Posted on 07/16/2009 3:48:57 PM PDT by JoeProBono
I agree with you.
What a bunch of bed wetters.
He was legendary!
“Was Jim Thompson running FR back then?”
If he was, it was on a steam powered laptop!
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I suspect that there is a “classical” psychology experiment in which a group of people are given a “briefing” by someone either wearing a lab coat or military uniform. The briefer tells them that UFOs are coming and soon to arrive, but we know nothing about the aliens or their intentions.
“The government” wants to survey them on their opinions and attitudes about what should be done.
(Importantly, the people are slightly “detained”, for safety reasons, and cannot be permitted to leave until they had it carefully explained to them that this is a hoax, no aliens are coming, and it is just a psychology experiment to see how they react. And that they are convinced of the fact.)
The survey should try to determine if they intend to go on normally and wait for further information; if they are panicking, and plan to head for the country; if they plan to do nothing, stop working or anything else, until they know more; or something else.
While some people would likely panic, I suspect that just as bad, a lot of people would just sit and watch TV until they know what to do, and that were this to happen on a nationwide scale, it would collapse our economy.
So it doesn’t really matter what the UFO aliens intentions are. What is implied is that any real UFO contact has to be handled very carefully, and that our society is “brittle” in this way, and needs to learn how to psychologically deal with true unknowns.
Three generations removed from those tough Brits who survived the blitz and stormed the beaches of Normandy.
No wonder England kow tows to the Muslims.
We in the US are overrun with illegals and have a Commie in the White House.
Cesspools: US & UK
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