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From: Dennis Stacy <dstacy@texas.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:42:42 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:32:02 -0400
Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins


>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 99 19:58:05 PDT

<snip>

>Statements like these betray an unhelpful bias. I know at least
>three abductees on this list -- eminently sane, thoughtful,
>anything but crazy or suggestable -- who, I am sure, would
>resent your suggestion that their experiences are mere "dreams
>and fantasies." (How can they be, by the way,  "dreams and
>fantasies" and yet "a fundamental reality?")  I think it would
>behoove us, when we discuss matters about which much remains
>unclear, to use neutral words like "narratives" to characterize
>abduction accounts, unless we have clear and specific reason to
>identify them as "dreams and fantasies" (or, for that matter,
>interactions with aliens).


Jerry,

I'm all with you on this one! Narrative as a descriptor sounds
good to me.

Now can we count on Budd, Dave and John Mack to sign on to same?

Damn, there I go again, never content to leave well enough alone.

BTW, the word you want is suggestible.

Dennis