Expected review of Strieber; comments left, including one by Strieber himself who remarks that if riches were to be had from exploring and sharing one's anomalous experiences, he wouldn't have had to declare bankruptcy or lose his home, etc.
I have a couple of thoughts on the skeptoid's responses to experiencers of the strange. Those of us who experience a variety of weirdness are somehow fabricators, because of the variety of strangeness. Ghosts and UFOs and entities and telepathy and ....? It's all too much. Therefore, it's all crap. It doesn't seem to occur to them that there might be clues to the enigma in all that seeming variety of experience.
The second thought: that some of these memories, experiences and travels through one's own anomalous journey might be, at times, manipulated by humans. Yep, I do indeed mean sinister forces. It often seems beyond possibility for debunkers to consider that there is an orchestrated manipulation of phenomena by psychotic and sociopathic humans. THE MAGONIA BLOG: THE STRIEBER ENIGMA
2 comments:
Hiya Regan, is it also possible that the field is awash with people making extraordinary claims, for a variety of reasons, that aren't limited to the paranormal?
'Skeptoid debunker' is a rather harsh catch-all to dismiss anyone who asks questions of people with a catalogue of exotic claims.
The late-19th Century mediums are littered with hoaxers - many of whom admitted to being fraudulent. Likewise, 50s Contactees represented a diverse class of folk and some are also known to have made up their tales. 80s ufology had the adventures of Doty, Moore, Cooper et al. The '90s and onwards have also provided a collection of claimants who have been shown to be false.
In the midst of these tawdry hoaxers lies a core of genuinely mysterious phenomena. To me, it seems a shame to be distracted by the BS, or to make efforts to defend the scoundrels.
Likewise, why let the players go unremarked? Dismissing some of the exploiters could help to focus on the apparently genuine mysteries.
Regan, please, your rhetoric does not become you. By your logic, there can be no genuine criticism of true hucksters because an attack on one is an attack on all, and attacking all is mere denialism.
That's ridiculous. And cheap.
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