Saturday, December 28, 2024
Just because someone writes a book (and I’ve written a lot of them) doesn’t mean the author is an expert. It simply means that person has written a book. (I try to keep this in mind!) And just because you’ve read a book doesn’t mean you’re “educated.” It just means you’ve read a book. (I also try to keep this in mind.)
Example: At the moment, with this “drone craze” in the northeast (I’m from New Jersey and strange things in the skies don’t rate high on the “weird things in New Jersey” list)*, people are citing books “proving” there are UFOs. The books are written by people who claim to have seen UFOs, but who otherwise don’t have a scintilla of evidence (encounters of the second kind—evidence of presence—or third kind—actual contact). They claim an unsubstantiated sighting.
Just because others claim they’ve seen a Sasquatch or a Yeti doesn’t mean they exist. Be content that there are mysteries we can’t fathom, such as the nature of the universe, and get one with your life.
- It was in the New Jersey meadowlands that Orson Welles, on his radio show The Mercury Theatre of the Air in 1938, announced Martians had landed causing a panic in the New York metropolitan area.