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Well, Bob, a space alien threat somehow seems more interesting
(entertaining) than
the threat posed by the usual cast of suspects.
Somehow, it's kind of a romantic idea that space aliens are infiltrating
terra firma, passing on their technology to us (back engineering),etc.
And the assertion that they're interested in our women... well! Earth
girls are cute, aren't they?
Yes, Dr. Jacobs probably does put too much credence in the stories of the
abductees. Then again, people are having strange experiences. The
"sightings" continue, and not all of the stories of UFOs can be completely
dismissed. Personally, I would like to see a UFO...but everytime I look
up at the sky, all I see is the same dull blue emptiness. I'm afraid that
we are residing on a lonely blue marble, spinning endlessly in space,
with no other critters living in our neighborhood.
And if all we have is each other ( as human beings), we're probably in
trouble.
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Robert Tatman wrote:
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>
> William Hugh Tunstall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > Over the weekend, I had an opportunity to read David M. Jacobs's book,
> > "The Threat: The Secret Alien Agenda." What makes the book rather
> > intriguing is that Dr. Jacobs is a respected historian at Temple
> > University, not exactly the kind of individual you would associate with
> > UFO research.
> >
> <snipped for bandwidth>
> All scholars live on the edge of a cliff, and every once in a while one of
> them falls over. (That's a paraphrase from a Newsweek review of Hugh
> Schonfield's *The Passover Plot*.) Historians are expecially susceptible to
> this problem. Even a cursory review of events will show you that the course of
> world history is determined as much as anything by small groups of
> collaborators, who might as well be called conspirators. Everywhere you look,
> these small elites appear, some more obvious than others. It becomes very
> tempting to assume that one or another of these elites is THE elite, the
> innermost Power, the Hidden Hand that guides history. And if you don't
> particularly like any of the existing elites, then it's easy to make up your
> own--in this case, to identify the Hidden Hand with the "space brothers." Oh,
> I'm sure he believes it; but it's no more credible than von D�niken. That he's
> a reputable scholar just shows that scholars are all too human. Historiography
> (the history of history) is replete with bizarre theories and interpretations
> of events by top-notch scholars who occupied the pinnacle of their profession.
> Has anyone been able to replicate his results? I sincerely doubt it.
>
> Bob
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