QUOTE(Agent. Mulder @ Jun 4 2007, 12:05 AM) [snapback]1707529[/snapback]
yes.........and whats your point? that hes a thief and therefore hes a crazy delusional maniac with an overactive imagination? thus making anything he says or does instantly garbage and impossible to be true.
kinda pigeonholing people there man. just saying because they were convicted of an offence theyre crazy. thats not very nice now is it?
you don't think that he is a convicted criminal fraudster and theft and spent time in jail for those offences has any bearing on claims he makes later ?
how about you actually do some research and check out just what it is that he was saying, I'd love to see someone try to defend his position that the nazca lines for instance were built as runways for intergalactic motherships
heres what he actually said about it
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"what is wrong with the idea that the lines were laid out to say to the gods "Land here! Everything has been prepared as you ordered. the builders of the geometrical figures may have had no idea what they were doing. But perhaps they knew perfectly well what the Gods needed in order to land"
now any first year english student should be able to tell you whats wrong with statements like that
first he claims that the builders of the lines know enough about the workings of an intergalactic spaceship to know their landing requirements and then he says that they may have had no idea what they were doing........but then again maybe they did"
its speculation of the highest order
the reality is that the dark stones that line the figures rest on a lighter coloured sandy soil. so anything olanding on them larger than a station wagon is going to leave a huge mess. But of course Erich doesnt bother to mention this because it would make his earlier claim look foolish. as it is the facts that his readers and supporters don't know about his claims frequently makes idiots of them instead. but Erichs ok he made millions from this kind of pseudohistory, as you said he prcatically invented it........
btw this excerpt i am typing in from my mint condition hardback 1971 copy of "chariots of the gods" so saying I am maligning his work for any other reason apart from that it is on the whole complete rubbish is doing me an injustice
so when you actually know what he was saying heres a challenge for you
take any little piece of Danikens theory and post it here with undeniable truth that hes right about it
that way you won't have to worry about his credibility
we'll all just have to worry about yours
shall we say if you can't find anything in seven days you'll post "ok so I was wrong"
cheers
btw Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity
three qualities that Erich doesnt have