>> I'll bite on the questions of aliens, but the whole God debate I'll
leave
>> to other forums, or you can e-mail me at hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for a
>> private dialectic.
>>
>> Regarding why we should care if alien crafts are sighted but do not
>> interact with us, well, wouldn't you be interested if you knew that an
>> invasion was iminent? Or, if you, yourself, kept seeing things you
>> couldn't rationally interpret, wouldn't you be concerned that you
either
>> needed to upgrade your education or seek competant psychological
>> assistance?
>>
>> From the time of Plato and Aristotle, if not from the earliest
wondering
>> contemplations of cavemen, the human race has sought to understand both
>> ourselves and the world around us. Why draw the line at the present
>> level of understanding and say, "Great, we now know enough to live
>> comfortably. Let's all just sit back and have a big retirement party!"
>>
>> As long as stuff happens that cannot be rationally explained, enquiring
>> minds will want explainations, and the search for explainations will
>> spawn inquisitorial discussions until solutions are settled upon.
>>
>> Take Care,
>> Dudley
>>
> Nope.....Not if I couldn't do anything about it, I wouldn't.
>
> And, I will leave wild ass speculation to the speculators who
(apparently)
> need to have such things to speculate about.....In the meantime, I will
> speculate on or about those things that I have some hope of doing
> something about, or which can improve my cir***stances. There are more
> than enough real unsolved problems in the society. Why should I bother
> with manufacturing imaginary problems that have no useful purpose or
> solution?
>
Fair enough. If one has never encountered a physical phenomena that one
cannot explain or rationalize with reference to one's own experience, then
it is easy enough to dismiss someone else who has seen something like an
unidentified flying object.
But, when others who have had such experiences and want to discuss them, I
think it is somewhat selfish to simply dismiss the enquirey as rubbish and
nonsense. Remember Mount St. Hellens? Living hundreds of miles away from
the mostly dormant volcano, I didn't really care that scientists were
predicting an eminant eruption. But, supposedly, there was some old guy
who
had been living there all his life, and who had told everyone he didn't
care
what the scientists were predicting because he had seen it all and heard
it
all before. And, hey, nobody could remember the last time there was an
eruption, so it really was unlikely that it was going to affect him in any
way. And, hey, even if a bit of smoke and ash got spewed up in the air,
"What the hell?"
Supposedly the old guy was vapourised in the blast. And the ash trail was
detected well into Canada.
While I wouldn't exactly call myself a firm believer in aliens and their
flying fortresses, I like to think that I keep an open mind, so I won't be
taken entirely by surprise when ET parks his saucer in my backyard and
wants
to rev up my cell.
Take Care,
Dudley
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