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Originally Posted by jkmccrann
...On the other hand, they don't tend to be crazy...
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Certainly true, but hardly relevant. It is not their sanity that is questioned but their ability to relay exactly their experience. And this experience has to be scrutinized as well.
When yo u look really close than you'll notice that alien abductions always touch something very profound in human existence: the integrity of oneself (being frisked), control over your destiny (being abducted) and fear (they're in the hands of others). These are issues that appear to be more related to psychology than to space faring.
Don't misunderstand me: I'm a big fan of space faring, I do believe that so much space as we observe must be inhabited by more than one species and there is an, albeit remote, possibility we have been visited, but these abduction stories look like just that: a nice yarn.
#1 How comes that aliens that are incapable of sexual intercourse (they're always need needles, don't they) with humans, not to speak about our, presumably mutual "un-attractiveness" try to get their way with us? They're very often grey, have no breasts or hips to speak of (which rates quite low on my "erotometer" last time I checked) so why should we be of any sexual interest to them?
#2 In a documentary about abductees and their fate it struck me how similar their pre-dispostion was: one was a stand-up comedian who specilized in self-depreciating acts and a woman who was abused in her childhood and still had vivid memories. Both were unable to carry on with their ordinary lives after the abduction. However, isn't this something one might expect given the ordeal they have been put through.
#3 And then there is plain old sleep: many a illusion may happen when awakening. I remember a night in my adolescence when I woke up in the middle of the night and saw something hellical shape rotate rigth before my bed: it took only a nick to vanish and I was scared ****less but twenty years I still recall the horror I felt in those few seconds.
This has nothing to do with people being too gulible but there are many processes running unnoticed within us even when we're wake) and when they surface we tend to label them as witches or aliens.
Extracelestial