DON’T WOKE EM’, LET EM’ SLEPT
I have no idea where the phrase, “Don’t woke em’, let em’ slept!” comes from but my mom used to utter it now and then and I took it to be akin to “Let sleeping dogs lie.”. That was back in the days when dogs were real dogs, you had to be friendly to them or they’d turn on you and eat you. They still had that bit of wolf still in them unlike today’s well bred canine that is quite timid and domesticated. In the old days a dog would test you on occasion to establish dominance, today dogs are so docile the average cat walks about with brash audacity. That’s just another sign of civilization for you which brings me to the heart of this essay.
The other day an abductee, a lady who is well versed on the subject of abduction or ‘alien abduction’ as it’s referred to posted a website as a resource to ponder on the subject. I won’t go into detail about the site in question as it appeared to me to be a farce of a site put out mainly for the UFO ‘giggle factor’ that all too often accompanies UFO stories in the press.
Whilst perusing this website I was so bowled over with laughter that I sent several emails to colleagues in the field to see if they’d come across it. One colleague did. He pointed out the image of what was referred to on the website as a real ‘space alien’ in some sort of plexiglass sarcophagus monitored by a somewhat stoic looking military type. I at once recognized the supposed alien as I’d seen it before. Actually I’d seen it on numerous occasions as it was a prop replica from the Paul Davids movie “Roswell” starring Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen. Well done special effects let me tell you and a must see movie.
I at once notified the owner of the website and was met with a hostile response. All I’d done was pointed out that fact. Well you couldn’t tell the old gent it wasn’t a pic of a genuine alien because he had people tell him so and other abductees whom he said remarked the image reminded them of aliens they’d seen.
Well you can’t argue with scientific facts like those now can we? That’s about as ‘case closed’ as we can get in a free society.
The riled chap then demanded I do my homework. I did. I sent him links to the models in question that are on display in several parts of the world. That still didn’t convince him as he was certain it was a photo of a real dead alien and nothing more and that I was being ‘stupid’.
Sounds like a line from the old Ed Wood Jr. movie “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.
Well things heated up even more when I had to send him the analysis of the photo from another source that clearly established that photo as a promotional piece.
He still didn’t get it and sent an even more harsh repute.
This combative encounter happens with believers as well as debunkers. Nuclear physicist and foremost UFO researcher Stanton T. Friedman often charms us with his observations of the hard headed mainstream scientific and military sources who refuse to look at the raw data regarding UFOs by ribbing them with the phrase, ” Don’t bother me with the facts, my mind’s made up! “. That now goes to both sides of the fence.
Actually I find myself in more conflicting discourse with UFOlogists than the establishment. I know what the establishment will say and I’ll endure them to say so because on rare occasions a good bit of data can be gleaned. In the case of UFOlogists, enter any data or theory that doesn’t go along with the ETH or Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, and you’ll find expletives thrown about as though one were in the midst of weekend sailors on liberty. In less nicer terms, you’ll get cussed out faster than a cell phone talker inside a movie theatre.
I often wonder how can aliens put supposed implants and telepathic messages through skulls so thick and heads so hard amongst some UFOlogists and believers. The skeptics and debunkers have been overworking themselves. All they’d need to do to win the argument is to just shut up and let the UFOlogists and believers duke it out.
Facts are facts, science is science, and bigotry and lack of imagination and confront are just that and do not get us any closer to resolutions to some of the UFO data. Blind obedience and unrelenting refusal to accept or adopt another’s viewpoint is why we have a mystery regarding UFOs in the first place by our governing agencies.
You would think we’d have learned by now