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"Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." wrote in
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> Being a Debunker means never having to say you're sorry
Request to become a debunker: Denied.
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> responsibility as an investigator to respond to their demands. Don't
> fall for that ploy. Only you and the organization you represent can
> define your responsibilities.
>
> A formula for avoiding stress caused by the actions of the debunkers
> is to follow industry's lead in looking for "value added" in any
> interchange or effort. If there is nothing to be gained from
> responding to them, then don't do it. Apply your energies where they
> will make a difference. Don't play their game. It takes two to make a
> game and if you do not respond to their provocation, then they do not
> have a game. They lose and you are not stressed.
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> "Science of Not Knowing" by John E. Mack, M.D.
>
> Despite official skepticism and even cynicism in media, government,
> and scientific circles, it must be evident to many Americans that
> something extraordinary-at least from the standpoint of the Western
> worldview-is going on. No conventional explanation for the thousands
> of reported cases of encounters with alien beings has been sufficient,
> and this remains true in spite of the fact that the experiencers
> themselves would, with rare exceptions, welcome any explanation other
> than that they are being visited without their permission by humanoid
> creatures from another place.
>
> Yet the debate that is devoted to the UFO abduction phenomenon remains
> focused largely on the question of whether or not it is real in the
> strictly physical sense. Some skeptics even claim or imply that,
> insofar as the physical evidence for the reality of the phenomenon
> does not meet standards of scientific proof, we can presume for
> practical purposes that it does not exist at all.
>
> But what if the phenomenon were subtle in the sense that it may
> manifest in the physical world, but derive from a source which by its
> very nature could not provide the kind of hard evidence that would
> satisfy skeptics for whom reality is limited to the material? If so,
> might we not be losing an opportunity to learn and grow as a species
> by remaining so wedded to an epistemology of physical proof?
>
> What if, instead, we were to acknowledge that the abduction phenomenon
> is intrinsically mysterious and, ultimately, beyond our present
> framework of knowledge? What if we were to admit our puzzlement before
> this mystery?
>
> Might not such an attitude of humility become, paradoxically, a way to
> enlarge upon what could then be learned? Is it possible that adopting
> an open attitude could result in greater knowledge not only about the
> physical aspects of the phenomenon, but about numinous dimensions as
> well?
>
> And might not this opening of consciousness enable us to learn of
> unseen realities now obscured by our too limited epistemology,
> allowing us to rediscover the sacred and the divinity in nature and in
> ourselves?
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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