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Thread #109890   Message #2306734
Posted By: irishenglish
04-Apr-08 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: So he may have been right after all(David Icke
Subject: RE: BS: So he may have been right after all(David Icke
Little Hawk-Ok rightly or wrongly I was generalizing by saying I have read Icke's theories. I meant I have been on his website, I read quite a lot of the articles on there actually, I read in interview he did with Rick Martin on Icke's official website. I haven't read any of his actual books, but upon reading some of the material on the website, I personally find a lot of his claims dubious. I always have a degree of trepidation when I come across anybody, who suddenly, through all our course of history and science, comes up with bold sweeping revisions to our previous understanding of our own world. Hell, some people still don't believe in THe Big Bang, so what they might think about some of Icke's more interesting theories I don't know! Using your examples, I can see in this case how I came across as using a believer/unbeliever mentality, and would agree that should not be one's approach in life. My wife and I do discuss things, sometimes it becomes a heated exchange (don't even ask me about our Catholics, are they Christians argument!), sometimes it is rational, coherent thought with analysis, both pro and con to whatever position we are debating. Whatever you wish to pursue in terms of David Icke, or whether you choose to read more of his work is of course your perogative, and I hope it provides you with many hours of thoughtful contemplation. Personally, upon review of some of his work, I have to say I honestly began to laugh, I just couldn't help myself. I stepped back though and began thinking about some of his bloodline discussion. I am no great analytical thinker, nor am I a scholar, but then I started thinking about his bloodlines argument. And I began thinking how in my mind it contradicted what archaelogists are still finding out about ancient civilizations, and how societies developed. I started thinking about what an elite alien bloodline such as he suggests was doing when man was still making rudimentary tools. I began thinking why any of the world's greatest thinkers-The Greeks, the Chinese, our astronomers and philosophers etc. have never mentioned any of Icke's own theories. I began thinking why one man could suddenly work all of this together, essentially on his own.
And then I started thinking about what proof he has for some of the more outrageous claims, such as former British PM Ted Heath performing ritual sacrifice of children before shape shifting into a lizard (from the aforementioned Rick Martin interview). And when I saw unsubstantiated claims such as that Little Hawk, that is when I decided that I didn't think I could believe anything he really had to say.