Post Paracast are you MORE or LESS skeptical?

[tyder001]

I'm a little less skeptical, but as bamfoozled and conflicted as I ever was. I can get involved in some of the Paracasts and forget my skeptic perspective.

The Hopkins&Jacobs interview's a good example. While the show aired, I was thinking 'Jesus! Sounds totally ominous. Earth could be doomed to sneaky, lying alien bastards!' When it was over, I thought it out and resumed normality again...high skepticism! The guy with the ectoplasm and trumpets...high skepticism. Ecker, Fox and Warren? Low skepticism. Knell, Greer, Basset? GTFO!

I know UFOs exist...I've seen three at different times with witnesses. My skepticism lies in the area of other people's accounts and conclusions. The Dr Haines paracast is the best interview on UFOs I've heard and he sort of reflects my level of skepticism. I look forward to the day he returns for another interview. Mind like a bear trap.

I agree the guy with the trumpets and ectoplasm was a big disappointment. I thought from his bio he had some game. Buuut, not so much.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

I'm a little less skeptical, but as bamfoozled and conflicted as I ever was. I can get involved in some of the Paracasts and forget my skeptic perspective.

Bamfoozled! I love it.

The Hopkins&Jacobs interview's a good example. While the show aired, I was thinking 'Jesus! Sounds totally ominous. Earth could be doomed to sneaky, lying alien bastards!'

It's funny, but I didn't see it that way. I saw it where they wanted to coexist with us, without us killing them!

It reminded me of an odd thing that happened to me once. This is one of those things that shouldn't have even made me think about it, but it did. But it wasn't until that interview that I thought about it again.

I had been a single parent for a good number of years. When my son was about 10 I had him in an aftercare program at his school. So one day I got there late because of the commute from work, and was in the school's cafeteria where they had the aftercare. The cafeteria opened to the school yard.

I'm talking to someone.. maybe a teacher, and we are the only people in there, plus my son. Then I turn around and there is a woman sitting at one of the tables, and she started talking to me as if she knew me. I didn't recognize her, and she wasn't with any kids. The thing that struck me as odd, and really left an impression, was even though she had blond hair, and was fair skinned and even with some freckles, was she had the blackest eyes I have ever seen in my life! I couldn't see her pupil because her iris was so dark. I couldn't stop staring at them. I've known a few darker skinned women with very dark eyes, but you can still see they are brown. These were black.

I absolutely can't remember what we talked about, and then I turned to talk to the teacher again, and when I looked back, she was gone. I never saw her again after that.

It was just kind of weird, and made me go "hmmmmm" after the interview.

 

[skunkape]

I had a similar experience when I was a teen at Astro World in Houston, except the chick's irises looked almost like polished stainless-steel...very metallic. I looked away when she noticed I was staring and when I looked back she was gone. She was unusually tall, curly-haired dark-blonde, very attractive. Never really gave it a second thought until just now.
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[ondafritz]

I am less skeptical only in the fact that I am completely convinced that "something" is going on here. But listening to the show has made me more aware of the fact that I haven't a clue as to what.

 

[jpw.in.wi]

Generally I would say more skeptical in-so-much-as I am less likely to either accept given explanations at face value or deny them outright, I'm now much more prone to saying "maybe".

You took the words right out of my mouth! In particular, even though intellectually I know it's a logical fallacy, I've always been susceptible to the argument by authority. Much less so now as a regular consumer of The Paracast.

About a year ago, I found myself drawn into the topic of UFOs after it had really been off my radar screen since I was a teen. Initially, the pattern was I would settle on one authoritative voice, then search out what the critics of that voice had to say. Each time without fail, I walked away from that voice disappointed and cynical, yet still searching in hopes of finding that next authority in whom I could place my trust. After all, on a planet of 6-plus billion people, you'd think someone out there knows what's going on!

I think the biggest lesson Gene and Dave have taught me is just how essential it is during these times to ALWAYS probe and question the stories, claims, and conclusions of others, to never take such things at face value.

I need to expect to do lots of legwork of my own if I want to get closer to the truth, and I need to watch my own back, 'cause if I'm not careful ...

 

[Will Penguin]

I was wondering what you all think about this

For me, it's more complicated than being more or less skeptical. It has pretty much convinced my to 99% certainty that there's something real and important to the UFO phenomenon (and a couple others), a view I didn't hold before becoming a listener, but it's also made me much more skeptical of what individual people say- I think I can sniff out the bulllshitters a little better now.