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From: JJ <fierycelt@full-moon.com> [Jennifer Jarvis]
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 17:17:42 +1030
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:02:30 -0500
Subject: Re: The Next Step


> From: "Tom Burnett" <burnettc@gte.net>
> To: <updates@globalserve.net>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: The Next Step
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:10:16 -1000


> Aloha JJ....:)

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Hi there Tom!!


> Thank you for your nice comments.

Isn't this nice, exchanging pleasantries?!!!

> I agree with you.  This thread
> started when someone decided that judgements concerning the
> morality and ethics of a race of ETs could be made from an
> unidentifiable still photograph.  I disagreed with that, and
> still do, and suddenly I became a skeptic and started getting
> flame mail.

Well, I think that every single person on this list sees things
from a different angle, and, as Don Ledger pointed out, people
tend to zero in on a specific point of a posting, without always
taking in the whole picture!

> All I want people to do is think with their minds instead of
> their emotions.  I don't think that is unreasonable, but you
> would be surprised at the number of people who do.

Ideally, everyone would use every part of their being with which
to think, and then, maybe, we would all be more balanced people
Going only in one direction obviously creates a rather skewed
picture!!

> I think that ufology should be treated as a science and not a
> religion but sometimes it is hard to separate the two.

Religion is quite a strong word to use, but there certainly
are people, such as the poor, unfortunate souls who left planet
Earth last March 26th, I believe, who turn it into such.

> Albert Einstein had no proof of the General Theory of Relativity
> for several years and science refused to accept it until it was
> proven in the lensing experiment.  Even so, it is still not
> perfect because it is becoming pretty clear that the speed of
> light can be exceeded....or at least bypassed. We have been
> taking the unproven parts on faith all these years.  So...is it
> science, or religion?

The Oxford Dictionary defines science as: "pursuit or principles
of systematic and formulated knowledge; branch of knowledge;
organised  body of knowledge on a subject.."

It says of religion: "particular system of faith and worship."
Also, "human recognition of superhuman controlling power and
especially of a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and
worship."

If we consider the "possibility" of a superhuman having created
everything that "is,"  then everything that exists is a creation
of that superhuman, including science and religion. If everything
 is interrelated, then science and religion have to be parts of
the greater whole.

Separating them???  Difficult indeed!!!

> Tom Burnett

Best wishes,

JJ

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