SUBJECT: JUST SAY "I DON'T KNOW" FILE: UFO3279 MUFONET-BBS GROUP - MUFONET-BBS NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴커 � MUFON NEW YORK CITY NEWSLETTER � � ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ � � JUST SAY "I DON'T KNOW" � � ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ � � Author: Jack Greenfield � � � 쿟hough I have been mystified by the UFO phenomenon for 30 � 퀉ears, I'm at least bemused by the attitudes of many who � 쿴aunt its meeting places, special events, lecture halls, � 쿺agazines and...newsletters. � � � 쿥ith the certitude and messianic fervor of the chosen, they � 쿮xpound their cherished beliefs: "I know there's an � 쿶nternational conspiracy to keep us from the truth!" says � 쿽ne. "The revelations being channelled from the Arcturians � 쿪re really illuminating!" gushes another. "We have star � 쿬hildren!" writes a lady who claims communion with � 쿣enusians. "...A powerful force from outside mankind � 쿶s...driving us...into the abyss!" exclaims a European � 퀅fologist who insists the "evidence" is mounting. At least � �"3.7 million" men, women and children have been abducted by � 쿢FOs, concludes a recent Roper Poll - according to some. � 쿥hat? UFOs? Shucks, friend, they're just a lot of "ionized � 쿪ir," states a plasma vortex theorist, as if summarizing a � 퀂tranger-than-fiction phenomenon that's been making fools of� 쿯olks for over 45 years. � � � 쿌nd, meanwhile, in the midst of all the self-indulgence and � 쿮gospeak, the ubiquitous Phil Klass, who apparently sees � 쿴imself as a minister to the misguided, and is seen by � 쿽thers as the Prime Minister of Misinformation and � 쿘isinterpretation, declaims, with equal acumen and � 쿪ssurance, that UFOs are all a lot of beguiling baloney and � 퀃hat the very idea our government is hiding information � 쿪bout UFOs is...unpatriotic. Whatever happened to the UFO � 쿺ystery? Has it finally been solved by the disinformation � 쿹obby and the same species of simpleton who, a few decades � 쿪go, would have called it "marsh gas?" � � � 쿓as it been levitated out of consensus reality by those who � 쿬hannel 2,000-year-old entities, party with star people, � 쿴ave transcendental visions and access to revealed truths? � 쿚r has it become the tool and teething ring of "New Age" � 쿺essiahs and missionaries, cultists and confabulators, � 쿴ustlers and hoaxers in pursuit of emotional, psychological,� 쿮conomic, and other misbegotten agendas? � � � 쿟here is, still, regardless of what anyone tells you, a UFO � 쿺ystery. Maybe they're extraterrestrial. Maybe not. There� 쿶s, still, an abduction mystery. Maybe the abductors are � 쿮ngaging in what Flying Saucer Review calls a "broad plan of� 쿲eneric tinkering." Maybe not. Maybe crop circles are the � 퀇ork of fairies, or a sign of imminent earth changes, or � 쿬lever hoaxes, or unidentified natural phenomena, or a � 쿬ombination thereof. And maybe not. Why must we have a � 쿯ixed and fatuous notions regarding such phenomena? � � � 쿞omeone once claimed that just saying "I don't know," when � 퀇e most assuredly do not, "know", is the beginning of � 퀇isdom. � � � �=END= � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴켸 ********************************************************************* * -------->>> THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo <<<------- * *********************************************************************