

I refer you also to The Galaxy Song from Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life.

Quote: Pete @ July 3 2008, 5:37 PM BST

A counter to what? An alien looking in your window?

It was:

a) dream
b) human
c) animal

next?

d) Extra-terrestrial.

Quote: Pete @ July 3 2008, 6:28 PM BST

No.

Thought not. Evidently you hold a lot of faith in your arguments. But nevermind, you won anyway!

I have faith in what is proven (as a tip, dreams, humans and animals are all real), as such, i win all arguments based on reality.

Laughing out loud

Ok, now I believe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031062/Faceless-aliens-spotted-crowd-Wimbledon.html

cool, I want one

Now that IS cool.

That is ace!

Quote: Pete @ July 3 2008, 4:55 PM BST

To be fair you opened the conversation with:

"I believe in Aliens"

You then explained this belief was based on a dream you had as an 8 year old.

If i say i saw God at 8 years old would you be open minded?

I'd believe you saw something strange. I believe there is probably some kind of enormously-advanced 'alien' that governs the known universe, and if people want to call that force 'God' then that's fine. I don't have any problem with the existence of such a being. It's the Bible I have a problem with.

As for my 'experience', I've already said I'm open to the fact that my experience was probably a dream. But it was a powerful dream that sparked a lifelong interest in all-things spacey. (Not Kevin.)

Quote: billwill @ July 3 2008, 5:17 PM BST

Perry,

There is another explanation, for what you saw as am 8-year old. Perception plays strange tricks with one's mind, especially when just waking up. (Once when staying in a German hotel, the phone rang and woke me and the voice on the other end said: "It's a Battleship" and put the phone down. Later I worked out that it was my wake-up call and he had actually said: "Es ist Halb Acht" - "It is half to eight".)

So while aliens peering in your window is faintly possible, a far more likely scenario is that it was an inquisitive dog or similar animal. (Free-ranging Pandas also being somewhat unlikely :D)

Dogs do have big black eyes and are very inquisitive, I've often seen dogs peering into windows.

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Or if your bedroom had no place for a dog to stand on outside the window, it might have been a skewed perception of the moon.

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Cheers Bill. Well it certainly wasn't an inquisitive labrador unless they can float. (My bedroom was on the first floor). As for the moon? Nah, I'd seen the moon tons of times before. This was a face, with huge black eyes, pressed close to the window. Only two explanations exist - it was either a dream, or it was a strange creature of some kind.

Quote: DaButt @ July 3 2008, 6:59 PM BST

Ok, now I believe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031062/Faceless-aliens-spotted-crowd-Wimbledon.html

That is brilliant!

Quote: Perry Nium @ July 3 2008, 8:14 PM BST

Only two explanations exist - it was either a dream, or it was a strange creature of some kind.

Funny you should say that....a strange creature has just wandered into my home office - only two explanations...its either a bizarre four legged monster from planet woof woof...or its my dog.

Quote: Pete @ July 3 2008, 8:57 PM BST

Funny you should say that....a strange creature has just wandered into my home office - only two explanations...its either a bizarre four legged monster from planet woof woof...or its my dog.

Rolling eyes

OK, on the basis of probability i strapped it down and dissected it (video on You Tube later)

Still not found my dog though ???

Quote: Perry Nium @ July 3 2008, 4:49 PM BST

Sigh. Rolling eyes

The subject always makes people react in one of two ways - open-minded interest or a compulsion to attack / ridicule the person who brought the subject up. Maybe it's just fear of the unknown or whatever.

Or maybe it's just fun to mock? Also, the way you phrased the question in in the first post of this thread indicated that you were only interested in one particular viewpoint, not an open discussion. Pollsters do it all the time.

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