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and being a shrink, how many high stressed individuals do you come across in your practice that are involved in jobs and situations that can not be spoken of in public...that you can not reveal the identity of because of confidentiality concerns? I detect a bit of obliqueness in your posting...what was it you are trying to say with out your saying it? (maybe some of the paranoids are right....look ma, a black disk just out side my window)(hush child...you'll scare it away!)

My brother was insistent that we had our own fleets of UFO craft both that carried people and that went under computer control to any spot on the globe INSTANTLY--as in no or microsecond travel "time."

I think Quix needs to get his brother some help. I am cautiously skeptical about UFOs, but this is insane. This kind of technology in possession by the U.S. would make foreign enemies completely helpless -- something they demonstrably are not.

When I was in San Diego . . . probably more than 50 such people crossed my path--maybe more than 75 or even 100. I was in several contexts and associations that made such likely.

In Taipei, only a handful.

In terms of paranoia, IF we are indeed in the "end times" the Bible and a host of other sources talk extensively about, then paranoia to SOME degree might be good reality testing.

Perhaps you've never read Fromm's SANE SOCIETY. He makes a telling point that in an insane society, only the insane are sane.

Of course, there's being "healthily crazy" i.e. unconventional by a wide margin . . . and there's having gone WAYYYYYYYYY OFF the DEEP end.

I like to toss around possibilities, impressions, postulations, predictions, dreams, visions, intuitions, convictions, beliefs about a wide range of topics. I like to be specific about SOME of them in SOME contexts with SOME people toward SOME goals SOME of the time.

I don't think the UFO business has reliable specifics sufficient to be dogmatic about much of anything. But there's some interesting specifics of stories, patterns, puzzle pieces that can be fun to toss around. God and very few others know much truth in depth and comprehensively about THAT topic--it seems to me.

But stirring up those who MIGHT have a puzzle piece to add--perhaps generating enough emotionality to make a fruitful comment--that can be fun to a point.

Besides, aspects of the topic CAN be at least as much fun as much science fiction.

Part of the obliqueness is because I don't think there's much anyone can be dogmatic about. Part of it is I carry a sort of gestalt with odd specifics in my brain. I don't carry a photographic memory of the last 45 years of study on it. Part of it I don't wish to get into the who said what specifically sort of thing. I don't keep things that tidy in easily retrieved files nor in my brain.

Nevertheless, I believe, if memory serves me right, I've been orders of magnitude MORE VULNERABLE AND REVEALING than you have.