bluecat
Skilled Investigator
I have a life-long interest in UFOs. I am almost 60 and began reading on the subject when I was 10. A while back I discovered podcasts and have been listening to this show and others with great interest.
For what they are worth I would like to offer 10 brief observations about this field and the people in it. Some sound tounge-in-cheek. I do not mean them as such. They are observations without judgement.
1. What a person believes about ufos says more about the person than ufos.
2. UFO researchers talk more about other UFO researchers than UFOs.
3. If a person is a believer, no proof is necessary, if they aren’t, no proof is adequate.
4. UFO research is a quest to reconcile a real experience with its illogical, but necessary, implications.
5. Religion begins with faith. If data conflicts with faith, the data is rejected.
Science begins with a hypothesis. If data conflicts with it, the hypothesis is rejected.
Most paranormal research is more like religion than science.
6. No one is more intolerant of fringe beliefs that someone with differing fringe beliefs.
7. People who have found the truth are less interesting than those who are looking for it.
8. The purpose of disinformation is to erase meaning.
9. First, the phenomenon, then those who experience the phenomenon and finally those who experience those who experience the phenomenon. This last group is called experts.
10. Fundamental questions like who, why and how are never answered.
Bluecat
For what they are worth I would like to offer 10 brief observations about this field and the people in it. Some sound tounge-in-cheek. I do not mean them as such. They are observations without judgement.
1. What a person believes about ufos says more about the person than ufos.
2. UFO researchers talk more about other UFO researchers than UFOs.
3. If a person is a believer, no proof is necessary, if they aren’t, no proof is adequate.
4. UFO research is a quest to reconcile a real experience with its illogical, but necessary, implications.
5. Religion begins with faith. If data conflicts with faith, the data is rejected.
Science begins with a hypothesis. If data conflicts with it, the hypothesis is rejected.
Most paranormal research is more like religion than science.
6. No one is more intolerant of fringe beliefs that someone with differing fringe beliefs.
7. People who have found the truth are less interesting than those who are looking for it.
8. The purpose of disinformation is to erase meaning.
9. First, the phenomenon, then those who experience the phenomenon and finally those who experience those who experience the phenomenon. This last group is called experts.
10. Fundamental questions like who, why and how are never answered.
Bluecat