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phlogistician
If I had seen what I thought was a UFO, that would be profoundly important, and I'd remember the details. Events like that, if they really happen, stick in your memory
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i think you raise a very good point here!
the reality seems that different things are of different importance to different people at different levels.
you importance lyes in the ability to prove or more possibly disprove the existance of such things like the all incompassing U.F.O
however to some people and cultures it has been documented for many thousands of years that such things are of fairly normal
commonality and have very little need to be factualised in a form of binary data equative analysis
i have met people who have claimed to see things that some would discribe as devine encounters and some as alien and some as U.F.O
and they all place different importance to these events from person to person
and some people who have not seen any but have huge sway to one beliefe inspite of never having any such personal encounter
the true facts about eye witness data is quite astounding when based on scientific analysis yet it is still used to convict people in a court of law... often
with evidence that is scientific in nature and supports things or events to suport the theory rather then to prove the assocication of the reality of actual events
(acorrding to some scientists that performed actual tests and documented them for a T.V program)
blah blah blah
it did not sound from the outset of the post to be one that was screaming for scientific analysis ..
just open discusion in a genral format
maybe phlogistician....
you are leaning to much of your personal values into the provability of the event rather than the discusion of it
just a thought
you dont have to make your mind up one way or the other based on this one example
groove on all