I disagree, sorry. This is a logic situation. In or out. 1 or 0. Yes or no. True or false. No maybes, gray areas or the like.
The problem is, human nature is not binary, nor is it logical. Maybe deep down in the neurons it is, or maybe it's holographic or maybe it's something else entirely, and, maybe, just maybe, it spans more than our dimension, but at the conscious level it is extremely complex, full of variations and nuances. There's a little bit of good in bad people and a little bit of bad in everyone. Look at Michael Jackson.
The fact is, when you get a report card, you don't get just one grade. You get a bunch of them. You can excel in one subject and flunk another. There are so many analogies here we could go on forever. In the final analysis, it's not a computer giving you your grade in life. You don't add up points and make the cut or not. There is room for flexibility.
Something happened here to make Talbott go off the deep end with Robbert. I don't like people who take Psychology 101 and start analyzing. I've taken a year or more of it, so I'm going to dabble just a bit knowing and stating up front that I may be wrong. Foreign cultures can be exotic an fascinating. Holland is not that much different than here, but it IS different. Robbert is a charming young man. Watch him on a TV appearance and you'll see. Whether Talbott is invoking her motherhood instinct or whether she has fallen in love with him I don't know, but somehow she has lost all objectivity with Robbert and his family. It's quite clear she is smitten.
Given what we have found out about the family (courtesy, for the most part, due to our Dutch members here) I believe she is being carefully manipulated by this family for their own ends. They have proven they can do that. They have welcomed her with open arms. Talbott, an American, is used to rejection abroad (though the Dutch, in my experience, are unusually friendly to Americans). If Talbott is the least bit lonely in her own life, well, you can kind of see what happened. I don't know this for sure, of course. Someone with more facts may be able to easily refute it. It's my working theory.
Given what I believe may have happened here, I'm not willing to throw out a decade or more of fairly meticulous crop circle research just because she has been ensnared in Robbert's web of deceit. I see her as a bit of a victim here, a victim with a chance for recovery. You see, I still have some faith in humanity. Recall the Jonathan Swift quote: "
I hate and detest the animal called Man, though I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth."
I know, also, that were I to be judged for my life's work in a binary fashion, I would fail. I've made too many serious mistakes, though I hope I have finally learned from them. Nevertheless, I have much to atone for and perhaps, just perhaps, a few things I can point to in an attempt to tip the balance a bit. Can anyone here claim they would pass?
