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You know, Quix, I really wonder at the motivations of people like this. Would Doug9732 imply or tell my husband, my husband's ex-Marine son, and Solamente, etc., to their faces that they are delusional liars? If so, he'd risk getting his teeth knocked out. He has no difficulty implying on this forum that you and they are liars, however. He runs no risk other than revealing things about himself.

Yes, I am beginning to conclude that guys like Doug9732 -- let's refer to them as "D-Prototypes" -- are inable to ponder the possibility that my husband, stepson, Solamente, etc., are honest witnesses, because D-Prototypes lack the security to contemplate something that upsets their set beliefs.

My bet would be that the D-Prototype is typically an atheist. He would lose his spiritual compass entirely if his precepts of physical reality were upset, hence D-Prototype's mulish insistence that you, my husband, Solamente, and other UFO witnesses (D-Prototype calls them "believers" because he cannot accept the difference between faith and knowledge -- I have faith in God, but it is not on faith that I accept that two plus two is four; I don't "believe" in math, I KNOW math!) are delusional. Any other possibility poses too great a threat to D-Prototype's cozy world view.

Pray for all atheists that they may realize God, and tap into the deep security received through faith to face scary truths rather than avoiding them through mulish denial. Pray for me that I avoid similar traps for having improper pride in my own faith.