From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors Subject: FILE: MUFON article - "Don't Know" Message-ID: <1993Feb11.040641.8165@bilver.uucp> Date: 11 Feb 93 04:06:41 GMT Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Lines: 83 (3868) Tue 19 Jan 93 3:19 By: John Komar To: All Re: Article: "Don't Know" St: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @MSGID: 88:88/0 2B54DBAB MUFONET-BBS GROUP - MUFONET-BBS NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3 MUFON NEW YORK CITY NEWSLETTER 3 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 3 JUST SAY "I DON'T KNOW" 3 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 3 Author: Jack Greenfield 3 3 3 3Though I have been mystified by the UFO phenomenon for 30 3 3years, I'm at least bemused by the attitudes of many who 3 3haunt its meeting places, special events, lecture halls, 3 3magazines and...newsletters. 3 3 3 3With the certitude and messianic fervor of the chosen, they 3 3expound their cherished beliefs: "I know there's an 3 3international conspiracy to keep us from the truth!" says 3 3one. "The revelations being channelled from the Arcturians 3 3are really illuminating!" gushes another. "We have star 3 3children!" writes a lady who claims communion with 3 3Venusians. "...A powerful force from outside mankind 3 3is...driving us...into the abyss!" exclaims a European 3 3ufologist who insists the "evidence" is mounting. At least 3 3"3.7 million" men, women and children have been abducted by 3 3UFOs, concludes a recent Roper Poll - according to some. 3 3What? UFOs? Shucks, friend, they're just a lot of "ionized 3 3air," states a plasma vortex theorist, as if summarizing a 3 3stranger-than-fiction phenomenon that's been making fools of3 3folks for over 45 years. 3 3 3 3And, meanwhile, in the midst of all the self-indulgence and 3 3egospeak, the ubiquitous Phil Klass, who apparently sees 3 3himself as a minister to the misguided, and is seen by 3 3others as the Prime Minister of Misinformation and 3 3Misinterpretation, declaims, with equal acumen and 3 3assurance, that UFOs are all a lot of beguiling baloney and 3 3that the very idea our government is hiding information 3 3about UFOs is...unpatriotic. Whatever happened to the UFO 3 3mystery? Has it finally been solved by the disinformation 3 3lobby and the same species of simpleton who, a few decades 3 3ago, would have called it "marsh gas?" 3 3 3 3Has it been levitated out of consensus reality by those who 3 3channel 2,000-year-old entities, party with star people, 3 3have transcendental visions and access to revealed truths? 3 3Or has it become the tool and teething ring of "New Age" 3 3messiahs and missionaries, cultists and confabulators, 3 3hustlers and hoaxers in pursuit of emotional, psychological,3 3economic, and other misbegotten agendas? 3 3 3 3There is, still, regardless of what anyone tells you, a UFO 3 3mystery. Maybe they're extraterrestrial. Maybe not. There3 3is, still, an abduction mystery. Maybe the abductors are 3 3engaging in what Flying Saucer Review calls a "broad plan of3 3generic tinkering." Maybe not. Maybe crop circles are the 3 3work of fairies, or a sign of imminent earth changes, or 3 3clever hoaxes, or unidentified natural phenomena, or a 3 3combination thereof. And maybe not. Why must we have a 3 3fixed and fatuous notions regarding such phenomena? 3 3 3 3Someone once claimed that just saying "I don't know," when 3 3we most assuredly do not, "know", is the beginning of 3 3wisdom. 3 3 3 3=END= 3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY --- FMail 0.92 * Origin: 012 MUFONET-BBS Network 210 901-785-4943 (88:88/0) @PATH: 123/26 -- <*> Don Allen <*> 1:363/81.1 - Fidonet #1 - Homebody BBS dona@bilver.uucp - Internet 1:363/29.8 - Fidonet #2 - Gourmet Delight 88:4205/1.1 - MUFON Network 1:3607/20.2 -- Odyssey - Alabama UFO Net NSA grep food: Aviary, Ed Dames, Los Alamos - Majestic - Jason - RIIA - UN