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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman)
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- Subject: Re: Dr. James McDonald's presentation to US House of Representatives
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- Date: 19 Jun 1996 12:11:48 GMT
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- Brian Zeiler (bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu) wrote:
- : Michael Edelman wrote:
-
- : > What Brian'll have a lot more trouble finding is one who shares *all*
- : > his fantasies, like alien abduction, Greys, implants and on and
- : > on...
-
- : Please corroborate your incorrect claim that I have fantasies about
- : abductions, grays, and implants. All I've said around here is that a few
- : abduction cases are "well-documented". That doesn't these cases
- : represent genuine abductions; it means they are well-documented.
-
- Wait a minute- are you backpedaling? Are you now saying you don't
- accept the claims of alien abduction, implants, visits from the
- MiB welcome wagon and so forth?
-
- And now you're saying that just becasue something is "well documented"
- doesn't mean it's genuine?
-
- That's quite a reversal! All this time you've been going on about
- documentation, and now you're telling us that documentation doesn't
- guarentee authenticity?
-
- Well, welcome to the world of rational thought!
-
- : In case you didn't notice, this post was the reference I suggested to you
- : for discussion of some radar-visual cases that cannot be attributed to
- : anomalous echoes. As for psychology, you are a prime opportunity for a
- : case study in obsessive/compulsive fanaticism.
-
- I think I've asked this before, but are you familiar with the term "projection",
- Brian?
-
- ;-) mike
-