Weird thing I noticed yesterday
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You saw it too, then?! That is so awesome! You, me, and the OP need to start a support group of some-kind or perhaps become a team of elite mystery-fighting men roaming the country to seek out this phenomenon and what It all means! I'll buy the van and get it a bitchin' paint job!
Just don't cross the streams unless it's vital for the plot.
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Guess I shoulda known better...
Guess I shoulda known better...
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Well, to be blunt, yes, you should have, and the roll-eyes aren't really called for because the response was indeed "quasi-mature" like you asked for.
I too was wondering why you would think someone else saw a three-second shadow on the ground with no discernible atmospheric cause in an unidentified parking lot in an unidentified part of the country. How could anyone possibly have seen that, with or without the complete lack of location information in your OP?
Trekker just stated it more sarcastically, while also giving you plenty of possible reasonable alternatives. You however, chose to believe the sarcastic and completely impossible part and assume there was some sort of nationwide three-second stealth micro-shadow incident.
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Well, to be blunt, yes, you should have, and the roll-eyes aren't really called for because the response was indeed "quasi-mature" like you asked for.
I too was wondering why you would think someone else saw a three-second shadow on the ground with no discernible atmospheric cause in an unidentified parking lot in an unidentified part of the country. How could anyone possibly have seen that, with or without the complete lack of location information in your OP?
Trekker just stated it more sarcastically, while also giving you plenty of possible reasonable alternatives. You however, chose to believe the sarcastic and completely impossible part and assume there was some sort of nationwide three-second stealth micro-shadow incident.
Wow...and you're supposed to be a mod?
It never fails to astonish me on this board (particularly in Misc) when someone posts something a bit out of the norm, looking for a reasonable discussion on the matter, there's a huge flesh-pile of lemming-like and sophomoric retaliation. And this from fans of a show that is supposed to espouse and admonish a level of "tolerance" of other people's view points. And to be clear, I didn't specifically ask for quasi-mature responses, I asked for the quasi-mature responses to be kept at a minimum, knowing that some would decide to show to the rest of the world how amazingly witty they are. I knew that would happen, but I had hoped for some reasonably mature discourse on the subject. I probably should have said "at least quasi-mature", but I guess I underestimated the capacity for immaturity here. No skin off my balls, to be honest. It was just simply an observation.
And just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. I still saw what I saw and your rather less-than-informed opinion on the matter doesn't really change that fact. You can give me some sort of bogus forum warning for this if you like if I hurt your feelings. Seeing that you've proven not to be terribly unbiased on the matter, wouldn't count for much anyway.
Might as well even close the thread if you think there's no point to any of it.
You must be looking at this from a different perspective than the rest of us. There's no other way your responses here make sense.
You see a shadow, you wonder what it is. Given your tone you seem to be working under the assumption it was something global that everyone saw. The rest of us are figuring it was something far more ordinary, if not a trick of the mind. Because that's the more likely explanation.
You see a shadow, you wonder what it is. Given your tone you seem to be working under the assumption it was something global that everyone saw. The rest of us are figuring it was something far more ordinary, if not a trick of the mind. Because that's the more likely explanation.
I'm not working under any assumptions. I'm actually scientifically trying to formulate a theory to determine what I saw. I can't prove to anyone that I didn't see something that was entirely in my head, aside from my word, in stating that I saw a shadow cast on the ground and on surrounding vehicles, altering the specular highlights of the non-obscured sun on said surfaces.
I saw a few less-than-serious responses to which I responded light-heartedly, attempting to convey that I'm not trying to take myself too seriously, but would still like to have a serious discourse about it, if possible. I guess I KNEW it would go there to some extent, so my original text was designed to prepare the thread for that eventuality. Guess it wasn't too clear. I get it, sorry about that and I'm cool with it.
But then, when it really started going downhill, particularly the snide remark by another so-called "mod", I decided to course-correct. Again, my original intent was to talk about something real that I saw. I honestly thought there may be a couple of people out there, preferably far away, who may have seen this by chance and we could move from there. Guess not.
And for the record, sarcasm is not always easily discernible through the written word alone. It helps to hear voice inflections as well as non-verbal body language cues. That's why we have emoticons, folks.
I saw a few less-than-serious responses to which I responded light-heartedly, attempting to convey that I'm not trying to take myself too seriously, but would still like to have a serious discourse about it, if possible. I guess I KNEW it would go there to some extent, so my original text was designed to prepare the thread for that eventuality. Guess it wasn't too clear. I get it, sorry about that and I'm cool with it.
