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- From: frice@stbbs.com (Fredric L. Rice)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.alien.research,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: SaucerZealotLogic, Chapter 3
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 17:47:14 GMT
- Organization: The Skeptic Tank
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- Jim Rogers <jfr@fc.hp.com> wrote:
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- > Brian Zeiler wrote:
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- <smiles> So you know it's gonna be good.
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- bz> Do you see why aliens are not "invoked" just for fun?
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- jr> Obviously not just for fun, but for sheer paranoid delusional
- ecstasy.
-
- I wouldn't go that far, though. It's quite obvious that Brian is
- employing a little wishful thinking but his assumption that aliens
- are flying around our skys doesn't fit the requirements for a
- paranoid delusion. (The belief that the United States government
- is actively suppressing evidence and alien bodies, however, would
- certainly do so.)
-
- No, I think his problem -- and that of his fellow believers -- is that
- putting aliens into fictional flying craft in our skys is something of
- a warm fuzzy. It's nice to pretend that we're not alone and that
- other alien races are interested in us to the point where they put
- forth hugely expensive adventures to come watch us.
-
- Don't be too hard on Brian, Jim. He's doing the best he can.
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