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From: Alfred Lehmberg <Lehmberg@snowhill.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:31:47 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 03:19:08 -0500
Subject: Re: The X-mas Files

> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:22:01 -0800
> From: Ed Stewart <egs@netcom.com>
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: The X-mas Files
> References: <2.2.32.19961217223355.006cc0ac@globalserve.net>
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> > From: RSchatte@aol.com
> > Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:39:12 -0500
> > To: updates@globalserve.net (ufoupdates-toronto)
> > Subject: The XMas Files
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> Thank you, Rebecca. Another entry. This one originated in the
> skunk-works mailing list last year.
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> Enjoy,
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> Ed Stewart
> ----------

> Twas the night before Christmas,=20

	Still another entry . . .

T=92was the night before "Fools Day"
And fraught through the list --
Protests of Objectivity!
. . .Got some lemons in a twist!

All the arguments were strung  =20
From proud battlements with care;
When in hopes glory called,
And centric fame would be theirs.

This knots up our tails
And fuzzes the chatter!
Incredulity reigns =96=20
No one cares what=92s the matter!=20

While Greer sneers his odd snatch,
And Bell fans all the flames,
Streiber waits in strange shadows
Awaiting new names.

Self absorbed, and abstruse
Prevarication as *art*,=20
Some reflect in this void
That they _do_ have a part.

But it=92s mud in the water;
It=92s a chemical snow;
It=92s made a fool=92s errand;
This wish just, to *know*. . .

So onward Stan Friedman, and smile Ed Stewart
K-Randle, and Velez and Sandow.
But make room for Pat=92s moebius, anomaly's afoot,
And our minds have to take a new side road.

Know that "Fool=92s Day" was the old *new* year.
All, once vernal pre-justinian.=20
And on that day Hale-Bopp is the closest,
Which may _still_ splash some mud on your linen!

		Lehmberg@snowhill.com


If your ideological sheets do get splashed with a little mud it may be
because you are living a little too close to the road =96 a road mired in
proud innuendo, selfishly hoarded fact, and a cultural wish to keep the
masses ignorant. Or, why DO we continue to teach *the mid night ride of
Paul Revere* as a real event?

Yeah, that=92s right =96 it never happened! And if that _didn=92t_ happen,
then what _has_ happened, and how do we know? =20

And with regard to objectivity =96  one impressive lurker on this list has
shared with me that:

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"This discussion of [objectivity] is just as personal and every bit as=20
vindictive.  Everybody knows, and I mean everybody, that when you walk=20
in the room to do your thesis defense that even the weakest member of=20
your committee (the one you selected because he was rumored to have=20
Alzheimer=92s and would probably be an easy sign-off) can shred your=20
methodology chapter without even trying.  I was a [*] major, but even
when you look to the supposed "hard sciences"  its still true.  They
sign off because they decide as a group that you have done enough work.=20
Objectivity is an ideal for which we strive.  It's not something that I=20
genetically possess and you don=92t.  What really disturbs me is that in=20
my short time of listening to these people, and I might be unfair about=20
this, is it seems that objectivity isn=92t the issue.  They are using it=20
as a club.  The real issues are fear and power - same as those in your=20
local University."
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This fellow nails it for me, and I hope he shares his thoughts directly=20
with all of us. C=92mon in, dude! The water is at once too hot, and too
cold, and may not even _be_ water!