Well, as I said, it's natural for people to defend their established view of reality...and search out whatever they can that will support it.

May I repeat, for those who don't know, that my established view of reality from say grade 1 to about age 19 or 20 was this: There is no God, no soul, no ghosts, no afterlife, no spirit, no UFO's, no aliens, nothing like that whatsoever. All there is is physical reality, and you can find out about it strictly be following scientific procedure and investigating the empirical evidence. All that otherworldly stuff is superstitious nonsense, claptrap, and "old boots". :-) I was also the youngest kid I knew to begin disbelieving in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy, and I totally rejected religion on principle. My parents were agnostics or atheists or something like that (meaning: they didn't think about stuff like that at all most of the time and didn't believe in it either).

What changed me was this: actual experience! And I grew up in the process.

That's my opinion about it. We all have our own perspective. Can you understand why I now take the glib assurance of literal-minded debunkers of all that strikes them as "unusual" with a grain of salt? It reminds me of myself when I was very young and very arrogant and not very well informed (in terms of actual experience)...but I had sure read a lot of science books and stuff like that. I loved hard facts when I was a kid the way some kids love candy. It made me feel smart knowing all that empirical stuff.

I no longer let those conventional facts blind me to other less conventional matters. Human society in any historical epoch is convinced it has reality by the tail and can explain practically everything...when the truth is: they haven't even figured out half of it and are trapped inside their own chosen mythology. Our present mythology (that more money and manufactured goods will solve everything) is leading us towards utter disaster.

- LH