But then, when it really started going downhill, particularly the snide remark by another so-called "mod", I decided to course-correct. Again, my original intent was to talk about something real that I saw. I honestly thought there may be a couple of people out there, preferably far away, who may have seen this by chance and we could move from there. Guess not.
And for the record, sarcasm is not always easily discernible through the written word alone. It helps to hear voice inflections as well as non-verbal body language cues. That's why we have emoticons, folks.
You came in here saying you saw a brief, unexplainable to you, disturbance in your field of vision.
What did you expect our reaction to be? Did you really think this thing was some global phenomenon that everyone had experienced and wanted to talk about? Where you shocked that night when it wasn't in the news or the next day when it wasn't in the paper?
Dude, you saw a brief oddity that can be explained by any number of normal, mundane, things as I outlined above.
We're all for open discussion on things here that at least make SOME sense. Ghost, UFOs, whatever. But seeing a slight visual oddity for a brief moment at a specific time of day in some unspecified part of the world is hardly something that's going to stir a lot more discussion than, "Dude, you were having a simple seizure. See a doctor."
What did you expect our reaction to be? Did you really think this thing was some global phenomenon that everyone had experienced and wanted to talk about? Where you shocked that night when it wasn't in the news or the next day when it wasn't in the paper?
Dude, you saw a brief oddity that can be explained by any number of normal, mundane, things as I outlined above.
We're all for open discussion on things here that at least make SOME sense. Ghost, UFOs, whatever. But seeing a slight visual oddity for a brief moment at a specific time of day in some unspecified part of the world is hardly something that's going to stir a lot more discussion than, "Dude, you were having a simple seizure. See a doctor."
Tolerant?
[sarcasm]I'm sure you are, absolutely! Without a doubt! This thread clearly proves that to be true...[/sarcasm]
See what I did there?
Take notes.
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Well, to be blunt, yes, you should have, and the roll-eyes aren't really called for because the response was indeed "quasi-mature" like you asked for.
I too was wondering why you would think someone else saw a three-second shadow on the ground with no discernible atmospheric cause in an unidentified parking lot in an unidentified part of the country. How could anyone possibly have seen that, with or without the complete lack of location information in your OP?
Trekker just stated it more sarcastically, while also giving you plenty of possible reasonable alternatives. You however, chose to believe the sarcastic and completely impossible part and assume there was some sort of nationwide three-second stealth micro-shadow incident.
Wow...and you're supposed to be a mod?
It never fails to astonish me on this board (particularly in Misc) when someone posts something a bit out of the norm, looking for a reasonable discussion on the matter, there's a huge flesh-pile of lemming-like and sophomoric retaliation. And this from fans of a show that is supposed to espouse and admonish a level of "tolerance" of other people's view points. And to be clear, I didn't specifically ask for quasi-mature responses, I asked for the quasi-mature responses to be kept at a minimum, knowing that some would decide to show to the rest of the world how amazingly witty they are. I knew that would happen, but I had hoped for some reasonably mature discourse on the subject. I probably should have said "at least quasi-mature", but I guess I underestimated the capacity for immaturity here. No skin off my balls, to be honest. It was just simply an observation.
And just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. I still saw what I saw and your rather less-than-informed opinion on the matter doesn't really change that fact. You can give me some sort of bogus forum warning for this if you like if I hurt your feelings. Seeing that you've proven not to be terribly unbiased on the matter, wouldn't count for much anyway.
Might as well even close the thread if you think there's no point to any of it.
Why would I give you a warning? Paranoid much? What would possibly hurt my feelings about any of this? Jesus Christ, man, get a grip.
The discussion was reasonable. No one insulted you. At worst you received a little on-point sarcasm. I wasn't even mocking you despite your indignant overreaction here; I was explaining why your incident couldn't have more eyewitnesses from TrekBBS due to the nature of the event you described and the lack of any location information.
Nor did I ever deny the event took place. It's perfectly believable that you saw a three-second shadow in the parking lot, and there are any number of possible explanations, just not any that would likely allow someone hundreds of miles away to witness that same shadow in your unknown location too. If my opinion is ill-informed, it's because you have ill informed me with your detail-lacking recounting of the incident.
If you were just looking for unquestioning agreement that you had something of great significance happen to you here, I'm sorry, but you are the one expecting lemming-like responses.
Feh. Close it. Honestly not worth it anymore.
Fine.
Have a good day. It really wasn't an issue that merited such an overreaction.
Have a good day. It really wasn't an issue that merited such an overreaction.
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