From: Tim D. Brigham <devilsad@ksinc.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:46:44 -0600
Fwd Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:13:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Abduction - The Issue Of Reality


>From: Jim Mortellaro <Jsmortell@aol.com>
>Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:18:00 EST
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: Abduction - The Issue Of Reality

>>Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:15:13 +0000
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>From: John Rimmer <magonia@magonia.demon.co.uk>
>>Subject: Re: Abduction - The Issue Of Reality

>>>From: Jim Mortellaro <Jsmortell@aol.com>
>>>Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 13:40:46 EST
>>>To: updates@globalserve.net
>>>Subject: Re: Abduction - The Issue Of Reality

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>>Where either you or your friends memories recorded or reported
>>anywhere before you started discussing it betwen yourselves? How
>>can you be sure that in discussing it you have not unwittingly
>>confabulated a joint memories. Who took the lead in the
>>discussions? Just _how_ independent are your separate memories?

>They were indeed written, recorded, confirmed, stored and much
>of it was retold as it was happening... on another venue. The
>information is verifiable and has already been discussed with a
>researcher who has my respect. The other player has suffered
>much as a result of his recall over a period of 35 years or
>so... his recall is not as recent as mine and his story was
>indeed previously recorded privately and shared with his wife
>and children who also have had experiences but perceived theirs
>prior to learning of George's experience. This experience left
>my friend shattered by virtue of it's strangeness.  He is a
>scientist, a man unused to a reality which cannot be recognized
>as a reality in the strictest definition of the scientist.
>While my recall is recent, it is the recall of the "detail"
>which is recent. My recall of "a strange event" goes back all
>those years. And no, we did not discuss it until we began to
>correspond last year. This too can be verified. There are
>those, however who will believe nothing which they will not
>allow themselves to believe.

>We grew up together, spent a great deal of time together in
>shooting sports. _Never_ spoke of our experience many years ago
>until we met again after about a thirty year hiatus.  We did
>not even discuss it the afternoon we found ourselves in a place
>we were not in just moments prior. Those moments, however,
>turned out to be hours. What had been an early afternoon
>hunting trip to the Catskill foothills became a late afternoon
>completed trip sitting in restaurant, hours later. We drove
>home in complete silence and never mentioned it again. In part,
>this was because of the strangeness, in part due to a kind of
>numbness of mind which lasted more than a few days. In large
>part, we have no idea why we said nothing.

>To tell more would be unfair to the organization I chose to work
>with. There are answers to all of the questions people will
>ask. But the answers will not satisfy those who fear hearing
>the truth for reasons I cannot ascribe or assign. Some have
>told me that hearing such (as truth) would destroy their
>personal life paradigm. My personal opinion... if it is fear
>which destroys your judgment, then lose it or die not knowing
>truth, whatever the truth may be.

>As Frank Herbert said in Dune, "Fear is the mind killer.... it
>is the little death which causes total obliteration...." We
>face our fear. Do you who fear, face yours?


Indeed, but would accept such truth if it meant discovering that
a part of your life you have spent much energy and time dealing
with, and in some sense, accepting as truth - an abduction
event- was actually explainable as something else? It works
both ways.

As far as not letting anyone know the truth because it would
"destroy their life paradigm" or some such, well, thanks for
protecting us, but isn't that the same thing that 'believers' so
angrily accuse the US government of in these matters? Again, it
works both ways. If you live with a paradigm in which alien
abductions exist as undeniable fact, how does that differ from
one who lives with a paradigm in which they undeniably don't?

It's easier to live with a belief, even if that belief isn't the
most popular one on the planet (however, in the case of belief
in alien abductions, believers certainly aren't alone), than it
is to admit that you _don't_ know what the hell is going on, and
to not buy into anyone who says that they do.

"Better to go hungry than to feast on lies."

Take care,

Tim Brigham


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