Flying saucers and UFOs have always created a pastiche of silliness but today (2008), the UFO argument(s) have become besotted with nuttiness, all disguised as erudite discussion but are anything but.
Because UFOs have been and are so maddeningly elusive, they've made madmen and madwomen out of those attracted to the phenomena.
The proof is in the plethora of nonsensical writings in blogs and on web-sites by ufologists (so-called) and those who are enamored of flying saucers, alien visitations, and UFOs.
The Biblical Tower of Babel [Genesis 11] provides the analogy for the UFO Tower of Babel or Babble.
The cacophony of writings about the UFO phenomena has not only confused the UFO topic but the wild ruminations, including our own, have blurred the subject beyond an ability to contain it within intelligent and/or quasi-scientific parameters.
In an attempt to make UFOs academic in nature, some writers - Mac Tonnies and Bruce Duensing for example - have provided a patina of abstruse prose that beclouds the UFO phenomena but does take readers into the heart of other mysteries that either have a connection to UFOs or do not.
Nonetheless, the writings of occultists and SciFi aficonados that are, admittedly, incisive merely encrust UFOs with paranormal accoutrements that detract from the inherent simplicity of the UFO phenomena; that is, UFOs are basic in nature, and all the permutations thrust upon them makes it harder to discern just what UFOs are.
The principles of Ockham should apply in the search for the core of the UFO mystery.
But because those who've dealt with the UFO topic for years, without any kind of resolution - none whatsoever - are so frustrated, they've resorted to every kind of arcane possibility extant, muddying the UFO waters in the process.
It's as if UFOs have confused their minds, just as the Hebrew God confused early humankind's minds.
Some UFO proponents, such as Regan Lee, Jeff Rense, and a guy named Lehmberg, are so far away from the core UFO mystery that they may be excluded from any UFO discussion by sensate searchers after a UFO denouement.
The advent and ubiquity of the internet and blogging however will not allow UFOs to be put back into the bottle of commonsense.
It's as if Pandora let loose scads of intellectual ills and most have settled on the UFO community.
But it can't hurt to try and subdue the barbarian hordes who have taken hold of the UFO phenomena and created a Frankensteinian creature that can only be destroyed by taking it apart, piece by piece.
That's what some hope to do, and we're joining them in the effort.....
Reference: discover-ghosts.blogspot.com
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