Archie,
So the point of "helping" an abductee is to offer them a belief system to explain what happened to them? Gee, that is certainly helpful, especially if in involves terrifying belief in literal aliens that are creating hybrids that can threaten you and your researcher's life! A world filled with alien hybrids running amuck raping female abductees. A world where no one is safe in their own home.
Yep! That is just the kind of belief system a troubled person with paranormal experiences needs. I am sure that is just peachy! This reminds me of when I was an early teen boy, and started having (how to put this delicately so Gene won't get nervous) "sexual reactions" to erotic thoughts for the first time, often resulting in a damp spot on my bedsheet.
My parents would not discuss sex with me, so they sent me to a priest. He calmly explained it all to me. You see, as a Son of Adam, I was cursed with the need to have sex to continue the line of man, born into abject sin (of course!). However, God had ordained that masturbation (oops!) was evil, so this was a sin I had committed often during my sleep! Whenever I had erotic thoughts as a normal teenager, I was to realize this was Satan tempting me. In other words, my normal erotic reactions meant I was under demonic attack, and I needed to come to Mass more often and pray hard. Of course, the minute I got married in the Catholic faith, sex was hunky dory, and the more kids the better!
See what a difference an explanation can make? If only I'd seen an objective family doctor, he'd have probably told me this was just a phase of normal physical development as a human male, and not to worry about it. But then, this would have come from a PROFESSIONAL MEDICALLY TRAINED doctor, not a man of faith (which is what I consider abduction researchers).
Why should we even bother to continue discussing this then? Sounds like Hopkins and Jacobs have it covered. Thanks for enlightening me.
Archie, since you claim to be about the closest friend Budd and David have in this world, if they have any physical evidence, why don't you pursuade them to reveal it? If Budd is actually done writing books (fat chance in my opinion), why doesn't he then simply reveal all the evidence he has. For example, I saw in a UFO special about 15 years ago that he had hand drawn symbols that abductees had seen in spaceships and under hypnosis drew for him. He also has symbols sent to him by others. Well, if there are some direct matches, why hasn't he shared that with the world? Of course, people could easily respond that this material could be hoaxed, but if Budd had taken the forethought to have each drawing time-stamped by a notary republic or some other authentic dating system, then he could prove conclusively that abductees are going to the same locations. If the dear man is 79, what is he waiting for?
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I would think that interviewing a few experienced practicing dermatologists would give you some idea about the commonality of scoop marks and their probable origins. Also, I would think they would be good sources for information about foreign bodies being found in folks.
Of course, you are probably all well aware of the research into the scratches and bruises inflicted by paranormal entities in general? I recall John Zaffis doing a great deal of research on the physical manifestations inherent in possessions, so-called demonic harrassment, as well as plain old garden variety ghost hauntings. Yet, I am sure all of these physical effects are totally separate from the same type of injuries inflicted meaninglessly on abductees. No, it couldn't all be part of a larger paranormal "trickster" as Chris O'Brien has explained. No, instead we have literal aliens in nuts & bolts space craft that must keep doing the same surgical experiments on people for over 50 years, even though our modern science has moved ahead of them in the meantime. From what I've read from ex-Hopkins and Jacobs patients, many have confessed that if they bring up paranormal events that occur to them (e.g., hauntings, poltergeist activity), that information is left out of the final narrative. Yet, I have several books written about 70 years ago by Celtic lore experts that (wait for it!) claim that fairies often would leave what we'd call scoop marks on people.
Of course, Jacobs and Hopkins might then proclaim that earlier people were just simple minded and mistook aliens for fairies or elves. How arrogant we all are - they MUST be aliens because now we have Star Trek as a reference.
Anyway, at best a scoop mark illustrates that perhaps something paranormal happened. It does not support the paranoid fear based dogma of Hopkins or Jacobs.