But in all seriousness, if someone believes in UFOs, so what? Unless they try to force it to be taught as truth in a classroom, or use it to justify repressive or violent behavior, it hurts no one.
There is a really brilliant mathematician at my school that believes the Earth is approximately 6000 years old. He is still a brilliant mathematician, just wrong about the age of the Earth.
Chrome
Yeah, I know that now.
Only in retrospect can I see how badly fused we both were. I was profoundly uncomfortable at the thought of having a wildly divergent view of the universe from my husband. Also, I didn't get that someone could legitimately hold a different view and not be hacking away at the conceptual foundations of my universe -- "if you think A and I think B, you're saying I'm wrong and oh my God I probably am wrong, but I don't really think I'm wrong I'm so confused why are you making me doubt myself? you're so cruel......"(of course none of this was subconsciously vocalized like that; all very subterranean emotional stuff ....Cold shiver ... I'm still working through this one; knowing the path vs. walking the path.) He wanted validation of his research, thereby himself, and when it wasn't forthcoming, pitched some spectacular fusion fits (the intensity of those was down to FOO stuff, but neither of us knew what we didn't know at the time.)
Hmmmmm, must be my designated "channeling Corri" post for the day ...
.. and why can't I stop talking?
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." -- Frank Herbert
