tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post111075934809875524..comments2023-08-15T01:24:39.187-03:00Comments on The Other Side of Truth: Ufology - ca plus ca change...Paul Kimballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1110777136420235132005-03-14T01:12:00.000-04:002005-03-14T01:12:00.000-04:00Paul...Didn't Jacques Vallee propose something lik...Paul...<BR/><BR/>Didn't Jacques Vallee propose something like this: The Invisible College (which derives from one of the Bacon boys I think)?<BR/><BR/>RichRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1110764439359162092005-03-13T21:40:00.000-04:002005-03-13T21:40:00.000-04:00Rich:I hate drunks at a ball game - especially if ...Rich:<BR/><BR/>I hate drunks at a ball game - especially if they're Yankees fans!<BR/><BR/>A secret cabal of ufologists, eh?<BR/><BR/>Sounds like fun - count me in. If "they" can have their secrets, so can "we".<BR/><BR/>Do I get a de-coder ring?<BR/><BR/>PaulPaul Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1110763685797977692005-03-13T21:28:00.000-04:002005-03-13T21:28:00.000-04:00Paul:The people you cite are the hecklers at a com...Paul:<BR/><BR/>The people you cite are the hecklers at a comedy show or the kibitzers at a poker game or the drunks at a ballgame.<BR/><BR/>They ruin events with their ignorant rants and beliefs.<BR/><BR/>And your group of UFO wackos have tainted the study of the phenomenon, maybe irreparably.<BR/><BR/>I still think that "ufology" has to become an elite, cloistered almost, semi-secret organization containing only a select group of credible and reputable ufologists of the day.<BR/><BR/>The democratic approach doesn't work.<BR/><BR/>But then who would make up the organizing committee?<BR/><BR/>It can't, I'm sorry to say, include persons like Rudiak or Clark, two prominent and semi-respected ufologists. And why can't it?<BR/><BR/>Because those two men are elitist in the worst sense: they blackball not only the wackos but anyone with an hypothesis or UFO theory that differs with their mind-set.<BR/><BR/>Richard Hall, I say again, would be ideal, and Stanton Friedman surely.<BR/><BR/>And you, plus a few others I won't name now.<BR/><BR/>But for "ufology" to succeed and move forward productively, something has to be done to rid the study of those whom everyone, and I mean everyone, agrees are detrimental to rational thinking about the phenomenon.<BR/><BR/>(The problem is who makes up "everyone"?)<BR/><BR/>Rich ReynoldsRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.com