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I was speaking with an old friend this very morning and had a brainstorm. It came as a bolt from the blue — as most brainstorms do.<\/p>\n
People who believe in UFOs, aliens, bigfooums and chupa-whatnots are being skeptical!<\/p>\n
Let me say that say that again. The people who believe in conspiracies, sinister oozings, strange – strangers in black suits, aliens, witches, ghost and the entire zoo of paranormal phenomena are being skeptical. In fact they are far FAR more skeptical than you or I (assuming you don’t really believe in such things.)<\/p>\n
In fact, people who believe in paranormal stuff are being arch -MEGA-SKEPTICS!<\/p>\n
Wow! It all fits!<\/p>\n
Here’s what I’m talking about. Lets say that , you go to work each day. Come home, feed the kids, kick back and watch a little TV have a brew or six. You are normal (other than a drinking problem.) l am I right? You accept that perhaps the current administration sucks, the local ball club stinks, lite beer is OK and that reality TV programming is an awful festival of people being nasty to each other (or maybe you like that crap.. I don’t know!)<\/p>\n
But the rest of you, the people who believe the space brothers are coming tomorrow to save ourselves from ourselves. You who believe smellier cousins of man even now, fight to survive in our dwindling Federal Parks and Forest System. You who think strange monsters lurk in vast unexplored places deep beneath the Earth’s crust. Those who believe the idea that a garrulous collage drop-out and science fiction writer could do psychological research and come up with the secret of everything. Those who sit around hoping that they will suddenly be transported to heaven. Those who think they are the chosen of God. You who think you can silence free speech.<\/p>\n
You are far more skeptical than I!<\/p>\n
You see, I don’t believe as you do. I’m not skeptical of the world as you are. I’m accepting of the status quo as Alfred is oft to say. At least so much that I cannot change more than a small portion of it.<\/p>\n
Your skepticism takes you into worlds of reality that I can only imagine. I say this with utter sincerity because the world some of you travel in resides only in my imagination. They are not real worlds to me! They are figments, bumps in the night that have logical explanations–all. They are things that I dream about. Things that I investigate.<\/p>\n
UFOs as phenomena is real enough. I’m simply not skeptical enough to assign more than a minute possibility that they be more than just unidentified aircraft or some other damn thing. Skeptical people look at UFOs and say , \u201c That’s GOT to be an alien spacecraft. Skeptical people reject the common-sense notions that we don’t know about everything flying around up there. We don’t understand everything there is to know about weather or how light reflects off of say, bird bellies. We don’t really know how a decoy flare or twenty of them might look after being ejected out of military plane. These things might look like nothing, or birds or weather or planes.<\/p>\n
Or if you are very very skeptical, they might just look like aliens.<\/p>\n
Skeptical of the real world that is.<\/p>\n
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I was speaking with an old friend this very morning and had a brainstorm. It came as a bolt from the blue — as most brainstorms do. People who believe in UFOs, aliens, bigfooums and chupa-whatnots are being skeptical! Let … Continue reading