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The text that follows represents my views on Lear.txt and are not
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necessarily those of Paranet or any of its other users or staff.
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Brad Langton / February 4th, 1988
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Msg: #2572 Sec: B - UFOlogy
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04-Feb-88 03:27 AM
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Subj: Contentions on EBEs (R)
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From: Sysop
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To: John Lear
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First of all, I want to thankyou for taking the time to participate in the
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interview of 02/03/88. I do however, feel that its appropriate that I make a
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statement of my own regarding the issue at hand.
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During the interview, I tried to remain neutral and ask questions that may be
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helpful to those users who have clammored for more information. I believe that
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I have met this responsibility.
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For myself, I'm afraid that I find a great deal of the material wanting in
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proof, or even reasonable expectations for such an advanced culture. You have
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said that these are the facts, but without proving these facts in some
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objective, verifiable way, you must understand that your allegations are
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without substance. If you are sincere about establishing the validity of your
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claims, you're going to have to go openly public on a nationwide basis with
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credible witnesses, dates, times, records, physical evidence, and whatever
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means possible to support what you are saying.
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I'm not saying that within the framework of your story, there are not elements
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of strangeness that have been reported in other media at different times in
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the last 40 years. All I'm saying is that the statement without proof is doing
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more to harm credible UFO research than it is helping it. I hope this was not
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your intention, but lets look at this objectively, the story makes alot of the
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material you read in the tabloids pale by comparison..."Insects From Space
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Align with US to Harvest Human Enzymes!" You've got to admit, that sounds
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pretty silly.
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My final point is one that regards my beliefs about intelligence in the
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universe and is no more valid than your contentions, but given a civilization
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"BILLIONS" of years advanced beyond us, I'm very dubious that they would even
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need bodies let alone spaceships... the more primitive instincts would be
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barely a race memory. I can't buy the "backside of an evolutionary curve"
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theory either. I don't even know what that means! De-evolve?
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De-evolve to me is nonsense. Evolution is an adaptive process that moves in
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the direction of greatest survivability. We can argue that point untill the
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end of time and never meet minds... its like philosophy, you either believe
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the contention or you don't.
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I'll grant you that the UFO issue has been around a long time and yes, the
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government DOES cover thing up very well.. but judging from the initial impact
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this story had, gaged against more reasonable inspection after the initial
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shock wears off, users that were leaning in the direction of supporting more
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active efforts to learn the truth about UFOs are now even laughing at the idea
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themselves.
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I'm afraid I can't swallow this story John, I've thought about it, I've talked
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about it, and I've read other peoples views on it, and it just is too
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fantastic to believe.... EVEN IF ITS TRUE!
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That last point is important, if you do have something to say, sensationalism
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is not the way to garner support.
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- More (Y)/N/NS?
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I respect your right to express your beliefs, but please respect our rights to
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have a high degree of proof before going off half-cocked in a blitz to stop
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the aliens!!
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Brad Langton Paranet Lambda
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