I read earlier in this thread that Lori said:
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I do have proof, Corporal. I have a friend who's being abducted. She told me so, and I believe her. How can you have physical evidence of mind control? What about all of the implants that they're pulling out of people lately? There are other physical manifestations, scars, and injuries. You can't just ignore people's testimonies; these people aren't crazy. Ok, maybe a few, but not most, and there are so many. But what about that lack of hard cold metal machinery and little green men? Good question...You're thinking that they are like us, only little and green. They are not like us; not at all.
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Excuse me..
(Hysterical laughter)
You aren't serious are you?
Let me tell you something. Several thousand mentally disturbed people herald the end of the world by UFO invasion every year. Yet I feel safe in saying that every single one of their impassioned stories will prove to be false. First of all because their stories are so illogical and secondly because they have not a scrap of evidence. (Although they make claims that, if they were true, would necessitate the presence of some sort of evidence. For an example an alien crash.) You can easily dismiss these because a simple experiment (ie.Waiting to the date specified
) can prove them wrong. Because such experiments are not always easily available for abduction claims, we have to rely on other sources. These sources invariably indicate a lack of credibility, evidence, or both.
Although your friend may be mentally divergent, or, not unlikely, a hard hearted person who is taking advantage of your naivete for a few laughs.* I myself knew a whole family that sincerely believe that they were abducted. Everyone in the family was extremely sensitive about the topic, and would become confrontational, (I daresay violent) when their belief was challenged. No matter how vehement they are or how much you want to believe them, it just isn't true. I know actually a lot of people who believe "paranormal" phenomenon happened to them. Everyone of them has several gaping flaws in their stories. Oh, I forgot, there are a lot of them, the must be true.
"What about all of the implants that they're pulling out of people lately?"
Oh, it’s THEY again is it? This is, I assume, the same THEY that found the cure for cancer, poverty, disease, war, suffering, and even death. Do you know where I can find THEM? And where do these implants go? Oh yea, the MIB take them away right?
"There are other physical manifestations, scars, and injuries."
An injury is not proof. I may even go so far as to say it is not even, unto itself, evidence. But I won't.
"You can't just ignore people's testimonies;"
Ahh, but you can. If the testimonies in question have no credibility or evidence, the detail or number of them is irrelevant.
"these people aren't crazy. Ok, maybe a few,** but not most, and there are so many."
I’d say they are not all totally insane, but most of them have problems. (Or an ax to grind.) Everyone in the middle ages believed witches were eating their children, but that didn't make it true, did it?
"But what about that lack of hard cold metal machinery and little green men? Good question...You're thinking that they are like us, only little and green. They are not like us; not at all."
Ahh, you have answered the question. It is now established fact that aliens abduct humans, give them anal probes, eat cow, and damnit, they have my Elvis. No proof? We don't need any. they are little and green and "They are not like us; not at all." Heck why would we need evidence if they are little and green?
*A Joke.
**Heh heh, yea, depending on how you define "a few".
(Please let me know if there are any odd characters in this text. My word processor had a nasty propensity to change quotation marks to Ò and Ô type marks.
but then again, maybe it's the MIB again.)
[This message has been edited by Blacktubby (edited July 07, 1999).]