Well SAID, Bob!

The real problem with most human egos is that they are so unwilling to admit how little they really know...and the possibility that there is much out there which they cannot even begin to explain with their present science and their present understanding.

I have encountered things no one can explain...oh, but tell them about it, and listen to them bury you under a half hour of specious and empty explanations as to how the thing you told them about must have been "a hallucination"...or some such familiar notion that their conventional mind spits out of its tiny lexicon of "approved subjects".

Tiresome, and often quite infuriating. I just don't bother telling them anymore unless I know very well who I'm talking to and whether they have some humility and respect set aside for other people's experiences. It's not worth listening to the inane and predictable responses one gets from conventional know-it-alls who think they already have a "scientific" answer for everything.