On 10/26/2011 11:08 PM, Saul Luizaga wrote:
> I see what you mean and a "crazy" person obsessed is different from a
> respected ufologist, check the series, is not like that at all.
Believing only one implausible thing isn't any better, especially when 
most of the foundations behind the idea you are pursuing come, directly 
or indirectly, from the "crazy" people. It becomes a sort of cargo 
cultism. It doesn't matter which tribe member first became convinced 
that building runways and fake radio towers would bring back the 
airplanes, now everyone is just *certain* that they are just not quite 
getting it quite "right".

The people looking for Atlantis are similar. Its plausible that a whole 
hell of a lot of stuff they are stumbling over, and following "may" lead 
to artifacts of prior civilization, the problem is, Atlantis isn't going 
to be that civilization. It is, and always has been, nothing but a 
single mention in some old poem, and 100% of everything since is based 
on the works of one total kook. Not one scrap of anything the man wrote 
was researched by him personally, he didn't travel, didn't do 
archeology, or so much as leave his house, except maybe to buy some new 
book on speculative archeology, or mythology, which he used to create 
his works. He just strung a mass of bits and pieces of half discovered 
stuff together, and concluded it "pointed to" something that no other 
record *anywhere* from ancient times even remotely suggests is real, 
existed, or gives a name to.

He was Tolkien, before people knew that the sort of stuff Tolkien wrote 
was "fiction", and everything we know about Atlantis, is pretty much 
indistinguishable, in its reality, from Mordor.

Ufology is a crazy mix of stuff from people that fall into one of three 
categories:

1. We think its something like what all the nuts prior to us claim.

2. We don't know, but sort of hope that some advanced civilization has 
better science than us, so it *could be* something sort of like, #1, 
only without the crazy.

3. We don't know at all, but we sure as hell don't trust anyone else to 
figure it out, especially the military, government, or most scientists.

In short, even the relatively sane ones are still paranoid.

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