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From: natural.state@erols.com [Melanie Mecca]
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:34:30 -0600
Fwd Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 04:02:01 -0500
Subject: Re: that ol' Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis


> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 07:58:58 -0500
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Bob Shell <76750.2717@compuserve.com>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: that ol' Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis

> >From: natural.state@erols.com
> >Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 19:58:28 -0600
> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> >Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: that ol' Extra Terrestrial Hypothesis

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> What about the possibility that in human terms the phenomena have
> no purpose or meaning?  There are lots of things about the
> universe that we do not understand, and some physicists think
> there are also lots that we CAN'T understand.  Things that do not
> operate within the frameworks of human logic, and are therefore
> totally beyond our understanding. Maybe some things just ARE, and
> don't exist for any purpose.

> Insisting on a meaning and purpose to the universe may well be
> the ultimate in anthropomorphizing.

Got to keep tryin', man, dontcha think?  Without understanding
and interpretation, we cannot evolve to loosen our conditioned
responses, improve mental flexibility, or gain emotional
acceptance of some of the wackiness hanging out in the universe.
Absolute proof is not necessary to entertain possibilities and
cover some inner ground.  Guess I'm maintaining that it's more
useful to ourselves as individuals to take a possible (or likely,
or very likely) assumption, such as the ETH, and attempt to
derive the implications.  Otherwise we're like the duped
protagonists in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, living "in a world
without meaning."  Not a fun place, IMO.


Melanie