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Multiple Space Jesuses: What's the Problem?
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Steefen
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November 17, 2025 - 1:05 pm

YouTube Channel: Forbes Breaking News

Video: Full Hearing: Anna Paulina Luna Leads House Oversight Committee Hearing on UAP Transparency

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Stephen
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November 17, 2025 - 1:29 pm

It’s hard to stomach this rubbish at the same time as our country’s medical establishment has been turned over to quacks and scientific research is being gutted.   Steefen, you will forgive my occasional lack of civility on these matters.  

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Steefen
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November 17, 2025 - 2:29 pm

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I certainly will not. I do not side with you.

These serious matters of science do not deserve lack of civility. 

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Steefen
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November 17, 2025 - 2:36 pm

Where is the quality of your rebuttal for the edification of reader of this thread.

People do not have time to search out evidence and have time to consider the information then read your no-quality comment.

Lack of civility is not an argument.

Argumentative Specialist taught by Philosophy professors (argumentation experts) and by the Great Courses program on Argumentation [David Zarefsky of Northwestern University] and by writing professors at NYU, Baruch College, and Toastmasters. etc.

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Stephen
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November 17, 2025 - 2:56 pm

If you want to get into a pi$$ing contest… I graduated interdum cum laude from Zebulon Pike Barber College with Master’s in both Classics and Animal Husbandry.   I can count to ten in eight languages.  Until the college burned down because of that unfortunate incident in the manure lab I apprenticed to the world’s leading expert at translating glossolalia into Vorpal (look it up).

When you post a video actually concerned with “serious matters of science” I will humbly repent in sackcloth and ashes. 

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Robert
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November 19, 2025 - 1:10 pm
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Steefen
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November 19, 2025 - 2:13 pm

The videos from CBS News and Forbes YouTube channels showed this ET-deniers are not persuasive.

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Robert
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November 19, 2025 - 4:21 pm
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November 19, 2025 - 4:34 pm

I graduated interdum cum laude . . .

I just need to register that this made me snort. 

On another note, the Roman ecclesiastical universities grant all degrees with a grade on the diploma; the familiar honors are at the top; the bottom is “rite probatus”: “duly tested”. I was told you might as well not finish as graduate with that.  

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Steefen
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November 19, 2025 - 5:07 pm

Robert:
The professionals who study all of these accounts in much more detail are not persuaded (eg, NASA UAP Chair, David Spergel).

Steefen:
You are adding David Spergel’s dated official response to the Congressional Hearing?

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Robert
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November 19, 2025 - 5:19 pm
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Steefen
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November 19, 2025 - 5:23 pm

NASA is an uncooperative party to this discussion.
You support arguments not made in good faith.
Your position is invalidated.

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November 19, 2025 - 5:26 pm

Porphyry said

I graduated interdum cum laude . . .

I just need to register that this made me snort. 
On another note, the Roman ecclesiastical universities grant all degrees with a grade on the diploma; the familiar honors are at the top; the bottom is “rite probatus”: “duly tested”. I was told you might as well not finish as graduate with that.  
  

“I graduated rite probatus, ‘barely squeaked through’.”

I can see why my University didn’t do that. Or as it’s said, “Do you know what they call the cadet who graduates last in his class at West Point?” “No, what do they call him?” “Sir.”

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Steefen
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November 19, 2025 - 5:34 pm

Robert
David Spergel specifically discusses one of the stories shared in your videos.

Stephen
Given the numerous accounts in the Congressional Hearing and in the Dr. Courtney Brown interview, you are not going to identify the one point of contention.

This is not a discussion on your part.

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Robert
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November 19, 2025 - 5:47 pm
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Robert
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November 19, 2025 - 5:50 pm
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Steefen
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November 19, 2025 - 6:01 pm

As an argumentation specialist, I am certain.

Whether there is intelligence in other dimensions (Jesus’ Heavenly Father, spirits of people who have died, the Anunna, the Watchers)
or
off-planet beings from the same space-time dimension as the people on Earth,
I am certain of off-planet vehicles and off-planet, non-human beings.

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Robert
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November 19, 2025 - 6:03 pm
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Stephen
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November 20, 2025 - 1:18 pm

If you squint you can just see the ET’s waving as they go by.

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Porphyry said

I graduated interdum cum laude . . .

I just need to register that this made me snort. 
  

See, those Latin lessons did pay off.  Mr. Thigpen would be so proud.  Britannia est en europa.  

Steefen said

Stephen
Given the numerous accounts in the Congressional Hearing and in the Dr. Courtney Brown interview, you are not going to identify the one point of contention.
This is not a discussion on your part.
  

True, but since I’ve been following the UFO field since I was a little kid, and know way more about it than is probably healthy, I don’t waste my time on empty political theater.  

As an argumentation specialist, I am certain.

If you were an argumentation specialist you would never be certain. 

ps It pleases me that this thread has taken off, pardon the pun. 

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November 20, 2025 - 7:31 pm

This video deserves a close watch.   I’m going to see if I can track down both those papers.  

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