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Weird, wacky more interesting than truth
It is hard to imagine, but an alarming number of people still think that visitation from extraterrestrial beings in flying saucers is the logical explanation for crop circles, those artistic depressions that began appearing in English fields of grain in 1976. This, despite the admission in 1991 by two Brits, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, that they had created the circles using little more than boards and rope. Since that time, many have followed in their footsteps - well, boardsteps, maybe - even going so far as to create advertisements in the flattened wheat. Yet for whatever reason, many choose to ignore fact in favor of fantasy.
Gordon spoke recently in Carmichaels about Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, the names given to a supposed large ape-like creature said to roam the Pacific Northwest, and even the Chestnut Ridge in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Stories and sightings have persisted since 1830, but not a shred of real evidence of its existence has ever surfaced. Forget that film supposedly showing Bigfoot running across a California meadow; it was actually a fellow named Bob Heironimus wearing a monkey suit.
For whatever reason, many people seem to ignore science, logic and common sense in order to leap to the most outlandish conclusions. Maybe it's all for fun, but how can giving in to gullibility, superstition and nonsense be amusing?
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Clarification : 11/4/2009
Dear Editor, as the person responsible for bringing Stan Gordon into Greene County for the past four years, I feel that I should point out that the lecture that you make reference to actually took place in Nineveh, not Carmichaels. Apparently you didn't read your own newspaper article. Its interesting to note that many things are taken entirely on faith each and every day and science cannot prove any of them either. The Bible, for instance, is full of accounts that cannot be explained or verified, yet I doubt there will be any dissertations questioning the rationality of those of us who believe what it has to say. By the count on your own web page, the article about Stan was read as of this post 3244 times. I also noticed a number of articles with Halloween themes in the O-R in the days leading up to October 31st. It seems just a tad ironic to me that now that the holiday is over you choose to question the judgement of the readers, both print and internet, or the nearly 75 in attendance during Mr. Gordon's most recent lecture. The supreme irony is in the fact that your publication accepted several hundred dollars in advertising fees prior to Stan's lecture, to be followed by your somewhat judgemental dissertation. There's two more of these events already scheduled for 2010 and you can rest assured those of us organizing the events will review the expenditure of our advertising dollars closely.
Weird, Wacky : 11/4/2009
How arrogant you know the answers so everyone else is and stupid. If you weren't so self absorbed with your own since of obvious superior intelligence you might do alittle research into these subjects. Do you believe with the size and compliciaty of some (not most) crop circles around the world it is all done with some idiots trampling plants with boards? With the discovery every year of hundreds of species of plants & mamamls that you know there is no such large undiscoverd creature. The UFOs sighted by hundreds of military & commercial pilots aswell as captured on radar are all an hallucination. I sure glad we have someone like you to straighten it all out.
Human thought....? : 11/5/2009
For the majority of people.....no, not really!
Talk about Weird & Wacky : 11/7/2009
You posed this question "how can giving in to gullibility, superstition and nonsense be amusing?" You want an answer? Watch a Catholic Processional, Jews at the Wailing Wall, or Muslims pressing their forehead to the ground 5 times a day. Now that's amusing.
