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- From: usuhsb.usuhs.mil!fantegrossi (BILL F)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranet.abduct,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.abduct
- Subject: Re: ET's Give Reasons For Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions/"Necessity Su
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:25:38 GMT
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- In article <31ca1c5b.26835457@news.gate.net>, wscott@gate.net (W. Scott Gibson) writes:
-
- >Hey, it was just a lame little joke that popped into my head while
- >reading Brian's post. Did you notice I'm making fun OF skeptics?
-
- Whoa! Sorry about that. Actually, I DIDN'T notice.
- Ever since these terms like "SaucerZealot" and "SkeptiBunker" started popping
- up I've had trouble following just WHO is the insulter and WHOM is being
- insulted. Forgive my transgression. I would genuflect at the ankles if only
- my knees were lower.
-
- >Occam's Razor gets flung around here a lot. Many of those invoking it
- >seem to have little idea of it's significance.
-
- No argument there.
-
- >Since aliens
- >from outer space are about the least probable cause of the abduction
- >accounts, I guess Occam's Razor would suggest you look for a new
- >mental disorder or maybe proof of a government mind control
- >experiment.
-
- I'm going to deviate from the true believer camp here and agree with you that
- before invoking any alien interplanetary intervention other Earthly phenomena
- should be explored. In the case of temporal lobe epilepsy and sleep
- paralysis, I think the exploration has lead to irreconcilable contradictions
- which should qualify them for rejection from the list of possible explanations.
- I've outlined some of my own problems with these in a previous post.
-
- >mental health professionals have looked at these people and decided
- >most of them are not mentally ill. And the hidden mind control
- >experiments imply a much more capable government than I think we have.
-
- Yes and no on the mind control stuff. Yes it goes on, MK-ULTRA may never have
- died, but no I don't think it implies abything about the government's
- competence or lack thereof. Keep in mind that "government" is a huge umbrella
- term and to throw it around in the context of highly compartmentalized
- information is not correct usage of the word. It's like a set of nesting
- Chinese boxes where different groups are a part of the whole but don't
- necessarily share their motives and goals with the rest. It also gets smaller
- the further in you go.
-
- >I still don't like the idea of little grey guys taking women out of
- >their beds for bizarre purposes. What do you think Occam's Razor
- >demands now?
-
- That some new hypothesis be proposed and evaluated. *NONE* of the ones
- currently on the table bear scrutiny.
-
- your pal,
- --bill f.
-
-