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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.

Me...Im an RN that works in an ICU, and those are my real initials and my real last name. The 6 stands for the number of family members(myself,wife and 4 kids). I wasn't referring to personal obliqueness, I was mainly curious about the odd sorts of people that ran across in your practice and whether some things were just so anomalous about them that you had to wonder if"some of the paranoids" were right? Since privacy laws would keep you from mentioning specific cases I felt you might have been obliquely speaking of them as to protect privacy and confidentiality? So much for the long answer as to my own obliqueness.

So now that eveyone knows how vulnerable I have just made myself...how soon will the identity thefts begin.hah hah?
I use my real name here because if I'm going to shoot my mouth off, I might as well be a man about it and not hide behind a pseudonym!(the initials stand for Michael David)