3 Very Large Objects In Space Flying To Earth (and 'the truth')

[zenmaster]

My guess is that the example incident with the female probably involved personal elements (and thus representing a different situation entirely) which were conveniently left out for the sole purpose of making a stronger point.

This isn't much different. That you and Ashim are both males does not mean you both speak the same language. You heard "There is a truth that I know that indicates a lot more than 3 objects are approaching" while Ashim said something much more along the lines of "I think that's a gross understatement" while failing to note from which perspective he was speaking.

But do you not see how the particular paraphrasing, as harmless as it seems, actually rejects or covers up what may or may not be the actual case? That's not what I heard.

But then again this happens all the time, our own expectations of what the other is saying fill out the details to the point where we call their positions absurd rather than concluding we must have misunderstood.

Yes, it actually happened in the sentence to which I'm replying. What was being called absurd was certainly not in reference to a particular opinion, position, belief or understanding. It was rather with regards to the legitimacy of defending the general tendency to state something, as if it were true, without qualification or means of support.