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From: meccam@erols.com Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:17:04 -0500 Fwd Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:02:56 -0400 Subject: Re: an alien face in Jung's UFO book > From: clark@canby.mn.frontiercomm.net [Jerome Clark] > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 07:57:50 PDT > To: updates@globalserve.net > Subject: RE: UFO UpDate: Re: an alien face in Jung's UFO book > >Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:24:09 -0700 > >From: John Koopmans <john.koopmans@sympatico.ca> > >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> > >Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: an alien face in Jung's UFO book > Folks, > I'm all for restricting the focus. Having spent a whole > lot of time studying the question -- and even, long ago, > shared sentiments generally like those expressed with such > enthusiasm above -- I see no evidence that the "phenomena > appears [sic] to be very related [not just related, note, > but "very" related] to phenomena" of the sorts our > correspondents are discussing here. > I see a lot of people making these sorts of sweeping > statements. I don't see anybody actually documenting them. > In separate studies Eddie Bullard and I have shown why UFOs > do not seem to be related to other anomalous or folkloric > phenomena. No one has attempted a serious refutation. > Ufology, people, is not a branch of occultism. If it were, > the CSICOP people would be right, and we'd all be wasting our > time. I don't believe we're wasting our time, but I do believe > speculations like the above consume attention more productively > spent in actual study of UFO reports. > Jerry Clark I agree. Being cognizant of those authors and their subjects does not necessarily imply that one should be non-discriminating in one's classifications of "ETs" versus "anything else." Melanie - an apple is an apple, a pear is a pear, and a watermelon is a watermelon. They may all be fruits (like us! :) ) but characteristics are different > \_______________________________________________/
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