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From: Peregrine Mendoza <101653.2205@compuserve.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 18:35:43 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:35:13 -0400
Subject: Re: D. Bunkerism


The individual who insists on signing himself the Duke of Mendoza
presents his compliments and wishes the best of Gus Cannon to
Jerry Clark.

>From: clark@canby.mn.frontiercomm.net [Jerome Clark]
>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:10:08 PDT
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: D. Bunkerism

>The skeptic has to acknowledge the frequent presence of ambiguity,
>the impossibility of final answers to some of the most interesting
>questions, and the possibility that he or she may be wrong, too,
>even about treasured beliefs (such as that, say, the object at
>Roswell was a Mogul balloon).

>Debunking as applied to limited, specific issues where real
>answers are attainable is, of course, useful and necessary.  As a
>defining philosophical principle, however, it is, in my opinion,
>intellectually and practically indefensible.

Well and usefully said - although one should not overlook the
possibility that mystery man K. deBunker is being ironic - unusual
(and largely incomprehensible) as that habit is in the United States
outside the city limits of Cambridge, Massachusetts. So what he is
doing cruising the strip in Albuquerque I do not know.

We already have the handy term "paranoid" and the slightly longer
"barking loonies" to cover those who see every attempt to debunk
"limited, specific issues" as the work of the NWO, CIA, NSA, Vince
Johnson, my own employer, and others of like nature.

Now what we need is a word to define the yet vaster numbers of the
misguided who seem to regard any attempt to interpret *any* UFO event
in mundane terms as blasphemy, bigotry, debunkery and dishonesty.
Oh, and "noisy negativism", too. ("You know who you are"!)

(In which respect, Jerry, someone on this List and I cannot think
of one better qualified than you, ought to come to the rescue of
the reputation of Vicente Ballester-Olmos, lately slandered by a
bunch of censorious Spanish stalinists in defiance of the facts.)

I never have been happy with the term "True Believer", while "bunkist"
just sounds like someone with a prejudice about where they sleep,
and most of us suffer from that.

For once at a loss for a word
Parsnip D. Meatmuncher
Rubbish Collector